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The senate judiciary committee is meeting right now. They will work on the ammendments only today. Please send this to sen. specter's office today.
Fax. 202.228.1229
Please send your faxes to other senators too because I think they are the ones who'll bring the amendments.
Senator Arlen Specter Date : 03/08/2006
Dear Senator Arlen Specter:
Amendments in Comprehensive immigration bill
I support the high-skilled legal immigration relief measures in the Comprehensive Immigration bill.
Please give an ear to the following problems.
1. About 350,000 labor certification applications pending in the labor dept - the first stage of the high-skilled legal immigration process - are pending with the Department of Labor; some, from as early as 2001.
2. The Labor dept- Backlog elimination centers has allready missed their target of 2006 Dec by 10 months. They are now saying they’ll be done by sep2007.
3. People stuck in the backlog centers are stuck for several years, they can’t change jobs, can’t get their driver licenses etc.
Amendments that could change lives of more than half a million people:
1. Mandate the Department of Labor to clear these backlogs by Dec’ 2006.
2. Create a senate committee to look after the DOLs progress.
3. Increase funding for the Division of Foreign Labor within the Department of Labor to clear the Labor Certification backlogs.
4. Please Change the USCIS policy of issuing 1 year H1B extensions after a person has completed 6 years on H1B. They should be giving 3 years extensions, in all cases.
1 year Extensions are not practical in the current scenario, USCIS takes 5-6 months to do an H1B extension. Labor certifications are pending in Labor dept. in some cases for more than 5 years, Some states like Pennsylvania are not issuing drivers licenses if you have less than 1 year Visa. People in this scenario are just stuck. They can’t change jobs, they sometime can’t drive , they can’t travel as U.S. Dept of State has stopped doing Visa revalidation within the U.S.
This is a very serious matter.
I hope that you will support these legal immigration relief measures for a skilled community of people that are waiting patiently for their turn to immigrate to the United States, and thereby benefit the American economy with their knowledge and skill.
Sincerely,
Fax. 202.228.1229
Please send your faxes to other senators too because I think they are the ones who'll bring the amendments.
Senator Arlen Specter Date : 03/08/2006
Dear Senator Arlen Specter:
Amendments in Comprehensive immigration bill
I support the high-skilled legal immigration relief measures in the Comprehensive Immigration bill.
Please give an ear to the following problems.
1. About 350,000 labor certification applications pending in the labor dept - the first stage of the high-skilled legal immigration process - are pending with the Department of Labor; some, from as early as 2001.
2. The Labor dept- Backlog elimination centers has allready missed their target of 2006 Dec by 10 months. They are now saying they’ll be done by sep2007.
3. People stuck in the backlog centers are stuck for several years, they can’t change jobs, can’t get their driver licenses etc.
Amendments that could change lives of more than half a million people:
1. Mandate the Department of Labor to clear these backlogs by Dec’ 2006.
2. Create a senate committee to look after the DOLs progress.
3. Increase funding for the Division of Foreign Labor within the Department of Labor to clear the Labor Certification backlogs.
4. Please Change the USCIS policy of issuing 1 year H1B extensions after a person has completed 6 years on H1B. They should be giving 3 years extensions, in all cases.
1 year Extensions are not practical in the current scenario, USCIS takes 5-6 months to do an H1B extension. Labor certifications are pending in Labor dept. in some cases for more than 5 years, Some states like Pennsylvania are not issuing drivers licenses if you have less than 1 year Visa. People in this scenario are just stuck. They can’t change jobs, they sometime can’t drive , they can’t travel as U.S. Dept of State has stopped doing Visa revalidation within the U.S.
This is a very serious matter.
I hope that you will support these legal immigration relief measures for a skilled community of people that are waiting patiently for their turn to immigrate to the United States, and thereby benefit the American economy with their knowledge and skill.
Sincerely,
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