Friends (co-sufferers),
Yesterday, more than 10 people from this forum representing all the service centres (VSC/NSC/CSC/TSC) had a conference call for TWO long hours. When we booked the conference call, we never thought that we will get so much response. But it turned out to be a big meeting and we have discussed all possible options and also discussed about our organisational strategies. I am briefly mentioning the high lights of the meeting :
*)we have felt that the most important thing is to lobby the congress men to introduce bills to help reducing the backlog quickly
*)It is felt that we need the hire a professional lobbyist to work for us. For that we need a lot of money. We hope that all of you will come up with good contributions when we start the fund collection (Just waiting for the word 'GO' from Rajiv)
*) We need more people to share the work load and contact the congress men in every state. So we need more vounteers. Those who want to join the fight, please let us know in the "who want to be action team" thread (or) just post a reply in this thread
*) We are now going to form the following committees among us :
Campaign committee(to bring more people into the fight and fund collection) , Legislative committee (to prepare / refine the congressional petition), Legal committee (to explore the possibility for legal action against BCIS), Bills introducing team (to identify which of the current bills are related to immigration benefits and also to identify which congress men are likely to introduce and co-sponsor the bills for us).
In addition to the se committees, we will have the main co-ordination committee, which is responsible for planning and co-ordination amongst all the volunteers.
So please take part in these activities and fight for your own cause.
Yesterday, more than 10 people from this forum representing all the service centres (VSC/NSC/CSC/TSC) had a conference call for TWO long hours. When we booked the conference call, we never thought that we will get so much response. But it turned out to be a big meeting and we have discussed all possible options and also discussed about our organisational strategies. I am briefly mentioning the high lights of the meeting :
*)we have felt that the most important thing is to lobby the congress men to introduce bills to help reducing the backlog quickly
*)It is felt that we need the hire a professional lobbyist to work for us. For that we need a lot of money. We hope that all of you will come up with good contributions when we start the fund collection (Just waiting for the word 'GO' from Rajiv)
*) We need more people to share the work load and contact the congress men in every state. So we need more vounteers. Those who want to join the fight, please let us know in the "who want to be action team" thread (or) just post a reply in this thread
*) We are now going to form the following committees among us :
Campaign committee(to bring more people into the fight and fund collection) , Legislative committee (to prepare / refine the congressional petition), Legal committee (to explore the possibility for legal action against BCIS), Bills introducing team (to identify which of the current bills are related to immigration benefits and also to identify which congress men are likely to introduce and co-sponsor the bills for us).
In addition to the se committees, we will have the main co-ordination committee, which is responsible for planning and co-ordination amongst all the volunteers.
So please take part in these activities and fight for your own cause.