Good News?? EB-3 Relief

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From AILA's April 20 Washinton Update

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EB-3 Relief: By unanimous consent, the Senate also passed a measure sponsored by Senators Schumer (D-NY), Hutchison (R-TX) and Kennedy (D-MA) that would recapture EB -3 numbers lost from FY 2001-2004 due to processing delays. 50% of these numbers would be allocated to
Schedule A occupations.

Both the H-2B relief bill and the EB-3 relief provisions will now be included in the Senate version of the supplemental appropriations bill. However, since neither of these measures was included in the House-passed supplemental, they will be discussed when House and Senate conferees meet to resolve differences between the two bills. In both cases, AILA will urge the
House to recede to the Senate on both the H-2B bill and EB-3 relief.

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helpwithGC said:
From AILA's April 20 Washinton Update

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EB-3 Relief: By unanimous consent, the Senate also passed a measure sponsored by Senators Schumer (D-NY), Hutchison (R-TX) and Kennedy (D-MA) that would recapture EB -3 numbers lost from FY 2001-2004 due to processing delays. 50% of these numbers would be allocated to
Schedule A occupations.

Both the H-2B relief bill and the EB-3 relief provisions will now be included in the Senate version of the supplemental appropriations bill. However, since neither of these measures was included in the House-passed supplemental, they will be discussed when House and Senate conferees meet to resolve differences between the two bills. In both cases, AILA will urge the
House to recede to the Senate on both the H-2B bill and EB-3 relief.

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SOURCE:
http://www.aila.org/fileViewer.aspx?docID=18287
 
What does this mean?

What does this mean? Can you please explain?

Thanks,
:)

helpwithGC said:
From AILA's April 20 Washinton Update

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EB-3 Relief: By unanimous consent, the Senate also passed a measure sponsored by Senators Schumer (D-NY), Hutchison (R-TX) and Kennedy (D-MA) that would recapture EB -3 numbers lost from FY 2001-2004 due to processing delays. 50% of these numbers would be allocated to
Schedule A occupations.

Both the H-2B relief bill and the EB-3 relief provisions will now be included in the Senate version of the supplemental appropriations bill. However, since neither of these measures was included in the House-passed supplemental, they will be discussed when House and Senate conferees meet to resolve differences between the two bills. In both cases, AILA will urge the
House to recede to the Senate on both the H-2B bill and EB-3 relief.

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The EB 3 relief, if passed by Congress, would allocate about half of the unused visas to nurses, physical therapists, and their dependents; the other half would be available to other EB3 professionals.

Check Sen. Schumer's website at http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/2005/PR41610.Nurse Visa.41905.html

Also, this provision has only been passed in the Senate. As the House did not pass the measure in its version of the legislation, there has to be a joint meeting between the House and the Senate. This committee meeting will then decide what to include, what to omit from the final version of the legislation. Hence, it remains to be seen whether this will materialize or not.
 
The bill is signed by President and so became a law already. This provision does take effect immediately. It is likely that the next visa bulletin will separate out Schedule A cases. It is also possible that EB3 numbers as a whole will be positively impacted when the 50,000 Schedule A cases are separated out.

Source: Murthy forum, posted by some attorney.
 
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I think the VIsa numbers increased to 290

The employment-based categories are revised to provide additional visas for employers who need to hire permanent workers, and the annual cap is raised from 140,000 to 290,000
immigration-law.com......
That's good news....only if the BEC does thier job quickly we are all free
 
pani_6 said:
The employment-based categories are revised to provide additional visas for employers who need to hire permanent workers, and the annual cap is raised from 140,000 to 290,000
immigration-law.com......
That's good news....only if the BEC does thier job quickly we are all free
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If this gets passed and signed into law, it also means that those who get their LCs approved quickly under PERM within 45-60 days will get the benefit of filing 140/485 immediately (concurrently) while the folks who have been waiting at the BECs for many years will continue to wait for ever. :eek:
 
At least its not another wait

When ever BEC were to process cases....at least there is not another waiting for the i-140 filing..with all these numbers being added....would the Visa numbers for EB3 progress another year ?????????????????????
 
There is never waiting for I140 once you cleared labor. There is waiting for I485, if you fall under retrogression.

pani_6 said:
When ever BEC were to process cases....at least there is not another waiting for the i-140 filing..with all these numbers being added....would the Visa numbers for EB3 progress another year ?????????????????????
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I think the entire quota is going to Schedule A - nurses, physical therapists etc. So us engineers in EB-3 don't get squat!!!

Here is the URL: http://www.murthy.com/news/n_bilmay.html

Here is the excerpt:
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The Bill would amend the provision of AC21 that released certain unused visa numbers to all employment-based categories. AC21 permitted unused employment-based numbers from 1999 and 2000 to be used in employment-based cases in future years. These were numbers from countries that did not use their full allotments of visa numbers for each preference category. The bill would permit unused numbers in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 to also be used in future years. There is a change, however, with respect to how these unused numbers will be allocated. Previously, the unused numbers could be used for any employment-based cases. In the Conference Report for H.R. 1268, the additional employment-based visa numbers are allocated solely to Schedule A cases for nurses and physical therapists. The report only permits the Schedule A cases to receive up to 50,000 total visa numbers under these provisions. This would be quite helpful to employers of nurses and physical therapists, occupations that are in high demand in the U.S.
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Guys,

Please allocate your little time to make aware EB-3 retrogression, possible H-1 inclusion in H-5 bill and other issues to Senators and Congressman:


Thread discussing new visa, H-5A and H-5B -- New Bill and possible inclusion of H-1B

http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=174962

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Senators/Congressmen sponsoring H5 Bill:
1.Senator McCain

http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Contact.Home

2.Senator Ted Kennedy

http://www.senate.gov/~kennedy/index_high.html

3.Congressman Luis Gutierrez

http://luisgutierrez.house.gov/feedback.cfm?campaign=luisgutierrez

4.Congressman Jeff Flake

jeff.flake@mail.house.gov

5.Congressman Jim Kolbe -- accepts messages only if you are
from 8th district of Arizona.

http://www.house.gov/kolbe/IMA/issue.htm
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Immigration subcomm list:

http://judiciary.senate.gov/subcommittees/immigration109.cfm

Search each senator name into google and you will find link of that senator's homepage. Find "contact" link from homepage where you can send email to senator. Most of senator's homepage don't provide email address but there is email form which you can fill and send.

For email format, please check page 2 of this thread.,

http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=174962&page=2&pp=15


Here is a link which will give you contact of Senator in each state:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm


Here is another link from the AILA for congressmen:

http://capwiz.com/aila2/officials/congress/
 
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