I have been reading the lively and at times acrimonious debate on doing something about the recent delays in Vermont. Unfortunately, we haven't made an inch of progress and only vented our anger and frustration. This is not going to help. I believe the first step is to contact your local congressman and request an inquiry. However, for obvious reasons in most of the cases this doesn't work. I have gone through this channel recently and my congressman (who will be senator next year 
)sent a polite reply saying he will look into it. Not surprising because he is not going to get any votes here for sometime.
The next course is legal proceeding similar to the recent SS number case for H4, F2 etc. Just petitioning and demonstrating will do nothing as we have to painfully admit that INS is under tremendous pressure post 9/11 and sympathy lies with it. However in view of the fact that Vermont has been alarmingly slower than other centers and the recent trend of approval doesn't bear any semblance to the premise of first-come-first serve a case for proper communication and justification can be made. For this we need to focus and channelize our energy rather than dissipating them with rhetorics.
I think we should:
(1) First indicate who wants to be in it and share the time and cost. We create a list with addresses and consent.
(2) Prepare a rough draft of our grievances and contact a lawyer (lawyers of this website for instance) and get an idea of its feasibility, validity, cost and so on. Sumanta maybe you can get started on this by first contacting the Rajiv Khanna. I can work with you.
(3) From their, if we get a consenting lawyer, we start collecting people who wants to be part of this petition and would agree to bear their part of the cost.
Let's start with the above three first. We can create a new thread to store the contact information of willing people.
First we need a starting head count to know how many men are their among boys. For that, willing parties should indicate so by sending their assent as a reply to this or in a new thread.
I think a case can be made if there are enough people. Count me in, and I presume Sumanta is in. Let's get started. Suggestions are welcome but they should be objective and devoid of emotions and banalities.
Athonu Chatterjee
)sent a polite reply saying he will look into it. Not surprising because he is not going to get any votes here for sometime. The next course is legal proceeding similar to the recent SS number case for H4, F2 etc. Just petitioning and demonstrating will do nothing as we have to painfully admit that INS is under tremendous pressure post 9/11 and sympathy lies with it. However in view of the fact that Vermont has been alarmingly slower than other centers and the recent trend of approval doesn't bear any semblance to the premise of first-come-first serve a case for proper communication and justification can be made. For this we need to focus and channelize our energy rather than dissipating them with rhetorics.
I think we should:
(1) First indicate who wants to be in it and share the time and cost. We create a list with addresses and consent.
(2) Prepare a rough draft of our grievances and contact a lawyer (lawyers of this website for instance) and get an idea of its feasibility, validity, cost and so on. Sumanta maybe you can get started on this by first contacting the Rajiv Khanna. I can work with you.
(3) From their, if we get a consenting lawyer, we start collecting people who wants to be part of this petition and would agree to bear their part of the cost.
Let's start with the above three first. We can create a new thread to store the contact information of willing people.
First we need a starting head count to know how many men are their among boys. For that, willing parties should indicate so by sending their assent as a reply to this or in a new thread.
I think a case can be made if there are enough people. Count me in, and I presume Sumanta is in. Let's get started. Suggestions are welcome but they should be objective and devoid of emotions and banalities.
Athonu Chatterjee