Hayworth Amendment to Increase EB Visa Numbers

[Dexter]

Folks,

This isnt big ..but atleast consolidating i guess..

Mr. Hayworth has put in an amendment to HR4437 ..eliminate family 4 th preference visas and add those numbers to Employment based ....


Text of this amendment

http://www.rules.house.gov/109/specialrules/hr4437/109hr4437_hayworth95.pdf

 

[nozdam]

I cudnt read that doc, gave me errors.

 

[swarnapuri]

Good

Good to know that the hope might be on the way!

 

[catch_22_4_GC]

I cudnt read that doc, gave me errors.

Use Acrobat 6.0

The gist is to cut 65000 visas from FB4(family based) and give it to Employment Based categories (EB1,EB2,EB3)

NumbersUSA is already opposing this amendment.

http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/4437.html#1

 

[ecuellaro]

Also Velazquez on backlog reduction

Ms Velazquez has an amendment to reduce and prevent the backlog.

http://www.rules.house.gov/109/specialrules/hr4347_2/109hr4347_velaz74.pdf

You can see also that the monkeys of numbers usa are moving against it

http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/4437.html#1

If Hayworth and Velazquez get approved it seems that good thing will happen next year.

 

[Dexter]

Hayworth amendment withdrawn

Crap .......

 

[catch_22_4_GC]

News Update

Hayworth Amendment to HR. 4437 to increase Employment Based visas by 65000 has been WITHDRAWN in the house on unanimous consent.

Sad!

 

[EB104152005]

Hayworth Amendment

I think that Hayworth Amendment, even if it passes all the hurdles, will not be able to do anything to the current EB backlogs. According to the visa bulletin, the priority dates for family based 4th preference green cards are about 12 years earlier and in some cases, like Philippines it is 22 years ago. That means peoples whose I-130 have already been approved are waiting 10 years or more. I think that those peoples green card are to be approved first before any amendment is to be enforced to scrap that category. However, this is entirely based on my rational and I may be wrong.