U.S. House-Senate Conference on Sen. Levin’s amendment on FBI Name Check
In Mid-October 2007, U. S. Senate has approved an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., to improve oversight of the FBI National Name Check Program, which faces a substantial backlog. The program is used to run background checks on people, including these applying for immigration benefits (such as F1 visa, J-1 visa, H1b work visa, green card application, citizenship application etc.). But the amendment is too general to have any affect on FBI name check efficiency. Like all other immigration bills, Sen. Levin’s amendment must go through U.S. House-Senate conference (or called Congressional delegation) to survive. U.S. House is currently setting up a group of conference members to negotiate Senate’s amendment. Right now we have an immediate opportunity to express our concerns to U. S. House conference members and therefore will possibly solve the name check delay. Currently, Legal Immigrant Association (LIA: www.legalimmigrant.org) is running a campaign to push the revision and improvement of Sen. Levin’s amendment. The House Representatives in the House-Senate conference will decide if Levin’s amendment needs a significant change. We need name check stories (including your suffering Name Check experience) from you folks. Please send your Name Check suffering stories to LIA’s lobbyist, Mr. Paul Donnelly: pauldonnelly@ medialever.com, and CC: renhao09@yahoo.com, ASAP. LIA will fight for you. LIA's lobbyists will fight for you.
Please include the following information in the name check story:
1. Your name:
2. Your current location (city, state, zip code):
3. Type of application (F1, H1b, EB1~3, citizenship etc.) :
4. Submission date:
5. Name check pending since (if known):
6. Name of your local congressman/ women (available at:
http://www.census. gov/geo/www/ maps/cd108n/ FF_cd108n_ maps.htm):
7. Your work title/position:
8. Briefly describe your suffering experience from the name check delay;
9. Briefly describe what effort you have taken to deal with the name check delay.
The House-Senate Conference will start as early as this week. So this is URGENT!!!
In Mid-October 2007, U. S. Senate has approved an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., to improve oversight of the FBI National Name Check Program, which faces a substantial backlog. The program is used to run background checks on people, including these applying for immigration benefits (such as F1 visa, J-1 visa, H1b work visa, green card application, citizenship application etc.). But the amendment is too general to have any affect on FBI name check efficiency. Like all other immigration bills, Sen. Levin’s amendment must go through U.S. House-Senate conference (or called Congressional delegation) to survive. U.S. House is currently setting up a group of conference members to negotiate Senate’s amendment. Right now we have an immediate opportunity to express our concerns to U. S. House conference members and therefore will possibly solve the name check delay. Currently, Legal Immigrant Association (LIA: www.legalimmigrant.org) is running a campaign to push the revision and improvement of Sen. Levin’s amendment. The House Representatives in the House-Senate conference will decide if Levin’s amendment needs a significant change. We need name check stories (including your suffering Name Check experience) from you folks. Please send your Name Check suffering stories to LIA’s lobbyist, Mr. Paul Donnelly: pauldonnelly@ medialever.com, and CC: renhao09@yahoo.com, ASAP. LIA will fight for you. LIA's lobbyists will fight for you.
Please include the following information in the name check story:
1. Your name:
2. Your current location (city, state, zip code):
3. Type of application (F1, H1b, EB1~3, citizenship etc.) :
4. Submission date:
5. Name check pending since (if known):
6. Name of your local congressman/ women (available at:
http://www.census. gov/geo/www/ maps/cd108n/ FF_cd108n_ maps.htm):
7. Your work title/position:
8. Briefly describe your suffering experience from the name check delay;
9. Briefly describe what effort you have taken to deal with the name check delay.
The House-Senate Conference will start as early as this week. So this is URGENT!!!