I agree with the suggestion of implementing an expedited premium processing for labor. Now, it may be very hard to implement this because a lot of people may respond (they were able to do it with H1's though). But then again, they may establish a premium queue. They may charge some extra $$'s to get you into the expedited queue. If they guarantee my labor in 6 months, I would be willing to pay upto $5K. If you think about it, if 10K people chooses to do so, that would mean $50M. That means you can add almost 500 more people (assuming $100K salary/person). These people would work on the expedited queue first and then move to the normal queue. That way, those who do not have the resources to pay the $5K or do not wish to do so can benefit as well. The details might be figured out but like I said, I am ready to pay $5K cash right now if it will make me get my labor in 6 months. Time is very important for me because I have a wife who wants to work and I want to start enjoying the benefits of AC-21 portability as soon as possible and I want to mitigate the risk of a possible layoff. So, the benefits more than outweigh the $5K. This point I think should be brought up in discussions and suggestions to the senators.
Also, why don't they still have a case status web site? I understand that they have not completed data entry yet but that's OK (well, it is not ok but what can I say). For those people, the status might just say not in the system yet or whatever. What are they waiting for? The problem I think is that, as has been mentioned before, they have skipped a lot of 2001 and early 2002 cases and they still are not able to process FIFO and they don't want this to be out in the open.
