President to address nation on monday 8:00 PM EST about immigration reforms.

[marlon2006]

There is not a lot of information out there which is concrete, because pretty much everything is based on ongoing debates. We are currently debating things here. My attorney just told me last week that he knows as much as we, since he is following the visa bulletins and reading newspapers on the debates.

I will always try to put things from a criticial point of view so that hopefully we can get the truth out of it. For example, I put an article that shows that they would decrease from the total quota for the skilled people from ~60% to 30%. It is true that the visa recapture and not counting spouses could help us out.

Hello,
I personally believe that forums like these benefit more when people exchange information & facts (from their attorneys & trusted news sources). Personal views, negative comments and bad language benefits no one. So let's all be positive and support each other rather than fuel the uncertainity we're all feeling these days anyway!

I am sharing here some information I read on provisions / text in the immigration reform bill with regards to legals (employment-based)

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Sec. 501. Elimination of Existing Backlogs
- Section 501 would more than double the ceiling on employment-based visas from 140,000 to 290,000. And it would exempt spouses and children of employment-based immigrants from the limits.
- Section 501 would provide for the recapture of both family-based and employment-based visas that go unused because of processing delays.

Sec. 502. Country Limits
- Section 502 would increase per-country ceilings for both employment-based and family-based immigrant visas.

Sec. 503. Allocation of Immigrant Visas
- Section 503 would redistribute the 290,000 employment-based visas, making modifications to the categories with more demand.
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Of course, many of these may not make it into the final passed version. But its good to know that they are there.

Personally I am not relying on or expecting this to become law anytime soon. But for anyone waiting for their PD to become current, this along with the movement (although slow) of the PDs in the last few months - is atleast something - which is better than nothing!

- Dru

 

[dru]

It is true that the visa recapture and not counting spouses could help us out.

Just a minor comment on this part. My company's lawyer shared with us that the number of dependants per EB case averages at 1.5. This means that 2.5 visa numbers are used on average per EB case (I am assuming that many are 1 + spouse, and a mix of 1-2 kids). So even just this minor portion (not counting dependants in the quota) would boost visa number availability by approx 1.5 times.


jack_b_uta, thanks for your comment. I'm actually on the same page as you about that - which is why I am taking all this with a pinch of salt

 

[ufo2002]

If it is that simple, I am sure all of us would be ok with the bill... unfortunately when you take a good look at how they plan to give "path to citizenship" for the illegals... you notice one important thing:
"self-petition" for GC would be made possible for them!

For us, the moment our companies go south, or we lose our jobs because we disagree to do something, how can we go on with our GC processing?
There should be one standard for all kinds of job migration... whether skilled or not skilled... if self-petitioning is going to be possible for low skill work, then give it to the high-skill work also. No double standards.

What Bush tried to say, all the illegal will stand behind the people who are following the legal path. We are the one who are following the lagal path..so we will get the GC first and then Illegal..