Update on "our life saving" bill

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saras76

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I got this from one of the immigration sites -

The House is scheduled to adjourn after the some voting activities between tomorrow evening and Friday evening, November 18, 2005 for the Thanksgiving break. Currently, no voting activities are scheduled on the House floor until and after the first week of December 2005, once the House misses to vote for H.R. 4241 before the Thanksgiving! Besides, there is no roll call scheduled for any bills or resolutions today and the earliest voting is not expected until tomorrow evening. Accordingly, today and tomorrow are the critical dates for the businesses, schools, and immigration supporters to contact en masse the members of the House so that this bill is passed within this week. The House is under political pressure to act on the deficit reduction bill (H.R. 4241). Please act now!!

regards,

saras76
 
Go to this site ...

chakor said:
iS THERE ANY THING WE NEED TO DO?? Please let us know
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chakor,

Please go to www.isnamerica.org. You will find details as to what you can do. The best thing we can do right now is fax our local area congressmen and urge them to support legislation that will make more GC available.

regards,

saras
 
I think the benefit of this bill to current 485 waiters is minimal. The main benefit is to people who can not file 485 due to retrogression. The house version does not have many of the immigration benefits passed by the senate.
 
I don't think so

In_durham said:
I think the benefit of this bill to current 485 waiters is minimal. The main benefit is to people who can not file 485 due to retrogression. The house version does not have many of the immigration benefits passed by the senate.
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In_durham,

S. 1932 is the Senate version and H.R 4241 is the house version of the deficit reduction bill. S.1932 has been passed by the Senate already. The house is scheduled to vote on H.R 4241. It is important to note that H.R 4241 does not include any immigration provisions. However it is important for it to get approved because once it is approved then there will be a conference to reconsile both bills into one bill. Hopefully the immigration provisions will make it into the final version that will be presented to the President for signature.

There are a lot of steps left.

Here are some key part of S. 1932 -

1. Recapture of 90,000 EB visa numbers from previous years.

2. Not count dependents towards the visa numbers. This will have a significant impact because half the visa numbers are taken up by dependents.

3. Allow the filing of 485 apps while PD not current.

4. Recapture 90,000 H1 B visa numbers.


regards,

saras
 
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Saras,

As long as per country limit remains due to retrogression anyone born in India or China will have long waiting lines and the additional visa will mean EB2 world wide will NOT retrogress and EB3 worldwide will come out of retrogression. The additional visas will not remove the per country limit because the backlog generation due to fast processing by DOL under perm will ensure retrogression remains for Indians and Chinese nationals.
 
Yes .. that may be true

brb2 said:
Saras,

As long as per country limit remains due to retrogression anyone born in India or China will have long waiting lines and the additional visa will mean EB2 world wide will NOT retrogress and EB3 worldwide will come out of retrogression. The additional visas will not remove the per country limit because the backlog generation due to fast processing by DOL under perm will ensure retrogression remains for Indians and Chinese nationals.
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brb2,

Yes you may be right but it is all speculation right now. If this bill gets passed along with the immigration reforms in it then then it WILL have an effect on Indian EB2s and EB3s as well. The key is that the 90,000 recaptured visas will NOT have per country restrictions applied on them. The whole point of recapturing is that they were not used up because of the stupid per country limits, why would they recapture the numbers and apply per country quota. This would again leave a lot of unused visas. There may be a lot of worldwide applicants but not so many that they will eat up all the visa numbers. This is what I have read on several immigration sites. Also if the dependents clause gets approved then technically 180,000 new visa numbers will become available. These numbers will be used without per country quota. Once these are exhausted, the problem will resurface. This is my understanding.

Lets face it. The current situation is so bad that a solution will be found sooner or later. These policies will not continue indefenitely. If they do then we all know whats best for us.

regards,

saras76
 
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guys, I have couple of questions:

(1) If pending application for I-485 due to regression, can H1B be extended beyond six year limit?

(2) Is it reasonable to assume that if "not to count dependents towards visa number...." approved, LPR could bring in their spouse immediately from a forein country like Citizens?

Thanks

Jag


saras76 said:
Here are some key part of S. 1932 -

1. Recapture of 90,000 EB visa numbers from previous years.

2. Not count dependents towards the visa numbers. This will have a significant impact because half the visa numbers are taken up by dependents.

3. Allow the filing of 485 apps while PD not current.

4. Recapture 90,000 H1 B visa numbers.


regards,

saras
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1.H1B can be extended beyond six year limit provided ur GC application is pending for more then 1 year at whatever stage for whatever reason.
2.NO.All rules will remain same regarding 485.just more visa number may be vailable due to not counting the dependents.So suppose there was no retro what was the rule? it will remain same.



Jaguar2004 said:
guys, I have couple of questions:

(1) If pending application for I-485 due to regression, can H1B be extended beyond six year limit?

(2) Is it reasonable to assume that if "not to count dependents towards visa number...." approved, LPR could bring in their spouse immediately from a forein country like Citizens?

Thanks

Jag
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