VA applicants
- Thread starter YJay
- Start date
"A lot of steps closer"
1) We have formed a core team - who will coordinate wider variety of actions.
2) Rajiv is in the process of registering immigration.portal as a not-for-profit organization. Once it's complete we can raise funds under the name and fight for our cause more fruitfully.
3) More people are realizing USCIS is ignorant and we have to reply on ourselves.
Come on VA residents, please respond with your willingness to fight for your benefit!
1) We have formed a core team - who will coordinate wider variety of actions.
2) Rajiv is in the process of registering immigration.portal as a not-for-profit organization. Once it's complete we can raise funds under the name and fight for our cause more fruitfully.
3) More people are realizing USCIS is ignorant and we have to reply on ourselves.
Come on VA residents, please respond with your willingness to fight for your benefit!
Hi VA friends. We need more people to join.
I understand the joy over USCIS' approving several cases these couple of days, much faster than zero-approvals/day (Congratulations to all whose cases are approved).
However, the huge backlogs will not go away any time soon. We need to put pressure on USCIS to accelerate 485 cases. Otherwise, you'll see 3 years waiting time knocking at your doors!
At this stage I also welcome D.C. and MD people to join us since we VA guys are so "shy" to come forward.
I understand the joy over USCIS' approving several cases these couple of days, much faster than zero-approvals/day (Congratulations to all whose cases are approved).
However, the huge backlogs will not go away any time soon. We need to put pressure on USCIS to accelerate 485 cases. Otherwise, you'll see 3 years waiting time knocking at your doors!
At this stage I also welcome D.C. and MD people to join us since we VA guys are so "shy" to come forward.
Judging by the lack of response, can I say most VA applicants are happy with USCIS?
Ramss and krishna_44092, thanks for your response. Since you don't have PM on, can you please send me a PM with you e-mail (and phone number if you wish)? I'll reply with my contact information.
YJay
Ramss and krishna_44092, thanks for your response. Since you don't have PM on, can you please send me a PM with you e-mail (and phone number if you wish)? I'll reply with my contact information.
YJay
140_takes_4ever
Registered Users (C)
YJay,
Don't worry about the lack of response. Sometimes it is easy to make people motivated about causes, sometimes it is difficult. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't not try to make a difference.
Once people start seeing the changes you are heralding, they will automatically join you in your cause. You must over come the initial lethargy by making things very easy for them to join and reducing the number of steps between them and direct action.
Here is a suggestion I put forth for organising a show of hands campaign for Congressmen in the CSC forum:
1. Each volunteer, take the responsibility of finding out the next date of town meeting with his/her representative.
2. Post the information along with clear instructions as to directions and a central place to meet.
3. Request RSVP's from other show of hands volunteers and viola you have organization complete.
The above should make the task of meeting Congressmen VERY easy. There is no need for elaborate meetings or exchange of information. We have been working on the above model in California and I am happy to say it has been working very well. None of us needs to contribute more time than what is minimally required.
Don't worry about the lack of response. Sometimes it is easy to make people motivated about causes, sometimes it is difficult. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't not try to make a difference.
Once people start seeing the changes you are heralding, they will automatically join you in your cause. You must over come the initial lethargy by making things very easy for them to join and reducing the number of steps between them and direct action.
Here is a suggestion I put forth for organising a show of hands campaign for Congressmen in the CSC forum:
1. Each volunteer, take the responsibility of finding out the next date of town meeting with his/her representative.
2. Post the information along with clear instructions as to directions and a central place to meet.
3. Request RSVP's from other show of hands volunteers and viola you have organization complete.
The above should make the task of meeting Congressmen VERY easy. There is no need for elaborate meetings or exchange of information. We have been working on the above model in California and I am happy to say it has been working very well. None of us needs to contribute more time than what is minimally required.
krishna_44092 and ramss
Would you please do the following?
1) Fax our petition to all VA congress members with a personal cover letter.
We need to give VA politicians more than one dose of our petition.
2) Try to follow the action of "project ocean"
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?threadid=99973
3) Look at what Cinta has done to see if you'd like to do the same.
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?threadid=104083
Other VA applicants, would you join us to do the same? If 100 people fax our petitoin to the 11 representatives and 2 senators, there should be some imapct. They may not reply to you but they will at least keep a log of what they received. Even they simply mention our petition at congress hearings, USCIS will receive some pressure.
Would you please do the following?
1) Fax our petition to all VA congress members with a personal cover letter.
We need to give VA politicians more than one dose of our petition.
2) Try to follow the action of "project ocean"
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?threadid=99973
3) Look at what Cinta has done to see if you'd like to do the same.
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?threadid=104083
Other VA applicants, would you join us to do the same? If 100 people fax our petitoin to the 11 representatives and 2 senators, there should be some imapct. They may not reply to you but they will at least keep a log of what they received. Even they simply mention our petition at congress hearings, USCIS will receive some pressure.
Last edited by a moderator:
