watxh out today

People who have already received their GC are very fortunate!!

Also I read a news item (I do not recall where ) which says that they planning to stop giving automatic citizenship to the child if the parents are on non-immigrant visa . Is this true ?

Thanks
 
Originally posted by pingpong02
Also I read a news item (I do not recall where ) which says that they planning to stop giving automatic citizenship to the child if the parents are on non-immigrant visa . Is this true ?
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Every year they introduce legislation to this effect. Every year it goes nowhere. When any of this makes it out of committee I might start getting nervous.

Until then, I have better things to do than run around claiming that the sky is about to fall on us.
 
Hi RealKennedy :p ,
I think this time some of these bills will succeed. The lawmakers did not entertain this type of bills in the past because of the following reasons :
1) The Senate was controlled by Democrats (I know that it's almost 50-50 but then Algore as VP can decide in favour of Democrats)
2) The Unemployment rate is low compared to historic levels
(though it started rising from 2001). It started looking worrisome
when it crossed 6% this year.
3) Strong Lobbying by the American business industry to
encourage immigrant workers.

The above points acted as barriers to anti-immigrant lawmakers.
Now the first two barriers have collapsed and the anti immigrant has only the third barrier to cross. Usually Republicans are pro business and that would make them (Reps) difficult to pass anti-immigrant and anti-business laws. But the Reps may not win the 2004 elections if they don't do something to counter the unemployment and outsourcing menaces. What better way one can find than hitting the L1 and H1 workers ? These proposed laws makes it very difficult to employ H1 and L1 guys at client sites and also it will slow down the pace of outsourcing.

On the final note, the Bush government has to choose between
the American Business and American worker. It's too difficult to predict who wins the battle. That's why i woud say the chances of these bills getting passed is as high as 50%.
 
watch out guys for today's big decision??
Look at what is going to happen today for H1b and L1 visas in Senate. Are they going to amend these visas!!
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reach_honey,

Where did you get the information that decision is going to take place today? I searched the bill under http://thomas.loc.gov but no updates on decision date, status etc. I did google, yahoo and MSN search for decision date on this bill. Not able to get any thing.
 
frantic,

I changed it long time back. Now, I don't see any options in my control panel. May be admin's might have disabled for me now.
 
Originally posted by dsatish
1) The Senate was controlled by Democrats (I know that it's almost 50-50 but then Algore as VP can decide in favour of Democrats)
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I woud be very, very careful about drawing party-line distinctions when it comes to immigration. There are a number of Republicans (Tancredo et al) who are rabidly anti-immigrant. There are a number of Democrats who are the same way. There are also free-trading, pro-immigrant Members of both parties.

The point to remember is that you shouldn't draw conclusions from party control of Congress.

On the final note, the Bush government has to choose between the American Business and American worker. It's too difficult to predict who wins the battle. That's why i woud say the chances of these bills getting passed is as high as 50%.
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This administration will ALWAYS choose BIG business over small business, the American consumer and the American worker. Guaranteed. One thing to remember, no matter what Indian body shops do today, the biggest users of L-1 visas are huge American corporations like Coca-Cola, Ford, DaimlerChrysler and their ilk. They bring in thousands of L-1s, and they're not going to stand for some upstarts in Congress shutting the program down. If it comes to picking between the Fortune 50 and some unemployed 50 year old mainframe programmers, no contest.
 
Question for RealCanadian?

Hi RealCanadian,

How do you think this bill might effect the people who are currently working on EAD and having "AOS (485)" pending more than a year? I am just trying to find out the understanding of this bill from some immigration gurus who understands this more than me. Any comments/ explaination would be great.

Thanks!
 
This Bill would not have any negative impact on EAD folks. Infact it will benefit them because EAD folks are defined as US workers.
I read this in the link provided in the first posting in this thread.
The main focus of this Bill is to protect US workers.
 
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Both the democrats and republicans don't have strict party guidelines on immigration. It is left to the party representatives to choose their own ideology. A majority of the republicans support legal immigration and a majority of the democrats support illegal immigration.

There is a third party called Libertarian party www.lp.org which is very much pro legal immigration. It is in their party manifest itself http://www.lp.org/issues/immigration.html.
 
Originally posted by frantic
Both the democrats and republicans don't have strict party guidelines on immigration. It is left to the party representatives to choose their own ideology. A majority of the republicans support legal immigration and a majority of the democrats support illegal immigration. There is a third party called Libertarian party www.lp.org which is very much pro legal immigration. It is in their party manifest itself http://www.lp.org/issues/immigration.html.
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Absolutely. Anyone who thinks that either the Democrats or the Republicans are "pro-immigrant" is deluding himself. The Libertarians are the only major party that unambiguously supports us. Rememebr that.
 
Good to see that there are some people out there who heard about the Libertarian party. I would urge everyone to visit www.lp.org and see if they agree with the party's idealogy. If they do, it would be very nice if everyone joins as a party member by contributing 25 bucks.

Please note that I am not a volunteer of the Libertarian party. I am just putting the message across so that we can support a pro-immigrant political party.
 
I visited their website and found the party as very good. Hopefully it will win some seats in future and make some contribution to this society. I am sure that every one here will be impressed by their agenda. Here is a link to one of the articles that i found on their website. please read it.



http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0308/libsolutions.html
 
I listened to most of it on c-span

Here is a snapshot:

Arguments for and against the L-1 visa were made and the concern was that it was being abused in terms of prevailing wage and not paying taxes. Indian companies like Wipro and Tata were mentioned by name and the practice of blanket L-1 was questioned.

H-1 visa was largely spared of any bashing as most felt that it was being administered properly. The general impression was that the whole idea behind creating these Visa categories was not being met.

One observation was that the outsourcing of tech jobs cannot be stopped as this is being driven by market forces and a few minor changes in immigration law will not amount to anything.

Members were asked to submit any further arguments before Friday and the hearing was adjourned.

Overall it looks like L-1 rules will be tightened and the H-1 cap will remain at 65,000.
 
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