Karma_Yoga,
Some of your points are legit: Wrt points 4 and 11. This is an interesting situation. I work for a company like no other..I actually pushed them, questioned them, challenged them, ignored them, and always answered back to them. The result is a not so good relationship between myself the HR, the Legal and the immigration attorney. The company delayed my application for about six months and the lawyer added another two months as a gift. So speaking up has a price to pay..I paid that price in more ways than one. My manager gave me an appraisal based on my beliefs and stands not my work performance. The only thing left for them is to lay me off but they still need my skills..six months of searching within the USA and the company of 150,000 people resulted in nothing.
So to make the story short (already long) and some like it very short and provide some insight, YES we have to investigate the COmpany factor and the Lawyer who handles our GC. The good thing is that a majority of people thankfully do not work for a Defense company. Here is a sample of what I get from Legal..
Communication between CINTA and the LEGAL DEPARTMENT OF XXXXXX. Legal had read the article in the paper.
Actually I was interviewed by the Inquirer (see article attached). I do not even how they found my phone number (listed). From yesterday they called my house and this morning PennDot arranged a conference call with the Norristown DMV Director , promising me to call him in advance and go again with the papers (no need to wait in line) including the letter of employment, which I said it may take a few days. They wanted to call the company themselves for it, but I said I could handle it! I do not know if it is the fourth article or something else but I was impressed.
In fact I contacted the Inquirer about the Immigration backlogs and the Government policy and one thing led to another. The reporter I met is a Greek-American which I could tell from her name before I met her. Now this brings us to the following question. As almost nobody can do anything about my GC application, I intend to utilise similar techniques and see where I can go. What I would like to ask you beforehand is "the ground rules". I may initiate contacts with the Press and Congress and push this problem also. Please advise beforehand and I will follow any company rules. Thanks a lot, XXXX
You requested guidance on "the ground rules" for your personal plan to contact US Government officials about the long time for processing your application for permanent resident status (green card).
Employees are free to contact US Government officials about personal matters. CPS-004, Political Activity, section 1.0 encourages employees to participate in the political process, but "employees must understand, however, that their involvement and participation must be on an individual basis, on their own time, and at their own expense".
If you decide to contact INS or Congress about this, you can do so as an individual and as a personal matter but you cannot represent it as being in behalf of XXXXXXXX or leave the person with the mistaken impression that you are doing it in behalf of XXXXXXXX. If you elect to contact someone about this, you are doing this because you personally want them to do something for you, not because XXXXXXX wants the Government official to do something.
On a follow-up phone conversation I was clearly told: If I contact any Congressman or Senator and my company gets an inquiry from them as to why they employ "a foreigner" I am done...
Note: They are have been some cases where members of Congress tried to question and impose regulations on Defense companies not to hire any non-citizens. There is a trend out there expanding to more and more companies, to just hire citizens. In the end the GC will look as obsolete as the EAD today. One more reason to fight for "Project Ocean" also along with the Backlogs.
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