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  • Zee
    06-08 09:36 AM
    Whats the source for the information, can you post the link to it.

    Thanks





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  • neelu
    03-25 01:01 AM
    Thank you, pmpforgc.

    I liked your letter. I already sent it to couple of friends and got a positive response.

    Two more members to IV!


    Pappu and Nilu

    I am reposting draft in small font
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    Dear Friend

    I know you are very BUSY. But I want your TWO minutes to REGISTER at the Following website as member.

    http://immigrationvoice.org/index.php


    This is very important organization working for your and mine benefit. This is group of people like you and me who are leading fight for immigration reform for highly skilled immigrants who have high skill jobs or have U.S. master or higher degree.

    As you might be knowing currently there is backlog for green cards. Unless some rules are modified you and me will not get green card in next five years. Specifically it is much serious condition for people from India, China, Philippines and Several such other countries. As they send lot of highly skilled immigrants and each country have fixed quota for employment based green card.


    I know some of you have not yet started working on your green cards. But when you will start, you will realize that it is like doing another master or Ph.D. !!


    Above group is formed by people who came here on student or H-1B visa. They are trying to fight for immigration reform for highly skilled immigrants. When you read or listen any thing about immigration you listen only about undocumented or illegal immigrants. No one talks about improving immigration situation for employment based highly skilled immigrants. Those very few from the business group who talks about highly skilled, are only interested in increasing H-1B, so that they can get more educated employees. But if you work on H-1 you will know H-1B has several limitation like inability to change employer, spouse can not work etc. So it is very important to get Green Card as early as you can, if you are on student or H-1b visa.
    In current situation even if you are wise and quick enough to decide to act quickly for green card, you can not do any thing except sending papers to USCIS ( INS) and paying their fee and wait endless till you get frustrated and depressed. If you are waiting for your green card you already know it. If you have not you will know it soon. Green card is almost invisible for Highly skilled immigrants from India, China, Philippines and several other countries residents, because of backlogs, country quotas, FBI name check delays, Labor Certification delays and backlogs etc. (Some of these words may be new to you. )

    Employment based green card for highly skilled immigrant fall in EB-1, EB-2 and Eb-3 categories. Even if you have PhD and university job , you do not qualify for EB-1.
    and that is only open category. For Eb-1 you need tenure track appointment at University with several years of experience, around 20 research papers and several international awards etc. Those who apply for Eb-2 or EB-3 or NIW ( national interest Wavier) should not hope for green card in next five years under current situation

    This excellent group of people comprising of many bright people from India, China and many other countries around world, is very active in Washington D.C to change the above situation in our favor. Though it was formed in 2006 only it has around 10,000 members. All of them are fighting for our green card.

    I urge you to take look at their website. I am sure you will be impressed by the work they have done in last one year for highly skilled immigrants. They have already established strong political contacts and are using lobbyist to pursuer changes in laws in our favor. This is right time for you to get involved with your future green card process by supporting this organization so that they become successful in their mission.

    Before you go through their entire website, I want all of you to register just as a member. So that they can increase the strength of organization. You all might be knowing that In Washington D.C every thing works based on two numbers, votes and economical. That is why when you listen any thing about immigration you always listen about illegal immigrants, because they are in large numbers and are related to several others who are potential voters. Business group also favors them because of economical reasons.

    So this organization of Highly skilled immigrants also need your support as member, to show law makers that it represent several thousand highly skilled immigrants.
    (we don�t need to be in millions !!) So before you go through their entire website just register as member. It will not take more than a minute.


    I also want you to visit this web site regularly, so that you are aware of what is going on in Washington DC in your favor or against, in reference to your future green card or US citizenship. I visit this web site ten times a day. They give minute by minute picture of the show in Washington DC when it is Hot. Also you need to be part of their email, meet the law maker and other activities as per your time convenience.

    Let me add they are doing all the LEGAL activity which is fully permitted under US immigration Laws. Still if you have any doubt you can call them to clear your doubt.


    Also they need what ever financial support you can do to them. I am also the financial supporter for them. I have contributed few hundred dollars and registered as monthly contributor. I want them to succeed for my, your and future highly skilled immigrants benefit. Remember they are fighting for our green card, which will give us several more rights compare to our current immigration status. It is better to contribute to them rather than paying several thousand dollars to the lawyers. Lawyers just fill forms (you need to check that three times before submitting !!!) and never promise to get you anything. This organization, I am sure with your, mine and other members support will get lot of work done in Washigton D C. So that probably you will not need lawyer for your green card application, and it will become very easy for you to file for Green Card. They had done lot more than what they promised. You can dig in to their website for making your self educated about there fascinating work. Let me add the core team which run this volunteer organization has spent several thousand dollars from their pocket to make this attempt successful, They are that much committed to success and final goals of organization.

    I personally urge all my friends like you to register as member for this organization and also contribute financially, if you can, for benefit of your self, me, as well as future green card applicants from highly skilled immigrant community.

    Thanks for taking time to read this and registering as �IMMIGRATION VOICE� member.

    If you register please email me back with your screen name so that I know you tool action on my request.


    After reading this and registering, if you feel, this organization is for you and me, please forward this request to all your friends who are either on student or H-a visa and will need green card in future. They need to be part of this important movement for their future benefit.

    THANKS
    __________________________________________________ ____





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  • PlainSpeak
    01-12 05:53 PM
    What is even more surprising is PlainSpeak is a member from 2006 and doesn't know anything about advocacy and lobbying. Probably because he/she has never been a donor.
    Of course I've seen people who browse other so called immigration/chat forums and pick up wierd ideas and fantasies about lobbying and then post here. Its just mob mentality with un-practical ideas and they think if a mob says its right then maybe it has to be right. yes?
    Then they claim that only they are right (the mob) and we are all wrong and don't know how to do things - strange indeed.

    People can chat, argue all they want on forums, but about 99% of people on public forums know nothing about advocacy.
    Yes i have been a member since 2006 and yes i dont know much about advocacy and lobbying, but what i do know is that advocacy and lobbying is possible only if you have an organization behind you and in this case EB3 does not believe that the organization named IV is behind them.

    Not probabaly but 100 % confirmed that i have never been a donor. Now my questions is why do big companies in USA donate to any party. They do that because they believe that when that party come to power the goverment will be positive towards that specific business. Now what part of the example is not clear to you. EB3 do not donate to IV because they do not believe IV supports EB3 cause. Sure IV says that it is for all EB but the concerns of EB3 get trodden under the general good of EB Community (Read that as EB2)

    Of course i browse other so called chats and forum because IV is not the sole representative of EB community and in case of EB3 it was never a representative. How swollen is your head with pompous self importance to think that you make the only difference to immigration community.

    It is easy to dismiss what i say as Mob mentality because that another defence mechanism which you use unknowingly where you believe that you alone know what is best for EB community. That is kind of a delusion which you will come out of soon enough

    Yes people can chat and argue all they want on forums because that is what a forum is and yes 99% of people on public forums know nothing about advocacy, but they know about their issues and they do know that whatever advocacy is being done it is not helping them.

    Strange indeed !!





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  • nyte_crawler
    09-25 01:43 PM
    I appreciate you for keeping this civilized as well. We all know that all the talk about recapture and immigration reform has not taken us anywhere.We wont be here arguing about this issue, if we dont have any inherent bias towards our well-being. (I dont even have to be explicit about that) I dont want to discuss being fair and look for any sympathy towards EB3I. All I want to know who is adversely affected. Just by looking at the bulletin, it gives us a clear picture. If USCIS would have interpreted all along this way and never changed it, I would not be even discussing here because its mute. I am not a proponent of changing the way it was before so that it backlogs EB2 as well. I just want to put this effort up there so that we can come into some consensus of rationalizing the spill over to get benefit to all backlogged groups rather than pouring in to one group. How would this affect long term ? I dont know. But I know for sure, there will be some relief to some people for the time being and over the long term it could help more. See the difference between our argument is, I just want some from you, but you want it all. I am in this game for about 9 years with 8 EADs. By not having a GC never restricted me from doing what ever I wanted. But I think its about time, some one has to do something about it. I think this is the right opportunity for some people. If I look from your side, its taking something from you. But all I am looking is the right way to get USCIS intrepret and get some relief in the process.

    Thank you for your arguments and I dont think we can come to consensus on our beliefs. I will drive this issue from my end and see what I can do about it.

    I always believed in Bucky's motto: "an experiment, to find what a single individual could contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity"



    nyte_crawler I gave u green because I really appreciate you keeping the argument civilized even though we both differ in our ideas. Now just to take things a little further. You have pointed me that I am arguing to keep spill over as it is (in favour of EB2) because that will help me. I would argue the same that when you say immediate help for EB3 I feel that is because that will help your case. Tell me how does it help Eb3 with PD 2004 and further. Rather it would be in their interest to cross port to EB2 since they directly become current rather than wait for spill over to reach their PD which is good 3-4 years away. So my argument is there are three interest groups here

    1) EB2
    2) Eb3 prior to 2004
    3) Eb3 2004 onwards.



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  • NolaIndian32
    09-01 04:55 PM
    Congratulations .. and keep supporting IV. I would ask each lucky one who get GC in sep 2009 should DONATE atleast one time 100 USD gift to IV.

    I couldn't agree with you more. Just made a one time donation of $100 via paypal.
    Receipt ID: 1988-7134-7465-5315

    Of course I am going to continue to be a monthly donor.
    Thanks to everyone for your best wishes. I am so looking forward to my trip to India in December this year, my boss approved my vacation today and then sent me home to celebrate!!:D

    Hoping to see many more approvals this week and all month long.:)

    -Nola





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  • gsc999
    01-19 12:15 PM
    Guys, Can we get some corporate funding on IV's effort. I agree that our contributions can also make a difference but if any big corporate decides to support our cause, don't you think it would make a very big difference, funding wise. Big companies like Mircrosoft, Oracle also do favor immigration reforms and I think they too are currently lobbying for the same. If somehow, we can also extract some contributions from them for the same cause that would really give great impetus to IV's efforts.
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    Some companies have matching contribution policy. this is usually for non-religious and non-political organizations. I am unsure if IV is eligible. I will ask my company but has anyone explored this option. If this does work out, this may be a decent chunk of funds, especially companies friendly to legal immigration as WaitingForGC points out.



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  • trueguy
    04-08 08:21 PM
    Hunger strike ?, i dont know my friend, sounds like a neat idea to get attention, but then what happens if its becomes an indefinite hunger strike, i mean i hope you do understand the consequences of that.
    I think we are at a stage where people are fed up with the process, but i hope good things happen to people who wait.
    Sabar ka phal meetha hota hai :)

    Waiting is all we have been doing for so many years. I have been living separately from my wife for last 3 years. When I reached out to Pappu on IV, he refused to do anything for me. I am ready to come forward and talk to media but nobody is here to listen.

    I am seriously considering some media awakening event these days, it might be suicide or whatever it takes but this DOS stupidity has to stop. Its affecting so many people's life. I agree GC is not a right that we can demand from US government but they can't treat us like this after investing so many productive years for this Economy.





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  • doxa
    06-27 05:48 PM
    The bottomline is that for every 10 immigrants, there will be 5 or more from India and China.



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  • willigetgc?
    06-15 09:53 AM
    I can't stop thinking of our efforts in DC. As I have already posted, it was a tremendous experience being a part of such campaign. I came upon this thread of adding more members to IV and from what I read, it was successful largely. IV has increased members from 10,000 to over 40,000 since this thread was started.

    I am bringing back this thread again, asking our members to get more involved in their state chapters and to encourage our current membership to be more active in the forums and action items. We, who participated in the DC event, can hold conference calls (if our members are separated widely across the state) or meet in local libraries (if many of our members are in the same city) and talk of our experience in DC and what needs to be done ahead.

    Fellow participants, please do come up with suggestions on how to keep the momentum going.........





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  • Michael chertoff
    05-06 09:52 AM
    impressive! What's your field if you don't mind me asking.

    Information Technology



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  • pappu
    06-06 08:59 AM
    House session starts at 2 PM today. Lets hope there is some talk about any next step for the confrence committee.





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  • GCneeded
    05-16 01:21 PM
    Thanks for the responses. Should we submit the original medical report or copy is fine?



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  • sam2006
    01-19 11:51 AM
    6) Go and buy a Pre approved LC from Desi Consultant paying 15K or more

    guys any more ideas?





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  • raydon
    05-19 05:33 PM
    Called my local congressman's office and left a voice message. Called the offices of Bob Menendez and Henry Cuellar. Rep. Menendez's staff noted down my message and said they will pass it on. Rep. Cuellar's staff mentioned that some of the contents of the bills are contradictory to the things that he supports and got into talking about comprehensive reform. I politely listened to him and reiterated my request, mentioning that his support was very important to get moving on immigration reform. Have to call the other members now. Seemed quite daunting initially However I will try to finish calling the other members as well. Do we still call the office of Ciro Rodriguez ? Going by the postings, they seem to be against the bills.



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  • usa1999
    07-17 11:26 AM
    This reports also mentions this on Page 48

    Absent legislation to address the visa availability bottleneck
    for India EB-3s, for example, decades may pass between
    the dates when petitioning employers tested the U.S. labor
    market and when visa numbers become available. With an
    ever-changing economy, the market test performed many
    years earlier may bear little, if any, relationship to what the
    U.S. labor pool looks like when USCIS finally confers green
    card status on these individuals.

    We can include above in our letter to lawmakers.

    Also noticed on Page 53 of this report there are 506,410 unused EB visas and out of which 180,039 were recaptured. It means if somehow we convinced lawmakers to bring one more special legislation to recapture remaining EB visas approx 326K , then backlog would be removed. I guess IV is working on this





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  • Saralayar
    04-07 12:01 PM
    Friends,

    we are struggling to get greencard, even Multi year EAD/AP is a issue and you guys are talking about citizenship..

    best of luck

    MC
    I am also struggling to get my GC. It is my 9th year in H1B visa. My intention is, atleast we can reduce the period for waiting to get the citizenship. It can also be considered as a good benefit for our community. Just my thoughts...



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  • gssr
    08-04 12:20 PM
    Not may approval from NSC.





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  • godbole_sanjaya
    04-18 11:44 AM
    Applied in Apr-06. Got PERM approved within 1 month. I haven't heard of delays in this so far.





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  • Hassan11
    03-20 04:21 PM
    sorry, I meant average active users is around 656 daily. I think the total number is 27,096 members (from IV home page)

    This forum only has 656 members? I thought we had more than that.





    baboo1976
    02-07 08:10 PM
    Currently Dept of Labor is processing Mar 2009 - Applications (Updated 12/31/09)

    Check-out below link

    Ensure - You click on tab which mentions "PERM Processing Times"

    Welcome to the iCERT Portal (http://icert.doleta.gov/index.cfm)

    My 2nd Labor Application (EB-2) was filed in Aug -09 - Hoping for some good news soon:cool:

    Good Luck Guys





    jonty_11
    06-14 03:04 PM
    GC is moving target, looks like some drunkard wakes up one fine morning and randomly moves the priority date value/importance. I know those in such situation may be relatively less in number but I know many who are and repurcussions for this look horrible for people who have not made past this luck test. I was one of the unlucky ones :(. good luck to guys who have moved forward hope you still help rest of us still stuck.
    given waht everyone has gone thru over these years..and continues to endure... I will continue to support IV and its goals.



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