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  • hopelessGC
    04-16 01:23 PM
    Turned out to be a blessing for me as if the status was updated it would make me nervous for 10 days till I recd the RFE.

    You've got a point there :D





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  • Macaca
    11-07 12:24 PM
    There are more than just national anecdotes, however. Everyday Americans are affected. Since looking into the H-1B visa program, some of my constituents have come to me and spoken out against abuses they see.
    Another constituent sent me a letter saying that he saw firsthand how foreign workers were brought in while Iowans with similar qualifications were let go. He tells me he is a computer professional with over 20 years experience. He was laid off and has yet to find a job. He states: I believe [my employer] has a history of hiring H-1B computer personnel at the expense of qualified American citizens.
    I received a letter from a man in Arizona who works for a company that employs dozens of H-1B workers. When he asked his supervisor why so many foreign nationals were being hired, the head of human resources said: If the company has an American and a person from India, both with the same skill set, the company will hire the person from India because they can pay them less. These are firsthand stories from U.S. workers.

    I ask those begging for an increase in foreign workers to explain these cases to me. Why are Americans struggling to get jobs as software developers, data processors, and program analysts?

    From How Safe Is Your Job? (http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2007/edition_07-01-2007/Intelligence_Report) By Lyric Wallwork Winik | parade, July 1, 2007

    You could lose your job to a foreign worker�not because he�s cheaper but because he has better workplace skills and discipline. That�s the message Labor Secretary Elaine Chao hears from U.S. executives who are worried about America�s competitive future.
    Beyond the cheaper cost of labor, U.S. employers say that many workers abroad simply have a better attitude toward work. �American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene,� says Chao. �They need anger-management and conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction. Too many young people bristle when a supervisor asks them to do something.�
    As for our job future, Chao notes that most of the fastest-growing jobs today are in industries requiring advanced knowledge and skills and are �very high or high wage.�





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  • scorpion00
    08-13 06:34 PM
    ..." My point is Don't crib if EB3 is retrogressed...use the system and become EB2, port your priority date, which is ofcourse dependent upon finding an EB2 job
    Really???? Are you sure that this is what you meant in your original post?

    This is what you wrote in the first post,
    "Now, compare this to a person working an EB3-job for the last 8 years. Not only does this person do a real job that hopefully provides a respectable income but this person also has the option of moving to EB2 after 5 years of experience. So, at the end of the day in 2008; this person comes out ahead of me in terms of money, in terms of priority date (if ported) and most likely in terms of GC"
    "You have all the opportunities that were/are available to a person who sweated it out in the university system here to gain more qualifications and get an EB2 job. You CHOSE not to."
    Are you insane or what? Why can't you understand that many EB3 also have US education.There are thousands who had M.S degree or more than 5 years of experience but didn't apply in EB2.





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  • laborchic
    12-26 03:06 PM
    Great stuff folks..

    I convinced more people from my office to send a message on change.gov. Even US citizens who respect your work could send a message to the transition team saying that they are for the legal and highly skilled immigrants...

    Getting recommendations from your bosses, managers and co-workers may also be helpful. Its very unusual for the USCIS/Immigration dept people to hear good things about the immigrants from US Citizens.

    These days lots of people are talking about the transition at work and they know about change.gov website. If you know good friends who can write for you then that could be of great help.

    I have a feeling that some good news is coming up in the pipeline. Was reading about Janet Naplolitano and Silos in today's NY times editorial.

    Lets give it a best shot here guys..:)



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  • willgetgc2005
    11-16 11:59 AM
    PAPPU and Others,

    We pay taxes PLUS Social Security for which we dont get any benefit. Dont miss that.

    Let us be assertive about that.



    we try to mention in our media interviews about us paying all the taxes and playing by the rules, still the anti immigrants pursue this misinformation campaign against us. We will all try to ensure that in every media interview we say that we pay all taxes..





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  • m306m
    12-13 03:44 PM
    I have contributed $200 to the Omnibus fund drive and intend to contribute a lot more in the coming months. However, I would not have been a member of IV if this were a paid site.

    I prefer that the contributions are voluntary and I am an example of someone who joined IV as a member and then CHOOSE to contribute to the cause. If IV had asked me to become a member by paying $200, I certainly would not have joined.

    I vote to keep the site free and allow free flow of information. By making this a paid site we hurt the cause that IV is fighting for and we hurt potential members who would contribute.

    I want to ask members who have contributed $500 - $1000, if this site asked that much for you to join would you have joined? If so would you continue to contribute after paying this much money? After paying money to a pay site there is a sense of entitlement that people feel. They feel that they have already paid their due and they will not contribute additional funds thinking that they have already paid once when choosing to be a member.

    I urge the administrators and core member to please keep this site voluntary and free.



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  • sgaur_1977
    07-18 09:36 PM
    from the July bulletin
    Region All DV Chargeability Areas Except Those Listed Separately
    AFRICA 35,500
    ASIA 7,750
    EUROPE 23,000
    NORTH AMERICA (BAHAMAS) 12
    OCEANIA 1,800
    SOUTH AMERICA, and the CARIBBEAN 2,500

    Unless they reject/disqualify 30k Africans and close to 20k Europeans I don't see the diversity here. Notice Asia, the most populous continent has a measly 7k. But thats a different argument for another thread.

    I think increasing the total amount of visas per year is what we need.

    The numbers above are for DV visa and not EB..The reason Africa/Europe has a higher number because these places are not "principal sources of current immigration". Cap for DV visa is 55,000 per year





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  • abhijitp
    12-03 04:46 PM
    With all due respect I don't think lottery may be a workable idea. Here's why -

    Those who buy lotteries wish to spend least posible amount of money for a chance to win an insanely large sum of money - for e.g. spend $10 to win $10 million. Idea is prize money should make the money spent feel ridiculously low ( it doesn't matter if chances of winning are lower than getting struck by lightning ! ). How can this be worked out in the IV scenario?

    2 times the money is less than what people win at a 'Pot luck'!

    Unforunately though, the audience does believe in "penny wise pound foolish".
    People should not need a lottery or an IV credit card, they would be contributing without any of these incentives... if only they realized
    1) no relief is likely unless they want to help IV DO SOMETHING about it
    2) getting a GC sooner means saving a LOT more money than $50 a month



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  • pappu
    12-01 06:42 PM
    Leo07,
    Thanks for the ideas.
    Lack of contributions will reduce our investments in lobbying efforts and that will hurt our chances of overall success. In the last 3 weeks we have received just above 2K. This will be hardly of any consequence when you buy lobbying benefits from the top firm in the country. We will simply invest as much as we can get from members. If members pay us less, we will be able to get less. Provisions in the Omnibus bill are not going to be easy.

    If anyone has any doubts about how much we are feared by our opponents they can read

    http://www.jobdestruction.org/NewsArchive/index.htm

    Titled: 2007-11-29 DC lobbying campaign by Indian special interest groups.htm

    Now answering your points

    1) On our own IV site, we can consider adding google ads only on Forum pages. However before that we need an assessment from someone that is an expert in google ads to calculate how much we can earn via google ads. Experts in this area can contact us.
    2) Advertising is expensive and we cannot afford it. If anyone has contacts with websites, pls use those contacts and get us free space. We can put banner ads on those sites
    3) We had $20 as a minimum amount and even then we got only 300+ people to pay. Infact, since most who could have contributed more, only contributed $20 our contributions went down significantly and we were unable to keep up with the Lobbying expenses. At that time several people complained that $20 is too high and it should be $10 or $1. This has been discussed several times on the forum and we have answered many people same question. If people think the value of the effort we all are putting and the price of increasing the chances of their greencard is just worth $20 or $5, then I do not think we should even pursue this effort and even keep this website up.
    4) This is a good idea. Next time I start spotlight thread, I would request members to donate if they found the topic helpful. Likewise all active members who help others on the forum by answering their questions can request readers to consider donating if the answers were helpful.
    5) This is tough to implement without knowing who is conducting such campaign and if the person can be trusted.





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  • b.rich
    06-05 12:49 AM
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    Probably should have spent a lil more time on it but oh well.



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  • kumar1
    06-12 05:16 PM
    Check Home page of USCIS.





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  • abhijitrajan
    07-14 09:49 PM
    I just put forth my thoughts. Statements should be put under quotes only when quoted verbatim. Of course you follow your own judgement. Good luck and thanks for your effort against this character.



    Abhijit, Thank you for your suggestions. If you watch the Utube video, Rep Tancredo clearly said that H1-B visa holders overstay their visas. As far as the "glass house" goes I can't change the petition even if it has one signature. I wrote this to create maximum impact and we can only hope that it does.
    Below is link to the Lou Dobbs' episode.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_c9ep9uKI



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  • prashanthg
    08-19 03:25 PM
    Total AOS applications pending as of June-2008 is 740,969.
    What percentage of them is Eb-3? where did you get that 55% from?
    What % of EB3 is from india? Where did you get that 30% from?

    Thanks,
    g


    Some of my assumptions are from previous posts (may be from vdlrao's posts).
    I assumed that the EB3 numbers are split between India/China and ROW.
    EB3-I could be as high as 40% - I could be wrong.

    I would like to see some guru's comment on these numbers.





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  • asanghi
    11-16 12:12 PM
    Not sure if the social security taxes are for immigration benefits. Also, the taxes we pay are for several other services that we get in the US. Remember, even as non-citizens, we get millions of benefits such 911, clean roads, and the list will go on. Why do you think we want to immigrate?

    I don't think this kind of an argument will hold any water with the press or lawmakers. There are other good arguments, and we should stick to them.

    qplearn. You are right.

    But as I have noticed, there is a lot of misinformation being spread around H1-B holders. One of those is that H1-B holders don't pay taxes. I have now read it at so many places, if I didn't know anything about H1-B visas, I would probably have believed it by now. So we really should make a point to mention that we pay taxes and social security.



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  • srikondoji
    06-08 09:45 AM
    Well if we were to carry your reasoning a little bit further ...being a citizen of a country, any country, is only a privilege and not a right as you have to follow the rules and laws of the country.

    The actual difference is in the definition as has been pointed out earlier.....
    "right" - is something you can ask for because you think it is reasonably fair
    "privilege" - is something you are not entitled to or deserve but nevertheless get because someone condescended to give it to you.

    By the above definitions what would would classify getting permanent residence as.... the answer lies in the broader way of how we look at life and live it.
    Do we always live in fear and cower in front of real and imagined threats - the GC is then a privilege.
    Or do we live an honest life - do the best we can - and stand up for what we think is right or wrong irrespective of whether our lives are directly affected or not. The GC then is a right.

    Getting a GC in United States is our dream. Following rules and following laws of the system is all what we can do. We can only highlight the defects in the system and ask for a change.

    We live a honest life not out of fear of getting caught, but because we believe that that is the right thing to do.

    If you are a citizen and stand up for what is right or wrong, then the concerned authorities should seriously look into it.
    But if you are not a citizen and stand up for what is right or wrong, then you may be appreciated for that and receive a thank you note. The concerned authorities may or may not pay attention to your concerns. I may be wrong but this is what i feel about it at this time.
    Convince me otherwise and i will change my thinking.
    In the later case, if you approach authorities in a systematic and professional way and place your concerns like how our immigrationvoice is doing, chances are we will succeed in our efforts.
    Thanks
    sri





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  • Lollerskater
    09-17 12:35 PM
    seems like the chairman is kinda careless just saying "the ayes have it". He must be a megatron fan.



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  • Hassan11
    03-13 03:33 PM
    does this mean that EB3 ROW can't use all available visa for 3rd qtr that is why there were visas available for India EB2 (hence the established cutoff date of Dec 2003). but this should only happen if EB3 ROW is current but it is not.
    so my question is how can be available visas to spill over to India EB2 if EB3 ROW is not current and it is still retrogressed???

    this does not make sense. anybody????



    Section 202(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act provides that if total demand will be insufficient to use all available numbers in a particular Employment preference category in a calendar quarter, then the unused numbers may be made available without regard to the annual “per-country” limit. It has been determined that based on the current level of demand being received, primarily by Citizenship and Immigration Services Offices, there would be otherwise unused numbers in the Employment Second preference category. As a result, numbers have once again become available to the India Employment Second preference category. The rate of number use in the Employment Second preference category will continue to be monitored, and it may be necessary to make adjustments should the level of demand increase substantially.






    http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4177.html

    If some body already posted this other than Indian consuates...please ignore this...

    As far as I see all Numbers are same as Indian Consulate.



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  • GcSTART1
    07-01 01:39 PM
    I just joined the form but would like to call...Any body knows who should i call for Massachusetts?





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  • americandesi
    07-27 06:21 PM
    My PERM got approved on 07/23/2007 and my attorney is planning to file I-140 and I-485 concurrently by Aug 15, 2007.

    I was offered a wage less than the proffered wage till pay period 07/15/2007 and my employer revised my wage to match the proffered wage from pay period 07/31/2007. Hence I would be able to submit 2 paystubs for payperiods 07/31/2007 and 08/15/2007 with I-140 application, which shows that I am currently getting paid the proffered wage.

    Please let me know if these 2 paystubs alone are sufficient to demonstrate ability to pay.

    We wouldn't be able to submit the employers Quarterly Wage reports with the revised wage as the current quarter ends only on Sep 07.

    I understand that USCIS will issue a direct denial without an RFE if the employer is unable to prove atleast one of the following

    (1) Net income - The initial evidence reflects that the petitioner�s net income is equal to or greater than the proffered wage
    - (Supporting Evidence : Tax Returns).

    (2) Net current assets - The initial evidence reflects that the petitioner�s net current assets are equal to or greater than the proffered wage.
    - (Supporting Evidence : Audited Financial statement)

    (3) Employment of the beneficiary - The record contains credible verifiable evidence that the petitioner not only is employing the beneficiary but also has paid or currently is paying the proffered wage.
    - (Supporting Evidence : Annual/Quarterly Wage reports, paystubs)

    Ours is a small company and doesn't have net income or net assets matching the proffered wage.

    Can anyone please answer this question?





    jayram123
    07-12 03:28 PM
    If you heard what the restrictionist lawmakers have said about what to do with illegal�s, this retrogression makes sense. The restrictionists want to make life miserable for illegal�s by making it difficult for them to get jobs, this way the illegal�s would go back on there own.

    They are trying to do the same thing with us legal�s (without saying it aloud). If you are from India it will take you at least 6 to 8 years (if you are lucky) to get a green card. Frankly in the fast changing technologically advanced world how many people can hold on to the same job for 8 years straight, they cannot. People lose jobs because they are laid of, the company has run into bad times, the technology has changed and the company wants to move you to a different role or position etc, this way a lot of people have to switch jobs which invalidates thete green card process. They are making your life miserable so that you are broken down psychologically and finally will go away either on your own or because of some arcane rule, example the labor should be applied more than one year before h1 expiration etc, a living example is that Indian guy who posted recently that he is leaving US to work for Microsoft in Canada. This way they get the best of both worlds, you have young people in the prime of there life without any diseases who do not burden there medicare system, working hard and paying social security taxes and medicare taxes (which they will not get back) and in the end they are kicked out or go away on there own.



    You got it right or what!!! That sounds like the modern definition of slavery and seems to be what is happening in US despite all the claims of abolishment of slavery. They just have refined it to a point where it is subtle and not so blatant.





    rameshvaid
    09-17 12:14 PM
    R V next in the Q??



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