Obama sounds like a hardened politician. The remark about wanting to BEGIN the CIR in 2010 means he obviously doesn’t want to pass it this year before the elections in November. He wants to do it next year and that can be a disaster if the Democrats don’t continue to keep a significant majority at [...]
The recent draft CIR bill that the Senate Democrats introduced includes some VERY VERY helpful clauses for STEM graduates from US Universities. I wrote about that last week and someone asked me - what the heck is STEM.
It’s simply Science Technology Engineering Math. These are the areas where US has shown a demonstrated shortage of [...]
The CIR draft outline from April 29th includes a provision to provide green cards to all Master’s degree or Ph.D degree holders from accredited universities a green card right away as soon as they have a job offer. How on earth did we go from 10+ year wait to that!! This is worse than the [...]
Read this excerpt from the April 2010 Visa Bulletin
Explains RETROGRESSION, Basis of diversity based visas and over-subscription well. It’s good background for all those of you waiting in the 7% country quotas that MAKE NO SENSE. That’s like saying all employers in the country should provide employment based on race.
Dear DOL and USCIS. DIVERSITY BASED [...]
I didn’t even know about this until today. Seems to have started in January. I urge all Endless waiters to read it and engage in dialog with the USCIS’s powers that be.
http://www.uscis.gov/blog/
Now that the health care bill made it through the House, despite with outstanding issues that are likely to see class action lawsuits, next up is the CIR!!
Expect the CIR to come into focus over the next few months. And going by the reactions on health care, which honestly is a far less controversial topic [...]
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Hello. Has anyone filed I-140 amendment?
My I-140 was approved over a year ago, and I’ve been waiting for the visa to become available… In a meantime the name of my company changed. Everything about the business and my job remains the same, just a name change.
So I was told [...]
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I just learned about the dilema of the LEGAL immigrants in this country who have waiting years and years for their green cards. I was searching for more information on possible policy changes and googled “legal immigration”. I get the prompt that asks if I meant illegal immigration. That is [...]
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Years ago, I woked for the University of Miami in the Intensive English Program. Students there would enroll into the U on condition that they would successfully pass the test after the IEP. They would then spend 4 to 6 years at the U and upon graduation and employment receive [...]
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There are hundreds of thousands of highly funtioning legal immigrants who have saving money for years, waiting in the immaginary line for their green cards, who would purchase a home immediately if their futures in this country were certain. Change the policy. Give them their cards. Let them buy homes. [...]
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