Economic Help and Depression Relief a Solution to I-140
I was just thinking of a way to help the US economy uplift itself by filling its coffers and helping States such as mine (MA) from economic turmoil.
I was hoping they would charge us immigrants a little more hire more people (creating jobs - adding taxes from the people) working on more I-140 and I-485 cases and allowing us smart people to create more jobs and build our business here in the USA.
I believe it would work out well for most of us as we get paid well compared to 50% of the US population. Also, we probably would shell out enough money to get us out of the rut we are stuck in as we go on our endless waiting.
I wish to send a more formal proposal to USCIS. What do you think?
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January 6th, 2009 at 12:35 am
embabe,
I could not agree more with you. the whole idea that you are stuck into the job category that your Green Card allows is totally unreasonable in my opinion, given the fact that the process itself takes almost a decade at times. Freedom is what made this country great and they should realize that allowing people to do what they really feel passionate about doing is the only way to go.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:35 am
As far a formal proposal is concerned, what exactly did you have in mind?
January 6th, 2009 at 6:51 am
I am working with a lawyer on a proposal right now and know a state representative willing to work with Immigrants like us. I am not allowed to disclose his name yet due to his request.
I have helped create a few bill proposals before hopefully if I get enough people on the idea, I can get a petition signed as well.
The problem is when I meant add cost it means at least 2000 dollars to 3000 dollars thats what would make a difference.
Nothing less.
To make sense of it, if a visa processing officer processes 4 cases a month simultaneously, $12000 will be enough to cover his salary, medical benefits, taxes, pension etc. Its a cost benefit analysis.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
That sounds fabulous. If there is anything I can do to help with your objective, let me know, that’s what this site is all about. For starters, once you have the details ready, I can post a full-length article about it and sign people up for your petition via a web page on this site if you want. Keep me posted.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I will compile the bill. Also, I am not technologically savvy but if there is anyway to have a petition signed online Im all for it.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I can help with the technology part. I will start thinking about how we can do that. When do you plan to have it ready?
January 7th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I do agree. Because it it will help people like me get better job which my brain deserves. I am sick of working with my current abusive coworkers. Really want to change jobs. But my I-140 is still pending.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
It’s been 7 years since I first filed for my GC processing and being in the EB3 India category I feel the process is going to go on forever. Moreover, I am stuck with the same company for the past 10 years and am in the 11th year now. If this predicament in the world’s supposedly most Free-est country is not synonymous to bonded labor then what is?It makes me think whether the US immigration department is hand in gloves with the recruiting companies to deliberately go slow on the I-140 and I-485 clearances.
January 24th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Deep, I hear you. That’s precisely what this site is screaming about all day long. 10 YEARS OF WAIT IS INSANE!!!!!!!! Someone needs to help us and I, just like you, feel helpless that the powers-to-be don’t seem to care.
January 24th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
embabe, any progress?
February 19th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I think we should do something contrary to what everyone else is suggesting. I have been reading a lot of posts on here iv and other sites where there is talk of us shelling x amount of dollars or buying a house as a solution to help the economy which is a good thing. However on the same posts I also see contrarian views saying the economy is in bad shape and they will never want to add more immigrants its a political thing. Some of them suggested that since we have all our savings in this country with the banks and the institutions they are not going to get an added benefit other than buying up of the houses and inventory which no one wants I guess. My contrarian view is this:
We sign a proposal and send it to the congress to act on eb cases or whatever we want them to and if they dont then the immigration community should start sending back dollars to their home country. We need massive campaign and support. Think about this estimates are about 800k are waiting in labor, eb or 485 stage if we send $1000 every week from the banks institutions in the US to our own country banks it will deplete the banks reserves by 800 mln every week. How long do you think they will want this to continue in the face of a falling economy and banks with limited funds.
Another thought that comes to mind is everyone takes a day off every month on one day.
Gandhiji taught us something non cooperation and maybe thats the way forward.
Thoughts opinions are welcome…
March 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
i like your idea about collective actions but in regeards to sending money is a bad idea because most of the money will go to india and there will be a strong demand for rupees and there will be excess dollars in india and this will affect the exchange rate wich in turn will cause other things.
plus sending a 1000 a week is ambitious, many people do not save that much, after the expenses.
we need to get together in the streets like the illegal mexicans and ask for rights, that is the way forward.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I understand that it is difficult for everyone to send that kind of money but I am only projecting 50% of us doing that and it will still hit the banks hard. Do you know what it will do to the already crumbling banking system. They will ask you to stop even if they know what you are planning to do.
800 mln leveraged at 1 to 5 which most banks are even today means they will have to find 800 mln every week or 3.2 bln every month and thats not something the fed wants to do. Its surely going to have an impact .Instead of this money going out of the country we can push for eb reforms and talk about a temp gc just like you get when somene marries a us citizen for 2 years. This way they can do their BG checks etc and if everything is ok after 2 years you get a perm gc and once you get a gc you will buy houses with the same money so it will change the housing and economy. I am sure they will buy it it just needs to be marketed hard and it will sell out of fear and greed the reason we are here…
March 5th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Banks will get bailed out, forget it….
March 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Let them get bailed out but if you see the way they are getting treated by the public. Nobody wants to pay a dime in bailout money anymore so any impact you can create the results will be 10 fold its a multiplier effect deleveraging if you know what I am talking about.
And by the way doing something is better than doing nothing. It doesnt hurt to give a shot. The big thing is how to garner support for this.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I dont know if you guys watch cnbc but there was a debate today on whether foreign workers should be allowed and one of the Guests Vivek Wadhwa a Professor at the Duke Univ in North carolina said if we let them go back can you imagine the money from Citi and Bank of america going with them and there will be a run on those banks, exactly what I have been saying they cannot afford a run on the banks. All we NEED is collective action otherwise we are all DOOMED at different times even if your 485 is pending they are finding ways to block your GC process if that is not yet evident. Join the gang or Good luck!!!
March 16th, 2009 at 9:54 am
I support Ken’s proposal of having a temp GC in the interim till the permanent GC comes along. This should be more applicable for people whose GC process has been going on for 5 years or more…
March 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am
So what do you propose we do Ken…I mean to expedite the process of having the temp GC process kick off? And I am dead serious.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Deep, Ken - Any further thoughts on this idea? If you can come up with a concrete plan, we can get some momentum - I have friends in some Immigration forums and attorneys..
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
I wish I had an attorney of my own. However, the truth is that my GC filing has been undertaken by my company and hence it’s their lawyer who’s doing all the work and I cannot really instigate a company’s lawyer for my benefit.
After having stayed here for more than 10 years in this country, one thing I noticed which is highly effective is the phenomenon called ‘Lobbying’. Lobbying to US is what bribing is to the third world countries. It seems to be highly effective here. The Jewish race in America whose number may be one third of the total number of people of Indian origin living in US, seems to pull the strings effectively for themselves as well as for their brethren living in Israel. They even get away with things which other countries would never dare to and almost always have US backing them up even if it does not want to. The Gays do that, illegal Mexicans almost did that last year though not in a very sophisticated manner.
Therefore, my suggestion would be to have all the GC applicants especially under the EB3 category band together and start lobbying ferociously and effectively. We need to come up with effective statements to hit where it hurts the most. Perhaps, the attorneys or senators who are interested can educate us and guide us in this direction. But, apart from lobbying, I don’t see any other effective technique that could make our voices known at the highest level.
A point to be noted—-Even our own Indians pulled it off effectively to get the all important nuclear deal signed between US and India which seemed impossible even 3 years ago! This was entirely due to lobbying.
Let me know what others think. If others agree we need to move swiftly because it’s now when the economy is down or never.