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Congress.org - News : Why Bill Gates cares about immigration (http://www.congress.org/news/2010/05/24/why_bill_gates_cares_about_immigration)

Why Bill Gates cares about immigration
Foreign workers have a stake in fight to change laws.

Activists on both sides of the immigration debate tend to focus on the millions of illegal immigrants whose fate rests on whether Congress passed a law.

But foreigners here legally also have a stake in this fight.

The U.S. issues temporary worker visas, called H-1B after their official classification, to thousands of non-residents each year. Often, they hold college degrees and have technical skills.

Microsoft and other technology companies hire many workers this way. They often have to prove they can't hire skilled U.S. citizens to fill those jobs first.

Bill Gates wrote in the Washington Post several years back that there is an employment gap that H-1B visas help fill:

This issue has reached a crisis point. Computer science employment is growing by nearly 100,000 jobs annually. But at the same time studies show that there is a dramatic decline in the number of students graduating with computer science degrees.

The United States provides 65,000 temporary H-1B visas each year to make up this shortfall -- not nearly enough to fill open technical positions.

H-1B workers, who have united under grassroots groups like Immigration Voice , want more than just an increase in visas. They want the government to streamline the rules.

Currently, the workers have to apply for green cards through their employers, often a lengthy and cumbersome process. They can't switch jobs easily and sometimes have to reapply for a visa even if they move jobs within the same company. They have to leave the country every few years before they can reapply for a visa.

The workers can also apply for a spouse to come to the U.S., but their partners are not allowed to work under the H-4 status granted to them. The activists argue that those individuals represent a skilled base of workers who could contribute to the U.S. economy and help pay for household expenses.

Powerful corporations back the H-1 B workers in their demands, since it would make it easier for them to hire skilled workers. But groups like Numbers USA argue that those companies shouldn't hire non-residents at a time when many Americans are jobless.

-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org

The amount of frustation people go through because of this stupid power mongering false value politicians and the organisations like Numbers USA etc is more than the tragedy of Gulf oil spill. People are holding on to their travel to home country because of this stupid idoitic laws. Educated people are treated like slaves. Why in America Immigration means Illegal? the back log is around 50,000 and added to it 50,000 more will not grab American Jobs. and the American job losses are because of the so called mulltinational companies greed for money, they out source everything to India, China and Philippines. (example Call centers) And offshore development. America only gained because of LEGAL immigration.

Might is Right works here.

Immigration Voice should take up this issue with USCIS. Those who came to US after 2007 should get PD of the date they applied for transfer of Labor OR applied for 140. Other wise it is abuse of law.

I am reviving this old thread because it was created by me, and it is highly relevant now. I predicted last month that EB2-I will become "U" soon, and it has happened (almost).

The quick way out of this mess is to ask CIS to move subst labor folks back in the queue. That will ensure that both EB3-I and EB2-I will move forward to July 07. Most of the labor substitution took place in that month itself.

This is an admin fix and does not require any new legislature. This is an idea whose time has come.

I was only trying to help out. I am always there with my full support. I used to be involved in student politics and I very well understand the importance of organizational strategy and planning. Keep up the great work. It's obvious that you guys are on top of things and I absolutely defer to your judgement.;)

In the bad economy if everyone can get EAD it will help more. All we need is an admin fix to allow filing of I485 and get EAD benefits

Desi3933 provided 'proof' that you need a legislative fix to allow filing of 485 when priority date is not current in this thread.

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23695&referrerid=15623

Again, do start and pursue that effort in a separate thread.

any reason y we are sending these flowers?? On the line of 'Lage Raho.' (An Indian movie where the protogonist preaches non violence and sends flowers instead)...


We are doing it in a nice way...Join us.

R u sure about this? Where did u hear this from?

[B]The spill over from FAMILY CATEGORY can only be used starting from SEPTEMBER 01 2008. Otherwise it won't go with the interpretation of the law.

Also the spillover from EB1 (for august 2008 and anything remaining for the current year) will be applied on September 01.

Can someone comment on this one.

Is there a way to fix this issue. Can she send an "amended" form with correct dates. Does it matter after all?

Appreciate any advise
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Originally Posted by looivy
A friend had an issue between changing employers. Employment with Employer1 ended jan 05 and the first paystub from employer2 came in Mar 05. For feb 05 there was no paystub and her H1 approval with employer2 also started in Mar 05. However, she has a offer letter from employer2 stating start date as feb 05.

In 485 stage, she has mentioned her employment dates for employer 2 as starting from Feb 05. Will this be a problem?

I think you should be fine.

I applied for my 2nd visa extension (1-year extension) after completion of 6 years in the middle of March 2007 (before I-94 expiry). My I-94 expired in the middle of March. I didn't hear from USCIS until the middle of July when they sent a huge list of request for evidence regarding my case (although I've been working on the same company's H1s for last many years now).
Meanwhile, I applied for adjustment of status on July 2nd as a beneficiary on my wife's application. If my H-1B gets rejected after sending the request for evidence for some reason now will I be out of status? Since my 180 days from my last valid I-94 will expire in the middle of September, is it a good idea to go on H4 before the middle of September and reenter the country?
In worst case, what will be my status if USCIS gets back to me, say in October, and says my H-1B extension application has been rejected?
Any input from UN or other gurus is appreciated.

Wonderful job!

Yes,, they did...
Our forefathers travelled to the promised land in ships that were full of rats, without food or water. Several of them died while trying to reach here.
Once here on the promised land, we had to fight our way to create a free society that you are dying to be part of. America is land of entrepreneurs.
And any one that don't have an entrepreneurial spirit is not welcomed here.

What do you have to bring to the table?


OK...one moment of silence for your great forefathers...now please wake up and look around you to see whats going on...if people choose to deliberately ignorant and shoo way the reality, not even those souls of their ancestors can help them....

We can go all day back and forth about who is who and who is what and all..however eod this is a land of immigrants and thats how it is built and thats its fabric...like it has become a cliche...if u cant beat them join' tehm..

Live and LEt live is all i saY, nothing more...nothing less.. no one has to justify anyone about thier existence, that being said I would rather go use my valuable time for something else...

thank you

Only 19 more needed to score the century!

A century of flowers!

:DWe need 2 Fours, a sixer, 2 twos and 1 one.:D

Lets not denigrate all the H4's. I am sure our near and dear ones aren't vile as PlainSpeak.

Funny post though

Oh how considerate of you !!!
You think the same but dont say it out loud

Why does his profile have same date for everthying .............

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/member.php?u=18915

it has been asked and answered earlier,

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=281086#post281086

Nope, they are not taking my jobs but you are. So don't care about them but I do care about what you are doing or going to do.

Don't feel shy about it. this is the human dark side. People hate competition in nature. As I myself don't hate those posing no threat to my job security. I'm a believer of the evolution theory.. you know, those more intelligent are to win eventually.;) Of course, unless you play dirty... watched million dollar baby?

96 contributions announced here
soon to be a ton...then a grand???
sunny 2575 hope you have figured out how to be 97....

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TOI, great. That is good because most Americans trust TOI for their daily news. Couldn't help with the sarcasm. :rolleyes:

Anyways, It seems I might be converting to this idea of flowers, after my previous opposition to the idea. The only flower or a plant I can think of is a Cactus, will that work?

I am talking about those three to five feet tall cactus plants, that prick you when you touch them.

Most Indians read TOI! It's a start!

Today.. TOI tomorrow... CNN.. who knows :)

You can send plants and plant "parts" that you can "comfortably" sit on! :D
So if cactus works for u...

The Receipt date is the date when they actually receive our case in a Service Center. Notice date is when it got entered into the system. I-485 Notice shows both the RD and ND. RD should be August 17 for most of us, whose cases were transferred to various Service Centers. Online status shows the ND. The only confusion here is what do they go by(may be USCIS it self not sure how to prioritize - whether on ND or RD).
Strictly speaking, if they go by ND and if the ND is after Aug-17 we may not be eligible for GC, as our(July/Aug 07 batch) cut-off dates is august-17-2007. This is what I was told by DAO when I attended the interview at the local USCIS office.

As mentioned earlier, USCIS suppose to process by the RD (ie. the date they received in the service center mail room) - but the fact is, they are going by the ND (i.e. the date they entered the case into the system).

On a positive note, the best that we can do is, learn from our surroundings. We can learn a lot from Republicans to understand what not to do.

One of the main reason why Obama enjoys high rating - Republican party sucks. Who is making Republican party look bad - Republicans. The best response to Obama is not to pitch twisted Jindal against Obama, because that just makes Obama look good and it help Democrats. The better response to Obama is, let Obama respond against Obama. So simply don't respond to Obama, which will prevent Republicans making him look good. And like every politician, Obama will commit mistakes, which will cause the demise of Democrats. Its that simple. So what do we learn from this?

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In any case, I am not getting the stories that some have sent. Could you guys please send me the story again at shrey@immigrationvoice.org

Thanks

Ragz
I am not ( so do others i guess) interested in names location etc
just the content.. want to see how great our immigrant population is
Keep up the good work

I guess My interview didn't go as expected.

1) I reached the office an hour early.
2) After waiting,they did security check and let us in
3) Then the lady who was assigned my case, came and took us into her room
4) Oath, etc
5) She then started asking for Birth cert, Marriage Cert, kids birth certi, 140 approval copy.
6) Then she pulled a file (which was labelled DOS Visa bulletins) and spent around 15 mins on Oct 2007 bulletin.
7) Then asked us who filed your 485..you did your self or your employer did..we said employer.
8) Then she said, something is not right..per Oct 2007 bulleting Visa's are unavailable so yours was not filed properly.
9) Then I said, ours was filed in Aug 8th 2007. She insisted the receipt date is oct 2007..then we showed her our 485 reciept.
10) Then she thanked us and started looking at Aug 2007 visa bulletin. and said, even then in Aug 2007 EB2 was U, so yours was not properly filed.
11) I told her, There was an interim Memo released by USCIS that they will accept application until Aug-17 2007 based on July 2007 visa bulletin
12) She said she will look at DOS bulletins
13) After 10 mins she said, she cant find any such memo..and said, since there is no evidence with her, she has to deny our case based on "Improper filing when PD was not current"
14) Then I said, if PD was not current, wouldn't TSC return the application denying on the spot? Why would they accept the application?
15) She said, you would think so..but they accept many times..so we are told to verify all the time
16) THen said, she believes us but for process, she needs evidence and said she will look into further and then make a judgment.

17) We had no choice and we were over the interview. we were little disappointed though

18) After coming home, I realized she took all I-94s and we got panicked..because if 485 is getting denied and I-94s are gone, how do we prove our legal status, so we thought of going back..then I thought, if have to go anyway, then I should take a print out of Interim Memo

19) I went back an hour later with the print out
20) I told security that, we had finished our interview and officer forgot to return our I-94..they insisted that we shud take infopass and they wont allow anyone to go back..I had to really argue with them (I decided I have nothing to loose..anyway 485 is screwed and so stood there asking them to let me in)

21) After consistent nagging, the security guy took our passports, interview response letter(After interview if your app doesn't get appproved they willgive a kind of reciept saying u attended the interview..blahblah) and went in

22) Came back and told me to go in since the officer wants more details from you (I thought this was a miracle)

23) I went inside, and after a while officer came back. We apologized and told her that we came back for I-94s..she said they will retain and wont return..We told her that we are not using EAD and we are still on H1B..she said she will give back..
then she asked, I am sure you didnt come back for I-94 alone, did you get any document?

24) We showed her the memo.

25) She read that and said I am glad you came back..this clears everything out..I will run this by my supervisor and will see if we can adjust status today

26) We waited for 2 hrs and then she took us inside.
27) Asked our passports (to stamp...really)

28) Then she looked into the computer to get the visa #.
29) The we noticed a changed in her face and then she quickly turned into a folder of current VISA bulletin..we said..oh..no..not again.
30) The officer said, per visa bulletin u r current and ur PD is dec 2005..there is no reason for system not to allocated a visa #..
31)She tried for 10-15 mins and finally gave up..said she cant stamp in the passport without allotting the visa number..said sorry..I cant do anything..I will follow up with DOS ppl and will let you know in a week or so.

32) The reason she gave is, when she tried to allot the visa, she got a message, "cut off date not established". I have no idea what this means.

hmmm....still keeping fingers crossed..this is nothing short of a car race.


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