Thread: Immigration Voice campaign to Open Doors for Green Cards

Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to make it easier for immigrants and those on non-immigrant visas (H-1Bs, L-1s, F-4 students) to get green cards --- furthering the displacement of skilled American workers (programmers, engineers, scientists, etc.)

So, I'm passing along this suggestion from another group:
Please read the email below, and I ask you to cut/paste their letter text, and then
customize it (which is to say reverse engineer it) asking them to CLOSE
the door, not open it wide. We must act NOW to counteract their
campaign.

The Immigration Voice website is:
http://immigrationvoice.org

You can see their letter at:
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showt ... hp?t=16506

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Massive IV campaign for Administrative fixes

Dear Members,

Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to get administrative
relief for our community. We have had several fruitful meeting with the
administration in 2007, some of these meetings were scheduled in
September, November and then in December. In these meetings, we were
able to convince the administration about the implication and hardship
due to current broken system. Since Congress has not been able to
address our issues in 2006-07, we were successful in creating a case for
administrative fixes that would give much needed interim relief to EB
community. These meetings helped us start a conversation on possible
administrative fixes like 3 year EAD-AP, clearly defining "same or
similar" if AC-21 is invoked, and we are hearing favorable
feedback.

Due to lack of action on legislative front our community's patience
is running out and we want some relief urgently to get out of
probationary status. We are thus starting this nationwide campaign that
will help our advocacy efforts and get administration to act quickly.
There are several components to this campaign.

1) Support from lawmaker offices: We urge all our members to meet their
lawmaker offices and get them to write to The President in support of
administrative fixes and urging for an immediate administrative relief.
The template of the letter is attached. Letters from lawmaker offices
to administration get far more attention as compared to anybody else
writing the same letter. The template of the letter is posted below.
Please request lawmakers to give you a copy of the letter or lawmakers
could copy IV on their letter to The President.

2) Support from employers: We urge all members to approach their
employer and have them send a letter to The President expressing
support for our administrative fixes and appealing for an immediate
relief. The template of the letter is attached below. Please request
your employer to give you copy iof the letter so that you could provide
IV with the copy of the letter.

3) Plea from our community: We urge all our members to write
personalized letters to The President directly and convey their plight.
If you would like to write your own personalized letter, please do so
with your own story. Make sure to stick to the administrative fixes we
have listed in the letter template and how these fixes could help you
and your family. Please put your name and address in your letter.
Anonymous letters will not be delivered and will be discarded. We
request that you create 2 copies of your letter. One copy should be
posted to The President and the second copy should be sent to
Immigration Voice mailbox address at –

Immigration Voice
P O Box 1372
Arcadia, CA 91077-1372

The deadline for receiving all the letters is 9th February 2008. Our
plan is to collect thousands of letters that we will also receive in IV
mailbox and deliver them, along with the letters from employers and
lawmakers across the country, during our meeting with the
administration. We believe that this will make a necessary impact to
strengthen our case and gather the necessary political will required for
administrative fixes. We will also try to get media coverage for this
campaign and draw national attention.

Please inform all your friends stuck in greencard retrogression and
have them participate in this effort. Please post information about
this campaign and link to this thread to as many sites, blogs you can
so that we can get extraordinary scale of participation. The success of
this effort will depend on the collective sincerity of the entire EB
community to get letters from lawmakers, employers and members of the
community. Immigration voice is counting on each and every member and
it is in up to each member to make this campaign a success and help us
to improve our and our families' lives.

Letter Template:

Quote:
The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. President:

I write today to urge you to fix America's broken legal
employment-based immigration system. Currently, more than 500,000
skilled individuals who contribute to the American economy through
their hard work in high technology, scientific research, medicine and
other fields find themselves trapped in a process that is hopelessly
backlogged. If nothing is done, hundreds of thousands of immigrants
will wait years or even decades in a process that was never intended to
take so long. While comprehensive change will require legislative
action, your administration can implement administrative remedies to
improve America's competitiveness, eliminate bureaucratic
inefficiencies, and improve the quality of life for these legal,
highly-skilled immigrants.

Attracting and retaining the best and brightest minds from around the
world is in America's best interest. In February 2006, your Domestic
Policy Council issued a report on the American Competitiveness
Initiative that recognized the importance of employment-based
immigration. The report stated:

"The President also recognizes that enabling the world's most
talented and hardest-working individuals to put their skills to work for
America will increase our entrepreneurship and our international
competitiveness, and will net many high-paying jobs for all Americans.
The United States benefits from our ability to attract and retain
needed immigrant and non-immigrant students and workers, and it is
important that America remains competitive in attracting talented
foreign nationals."

You can advance your stated objective by making common-sense
administrative reforms to fix a system that is clearly broken.

Implementing much-needed reforms will also free government resources to
focus on pressing national security matters. For example, current rules
require the Department of Homeland Security to renew the Employment
Authorization Documents (EADs) of hundreds of thousands of legal
immigrants each year as those immigrants wait for green cards and
permanent residency in the U.S. Rather than renew these EADs
annually, the government could renew these documents every three years,
freeing countless hours that could be better spent serving the
Department's mission.

The greatest impact of the broken green card process is borne by the
legal immigrants and their families. The more than half million
highly-skilled legal immigrants already working productively in the
United States find themselves trapped in a system that is taking years
longer than intended. During this wait for a green card, these
immigrants remain trapped in a legal maze, unable to change jobs –
even within the same employer – without starting the arduous
immigration process over again, and subject to waits that grow longer
and longer.

We implore you to exercise your authority to implement administratively
these much-needed reforms.

• Recapture administratively the unused visas for permanent
residency to fulfill the congressional mandate of 140,000 green cards
per year.

• Revise the administrative definition of "same or similar"
to allow slight additional job flexibility for legal immigrants
awaiting adjudication of adjustment of status (I-485) petitions.

• Allow filing of Adjustment of Status (Form I-485) when a visa
number is not available.

• Implement the existing interim rule to allow issuance of
multi-year Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) and Advance Parole.

• Allow visa revalidation in the United States.

• Reinstate premium processing of Immigrant Petitions.

I urge you to implement these administrative remedies without delay.
Action is urgently needed to fulfill your stated goal of attracting and
retaining highly-skilled legal immigrants from around the world,
eliminating bureaucratic inefficiency, and improving the lives of
future Americans already living and working legally in the United
States.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Respectfully,

I just read a couple days ago that over a million "immigrants"
applied for citizenship

Do we not have limits? and don't they have to be
green card holders to apply ?

Also do we not have demographic limits?

Most of the million all seem to be from one area of the
world

There seems to be some misunderstanding here.

The claim that Immigration Voice's letter campaign is open doors to Green Cards and disappointment to skilled American workers is simply not true. Heres why -

First, the letter campaign is not for open doors, nor increasing quotas. If you actually take the time to read it, you will find that they are requesting to use the visas which were unclaimed due to bureaucratic inefficiencies.
Second, this has nothing to do with taking American jobs away. These people are already in the US, legally working, paying taxes and obeying laws, just like everybody else.
Third, the letter campaign does not even mention anything about illegal immigrants. It has NOTHING TO DO with illegal immigration. It is all about LEGAL immigration.

The last time I checked, ALIPAC is FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION, not against all forms of immigration. We should be supporting the letter campaign, not opposing it. The ALIPAC mission statement still states -

"ALIPAC supports those that legally immigrate, but we DO NOT support any amnesty, visa expansion, or "Guest Worker" program designed to reward illegal aliens or legalize their presence in the US."

Further, the letter campaign has nothing to do with the million people who applied for citizenship. They are not from the same part of the world as those trying to legally immigrate.

Originally Posted by usanevada

I just read a couple days ago that over a million "immigrants" applied for citizenship

Do we not have limits?

No, we do not have limits on the number green cards or naturalized citizens. The number of green cards given to immediate relatives of US Citizens is unlimited, there is no annual limit. There is also no limit for green cards handed out in amnesties.

Also do we not have demographic limits?

No, there are no "per-county" limits for the immediate relatives of US citizens and green card holders, amnesty recipients, and political refugees. This is why Mexicans are 30% of LEGAL immigrants.

All I can say is if anyone with half a brain has been watching the campaign trails they would know there are millions of Americans out of work, millions losing their homes, decreased wages and the beginning of a recession.

Now with the economy in this condition how can you give so much as one visa, one green card, consider any kind of a guest worker program or extend the stay of foreign workers with out considering the condition of our country and our work force....all of this immigration is doing alot of harm to alot of Americans.

In a good economy things would be different, but we must stop ignoreing what is happening to Americans and if Americans need jobs then maybe it is time for some of these foreigner to go home.

Americans first!!




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Originally Posted by usanevada

I just read a couple days ago that over a million "immigrants"
applied for citizenship

Do we not have limits? and don't they have to be
green card holders to apply ?

Also do we not have demographic limits?

Most of the million all seem to be from one area of the
world

To be eligible to apply for citizenship one would have
to be a green card holder for 5 years (3 if married to
a US citizen).

Applying for citizenship is not risk free because a
Green Card holder can have his GC revoked
and receive an deportation order if the
application is not approved.

I believe it is time to CAP immigration to OUR country for awhile and TAKE CARE of OUR OWN people FIRST! Let the other countries take care of THEIR people instead of allowing them to DUMP their excess population on US!

Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to make it easier for immigrants and those on non-immigrant visas (H-1Bs, L-1s, F-4 students) to get green cards --- furthering the displacement of skilled American workers (programmers, engineers, scientists, etc.)

Gosh. Never have things seemed this bad and things seem to be spiraling out of control more than ever. Is this because Jorge Bush has only a year left so he's allowing this invasion and displacement of the American workers?

I don't know, but it looks as though they've opened the flood gates not only to illegal immigration but HB1 visas!

Originally Posted by LegalUSCitizen

Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to make it easier for immigrants and those on non-immigrant visas (H-1Bs, L-1s, F-4 students) to get green cards --- furthering the displacement of skilled American workers (programmers, engineers, scientists, etc.)

Gosh. Never have things seemed this bad and things seem to be spiraling out of control more than ever. Is this because Jorge Bush has only a year left so he's allowing this invasion and displacement of the American workers?

I don't know, but it looks as though they've opened the flood gates not only to illegal immigration but HB1 visas!

<sigh> Actually, there isnt any displacement - well *extra* displacement - these people already have jobs that they've been working on for a long time. They aren't requesting more visas either - they *are* on visas.

What they're asking for is an expedited green card decision - it takes like 6-7 years before they can apply for one. This is mainly affects Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Philippino people - because there's an annual limit on the number of skilled workers who can gain permanent residency, and there are plenty from those countries.

Hah. Massive campaign indeed. Its not a revolution, as its made to sound. They're just trying to get some rules changes by USCIS to make things more convenient. So don't expect some sort of skilled worker procession, waving keyboards and mice, procession a la the illegal immigrant rallies

Gosh. Never have things seemed this bad and things seem to be spiraling out of control more than ever. Is this because Jorge Bush has only a year left so he's allowing this invasion and displacement of the American workers?

I don't know, but it looks as though they've opened the flood gates not only to illegal immigration but HB1 visas!

Jorge Bush?
You call yourself LegalUSCitizen and you can't even spell the President's name.
Shame on you.