T****k
发帖数: 1374 | 1 55,000 Green Cards for Employment-Based Immigrants
Think that the Democrats and Republicans in Congress will never be
able to agree about immigration policy?
Better think again!
When I started working as an immigration attorney, Jerry Ford was the
President of the United States. Over the past 35 years, I have seen
the two parties unite to pass dozens of immigration laws.
Yes, I know the parties are so divided on the issue of what to do
about the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. that they couldn't
even get together a few weeks ago to pass the DREAM Act.
However, when it comes to reforming the legal immigration system,
things are very different. The parties have come together to pass
dozens of bills providing immigration benefits including the Child
Status Protection Act in 2002, the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged
Areas Reauthorization Act in 2005, the Physicians for Underserved
Areas Act in 2007, and the bill that ended the Widow's Penalty in
2009.
So, what's on tap for 2011?
On January 6, 2011, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduced H.R.
43, a bill which would "amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to
eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those
visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced
degree in the United States."
In simple English, the bill would eliminate the annual green card
lottery and give the 55,000 green cards each year to foreign-born
graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in the sciences
or in medicine.
With the employment-based second preference category (EB-2) backlogged
for many years for persons born in India and mainland China, our
country would benefit greatly if 55,000 more green cards were
available annually for highly-educated people.
Sure, the bill could be tweaked to provide that the green cards could
be given to anyone with an advanced degree, not just those with
degrees from U.S. universities. Unused numbers should drop down to
help those waiting in the EB-3 category. Also, the bill could be
amended to increase or eliminate country quotas in the employment-
based categories.
For many years, our country imported over 100,000 persons annually on
H-1B temporary professional visas. Congress raised the H-1B quotas,
but did not expand the employment-based preference numbers. The
result was that hundreds of thousands of highly-educated immigrant
workers came legally to the U.S., were sponsored by their U.S.
employers for green cards, met all the qualifications and jumped
through all the legal hoops, and are now stuck in lines that can only
be measured not in years, but in decades.
If the United States wants to remain the world leader in the sciences,
in medicine, in biotech and in information technology, we had better
revise our immigration laws so that we continue to attract the world's
best and brightest.
H.R. 43 is a step in the right direction. | u*******r
发帖数: 2855 | 2 形势变化了很多。。。
【在 T****k 的大作中提到】
: 55,000 Green Cards for Employment-Based Immigrants
: Think that the Democrats and Republicans in Congress will never be
: able to agree about immigration policy?
: Better think again!
: When I started working as an immigration attorney, Jerry Ford was the
: President of the United States. Over the past 35 years, I have seen
: the two parties unite to pass dozens of immigration laws.
: Yes, I know the parties are so divided on the issue of what to do
: about the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. that they couldn't
: even get together a few weeks ago to pass the DREAM Act.
| a***n
发帖数: 665 | 3 anything NIU and IV can do?
anything we can do then, e.g. donate? | h*********n
发帖数: 915 | 4 good or bad?
【在 u*******r 的大作中提到】
: 形势变化了很多。。。
| y****i
发帖数: 12114 | 5 foreign-born graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in the
sciences or in medicine
相当多的申请人不符合这个要求吧。 | l********7
发帖数: 1089 | 6 如果能烙印的PORTING EB3-EB2拦在外面，对老中还是有利。拦他们的最有效办法就是
ADVANCED DEGREE IN THE US了。 | R****9
发帖数: 815 | | k*******0
发帖数: 256 | 8 大多数老中EB2都符合吧。我相信两三年内会通过---虽然对我没用了。
【在 y****i 的大作中提到】
: foreign-born graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in the
: sciences or in medicine
: 相当多的申请人不符合这个要求吧。
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