S.1085 - Reuniting Families Act
A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes. view all titles (3)
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- Short: Reuniting Families Act as introduced.
- Popular: Reuniting Families Act as introduced.
- Official: A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote family unity, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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This bill helps the U.S. economy by -
1. Relieving the emotional stress on families that are waiting to re-unite, and hence helping them be more productive. A happy family can make decisions about job, career and other matters that will make them a more productive contributor to the society and economy.
2. The bill DOES NOT invite more immigrants to the U.S. that would challenge the American workforce. It merely helps make life easier for immigrants that are already in the U.S. and are already legal, tax-paying contributors to the economy.
3. The bill DOES NOT require a major shift in immigration policy. It is merely asking to adjust for some bureaucratic delays that were not intended to happen as part of the immigration law.
This bill will help to create the great number of jobs,when many individuals who are stuck for their Green cards, may get promoted or start the business, buy houses, if they get GC, which will contribute a big help to strengthen the economy.
? Why do all of the comments that are pro this legislation from people(someone) who has created several accounts in the last 7 days. It appears that someone is AstroTurfing this board.
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"Mr. abaratar,
Can I ask what caused you to make such an accusation?"
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Yes,
Having been a user of this site for a couple years now (my current SN is 8 months old) I have seen people game these forums before.
If you click on the names of the people that commented for this legislation you will see that all of the accounts have been set up in the last 8 days for instance yours account was set up 2 days ago and the user name that replied to agree with you is 18 hours old and so on, you can then search open congress for the comments made by a user and you will see each of the new user names have only made one comment and only on this board. You can then do a search of some of the key words or phrases being repeated over and over in this thread and you will see multiple user names using the same phrases over and over and all the user names are less then 8 days old. But that could all be just a coincidence.
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McLovin Jun 02, 2009 (2 days ago) Link Reply
I second the relief this bill will hopefully bring to LEGAL employment based (EB) immigration system. There are numerous educated skilled workers living legally in the US for many years. We live by the laws of the country and want to live our dreams and invest our hard earned money in the US. Unfortunately every aspect of their lives are left in a LIMBO due to lack of visa numbers and country based quotas in the Employment based green card process. (Employment Based skilled professionals waiting for their green cards should not be impacted by their country of origin). Provided an oppurtunity, every individual will work towards the upliftment of this country. God bless America.
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gcretro May 31, 2009 (4 days ago) Link Reply
I second the benefits & relief this bill will hopefully bring to LEGAL employment based (EB) immigration system. There are several thousands of educated LEGAL skilled workers living legally in the US for several years (many who came as students for higher degrees). We pay taxes, live by the laws and want to become permanent residents and invest their hard earned money in the US. Unfortunately every aspect of their lives (personal & professional) is left is LIMBO due to lack of visa numbers and country based quotas in the Employment based green card process. (Employment Based skilled professionals waiting for their green cards should not be impacted by their country of origin).
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Do you believe McLovin and cgretro are two different people that just happen to thing up the exact same sentences? you see this over and over on this thread
ASTROTURFING?
pgoel May 29, 2009 (5 days ago) Link Reply
This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now.
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siva9000 May 29, 2009 (5 days ago) Link Reply
This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now.
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gamad Jun 01, 2009 (3 days ago) Link Reply
Yes this bill will go a long way in addressing the severe backlogs faced by professionals and scientists who have been waiting LEGALLY in the long never ending queues. Once they get GCs they will buy homes, cars and invest freely
which will strengthen the economy and get us out of recession.
karmayogi May 27, 2009 (8 days ago) Link Reply
Yes this bill will go a long way in addressing the severe backlogs faced by talented professionals and scientists who have been waiting LEGALLY in the queue for ages without compromising the rights and opportunities of citizens of this country. Justice for all.
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I have done m homework, you are troll and are gaming this forum.
This often happens when an OpenCongress page is posted to sites that are advocating for or against a particular piece of legislation, or when a page is linked on a site like Digg or StumbleUpon. There is an influx of individuals who have never been to OpenCongress before: it is not a coincidence, but a logical outcome.
Several people may indeed be using similar "keywords" or "phrases", but this is also expected: they're called talking points.
I appreciate your concerns, but I have looked into the usernames and found no connection.
-Avelino Maestas
OpenCongress Community Manager
Thanks Avelino.
I was hoping that, unlike some users here, OpenCongress.org was open to getting new members and additional traffic. Looks like I was right.
Thank you for your concerns. We don't need astro turfing on a site like this!
Avelino,
how is the paragraph below a talking point? A Talking point is something like "girls rule and boys drule" or "my body my choice". A testimonial about someone's wife who has been away for two years is not a talking point.
""""This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now. """""
silva9000 and pgeol both said the exact same thing, do you really believe both silva and pgeol use the same grammar, same words and have the exact same life situation? or was that just a "talking point"?
Did you also notice how the AstroTurf stopped after it was pointed out.
Mr. abaratar great catch! You might be able to track to URL with a utility and prove up your concern. My concern is the implosion of our health care rights. I am a health care professional and for the past 30 years. I have no issue with sick people who are uninsured or worse yet the working poor.
However, in the past 30 years I have never seen a uninsured sick person turned away for lack of coverage. I can tell you first hand that reuniting a Father and Son is a kind and generous offer. Consequently, my children will be left working harder and longer hours to off-set health care expenses.
Again sir, good catch.
CB
I believe the bill is useful for a number of reasons. Currently, many family members of legal permanent residents living overseas are denied visas to visit the residents in the US citing the "intent to immigrate" clause. Essentially, human rights of permanent residents are being violated by the State department. There is a legal impediment here where immediate relatives of US PRs are neither issued an immigrant visa immediately so they can visit or live in the US nor issued a non-immigrant visa citing the "intent to immigrate" clause. This kind of legal twist is ridiculous, to say the least, and goes against all common sense - based judgments. Loopholes such as this have to be quickly corrected, perhaps through this act or through separate executive orders.
Yes this bill will go a long way in addressing the severe backlogs faced by talented professionals and scientists who have been waiting LEGALLY in the queue for ages without compromising the rights and opportunities of citizens of this country. Justice for all.
I second the benefits & relief this bill will hopefully bring to LEGAL employment based (EB) immigration system. There are several thousands of educated LEGAL skilled workers living legally in the US for several years (many who came as students for higher degrees). We pay taxes, live by the laws and want to become permanent residents and invest their hard earned money in the US. Unfortunately every aspect of their lives (personal & professional) is left is LIMBO due to lack of visa numbers and country based quotas in the Employment based green card process. (Employment Based skilled professionals waiting for their green cards should not be impacted by their country of origin).
This bill is a move in the right direction in the jungle of immigration. Once passed this bill will provide the much needed resolution to the unending wait for thousands of people legally waiting to be permanent residents. It will also send the message to those watching this great nation that this is a land that values the law and the people who take great pains to abide by the law of this land. I humbly request the lawmakers to support this bill and provide solace to people like me waiting for years to be a PR.
This bill will help reduce the backlog of Employment Based Immigration. I hope the Senators and Congressman would consider voting the bill to move in a positive direction
This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now. At the current rate, it'll take 9 years unless there is legislation to increase the number of available numbers. USCIS has gone a long way this year in pre-adjudicating pending immigrant applications; however they are also at a loss due to insufficient availability of visa numbers.
Congress must act now on this long due bill. Even the major newspapers support this modest measure.
WOW pgoel, siva9000 and you have a lot in common, what are the odds that both of your wifes have been staying away from you guys for the last 2 years
"siva9000 May 29, 2009 (5 days ago) Link Reply
This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now. At the current rate, it'll take 9 years unless there is legislation to increase the number of available numbers. USCIS has gone a long way this year in pre-adjudicating pending immigrant applications; however they are also at a loss due to insufficient availability of visa numbers.
Congress must act now on this long due bill. Even the major newspapers support this modest measure. "
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There is no chance you have more then one user name is there?
Well abaratar it is strange but I'm in the same position. I'm staying away from my wife for the last 2 years and I'm waiting. Do you know how many people can say the same thing or just changing the number? Do not answer- this is a rhetorical question.
This is a bill long due now..
It will not only relieve lot of people who are paying their taxes and following the laws and ofcourse helping the US economy from the anxiety of maintaining their legal status, stamping visas etc.
It will also allow most of them to start their own companies and help the US economy by creating more jobs.
Stability in terms of job and legal status means that most of us will also be able to buy houses instead of sending the US $ overseas to our home country..
I hope this bill is acted upon this year and its not sidelined as it happened last year with the recapture bill introduced by Zoe Lofgren.
This bill will help expediate green card process for several thousand legal residents who have been waiting for several years for green card. It is long overdue bill. Please support and help it pass. Thanks for reading.
This bill will relieve the anxiety of honest hardworking tax-paying legal immigrants and unite them with their family. My wife's been staying away from me for the last 2 years as I cannot add her to my pending green card application till the visa bulletin dates become current. It has been retrogressed to 1 Jan 2000 now. At the current rate, it'll take 9 years unless there is legislation to increase the number of available numbers. USCIS has gone a long way this year in pre-adjudicating pending immigrant applications; however they are also at a loss due to insufficient availability of visa numbers.
Congress must act now on this long due bill. Even the major newspapers support this modest measure.
This bill represents is an opportunity to relieve thousands and thousands of law abiding immigrants from long and painful wait to get green cards . We have been paying our taxes for several years and want to contribute more towards economy, but lack of predictability of our immigration situation in US is preventing us from doing so. We hope that this bill will help in recapturing visas lost during previous years to remove backlog up to some extent.
This bill be a respite for thousands of law abiding individuals to get GC's faster and help unite families.
This bill will bring the much awaited relief to Employment based categories for Skilled workers
Skilled workers are a small minority of U.S. legal immigrants. Of the 940,000 legal immigrants in 2004, only 16% were skilled employment-based immigrants. About 40% of these skilled immigrants had advanced degrees, or 5 or more years of experience after a baccalaureate degree.
Its high time that we reward those who follow the laws of the land and patiently wait for their turn to realize the American dream. This bill has my complete support.