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.

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 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 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.

Charge $5000.00 for every green card issued from recaptured visa numbers.

There are more then 200K visas Application are wasted. If 200K green cards are issued.

Grand Total of $10 Billion is added to the Economy.

All these 200K Green card holders will generate additional National revenue of 10 Billion every year due to the fact that, they are highly skilled and enterprising in nature , generating additional employment opportunity to the US economy.


This is the Golden opportunity, Pls re capture all the wasted Visas due Beurocratic delays.

We are not asking for creation of new visas, Just asking for Unused and recapturing of wasted Visas for all these years.

? 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.

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.

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).

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.

This bill will go a long way, it will not only unite families but will also solve the housing crisis that our nation faces. Housing crisis is reportedly the major cause of the recent economic downturn. I sincerely hope and pray that honorable congress members will extend their full support to this bill.

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 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 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.

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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.

How does this bill support amnesty?

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.

I thiink Obama's okay under title III.

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

US immigration system is in an urgent need of some reforms. Unavailability of visa numbers is a problem a lot of well qualified young workers face and it's about time they get some much needed attention!!

"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.

This bill needs its due dilegence, it is in place with the morals and values this country is founded upon. The new tax paying immigrants will add to the
economy by putting to work which has been hibernating for years in their savings, money market etc by buying new houses, starting new business, adding
more value to the economy. Tender my request to Judiciary committee to consider
this bill. God bless this country.

I am glad that i got my green card - but my wife can not come - I bougth a House - I pay my Tax - I creat jobs - and what else want the GOV form us?
The USA is build on Immigration and will be always - that makes this Country unique in the World and Strong.
Most peopel if you ask they on the street they dont know how bad is the Imigration law.

I am interested to see increase of Employment based quota and clearing of all the backlog of EB based I-485 applications.During the days of recession even the EB category people are on jobs and they are capable of keeping their jobs with the help of their expertise in their own professional fields. These Employment based guys are contributing higher taxes than the national average tax contributions. These EB guys buy more houses,cars and all other things more than than the National Average and still over years they are waiting in queue to get their Permanent Residentship.These EB category people have half of their family as American citizens already,as mostly their kids are born in USA. These EB based green card will certainly bring more value to the American economy than legalizing the illegal people.

I know this bill will have tremendous impact on my life if passed. I have been living in united states for the past 9 years and I have been waiting for the green card making sacrifice in my personal and professional life with lot of stress. I cant change my job nor i can make a decision to invest in a house/major investment in US without green card.

Please help another family with their personal and professional life.

I think this bill will also have equal benefit to US economy. This will allow a huge investment /spending from the people who got greencard both in personal and busniness front.

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.

I am particularly interested in rectifying the outdated "Queuing" process for legal permanent residency. Simplify speaking, today we have H1-B (temporary residency) gate open for 'X' number of applicant from a country but allowing only "X" divided by 3 (or more)" for issuing green card for these applicants. This imbalance is mainly contributing to outrageous waiting time for some countries. Whereas headcount during H1-B issuance is based upon principle applicant (job seeker), green card numbers are based on each family member for the principle H1-B applicant. On an average green card seeker have a family size of more than 3. Solving this issue does not require using over-flow of other country or visa type stipulated per yaer. We need to amend the law to correct the math based on simple queuing theory ie Inflow and outflow of green card seekers should be matched. Queue should consist of true processing time and other administrative considerations.

Approval of this bill means more family getting together which is good for USA as the waiting immigrants, will start settling down in USA itself, meaning buying home, car and that increases the revenue to the government and potentially improves the money circulation , economy. Think about millions of people getting permanent resident-ship buying home and car...its not that simple...
Also the considering the number of H1 holder waiting, the industries all we people are into, its good too. lot of internals to it, which is not needed for this post..

Overall-this bill is a mutual benefitial program that will help lot of immigrants as well as increase the power of the nation.

How can you deport a US citizen or legal resident?

I created my profile to vote aye on this bill. This is because this is one of the few ways that an immigrant like myself can be heard. That being said, all this bill provides for is that families can be together faster, and legal, productive immigrants will be able to start businesses and change jobs getting away from companies that hold them in a modern form of servitude for years. Immigrants have to plan when to get married etc based around their immigration status which should not be the case. The visa re-capture will help immigrants already in the process of obtaining green cards to get them faster; it DOES NOT mean that floodgates will open and flood an already staurated job market. These people already have jobs, pay taxes and hope and pray everyday for a timely resolution.

It is really inhumane to have the families separated for legal citizens and permanent residents who have been through a very long process. At least citizens have some temporary visa like K3, K4 but it is a predicament for permanent residents who have no choice but to wait for 6 to 7 years to live with their families. It is good that these issues is being discussed and hope this soon becomes a law rather than prolonging it for no reason.