Per-country caps are our way of controlling what our culture becomes. This is poorly appreciated. I think the US has a right to have an opinion on what values are being brought in. I have no a priori problem with any particular set of values or raising cap levels for any particular country. But I think the caps should remain available for our use. Removing them entirely is a nonsensical jettisoning of a useful control. Why do it?

Just want to remind you that no corporations are helped here, just honest, hard working legal immigrants who pay State/federal/Social security taxes are waiting for more than 10 years. These people have contributed to the economy by buying cars, spending in the mall ( my wife does a lot :)) etc. So, it is wrong to say corporations are helped here.

This is a BAD bill folks. This is NOT to get in the worlds smartest scientist or the worlds best anything!
They can get in easily enough!

If you have a unique skill, visa is practically instant.
These are Indian engineers, IT workers, other tech industries that want CHEAP labour. They work for half what we do!
GOP help the corporations again!

This bill is to bring in IT techs and engineers and scientists from India and Pakistan, who speak and read our language but earn HALF of what we do!
Train Americans to do it.
Help them move to where the work IS!

I am surprised how this “quota based on country of origin” in employment category has managed to exist in the law for so long. Can employers limit hiring based on “country of origin”? If not, then no other law related to employment should have this limit.

Pl remove this race and country of origin quota from the system. Though this will hurt some country and advantage some country but quota doesn’t bring fairness to the system. Time to rethink for congress and take decision so that people waiting in line can decide for their future.

When we deal in getting highly qualified talent from all across the world, rightfully we do not put country based quota on H1B visa or other visa.
That way we make sure we get brightest talents coming to USA irrespective of there country of origin. Then why can we not treat them equally and fairly, and not based on there country of origin when we are giving them employment based Green card.
Please remove country based quota and support HR3012, so that we can retain the talent pool here in USA.

There are many like you my friends. I will buy one house to live and another vacation timeshare house tomorrow if I have the GC. There are 3 other friends of mine who are in the same boat. Passing of this bill will give a significant jolt to the economy.

Sorry I am not supporting this one. It only benefits EB3-I and would retrogress all other categories. I voted against it.

In same situation, thanks to Rep who is fighting for us like.

The employment category is based on skill not based on country; the barrier doesn’t make sense at all.

I support this bill. Have been waiting in the queue for more than 6 years, country of birth shouldn’t be a barrier for this.

Have been waiting for 7 years now. Have money but cannot buy a house, new car nor cannot invest in any private business activity. All because I am a highly skilled employment based immigration applicant from the backlogged country “India”. I strongly support HR3012 and thank the Representatives who introduced and support this bill.

Employer doesn’t care which country you are from, they care what the person can do to improve the company’s productivity and increase their profits. The bottom line is Talent! Talent !! and Talent!!!

This is an excellent fix that brings fairness to the system.

Please support this bill. It brings fairness to the system.

Actually this bill addresses the issue you are talking about. Current system is based on country of birth.

This bill ensures that people in employment based green card are not differentiated based on country of birth. Support this bill.

Employment based green cards are based on employment, which is based on skill and talent. How is country of birth relevant?

The existing system is unfair. It is not fair that a person from a non-backlogged country who is 10 years old today, can grow up and immigrate to this country and get their green cards before someone from a backlogged country who is already in the queue for the past 10 years as of today.

This is a bill in the right direction. Country of birth should not be a factor in employment based green cards, which constitute only 14% of the overall green cards issued.

This fix makes the system fair by ensuring that in employment based green cards, the person who applied first will get their green card before the person who applied after them.

This is brilliant because it is able to reduce the backlogs without increasing any green cards.

This bill will ensure that everyone will wait the same for employment GC regardless of where they are born. I support this bill.

Why do we have limits. More over these limits are not in proportion of the population of the country. There should not be any limit for skilled manpower. I appreciate the congressman for bringing out this bill.

Regards,
Amit

Logically this bill does not make sense.
Employment based green cards accounts for a tiny fraction of all green cards issued every year.
People waiting for employment based green card should not be differentiated on the basis of their birth of their country.

Though it is illegal to discriminate based on national origin en employment, employment based green card system discriminates based on country of origin. This hurts US competitiveness as applicants from certain countries has to wait up to 70 years because they are born in a particular country. This bill removes the country limit in employment based green card system giving green cards based on “first come first serve” basis.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. —http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/index.cfm

To remain a leader in an increasingly competitive world and foster the creation of new jobs in the economy, America must attract and keep the best, brightest, and hardest working people from around the world. Making these high skilled immmigrants wait decades because of an archiac country of origin rule and restricting them from performing upto their full potential, will only drive them back to their home countries. This bill is a no-brainer. It does not add any new numbers to the current allotment of annual green cards, just makes it a fair system based on first come first served.

Imagine having an approved green card petition and then waiting for decades to get it just because you were born in a certain country. Oh and meanwhile you can’t change jobs, accept promotions, start companies, buy a house, travel abroad and you have to renew your driver’s license every year. How can an immigration system be so broken for so long? Pass this bill right now!

Country of origin should have no place in an employment based immigration system. It’s surprising that this discrimination has been going on for so long. Employers care about skills and merit, not where you were born. It’s about time these country limits are removed!

Are we are living in a post racial world ? About time me remove country of origin / race from legal immigration .