2008-07-16T09:47:27Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/50330 2008-07-16T09:47:27Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-16:/comment/34301 Anonymous There is a reason why Indian's dominates the H1B and EB categories - "SKILLSET", they get the job done. I dont see why that should be held against them instead of embrassing all the good work that is been done for the country and the world as a whole. the unused visas should be recaputured and be issues to the EB-3 category since the folks in this category have been working legally for years, paying taxes and contributing to the economy of the country. 2008-07-03T17:18:19Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-03:/comment/32062 Anonymous On the contrary, under the current system immigrants from all nations do not have an equal opportunity to apply for a green card. Immigrants from the retrogressed countries are at an unfair disadvantage. It is easy to see: A guy from ROW and a guy from India both are equally qualified engineers who have a EB2 PD of Jan 2008. The guy from ROW can apply to adjust status now, but the guy from India cannot apply until five years from now. That doesn't tell me that both immigrants have an equal opportunity. Both immigrants would have had an equal opportunity if both could apply for GC at the same time. Once you have entered the country, have been gainfully employed, and your immigrant petition has been approved, how does it matter whether you came from India, china or Timbuktu? Your employer needs you for your skills, not your place of birth. Do you resolve your day to day office problems with your birth certificate pasted to your forehead? The world has changed by leaps and bounds in the last fifty years, all made possible by advances in technology and a conscientious effort by governments to educate their people. As a result there are highly skilled people all over the world, who bring their own unique character and experience to the work place. And things have changed dramatically in the US too. Among other things, the US has become more accommodating to people of different cultural identities. Economically, the US is in need of more high skilled people than ever before. This is an irreversible trend, where the US of today is more interested in who you are and what you bring to the table than what you look like. If a few thousand Indians or Chinese are given the green card, based on their SKLLS, it will not alter the racial and cultural character of 300000000 Americans (that's 300 followed by six zeros). Rather it will only make it richer. 2008-06-29T20:36:19Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-29:/comment/30671 Anonymous This is an extremely bad bill.With India dominating not only the H1 visa quota and EB green cards applications but also body shops and “consulting” companies; eliminating the per country quota would massively and unfairly flood America with workers from India Many defenders of the bill used flawed socio-economic reasons to justify their *shameful and selfish agenda. Unused visa for ROW (Other countries) is NOT because there are not enough skilled workers from other countries but because the uscis/dhs use the quota to conservatively hence at the end of the visa year there are still many quotas left. ROW priority date has never been current for a very long time Would you prefer to work with 7 immigrants from India and OR 2 from India, 1 from Germany, 1 from Zimbabwe, 1 from Argentina, 1 from Slovakia and 1 from Burma? The bill will not only hurt professional immigrants from other countries but also will hurt diversity, the core and sacred believe of American people 2008-06-19T12:15:58Z tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-19:/comment/26566 Anonymous This bill would help severely backlogged countries like China and India and would show that the laws are amended in a timely fashion.