2011-11-18T01:45:41Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/comments/72546 2011-11-18T01:45:41Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-11-18:/comment/238592 Oldentimes In addition to the green cards, the government issued 881,840 temporary work visas and gave refugee or asylum status to 96,721 aliens. The total increase to the American workforce was 1.75 million foreign workers. According to the Census Bureau, 1 out of every 6 workers is foreign born. Source: Immigration Skyrockets as Americans Lose Their Jobs by Virgil Goode 2011-10-17T10:04:24Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-10-17:/comment/236260 PGW182 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. 2012-02-14T11:51:21Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-02-14:/comment/245978 vishalgupta2 I am sorry, but I have to tell you that you are totally wrong. Green cards under EB are only given to immediate family. There is no possible way to get green cards for parents, brothers, sister and their families. The same applies to work visa (H1B/L1) also. Only the applicant and his/her immediate family can come to US. 2012-10-04T16:21:00Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-10-04:/comment/260726 alexigrushkin In 5 years that person becomes a citizen and guess what happens then... 2012-09-24T18:08:45Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-24:/comment/260657 brower This legislation will favor Chinese and Indian workers. I have no issue with such people looking for a better life in the U.S., but as it is now it is at the expense of the American quality of life: such workers are paid *significantly* less than American counterparts, and are often subject to more over time, being perpetually on call, etc etc. Plenty of studies make this transparent. E.g. http://www.workpermit.com/news/2005_10_26/us/us_h1b_visa_holders_earn_less.htm If any regulation is needed in this area, it is that which gives these workers equal compensation to the Americans they are displacing (whether Americans are entitled to having priority for these jobs is a completely different issue). But if such regulation were on the table, then special interests would no longer contribute $100,000s to the bill's supporters--instead giving it to their competitors Again, the issue is money in politics. The solution is Disclose Act, repeal of Citizens United, Publicly funded Elections. 2012-06-25T02:28:47Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-06-25:/comment/260107 NOHR3012 Lies spread by HR 3012 proponents: - India/China only gets 7% employment visa: WRONG! Every year India alone gets 21-22% visas- because unused visas from other categories fall in their pocket. - HR 3012 reforms the employment based immigration for better: WRONG! It practically allocates pretty much all visas to India and China only for the next three years- all other countries will suffer a 6 year additional wait time on the average. - Some green card applicants from India may suffer a 70 year waiting period: WRONG! The worst category in employment based immigration has a waiting period of 9 years now, which will be further reduced as a direct consequence of the visa spillover rule. - HR 3012 will bring fairness to immigration by eliminating country limits: WRONG! The bill will be unfair to those from all other countries facing an additional 5/6 years of waiting period. The educated workforce diversity will be at stake. 2012-08-04T04:40:03Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-08-04:/comment/260363 sxfx The bill eliminates diversity in the skilled immigrant categories. It benefits India and China but is detrimental to immigrants from every other country in the world. For every Indian or Chinese worker who sees their green card wait shortened, an immigrant from Canada, Australia, any European country, Japan, Brazil, Malaysia (the list goes on and on…) will see their wait time correspondingly lengthen. China and India, the largest two nations on earth, have enough people to completely overwhelm the immigration system. If HR.3012 passes, immigrants from smaller countries don't stand a chance. This bill is ill-conceived legislation and it deserves to fail. 2011-10-17T11:04:10Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-10-17:/comment/236263 rahulkimmi 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 2011-10-12T18:19:59Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-10-12:/comment/236114 kripal Are we are living in a post racial world ? About time me remove country of origin / race from legal immigration . 2011-11-11T19:19:27Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-11-11:/comment/237785 SamFriend To Dear Senators, US could be holding up growth of its own by discouraging immigrants, based on their ethnic origin. H.R. 3012 is, in reality, fighting for US constitutional rights of no disparity due to race, origin, etc. All who believe in US constitution and growth of US should Vote YES for supporting the bill. Bringing High-skilled young immigrants could solve many of fundamental economic problems our county is facing. (1) These high-skilled people we are talking about -- it would make ourcountry (home) enriched with talent, strong values ... (2) It's ready-made talent. US don't have to spend on education / training cost of these high skilled workers. (3) These high skilled worker are not working for competitor's of US, if US promotes bringing them here, by welcoming it - Yes, disparity based on origin is not welcoming them. Let's fix it by passing H.R. 3012. (Continued in next post...) 2011-11-11T19:20:25Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-11-11:/comment/237786 SamFriend (Continued from previous post...) (4) These high skilled workers will be working (because, that is how they get Green Card) legally in US. Most of these works have high-salaried jobs like more than $65K per annum, meaning, US would be immediately getting source of Tax Income and SSN income to fix our short-term deficit problems. It will not that big of amount, but would be much better than borrowing these small amounts from other countries and then making our citizens to pay for it, at high interest. (5) These high-skilled workers would be surely buying home, bcoz majority or almost all of them are middle-age with family and working, so home--buying would go and so as our real-estate. (6) These high-skilled people would not be burden at all -- they would be in fact our customers for buying consumables + luxury items for their own life. This would add sales tax + other sales revenue. (Continued in next post...) 2011-11-07T12:38:27Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-11-07:/comment/237214 rnatesan21 Please pass this bill. It is good for the US economy. 2012-01-11T23:06:53Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-01-11:/comment/243054 4candid "Many professionals from India and China working in US, invest their savings abroad as they are not sure if they can ever get a GreenCard in near future. Most of them don't even buy a house in US as they are not sure about their immigration status. Anyway we are hiring them, why not use their savings to stimulate our economy by providing them permanent resident status so that they can invest in US with confidence." Pls support HR3012. 2012-01-12T16:04:47Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-01-12:/comment/243113 jpauche What about the H1B fraud that indian consultant firms are doing. People dont even have jobs but they file the H1B and sponsor them in EB2. How can we stop that? Why do we need more fraud Indian people and stop people from rest of the world coming to US. 2012-01-12T16:07:44Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-01-12:/comment/243114 jpauche When a person from India comes to US he not only brings his wife and kids, but also their parents, brothers, sisters, their families who all consume visa. Where as when a person from rest of the world comes he only brings his immediate family not the whole neighborhood. 2012-02-01T20:19:30Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-02-01:/comment/244126 Americafirst The last thing AMERICA needs is MORE FOREIGN SCUM in USA. We cant seem to get rid of the FOREIGN CRIMINALS we have now!! We sure as hell dont need more of them! We lose 80,000 USA jobs per month to the legal foreigners alone! My citizenship matters! When it does not - its civil war time! New law- any US citizen can take a foreigners job at any time. 2012-02-01T20:21:01Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-02-01:/comment/244127 Americafirst What do you say to the US Citizen that wants that house? In his OWN country! Go home. Go FUCK yourself. 2012-02-02T11:33:54Z tag:opencongress.org,2012-02-02:/comment/244153 raminia This bill neither makes the immigration system fair for everyone nor makes America more competitive. Please read to the end to understand why. This bill makes it easier for Chinese and Indians to get a green card and makes it harder for the rest of the world. In other words, it makes US immigration less attractive to the whole world except China and India by forcing the applicants of the all countries to go behind a long queue and wait for years. This makes India and China dominant immigrant exporters in the skilled worker category, and creates a true monopoly (85%). Let me give you an example to understand the problem with this bill: Why in the US presidential election, the states use the system of delegates instead of a single general election? Because of the possibility of the dominance by populated states over the rest of the country. This is unfair and the US does not do that. The same arguments works for this bill and clarifies its unfairness. 2011-11-10T18:07:29Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-11-10:/comment/237731 rahulkimmi This bill is designed to give green cards to applicants based on skill on a first come first serve basis. Country caps have no place in employment or employment based immigration. This bill does not add a single visa number to the system. This bill also increases the country cap from 7% to 15% without increasing a single visa number. This will be helpful to lot of family based immigrants who are separated from their loved ones. In addition to making it easier on applicants, it makes America more competitive and upholds american values. Thanks for introducing this simple but sensible bill. 2011-10-17T07:47:13Z tag:opencongress.org,2011-10-17:/comment/236259 tolystoy 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!