Immigration Voice fights for Green Card Admin Reforms

Immigration Voice, Florida Chapter, wishes you Happy New Year Wishes to you and your beloved families. Another year started with great hopes in all fronts. And that Green Card dreams seems to be sour grapes. But Immigration Voice is using all means at its disposal to make things better.

If you are not already a member of Florida State Chapter of Immigration Voice, please take 5 minutes to become one http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FL_Immigration_Voice/

Action Item
This year begins with a massive campaign for making administrative reforms for those in AOS. Please write letters to your lawmakers as in the following thread http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16506

This takes perhaps 10 minutes but will create all necessary impact. Every letter counts. Your spouse perspective could be different from yours. Please encourage him/ her to write separate letter.

What these admin reforms mean to us? Pl read on...

1) No Green Card Number Unused - This means if there are any numbers unused for that year, one person from our community loses a chance. That member and his family will be competing for next years number. This has to be avoided and ALL numbers as mandated by the congress should be used that year.

2) Revise the administrative definition of "same or similar". This is the provision that will make you move up in your career utilizing your full potential. I know cases where some folks remained as senior programmers for more than 4 years before he got the GC. When he got the Green Card, within 3 months he became Senior Manager. He lost around $150,000 in bonus and salary alone due to the wait time. And so many opportunities to grow were lost. Broadening the definition should be a boon for so many of us.

3) Allow filing of Adjustment of Status (Form I-485) when a visa number is not available. This reform will benefit the entire EB category to get all interim benefits like EAD, AP etc, allow H4 spouses to work, allow job mobility using AC21(rules apply) etc.

4) Multi Year AP and EAD - Again eliminates a hassle of renewing every year, getting Driving Licenses in some states will become very easy.

5) Allow visa revalidation in the United States, and reinstate premium processing of Immigrant Petitions - Very helpful for EB based GC applicants.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us or put a question on http://immigrationvoice.org forum. Many friends from the Legal Immigration community will be there to help you.

IV Florida Chapter
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