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H.R. 5882, To recapture employment-based immigrant visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and employment-based immigrant visas in the future (28 comments ↓ | 3 wiki edits)
H.R. 5882 would recapture employment-based immigrant visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and employment-based immigrant visas in the future.
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John
This is the real problem for H-1B worker. There is only 140,000 EB-Base visa/year but it has a lot of unused number left every year. On another hand, EB-base visa is backlog to 3,5,7 years.
Even the H-1B CAP increase to 195,000/year, the EB-base Visa number is 140,000/year or less, What will be the final solution for those H-1B works? And how about 29-month OPT students?
This bill make sure 140,000 visa number will be all used for the right workers. So it is great!
MD
Yes I agree that wasted Immigrant visa numbers is a real Issue for H1B workers. The USCIS, which is the gov agency responsible for issuing these Visa numbers (a.k.a Green Cards) to EB (Employment Based) applicants, wastes about 20-30K immigrant visas due to their low productivity. Hence even though 140,000 Immigrant visas are mandated by the Congress to be used up every year, not all these visas get used up. This results in a large backlog of applications from people (H1B applicants), who have wait for undetermined periods of time, for the agency to issue them a visa number. The lives of these people have been kept in limbo as there is no accountability. This bill will bring some hope to those folks, who have been waiting and have been paying taxes on their income.
Keep the skills here so that outsourcing is minimized.
Helen
Yes, this is definitely great news. I am a registered nurse and have worked really hard to pass all the needed exams to become a registered nurse and to pass the English test, and now me and my family is in uncertain situation because of all these delays, in fact all our life suspended and depends on the outcome of the debates. Besides, I am affraid that my test results may become out-of date due to the delay of my immigration to the USA. So, I will be praying for the success of this bill!!!
H1B Worker
I have a big doubt.Even if this bill will pass [ lets hope..] USCIS will not able to work to use all of these visa numbers in 1 year..They work very slow and their productivity is very less...so no point of increasing visa numbers only also increase the productivity of USCIS.
a nurse
to h1b worker, let us be optomistic about this, let's look forward for the passing of this bill and support the uscis who are doing all the best they can to meet the needs of the US citizen. they increased the number of their employees for the past few months just to deal with it and let's hope they will work faster now so that visas will not be wasted. let us pray and support this bill!!!
gcseeker
Guys, Immigrationvoice members are sending online faxes to subcomittee members to support this bill. Let's please join them in this campaign. This is a great opportunity!!!
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18804
indenturedbyH1b
I came to USA in 2000. I still do not have green card. Any job loss will mean immediate going back to my country. My spouse could not work for 2 years risking her career. So much for the american dream. I am wondering if it will ever happen
Hamilton
indentured, you make a very good point. In a sense you've been had like the rest of us by these corporations. They have no intention of turning your H-1B into a green card, then you could compete and negotiate. When your visa expires, they can simply replace you with a new H-1B if the caps are expanded as they've requested.
H1BVictim
This is the worst immigration system in the world!!!..May be some African Countries might run better immigration compare to United States..I am wondering why they are telling this "Advance Country"? USCIS hardly able to use computers to make process fast ..!!Advan Country..they need to think 2 times before they will claim that this is advance county..!!!
Alcola
This is one of the best solutions that the house and the congress can do immediately for the broken immigration system of the US. Best wish the bill can pass ASAP!!!
missing our families
Hi Ms.Lofgren,
We thankyou for understanding and helping us in this need.We have come here for a better future and hope in our life.Our hard work and education has shown us this destiny.There is no race or cheap labour here.Why is this partiality going on,Just because we are from developing .I apologize for this comment.its a true question ,a doubt lingering our minds.We have so far missed our main seperations at the time of need,marraiges and many more.Even the Advance parole we have applied for ,we havnt received that too.Its more than 8 months.When we think US we imagined a rewarding life which every immigrant has been imagining and enjoying here.Our kids really don't know the difference between these two countries.We are in a bad nutshell...we are unable to move take drastic decisions.We have had enough of seperations and undergoing many frustrations because of the greencard delay.
We request to pass this and relieve us. I wish this bill helps us all.
Reality
What is immigration?
Partiality.Aiding as per convenience.Changing bills as per convenience.I am here in a big Q for 10 years here.Just fed up.Immigrants are facing a disrespectful life hanging for survival.Nobody wants to answer or even think to solve our problems.our potentiality our dreams are getting shattered.By calling us cheap labour.Why is there no solution for us guys who have been staying here paying taxes ,everything.How come there is no angel no guide and help us.Its simple A trust for this soil is punishing us
USCIS is NO GOOD
US should shame on its own!! What is USCIS? They are hopeless and really dumb people!!! They are not going to do anything about imigrants and their problems! They cannot handle more applications..what will they do if they have to handle more people like in INDIA and CHINA? I think BOMBAY municipal corp. might be handling more cases than USICIS!!! but they are fast compare to USCIS!!! Shame on USICS..hopeless agency on earth!!! to waste and spoil peoples life...
Farhan Nazir
what are the indicators that USCIS is not working efficently. A huge number of Employement based Immigrant visas
could not be granted in last 10 years and went wasted as USCIS could not process them. The result is a big line of legal
immigrants waiting in queue to get their Permanent residency. If the current trend continues, it will probably take another 5-10 years for the
legal immigrants to get Permanent Residency.This is on the top of 4-5 years that we have already been waiting. If these
unused visas could be recaptured, this could definitely help.
willwin
The biggest failure woulb be in not passing this bill. This bill isn't for increasing VISA numbers or bringing in more immigrants than approved. This bill is to use all the numbers that were wasted in the last 10 years or so. It bring relief to thousands of families. This is the least that Congress can do to those skilled people who have come to this country leaving behind their home country and families and values with high hopes.
PrayToGod
This is the truly just way to go.
ToomuchDelayOnGC
1000 IO's 5hr Productive work hr's = 5000hr/day
No of service centers(NSC, TSC, CSC, VSC): 4. 250 IO's/center.
Ave burden on each application May be: 1hr
1.
say, 2,50,000 pending can be cleared in 50 days which is hardly 1.5 months
Fee paid by applicants: On an ave at minimum $650
Total amt paid: $162.500000 mil
Say IO works at $35/hr, Sal expences to process manually in 50 days: $8.75mil
2.
with 5,00,000 pending can be cleared in 100 days which is hardly 3 months
Total amt paid: $325.000000 mil
Say IO works at $35/hr, Sal expences to process manually in 100 days: $17.5mil
This numbers are approximate. In reality much more fee and little more time may be needed.
Expences go down if use systems optimally. People waiting for more than year just get processed.
4 service centers doesn't have 1000 Io's all over country? Can't employ that many at least with the amount of fee receiving?
This kind of numbers explains..Truth.
ToomuchDelayOnGC
Almost every pending applicant could even prefer to buy a house to settle when he or she gets GC's. Think of how many houses could have been sold? Could have been some relief to housing market at least, if gov used all available potential people efficiently.
USCIS SUCKS
R U from MEXICO or any other Spanish speaking country? Are you not able to write your name in English? Are you illegal in US? Are you not paying taxes in US? If answer of all these questions is "yes" then you will get GC very fast..This is how Immigration is working in USA! They need illegal people ..they need uneducated people..!! EB1..EB2..EB3..what is that??? Go home and come us illegal..we will give you green card..This what we are..
..USCIS!!!!
21CENTURYSLAVE
Hopefully this bill will pass and release us from 21st century educated slavery and may be able to save some money for our family instead of continious payments to USCIs and the lawyers for one or other reasons.
KK
Immigrants are innovators, if not all, but some for sure. They go on to create companies and hence, jobs for Americans like you and me. Read about the history of Google, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo! and other companies. Ignorance Is Not Bliss!
Jeff Altman
I don't get it! Why should these law abiding, tax paying, skilled immigrants be punished for the inefficiencies of USCIS. On the contrary they need to have expidited processing for skilled immigrants who can help turn around this economy, cause I dont want jobs to move to China?
acknowledge
Acknowledge every one here hates us.
acknowledge
Why r u not accepting .We are paying taxes>here legal from day 1.Why this delay.I dont understand man...could not go to sisters ,brothers wedding.its 7 years.Enough.Is it my fault being in backlog.I cant elave my job too.Waiting waiting waiting...how long.
Lets go Back
Myself any my wife are paying $6000/month in taxes!!!..We are here since 2000 and still waiting for Green Card!!! Out of $6000/month ..US is paying "food stamp" to so many US citizen families!!! if they are paying $500/month then ..12 families are getting their food stamp out of the taxes me and my wife are paying!!..If we will move from this country and many more tax payers then ...what will happen??Why this bad immigration with us?? We are here and paying taxes and following the US laws...what else they want from us in order to give a green card?? They are really stupid and idiot people...shame on USCIS...
gcvictim
some body tell me what's going on with this bill. What are the chances for this bill to be passed. If this bill isn't passed till sept then we may not see recaptured visa numbers as the effective date mentioned the very end of bill is from the start of fiscal year once the bill is passed
waiting4eightyrs
Its funny how for a country who's foundation lays on "No caste, creed race or sex but the best" has a criteria for entering and getting into naturalization as "Are your from India/China/UK/France/Afgan..etc. and have quota system".
Lets face it if you are good you make it and let the country prosper on a free economy and culture.
This bill will rectify some of the current economic and immigrant issues rather than creating more. Just imagine so many people waiting for Green card and not spending much and saving money for the rainy day, gets their GC. Everyone eventually will put the money back into the system esp buying a house for instance.
Its shear common-sense to support this bill and shear prejudice against certain race not to support it.
Hamilton
Waiting4eight: As you so astutely point out in the beginning of your comment, race has nothing to do with this issue. American citizenship has never been an entitlement to anyone but existing American citizens. The other commenters who chide the USCIS might do well to remember that they are here as 'guests' and their presence is a privelege, not a right. The opposition to this bill does not propose to change America's already generous immigration program. It simply proposes to not expand it. In a somewhat unstable economy where American workers are being displaced at all levels of the economic scale by immigrant labor, it just doesn't make sense right now. If you don't believe the displacement statement, just look up, 'Nielsen TATA Oldsmar'