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  • seeking_GC
    07-11 10:56 PM
    This is beginning to look more and more like a organized and deliberate attempt to block people from filing for AOS.If the mysterious "knowledgeable official" quoted on the website can be summoned in court- that would be game over for the USCIS right there......


    http://www.usimmlaw.com/current_information.htm


    Copying the contents of the website below :


    Visa numbers WERE available July 2nd!!
    We have confirmed with a knowledgeable official in the Department of State Visa Office that USCIS was requesting visa numbers on Sunday July 1st, and Monday morning July 2nd - and that visa numbers were still being issued as late as the morning of July 2nd!

    In fact, close to 30,000 visa numbers were requested and issued in July - through the morning of July 2nd. And we believe that many - if not most - of the requests made in the first two days of July were for applicants whose priority dates were not current in June!

    So how can USCIS refuse to accept I-485 filings received BEFORE the State Department issued its notice that all visa numbers had been used???? We have not yet confirmed the return of any I-485s filed in July. But we do know that applications were reaching the USCIS before the State Department announcement - and while the USCIS was frantically working to use up the entire year's allocation.

    USCIS did not use all visa numbers before July 2nd.

    Did USCIS actually use the visa numbers it requested????
    Historically, the USCIS doesn't request a visa number from the Department of State until it is ready to grant the adjustment of status application. US Consuls overseas request visa numbers the month before they intend to issue the immigrant visa. This is the reason why consuls return about ten percent of the visa numbers requested - and why USCIS does not generally return any numbers.

    In fact, in making allocations of visa numbers, the Department of State factors in an expected return rate for consuls - but not for the USCIS. And the USCIS - before this June - used about 85% of the total immigrant visa numbers available.

    However, already this month, the USCIS has been returning visa numbers. This confirms our earlier suspicion that the only way the USCIS could request 68,000 visa numbers in a matter of weeks was to request them in advance of adjudicating cases.

    We believe USCIS exhausted the visa numbers by simply requesting them - not by using them. If so, and for reasons we will post shortly, we believe that over 30,000 visa numbers requested by USCIS will go unused - and will be wasted this year!




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  • Friend
    02-15 10:51 AM
    Best thing is call the customer service and explain step by step.
    also take an infopass appointment and explain.

    What it means Inforpass? Can you explain in detail. Sorry I don't have any Idea on Infopass.




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  • Googler
    06-22 12:44 PM
    Didn't want to start a new thread for this (perhaps this thread should be re-titled Media Coverage of Name Check Mess)

    Today's NPR story about name checks
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11271832

    A New Spin:

    "The problem isn't entirely of the FBI's making, according to the bureau's assistant director, John Miller. A background check used to consist of looking to see whether a person was under investigation by the FBI. Now immigration officials want to know if the person's name has come up in any other investigations.

    That meant the FBI suddenly had to redo some 2.7 million checks. Miller said that load was added to the 3 million background checks the FBI typically gets every year; the result was that the bureau was overwhelmed.

    "When you hand someone � with a staff of 30 [people] � 2.7 million names and say, 'Do them over' � and not just do them over, but where there are issues and questions and missing files, 'Resolve those issues' � you are going to have a challenge on your hands," Miller says.

    To combat the problem, Miller says the FBI is raising the fees they charge various agencies so they can hire more staff. A typical background check costs about $2. The FBI is raising the fee to $9.

    FBI officials are also talking to the Department of Homeland Security about borrowing some of their employees to clear out the backlog. And they are discussing how they might change FBI criteria to make the process more efficient.

    "There is a perception born of these stories that we're indifferent," Miller says. He adds, "But we're processing them faster than we are taking them in."


    "According to Miller, only about 30 percent of applicants are running into such difficulties."

    ONLY??!! Since when did 1/3 of something become "only"?




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  • rheoretro
    09-25 05:22 PM
    I got denied by discover credit card due to not having a green card.
    They said, it is just their policy that they won't give credit cards to
    people who don't have green cards.
    I could't co-sign my friends student loan application as i did't have a green card. They said, i have to be Permanent legal resident to co-sign.

    Though i have a mortgage now, my first mortagage application got denied on same grounds.

    Apparently fannie mae guildelines stipulates that H1B(foriegn investment) needs to put 60% down to get a mortgage loan.

    But most of the lenders do mortgages anyways even for the people who does't have a ssn:).

    Discover Card is a bit picky...I applied a second time around and they approved it.

    Student loans - federal loans require full citizenship.



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  • kapilgogia
    03-17 07:00 PM
    Hi,

    My wife, who is the primary green card applicant is planning to change job from desi consulting company to a fortune 500 company. The fortune 500 company wants to invoke AC21 as 180 days have passed from received date and I140 is approved.

    Please let me know if someone has similar experience with the following:

    1. Is there any salary restriction on increase from current salary percentage wise?

    2. Has anyone used sucessfully AC21 in the past and had no issues with EAD renewals and Green card?

    Thanks

    There is no requirement for number of employees. You need to make sure the company is financially capable to do H1. You must make sure you get salary equal or above the salary offered in your LC. And also the job duties are same or similar.




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  • sobers
    03-01 06:19 PM
    Look at what NumbersUSA has got to say about the effectiveness of its mass faxing/emailing strategy...

    -------------------------


    From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
    Date: Wednesday 1MAR06 5:30 p.m. EST


    Day 3-----Media confirm your calls/faxes making a difference in fighting Specter's amnesty


    YOUR CONTINUED PHONE CALLS AND FAXES ARE BRINGING PAIN TO SENATORS WHO WANTED TO PASS AN AMNESTY

    NEWS ITEM
    "Despite the breadth of interest groups
    advocating an expanded guest-worker program,
    the enforcement-only crowd makes considerably
    more noise on Capitol Hill, if the flood
    of mail, e-mail and phone calls to member
    offices is any indication."

    The power of what you are doing has been confirmed in a big story in The Hill newspaper. This daily publication is the community newspaper for the tens of thousands of people who work in congressional offices on Capitol Hill.

    It claims that the power of your phoning and faxing may be countering the power of the Chamber of Commerce, religious lobbies, ethnic lobbies, ACLU and cheap-labor corporations combined.

    With the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to start tomorrow (Thursday) voting on amendments to the giant amnesty bill of its chairman, Sen. Specter, the newspaper stated that the open borders positions are supported by one of the largest and most powerful blocs of groups ever assembled.

    But the newspaper reported that you all may be more influential:

    "A handful of single-issue groups opposing
    the guest-worker program have effectively
    put the other side on the defensive since
    President Bush first announced his intentions
    to push comprehensive immigration reform, as
    evidenced by the administration's backtracking
    since Bush first proposed such a program in
    January 2004.

    "One of those groups, Numbers USA, has 135,000
    registered activists throughout the country and
    an e-mail list in excess of 1 million subscribers,
    all of whom have signed up voluntarily, said
    Caroline Espinosa, a spokeswoman for the group.
    A link on the Numbers USA website also allows browsers
    to fax a personal note to members of Congress in
    support of increased enforcement of illegal immigration."

    None of this changes the fact that most Senators want to have 2 million to 3 million foreign workers and their families being added to our laborforce and communities each year.

    But we are getting reports from the Hill and from many of you that many of them are starting to show some signs of concern about how their open-borders voting may affect their standing back home.

    We don't like being called "anti-immigration," but we like what the reporter said he found in talking to people in the Senate:

    "The anti-immigration crowd has political momentum
    at this stage in the fight, with congressional
    Republicans wary to cast any vote that could turn
    off their conservative base during this critical
    election year, but members will also have a hard
    time ignoring such a broad cross-section of business,
    labor and social groups with their own self-interested
    constituents."

    Now, if we could just get more Democratic Senators to start worrying about their base.

    Well, we got a little sign of hope on that front today. The AFL-CIO -- which is selling out its tradition and its American members by pushing an amnesty -- has come out against Specter's and McCain's amnesty bills because they have gigantic foreign guestworker programs. That gives hope that some Democratic Senators would vote against these bills. And it is doubtful that the Republican open-border Senators would vote for an amnesty that didn't include the guestworker provisions so sought by the Chamber of Commerce.

    PLEASE CHECK YOUR ACTION BUFFET AND KEEP MAKING YOUR PHONE CALLS AND SENDING YOUR FAXES

    What you have been doing is working. You have kept phones and fax machines ringing since first-thing Monday morning through this minute. Do not let up.

    Click here for actions to take.
    www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

    WATCH FOR BY-THE-MINUTE ALERTS ON THURSDAY AS WE ASK YOU TO REACT TO SENATORS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEY TAKE BAD ACTIONS IN COMMITTEE

    Our seven-person Capitol Hill Team of professionals will be in the Committee Room and other key Capitol Hill locations all day assisting our six-person Website Team to provide you with updates and help in where your activism can do the most good.

    The reason you NumbersUSA activists are seen as the primary constituency pressure force on the Hill in pushing sensible immigration policies is because of the work that I know most of you will do tomorrow.
    GET ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED ABOUT THE SPECTER BILL AND THE ACTION IN THE SENATE

    Just go to our Hot Topics page, which has links for detailed analysis of the bill.

    http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/specterproposal.html

    Thanks for all you can do. And thanks for all the reports that you have been sending back to us on what you hear when you call. Our Capitol Team makes good use of your reports.

    DON'T LET UP,

    -- ROY

    If you have time, you might enjoy reading some more of The Hill article:

    "Numbers USA also does objective and subjective
    summaries of each bill introduced on the issue
    and notifies subscribers in advance of any
    important actions on Capitol Hill, such as this
    week's markup. As such, the group was expected to
    send an alert asking those supporters living in
    states represented by members of the Senate
    Judiciary Committee to call or fax their members
    in anticipation of that markup.

    "Battling with groups like Numbers USA is an
    uncommon experience for many members of the business
    community because they do not regularly work on
    such socially sensitive topics.

    "We don't usually end up on the other side of single-issue groups," Gay said. "That's unusual for us."

    * * * * *

    "The National Restaurant Association usually does not join forces with the National Council of La Raza, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rarely, if ever, aligns itself with the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

    "But those organizations and many others have come together in support of a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that would expand guest-worker programs and offer undocumented workers already in this country a path to citizenship. They are up against an aggressive cross-section of single-issue organizations that favor increased enforcement of immigration laws and have condemned any legislation that would allow undocumented workers already here eventually to become citizens.

    "With the Senate Judiciary Committee expected to mark up its version of the immigration bill Thursday, groups on either side of the issue have geared up for a hard fight, and the vehemence and intractability of either side should make compromise particularly difficult for lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

    "A unique coalition of divergent interest groups have rallied in support of a bill introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).

    "he fact that the Chamber of Commerce needs comprehensive immigration reform is very good," said Flavia Jimenez, an outreach director for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy organization.

    "Members of the business community also appreciate working with groups such as La Raza because it allows the overarching coalition to communicate with Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill.

    "It's nice actually to get to work with these guys," said John Gay, a senior vice president for government affairs with the National Restaurant Association, which co-chairs the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC), a group of more than 40 business and trade associations seeking comprehensive reform.

    "Because the many groups within this broad coalition have slightly different priorities, they must communicate regularly to push common themes. In the end, these organizations are all fighting for what they consider the best interests of their dues-paying members.

    "Despite the breadth of interest groups
    advocating an expanded guest-worker program,
    the enforcement-only crowd makes considerably
    more noise on Capitol Hill, if the flood
    of mail, e-mail and phone calls to member
    offices is any indication."


    This may be a good time for you to make sure that you've let us know all of the areas you are interested in. In order to further customize the type of alerts you receive click here http://www.numbersusa.com/survey?action=longlist

    As a NumbersUSA subscriber, you will receive occasional emails about immigration-related opportunities. If you want to increase or reduce the frequency of these emails, click here and choose from Total Activism, Moderate Activism, or Limited Activism at the bottom of your registration form: http://www.numbersusa.com/user

    NumbersUSA - relies upon individuals like you to reach its goal of an environmentally sustainable and economically just America.



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  • kabeer_g
    01-12 12:17 PM
    This is absolutely illegal. Never never do this.

    So can you please suggest what do I do in this case. Only other option I can think of is telling the New Delhi consulate that I will be back in country in April and can submit my passport then.

    I am hoping leaving India and entering US on Advance Parole was fine. It is not like my H1B had been denied. They needed additional documentation (medical report), which I submitted. After that they told me it would take them 2-3 weeks to process additional information. Since I did not have that much time, I left the country.




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  • EndlessWait
    05-01 12:09 PM
    If old I-140 has not been revoked, you are entitled to the old PD.
    8 CFR 204.5
    (e) Retention of section 203(b)(1) , (2) , or (3) priority date. -- A petition approved on behalf of an alien under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act accords the alien the priority date of the approved petition for any subsequently filed petition for any classification under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act for which the alien may qualify. In the event that the alien is the beneficiary of multiple petitions under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act, the alien shall be entitled to the earliest priority date. A petition revoked under sections 204(e) or 205 of the Act will not confer a priority date, nor will any priority date be established as a result of a denied petition. A priority date is not transferable to another alien.
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  • GCKaMaara
    11-26 03:14 PM
    there was nothing to be so touchy in those two lines of mine!

    He he he. Remember your first year after birth and follow the same practice (you didn't speak during that time :)).




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  • gccube
    04-21 03:19 PM
    Congratulations on getting your GC !!!

    I need to ask you a question as I don't see on LUD after FP in 485. However LUD changed on my approved I-140.

    Was there any LUD on I-140 case after your FP?

    Regards

    last summer. The only two LUDs I have noticed on my I-485 are

    1. 8/22/2007 :: This is after my FP

    2. 04/21/2008 (Today) :: This is after my I-485 is approved.

    I have not noticed an LUD even late last night.

    Interestingly, the TSC processing dates have moved to June 29 2007 in the newly released processing times and my RD (06/21/2007) fall with in this period. So my approval could be a result of the progressed processing dates for this month.



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  • indianabacklog
    02-24 12:57 PM
    it was for visa stamping

    Visa stamping is not necessary to remain in the US so wondering why a CPA would consider this a necessary work expense.




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  • snathan
    05-20 06:19 PM
    Not favoring Wipro or quitting person here. General comment..

    we need to be careful and review all aspect of issues with mgr and HR before leaving service companies. If we really want to come and work in US then come as independent companies on H1. People keep quite and say 'yes' for everything until H1 is filed in offshore and once a high paid offer comes then leaving and start saying 'sue' this company etc.

    they pay fees for H1/air-fares/insurances for commitment for onsite work for some period. If person A goes out, they have to invest same amount of $ on new person B to get there and loosing credit at client also. Are these factors not overhead to these kind of companies?

    Becoming so much emotional for money matters is quite common. Be practical and think wisely and negotiate peacefully with HR/MGR. Sending mails with lot of anger and threats to companies etc really don't much help in practical life and things go worse. this kind of stories is not first time and has been going for many years, think it from both sides.

    Be practical, thinking peacefully. All the best.

    They are not doing any charity for the employees...they want profit and cares only about their interest and so the employee. Whats wrong with that...



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  • ruchigup
    08-22 03:03 PM
    I am changing my employer and wanted to retain the services of legal firm representing current employer. Upon asking that I want to retain their services after I leave current employer, I have been told to pay upfront retainer fee of $2500.

    - Is it normally the case? I have been told that this fee will be put in my account with the firm and used to pay the charges for the services I request.

    - If with God's grace my case is approved without requiring attorney's help, is this retainer refundable in full (I have asked attorney this question and waiting for thier reply). Anybody has a similar experience.




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  • usirit
    11-21 12:21 AM
    I second this. In fact I would say if you are ROW-EB3, see how you can find a job that allows you to file your GC in EB2. Even if you dont like the job. You will need to stick to it maybe an year or two and then you'll have your GC and will be all set!
    Meridiani.planum.... Thanks for your reply....
    Is the GC under EB-2 that quick? I wonder why my attorney didn't try to FIT me on EB-2... I'll definitely research my 'fitting' options as an EB-2.... now, do you know if are there hidden issues on getting a GC as an EB-2 rather than an EB-3? Or, Is a GC the same regardless the employment-based category?



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  • waiting4gc
    04-15 04:42 PM
    Its nice to see good news from more and more people. Enjoy your new found freedom!!

    Hi folks,

    Just got back from UK on Friday after a month of family time, medicals and our embassy interview! Wanted to let you all know that we were approved and happily back in the US!!

    Congrats on the latest admin wins and movements in campaigns/projects. I wanted to say a huge thank you but not farewell to the many kind folks who kept my spirits high in the short time I have been with IV:
    abhijitp, needhelp, digital2k, paskal, gsc999, waiting4gc, pappu, chanduv23, santb1975, nolaindian32, walking dude, ja1hind, logiclife and many more. All of you rock and America is very lucky to have such genuine and brilliant people like you. I wish you the very best for your own journey.

    I will be around for sure, just have to concentrate on securing some work and life for a bit, finally!

    my best :)




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  • alterego
    04-12 08:39 PM
    Thanks all. I called my lawyer, and she mentioned that there have been specific cases of the Neb Service Center rejecting I485 applications for internists while they are doing fellowships. I guess my plan would be to find a 'full time' position working a couple of nights a week in the same city where I am working as a fellow, and use that as proof of ongoing full time internist work.

    I am not sure if they need just a letter, or a w2s also. I guess 'full time' is a very arbitrary word, and can be applied to more than 28-32 hrs a week, which is very easily doable.

    Full time would be the standard definition of 40 hrs per week. It is clearly defined in the J1 waiver regulations for physicians and will likely be extended to the labor based applications as well since adjudicators are very familiar with the J1 waiver and NIW physician cases. Ultimately you have to decide whether the risk is worth it. W-2s as well as paystubs, as well as employers letters attesting to the scope of, and the full time nature of the work are often requested.



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  • TheCanadian
    11-25 03:16 AM
    You probably noticed, but that's what he is doing. :dilbert:
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  • santb1975
    04-15 04:35 PM
    That is really nice of you.

    Hi folks,

    Just got back from UK on Friday after a month of family time, medicals and our embassy interview! Wanted to let you all know that we were approved and happily back in the US!!

    Congrats on the latest admin wins and movements in campaigns/projects. I wanted to say a huge thank you but not farewell to the many kind folks who kept my spirits high in the short time I have been with IV:
    abhijitp, needhelp, digital2k, paskal, gsc999, waiting4gc, pappu, chanduv23, santb1975, nolaindian32, walking dude, ja1hind, logiclife and many more. All of you rock and America is very lucky to have such genuine and brilliant people like you. I wish you the very best for your own journey.

    I will be around for sure, just have to concentrate on securing some work and life for a bit, finally!

    my best :)




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  • dreamworld
    01-25 04:43 PM
    I live and take bart from fremont. let us know time and day or days of this event. I will plan to stop by or stop for hours to help IV friends.




    mhtanim
    06-10 02:40 AM
    Wow.. one should wonder why USCIS wants its' own documents. Don't they have any way to track someone's immigration records in their system?

    Anyway, as somebody else has mentioned - you should consult with an experienced attorney.




    sobers
    03-01 06:19 PM
    Look at what NumbersUSA has got to say about the effectiveness of its mass faxing/emailing strategy...

    -------------------------


    From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
    Date: Wednesday 1MAR06 5:30 p.m. EST


    Day 3-----Media confirm your calls/faxes making a difference in fighting Specter's amnesty


    YOUR CONTINUED PHONE CALLS AND FAXES ARE BRINGING PAIN TO SENATORS WHO WANTED TO PASS AN AMNESTY

    NEWS ITEM
    "Despite the breadth of interest groups
    advocating an expanded guest-worker program,
    the enforcement-only crowd makes considerably
    more noise on Capitol Hill, if the flood
    of mail, e-mail and phone calls to member
    offices is any indication."

    The power of what you are doing has been confirmed in a big story in The Hill newspaper. This daily publication is the community newspaper for the tens of thousands of people who work in congressional offices on Capitol Hill.

    It claims that the power of your phoning and faxing may be countering the power of the Chamber of Commerce, religious lobbies, ethnic lobbies, ACLU and cheap-labor corporations combined.

    With the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to start tomorrow (Thursday) voting on amendments to the giant amnesty bill of its chairman, Sen. Specter, the newspaper stated that the open borders positions are supported by one of the largest and most powerful blocs of groups ever assembled.

    But the newspaper reported that you all may be more influential:

    "A handful of single-issue groups opposing
    the guest-worker program have effectively
    put the other side on the defensive since
    President Bush first announced his intentions
    to push comprehensive immigration reform, as
    evidenced by the administration's backtracking
    since Bush first proposed such a program in
    January 2004.

    "One of those groups, Numbers USA, has 135,000
    registered activists throughout the country and
    an e-mail list in excess of 1 million subscribers,
    all of whom have signed up voluntarily, said
    Caroline Espinosa, a spokeswoman for the group.
    A link on the Numbers USA website also allows browsers
    to fax a personal note to members of Congress in
    support of increased enforcement of illegal immigration."

    None of this changes the fact that most Senators want to have 2 million to 3 million foreign workers and their families being added to our laborforce and communities each year.

    But we are getting reports from the Hill and from many of you that many of them are starting to show some signs of concern about how their open-borders voting may affect their standing back home.

    We don't like being called "anti-immigration," but we like what the reporter said he found in talking to people in the Senate:

    "The anti-immigration crowd has political momentum
    at this stage in the fight, with congressional
    Republicans wary to cast any vote that could turn
    off their conservative base during this critical
    election year, but members will also have a hard
    time ignoring such a broad cross-section of business,
    labor and social groups with their own self-interested
    constituents."

    Now, if we could just get more Democratic Senators to start worrying about their base.

    Well, we got a little sign of hope on that front today. The AFL-CIO -- which is selling out its tradition and its American members by pushing an amnesty -- has come out against Specter's and McCain's amnesty bills because they have gigantic foreign guestworker programs. That gives hope that some Democratic Senators would vote against these bills. And it is doubtful that the Republican open-border Senators would vote for an amnesty that didn't include the guestworker provisions so sought by the Chamber of Commerce.

    PLEASE CHECK YOUR ACTION BUFFET AND KEEP MAKING YOUR PHONE CALLS AND SENDING YOUR FAXES

    What you have been doing is working. You have kept phones and fax machines ringing since first-thing Monday morning through this minute. Do not let up.

    Click here for actions to take.
    www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

    WATCH FOR BY-THE-MINUTE ALERTS ON THURSDAY AS WE ASK YOU TO REACT TO SENATORS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THEY TAKE BAD ACTIONS IN COMMITTEE

    Our seven-person Capitol Hill Team of professionals will be in the Committee Room and other key Capitol Hill locations all day assisting our six-person Website Team to provide you with updates and help in where your activism can do the most good.

    The reason you NumbersUSA activists are seen as the primary constituency pressure force on the Hill in pushing sensible immigration policies is because of the work that I know most of you will do tomorrow.
    GET ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED ABOUT THE SPECTER BILL AND THE ACTION IN THE SENATE

    Just go to our Hot Topics page, which has links for detailed analysis of the bill.

    http://numbersusa.com/hottopic/specterproposal.html

    Thanks for all you can do. And thanks for all the reports that you have been sending back to us on what you hear when you call. Our Capitol Team makes good use of your reports.

    DON'T LET UP,

    -- ROY

    If you have time, you might enjoy reading some more of The Hill article:

    "Numbers USA also does objective and subjective
    summaries of each bill introduced on the issue
    and notifies subscribers in advance of any
    important actions on Capitol Hill, such as this
    week's markup. As such, the group was expected to
    send an alert asking those supporters living in
    states represented by members of the Senate
    Judiciary Committee to call or fax their members
    in anticipation of that markup.

    "Battling with groups like Numbers USA is an
    uncommon experience for many members of the business
    community because they do not regularly work on
    such socially sensitive topics.

    "We don't usually end up on the other side of single-issue groups," Gay said. "That's unusual for us."

    * * * * *

    "The National Restaurant Association usually does not join forces with the National Council of La Raza, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rarely, if ever, aligns itself with the Conference of Catholic Bishops.

    "But those organizations and many others have come together in support of a comprehensive immigration-reform bill that would expand guest-worker programs and offer undocumented workers already in this country a path to citizenship. They are up against an aggressive cross-section of single-issue organizations that favor increased enforcement of immigration laws and have condemned any legislation that would allow undocumented workers already here eventually to become citizens.

    "With the Senate Judiciary Committee expected to mark up its version of the immigration bill Thursday, groups on either side of the issue have geared up for a hard fight, and the vehemence and intractability of either side should make compromise particularly difficult for lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

    "A unique coalition of divergent interest groups have rallied in support of a bill introduced by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).

    "he fact that the Chamber of Commerce needs comprehensive immigration reform is very good," said Flavia Jimenez, an outreach director for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy organization.

    "Members of the business community also appreciate working with groups such as La Raza because it allows the overarching coalition to communicate with Republicans and Democrats alike on Capitol Hill.

    "It's nice actually to get to work with these guys," said John Gay, a senior vice president for government affairs with the National Restaurant Association, which co-chairs the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition (EWIC), a group of more than 40 business and trade associations seeking comprehensive reform.

    "Because the many groups within this broad coalition have slightly different priorities, they must communicate regularly to push common themes. In the end, these organizations are all fighting for what they consider the best interests of their dues-paying members.

    "Despite the breadth of interest groups
    advocating an expanded guest-worker program,
    the enforcement-only crowd makes considerably
    more noise on Capitol Hill, if the flood
    of mail, e-mail and phone calls to member
    offices is any indication."


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