Inviato da cristina serafini il 9 luglio 2007 alle 15:29:38:
cari signori,
da ormai parecchi giorni l'intera comunita' di persone che stanno di cercabdi du ottenere l'Adjustment Of Status negli USA e' in subbuglio. vorrei sapere cosa ne pensano altri italiani che, come me si trovano in questa situazione. e i comites, cosa ne pensano?
cordiali saluti,
cristina
DOS & USCIS Slam their Doors On Legal Immigrants DOS and USCIS have used bait and switch on thousands of intending immigrants who have waited in line for years and were following the rules for obtaining a "green card." Washington, D.C. 07/05/2007 - I am an immigrant who entered this country legally. I've been waiting for my US permanent resident visa - also known as green card for the past several years along with 500,000 other educated, highly skilled employment based (EB) immigrants. Many of us have been waiting for our turn to get the green card for 5-10 years while consistently abiding by all the laws of this country. Such long delays are due to tortuous and confusing paper work, back logs due to various quotas and processing delays at US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). Several categories of EB immigrant visa numbers have been unavailable ("retrogressed") since the fall of 2005. Because our immigrant petitions are tied to the sponsoring employer, for many of us these delays have led to indentured servitude. Our professional prospects, job mobility and potential opportunities for entrepreneurship have been shattered. For the past several decades, the US Department of State (DOS) has been publishing advisories known as visa bulletins once a month to announce the availability of immigrant visa numbers. On June 13, 2007, after a gap of nearly two years, DOS announced that all EB visa numbers would be "current" for the month of July. This meant, irrespective of our "priority date", all of us were made eligible to apply for some interim immigration benefits. This "priority date" refers to the date when our labor certification (documentation verifying no US citizen worker was available for a given job) had been filed. This announcement by DOS on 6/13/2007 would not have led to immediate green card for most of us; but at least it would have ensured us interim benefits such as job mobility, some freedom from the employer, work authorization for our spouses and a travel authorization known as "advance parole". This authorization would allow us to travel outside US without fear of not being able to reenter the country.
We spent thousands of dollars in legal fees, immigration medical exams, vaccinations, blood tests, x-rays and getting various supporting documents ready to file our immigrant petitions to USCIS. It has been an agonizing two weeks for us. Some of us to had to fly in our spouses from our native countries. To our shock and dismay, on the morning of July 2nd 2007, USCIS announced that EB visa numbers were not available and all our petitions would be rejected. Within a span of 2 weeks, to be precise -in 12 working days- USCIS claims to have approved 60,000 EB immigrant visa petitions. This unprecedented rapid action of USCIS has led to exhaustion of all the available visa numbers for this fiscal year. Meanwhile it is prognosticated that in the next fiscal year which begins on October 1, 2007 our plight and delays would actually worsen. Interestingly USCIS has never processed so many applications this fast, and it is unclear why they did not convey this potential exhaustion of visa numbers to DOS before June 13, 2007. For the legal skilled immigrants this has been a rather traumatizing and disheartening experience. We sincerely seek immediate congressional/ legislative remedial measures which would 1)Reduce the enormous backlogs of green card petitions of legal skilled immigrants 2)Ensure and enable USCIS not to reject our immigrant visa petitions and give us interim benefits of a pending immigrant visa petition. 3) An estimated 150,000 visa's have gone uncaptured in since 2000. Would suggest all lawmaker's to make a provision to recapture the unused visa and solve the issue of " Bait and Switch" by DOS and USCIS. We make this sincere request on this Independence Day with the hope that people who played by the rules will be rewarded. "People ask why those who come to the United States illegally can't just follow the rules, but here people followed the rules and did everything right, yet without warning or explanation the door was slammed in their faces. This hoax perpetrated by USCIS & DOS two government agencies is unconscionable, and is an example of how badly our immigration system is broken."
Contact Information Aman Kapoor binitha.surendran@gmail.com (850) 391-4966