Susie
07-14-2006, 05:21 AM
Hi
Check this out
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/LetterstotheEditor/032806.html
Don’t forget about legal immigrants
From Rama Vudutala:
The debate on immigration seems to center on illegal immigrants, not on genuine problems of legal immigrants — extensive processing delays at backlog-elimination centers and unavailability of visa numbers.
Without fixing the problems of current legal immigrants, adding illegal immigrants to the queue will break the fragile immigration system even further and push the processing wait times to 10-15 years before an immigrant sees his or her petition approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). This already happened once in 2001, when President Bush approved 245(i) and took illegal immigrants ahead of legal immigrants.
Lawmakers should focus on improving the performance of USCIS to handle the current backlog of applications, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao needs to do way more than what she has accomplished so far — setting strict performance expectations for contractors running backlog elimination centers and monitoring them.
Tampa, Fla.
Shall we all send individual letters to the editor, or one from expats voice, any ideas?
Check this out
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/LetterstotheEditor/032806.html
Don’t forget about legal immigrants
From Rama Vudutala:
The debate on immigration seems to center on illegal immigrants, not on genuine problems of legal immigrants — extensive processing delays at backlog-elimination centers and unavailability of visa numbers.
Without fixing the problems of current legal immigrants, adding illegal immigrants to the queue will break the fragile immigration system even further and push the processing wait times to 10-15 years before an immigrant sees his or her petition approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS). This already happened once in 2001, when President Bush approved 245(i) and took illegal immigrants ahead of legal immigrants.
Lawmakers should focus on improving the performance of USCIS to handle the current backlog of applications, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao needs to do way more than what she has accomplished so far — setting strict performance expectations for contractors running backlog elimination centers and monitoring them.
Tampa, Fla.
Shall we all send individual letters to the editor, or one from expats voice, any ideas?