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问题现状：
签证办公室（Visa Office）通过对cut-off dates的控制，在财政年度（每年十月为财年第一个月）的前三个季度对职业移民类缓慢释放签证名额（比如在2011财年，职业移民类前三季度仅仅发出了年度总额58.6%的签证数），在最后一个季度才大幅度移动cut-off days放出大量没用完的名额。导致绿卡申请人的等待时间被延长。并且由于移民局资源有限，如果在最后一个季度没有及时处理足够的申请，绿卡签证名额就会被浪费（移民法规定，一个财年没有用完的名额不能挪到下一年使用）。近年职业移民绿卡申请严重积压，如果绿卡名额再被浪费，积压的情况就会被加剧。
按季度分配27%的职业移民绿卡名额的好处：
1. 能缩短绿卡申请人的等待时间（比如很多申请人就能在２０１１年拿到绿卡而不必等到２０１２年夏天）；
2. 尽量避免绿卡签证名额的浪费
法律依据：
ＮＩＵ聘请了专业律师对移民法进行分析研究，认为签证办公室目前的季度分配现状不符合移民法第201条27%限额规定的立法精神，我们需要做的就是敦促移民局提高效率依法办事。
请愿倡议：
1. NIU的志愿者已写好给议员的请愿信（如附件），请大家详读内容，加上议员姓名，发给本州的参议员/众议员。
找本州的议员，请用下面的链接：
找参议员：http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
找众议员：http://www.house.gov/representatives/
每个州有两个参议员，多个众议员（各选区一个）。请尽可能和本州的两位参议员和自己居住地所在选区的众议员都联系。
请以平信/FAX/Email方式（推荐平信）把请愿信打印并签字后，发给所在州的所有参众议员, 并进行电话沟通。如有可能，请到议员办公室进行LOCAL OFFICE VISIT，按请愿信中内容提出诉求。
2. 不管大家做了上述哪一步（邮件/电话/面谈），请具体汇报给NIU的项目负责人 2********[email protected] NIU需要对整个项目进程做统计，这将作为我们今后与国务院，移民局不断交涉的有力佐证。另外，NIU还将统一指导对没有答复的议员该如何做FOLLOW UP. 并对没COVER到的议员做补充行动。
3. 如果大家收到议员回复（Email/电话/面谈），请将详细情节反馈给NIU的项目负责人 2********[email protected] 如有Email/书面材料，也请转发给我们。NIU将对材料进行汇总分析研究并协助进行FOLLOW UP工作.
新移民联合会（NIU）是由志愿者组成的致力于维护美国新移民的利益和权利的非营利组织。如果你想对NIU进行进一步了解，请访问我们的网站www.niunational.com
附件：给议员的请愿信
（鉴于请愿信包含一定的格式，强烈建议大家到这里下载附件，直接使用 http://niunational.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=836&page=1&extra=#pid5737）
[Date]
[Recipient Name]
[Street Address]
[City, ST, Zip Code]
Sub: Urge the Department of State toStop the Discriminatory Treatment and Assign on a Quarterly Basis a Minimum of25% of the Annual Quota to
Employment-Based Applicants
Dear Senator/Representative[NAME]:
As one of the manygreen card petitioners anxiously waiting for the
Department of State to cleartheir current backlogs, I am writing to urge
your serious and immediateattention to the discriminatory visa number
allocation process currentlyemployed by the Department of State.
Section 201(a) ofthe Immigration and Nationality Act has a strict 27% upper-limitation of annualquota for both employment-based (EB) and family-sponsored (FB) green card visause. 8 U.S.C. 1151(a) (2009). Despite the statutory mandate, the Department of State is treating EB
petitionersdiscriminatorily from FB petitioners. Take the first three
quarters of fiscalyear 2011 for example, the FB visas approved in all three
quarters of FY 2011 blatantlysurpassed the rigid 27% limitation while the EB visas approved during the sameperiods were significantly below the 27% threshold.[1]
Family-sponsored Visa
(Annual Quota: 226,000)
Employment-based Visa
(Annual Quota: 140,000)
1st Quarter
62,955 (27.9%)
24,040 (17.1%)
2nd Quarter
69,730 (30.9%)
21,944 (15.7%)
3rd Quarter
67,480 (29.9%)
36,128 (25.8%)
As you may know, thereis a massive backlog in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories of green cardapplications. Numerous eligible visa applicants are waiting in line to submittheir Adjust of Status applications. During this long waiting period, whichnormally lasts for five years or more, most of these applicants are reluctantto start their own business or purchase houses or luxuries, because their greencards, eligible as they may be, are not secured yet and a H1 employment visa isnot one stable enough for them to feel at home.
Section 203(g)authorizes the Secretary of State to “make reasonable
estimates of the anticipatednumbers of visas to be issued during any quarter of any fiscal year.” 8 U.S.C. 1153(g) (2009). Hardly can anyreasonable person see the “reasonableness” out of assigning only 58.6% of theannual quota of employment-based visas to the first three quarters of a fiscalyear, with 41.4% of the entire workload left to the last quarter. In fact, overly conservativeallocation by the Visa Office in the first three calendar quarters has wastedinvaluable visa numbers in the past. Let alone theDepartment of State is doing this in an obvious and illegitimate favor offamily-sponsored visa applicants.
Therefore, weappeal to you to urgethe Department of State to stop the
discriminatory treatment immediately and assignon a quarterly basis a
minimum of 25% of the annual visa quota to employment-based applicants! If this changed, if the Visa Officeclosely monitored visa usage each month to ensure that the worldwide EB numberallocation hit the minimum 25% per quarter, then the EB-2 cut-off dates forboth China and India would move much faster in the first two calendar quarters, none of the visa numbers would be wasted and the current visa backlog would besignificantly alleviated. By a more lawful stewardship, the Visa Office canmake the current quotas work for everyone and reduce the need for theirenlargement.
Senator/Representative[INSERT NAME], from the depth of our hearts, I thank you for your relentless endeavors tomonitor the executive branch to function within the Congressional intent. Thelaw mandates the 27% limitation with reasonable estimates of quarterlyallocation and thus it must be obeyed. Now is the time to urge the Departmentof State respect the Congressional intent and do what the law requires!
If you have any questions about this, please contact me by phone at [PHONE NUMBER] or by e-mail at [YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS] or c*****[email protected]
Thank youvery much for your time and consideration.
Sincerely yours,
[SIGNATURE]
[PRINT YOUR NAME],
Resident of the [ __th] District in the State of [STATE]
Resident in the State of [STATE]
Resident of the [CITY, COUNTY, STATE]
An EB visa applicant and Member of New Immigrants United
签证办公室（Visa Office）通过对cut-off dates的控制，在财政年度（每年十月为财年第一个月）的前三个季度对职业移民类缓慢释放签证名额（比如在2011财年，职业移民类前三季度仅仅发出了年度总额58.6%的签证数），在最后一个季度才大幅度移动cut-off days放出大量没用完的名额。导致绿卡申请人的等待时间被延长。并且由于移民局资源有限，如果在最后一个季度没有及时处理足够的申请，绿卡签证名额就会被浪费（移民法规定，一个财年没有用完的名额不能挪到下一年使用）。近年职业移民绿卡申请严重积压，如果绿卡名额再被浪费，积压的情况就会被加剧。
按季度分配27%的职业移民绿卡名额的好处：
1. 能缩短绿卡申请人的等待时间（比如很多申请人就能在２０１１年拿到绿卡而不必等到２０１２年夏天）；
2. 尽量避免绿卡签证名额的浪费
法律依据：
ＮＩＵ聘请了专业律师对移民法进行分析研究，认为签证办公室目前的季度分配现状不符合移民法第201条27%限额规定的立法精神，我们需要做的就是敦促移民局提高效率依法办事。
请愿倡议：
1. NIU的志愿者已写好给议员的请愿信（如附件），请大家详读内容，加上议员姓名，发给本州的参议员/众议员。
找本州的议员，请用下面的链接：
找参议员：http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
找众议员：http://www.house.gov/representatives/
每个州有两个参议员，多个众议员（各选区一个）。请尽可能和本州的两位参议员和自己居住地所在选区的众议员都联系。
请以平信/FAX/Email方式（推荐平信）把请愿信打印并签字后，发给所在州的所有参众议员, 并进行电话沟通。如有可能，请到议员办公室进行LOCAL OFFICE VISIT，按请愿信中内容提出诉求。
2. 不管大家做了上述哪一步（邮件/电话/面谈），请具体汇报给NIU的项目负责人 2********[email protected] NIU需要对整个项目进程做统计，这将作为我们今后与国务院，移民局不断交涉的有力佐证。另外，NIU还将统一指导对没有答复的议员该如何做FOLLOW UP. 并对没COVER到的议员做补充行动。
3. 如果大家收到议员回复（Email/电话/面谈），请将详细情节反馈给NIU的项目负责人 2********[email protected] 如有Email/书面材料，也请转发给我们。NIU将对材料进行汇总分析研究并协助进行FOLLOW UP工作.
新移民联合会（NIU）是由志愿者组成的致力于维护美国新移民的利益和权利的非营利组织。如果你想对NIU进行进一步了解，请访问我们的网站www.niunational.com
附件：给议员的请愿信
（鉴于请愿信包含一定的格式，强烈建议大家到这里下载附件，直接使用 http://niunational.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=836&page=1&extra=#pid5737）
[Date]
[Recipient Name]
[Street Address]
[City, ST, Zip Code]
Sub: Urge the Department of State toStop the Discriminatory Treatment and Assign on a Quarterly Basis a Minimum of25% of the Annual Quota to
Employment-Based Applicants
Dear Senator/Representative[NAME]:
As one of the manygreen card petitioners anxiously waiting for the
Department of State to cleartheir current backlogs, I am writing to urge
your serious and immediateattention to the discriminatory visa number
allocation process currentlyemployed by the Department of State.
Section 201(a) ofthe Immigration and Nationality Act has a strict 27% upper-limitation of annualquota for both employment-based (EB) and family-sponsored (FB) green card visause. 8 U.S.C. 1151(a) (2009). Despite the statutory mandate, the Department of State is treating EB
petitionersdiscriminatorily from FB petitioners. Take the first three
quarters of fiscalyear 2011 for example, the FB visas approved in all three
quarters of FY 2011 blatantlysurpassed the rigid 27% limitation while the EB visas approved during the sameperiods were significantly below the 27% threshold.[1]
Family-sponsored Visa
(Annual Quota: 226,000)
Employment-based Visa
(Annual Quota: 140,000)
1st Quarter
62,955 (27.9%)
24,040 (17.1%)
2nd Quarter
69,730 (30.9%)
21,944 (15.7%)
3rd Quarter
67,480 (29.9%)
36,128 (25.8%)
As you may know, thereis a massive backlog in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories of green cardapplications. Numerous eligible visa applicants are waiting in line to submittheir Adjust of Status applications. During this long waiting period, whichnormally lasts for five years or more, most of these applicants are reluctantto start their own business or purchase houses or luxuries, because their greencards, eligible as they may be, are not secured yet and a H1 employment visa isnot one stable enough for them to feel at home.
Section 203(g)authorizes the Secretary of State to “make reasonable
estimates of the anticipatednumbers of visas to be issued during any quarter of any fiscal year.” 8 U.S.C. 1153(g) (2009). Hardly can anyreasonable person see the “reasonableness” out of assigning only 58.6% of theannual quota of employment-based visas to the first three quarters of a fiscalyear, with 41.4% of the entire workload left to the last quarter. In fact, overly conservativeallocation by the Visa Office in the first three calendar quarters has wastedinvaluable visa numbers in the past. Let alone theDepartment of State is doing this in an obvious and illegitimate favor offamily-sponsored visa applicants.
Therefore, weappeal to you to urgethe Department of State to stop the
discriminatory treatment immediately and assignon a quarterly basis a
minimum of 25% of the annual visa quota to employment-based applicants! If this changed, if the Visa Officeclosely monitored visa usage each month to ensure that the worldwide EB numberallocation hit the minimum 25% per quarter, then the EB-2 cut-off dates forboth China and India would move much faster in the first two calendar quarters, none of the visa numbers would be wasted and the current visa backlog would besignificantly alleviated. By a more lawful stewardship, the Visa Office canmake the current quotas work for everyone and reduce the need for theirenlargement.
Senator/Representative[INSERT NAME], from the depth of our hearts, I thank you for your relentless endeavors tomonitor the executive branch to function within the Congressional intent. Thelaw mandates the 27% limitation with reasonable estimates of quarterlyallocation and thus it must be obeyed. Now is the time to urge the Departmentof State respect the Congressional intent and do what the law requires!
If you have any questions about this, please contact me by phone at [PHONE NUMBER] or by e-mail at [YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS] or c*****[email protected]
Thank youvery much for your time and consideration.
Sincerely yours,
[SIGNATURE]
[PRINT YOUR NAME],
Resident of the [ __th] District in the State of [STATE]
Resident in the State of [STATE]
Resident of the [CITY, COUNTY, STATE]
An EB visa applicant and Member of New Immigrants United
