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Immigration Voice Immigratin Voice Testimony at House Judiciary Committee
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Time to celebrate is approaching. This is the fruit of our 9 year of hard
work we will get today. It is going to be a historic moment. A lot of our
items in the ask list for admin fix have been accepted. A very BIG WIN for
Immigrationvoice today. We were at White House twice today for final
meetings and we are very excited.
Lets celebrate!!!!!!!
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Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce that after almost 9 years of hard work on the
issue of skilled immigration backlogs, we finally have good news to report.
The Obama administration has issued an administrative order with reforms to
both skilled immigration and other areas where reform was long overdue.
Going forward, it will be easier to use a new provision called “Pre-
Register” where employees who have approved labor and I-140 would be able
to gain benefits of adjustment of status even when the dates are not current
. This has been, by far, the most sought after and in-demand provision for
us in last 9 years. Skilled employees would be able to switch jobs, apply
for EAD and advance parole and also not have to worry about the new job
being the same or similar, as the new administrative order liberalizes the
definition of what constitutes same or similar job. In addition to this, the
administration is making it possible to port the green-card petition from
one employer to another so that applicants do not have to start with labor
certification again should their employment end after they are quite far
along in the process.
Spouses who are on H-4 visa would be able to apply for work permit and
receive EAD via the proposed H-4 EAD rule. Additionally, they will also
qualify for an EAD through the pre-registration step with primary applicant
of green-card process. This will make life easier for thousands of skilled
family members who get left out of opportunities due to H1B quota
restrictions.
We stood up for ourselves and started this organization 9 years ago with
this goal. Other than additional visa numbers, every single one of our ask-
list items has been included in the administrative reform. This has not been
easy and it has not been automatic. Democracy operates slowly and certainly
for those who stand up for themselves and speak out. This is the fruit of
almost a decade of hard work of our organization and the members who’ve
dedicated to this cause whole-heartedly, spent enormous amounts of money and
stormed the DC policy circles even when there was a smallest ray of hope.
We had a silver lining of hope with H.R. 3012, and now, today, we have
bright sunny future ahead of us.
One final note, before we start celebrating, we have to be savvy and bold
about this issue. We have to speak positively about this with social media,
press, policy makers, friends, colleagues and everyone we discuss this with.
Please do not get mired into the politically radioactive issue of
undocumented immigrants who are also getting a well-deserved relief tonight.
They are our brothers and sisters in this struggle and they deserve a break
from congressional gridlock too. After all, when their family is hungry,
they do not have the luxury of pontificating about the Hastert rule and
Senate cloture motion requirements. They needed a break. So did we. And we
got it.
With warm regards,
Aman Kapoor