Posted by: SarkiMailoParewadada December 1, 2011
Letter to Senator about "Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011"
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This bill has already gone to Senate.So write to your senators. I have written what I thought to 5 senators.  My aim was either fail this bill or ammend this for EB2 and EB3 category to proritize those with US degrees.

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Dear Senator 

I am writing to you regarding the Bill HR 3012 that was passed on Nov. 30 in house and now presented to Senate. The bill "Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011" if becomes law would eliminate per country limit for skilled and high skilled immigrants. The bill got overwhelming support in the house despite of having some serious flaws in it. I would like to present my views on why this bill should not be passed in its current form and would like to request you to consider following facts while discussing and amending this bill in the senate judicial committee.

- More than 85% of currently waiting in the queue for employment based visas are Indian and Chinese nationals. If this bill becomes law in its current form there would be more workers form just these two countries. This would adversely affect the US immigration and US industry as a whole as the immigrant US workforce will be more dominated by nationalities of these two countries and practically eliminates the US immigration and employment diversity.

- Another big flaw I see is that this bill does not try to mitigate any fraud that is prevalent in employment based immigration. US department of Labor currently just verifies the job positions and employee to check if they are appropriate for the position, but does not look anything about the legitimacy of the position. So it does not take much effort for an employee and employer to create a position that would effectively categorized as high skilled requirements and put themselves in the front of the queue. So to mitigate such kinds of fraud this bill needs to tighten the labor certified process for green card applicants and break the employer and employee relationship for any sponsorship. A high skilled immigration (mostly EB2 category) should include those who have advance degree (Masters or PHD) from recognized US universities and have genuine jobs on related field and not the one with foreign degree and fake resumes and fake positions pretending as high skilled workers. I think prioritizing cheaters and fakers in the long queue of backlogged immigration is another kind of 'amnesty'. So this bill needs to reconsider the eligibility for Employment Based preferences (popularly known as EB1, EB2 and EB3) and should prioritize green cards based on the employee personal achievements (like US degrees, Advanced degrees, US work experience etc) rather than employers created fake positions so that they can sponsor some cheap labor.

 

I would like to request you take considerations of above points on any judicial meetings on related HR 3012 bill.

 

Sincerely yours,

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