Posted on 07/04/2007 6:15:37 AM PDT by truthkeeper
Immigration lawyers raised unusually irate protests yesterday after the State Department and the immigration service abruptly withdrew tens of thousands of job-based visas they had offered last month to foreign professionals hoping to become permanent residents in the United States.
The outcry was provoked by a terse announcement on Monday in which the State Department said it would not grant any more visas for the 2007 fiscal year to foreigners applying to become permanent residents based on their job skills. That notice reversed one the department had issued on June 13 announcing a two-month window starting July 2 for aspiring, high-skilled immigrants from around the world to present applications for visas known as green cards.
The State Department said the 60,000 visas it had expected to offer would no longer be available because of “sudden backlog reduction efforts” by Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that processes applications for the visas offered by the department.
In a statement yesterday, the American Immigration Lawyers Association accused the two agencies of perpetrating a “hoax” and a “bait and switch” against hopeful legal immigrants who played by the book...
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It’s all talk radio’s fault!
We have to shut down talk radio!
There’s no telling what might happen if talk radio is allowed to continue on the air!
There might even be a border fence!!!
This sounds like it might be Bush’s revenge for the death of his dream (Amnesty). He’s taking his bat and ball and going home.
These are types of immigrants we generally want here - playing by the rules, employed, professionals, etc.
This is to make room for unskilled slaves.
The truth is we don’t need any H1B visas. What we do need to do is to get better at teaching our own students how to do math and science in K-12. The teachers unions will have a hard time doing that without a kick in their collective rears. My hope, is that as boomer engineers retire they will get into teaching higher math and science on a part time basis so our high school kids get a decent education. As for the youngers, which is where the problem really lies (because of the progressive nature of mathematics instruction), I’m not sure how we should proceed.
Good. Step One is sorting out the immigration problems.
A huge step for increased Homeland Security.
This should have happened at midnight on 9/12/2001.
"Bwaaaaaaaaa, we didn't get Amnesty for millions already here illegally, now, we suppose the American citizens expect us to actually do the work that they are paying us to do and work on our backlog of millions of legal workers' visas. We haven't worked for years, now we must begin." (whine, whine, snivel, snivel.)
A “sour grapes” order from on high?
Like the muslim doctors in the UK who played by the rules (until the went off) ?
We got 300,000,000 here and thats gawd-damn plenty. If we can’t operate the UNITED STATES of AMERICA with 300,000,000 people we are all sorry sacks of sh!t....
It looks like they are doing what we told them to do secure the boarders and figure out who is here all ready.
That was my first thought. However, if Immigration is working on reducing the backlog, perhaps some who have waited a long time will be receiving good news.
The State Department said it would begin accepting applications on Oct. 1 for 2008 visas. On July 30, the immigration agency will raise its processing fees by an average of 66 percent.
This little item makes me wonder, though...what were the processing fees going to be for the wonderful "Z" visa?
Good! Get Better Teachers to teach our citizens how to do these jobs!
“I hope they can see this because I’m doing it as hard as I can”
What do you call a submarine trapped on the bottom of the ocean with 100 lawyers inside?
A good beginning.
more qualifed AMericans can fill these jobs. STop filling or colleges and universities with foreign students. AN AMERICAN mind is a horrible thing to waste.
As a child of the Boom we faced a severe teacher crunch in the late fifties early sixties. My class had the pleasure one year of a laid off engineer from a steel company teaching us algebra. It was a waste of time. No doubt he knew his stuff, but as for explaining it to a bunch of kids, forget it. I like the concept in theory but it would require some preparation in communication skills first.
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