Think that the Democrats and Republicans in Congress will never be able to agree about immigration policy?
Better think again!
When I started working as an immigration attorney, Jerry Ford was the President of the United States. Over the past 35 years, I have seen the two parties unite to pass dozens of immigration laws.
Yes, I know the parties are so divided on the issue of what to do about the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. that they couldn't even get together a few weeks ago to pass the DREAM Act.
However, when it comes to reforming the legal immigration system, things are very different. The parties have come together to pass dozens of bills providing immigration benefits including the Child Status Protection Act in 2002, the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Reauthorization Act in 2005, the Physicians for Underserved Areas Act in 2007, and the bill that ended the Widow's Penalty in 2009.
So, what's on tap for 2011?
On January 6, 2011, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) introduced H.R. 43, a bill which would "amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the diversity immigrant program and to re-allocate those visas to certain employment-based immigrants who obtain an advanced degree in the United States."
In simple English, the bill would eliminate the annual green card lottery and give the 55,000 green cards each year to foreign-born graduates of U.S. universities with advanced degrees in the sciences or in medicine.
With the employment-based second preference category (EB-2) backlogged for many years for persons born in India and mainland China, our country would benefit greatly if 55,000 more green cards were available annually for highly-educated people.
Sure, the bill could be tweaked to provide that the green cards could be given to anyone with an advanced degree, not just those with degrees from U.S. universities. Unused numbers should drop down to help those waiting in the EB-3 category. Also, the bill could be amended to increase or eliminate country quotas in the employment-based categories.
For many years, our country imported over 100,000 persons annually on H-1B temporary professional visas. Congress raised the H-1B quotas, but did not expand the employment-based preference numbers. The result was that hundreds of thousands of highly-educated immigrant workers came legally to the U.S., were sponsored by their U.S. employers for green cards, met all the qualifications and jumped through all the legal hoops, and are now stuck in lines that can only be measured not in years, but in decades.
If the United States wants to remain the world leader in the sciences, in medicine, in biotech and in information technology, we had better revise our immigration laws so that we continue to attract the world's best and brightest.
H.R. 43 is a step in the right direction.
That is an awesome idea! Also, instead of being the country of lucky people, America would become the country of smart people.
Posted by: olesea | 01/18/2011 at 08:07 AM
I welcome this bill. This would pave way for legal immigrants who come to the US, play by the rules and distinguish them from other applicants who manage to get a green card just by the fact that they were lucky to be ahead in the line. This bill provides a more merit based approach rather than chance based and gives some credit to people who have an advanced degree from the US. Lets hope it gets passed.
Posted by: Rahul | 01/18/2011 at 09:29 AM
Good one. I support this bill for all legal people. We all work so hard to get to this point for all EB-bases.
Posted by: Nurse | 01/18/2011 at 10:41 AM
doubt it will fly anywhere --as does numerous other bills!
Posted by: shiva | 01/18/2011 at 01:18 PM
There isn't even any real basis for the DV-Lottery.
Why would you have legislation to allow immigrants who just on the basis of luck are allowed to immigrate to the U.S.?
Why in the world would you not allocate green cards first to those who have already proven themselves, hold professional degrees and are directly contributing to the economy?
If there wasn't another way to expand welfare government finds it by expanding it outside it's borders.
Posted by: Manish | 01/18/2011 at 03:19 PM
OMG!! Finlay a bill that make sense. Hope it goes through.
Posted by: Svet | 01/18/2011 at 05:11 PM
Just to give some hope not to give up and make some time... Never worked for me for last 10 years, why this time? Will not work until we all get sick and wives has no interest to work or go school anymore. If I knew this kind of lacking system making you wait for decades, I would double think before coming here.
Though, I am a few months a way. Everytime, I get so close, something happened in the past to retrogress things. Is it removing quota for India/China and sucking all our EB3 ROW visas with 3 billion population this time?
Posted by: chuck | 01/18/2011 at 10:06 PM
I would like to see those numbers divided evenly among countries and categories. Otherwise it will only benefit China and India. So I would prefer them to keep the diversity lottery. I think the better idea would be to eliminate 3rd and 4th family preference categories to re-allocate those numbers to EB categories and cut back the refugee program.
Posted by: Dee | 01/21/2011 at 01:51 AM
This is the only hope for the brighest students of this nation. Its very pathetic that even in this 21st century, well educated professionals are kept on edge just for a GC. When they have allocated 20k for H1-B program, there should be some increase in the visa numbers for GC in order to retain the cream of professional. With the spirit and faith in this country I hope this bill goes through.....
Posted by: venkat | 01/24/2011 at 06:59 PM
There have been bills to eliminate DV programs in past years, but didn't go through. I think this is the 4th attempt. This clearly states that it is time to stop this program.
Few of the DV winners will also benefit from Free US programs like food stamps, Gov. sponsored health programs, etc. Instead almost all of the EB workers pays high taxes, companies pays big filing fees.
High skilled workers and the students who came to US for higher education, paid high fees, remained far from family, lived under stress of immigration system and visa headache now deserve the GC. Such people also aids to economy, creates jobs, starts or manages busineeses.
I think even if the DV is not completely eliminated the numbers should be adjusted between DV and EB.
Posted by: Craig | 01/25/2011 at 09:55 PM
I support this Bill!
Posted by: Kanwar Lobana | 01/26/2011 at 11:12 AM
Do i really have the sense of mourning the loss of my youth and confusing about my future?
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This sounds like a pretty darn good piece of legislation if you ask me. Why would we want to give away those spots to unskilled immigrants when we could give them to highly skilled immigrants that are more likely to create jobs? It seems like a no brainer.
Posted by: green card visa | 02/24/2011 at 03:08 PM
Looks good. I definitely agree with this bill. I will support this.
Posted by: marion | 04/11/2011 at 11:41 PM
Definitely a good idea - a bill that will benefit legal immigrants
Posted by: Citizenship | 05/19/2011 at 07:02 AM
Don't see too much fawning now. The CSC has become a disaster across all nonimmigrant visa categories
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