January 2012 Visa Bulletin Prediction

[Eddymvp 11]

Eddymvp, what is your email?

I sent it to you on a private message.

[waiting! 1]

My predication for is may 1,

[sky701 19]

As long as the bulletin is moving forward, I am happy. I know it's kind of feel sad when it moves very slow. But just look at other categories. Ours is the only category with 2009 PD running. It will move fast soon as lots of people with PD Dec 2010 got the NVC forms. Trust me when the NVC sends these forms that means the file is going to reach 2010 shortly..

You know in my case, when I was F2B category, my PD was July 2003 and I got my NVC forms when the pd was running Feb 2002. But just in few months, the pd reached to July 2003.

So just chill..Good news is coming soon..

Edited December 3, 2011 by sky701

[N E O 176 19]

As long as the bulletin is moving forward, I am happy. I know it's kind of feel sad when it moves very slow. But just look at other categories. Ours is the only category with 2009 PD running. It will move fast soon as lots of people with PD Dec 2010 got the NVC forms. Trust me when the NVC sends these forms that means the file is going to reach 2010 shortly..

You know in my case, when I was F2B category, my PD was July 2003 and I got my NVC forms when the pd was running Feb 2002. But just in few months, the pd reached to July 2003.

So just chill..Good news is coming soon..

i hope that.

[wassup 1]

As long as the bulletin is moving forward, I am happy. I know it's kind of feel sad when it moves very slow. But just look at other categories. Ours is the only category with 2009 PD running. It will move fast soon as lots of people with PD Dec 2010 got the NVC forms. Trust me when the NVC sends these forms that means the file is going to reach 2010 shortly..

You know in my case, when I was F2B category, my PD was July 2003 and I got my NVC forms when the pd was running Feb 2002. But just in few months, the pd reached to July 2003.

So just chill..Good news is coming soon..

i hope ur right

[flint35 0]

Congress works. Or so it seemed for a day this week when the House of Representatives voted 389 to 15 to ease restrictions on the entry of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S.

The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011 was sponsored by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats alike. It avoided the political pitfalls of comprehensive immigration reform by focusing instead on a very narrow yet necessary change, eliminating country-specific caps on immigrant engineers, computer scientists and the like. In a measure of its broad support, the legislation is backed by technology companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and pro-immigration groups.

Under current law, immigrants from an individual country can claim no more than 7 percent of the 140,000 employment green cards issued annually. As Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, pointed out, that cap applies equally to Iceland (population 300,000) and India (1.2 billion and rising). Removing the caps will enable U.S. companies to retain more skilled immigrants from countries such as India and China, which have a surfeit of scientists and technologists eager to work in the U.S.

In addition, the legislation would raise the country limit for family green cards from 7 percent of a total of 226,000 to 15 percent, thereby easing backlogs for immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines, in particular, and helping, perhaps, to strengthen families.

What the legislation will not do is increase the total number of green cards dispensed. That's a shame because doing so could help boost a still-sagging U.S. economy. Only 15 percent of visas are granted for economic reasons, a policy that undermines U.S. companies competing in a global talent pool. Foreign students account for the majority of computer science and engineering doctorates earned from U.S. institutions. (In 2006, more than 4,500 foreign students earned engineering Ph.D.'s in the U.S., almost two-thirds of the total.) Yet there's no policy to allow, let alone encourage, them to stay in the U.S. after graduation.

Add in that immigrants have a much higher propensity to create new businesses -- a Duke University study found that they helped found more than a quarter of the technology and engineering companies established in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 -- and one is left wondering why this simple visa reform didn't take place eons ago.

The answer, of course, is politics. Republican presidential candidates are busy competing to make the most nativist appeals for votes. After the House passed its legislation on Nov. 29, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, host of the upcoming caucuses, promptly placed a hold on the bill, which is expected to have broad support from his Senate colleagues.

The 112th Congress has made little progress of any sort and none at all on immigration. There is no reason a bill that passed the House by an overwhelming margin should be stymied in the Senate. For the health of the U.S. economy -- and perhaps for the health of Congress itself -- this eminently passable, aggressively unobjectionable, bipartisan legislation should be approved quickly.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/bloomberg_articlesLVHXZQ0YHQ0X.DTL#ixzz1fRDllRlU

[hopefirst2008 1]

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Congress works. Or so it seemed for a day this week when the House of Representatives voted 389 to 15 to ease restrictions on the entry of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S.

The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011 was sponsored by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats alike. It avoided the political pitfalls of comprehensive immigration reform by focusing instead on a very narrow yet necessary change, eliminating country-specific caps on immigrant engineers, computer scientists and the like. In a measure of its broad support, the legislation is backed by technology companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and pro-immigration groups.

Under current law, immigrants from an individual country can claim no more than 7 percent of the 140,000 employment green cards issued annually. As Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, pointed out, that cap applies equally to Iceland (population 300,000) and India (1.2 billion and rising). Removing the caps will enable U.S. companies to retain more skilled immigrants from countries such as India and China, which have a surfeit of scientists and technologists eager to work in the U.S.

In addition, the legislation would raise the country limit for family green cards from 7 percent of a total of 226,000 to 15 percent, thereby easing backlogs for immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines, in particular, and helping, perhaps, to strengthen families.

What the legislation will not do is increase the total number of green cards dispensed. That's a shame because doing so could help boost a still-sagging U.S. economy. Only 15 percent of visas are granted for economic reasons, a policy that undermines U.S. companies competing in a global talent pool. Foreign students account for the majority of computer science and engineering doctorates earned from U.S. institutions. (In 2006, more than 4,500 foreign students earned engineering Ph.D.'s in the U.S., almost two-thirds of the total.) Yet there's no policy to allow, let alone encourage, them to stay in the U.S. after graduation.

Add in that immigrants have a much higher propensity to create new businesses -- a Duke University study found that they helped found more than a quarter of the technology and engineering companies established in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 -- and one is left wondering why this simple visa reform didn't take place eons ago.

The answer, of course, is politics. Republican presidential candidates are busy competing to make the most nativist appeals for votes. After the House passed its legislation on Nov. 29, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, host of the upcoming caucuses, promptly placed a hold on the bill, which is expected to have broad support from his Senate colleagues.

The 112th Congress has made little progress of any sort and none at all on immigration. There is no reason a bill that passed the House by an overwhelming margin should be stymied in the Senate. For the health of the U.S. economy -- and perhaps for the health of Congress itself -- this eminently passable, aggressively unobjectionable, bipartisan legislation should be approved quickly

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/bloomberg_articlesLVHXZQ0YHQ0X.DTL#ixzz1fRPs7JOY

[wassup 1]

Congress works. Or so it seemed for a day this week when the House of Representatives voted 389 to 15 to ease restrictions on the entry of highly skilled immigrants to the U.S.

The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011 was sponsored by conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats alike. It avoided the political pitfalls of comprehensive immigration reform by focusing instead on a very narrow yet necessary change, eliminating country-specific caps on immigrant engineers, computer scientists and the like. In a measure of its broad support, the legislation is backed by technology companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and pro-immigration groups.

Under current law, immigrants from an individual country can claim no more than 7 percent of the 140,000 employment green cards issued annually. As Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, pointed out, that cap applies equally to Iceland (population 300,000) and India (1.2 billion and rising). Removing the caps will enable U.S. companies to retain more skilled immigrants from countries such as India and China, which have a surfeit of scientists and technologists eager to work in the U.S.

In addition, the legislation would raise the country limit for family green cards from 7 percent of a total of 226,000 to 15 percent, thereby easing backlogs for immigrants from Mexico and the Philippines, in particular, and helping, perhaps, to strengthen families.

What the legislation will not do is increase the total number of green cards dispensed. That's a shame because doing so could help boost a still-sagging U.S. economy. Only 15 percent of visas are granted for economic reasons, a policy that undermines U.S. companies competing in a global talent pool. Foreign students account for the majority of computer science and engineering doctorates earned from U.S. institutions. (In 2006, more than 4,500 foreign students earned engineering Ph.D.'s in the U.S., almost two-thirds of the total.) Yet there's no policy to allow, let alone encourage, them to stay in the U.S. after graduation.

Add in that immigrants have a much higher propensity to create new businesses -- a Duke University study found that they helped found more than a quarter of the technology and engineering companies established in the U.S. between 1995 and 2005 -- and one is left wondering why this simple visa reform didn't take place eons ago.

The answer, of course, is politics. Republican presidential candidates are busy competing to make the most nativist appeals for votes. After the House passed its legislation on Nov. 29, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, host of the upcoming caucuses, promptly placed a hold on the bill, which is expected to have broad support from his Senate colleagues.

The 112th Congress has made little progress of any sort and none at all on immigration. There is no reason a bill that passed the House by an overwhelming margin should be stymied in the Senate. For the health of the U.S. economy -- and perhaps for the health of Congress itself -- this eminently passable, aggressively unobjectionable, bipartisan legislation should be approved quickly.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/bloomberg_articlesLVHXZQ0YHQ0X.DTL#ixzz1fRDllRlU

Guys sry i just got confused a little bit. Does that mean we re going to see a more movement in our visa bulletin or what? can anyone plz explain?

[puru444 44]

Guys sry i just got confused a little bit. Does that mean we re going to see a more movement in our visa bulletin or what? can anyone plz explain?

There are not at all any longer waiting times in F2A, there is no need to worry for this category bcoz mexico and phillipines are behind slightly diff from rest of the world, but this news is a very bad and depressing for applicants like me in F2b and all other F1,F3 and F4 will face the bad consequences bcoz those idiots are not increasing the total numbers, moreover on that they have remove the 7% cap to 15%.

It means that mexicans and phillipines where the flood have already been waiting at the gates of dams will open more slightly and they will consume the rest of the world numbers by this addition of 16% comprising both countries cap.

Mexico 7+8=15 and phillipines 7+8=15 equals to x-16%,where x is the total number of family numbers of rest of the world. Where all countries were getting 86% before, they will get only 70% now on wards which brings slow speed for all the categories EXCEPT F2A. :(

[Chittagong 11]

F2A will also be affected whose country has less amount of waiting list. So only good for Mexican, Philippines, some Latins country and obviously Haiti too.

[puru444 44]

F2A will also be affected whose country has less amount of waiting list. So only good for Mexican, Philippines, some Latins country and obviously Haiti too.

some latino countries are not a part of mexico.

Obviously Haiti will not.

Visa bulletin has exclusive columns where they mention mexico and phillipines, dominican republic is subject to numeric limitations and yes it is caribbean or latin country indeed.

But haiti and other like jamaica, puerto rico etc etc are not a part of mexico.

[cardilene 26]

That is great news for F2A Philippines,..!

[RICARDO4EVA2 194]

some latino countries are not a part of mexico.

Obviously Haiti will not.

Visa bulletin has exclusive columns where they mention mexico and phillipines, dominican republic is subject to numeric limitations and yes it is caribbean or latin country indeed.

But haiti and other like jamaica, puerto rico etc etc are not a part of mexico.

YOU are correct.

[N E O 176 19]

some latino countries are not a part of mexico.

Obviously Haiti will not.

Visa bulletin has exclusive columns where they mention mexico and phillipines, dominican republic is subject to numeric limitations and yes it is caribbean or latin country indeed.

But haiti and other like jamaica, puerto rico etc etc are not a part of mexico.

i dont understand.....that good news for mexico and phillipines only & any countries's VB will be slow ????

or that mean more movement VB for all countries ....

[michaelangelooo 2]

I'm happy to know that michaelangeloo

we are to close hope there will be a big jump next VB!

let's stay positive and pray harder..

Yeah. We'll have to pray and don't lose hope

By the way, where you from?