H.R. 3012

[loudoff 25]

The interviews will be scheduled only when visas become available and given to the applicants whose priority dates are current.

Here the explanation:

Go to below website, it briefly talked about this bill. It had been on hold by Senator Grassley (R-IA) since the end of last year while he edited some wordings of the bill. He now lifted the hold and it will be moved to Senate for vote. If it passes it will eliminate the annual per country cap for employment based petition and increase the numbers of annual visas from 7% to 15% for family based petition but there is no increase of annual visa numbers which results in longer wait time for visa applicants of the rest of the world(ROWers) and this bill will help the backlog for Mexico and Philippines visa applicants at the expenses of ROWers. For example, each year F1 category provided with 23,400 visas but single country only allows 7% which is 1,638 visas. However, Mexico and Philippines have more than 1,638 visa applicants each year that causes the movement of cut-off date to move slowly because they are oversubscribed the visa numbers that is the reason why they have their own cut-off-dates. If this bill passes or becomes a law which will increase 7% to 15% meaning a single country will receive 3,510 instead of 1,638 visa numbers each years but the total annual visa numbers for F1 category will still be the same which is 23,400 results in slower movement in ROWers, india and China. This bill will result in the longer wait time for F1, F2A, F2B, F3 and F4 the rest of the world chargeability the visa applicants as well as India and China. Who will benefit most from this bill? The answer is EB2, EB3 India and China employment based visa applicants and Mexico as well as Philippines family based visa applicants

http://www.aila.org/...spx?docid=37451

[Clariz 2]

H.R. 3012 is very complicated one. I hope there is someone who can explain this in detail. I think all family based immigrants to- be regardless of what country they come will be given a 15% increase in numerical limitations so this will expedite priority dates (for others will be accommodated in earlier priority dates to meet the numbers) but it also depends in the availability of visa...so let us say the pd is July 2015 it will become July 2013 but because there is no visa available- one has to wait when that interview will occur or the interview will be given but the visa will be delayed (i prefer the latter- at least there is something new in the system) ...so what then is the difference... the waiting should be to wait for the interview or to wait for the visa to be given... a lot of emotions going on here!

If visa and not the interview as the waiting time-- (whimsical thinking)

~~at least when the petitioner died, the interview was already done and visa acquisition approved and just waiting for the visa number availability (after 30 or more years - )- and the benificiary can still immigrate to the usa.

``no one will vote for a law that is unclearly presented...

[Darnell 8,479]

why they h3ll are we increasing caps on work-based visas? #######?

if anything, caps should be reduced by half each year til 2020.

The 'need' for h1-b visas doesn't exist in the USA - we have the skilled folk , uscitizens and lpr's , already.

Edited July 15, 2012 by Darnell