H1B holders, sign a petition on the White House website!!!

[paulnewyork2000 1]

Sign a petition http://wh.gov/QX76 to Grant a Permanent Residence to specialists (EB3 category) who legally reside and work in the U.S. for more than 5 years.

Currently, the process of getting a permanent residence for specialists with bachelor's degree in most fields of knowledge, including Computers and Information Technology, takes from 7 to 15 years. The petition is to grant a permanent residence to IT-specialists (H1B visa, EB3 category) who legally reside, work and pay taxes in the U.S. for at least 5 years and who have no criminal record.

PLEASE ALSO TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO SIGN! POST IT ON YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWEETER!!!

Edited December 25, 2012 by paulnewyork2000

[maybeifancyu 4]

They won't pass it even if you got enough signatures... It just shows up on the desk for little attention. Lots of petitions like this got the signatures but they don't change anything.

[Boiler 46,144]

Paul in New York reminds me of Andrew who I spoke to last Saturday from Amazon Customer Service, a call center somewhere in India. Took all my effort to stop laughing when he said his name.

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

WHY should this be granted, for what economic reason?

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

Save your money and come back on an investors visa.

[paulnewyork2000 1]

Friends,

Let's discuss and sign the petition to the White House about EB3/EB2 categories waiting time. They give 30 days to get 150 signatures in order a petition to be visible on the White House website and 25,000 signatures for the President Administration to react. Once we get 150 signatures and the petition is published on the White House website, it will be visible to all 3 million White House website users, and will get a snowballing effect in getting signatures. The 25,000 will not be a problem in this case.

Therefore, in order not to waist the given 30 days, I suggest to accumulate as many people agreed to sign as possible before we file this petition and 30 days countdown starts. Once the petition created we will start signing it, but let’s first discuss and agree on it.

I will need your emails to inform you once the petition created and signatures needed.

Here is the initial text of the petition. Please feel free to discuss and suggest.

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Grant at least Permanent Residency to specialists (EB3/EB2 categories) who legally reside and work in the U.S. for more than 5 years.

Currently, the process of getting permanent residency for specialists with bachelor degree and higher in most fields of Science and Technology takes from 7 to 15 years.

These are people who live in the U.S. legally and contribute their knowledge and expertise to the United States for many years and even decades, pay taxes, but still do not have basic rights and representation.

We believe if the U.S. wants to stay competitive among other nations it is better to attract scientists and specialists, not alienate them.

Many young specialists spend precious years of their lives under pressure of a complete uncertainty about their status. It not only retains them from investing in major purchases such as real estate, but also negatively affects all other aspects of lives.

We petition to grant at least permanent residency to specialists (H1B visa, EB3/EB2 categories) who legally reside, work and pay taxes in the U.S. for more than 5 years and who have no criminal record.

[huongkhin 9]

I don't think so. The number of H-1, L-1 and EB visas issued each year is ridiculous. Half of those are issued to Indian. In many cases, companies claimed that they couldn't find a guy to do the job here is totally BS. They rather bring the guy from India here than make their US HR work harder to find the right candidate.

Edited December 28, 2012 by huongkhin

[Ban Hammer 13,570]

duplicate topics have been merged.

do not start the same topic twice.

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

@Huongkhin: I agree with you. Indeed, most of the H1B holders should not get H1B as they are not working hard at all...it's all about connections...once one knows them, they can get their H1B while lot of them are not even working hard...of course, there are exceptions to this, so those who read this and does not apply to them, please don't get upset. I don't think it is worth to sign it...there's already ridiculous amount of people getting H1B...this is my personal opinion, no insult intended.