USCIS Greencard Petitioners' Committee Video Campaign

[thedude6752000 360]

Happy New Year to all VJ'ers.

Over the past few weeks we have seen what the USCIS's idea of "clearing the backlog." Is. It involves telling us a lot of lies to cover their a$$es and causing more sorrow for us, while approving cases out of order to make it look like the average wait time is going done. So far the current "batch" of CR/IR-1 filers has sent 3 mass letters. Of these only 1 got any type of a response.

Immigration so-called "reform" is going to be back in the headlines come January, and if we don't do something about it then I can guarantee that whatever type of legislation gets passed will either have no affect on us (best case scenario) or will make our journeys immensly longer for the sake of people who broke the law to come here.

Thusly I think the time has come to take our message to the American people. As has been proposed often here before, I believe that the time has come to create a video telling the world of our plight, hopefully the first of many. The K-1 filers, too, last year made their own videos, to little success. These videos were full of charts, graphs, statistics, and jargon like USCIS and processing date. 75%+ of the people in this country never once deal with the USCIS or the DOS for relative immigration, and of those that do even fewer deal with the process we are going through.

Our video campaign needs to boil down into simple terms a few facts: contrary to popular belief, marriage to a USC overseas is nothing like an "instant greencard", the wait times for this "instant greencard" are in fact interminable, USC's and their spouses and children suffer terribly from the seperation, and the current wait times were caused by giving preference to DACA and Provisional Waiver applicants who broke the law to come here.

For this we need people. We need people to put a human face on the faceless statistic of 400,000 backlogged petitions. "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." The human mind was not made to cmpehend vast numbers or quantities, so we need to boil it down to something our fellow countrymen can understand.

For the videos I think it would be best to have seperated spouses first introduce themselves as "Hi, my name is John Doe, and my name is Jane Doe, I am a US citizen, and I am a law-abiding intending immigrant, and the US government won't let us be together." Or something similiar. We want to hammer home a few points: these are US citizens, these are real people, they are following the laws, but the US government is keeping them apart.

Before, in the middle of, and after the intros we could have a narrator deliver a few lines about how long the wait time is, maybe the 400,000 number, and that the cause of this are Obama's unconstitutional programs for unlawful immigrants in this country (or not, depending on how much we want to make this about the admin's polcies vs. simply trying to get ourselves included in any possible reform).

In order to give the viewer an idea of the ernomity of the problem, I think we should get as many people involved as possible. Volunteers should send their contact info to Kaylara, who is gathering and keeping the list. PM me if you would like to know more. Also feel free to add your thoughts, and keep the faith.

[moushoud 10]

lets try to involve kids too in the videos...I'm lost

Waiting since march first, can we collect money and put up some adds in trains...etc? We need the public to hear about our misery....

[thedude6752000 360]

Excellent idea! Please send your contact info to Kaylara and let your SO know the deal!

[thedude6752000 360]

A lot of people have taken a look at this thread! There have to be more takers. Think of your families!!!!!

[naam_2013 72]

I am in

[thedude6752000 360]

Thanks naam! Any more takers? We need more people! And more non-Muslims, or they'll put the whole lot of us into AP hell for life!

[Nodir 10]

Non-Muslims? What is that supposed to mean?

[thedude6752000 360]

Non-Muslims? What is that supposed to mean?

I am mocking the DOS's tendency to give anyone and everyone with a Muslim name extra "administrative processing" after their interview. It was a poor attempt at humor.

[thedude6752000 360]

Anymore takers?