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The proposed Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, while aiming to diminish some of the backlog in the system which gives immigrants permanent American green cards, may cause rifts within the U.S. immigrant population.
The bill’s critics have argued it may be promoting unfair employment options to non-permanent residents while U.S. citizens continue to look for work in the recession, according to the Washington Post. The act has also been attacked for favoring those immigration requests from workers originally residing in larger countries, such as India, over those hailing from smaller ones, like the Philippines.
Current laws only allow 140,000 green cards annually for those holding temporary work permits, and impose per-country quotas, which has greatly lengthened wait times for countries with large emigrating populations, like India.
Immigrants from smaller countries, however, believe that the new bill is unfair. The Post quoted an electrical engineer from Bangladesh who posted to an online message forum about the issue. The engineer wrote, “If this bill is passed, then thousands of people from India will get to
cut in line in front of me and add three to four more years to my already ridiculous wait time.”
For some immigrants from India, however, many of whom already hold temporary teaching, government, and technology-related positions, wait times can stretch to more than 40 years, literally half a lifetime. Southern Methodist University professor Caroline Brettell believes that one of the greatest travesties of United States immigration services are those immigrants who have spent nearly their whole lives in this country, but remain unable to attain higher education or permanent employment.
“Why shouldn’t smart immigrants, who might have come to the United States at six months, be able to go on to higher education? It would be economically productive and morally right,” Brettell said during the Centennial Academic Symposium in Dallas, according to the SMU Daily Campus.
Need To Replace Your Lost Or Outdated Green Card?
A Green Card, also known as a Permanent Resident Card, is one of the most important proofs for an immigrant that verifies their status as a permanent resident. It is also serves a valid form of identification that allows one to live and work in the United States. Although some of the older issued Green Cards have no expiration dates, the newer Permanent Resident Cards (Form I-551) are valid for 10 years. If you have been granted conditional permanent residency, the card is valid for 2 years. Due to its importance as a form of ID for a permanent resident, it is important that you keep your Green Card up-to-date. Because remember, without a valid Green Card, your ability to travel outside the United Sates, or even work here, is compromised.
Well, how do you know if you need to replace your Green Card?
Most importantly, youneed to replace your Green Card if your card is about to expire. This does not apply to you if you are a conditional permanent resident whose green card is about to expire, but more on that later;
If your Green Card has been lost, stolen, or damaged, then you need to replace it as soon as possible. If it was stolen or lost, it is important to notify the USCIS and local police as soon as can because this is a government issued form of identification that in the wrong hands, will make your life difficult since it is a form of ID theft; continue reading Need To Replace Your Lost Or Outdated Green Card?
(Source: immigrationdirect.com)
Putting a human face on the sometimes abstract debate regarding U.S.
immigration policy, the News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, recently
profiled a local resident whose immigration status has caused strife for
herself and her family.
The subject of the News Tribune feature, Tara Ammons Cohen, is a
39-year-old woman who was brought to the United States as an infant but
never went through the naturalization process. Her citizenship status
exacerbated the consequences of her struggle with substance abuse; her
2008 arrest on a drug charge landed her in a federal immigration ins
detention center in Tacoma, where she remained for nearly three years.
Immigration reform could boost the U.S. labor market
Immigrants with advanced degrees from U.S. universities working in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are creating jobs in the U.S. (Photo: Smartplanet.com)By MARIANA CRISTANCHO-AHN
Channel: Economics, ImmigrationDid you know that 25% of the high-tech companies created in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005 were founded by at least one immigrant, and that nearly 40% of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies were started by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant?
These are some of the findings regarding the impact of immigration on the U.S. economy - particularly in the labor market - that are analyzed in a study published today by the American Enterprise Institute and the Partnership for a New American Economy.
