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On April 23, 2008, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, and Representative James Sensenbrenner introduced an immigration bill (H.R. 5882) to the U.S. House of Representatives. This bill intends to recapture employment-based immigrant visas lost to bureaucratic delays and to prevent losses of family- and employment-based immigrant visas in the future.
Currently, USCIS consistently fails to use all the annual immigrant visa numbers. At the same time, there are hundreds of thousands of aliens waiting for visa numbers. Under current law, these unused immigrant visa numbers are wasted: they cannot be “rolled over” to the next year. Representative Lofgren’s bill intends to recapture these unused visas. If the bill is passed, USCIS will be able to issue these recaptured visa numbers to applicants in the following year.
On April 29, Representative Lofgren introduced another bill (H.R. 5921) to the U.S. House. This bill would eliminate the per-country limits for employment-based immigrants and to end the spill-over of unused immigrant visa numbers between employment-based and family-sponsored categories. Under the current law, 140,000 employment-based immigration visa numbers are allocated every year, and no more than 7% of these visa numbers can go to aliens born in any one country. These limits are felt the most by aliens born in countries like China and India, where demand for visas is the highest. Retrogression in the visa bulletin has occurred for applicants born in China and India because visa numbers for these two countries are oversubscribed. If the per-country limit for employment-based visas is eliminated, more applicants born in China and India would be able to get green cards.
These two bills both attempt to fix the issue of retrogression in the employment-based immigration visa bulletin. The recapture bill (H.R. 5882) mainly focuses on unused immigration visa numbers; the “no country limit” bill (H.R. 5921) intends to eliminate the visa quota for specific countries, which currently affects China and India the most.
If passed, these two bills would substantially ease the current visa bulletin issue, especially retrogression for applicants born in China and India. These bills need to go to the House of Representatives and Senate for discussion. If both the Senate and the House of Representatives pass the bills, they go to the President for signature before they become acts. So it will still be awhile before these bills become acts, if they are passed at all.
We hope these two bills introduced by Representative Lofgren will be passed and ease the current visa bulletin retrogression problem. Representative Lofgren has a substantial impact on immigration issues in the House. Our attorney representatives met her in person on September 18, 2007 and discussed broad immigration issues. We hope these two bills will be passed soon.
The U.S. House will debate these bills. As the immigration subcommittee members have a greater influence on immigration bills, we encourage our readers to contact these members to support these bills. Below, we list the members of the immigration subcommittees and their contact information. We urge our readers and their attorneys to contact lawmakers and help get the bills passed.
Immigration, Refugees and Border Security Subcommittee in US Senate
Edward M. Kennedy (MA, Chair)
317 Russell Senate Building
Washington D.C. 20510
Tel: (202) 224-4543
Fax: (202) 224-2417
http://kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contact.cfm
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (DE)
201 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Tel: (202) 224-5042
Fax: (202) 224-0139
http://biden.senate.gov/services/contact/
Dianne Feinstein (CA)
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Tel:: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
Charles E. Schumer (NY)
313 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-6542
Fax: (202) 228-3027
http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm
Richard J. Durbin (IL)
309 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
9 am to 6 pm
(202) 224-2152 – ph
(202) 228-0400 ¨C fx
http://durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm
John Cornyn (TX)
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: (202) 224-2934
Fax: (202) 228-2856
http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Charles E. Grassley (IA)
135 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-1501
Tel: (202) 224-3744
http://grassley.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Jon Kyl (AZ)
730 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Tel: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207
http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Jeff Sessions (AL)
335 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 -0104
Tel: (202) 224-4124
Fax: (202) 224-3149
http://sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ConstituentServices.ContactMe
Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law in US House
Zoe Lofgren (CA, Chair)
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-3072
http://lofgren.house.gov/emailform.shtml
Luis V. Gutierrez (IL)
2367 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-8203
http://luisgutierrez.house.gov/singlepage.aspx?newsid=1262
Howard L. Berman (CA)
2221 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Tel: (202) 225-4695
http://www.house.gov/berman/contact/index.shtml
Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX)
2435 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-3816
http://www.jacksonlee.house.gov/contact.shtml
Maxine Waters (CA)
2344 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-2201
http://www.house.gov/waters/IMA/issue.htm
Bill Delahunt (MA)
2454 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-3111
William.Delahunt@mail.house.gov
Linda T. Sanchez (CA)
1007 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-6676
Artur Davis (AL)
208 Cannon H.O.B.
Washington, D.C. 20515
Tel: (202) 225-2665
Keith Ellison (MN)
1130 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: 202-225-4755
http://ellison.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87
Anthony Weiner (NY)
1122 Longworth House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-6616
Weiner@mail.house.gov
Steve King (IA)
1432 Longworth Office Building
Washington DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-4426
http://www.house.gov/steveking/email.shtm
Elton Gallegly (CA)
2427 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-0523
Tel: (202) 225-5811
Bob Goodlatte (VA)
2240 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-5431
http://www.house.gov/goodlatte/emailbob.htm
Dan Lungren (CA)
2448 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
https://forms.house.gov/lungren/forms/email.shtml
J. Randy Forbes (VA)
307 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-6365
http://forbes.house.gov/zipauth.html
Louie Gohmert (TX)
508 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
Tel: (202) 225-303
http://gohmert.house.gov/contact_louie.htm
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