Ron need your opinion: CIR 2009, or 2010?

[nervous-wreck]

I understand what u r saying Ron and thanks for sympathizing with me.

Being a helpless immigrant , venting my frustration is the least I can do..wudn't u agree?

I truly appreciate the American system and u can say I am in awe of its capacity to absorb and evolve. No wonder I wanna be a part of it

But if the immigration system is in need of any kind of overhaul, it is right now. When ppl who wanna immigrate here legally have to wait 10 years (even ppl from worldwide quota have to wait at least 6-7 years), what other conclusion can u reach?

Think about it in term of average human lifespan...lets say a person lives about 70 years on average, and they decide to immigrate roughly when they are about 30,

10 years is like taking away 25% of their remaining life

And 50% of their MOST productive years.

I hope some politican somewhere agrees with me on this..I hope you do anyways

[sramkris70]

Sad that there is little discussion on why China and India (Philippines, to a lesser extent?) are the ones suffering the most due to the EB backlog. The point is simple, the overwhelming majority of foreign students in America are from those two countries. Most of them are funded by US universities (read the American exchequer!) and it doesn't make an iota of sense that the system has no relief for this category on which America invests so much money! Tom Friedman, Zoe Lofgren, Patrick Kennedy and now Jeff Flake et al. are stray voices that speak to this issue.

In the larger sense, my thoughts do resonate with those of everyone who is here legally and I do wish it gets simpler for every legal aspirant. However, the notion that America would spend billions on foreign students, award them world class degrees, allow them to work in defence related labs even and then ask them to leave, is beyond ridiculous!

Few care about legal immigration in this cacophony. Case in point, the NYT editorial today, not a word, literally, on legal immigration!!!

[Rada]

One funny aspect of the US immigration system as it stands right now, is that it makes it much easier for less productive people to immigrate, than for more productive ones.

A case in point - many of us who are relatively young and working hard, say in our mid-20s to mid-40s, have to jump through the hoops, blades, and fire, trying to immigrate. But, at the same time, since the process is rather long, many of us got families, and have US-born children. In about 15-20 years, when we are older, less productive, with a baggage of health problems, will have no problems immigrating, based solely on the "immediate family" category.

Maybe it is a necessary compromise, but this aspect always bothered me to the core. Many older parents come here and get SS and Medicare without working a single day in the US and paying a cent in taxes. Not saying it is wrong to bring the parents, but sheesh... At the same time we are deporting the poor souls sweating in factories and construction zones.

[Janson]

Ron,

so this time can we expect CIR will passed before 31st december 2009??

[citi786]

Very well said Ron!