Re: S.1348, Sec 505
Personally, CIR won’t be comprehensive if it doesn’t address issues about Labor in Shortage Occupations in general and Nurses in particular. But CIR in its current form places nurses in disadvantageous position since it includes them in the merit-based system; please read National Foundation for American Policy’s June 2007 brief titled “The Point Systems’ Impact on Foreign Nurses and other Potential Immigrants.”
The same reason why we see bridge bills/ amendments being introduced dependent and even independent of the current CIR similar to what is posted above. But we believe that any provision/bill/law that provides unlimited visa numbers for nurses for X number of years will be seen in a bad light; in may even be counter productive as we have seen in the past. If we look across the spectrum of opinions coming from recruiters, agencies, attorneys and even hospitals themselves, we can see that a bridge bill for X number of visas under the green card category or a visa recapture just like last time is generally acceptable.
For me, as long as we see the ugly head of the CIR we cannot expect issues affecting nurses to be discussed seriously or be taken into consideration (unless we see a bridge feature introduced to CIR itself).
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