Immigration News and Updates

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This is just for the purpose of getting updated or informed and do note that nothing is absolute and in fact things are very fluid or volatile when it comes to immigration matters.

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http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=792

Whether or not there would be a provision for nurses in the CIR, we still have to wait for it to get approved or gets junked until a separate bill is entertained.

The separate bill is on the works just like Detroix said just in case nothing happens w/ the CIR. It will be introduced immediately after CIR gets junked but it will not be entertained outside CIR.

So.. we still have to wait. The debates will be on the last 2 weeks of May. If ever a senate version will ever be introduced, we'll post it here and see what it contains; just like what we did with the House's STRIVE Act.

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sigh, no bill has been passed yet, will it ever end? its been half a year.

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sigh, no bill has been passed yet, will it ever end? its been half a year.

it will end after cir. any separate immigration bill outside cir will only be entertained after it has been junked finally this may or early june. however, if and ever cir passes and it contains a provision for nurses no need for it. i do feel that it will have a provision for nurses, but this is if and ever the us congress passes it. this is simply because, last years senate version does contain a provision for nurses (visa exempt for highly skilled worker in w/c schedule a workers is a part of) and this year's house version also contains one. the big question is: will us congress pass it ?

the new senate version for this year is not expected until somewhere the 2nd half of may or early june when the 2 week scheduled immigration debate on the 2nd half of may ends.

if we could remember, the hutchinson amendment wasn't allowed to be part of

s. 4 bill (improving america's security act of 2007) because they want everything related to immigration be part of cir. they want to overhaul the whole us immigration system and not just a part of it via the cir instead of dealing one separate immigration bill one after the other. this is why they wouldn't entertain any separate stand-alone immigration-related bills before cir.

also, the 2007 version of the skil bill (s. 1083 in thomas) is expected to be part of the 2007 cir senate version again (if there would be one) as it was also part of the 2006 senate version as an insert. (the skil bill has provisions for unlimited gc for nurses up to a certain year).

the us congress and the white house are trying to compromise their different positions. they have been talking behind doors (for a little over a month now) to have some compromises even before the debates happens.

this is it. if cir finally fails, a separate recapture stand-alone bill (much like the one in may of 2005) will now be entertained. so, the sooner the debates, the better. if somehow cir passes and i still believe that it will contain a provision for nurses then no need.

nothing to do but wait on what happens.

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But there currently is no more Schedule A. And the exemption that is contained in the CIR is what most unions are protesting. And it is really not an exemption, but an unlimited cap for a certain number of years. All will still need to have a visa.

The other issue is that a new nurse does not have any experience, so you cannot really consider them a highly trained professional. Training does not make someone highly skilled.

And if they are highly skilled and have the MSN, then they are under the EB-2 category and their is no wait with that. And that is being processed with current dates as we speak.

I do not think that nurses should even be mentioned in a document that deals with illegal immigrants...........

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senate negotiations continue on immigration legislation

5/7/2007 - portsecuritynews.com

negotiations are continuing among a group of senators who are seeking to come up with an immigration reform bill that can be brought to the senate floor later this month. agreement, according to several, has been achieved on a "trigger" that would delay implementation of guest worker and legalization programs until certain enforcement criteria have been met.

sen. john cornyn (r-tx) indicated that senators have agreed to set "objective" enforcement targets which include hiring a certain number of border patrol agents and putting in place a workplace verification system.

the next step is the issue of internal enforcement of immigration laws. sen. robert menendez (d-nj) said that they have not as yet agreed on the types of judicial review that immigration violators would be given. key issues that have not as yet been addressed are family-based immigration, legalization programs for the undocumented, and the terms of a guestworker program.

negotiations are expected to continue daily until the floor debate begins.

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San Jose Mercury News' view regarding CIR this year: "Uncertain at best." this is an unfortunate situation for us

2 of my acquiantances back in Manila emailed me that their petitioners in California backed out because of uncertainties of when they would arrived in the US.....

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I was wondering why they did not introduce the recapture of visas first and then deal with the CIR later. That way people who are stranded due to the retrogression can get themselves settled. Just my suggestion......

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I was wondering why they did not introduce the recapture of visas first and then deal with the CIR later. That way people who are stranded due to the retrogression can get themselves settled. Just my suggestion......

Granting more visas for nurses is not a priority in the US. Dealing with illegal immigration needs to be taken care of first.

Please be aware that nothing has really changed, except for RNs getting fast-tracked ahead of everyone else. This is still going on, just the wait is involved that others need to go thru. The fast-tracking is on hold. And the retrogression was created because the number of applicants exceeded the number of visas that are available. It has never been an unlimited supply.

There is already much written on this topic and why it is happening now. We also knew about it last spring, it was not something that just happened. There was plenty of notice about it.

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I was wondering why they did not introduce the recapture of visas first and then deal with the CIR later. That way people who are stranded due to the retrogression can get themselves settled. Just my suggestion......

Indeed, there were efforts , but unsuccessful. Senators Cornyn and Hutchinson tried to Introduce measures in Deceber 06 at the end of 109th congress to recapture and increase visas for nurses and H-1bs ,but failed. There were efforts in early March By the Texas Senator to recapture visas for nurses but failed. Apparently, congress prefer to consider a blanket rule of immigration for all, at the moment.

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Will wait for 'better August'. As I red in this forum, either CIR or any supportive legislation will be passed by that time.Hope is best option. Here in UK, again, nursing recruiting to USA getting hot. Lots of direct interviews, seminars going on now....may be everybody expecting something by August...

Pray for it..

rgds

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