I am writing as your constituent in the 3rd
Congressional district of Iowa. I am writing as your constituent in the
3rd Congressional district of Iowa. I am writing as your constituent
in the 3rd Congressional district of Iowa. I oppose H.R.3012 – Fairness
for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, and am tracking it using
OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government
transparency and accountability.

I oppose S.1857 and H.R.3012 – Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act.

These
bills are not solving any real immigration problems and just targeting
to mitigate the issue of one nation at expense of others. There is a
common believe that a nation can’t get more than 7% of visas. But due to
concept of “spill-overs” backlogged nations can claim unused visas.
For example the most backlogged nation already received 21% of all
Employment-Based Immigration visas available in 2010. H.R.3012S.1857
supporters prefer to focus on 7% cap and not on real numbers.

The
changes these bills propose won’t benefit US economy in a long term
because they will result in elimination of diversity among high-skilled
workers in some areas (for example IT).

Despite the name these
bills benefit a single nation and hurt others. For example there are
more than 32,000 applicants in EB-2 ROW (Rest of World) category who
applied under current system. New rules will result in up to 5 years of
additional wait time for most of them. People from backlogged countries
anticipated the wait when they applied for visas.

I believe
these bills are unfair in light of the reasons I stated above. They
need serious changes before becoming the law to ensure that 1)
Diversity of high-skilled workforce won’t be affected, 2) Wait time of
people who applied under current law won’t be extended.

Sincerely,