PLEASE FORWARD THIS MAIL TO AS MANY RELEVANT PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE
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This e-mail is to address the possiblity of taking action to support
S.1033 (Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act) to help
retrogression affected employment based categories.

STEP 1.
Please visit the following sites to understand the isssue and our
initiatives
http://boards.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=179272
AND http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers/
Add your details so that the action’s strength can be monitored

STEP 2.
Go to http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials/?lvl=L
to identify your elected representatives

STEP 3.
Make modifications in the letter given below or draft your own.
Please note that the letter given below is a work in progress – the
latest can be downloaded at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/techworkers/
____________________________
Your name
Your address
Your city, state, zip code
phone: Your phone number
email: Your email address

The Honorable Congressman/woman/Senator Legislator’s Name
Legislator’s address
Legislator’s state, zip code

Dear Congressperson/Senator name,

Subject: Support for S.1033 Secure America and Orderly Immigration
Act to help retrogression affected employment based categories

Your Company’s name has a permanent employment opportunity in the
United States for which they have sponsored me and my family for
permanent residency to fill this position. Unfortunately due to
annual numerical limits on the employment based visa, the employment
based immigration is pending for need of visa numbers. This year the
retrogression has been so severe that there are no visas available
for the employment based third preference categories in the last
quarter. This has very adversely affected me as I have been waiting
for xx years to get to the pending last phase of immigration. Hence
this has stopped me from taking on the position for which the
permanent residency has been sponsored for and for which it has
already been established that I am a suitable candidate because of my
relevant professional and educational skills.

The situation does not seem to have any end in sight if there are no
immigration policy changes. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services has done and is doing some commendable work in backlog
reduction and expedited processing but this is meaningless if there
are no visa numbers available for the immigrants to successfully
complete their immigration.

Section 601 (d) of S.1033 , the Secure America and Orderly
Immigration Act (introduced in Senate) recommends increasing the
yearly quota to 290,000 and incorporates some visa number recapture
from the previous years. This would help in alleviating our problems
by making a higher number of visa numbers available. Section 603 (b)
also seeks to increase the availability of the visas to the third
preference category most affected by retrogression.I urge you to
support this pending legislation that incorporates all these changes.
This will allow me and my family to achieve our long cherished dream
of becoming permanent residents of the United States

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Your signature
Name
Contact Information
____________________________

STEP 4.
Send the letters to the representatives identified earlier

STEP 5.
Cut and paste the altered letter at AILA’s mailer site
http://capwiz.com/aila2/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7614761
You can also send one to the President at
http://capwiz.com/aila2/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7605741

STEP 6.
Follow up by calling the representatives that you have sent an e-
mail/fax/letter to.

We urge you to act fast before the Act comes up for discussion.
Please note that spending a few hours now would imply saving years in
retrogression. There is an imminent danger of loosing a lot of years
of your life if things are not changed now. The situation is at one
of the worst possible now with no “carry over” visas from previous
years and with a hige backlog. Thanks for the effort in
helping yourself and lending your voice to the retrogressed immigrant
community.