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Legal Immigration Campaign
Minnesota Govenor Pawlenty announced a campaign to increase legal immigration saying "While we are cracking down on illegal immigration, we still want to encourage legal immigration because we are a country of immigrants." For details on Gov. Pawlenty's seven point plan, see here.
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Latest In Nurse Immigration (In Cooperation With CGFNS)
ILW.COM is pleased to announce a new 3-part teleconference on the Latest In
Nurse Immigration (In Cooperation With CGFNS). The curriculum is as
follows:
FIRST Phone Session on Jan 26, 2006: DOL & DHS Issues
- PERM: What are the requirements? Is the PERM system working? Is the
Dept. of Labor meeting the estimated processing times?
- RETROGRESSION: Who is affected? What's the impact on cases? How long
will retrogression last? Is there hope for a legislative solution to
retrogression?
- SCHEDULE A: who qualifies? What documentation is required?
- LICENSURE AND CREDENTIALING: What's the difference between
professional licensure and visa certification? Which occupations require
Section 343 certification? When does a foreign national need a section 343
certification?
- WORKING WITH NEW REQUIREMENTS: What's required with the "in-house"
media posting? How can one challenge prevailing wages? How to meet the
filing deadlines before prevailing wage determinations expires?
- STAFFING COMPANIES: How to address ability to pay issues? What is
necessary to show "permanent" nature of the job? Where to place the
internal posting for "roving employees"?
SECOND Phone Session on Feb 16, 2006: Non-Nurse Occupations
- IMMIGRATION OPTIONS: Which occupations qualify for schedule A? Which
occupations qualify for H-1b? Which occupations qualify for TN under
NAFTA?
- LICENSURE AND VISA CREDENTIALING: Which occupations require a
license? Which occupations require section 343 healthcare certificate? At
what point in the immigration process is a license required? At what point
in the immigration process is a healthcare certificate required?
- DEFINING THE OCCUPATION: What is meant by "professional nurse" for
Schedule A purposes? What constitutes a clinical laboratory scientist?
What's the difference between medical technologist and medical technician?
Can a foreign educated physician qualify for an occupational visa?
- DEALING WITH DEADLINES AND LIMITS: What's the status on the H-1b cap?
Which employers are exempt from the H-1b cap? Which foreign nationals are
exempt from the H-1b cap? Who is affected by visa retrogression? What
alternatives are available for those affected by visa retrogression?
THIRD Phone Session on Mar 9, 2006: Consular Issues
- UPDATES ABOUT CHENNAI AND MANILA CONSULATES
- PREPARING FOR THE INTERVIEW: What documentation is required? Does
the foreign national need a current letter from the employer? What to do
when the consulate is asking for the wage the foreign national will be paid
during the time the foreign national enters the U.S. but before licensed?
- CHANGES DURING THE APPLICATION PROCESS: How to add new family members
(a recent spouse or new baby) to the process after the interview has been
scheduled? How to change consulates in the case of relocation to another
country?
- EXPEDITING THE INTERVIEW: Is there any way to get an earlier
interview date? What happens if a child is turning 21 years old before the
interview date?
The deadline to sign up is Tuesday, January 24th. For more info,
including
speaker bios, detailed curriculum, and registration information, please
see: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/january2006.shtm. (Fax version: http://www.ilw.com/seminars/january2006.pdf.)
Article
DHS Statement On Expedited Removal Procedures Inaccurate
William Youmans writes "DHS misstated facts in its press release on its motion to end the 'Orantes' Injunction."
News
DOS And DHS On Border Security Strategy
Secretary of State Rice and DHS Secretary Chertoff issued a joint statement discussing a three-part vision to achieve stronger border security and increased facilitation to travel.
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Letters
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Dear Editor:
Mr. Tracinski's article (/1/18/06 ID) claims that because the poor have been able to rise to the middle class and above in the past, the same continues today, and that therefore we should continue to import poor immigrants. First, let's agree that the poor in the US do rise out of poverty. How? Through subsidies funded by taxpayers. Head Start. WIC. Medicaid. ADC. Section 8 for housing. Furthermore, while the problems of the American poor tend to be related to poor choices (failure to marry before having kids, for example) or temporary conditions (poor health or injury), which can be remedied with GED or some re-training, the problems of the immigrant poor are more fundamental: lack of English language ability, education and skills that they bring with them. Immigrant poor are often working poor, which hinders their ability to get the very training they would need. In other words, if we import immigrant poor, we import more people whom we have to subsidize, and even then, without education or skills, there is no reason to believe they will be able to rise into the middle class at the same rate and in the same way as Americans.
Second, there's the question of whether the traditional route to the middle class, good paying jobs in manufacturing, even exists anymore. Ask a few African-Americans and you'll probably find that their parents broke into the middle class in the 1950s and 60s through good paying unionized factory jobs that didn't require education or skills. Where are those jobs today? What alternative route is there? To be blunt: all immigrants are not created equal. Skills and education matter.
Ali Alexander
Dear Editor:
Mr. Alexander's letter (01/19/06 ID) refers to a report by saying "the fertility rate still would
have remained steady" regardless of the immigrant influx. "[W]ould have remained" is the key section.
This is a statement about the past. It does not refer
to the generations that followed the boomers and were
deeply influenced by the "sexual revolution" and made
massive use of contraceptives and abortion on demand.
For the future, immigrants are the only source
available to keep the balance. The US does not have
to say "enough" at any population level. Individuals
are free to have as many children as God allows them
to. Further, population density rates in the U.S. are
overall quite low, particularly in the states with
little immigrant influx. With regard to the
Congressional testimony connecting foreign workers to
outsourcing, in the House they call anyone that says
what they want to hear, dub the person an "expert" and
put him on the stand. I won't rely much on what comes
out of Congress. Still, this is not concrete empirical
evidence that H-1B workers foster outsourcing more
than any other factors. Even if the two events are
simultaneous does not imply that there is a
cause-consequence connection between them. The most
likely the industries hiring these workers do
outsource some operations in light of the constraints
imposed by a bureaucratic system that does not allow
them to hire enough foreign workers.
Sebastian
Washington, DC
Dear Editor:
Why doesn't Immigration Daily put this publication in Spanish?
Rosa Martinez
Editor's Note: At this time, Immigration Daily is an English-only periodical.
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