Dear Editor:
Thank you for creating Immigration Weekly for all to contribute. Probably the most shocking aspect of all the legalization battles is that
people in temporary professional worker categories are completely ignored or forgotten, as the politicians are more concerned about rewarding people who enter the country illegally. I am referring to visa categories such as the
H-1, which I happen to fall into. I came to this country 12 years ago, and
after receiving my college education began work using the H-1. I have
passed through three employers, each of whom initiated labor certification
processing for me, but all of whom also closed their businesses before I got
the labor certification was processed. I am nearing the end of the maximum
6 years for H-1B, and risk losing a decade of honest, hard work.
I would suggest that a provision be made that a person automatically qualify
for green card if they have been on H-1B for 6 years. If the nation needed
my professional skills for 6 years, does not it make sense I be rewarded
with a green card? Or, is it not just and more humane that one be qualified
for green card if he/she has continuously been in legal status for 10 years
and without a criminal record? Will the immigration law be just and
impartial if someone who broke this nation's law by entering the country
illegally is rewarded with a green card using some legality, while another
person who has proven his honesty and resourcefulness for 12 years of
continuous residence, hard work and tax paying is rewarded with a
deportation? I hope that this different perspective somehow gets to the nation's law
makers.
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