Released on: September 13, 2007, 11:46 am

Press Release Author: immigration voice- Amit

Industry: Human Resources

Press Release Summary: Immigration Voice (http://www.immigrationvoice.org), a
grass-roots advocacy group of highly skilled legal immigrants is organizing a rally
of skilled workers in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 to draw the
attention of US lawmakers and the American public toward the excessive delays and
backlogs in the Employment Based Immigration system.

Press Release Body: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Immigration Voice To Organize A Peaceful Rally Of Legal, Skilled Foreign
Professionals In Washington D.C.

Immigration Voice (http://www.immigrationvoice.org), a grass-roots advocacy group of
highly skilled legal immigrants is organizing a rally of skilled workers in
Washington D.C. on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 to draw the attention of US
lawmakers and the American public toward the excessive delays and backlogs in the
Employment Based Immigration system.
Thousands of skilled, legal professionals, such as Doctors, Engineers, Scientists,
MBAs and other professionals from all over the country are expected to participate
in this unprecedented rally in the nation\'s capital. With this rally, they hope to
impress upon the Congress the urgency and the necessity for reform in the Employment
Based Immigration System.
Rally Schedule
9 AM: Registration begins at the North East Quadrant of the Washington Monument for
rally participants.
11:30 AM: Rally starts for Capitol Building through Constitution Ave
1:00 PM: Rally reaches the Capitol Building. Addressed by the US lawmakers
The Need For Reform
Nearly half a million highly skilled foreign workers are stuck in the backlog for
Employment Based permanent residency (Green Cards). Today, this system takes
anywhere between 6 and 12 years to grant the Green Card. This delay in obtaining
permanent residency is due to two reasons:
1. Low numerical cap (only 140,000 out of a total of 1.2 million Green Cards awarded
annually).
2. Processing delays in adjudication of applications.
A Grassroots Effort
This rally, and the organization, Immigration Voice, is a grass-roots effort
propelled by the hard work and enthusiasm of thousands of skilled immigrants who
have come to the US from all over the world but now want to call this country their
home.
One of them is Kannan Sundaramahalingam, an engineer who works in Alparetta, GA.
Kannan says that he wants to join this rally because \"for years we legal immigrants
were silent sufferers of this complex immigration process. Now there is a chance to
make a difference and don\'t want to miss it\".
Vivek Gupta, also a member of Immigration Voice is a professor of Radiology at the
Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. He wants to participate in the rally to ensure that
"the voice of the highly-skilled and educated legal immigrants is heard and paid
attention to".
Will The US Lawmakers Act Before It Is Too Late?
The question here is if the US lawmakers and the immigration bureaucracy will pay
attention to the demands of a fair treatment by the skilled, legal immigrants or
will they wait until it is too late? According to a recently published study by
researchers from Harvard, Duke and New York universities, if steps to alleviate the
backlog of green cards are not taken soon , the US faces a very real prospect of
\"reverse brain-drain\". This report can be found at
http://www.globalizationresearch.com.

The current backlog and the lack of concern shown by the US Congress towards
skilled, legal professionals is disheartening because these professionals played by
the rules, entered this country

Web Site: http://www.touchdownusa.org/

Contact Details: Amit Jain
473 Jersey Avenue
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Jersey City
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