US Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act for Economic Growth
The US Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act (H.R. 3012) was proposed last year in November, by the US House of Representatives. Unfortunately the bill was put on hold in the Senate due to some reservations by the Iowa state Senator Chuck Grassley, until July this year.
The act aims at streamlining and creating a more convenient procedure for highly skilled immigrants to apply for a green card, as the current system only allows about 7 percent of the 140,000 employment based green cards to be awarded to individuals from a single country. The problem this imposed limit creates is the long waiting time the employers have to face before the skilled worker can enter US to start the work. Specific to the skilled professionals and potential investors in the US financial market, the Act was stopped in progress by Sen. Grassley until July 11th of this year.
The aim of the Act is mainly to increase the inflow of highly skilled human capital and investors in the United States of America.
But critics of the Act started arguing how relaxing certain immigration regulations particularly for the skilled immigrants would result in job shortages for the local native-born Americans. They predict that increased inflow will push up the employment rate beyond current figures of 8.2 per cent.
The critics claim that the job market in the country is inflexible and can accommodate only a number of skilled workers. It means a job given to any highly skilled immigrant would consequently result in one fewer job for a native-born American.
The fact which the critics fail to consider is that the highly-skilled class of immigrants will contribute to the American economy enormously. It means that by bringing foreign skilled immigrants to America and providing them with green card, after the eligibility criteria, the government will be indirectly increasing the productivity of the home based companies. This is so because there is still a considerable lack of highly skilled scientific and technical workers in the country, as the majority of the youth is interested in commerce and finance.
The United States will not only be able to cover up this gap of deficiency of highly skilled scientific and technical labor, but will also reduce unemployment rate as increased productivity will result in expansions, which would evidently create more employment opportunities.
Already the US is home to successful and prosperous companies and group of industries that were incorporated by skilled immigrant investors and businessmen. The state of Iowa itself is home to numerous companies started by immigrants, one of which is the Compressor Controls Corporation, a company founded by a Russian immigrant, which now employs about 300 employees. Such contribution will not only improvise the American labor market in the short term but will also provide incentives for its future maintenance.
But unfortunately, due to the current inflexible immigration policies, the US every year turns down many skilled immigrants, costing the country valuable skilled labor.
The Fairness Act is bound to at least provide a preliminary solution to this problem if not a long term one. The Act will ensure the removal of any scarcity of US Green Cards by improving their allocation system. It will not only uplift employment based immigration but will also create enough room for family-based Green Cards, which is also bound buy the same limitation of 7 percent.
The proposed Act is expected to help simplify the complex and inflexible immigration policies of the country which will, in return, provide the US government with a more viable and rational immigration policy. However, the fate of the Act is still in doubts and it may take long time before it becomes a law.
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America already has many highly skilled workers who are seeking these positions; however, certain companies are banking on importing cheap labor to fill these positions. So, your statement about there being a ‘lack’ of highly skilled labor amongst Americans is false. Furthermore, your stating that importing workers into America to fill these positions will stimulate our economy because these immigrants will create jobs is offensive to Americans! While these immigrants come and take positions that could be filled by Americans and their families start cottage industry work, what of the unemployed Americans? The fact that you people are incapable of stepping into the shoes of the people that you are directly affecting in your actions shows just how out of touch that you are with a correct, fair and viable solution to these issues.
the bill HR 3012 will not help those real high skilled people, who will go through EB1 express lane. EB3I will be helped while screw all the world. It has been pointed out that a lot of EB system abusers are hiding in the long EB3 line, which hurts US labor market a lot.
Say no to this bill
These cheap filthy folks from india is ruining our country and by these cheap consulting companies who are finding every fraud means to dump in more visa folks into our country..All Indian owned/india based big/small/mom pop consulting employ around 2 Million folks in USA and 99.9% of those employee folks are some sort of visa folks like H1 L1 EAD and B1..We US citizens has to retake America from these folks and send all these folks back to where they come from..By Increaing the taxes for those companies who employ NON US citizens to around $50K/Visa employee and increasing the visa fee to $50K/Annum our country can retain bright and best talents around the world and send back all other cheap foreign workers..No more green cards..
This article is so factually incorrect it is laughable. I guess it goes to show that anyone can publish anything on the Internet and make it look like real reporting.
For the record and disclosure I am awaiting an employment based permanent residency visa in the EB3-ROW (rest of world) category.
Here are just some of the errors in the article …
H.R. 3012 (the ”Act”) does not do anything for “streamlining and creating a more convenient procedure for highly skilled immigrants to apply for a green card”. The Act only reshuffles the deck by removing per country quotas, phased in quickly over 3 years. What this means is that the Act effectively takes visas away from one group (ROW, rest of the world) and gives them to other groups, notable India, and to a lesser extend China and the Philippines. It is worth noting that India makes up 50% of the employment based visas, overwhelming all other groups, which the act would further reinforce.
The Act does nothing “to increase the inflow of highly skilled human capital and investors”. Again, the Act only changes the bases for distributing the existing available visas. There is no storage of skilled professionals seeking these visas each year regardless of country of origin. There is a backlog of years across virtually all employment based categories, and when visas in one category are not used they roll over to another category.
The example of the Russian immigrant, who was in the ROW category, would have been be adversely impacted by the Act (maybe adding additional years to a wait for permanent residency).
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