-----------------IMMIGRATION DAILY FROM ILW.COM------------------
October 1, 2009
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,1001.shtm
Items:
1. Comment: Museums Of Conscience
2. Focus: The Nurse Immigration Book
3. Articles:
(a) But My Lawyer Said My Visa Was Approved by Daniel Parisi
(b) Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by A. Gardner for the
Foundation For Economic Education
(c) Bloggings On Immigration Law And Policy by Greg Siskind
4. News:
(a) DOS Announces 2011 Diversity Visa Registration
5. Classifieds:
(a) Help Wanted - Immigration Attorney
(b) Help Wanted - Immigration Paralegals
(c) PERM Services
(d) Credential Evaluation And Translation
6. Headlines:
(a) Officials Seek To Vaccinate Illegal Immigrants Against
H1N1
(b) Grassley Seeks Proof Of Jobs From H-1B Applicants
(c) Immigration Stories, From Shadows To Spotlight
(d) Immigration Crackdown With Firings, Not Raids
7. ComingsNGoings:
(a) Submit Your Announcement
8. Letters From:
(a) Roger Algase, Esq.
(b) Rachel Heuman
(c) Robert Yang
(d) Donald Russell
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1. COMMENT
Museums Of Conscience
Museums across the country,
http://www.pr.com/press-release/181889
that specialize in immigration histories, are launching programs
to engage their visitors in a conversation on immigration, past
and present. "Museums in the Immigration Sites of Conscience
network include the Arab American National Museum (Dearborn),
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (Chicago), Japanese American
National Museum (Los Angeles), Levine Museum of the New South
(Charlotte), Statue of Liberty National Monument & Ellis Island,
Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York), and Wing Luke Asian
Museum (Seattle)."
We welcome readers to share their opinion and ideas with us by
writing to mailto:editor@ilw.com.
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2. FOCUS
The Nurse Immigration Book
The table of contents of this definitive work edited by Joseph
Curran and Daniel Berger is as follows:
I. FOREWORD: Why A Nurse Immigration Book? By William Stock
II. PREPARING AN IMMIGRATION CASE:
++H-1 Visas For Nurses By Greg Siskind and Esther Fridman
++TN Status For Nurses By Christopher Wendt
++Practice Pointers for Presenting TN Applications By Leslie
Holman
++An Outline Of A Typical Nurse Case, Including Consular
Processing By Joseph Curran
++Adjustment Of Status For Professional Nurses By Sylvia Boecker
++Building International Bridges By Commission On Graduates Of
Foreign Nursing Schools (CGFNS International)
++Tips For Staffing Companies In Planning Their Posting
Strategies By Ronald Nair
++Licensure: US State Licenses For International Nurses By
Patrick Curran
++Immigration Basics For Allied Professional Healthcare Workers
By Christopher Musillo
++Managing Or Achieving Expectations: The Key To Success By
Michael Hammond
III. UNDERSTANDING THE NURSING CRISIS:
++Global Issues In Nurse Recruitment By Joseph Curran
++The Nurse Shortage: Why It Matters By Carl Shusterman
++Deadly Consequences: The Hidden Impact Of America's Nursing
Shortage By Stuart Anderson
++Aiding And Abetting - Nursing Crises At Home And Abroad By
Sreekanth Chagaturu and Snigdha Vallabhaneni
++US Visa Policy Competition For International Scholars,
Scientists And Skilled Workers By Phyllis Farrell Norman
++Better Late Than Never: Workforce Supply Implications Of Later
Entry Into Nursing By David Auerbach, Peter Buerhaus and Douglas
Staiger
IV. RECRUITING AND RETAINING NURSES:
++The Business Of Nurse Immigration By Mireille Kingma
++Recruitment Of Workers In The Philippines: Playing Ball With
The POEA By Ronald Nair
++Successful International Nurse Recruiting By C. Philip Slaton
++Nurse Assimilation By Yvette Mooney
++Hospitals' Responses To Nurse Staffing Shortages By Jessica
May, Gloria Bazzoli and Anneliese Gerland
++Nurse Perspectives Of The Migration Experience By Mariah
Rutherford-Olds
V. AFTERWORD: Musings After 2 Decades In Nurse Immigration By
James David Acoba
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3. ARTICLES
(a) But My Lawyer Said My Visa Was Approved
Daniel Parisi writes "Understanding that visa processing is an
integral part of the immigration process and that it is not a
"given" that the visa will be issued and undertaking the relevant
planning may save precious time and money in the long run."
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1001-parisi.shtm
http://www.asgvisa.com/
(b) Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
A. Gardner for the Foundation For Economic Education writes
"Philippe Legrain does an excellent job in explaining those
potential gains, and his book offers important insights into this
ongoing debate."
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1001-gardner.shtm
http://fee.org/
(c) Bloggings On Immigration Law And Policy
Greg Siskind writes "Pro-immigration groups are divided on the
strategy question of whether allowing measures to go piecemeal
will peel off support for some of the tougher measures like a
legalization program."
http://www.ilw.com/articles/2009,1001-siskind.shtm
http://www.visalaw.com/
To submit an Article for consideration, write to
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4. NEWS
(a) DOS Announces 2011 Diversity Visa Registration
The Department of State announced the opening of the registration
period for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery.
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/news/2009,1001-diversityvisa.shtm
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Please send resume, cover letter, transcript, writing sample and
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6. Headlines
(a) Officials Seek To Vaccinate Illegal Immigrants Against H1N1
With swine flu vaccinations set to begin in October, public
health officials are mobilizing to ensure that the nation's more
than 11 million illegal immigrants are vaccinated to protect
themselves and the public.
(b) Grassley Seeks Proof Of Jobs From H-1B Applicants
One of the U.S. Senate's leading critics of the H-1B visa
program, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), is asking immigration
officials to toughen their demands for evidence from companies
hiring visa workers.
(c) Immigration Stories, From Shadows To Spotlight
For years, it was a shameful family secret.
(d) Immigration Crackdown With Firings, Not Raids
A clothing maker with a vast garment factory in downtown Los
Angeles is firing about 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming
days.
For links to the above stories see here:
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,1001.shtm#Headlines
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8. LETTERS
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300-words). Past correspondence is available in our archives
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/archives.shtm
(a) Dear Editor:
Jim Roberts' letter (10/30/09 ID) does not seem to be aware that
America is governed by man-made law, not divine law or natural
law. An act made illegal according to man-made law can be just as
easily made legal by simply changing the law. This can also be
done retroactively, wiping out the original illegality. However,
a person's ancestry or ethnicity cannot be changed, so in that
sense, it could be considered a manifestation of divine law or
the law of nature, depending on one's beliefs. Once illegal may
not always be illegal, but once Latino is always Latino. If
someone happens to believe that being Latino is illegal, as all
too many Americans do, it would be understandable that such a
person might think that illegality is an inherent condition that
cannot be changed, instead of merely an enactment of human beings
which is always subject to change. This would explain the
confused thinking in Mr. Roberts' letter.
Roger Algase, Esq. New York, NY
(b) Dear Editor:
Regarding the article "Jobs Americans Won't Do?" (09/30/09 ID):
And yet another pseudo-scientific attempt by CIS/FAIR, the
leading anti-immigrant lobbying group in the United States. Also
a group designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of
the over 900 hate groups in the country. CIS, the Center for
Immigration Studies, tries to cast itself as the "brain-tank" of
FAIR, but it's credibility is severely hampered by its continual
misrepresentations, out of context statements, "altered" numbers,
etc so that it is not taken seriously by anyone. Thus it's
regretful that ID feels it must continue to present these
"studies" simply because they're offerred. Journalistic
discretion is not anathema to freedom of speech. So much for
distorted "factoids." If the authors' skewed vision will permit
them to see in front of their eyes, they will discover a living
discrepancy between reality and the thesis they have supported in
their article about jobs, immigrants and native born workers.
Look at, for instance: farmworkers in our fields; service
workers who clean the rooms in hotels and motels; workers in
meat and poultry processing plants; nurseries, and so on. But
wait -- there's more. Why are the CIS writers' arguments so
completely out of sinc with those of the widely respected
Immigration Policy Center, National Immigration Law Center, and
even the conservative think tanks, the Cato and Goldwater
institutes, among others?
Rachel Heuman
(c) Dear Editor:
There are no laws that can't be amended or reformed. If laws
don't meet the sense of universal justice nor fairness and common
sense, laws must be amended for the better ones. If bad laws were
not amended then it would still be illegal for women to vote,
minorities to sit on public buses or attend public schools with
the majority and for Asian immigrants to immigrate to this
country because of their national origin and skin color. What so
called "illegal" immigrants today are doing exactly the same when
the European settlers and colonists came into the New Worlds
minus the genocide and land grabbing on the Natives' properties.
The fact that ridiculously complex today laws didn't exist at
that time doesn't mean we can bless the genocide on the native
people and land grabbing on their inheritance and properties. If
we don't like immigrants coming to our shore, it's easy make it
perfectly legal to do so. Countries worldwide should get rid off
their protectionist and selfish border and trade barriers, so
every human beings can work, move and trade honestly with free
will to others without being accused and punished as criminals.
No Chinese can call Americans seeking job opportunities in China
as "illegal people". If our constitution doesn't prohibit states
in the Union to establish inter states trade and free movement
barriers, many more prosperous states will surely enact so much
hardship and barriers for residents from other less fortunate
states seeking job or business opportunities on those states for
sure. Being self centered is the nature of ours. The definition
of legal or illegal is highly subjective, even in the 7th.
century pedophiles could excuse it as the will of "god" and still
dared to claim themselves to be "saints and prophets" many would
still believe them.
Robert Yang
(d) Dear Editor:
I really had to laugh when I learned that USCIS is now offering
case updates by mobile phone text message in addition to e-mail.
(09/28/09 ID News) For a process that moves at a glacial pace,
is it really necessary to send an update by "instant" text
message? In my case, I've been waiting for years for an update,
when one finally does come, I'm sure waiting a few extra hours
until I check my email is satisfactory. On the other hand, USCIS
now publish the EB I-485 backlog... and all I have to do is add
up all the month's numbers prior to my priority date to see where
I am in line. (Their spread sheet doesn't show a running total...
it's pathetic) Um, isn't that why we have computers... they can
add up numbers very quickly and very accurately. Instead of
messing around with sending an update by text message, I'd rather
see two things: 1. get the backlog worked down (first, and
foremost) 2. provide timely, accurate, easy to use information
via their web site. I applaud the idea of making the backlog
numbers visible... but come on... one small step closer please...
I should be able to log on, select my case number and have it
tell me the priority date, and how many applications are ahead of
mine, and if I can expect my green card this fiscal year or not.
Donald Russell
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