USCIS has used its agency powers under Chevron Doctrine unfairly against Indians
I would support meaningful class action suits with $1100 dollars if they are ready to fight against the biased interpretations to get
EADs for everyone with approved i140. Make PD current NOW
@atalovesyou
It's a common trend now a days. I know senior leadership at multiple companies and they are "All In" on hiring outside of US. Legal costs is just one of the reason, quality and quantity of candidates from American universities is not up to the mark.
Someone asked me about what's wrong with kids of legal immigrants who are aging out. This gut wrenching testimony of Athulya made everyone cry.
Please share this with anyone who asks you what's wrong with "just waiting"
Thanks
@ImproveTheDream
for highlighting these 🙏
Shame on you Neera and the administration for completely ignoring more than 200K children who aging out from the legal immigration backlog!
This is truly the worst step the administration could have done.
The President is announcing new actions for people who have been here many years to keep American families together and allow more young people to contribute to our economy.
Proud to work on these actions.
She got her green card in 5 months.
Can tax paying, hard working and law abiding Indians in racist and xenophobic green card backlog ever dream of getting green card in
5 Months ❌
5 Years ❌
5 Decades ❌
5 Generations ❓💀🪦
What a fraud!
The immigrants for whom they roll out the red carpet are NOT doctors, teachers and CEOs.
The red carpet is only for illegals.
The actual educated, high skilled ones are rotting in xenophobic green card backlog.
The data is clear: immigrants are good for the economy and good for our country.
They are doctors, teachers, and CEOs. They pay billions in taxes every single year. And they deserve to be here, in the United States, making this country a better place.
Even
@elonmusk
recognizes that people from India aren't treated fairly by American Immigration.
Over million Indians are stuck in racist country exclusion caps.
Many will die without any pathway to citizenship.
Close to 300K kids will age out and will have to self deport at 21
.
@realDonaldTrump
on granting automatic Green Cards to college graduates:
"... What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a Green Card to be able to stay in this country."
"And that
Stuart Anderson from
@forbes
is one of the most sane voices who has consistently spoken about issues related to H1B and green card uncertainties.
Thanks
@immigrationgirl
for also speaking about the backlog folks here
Sadly no one is going to do anything about this.
@desimojito
One of the best Con-Campaigns ever done in the entire world!
Credit to Con-Gress for the same!
BJP, well and truly needs to learn from this and counter these campaigns head on next time.
This is one thing that can't be faked via VPN or Zip Codes when calling, or emailing representatives or even tying to influence via twitter. Great job by folks who are doing this today. It's time to
#PassEagleActNOW
As a tech immigrant you could be earning top dollar, but if you are on H1B
You will never feel secure.
60 day grace period is a curse.
It's high time for legal immigrants to be treated with respect and dignity.
@DcWalaDesi
This is really sad and horrifying. Many Gujarati families own motels across length and breadth of America.
Please don't engage with these homeless people and argue with them. It's not worth it.
Engage cops or collectively with other people. Don't try to be a hero.
R2I(Return To India) is increasing considerably among Indians.
Many have been suffering from the infamous n + 1 syndrome and pushing the move to India, year after next, many are taking the plunge now
This can be seen by many recent R2I threads on blind such as 👇
Reasons🧵
Shreya Mishra's post on linkedin is igniting conversations about the real challenges Indian students face in the US.
It's not just about getting into a top school, but the uphill battle with visa uncertainties, renewals, and the elusive green card dream.
More voices incoming🙏
What
@atalovesyou
and
@raj_karnatak
are doing is gods work here.
They along with folks like
@anujchristian
are the true Immigration Voice.
Prioritizing voice for others is never easy. Standing up for others is never easy.
Yet these folks shut the noise and keep marching ahead
Looking at some of the recent numbers from
@USCIS
on Indians awaiting green card based on decade of birth is quite startling.
Situation is alarming 🚨🚨🚨
Of the total of 543K folks, Indians are 440K. Massive 80% of Indians in STEM skilled folks in backlog!
A thread 🧵
(1/n)
Good job by
@skalantry
and
@TOIIndiaNews
to continue to highlight the issue with green card backlog that disproportionately and unfairly impacts people from India
She rightly calls out
"Country-based caps disadvantage Indians"
Thank you
@raj_karnatak
"As a high-skilled immigrant in the US, I am ashamed how high-skilled immigrants are being tortured with decades of inhumane green card backlog, with no desire to fix this issue. "
Good job
@sriramk
@aarthir
and
@deedydas
for bringing the issue of legal immigration to attention for the broader public.
This isn't a niche issue, the current lack of meritocracy in American immigration is going to have longer term adverse effects unless addressed soon.
📺 EP 76: skilled immigration in the US - H1bs, green cards, lotteries and caps and more w/
@deedydas
There are few issues
@aarthir
and I care more about than skilled immigration, certainly few that has impacted us more personally. We have always wanted to do an episode on this
Called
@RepZoeLofgren
who has been great champion for backlog community, to continue with the support for 🦅 act. The staffer seemed bit disturbed and told her to ignore any hate or abuse that might have been thrown at them by some but we want vote on 🦅 act soon
#PassEagleActNOW
The number of spam accounts created by Iranians over last few days only for the purpose of opposing 🦅 act needs to be looked by
@elonmusk
. This is Irananian interference in America's legislative process and needs to be investigated
@OversightDems
@GOPoversight
@ARanganathan72
Credit to Congress. They did a better marketing than BJP in this election.
These gurantee cards with their key promises, however unrealistic is truly a great marketing tactic
I OPPOSE all legislation and relief targeted exclusively to children of ILLEGAL immigrants.
If there is _any_ scope of reform, the first and foremost priority should be for the children of LEGAL immigrants who have been left to age out despite their parents following ALL rules.
Dreamers are essential to our communities. They are our doctors, teachers, our neighbors, and friends. But they have lived in limbo for far too long.
It’s time for Congress to act to provide a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. We can't leave them behind.
A small percentage of people who are stuck in Green Card Backlog and have aging out kids end getting fleeced by EB5, spend:
800K on Regional Centers
25K on attorney fees
15K on USCIS fees
30-40% of these never get paid get their principal amount of 800k back 😭
This ecosystem
"My hope is dying everyday"
"This country doesn't want us"
A heart wrenching story for Indian immigrants.
Thanks
@Vidyut13
for working on this. Thanks
@DcWalaDesi
for sharing this.
.
@Vidyut13
brings a movie about immigrants that are suffering in
#greencardbacklog
The documentary tells stories of high skilled immigrants, women & kids who followed the law but are stuck in limbo due to discriminatory country caps established in 1960s.
#Immigration
#ALIEN
@KristiTalmadge
@RepJayapal
@HouseGOP
@HouseDems
And your lack of knowledge of Indian immigrants, and their heritage and contributions is pathetic. You have a fixed vocabulary of talking points and all that comes out of it is 👇.
Indian students need to stop subsidizing American Universities.
Once they have funded the universities and subsidized the education for others.
They are expected to do the same by funding the social security but never getting social security benefits.
@ShaktiMaan4Ever
This. Last year ~145K F1 visas alloted to Indian students. That’s easily around 45M in SEVIS fees and around $6B into US universities, subsidizing the student loan cancellations.
Dear legal immigrants on H1B thanks for contributing billions on
#TaxDay
in US so that same can be used to fund free childcare, food and housing for illegal immigrants
They all would be given EADs and green cards much before you and then come here and abuse YOU to tell you to👇
Next up for USCIS, Green card and citizenship to be granted posthumously.
With no consensus on solving the green card backlog, I request members of congress to come up with a bill to award green card posthumously when the priority date becomes current in 100 years.
Some folks are happy and pleased with the demise of Eagle Act.
Long term though, this was the final nail in the coffin of US Tech Industry and overall future growth of US. Jobs are going to move to other countries especially 🇮🇳 & 🇨🇦 with their 💪 potential in future.
@CitizenAnkit
Rahul gandhi is a sore loser. During UPA2, entire congress worked to project Rahul Gandhi as the next prime minister even tearing down the ordinance passed by Manmohan Singh in the press conference.
They just can't expect that India won in 2014
And
@curtismorrison
, AHA both oppose Eagle Act. Thanks Sarika.
@PabloReports
You may think
@Ynotgreencards
and many others are against Eagle act, but in truth it's just multiple faces of the same daemon looking out for each other.
My ➕
This movement needs to spread. Indians need to stop funding
American Universities 🛑
American 401K 🛑
American Infrastructure 🛑
American Social Security 🛑
American Illegal Immigrants 🛑
✋ 🛑
98% of Green Card applicants are patiently waiting for decades for their Green Card to arrive but I am of the 2% who didn’t believe in waiting.
I decided to create my own destiny instead of destiny happening some day…moving out of the USA
#greencardbacklog
Based of my discussions with leadership folks in many of Magnificent 7, Fortune companies they have either reduced hiring in Bay Area or have completely stopped hiring.
Almost all hiring is happening in either India or Eastern Europe
More are talking about this now:
I don't agree with
@BaldwinSpeaks
always,but this is the time to make sure we shut down the misinformation and racist opposition to 🦅 act. It's time to stop hearing that we are cheap laborers and should go back to where we were born. It's time to
#PassEagleActNOW
. All should ☎️
I've started my rounds of calls. Every one of us needs to pitch in today.
Forget your differences. In unity is strength. In strength is justice.
#EAGLEAct
#HR3648
@AILANational
: We are Neutral on per-country bill as long as Scott amendment in
#HR1044
are removed 😇😇
#HR3648
= Scott amendment removed ❌️
AILA = Never mind, we still oppose
#EAGLEAct
😭
@PabloReports
is this worth a story in hypocrisy?
Eagle act fixes the wrongs in the current immigration system. Which other country's immigration has country caps?
All this resistance showed up when slavery was being abolished as well. Country caps are racist and are WRONG. They need to be abolished NOW!
And 🦅 act is dead 😞.We all are hurt and over last few days with the comments and hate spread against us is boiling our 🩸 . We knew the chances were slim and we gave it our best shot despite strong opposition. Any conclusions today will be filled with hurt. Sleep well friends.
Livelihood of people like Galati depends solely on the high net worth people in Green Card Backlog who apply for EB5.
EB5 attorney fees per applicant are upwards of $50K.
If Galati gets even 50 of these per year, you can do the maths. That will tell you his motivation.
What's the probability of 🦅 act to pass?
Is it 💯 or 0️⃣ or 🪙?
Is it 📈or 📉?
Nobody knows.But there are folks who are opposing this as they benefit from status quo. Stand for your rights and freedom,do ☎️ your representatives and
@RepZoeLofgren
, urge them and
#PassEagleActNOW
Taxation without representation was the reason for the American Revolution
American founders if alive would be ashamed of what the current leadership has done to America.
Legal immigrants are the true victims of Taxation without ANY representation whatsoever.
@ChuckGrassley
Several families and friends can't be together this christmas and have left hopes of being together because
@ChuckGrassley
YOU have blocked each and every meaningful and common sense immigration reform possible. Why, senator, Why?
🚨 "Nearly 20-25% of the senior talent in the semiconductor manufacturing industries globally are Indians, We expect many of them to come back to India", says Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
He most likely is a jobless Pakistani who hates Indians and is faking that he is an American. I can guarantee that he will continue to spread hate against Indians and gets paid pennies for his daily dosage of fentanyl.
@GovtofPakistan
@ForeignOfficePk
Take him back.
Hey, let's expedite handout EADs and Green cards to these illegals.
But, for 1.8 million legal hard working, tax paying, law abiding Indians who have been here in US for more than a decade, let's make sure we make them wait 100 years and continue to make their life miserable.
7.2 MILLION
That’s how many illegals have entered the United States under the Biden Administration— more than the population of 36 states.
Over 1,000 of them took over NYC City Hall Park here to protest being sent to shelters and they are demanding permanent housing.
🚨 Microsoft has acquired 48 acres of land in Hyderabad to build a data center. Microsoft has big plans to expand its data center business and will be developing one of the biggest data centers in the region.
#Telangana
Staffers are messengers. Please don't shoot the messenger. Have a dialogue and conversation with them. Please don't do a monologue or vent your frustration at staffers. Be polite, but do get your point across.
#PassEagleActNOW
Do NOT come to US on student visa.
You will be trapped financially after taking huge loans,jobs are reducing in US&most importantly you would lose your freedom because US discriminates against Indians and has wait time of more than 100 years to get a green card.
👇
For all 🇮🇳 Students
Think 🤔 twice b4 U come 2 🇺🇸
300K students coming every yr n only 70K H-1B visas available, what would you do if you don’t get visa
Even People who r on work Visa have no Clue when will get their freedom 2 travel & work
min 50+yr wait
Follow 🧵 1
Why do Indians in green card backlog US get hated so much?
Is this because of Americans love for "Diversity"?
Or
Is it just that these Americans hate meritocracy?
High skilled immigrants from India in green card backlog feel cheated. They were brought in with the promise of American dream but American dream has turned into a nightmare of indentured servitude for 1.8 million Indians in the US. Learning lesson for every kid growing up in
Request to all Indian students,stop subsidizing education for American Students.This is what racist bigots like Mark here think of you. And once you are done with slogging from top universities here,you get treated as 💩 by same people who want you to suffer in backlog because 🇺🇸
Keeping Hindus in 150 year green card backlog is the biggest Hindu Phobia that United States has currently. This is excludes Hindus from ever becoming US citizens
It is time for
@RepShriThanedar
to stand up for the community and address the actual Phobia in the society.
.
@RepShriThanedar
- addressing the
@CoHNAOfficial
advocacy event on the Capitol Hill. He reiterated his support for Hindu community in the US & his efforts to counter the rise of
#HinduPhobia
@mariawirth1
Stats can be manipulated. India is a big country and many people like to project india in a bad light by purely talking about absolute numbers. It needs to looked proportionally and yes there are many areas to improve. Thanks for shedding this light. Stats 👇
🚨 A British MNC, Deloitte is on a hiring spree in India for various roles countrywide. In January, it announced plans to hire 40,000 to 50,000 people in the next four years.
Facts:
If someone waited _just_ for 10 years, that is an EXCEPTION, not a norm
10 Years is UNACCEPTABLE and UNFAIR when RoW and fake asylum seekers cry, whine and abuse even with few months of delay from their existing wait times of just few months!
@ShaktiMaan4Ever
My colleague got his green card. He is only 37., and joined a job here at 27 on H1B. So clearly not more than 10 years in spite of absolutely endless massive FLOOD of H1B and into the GC queue of India.
@SriGaussian
He is doing Phd in CS from
@stonybrooku
and when I called him out he blocked me. He hates big tech and Indians, but wants his thesis to be funded by the same and next a job given by same people. Time to fire him from
@stonybrooku
for being a racist
Chances of an Indian immigrant getting a green card are less than a zombie apocalypse!
Yes that's the truth. Well said.
If you haven't watched this youtube video, do watch it NOW!
Please share this to get more folks to know about the truth!
@ShaktiMaan4Ever
Yes. We all owe this responsibility to educate aspiring students to understand US immigration system beyond getting into best schools. Reach out to ur colleges/network back in India. This video also do a good job explaining the truth!
@PabloReports
Today, is Tuesday. And somewhere someone will toss a 🪙 to chose either of this for todays Action Items
1) Criticize you for leaking good positive info to antis
2) Criticize you for sharing negative news and getting money from 🇮🇷
Either way, we thank you for your coverage
@elonmusk
if the plan is to identify more bot accounts, look no further than folks liking tweets such as👇.These recently created accounts serve no purpose but spread misinformation and racist propaganda. It's time to shut it out and
#PassEagleActNOW
For me, CHIPS Act is a failure.
@intel
,
@micron
and others should have pushed harder to address the clear lack of any immigration provisions for high skilled immigration required for so many jobs related to manufacturing, hardware and software.
But they clearly chose the govt.
@satyanadella
@SecRaimondo
@intel
This is great. However, acc. to Oxford Economics, CHIPS Act has 80% of 85k jobs getting unfulfilled. The technical workforce is either from Taiwan or India The current legal immigration logjam impacts Indians considerably.
Chips ACT is a missed opportunity to provide reform for
@GabbbarSingh
The whole objective of Rahul Gandhi's campaign was to create a rift between have and have nots.
Unfortunately the haves are divided further into caste and and religion
Have nots are united.
Repeat after me
MORE jobs are being CREATED in India than US
Many who have been impacted by recent layoffs or unable to get H1B this year are choosing India instead of Canada or US.
They know where the future and more importantly the certainty in their lives is available
🚨 Bengaluru-based electric vehicle startup Pravaig Dynamics has made offers to Tesla interns, who saw their offers getting revoked weeks before their start date.
Green cards should be stamped for every illegal immigrant who enters the border.
This would save billions of dollars that
@USCIS
collects from legal immigrants due to a few years of processing delays!
@PabloReports
@SenKevinCramer
@RoKhanna
If this passes. Haters take all credit.
If this doesn't, Pablo is the fall guy because he just leaked the info to some online junkies.
Yet. Pablo keeps on doing gods work.
Free lodging ✅
Free food ✅
Free daycare ✅
Free concierge ✅
Pay without work ✅
Driving license on arrival ✅
EAD on arrival ✅
Green card guaranteed ✅
Dear Illegals,
All this and more. Come to US.
US immigration logic is upside down.
Unlimited greencards for parents/spouses of USCs.
Limited capped greencards for some of the most highly qualified/productive people (employment based immigration)
Country caps for employment category.
No country caps for relatives (some
It was great getting on a call with
@atalovesyou
and talking to him about immigration and the work he is doing with
@opensphereai
.
I had stopped using twitter as I had been hurt by the disappointments of EAGLE Act(s) and the slap we got with Build Back Better.
Atal's now viral
The ONE and ONLY way there would ever be a need and reason to actually do a legal immigration reform would be AFTER Mass deportation of Illegal Immigrants.
This is NOT inhumane, this the RIGHT way.
No country should misuse taxpayer money of people like us to support illegals.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump says "he may use the military to deport millions of illegal immigrants" if local law enforcement and the National Guard cannot complete the task.
Do you support this?
Yes or No
🐖 may fly
🧟♂️ apocalypse may happen
Gold may be found at the end of a 🌈
🦄 may be found in the wild
Atlantis may be found in the 🌊
RCB may win the IPL 🏆
But the chances of an immigration reform in US in our lifetime are
Z.E.R.O
The visa backlog affecting skilled Indian immigrants is hurting America’s ability to attract and retain scientists and engineers. Congress must make real
#ImmigrationReform
a priority.
#SkilledWorkers
#greencard
Some of the folks who left India often sight the impact of quota system in India which often deprived them of education choices or came here to escape the same.
US calls the quota system with fancier words such as "diversity"
This diversity has worse consequences for us.
@ShaktiMaan4Ever
@Forbes
@immigrationgirl
Nobody does anything because we ask for the wrong thing.
The US truly wants diversity. They want different cultures represented and they're successful through their methods.
We need to show them we're diverse(we already are) and get different quotas.
Why don't you answer the questions here on why you didn't push hard enough to ensure that recent executive orders intentionally excluded children of legal immigrants!!
There are serious credibility concerns that you need to address here!
When Democrats take back the House in November, we will protect access to contraception, IVF, and abortion.
We cannot rely on state legislatures or the courts to protect women.
@bringItOn2023
@DrSJaishankar
@OIA_MEA
Do you have template for this for sharing in a doc? I would like to add about the hate that Indians suffer from organizations and individuals here. Also so many immigration orgs don't want students and legal immigrants to come from india.
Request to all Indian students,stop subsidizing education for American Students.This is what racist bigots like Mark here think of you. And once you are done with slogging from top universities here,you get treated as 💩 by same people who want you to suffer in backlog because 🇺🇸