Dear Siskind's Immigration Bulletin Readers: It is not our normal practice to forward messages from others to our whole list in between our regular monthly issue, but given the urgency and timing issues, we decided to pass this along now. Please contact Jitu Telang of the Immigrant Support Network at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you care to respond. Apologies for sending the extra piece of mail. As always, if you wish to remove yourself from the list, go to http://www.visalaw.com/subscribe2.html. Kind regards, Greg Siskind _________________________________________ Greg, here's the mail I sent out to our members. Please feel free to forward it to your list as well. Thank you very much for all your help. Jitu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear ISN member, Yesterday we were contacted by the office of Immigration Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives about a hearing scheduled on July 29th. The hearing is about a bill introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith to restructure INS in order to improve efficiency within its various functions. I spoke with their staff today, and was told that they might invite one or more of us to testify about the problems we face when dealing with INS. In addition to ISN representatives, they have also shown interest in having some of the individuals testify about their own experiences with INS. So if you have suffered at the hands of INS, and do not mind testifying in front of the committee, I urge you to contact us (at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) immediately. There is a good chance they might be able to protect your anonymity even in the hearing itself. If you do contact us, please specify your case briefly and if you would testify only on the condition of anonymity. While we are aware of all the usual problems faced by employment-based immigrants, I would also like to encourage you to send us your input on what particular problems we should mention if we're invited to testify. So if you have any specific suggestions beyond the delays in the I-140/I-485 process and the problem of having to restart the entire process in case of loss of the job, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them in our ISN Activities discussion board at the ISN web site. This is your chance to be heard by the people who can make a difference. So I urge you to step up and volunteer to testify if you have a case that should be made known. Please respond immediately to this as we do not have much time left before the hearing. Thank you. Jitu Telang President, ISN _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
