No Celebration For Thousands of Highly-Skilled Future Americans this July 4th

No Celebration For Thousands of Highly-Skilled Future Americans this July 4th: "No Celebration For Thousands of Highly-Skilled Future Americans this July 4th

Thousands of legal, English-speaking, highly-skilled Future Americans miss rare opportunity to apply for employer-sponsored green cards after immigration agencies announced on Monday that no further applications would be accepted until October.
Source: Immigration Voice
Jul 02, 2007 22:14:59 Click to see PDF Version of this Press Release


(PRLog.Org) – June 12 was a presumably joyous ocassion for several highly-skilled professionals. The Department of State, in a sweeping move, announced that they would accept applications from all highly-skilled workers (sans one minor category) to a) adjust status to a permanent resident (ie apply for a Green Card, which is the final stage), b) apply for interim benefits while they wait the adjudication of their Green Card, such as the right to work and right to travel for spouses who were on dependent visas.

As people across the United States prepare for 4th of July celebrations today, thousands of legal, highly-skilled, English-speaking Future Americans are distraught over recent press releases by the Dept. of State and the USCIS which initially provided a glimmer of hope but later turned to despair. This “glimmer of hope” would have provi"