#S386 High-Skilled Immigrants Act

Hello Mr.Senator,

I am writing in regards to removing the "Per country quota for Green card” to inform you how the green card process of people working on H1B has become a bottleneck in contributing to the US economy and why it is so important for it to be removed.

To give a little background and the hurdles we go through as highly skilled professionals,

I did my Bachelor's in Electronics and Communication in India and came to the USA in 2003 on F1(student visa). After finishing my masters in 2006, I started working as a software engineer for various Fortune 500 companies. Since 2006 I have been working on an H1B visa and its 2019 and I am still working on H1B. In the process of getting hired on an H1B visa, we are put through some rigorous process (rightfully so)of ensuring that first dibs is given to a US citizen with the needed skillset. On an H1B visa, we do not have the luxury of taking a break. If we don’t keep working we lose status and thus out of the country. In my zeal to not lose my status, thus lose my work authority in last 13 years I have been through childbirth, moving for jobs from one state to another(multiple times where I had to go to dependent visa of my husband and then back to H1 which was a nightmare), cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment and side effects. I am not writing to wine here. What I want to emphasize is a person with great accomplishments in her carrier, who has been contributing to a community and a country's economy for last 16 years(almost half her life and more than 80% of her adult life so far), faced every challenge hurled at her and still excel in her carrier is being told she is still not eligible for a green card of that country, that she has proved herself for maybe another decade to see the end of this tunnel

Currently, a person on H1b can get a green card after 108 yrs, which practically is not even an option. That's how broken is the US immigration system. I have been contributing to the country for nearly 2 decades and proving at every instance why we fit in. when we are all competing as foreigners for GC why should it matter which country I am born in.

What I sincerely ask is please vote for the per quota for the green cards to be removed and thus help people working on H1B get a green card by their skill and contribution, not by the country they are born in. The other day I was explaining my 8-year-old, why I cannot visit my dad in India for more than a couple of weeks and why I was going through a lot of paperwork and when he listened about the hassles of immigration, he said “mom, that’s not fair. Maybe I will write to the mayor”. That made me realize a little kid thinks he can convince someone from the government and make an impact, which gave me hope that maybe I should write and see if someone listens and here I am.

Hope this isn’t just another email that gets lost in your mail.

Sincerely

Anonymous

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