WHERE WE ARE 03/08/07

Dear HLG,

Thanks

Thanks and Thanks

By Joy

I’m sure if HLG knew that answer they would tell us. LOL.

HLG is real good but they can’t predict the future!! They can just tell us where the legislation is at this moment…

Thanks HLG.

thanks! very helpful!

Dear HLG

Thanks for your timely update. I don’t think more than this any body can explain. This is democracy, politics. Let the community should be equally understandable
thanks once again

Alex:

1. Re: Sen. Hutchinson’s report.

I cannot find anything like this anywhere. If you want to point me to a website, I can make some phone calls. But for now the government reports:

A. S.4 is a bill to implement the reccomendations of the 9/11 commission. It has nothing to do with either healthcare nor immigration nor retrogression.

B. There is no amendment 401A. Amendment 401 was sponsored by Sen. Byrd of West Virginia.

2. What “2000 nurse immigration law” are you referring to?

I’m willing to research but this information isn’t definitive enough for me to understand what you’re asking.

God help us all.

Thank you very much HLG for your devotion and commitment to help us, I appreciate it very very much.

I’ve paste here the section which I am reffering to that I found in the following address: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r110:1:./temp/~r110xaufzO:e140455:

It says there that the date of this is March 6.

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SA 364. Mrs. HUTCHISON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 275 proposed by Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. LIEBERMAN, and Ms. COLLINS) to the bill S. 4, to make the United States more secure by implementing unfinished recommendations of the 9/11 Commission to fight the war on terror more effectively, to improve homeland security, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 138, between lines 6 and 7, insert the following:

SEC. 401A. INCREASING THE DOMESTIC SUPPLY OF NURSES AND PHYSICAL THERAPISTS.

(a) Report.–

(1) IN GENERAL.–Not later than January 1, 2008, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall submit to Congress a report on the shortage of nurses and physical therapists educated in the United States.

(2) CONTENTS.–The report required by paragraph (1) shall–

(A) include information from the most recent 3 years for which data are available;

(B) provide separate data for each occupation and for each State;

(C) separately identify the nurses and physical therapists receiving initial licenses in each State and the nurses and physical therapists licensed by endorsement from other States;

[Page: S2738] GPO’s PDF (D) identify, from among the nurses and physical therapists receiving initial licenses in each year, the number of such nurses and physical therapists who received professional educations in the United States and the number of such nurses and physical therapists who received professional educations outside the United States;

(E) to the extent possible, identify, by State of residence and the country in which each nurse or physical therapist received a professional education, the number of nurses and physical therapists who received professional educations in any of the 5 countries from which the highest number of nurses and physical therapists emigrated to the United States;

(F) identify the barriers to increasing the supply of nursing faculty in the United States, domestically trained nurses , and domestically trained physical therapists;

(G) recommend strategies for Federal and State governments to reduce such barriers, including strategies that address barriers that prevent health care workers, such as home health aides and nurse’s assistants, from advancing to become registered nurses ;

(H) recommend amendments to Federal law to reduce the barriers identified in subparagraph (F);

(I) recommend Federal grants, loans, and other incentives that would increase the supply of nursing faculty and training facilities for nurses in the United States, and recommend other steps to increase the number of nurses and physical therapists who receive professional educations in the United States;

(J) identify the effects of emigration by nurses on the health care systems in the countries of origin of such nurses ;

(K) recommend amendments to Federal law to minimize the effects of shortages of nurses in the countries of origin of nurses who immigrate to the United States; and

(L) report on the level of Federal investment determined under subsection (b)(1) to be necessary to eliminate the shortage of nurses and physical therapists in the United States.

(b) Consultation.–The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall–

(1) enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies to determine the level of Federal investment under titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.) that would be necessary to eliminate the shortage of nurses and physical therapists in the United States by January 1, 2015; and

(2) consult with other agencies in working with ministers of health or other appropriate officials of the 5 countries from which the highest number of nurses and physical therapists emigrated, as reported under subsection (a)(2)(E), to–

(A) address shortages of nurses and physical therapists in such countries caused by emigration; and

(B) provide the technical assistance needed to reduce further shortages of nurses and physical therapists in such countries.

(c) Recapture of Unused Employment-Based Immigrant Visas.–Section 106(d) of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-313; 8 U.S.C. 1153 note) is amended–

(1) in paragraph (1)–

(A) by inserting “1996, 1997,” after “available in fiscal year”; and

(B) by inserting “group I,” after “schedule A,”;

(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting “1996, 1997, and” after “available in fiscal years”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(4) PETITIONS.–The Secretary of Homeland Security shall provide a process for reviewing and acting upon petitions with respect to immigrants described in schedule A not later than 30 days after the date on which a completed petition has been filed.”.

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THANK YOU AGAIN FOR EVERYTHING!

Dear HLG,

Have you ever heard the new Nursing Relief Act 2007? If yes, do you know what’s it all about?

Thanks. Have a good one.

hope something will come out very soon

TO HLG:
With the infinity of the CIR or any recapturing legislation being passed this year, HIB filing for cap 2008 is fast approaching, would it be a great idea for us PT’s who were filed for an I-140 already to asked our employers to file us this April 2, 2007 for an H1b?

If our employers are willing to file us with H1b while I140 is pending, what will happen to our immigrant petition? Is it necessary to withdraw it or is it ok to have it as stand still application?

Please comment on this….thanks

What is the meaning of an new H1-B-like category for nurses? does it mean that the husband and children will not be able to work in the USA?

We’ll have a comment on the Hutchison Amendment very shortly. Thanks to everyone for all of their information. I’ll probably make it a formal post, as opposed to a comment.

we are so much worried about the retrogression. Hope it will be fixed soon