Comments on: Fighting Green Card Injustice With Green Kindness http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shyam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-151059 Shyam Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:21:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-151059 <p>latest update on the <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_to_give_more_Green_Cards/articleshow/2215001.cms">effect of gandhigari</a> from the news tab - USCIS reverses its decision</p> latest update on the effect of gandhigari from the news tab – USCIS reverses its decision

]]> By: Rajesh Harricharan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-150723 Rajesh Harricharan Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:17:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-150723 <p>While I do not approve of Ghandi, his tactics sometimes work, even in these times. Only good can come frome this.</p> While I do not approve of Ghandi, his tactics sometimes work, even in these times. Only good can come frome this.

]]> By: melbourne desi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149728 melbourne desi Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:18:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149728 <p>Not Indonesia - most likely Nauru.</p> <p>We need more desis here so that we can consitute a voting bloc and I can stand for election ;)</p> <p>Oz is as big as continental USA excluding Alaska. Lots of wide open space with a booming economy. Plus , we have public healthcare :) And my pet theme - no affirmative action.</p> <p>Like civilised nations we play the greatest game :) This year India plays Oz in the boxing day test match - yippeeee!!!!</p> <p>On a serious note, immigration has been the highest in over a century. The govt is quite bullish on inviting skilled people over.</p> <p><b>If you apply from USA, time to get a green card is less than 1 year. </b></p> Not Indonesia – most likely Nauru.

We need more desis here so that we can consitute a voting bloc and I can stand for election ;)

Oz is as big as continental USA excluding Alaska. Lots of wide open space with a booming economy. Plus , we have public healthcare :) And my pet theme – no affirmative action.

Like civilised nations we play the greatest game :) This year India plays Oz in the boxing day test match – yippeeee!!!!

On a serious note, immigration has been the highest in over a century. The govt is quite bullish on inviting skilled people over.

If you apply from USA, time to get a green card is less than 1 year.

]]> By: muralimannered http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149679 muralimannered Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:55:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149679 <blockquote>To all those people who have been shafted by the INS - come over to Australia. You can become a citizen in 3 years. Then you can apply for a special category work visa (mostly unfilled) to work in the USA.</blockquote> <p>or New Zealand. My uncle managed to facilitate the citizenship process with a few bucks under the table, and my aunt, managed to retain her citizen's right to full and free healthcare despite living abroad for 8 years. That's magic!</p> To all those people who have been shafted by the INS – come over to Australia. You can become a citizen in 3 years. Then you can apply for a special category work visa (mostly unfilled) to work in the USA.

or New Zealand. My uncle managed to facilitate the citizenship process with a few bucks under the table, and my aunt, managed to retain her citizen’s right to full and free healthcare despite living abroad for 8 years. That’s magic!

]]> By: Rahul http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149678 Rahul Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:52:15 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149678 <p>melbourne desi, if you keep making these open invitations, John Howard is going to put you on a boat and push you to Indonesia.</p> melbourne desi, if you keep making these open invitations, John Howard is going to put you on a boat and push you to Indonesia.

]]> By: melbourne desi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149676 melbourne desi Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:50:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149676 <p>To all those people who have been shafted by the INS - come over to Australia. You can become a citizen in 3 years. Then you can apply for a special category work visa (mostly unfilled) to work in the USA.</p> <p>USA is great but at some point you have to say is it worth being jerked around. I decided not to be desperate.</p> <p>Sending flowers is not Satyagraha. A fast unto death is real Satyagraha. Will a fast unto death work in the USA? Yes, but how many men / women are willing to fast unto death. But it also needs to be co-ordinated with a media campaign. It needs just two or three persons to die before the mess gets fixed. Guilt is a very powerful weapon and works nearly everytime (not with the Nazis and Afrikaners!!)</p> <p>Immigration is political and needs to be dealt with politically.</p> To all those people who have been shafted by the INS – come over to Australia. You can become a citizen in 3 years. Then you can apply for a special category work visa (mostly unfilled) to work in the USA.

USA is great but at some point you have to say is it worth being jerked around. I decided not to be desperate.

Sending flowers is not Satyagraha. A fast unto death is real Satyagraha. Will a fast unto death work in the USA? Yes, but how many men / women are willing to fast unto death. But it also needs to be co-ordinated with a media campaign. It needs just two or three persons to die before the mess gets fixed. Guilt is a very powerful weapon and works nearly everytime (not with the Nazis and Afrikaners!!)

Immigration is political and needs to be dealt with politically.

]]> By: Hari http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149331 Hari Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:37:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149331 <blockquote>What does this dumb and sappy move have to do with Gandhi? Gandhi struck hard at the economic arteries of the British Raj. He was a total pain in the ass, hated by conservatives, lampooned in the right wing press. His actions cost mill workers in England their jobs, among other things. He wasn't a silly, sentimental, purposeless creature as this flower-gesture would imply.</blockquote> <p>Thank you - unless we can make the immigration issue hit the U.S. in the economic jugular, we will never really see true justice in this matter</p> What does this dumb and sappy move have to do with Gandhi? Gandhi struck hard at the economic arteries of the British Raj. He was a total pain in the ass, hated by conservatives, lampooned in the right wing press. His actions cost mill workers in England their jobs, among other things. He wasn’t a silly, sentimental, purposeless creature as this flower-gesture would imply.

Thank you – unless we can make the immigration issue hit the U.S. in the economic jugular, we will never really see true justice in this matter

]]> By: Hari http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149328 Hari Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:30:46 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149328 <p>Going back... Why would anyone with marketable skills and even a modicum of cultural roots <u>not</u> want to go back. India is in the middle of perhaps the biggest economic and cultural boom that any of us will see in our lifetimes.</p> <p>If money is your passion, there are more opportunities to make real money than one would ever see in New York or London. If its entrepreneurship, the untapped opportunities are immense. If development is your passion, you can be an agent in an unprecedented transformation. If its cultural vibrancy, you could be part of the development of a uniquely Indian post-modern culture.</p> <p>The more time I spend back in India, the more I realize that is where the action really is. Its really a no brainer.</p> Going back… Why would anyone with marketable skills and even a modicum of cultural roots not want to go back. India is in the middle of perhaps the biggest economic and cultural boom that any of us will see in our lifetimes.

If money is your passion, there are more opportunities to make real money than one would ever see in New York or London. If its entrepreneurship, the untapped opportunities are immense. If development is your passion, you can be an agent in an unprecedented transformation. If its cultural vibrancy, you could be part of the development of a uniquely Indian post-modern culture.

The more time I spend back in India, the more I realize that is where the action really is. Its really a no brainer.

]]> By: anand http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149239 anand Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:18:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149239 <p>I wonder if the goras are getting antsy about losing the America that created from a wilderness into a first world society to the browns of india and mexico. The next few years will be interesting.....</p> I wonder if the goras are getting antsy about losing the America that created from a wilderness into a first world society to the browns of india and mexico. The next few years will be interesting…..

]]> By: kurma http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/07/11/fighting_green/comment-page-2/#comment-149209 kurma Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:39:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4565#comment-149209 <p>like priya in #68, i'd love to see a post on the 2-body problem.</p> like priya in #68, i’d love to see a post on the 2-body problem.

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