Did you see that the UK Home Secretary has announced the new UK point system for immigration?

Question

http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7bD0C3FE06-345B-47FE-9DEA-AD01026BB428%7d&CATEGORYNAME=NATL

What do you think?

(Mind you, assuming they do what they say they will, unlike our government here.)

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23425731-details/It's+not+only+the+'Alf+Garnetts'+who+are+worried+about+immigration,+admits+minister+as+low-skilled+migrants+are+banned/article.do

Answer 1

Personally, while I think there are many useful aspects to this, it would end up being the straw on the camel's back, if taken seriously. I can't imagine how USCIS would actually be able to monitor such a system. They don't do an especially good job on petitions as it is. Petition adjudicators are primarily rated by how many pieces of paper move from the left side of the desk to the right each day. No one is graded on how well they actually review the documents or what problems were detected. The various requirements for work petitions for example have been in place for quite a while, but you shouldn't imagine that anyone actually reads the documents submitted anymore.

Petition processing is little more than data entry as it is and however well intended such provisions would be, you can be sure it would become yet another feel-good provision that looks good on paper but would degenerate into pointlessness very quickly. For example, on H1b petitions, the petitioner is required to submit the applicant's academic credentials to an educational service to show that the applicant's educational background is the equivalent to a US university degree. And there are academic services that do this on a regular basis. How many applicants do you think are actually judged to have inadequate academic credentials? If you thought a particular service might actually turn you down, would you pay for the privilege? No, of course not, so it's not in the financial interest of the service to make such findings and they don't.

Otherwise, we'd have to completely restructure the USCIS service centers and create a whole new work philosophy for its employees. These folks do the best they can considering the conditions they work under at present, but the system hasn't functioned for a very long time and everyone knows it.

Personally, I would love to see English language provisions added to spouse and fiance petitions, as mentioned in your article, or at least a common language with the petitoner provision. Not so that the immigrant spouse could better integrate into US society, (that would be an added benefit) but so the spouse might actually be able to communicate with the US citizen petitoner. You'd think an ability to talk to each other would be a reasonable requirement to show a relationship, but it isn't and never has been.

Answer 2

*grins* Yeah.. the British could have the money for to be greater fussy than the Australians considering they have a good number of human beings there already. Australia already can already have a %. of pretty experienced migrants (they have lists in Australia of which may well be seen as greater useful than others) and if Britian needs to maintain up they're going to initiate doing an identical. Australians additionally do different little issues like do no longer enable immigrants have unfastened housing rights, unfastened well being care except they seem to be a citizen (and in specific situations they'd desire to attend a undeniable volume of years till now they'd go on government payouts besides the undeniable fact that there are approaches around the device like there are in each thing). possibly the Brits can stick to that besides. ^_^

Answer 3

It sounds good! Senator Sessions proposed a point system for immigrants during the debate on the shamnesty bill last summer. But the Dimocrats did everything they could to weaken it, especially Barak Hussein Nobama. He loves illegal aliens; he actually marched with the illegals in 2006.

Answer 4

A point system would be far superior to the one we have in the US now, which seems to me to be based on the liberal "feel-good, do-good" base of family reunification.

If you read the questions here, so many are how can I get my mother in-law..., if my uncle is a resident..., how do I get my grand-father to come here if I'm a green card holder...The whole world could be pulled in here behind people who are here and sponsor family members as part of a "family reunification." It's freakin' ridiculous!


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Answer 5

I would add a provision that if you attempt or succeed at illegal entry you lose all your points and are not eligible for legal entry; do not pass go, do not collect benefits....go directly back to where you came from.