Green Card Fiasco FOLLOW UP
I’d like to take some credit for temporarily resolving this situation, but of course, that’s not right! Thanks to the help of the many people who protested peacefully through flowers, the AILA threatening to file a law suit and Sheela Murthy for having reached out to Chertoff of the DHS (they both went to Harvard, at different times), the USCIS has decided to reopen filing of the final stage (I-485)of the green card process.Click here for the USCIS August Bulletin.
Green Card Fiasco
If retaining top talent is the #1 priority for managers, then why is it so hard for positive change in governmental rules?
In the raging debate over illegal immigration, guess what? Legal immigration was sidelined. While some employers are in need for people who jump fences, others are much more in need of qualified legal immigrants – so this whole fiasco underscores the fact that if one gets caught up in the politics of a situation, then one will surely miss the financial and operational reality.
The recent green card fiasco has put thousands of legal workers into a tizzy because of the USCIS July bulletin update. Visa filing fees will also triple by the end of July. So putting two-and-two together results in a very expensive process for hiring talent that is missing in this country, that international folks provide.
This situation hits hard for Indians and Chinese, possibly more than any other nation. Guess which immigrant population in the US makes the most money, pays the most taxes and runs most of the startups? Yep.
Here is an interesting article on Business Week called "The Gandhi Protests Pay Off". If you’d like to learn more about the current situation, visit Sheela Murthy’s website.
This is the BusinessWeek Article. This is Sheela Murthy.
Forrester Web 2.0 Briefing Day
This looks interesting for those of you who are in the bay area.
Forrester Web 2.0 Briefing Day:
Forrester will be holding its first Web 2.0 Briefing Day on Thursday, April 19 in Foster City, California. This complimentary event is an opportunity for companies to brief several analysts who focus on Web 2.0 trends and technologies – all at the same time and place.
Here is the link to their blog.
- Harsha Raghavan
Photo
I did not realize that my friend Rajesh Setty had posted this picture back in 2006. It was part of my Networking Experiment. Both these gentlemen are great thinkers. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifebeyondcode/220236152/
Some links that you may find interesting:
George Gendron’s LinkedIn profile
Tags work (duh!). I found this by googling myself 
- Harsha Raghavan
Hello again!
Hello!
No, I did not hiberate for the winter (though I’ve gained a little weight!).
As any other struggling blogling, I let life happen to me. I’m staging a comeback. You will find better language, fresher content and hopefully, hopefully more guest posts.
I’m starting out with my friend Carm Huntress of Cardvio.com. He has a brilliant yet simple web-to-paper technology. I invited him to write a guest article and have posted it verbatim. Please contact Carm at his email address and I am sure that you will find him an interesting speaker and idea man.
I’ve spent the winter experimenting a bit with sales and managing my team (with disastrous results, which I am going to share in the upcoming posts). Please share your thoughts and experiments with me and others; there is a lot to be learned from your successes and failures. I will also share my commentary on authors that I read (and am reading now).
Thanks and I look forward to the continued conversation!
- Harsha
Best Wishes!
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and everything else in between! Most importantly, have a safe and happy time with your family and hope 2007 is a rock star year for you!
I will resume my blogging in January 2007 and have a lot of updates on past experiments, so it should be interesting going forward. Good luck.
