S*** Happens

The title of the post is kind of odd considering I already have a category for the same title. This is nothing new we all know S*** happens everybody is affected in varying degrees at varying instance. I want to echo for folks who are in greener pastures, the pastures seem to be drying with no green anywhere. For folks who moved to US for greener oppurtunities(Dollar bill is still green) with a better conversion rate of Dollar and the enevitable Green Card. Both seem to be fading to a dark brown color. Dollar has been highest point in Weakness in 17 years. With US coming to a 0.5 GDP last quarter, salary wont be rising for Worker class. With folks fighting to battle for white house the uncertaininty is in the air.

Everybody talks about recession hitting US, nobody talks how long or how deep will it be , the last time US was hit by recession US saw a minor deep or that is what the Economics Gurus has been seeing, well if so when every body talks about being hit by recession but nobody talks when we get out of it? I guess everybody talks in retrospect with no idea of how economy is headed? Everybody is talking about democrats taking control over white house soon but we dont have a front runner, CNN predicted a dead heat until Democratic convention to nominate a candidate which means 6 months of misery before we find out who is the president, stock markets will swing both ways when there is a news of who is the front runner , Believe every wind of a news will make it happen. While this is happening what about folks who moved here for greener pastures of second kind? Green Card will be distant dream for folks from certain countries such as India, China, Philipines and Mexico. These countries use up quota every year which means that folks waiting for green card will wait longer and longer and longer. I am talking about folks who have Bachelors 4 year degree atleast. There are folks who have Masters degree in US they seem to be in the most of pain with running out of Immigrant visa within couple of months of Fiscal year( A fiscal year for Visa begins October of every year) why is this happening because the Immigration system is ancient while the folks who make the technology happen dont seem to enjoy newer rules and nobody wants to do anything. I guess this is another issue like Abortion or gun control where you talk the system is broken to get elected and do nothing about it to pave the way for others to do the same in a same manner while adding misery to lives. Every white house candidate talks about Immigration System is broken and we got to fix it but havent seen any step positvely to correct, granted rules have been changing to address this unless visa numbers are increased for folks who are skilled I dont see light at all as unskilled worker gets his green card in few months of landing while skilled worker continues to pile on his misery.

This is just not a post to vent my frustration but for folks to evaluate what is happening around them.

It did work

My last post was on Immigration and Gandhigiri or peaceful way of protesting. Well guess what I wasn't thinking I will be writing this follow up post to say it did work. USCIS decided to change its way and asked folks who were eligible to apply to apply the application. Well it is definitely worth mentioning but celebration? We will hope positive things will happen

http://www.shusterman.com/pdf/cis71707.pdf

Gandhigiri at its best

Everyday I subscribe to Silicon India daily digest. This is a gist of news happening on Tech Indian community. I am touching upon a topic which I wouldn't dare to write on any blog, Immigration and Gandhigiri(Is Gandhigiri a word? Not sure but Wikipedia claims it to be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhigiri). This news however caught my attention it wouldn't do justice if I don't write anything about it. Like a lots of folks who were affected on latest Immigration status fiasco I got affected by this as well due to few USCIS worker's hindsight to open the gates for immigration. I was thrilled but was kind of expecting this to happen on July 3rd or a later date but to my surprise happened on July 2nd the first working day of July.

Why did this occur to me??? It was deja vu because of similar incident happening on H1B visa for 2007. Anywayz it happened. Who profited by this? Doctor's office and Attorneys who file these papers. They aren't going to return your money because USCIS closed the gates on you. I was irritated , p***ed but s*** happens. I was also thinking how we could make this incident go noticed without creating a sensation I thought about Lage Raho Muna Bai and his flowers idea.. well I am not the only who thought that way but few of them just went ahead as well... read the link below you will now what I am talking about..

http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/36410/1

If you havent watched Lage Raho Munai Bai, it is a good movie... I am not recommending you to watch it, taste differs.. I can say it is good movie. I thought it wasn't practical to achieve results but I guess it is practical to practice it, for results we will have to wait and see.