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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]uncle's uncle will be here immediately and file his paperwork. my nanny brought half of her village to DC. [/quote]

I have neighbors who have quite a chain going--remember, the chain expands geometrically.  You bring mother and father-in-law and then you have two sets of sibling coming......

And, I'm pretty sure I read or heard somewhere today that family members make up the largest portion of new green cards.

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Currently, two-thirds of the million-plus foreign citizens who get green cards (i.e., permanent residence that can lead to citizenship) each year qualify [b]only [/b]because they have relatives already here.

Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) have introduced a new version of the RAISE Act that would eliminate chain migration and the visa lottery, cap annual refugee admissions, and replace the employment-based green card system with a new merit-based immigration system.

The Barbara Jordan Commission, the last bipartisan Congressional commission on immigration, recommended the elimination of chain migration and the visa lottery and promoted a green card system that served the national interest and the interest of American workers. The Cotton/Perdue RAISE Act would achieve those recommendations!

According to Sens. Cotton and Perdue, the RAISE Act would:

- replace the current permanent employment-visa framework with a skills-based points system, akin to the systems used by Canada and Australia;

- keep immigration preferences for the spouses and minor children of U.S. residents, encouraging the unification of nuclear families;

- eliminate preferences for extended family and grown adult family members of U.S. residents;

- create a renewable temporary visa for parents of U.S. citizens for care taking purposes;

- eliminate the outdated visa lottery; and

- limit refugees offered permanent residency to 50,000 per year, in line with a 13-year average.

The RAISE Act would reduce overall legal immigration by 50% from its current level of more than 1 million per year within 10 years of enactment.

Please send a message to your U.S. Senators urging them to support Sens. Cotton's and Perdue's RAISE Act![/quote]

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