If you have not read the bill ( #S386), you should. It's actually unintelligible to anyone other than Charlie O and a few immigration lawyers. I did my best to explain it on my last podcast, and that was me talking for 37 minutes without a break. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/386/text

It is crystal clear that no Senator has actually read it, and only "understands" because someone "explained" how wonderful it is. Here are the 2017 numbers for your math, courtesy of the USCIS and CRS (Table 5): https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45447

At the end of the day, this is simple. Understand the 2019 numbers are about 20% than the 2017 #s. There are 500,000-700,00 Indian National Applicants waiting in EB-2 and EB-3 (principle and derivatives). Almost all those Priority dates predate 2017.

Only 80,000 people (not principals) immigrate in EB-2 and EB-3 each year (and every EB-2 could be an EB-3 (immigration wizardry)). Beginning in 2020, India gets 85%, then 90% for two years, then 100% for the next 10 years, and then, possibly, China may be able to process EB-2/3.

Then, after China's PDs are done (pre-2019), then all the new PDs are then taken, in date order. Where do you think those will be from? Most countries that use the H-1B, as it is the only way to stay in the US and work all that time. And, those countries are: India y China.

So, if you can get here on the H-1B during the next decade, you just do your labor certification and put in yourself in the line. BUT, if you cannot get an H-1B (it is a lottery), then you are not here, and you are not doing a labor certification, and you are not in line.

At the end of the day, Waiting in lines stinks. It is not fair. It is not good for our country. And Congress should redress the issue directly. What Congress should NOT do is punish 194 countries in the world and exclude them from immigrating.

Think about it. Other than "set-asides" that certain Senators have carved out of nurses, there will be no one other than one country's immigrants coming as employment-based immigrants for a decade.

This is particularly troubling now because many DACA recipients and TPS recipients are preparing and trying to file labor certifications and immigrant visas to avoid their imminent removal when those programs end. They don't have the luxury of H-1Bs being extended, and

DACA recipients didn't even choose their situation! Many investors and employers from the 194 countries want to bring employees from those countries, but they will be shut out for a decade. Do you think they will still come? Or, will they go elsewhere?

All of this points out WHY we need a hearing on #S386. We should not ever let our elected leaders blindly lead us into a place that puts in a worse position than we are now. This bill does just that There are better fixes, better options. But you cannot fix it with no hearing.