CA writes to US government urging green card system reformation.

Compete America urged US government to take steps on rectification of the current green card lottery system. The group "CA" who supports the implementation of flexible United States immigration rules for skillful labor from foreign has written a letter to United States Congress to take steps for reformation of the USA green card lottery process. The letter states that the group compromising of trade associates, cooperators and educators believes in need of reformation of their H-1B visa along with the employment based green card procedure. "Compete America" or "CA" insists that the need to reform is important in sustaining America's competitive side. The letter also states the apprehensions about educated foreigners being left subsequent lottery procedure, due to declination of visa numbers. The group has showed its concern on the procedure for employment based green card being outmoded and out of date, as it does not support the enough amounts of green cards to meet the requirement. CA exclaims, while the current cap for H-1B visa applications is 65,000, United States Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS) got more than 133,000 such applications (all in a day) for year 2008. The outdated system also forces foreign individuals to hang on for over five years of time in order to get an 'employment based' green card. The concern shown by CA over the US lacking in competitive edge is based on its failure in pulling skilled foreigners unlike European Union, who using their blue card scheme are taking benefit of stringent green card rules. In a letter written to the US government, the CA also mentions how the European Union's blue card is going to attract highly skilled and educated foreign individuals by providing them temporary work visa. The blue card system may be under debate but has already pulled innovative minds suffering in US green card system.

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