Support for Senator Obama's Citizenship Promotion Act

To Honorable Members of The Senate and Congress:

This petition is in support of Senator Obamas Citizenship Promotion Act 2007.

United States of America as a country was founded by those who migrated from their countries of origin for hope of liberty and justice or simply in a quest for better life. Through recent years, many concerns rose about the negative impacts of the immigrants on the security matters or the resources of the country. However, statistics indicate that the immigrants contribute to the economical, cultural, and scientific wealth of the United States as a group.
The issue that the United States has faced since September 11, 2001 is to reinstate the sense of security that was threatened by the events of that day. Without making sacrifices by all involved, the accomplishment of this goal would be close to impossible. It seems, however, that the immigrants are the subject of more scrutiny than the usual immigration process exposes them to. This has been caused by security checks, background checks and name checks.
It is quite reasonable to grant permanent residence and citizenship only to those who do not bring any harm to the country. In the past few years, these steps have created a significant backlog, which affects about 35\% of those in the process. These individuals are withheld from any personal improvement due to the delays in the standard procedure that in many occasions can reach many years. In the meantime, they are exposed to the hardship and stigmatization of prolonged name check. They are invited to renew their fingerprints on an average of once a year, because the previous set of fingerprints ha expired. It is a scientific fact that the human fingerprint is a unique signature that does not change over their lifetime. Please note that as legal immigrants they pay taxes and have demonstrated their regards for the law by staying legal throughout the process.
Incidentally, it is not only the immigrant population suffering from this delay. The United States of America pays a grave price while highly intellectual immigrants are waiting with the potential to devote the years of their youth to more productive matters. There are a significant number of educated individuals among those who are held in the FBI Name Check process. They have applied or attained their current status because of their outstanding achievements or education. Instead of waiting for years, a majority of these individuals could focus their time and energy in achievements with end results that only benefit the country.
It is obvious that the matter of the backlog in the FBI is only going to get worse, considering the increasing load of the cases handed to FBI for this purpose. With limited resources that are offered by FBI for this purpose, the length of the process is bound to increase for more applicants.
As immigrants in the process, we would like to bring the attention of the Congress and Senate to the importance of Senator Obamas Act to limit the timeframe of the FBI name check and background check. We ask of the honorable members of the Congress and Senate to approve Senator Obamas Act in its entirety and facilitate the feasibility of it. As the security of this country is considered a priority, it is important that the adequate budget and resources are devoted to the security checks. We also request that the Congress and Senate help FBI to conduct their investigations on a timely manner and are held accountable as such. This will accomplish the goal, without sacrificing the innocent bystanders.
On September 11, 2001 this country suffered a great loss. The immigrants share the same need for restoring security in the country and around the world. Please accept them as part of this pursuit rather than the target by endorsing Senator Obamas bill on Citizenship Promotional Act 2007.