Skilled workers waiting for immigration backlog to clear
Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:32:05 GMT
The latest fights over immigration have focused on who should get a place in line for a legal life in the United States. But the real agony, said Tien Bui, comes when you finally get in line. Bui, who came to the U.S. as a Vietnamese refugee and now is an engineer for Boeing Inc., cannot take the career-boosting position he has been offered because his citizenship application is lodged somewhere inside the Department of Homeland Security.