Showing posts with label bill perkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bill perkins. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Using Political Contacts To Beat The Immigration Beast

Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama...Image via WikipediaMy friend Jiwan who I am crashing with for now in Sunnyside convinced me yesterday that I need to go the political route to get sorted my immigration mess.

"If the most powerful person on earth can take your help, why can't you take the help of that most powerful person?"

Seeking 10 Minutes Of The Senator's Time For Personal Reasons
(To: Linda at Senator Bill Perkins' office)

Hi Bill.

I have been in an immigration mess since late 2005. A no name State Senator in New Jersey just helped another Nepali get a green card in a month, and the story circulated and a close friend of mine has been urging me to approach you to get the same done for me. If you are in a position to help, I'd much appreciate. I'd remember till the last dog dies, like Bill Clinton said in 1992.

I came to America in the fall of 1996 on a student visa to the top
liberal arts college in the South where I got myself elected student
body president within six months of landing. I finished school in May
2001. After a year I was on OPT, Optional Practical Training. .....
a green card...... Believe it or not I did not renew the card. My
lawyer says I had the option to. I was working days, nights and weekends
for the democracy movement in Nepal at the time, the only Nepali in
America doing full time work to that end. I was not much thinking about me.

I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in NYC like you were
the first elected official in the city to endorse him. That was good
work. The day the national primary ended in 2008 they had me
disappear, machine politics at its most effective! They had me inside
for six months. Obama won. I was out a few days later. My first
immigration court date after that was in Chicago. There were two court
dates in 2009. The last one was in June, last month, that got
postponed indefinitely. This political asylum thing has been dragging
on like a bad dream. The three court dates have been about giving me a
new court date, that's it.

I am under the impression you have the option to use some political
levers at your disposal to get my original green card renewed,
backdated to the fall of 2005 when it should have been renewed. If
that can happen enough time will have lapsed that I would by now
qualify for a citizenship.

Once I have the paperwork I can start functioning at full capacity. I
am a tech entrepreneur who wants to go into microfinance in a big way.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2011/02/googlefacebook-of-microfinance.html
I can do for the Arab world what I did for Nepal in 2006. This wave of
democracy, done right, could hit all of the Arab world, all of Africa,
maybe Russia, maybe China. But right now I feel like my hands and feet
have been tied and I have been thrown into a corner. Such waste. And
there is the no small matter of Obama 2012. In many ways 2012 is more
important than 2008.

My alien number is ___________.

For now I request to meet you in person for 10 minutes.

Thanks.
Paramendra.
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Two Chief Guests: Non Resident Nepali Gathering: Times Square: June 25

Photos

I was just texting back and forth like crazy with John's staffer Crystal. I got her two voice mails 10 hours late this past hour. And now we have confirmed, future Mayor John Liu is also coming. The Nepalis are excited out of their minds. They don't know what hit them. What hit them is the Midnight Taiwan Express.


We already had Bill Perkins. That got confirmed when I dropped by Bill's office Monday morning.


Intercontinental Hotel
300 West 44th Street
44 St, 8th Avenue
Times Square

2-3 PM

Bill Perkins: Rock Star
John Liu: Mayor Of NYC: 2013
Happy Holi
Happy Holi
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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Charlie Dumbfuck Rangel

Charlie Rangel did not do it for Hillary or Caputo. He did it for himself. He looked at me and saw someone who had what it takes to become the Don of New York City politics without representing two sidewalks in the US Congress for 50 years. I could do it without holding elected office, and I could do it fast. He saw that. And the motherfucker panicked. And so he did what he did.

Third World Guy
Questions Prepared By My Lawyer For Immigration Court Date Tomorrow
Bill Perkins: Rock Star
Brooklyn And Santogold/Santigold

Friday, June 10, 2011

Bill Perkins: Rock Star

Nepalis In New York And The NRN Movement
New York City



Kiva Is In Nepal
Jazz And Rock Fusion From Nepal
Mafia Politics In Nepal
Black Buddhas: The Madhesis Of Nepal: Documentary
Immigration Court Date: June 6, 2011: Prepared Statement
Questions Prepared By My Lawyer For Immigration Court Date Tomorrow
The UN, The US, The Internet

Paramendra Bhagat
to woodguy@nysenate.gov
cc jiwanlife@yahoo.com
date Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM
subject Need Bill as Chief Guest for event June 25
Jun 8 (2 days ago)

Hi Linda.

I just talked to Kevin at 212-222-7315 and he has suggested I email you since you are Bill's scheduler and then to call him back.

Bill is a friend of mine. I was Barack Obama's first full time volunteer in NYC, and Bill was the first elected official in the city to come for Obama. So we got to know each other pretty well. http://democracyforum.blogspot.com Check out the second video here http://democracyforum.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-york-city-for-barack-obama-1-10.html It is me capturing Bill at a Harlem event in 2007.

Well, I grew up in Nepal, and the Nepali leaders representing 100,000 Nepalis all across America are having a gathering in NYC on June 25, Saturday, and I would like to invite Bill to show up as our Chief Guest. We would be very happy to send a limo to pick him up and drop him off.

June 25
Intercontinental Hotel
44 St 8th Avenue
Times Square
Saturday
5:10 PM to 9:00 PM
6:30 Time for the Senator to show up for as little as 10 minutes or he can stay all the way to 9 PM and have dinner with us
(Please tell him I'd like for him to stay the entire time)

NRN (Non Resident Nepali) Meeting
75 leaders from across America
16 organizational leaders
Representing 100,000 Nepalis all across America

Obama 08: NYC Video: 10 Hours
Bill Perkins: Next Mayor Of New York City
My Guy Barack Won The LA Debate
Tonic: What A Party
The Madonna Of Global Politics
Mixing It For Ferrer
Ferrer Gets Aggressive At A Ferrer Fundraiser
Staff, Volunteers, Elected Officials
DL21C Annual Summer Bash: Barack Won The Straw Poll
John Liu: Mayor Of NYC: 2013

Update: Program details have changed.
11:00 AM 12:50 PM NRN Executive Committee Meeting
1:00 PM to 1:45 PM Lunch
1:55 PM to 3:00 PM Speeches