Petition to Abolish the — H–1B —
www.ZaZona.com/H1BPetition
Petition to Abolish the H-1B Visa Program
The Petition
How to Sign the Petition
To sign the Petition, you need to
print out the Petition using the first of the buttons below,
sign it (with real ink!), and
mail it to the address at the bottom of the page.
Though disseminated over the Web, Petition ultimately is not a cyber object.
It is accepted only in hardcopy.
Congress will never believe the grievances are real
unless the signatures are real also.
Printout Center for the Petition
All documents require an Adobe Acrobat Reader.
THE PETITION ITSELF on letter-sized paper
Print out several copies (or photocopy one print-out), and either sign
yourself alone or sign and gather signatures from others.
THE PETITION ITSELF, on legal-sized paper
Contains room for more signatures on each page.
Request to have your name printed on this site
If you would like your name printed on the "Signatories" section of this site,
print and fill out this form.
Instructions for circulating the Petition
If you wish not only to sign yourself but also to gather signatures from others,
this page will help you be a successful Petition circulator.
A poster of the Petition text, on letter-sized paper
If you are circulating the Petition, the Poster helps alert people in your area
about the Petition's presence.
The Poster can also be used advertise the Petition in general.
On the Requirement of Hardcopy
The Petition Group has decided to accept only hardcopy signatures, not email or electronic signatures. The reason is that Congress tends habitually to ignore electronic polls, and the real, hardcopy signature is something that Congress more readily understands as something produced by real people.
This requirement of hardcopy may be considered an inconvenience,
but the Petition is a real, legally recognized petition
operating under accepted standards and protected by the First Amendment.
It is not an internet poll.
Furthermore, conventional wisdom in Washington is that a
hardcopy signature carries a lot more weight than any cyber object.
Petitions are delivered to Congress on a rolling basis,
typically within one month of their arrival to our central office.
Doing More
Signing the Petition is just one thing to do to stop the H-1B Visa Program.
Other things include:
Circulating the Petition and getting more signatures.
Suggestions for being a successful circulator are found
at the Printout Center above.
Writing your Representative or Senator.
Links to the House and Senate are available on this site's "Links" page.
You are free to include a copy of the Petition with your letter.
Your letter may include narration of your own experiences with
American job markets flooded with foreign labor, or it may explain how
the massive laying-off and unemployment of American technical talent
hurts the country, replaced though it is with foreign labor at cheaper prices.
Writing a letter-to-the-editor to your local paper.
When a local firm announces a layoff, you may visit the L.C.A. Database
(see "Links" page) to determine how many H-1Bs were requested by that company.
One may then compose a letter detailing how Congress has made it so easy to
fire Americans and replace them with H-1Bs.
Keeping this issue before the public will help end Congress's
abusive treatment of America's homegrown technical talent.
And Spread the Word Word of mouth is the only advertising the Petition has.
Please consider directing people to the Petition by emails,
chatrooms or post-it boards. You may direct people to it simply as a
point of information, or you may add your own endorsement if you are so inclined.
Links to the Petition are also welcome throughout the Web.
When mentioning the Petition to other people, be sure to include the address
www.zazona.com
where the Petition may be found after an obvious click. The address
of the homepage is more direct but is less easily memorable: