Comment Submitted by Rev. Walpola Piyananda, Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara

While we understand the need for some changes, certain proposed changes will cause undue hardship on our religious organization: 1. Such as the inability to judge whether or not a prospective religious worker (monk) is well suited to working in the American culture and able to adjust to the great differences in his native culture and that of the U.S. 2. The additional expense of having to file an I-129 every year and the stress of the process, especially considering the delays in processing since the agency is overwhelmed with paper work, this does not seem practical for either the church or the USCIS. Please see attached comments.