Kama Of Kingstone

I got a discover card in 2004 when I was still a student. maybe they forgot to check my immigration status.
until 2002 they issued.after that they stopped..

Give up your green card and go back to India. You got your green card and still crying.

There is a question on part 7 of AP efiling. I guess, same question is also there in paper form as well. Could somebody please explain as to what to do about this. Here is the question:-

On a separate piece of paper, please explain how you would qualify for an Advance Parole and what circumstances warrant issuance of Advance Parole. Include copies of any documents you wish considered. (See instructions.)

Do we really need to send this ? I do not remember that I did send it last time. Thanks

I got another one, I'm catching you up slowly. :evil:

Very slowly. Er, how long has the voting got left?

Besides, we've got aaround 40 or so votes, and they're spread over five people, so it would take longer than if it was just between two people. Well, obviously it <i>is</i> between two of you... :) If you took the votes for the mere mortals and added them to you two, then one of you would have crossed the line by now. :beam:

Congratulations Dinesh! I feel very happy for you.

Could you take some time out and let us know about your H1B delay in India?

Thanks

I had gone to India for my father's 75th. b'day and planned to get my H-1 renewed. However, when I went to embassy, they said that I have to get clearance and will take one week. I said fine. One week became two weeks, then one month and then two months. I tried to contact embassy and other people, but of no use. My chief here in US, also tried. Meanwhile, my AP had arrive in US (we had filed for I485).( My wife had already got her H-1 approved and she had gone back.) She send me the AP. I contacted two of my lawyers; one said it is fine to come with AP, other said no. I send a letter to embassy asking about my travel with AP. They said, it is legal and not suggested!!!.
So after waiting for two month, I took a chance and came here on AP. At the airport, they took more than one and half hours to get be cleared, meanwhile my wife was waiting for me outside, not knowing what was happening. She was in tears when I came out finally.
After I came to US, I was informed from India that the US embassy had called and said that my name has been cleared and I should come to get my H1 visa stamped.!!!!!!!!

It is not so easy to convince Sen Grassley.

Gotta love this system...

Two years ago; Grassley sent a questionnaire to the top 10 Indian outsourcing companies of how they use non immigrant visas.

They did not have any legal obligation to answer his query. They answered his questions by non answering it.

Grassley then starts to increase the rhetoric and starts pressuring uscis/dol to start investigations.

uscis/dol start investigatin and denying cases and study it and find fraud.

now; Grassley is getting his way and starting to change policy.

Nascom senses game is over and come begging which is exactly what grassley wanted in the first place.

At the end; he will get these guys to agree to tough measures (ie., lca requirements for L-1; tougher measures on h-1b, etc.

See how Microsoft answered differently when they got the query and compare to these guys.

This system created in USA has a way of making you conform to their behaviour willingly or through long and painful way. Looks like they had to learn through long and painful way.

You have already got your case approved. Then why do you mention " ... shall we all unite and file the applications ..." This is like Al Gore wasting energy in his own office and preaching to the world to reduce global warming.

I dont see any merit in your suggestion. Rather to the cynical eye, it all seems sinister.




I understand that there is lot of fear among applicants that USCIS might retrogress the dates interimly sometime in july due to the expected high volume of applications filing in the begining of july.

To minimize the chance of USCIS from taking any such steps, shall we all unite and file the applications on a specific date in july probably on 30th of july? This will accomodate all applicants...so that we shall all be winners and use this opportunity to our advantage instead of competing amongst each other...where only a few will be winners and others will be loosers.

This will also reduce the pressure among applicants , attorneys and doctors.

Can the AILA cooperate? Will there be unity amongst applicants to make this possible??? any ideas ??

Report back

Two people from the CA group met the Constituent Services Manager at the Congresswoman's office. The staffer was very familar with Immigration issues, and the functioning of backlog elimination centers. It was a fascinating meeting at a very personal level with good exchange of views. It is good to remember we meet as individuals with our own histories, struggles and successes.

On IV goals

There was more agreement on some of IV's goals than others. For example it might be easier to "Automatically recapture unused EB Visa number from previous year." That goal may have better chance to win out. So we may need to move this item up. So in terms of priority, starting with what the staffer agreed with, Iv's priorities would something like this.

1. Transparency of DOL-BEC and USCIS functioning.

2. Automatically recapture unused EB Visa Numbers from previous years.

3.Convert all 1 year extensions of H-1B, EAD, and Travel Document (Advance Parole) of applicants in backlog to 3 year extension.

4. Ability to file I-485 even without Visa Number availability

5. Allow applicants with advanced degrees from the US, or who have worked for more than 3 years in the US on H-1B, to automatically apply for adjustment of status without regard to EB annual limit.

6. Eliminate dependents from EB annual limit.

7. Increase EB annual limit.

We shared the Ombudsaman's report and the couple of pages from the President's economic report of 2005. They were both very useful. It was the first time the staffer had seen the Ombudsman's report. The staffer wanted to use these at at a meeting she is attending :) Thank you IV team, especially Berkeley Bee for ferreting out key bits of information.

On speeding up Labor certification

When one of us said congress's intention for LC is 21-60 days, the staffer replied that was before 911. How can we make this happen and speeded up the work in PBEC/DBEC?

The staffer also mentioned that a lot of time is spent on "background check" and mentioned it was suggested it might be better for FBI to do it. But of course the FBI had other things to do and that suggestion didn't fly.

One of us mentioned the clogging due to 245-i. LCs could be speeded up -- if the paper work of those on the 245-1 (Apr.,25,2001) track is different from us, then could those be handled differently/ in another place to speed up our LCs in PBEC and DBEC.

Finally, the staffer will let the congresswoman know our concerns.

thanks

Bluekayal

Can you please tell me what should we write for this question?

12. Description of your case problem: Describe the case problem you are experiencing with USCIS. Attach additional pages if needed.

I am eligible for adjudication but for whatever reasons, my case is being overlooked.

Do i need to add that my name check is pending and based on 180 day rule, it should have been approved?

After folks start getting their EAD, God alone knows how many "New" desi bodyshopper's like this will spring up.

All those so called "Enterpreneurs" a.k.a desi bodyshoppers...Perhaps if someone started a company that actually makes something rather than just contracting....more jobs, more value...

I feel everyone of us has the potential to have such a vision...after all isn't this the land of opportunities

Perhaps it is wise only to dream....

In india we created so many types of quotas, some of us cant even live there expecting fairness.
Now here? ....! Jees!

I want a quota so that I get my GC tomorrow, though I have no valid reason.

It seems like you believe in all or nothing.
With such an attitude we will end up with nothing.

Did you vote against Masters quota for H1B??

Looks like for July 2nd they just started and i talked to 5 other guys( who got receipt) - all of them has a sending time between 9 and 9:30 AM by FEDEX

Mine went around 11:30 by USPS on July 2nd - so i have to wait for at least 2weeks. 1 hr late means 1 week delay !!

Kidding - what time yours hit the USCIS building ?
mine reached at 7:55 am ...still no receipt :(

this is a good response, seconding it.


Yes, and unfortunately meaningless for me, because my current company won't do an H1 for me. When I joined this new company on EAD, they clearly told me that maintaining valid immigration status is my headache. They won't file any applications to US govt for me. It was made absolutely clear to me. :-(


To OP: Even if you moved to EAD you can come back to H1. If dates had not moved so much to make your PD current, what was your plan for your wife?


B1 visa of course. :-) . Hey, as I said, I did not think about intent issues at that time. Hindsight is always 20-20. But the deed is done. I never look back. In my dictionary, there is no such word as "should have". I either do something or don't do something. Only losers think they "should have" done something.


B1/F1 is not a good idea (immigration intent is obvious, and it will catch up with you at some point most probably during 485 processing and could result in a rejection). It looks like H1-H4 is the best option if you two lovebirds want to be together.


Yes, it does seem so. But I hate to jump to a third company just to get an H1. Let me see if what are my options now.


If you do get approved early, then as someone else has said, use follow-to-join to bring her back here.



Also, using cruel in the thread title is uncalled for.


Hey guys, just go easy on that. As I already mentioned, it was a weak attempt at humor which went over the head of most people. In any case, this looks like another of my deed which is done and refuses to be undone now. I tried to change the title of the thread but could not do so.


The root cause of most of your problems here seems to be the decision to invoke AC-21 using EAD instead of using H1. If you dont mind sharing: why did you jump to EAD knowing that it would mean your wife would be out of status and would have to return to India?

Too many issues at that time. Old h1 was anyway expiring soon. Desi bodyshoper employer was going nuts sqeezing me dry. He was demanding money for everything from H1 extension to giving out compnay letters for GC related issues and thousands of such reasons. But as I already said.. it's done..it's done...

Hey guys!
I just opened this thread casually and found so many helpful messages to a single problem. I am so glad to know that there are so many good people around to help their fellow beings. I sincerely appreciate each and everyone who took time to help in someway.

We often complain for petty things, I guess we should equally encourage the good deeds of other people.

Keep up the good work.

An alien with work permit
(I still cann't get the alien word, I always thought we are all humans)

We can do better than this. Let's book tickets and fly to DC. We must participate in this event. Please take two days off and be in DC, and if you do not have enough vacation time, take one day off. Please contribute to this event.

We live in NJ and my husband was not ready to take a day off initially, I was going to come with friends and now after bugging him for days together I finally showed him this message about people flying in from CA and well he is motivated to come, he plans to work remotely on the 17th the lobby day, we are bringing some friends visiting from India too;)

Good job mmj.
Pls provide your details and participate actively.
Request you to donate as well if you have not already.

Guys ,

Please vote yes and leve some comments

This is not the case for me....but during a discussion with my attorney and other friends contacts they said if you do not attach the medicals now you may get RFE at a later stage...which you can resolve it.

I bet any RFE can be articulated with reason by attorney if they are smart enough.

This is something I heard...but do not hold me on that. Please check with your attorney too and make a decesion.

I think you might be getting stressed out for no reason vis-a-vis the job market. Most of the people applying (~500k by your estimates) are already on H-1B or L-1. The number of spouses getting EAD is another question.


Just imagine what will happen to the market flooded with EADs. Job market for H1Bs will totally be down. No US companies will hire H1Bs if they get somebody with an EAD. Tonnes of Junior developers and S/W testers will in the market driving the billing rates down even further. It's better to pack up and leave. I have heard from one of the forums here that an estimated 500K people will file this month since all PDs are current. EB-3 mexico + phillipines togther alone will be close to 300K. God help the Job market.

Also minimum wait time will be 500K/140K ~ 4 yrs before they get to process your GC. Add to that the time for namecheck backlog 2+ yrs. So total 6+ yrs before getting GC........

lotr

Did anyone transferred from NSC to CSC and back got FP notice?

Yesterday night at 9:00pm I got email from CRIS that they have issued RFE for me and my spouse.

The contents in the emails say -

"Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

Current Status: Request for Additional Evidence Sent"

Will have to wait and see what the RFE is about till we get it in postal mail.

Very curious about what the RFE is about. Have been with the same employer who sponsored the GC for last 5 years. PD in july 2004 , I140-EB2 approved approved in Nov 2006 and 2 July 2007 filer.

Did any RFE recently please post?