Kama Of Kingstone

I dont care about the fees. anything under 1000$ for 485 filing is cheap. I am happy they are in the process of eliminating substitution since this will reduce lcs. also higher the fees lesser the abuse of the system where one employee makes different employers file for h1s and gcs. I fully support the hike!

ANYONE else in this queue.

Ah.. finally placed my vote... :)


and it was NOT on myself, ask kirupa to check if ya don't believe me :P

Firstly, I'm a supporter of CIR...but I still sense some ambiguity in these lines...

may be it's just me...:)

"Legislation must also create mechanisms to attract high-skilled immigrants, control the flow of low-skilled immigrants and protect native-born workers, Schumer said, without providing specifics"

The specific details is what we are all waiting for. CIR seems to be the only way to expect some change for EB. We need to work for this change to be a good one for us.

Sorry to hear that. I think it really depends on the Country of origin. Neither me nor my friends had any problems at the Embassy in Panama.

Their way of getting here may be illegal but when the amnesty is passed every so many years and they are allowed to just adjust their status with no questions asked, they are getting their GC as legally as it can get. They also get their GC only after it's legal to do so. They don't go and print one. They get it legally.

Again, it's the system/law that let's them do that. It's perfectly legal but they are cutting in line and that's where the problem is.

we complain about illegals because their very presence here without papers is ILLEGAL. what part of ILLEGAL do you not understand?

as far as I can tell, gmatch is not doing anything ILLEGAL. as for the practice being FAIR or NOT, that is a separate discussion.

If your COS application was approved and you didnt have to go out of US for H1B stamping I would assume your are in status.

I dont know if this would come up in RFE or at interview stage, but I wont worry about it unless the period was more than 180 days.
Thanks for the responses. How about this question ?
Is it out of status if one gets paid from 2 companies with
2 H1bs , like, If one is on bench but getting paid by that company, starts working with 2nd company on transferred H1b, so it is like double pay for about 2-3 weeks .

Hi
In my earlier post, I dint mean to say that all Kinkos are bad, its just the particular one near me was not good enough. The photos were as if they were taken with a yellow filter on their lenses.
Sears did a very good job instead.
You can just tell them that you need photos for passport. They are the same requirements
Think it this way, your photo might be scanned by their machine to be printed on visa/notice. If the photo is not of good quality it might get pixelated after they scan.
So be your own judge, think if you were in USCIS shoes and had to scan a photo and produce it on visa/stamp. They might also use some image recognition softwares for which they require exact speicifications.

In my case the yellow tinge I got from kinkos exactly matches with the improper color on the website below. So i had to go for other option
http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/quality/quality_875.html

sent both faxes :)

4000$ :mad:

Taking up the DREAM Act issue will strengthen the IV cause...by showing how legals are getting short-changed from every angle on the entire immigration issue.

It requires a very small change in the DREAM Act as contained in CIR. Just remove the clause that says it will apply to Z visa holders. In any case, Z visa no longer exists since CIR failed. But I am afraid the will replace it by some condition requiring undocumented presence. Remaining conditions apply to legals as well:

(from the failed CIR)

� Have maintained continuous physical presence in the U.S. since 1/1/07
� Was under 30 years of age on date of enactment
� Was under age 16 at time of initial entry into U.S.
� Have obtained U.S. high school diploma or GED
� Have not been absent from the U.S. for more than 365 total days during period of conditional residence (except those absent due to U.S. military service)
� Have acquired a degree from a U.S. higher ed institution; or completed 2 years in Bachelor�s degree program or higher at such an institution; or have served at least 2 years in the U.S. military
� Has provided a list of all of the secondary educational institutions he or she has attended in the U.S

If the push is for amendment to include legal kids , I would be more than happy to support any effort. I can only offer tepid support if it is exclusively for kids of undocumented people. Both kind of kids are here because of their parents' actions.

Agree with you on the point that any request for amendments to include documented kids should increase the visibility for IV ..

Giving speedy Green Cards to July Visa bulletin cases will ease the Housing Crisis in US.

Above statement implies, housing crisis is because of not issuing green cards.

BTW, I don't have english blood in me ;););)

your implication is wrong ..you can imply anything from a statement.
the reason I support the above initiative is because it is the most cost effective approach. immigration will/does help housing since americans already have houses and they have fewer or no kids. so immigrants constitute a sizeable chunk. a person I had met once told me - as long as you make money for yr bosses and managers they will do a lot for you (we were talking about filing for GC's) - with the same approach if you include builders and car dealers - you could get them to support IV. but my view is since our community is so divided and selfish ..nothing will ever happen because of us. whatever good happens will be because of USCIS mistakes or else we will get GC's after the long wait

In short they do not want us here.. they want to suck the money out of you, all the money you earned and saved.

Were you making sure that we are not disappointed? :)

Thanks for living upto the expectations buddy :D

we all suffer, waiting for the administration/immigration policies to be humane to us..but honestly they've only gotten worse every year. the only good thing was the july bulletin but that also was becoz of the pressure from the big companies who'd already paid big bucks for immigration/attorney fees.

honestly here or back home no one really cares...we will get old, die tryin' perhaps but its true "might is right" and that is how the US embassy treats us.

Ahhh !!!! the junior members come out of the wood work with enthusiasm and fire. let us see how long this lasts !!!!, Only untIl the next VB I would assume

Come on Kid ..Grow up. This is is showing your childish behavior.

What makes you difference between Member and Junior Member. Why do you want to care about that.

If you wanna care about that really , we will make you CIO of this forum LOL.

I think I spent too much time for you.

- best place to stay, hopefully in proximity to the rally start point
- best return flight time to get back
- do I need to rent a car?

Jetblue direct flight to Oakland.
Hotel harrington-- closure to the location.

What about ladies with 5 husbands (pandus), do we need to start visa called H5? F5? D5?

I heard from a friend of my friend knows that indian ladies have 5 husbands at the same time, what about them?

I have never heard such a case after "Droupadi".

cheater... i didn�t imply that ;)

Immigration Voice is releasing the analysis of the information for the community. You can view the report at

http://immigrationvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=36


We are putting together a list of recommendations about this data for our next meeting with USCIS. If you have suggestions, do post on the thread. We would also be updating this report on regular basis as the data is updated on USCIS site and numbers change due to approvals/pre-adjudication/field office data/ CP and spillovers. The visa bulletin movements will also be compared against the report and checked with USCIS and DOS.

Team IV

seriously? you working in some gas station too? what other advantages have you taken of the system?


Sad to see students being punished like this. They are just taking advantage of the system and make some money, but not doing anything illegal. That's what we are all here for right? Make some money. If enrolling for F1 and working somewhere else is against rules, then why did USCIS issue F1 and CPT to the students.

^^^^
This is the most important thing right now.

Members needed in Wisconsin. Please PM me.