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You can file I-485 only when your PD is current. There is no connection between filing for I-485 and I-140 approval.

I have filed a 485 since i married a citizen. I have had my interview with the immigration officer, since my application is 2 years old (do to the excesive moving ive done) she asks me for another medical and a co-sponsor. Medical is no problem, but i cannot produce a co-sponsor. i need a co-sponsor because my wife has 5 kids from a previous marriage, and the household income does not meet that of the guidelines. We do not have any relatives or friends that can help. I have to submit this information by Jan 21 2009.
What are my alternatives?
Thank you
Forgot to mention , we now have a child together, if this makes any difference to the goverment

Online EAD status says Card production ordered. Not received card yet. Is there any memo/ lawyer opinion that says it is OK to work that as a basis for employment eligibility?

You need to have the card in hand to fill in I-9.

Our friendly anti Jack has provided in the comments a couple of links to an intriguing story regarding Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (currently embroiled in another scandal - this time involving strippers and GOP money - oy!). Steele has been one of the moderate voices in the GOP when it comes to immigration reform in the past and apparently he met with a pro-reform group called the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM). Accounts differ regarding whether Steele promised to work for immigration reform and, more specifically, help round up a second GOP Senator to sponsor the reform bill...

More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/04/gop-head-sort-of-promises-to-support-cir.html)

Did any one get their labor approved that are filed after June 2008? Does anyone know how long it is taking these days?

Is there any way to expedite it? Looks like perm is also becoming like old labor processing.

please post your answers.

I recommend visiting USCIS page at USCIS - FORMS (http://www.uscis.gov/forms) and doing it yourself as it is the best way to master this.
It is a simple form except that you have to patiently go through the instructions.

As for identification document, if you are applying for an extension of EAD, copy of front and back of previous EAD is enough. You don't need to provide a drivers license copy or any other form of identification.

Holding the Hungry Hostage (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/opinion/07fri2.html) NY Editorial, December 7, 2007

It is a travesty that the fates of some 35 million Americans who need food aid are tied to the farm bill, which comes up every five years. The House passed an inadequate version last summer, and the Senate has failed to advance its own. It is time to ask why feeding the hungry must include a trough for multibillion-dollar agribusiness.

As it has pressed to keep its subsidies, about $26 billion in the current bill, agribusiness has contributed $415 million to federal political campaigns since 1990, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The hungry don’t have much of a lobby. But those who cannot consistently put food on the table need the help promised in the bill, including more than $4 billion in improvements in the food stamp program and for emergency assistance. If the aid remains in the farm bill, and if it remains in a logjam, aid would continue at current, inadequate levels.

Food stamps regularly help 26 million people get something to eat. But the previous farm bill did not peg benefits to inflation, so as food prices have skyrocketed, families who were just barely getting by are now in a much worse place. Some 800,000 food stamp recipients — disproportionately elderly or disabled — are being told to make due on a minimum benefit of $10 per month. That amount has remained unchanged in 30 years.

As The Times recently reported, food banks and soup kitchens across the nation are being depleted by demand so overwhelming that the needy are being turned away, or given help so minimal, it is hardly worth the energy expended to get it.

Washington needs to do better. The Senate could start by rallying around the sensible legislation sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana. It would replace crop supports with an insurance program to cover actual losses, and put the savings, potentially billions of dollars, to better use, including for food aid.

Or the Congress could make a bold statement and begin to restructure funding. It could get money to food banks faster if it came out of any bill but the farm bill.

The Bush administration has correctly opposed the excesses of the farm subsidies program, but it could do more. It could finance additional and immediate food assistance by dipping deeper into money culled from customs receipts to support farm and nutrition programs.

Since their beginnings, hunger relief and nutrition programs have been inextricably tied to helping farmers. That may have made sense once. But as recent maneuvers on the farm bill have shown, it no longer works.

Republicans — by far the biggest beneficiaries of agribusiness largess — are using the advantage of being a bare minority to try to attach a flurry of amendments on immigration, taxes and any other issue but the desperate one at hand. Farm state senators look the other way so a bill, warts and all, can get done.

They need to put America’s hungry first.


Senators Reach Tentative Farm Deal (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120602408.html) By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Associated Press, December 6, 2007


Senate ends farm bill impasse, may pass in days (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120602662.html) By Charles Abbott | Reuters, December 6, 2007

Hi SunnySurya,

Approximate statistics here ---> http://immigrationwatch.com/router.jsp?action=list_stat&table_name=IMMI_PS_LINI485&year=2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701582.html

Let us send thank you note to the reporter.

Government Does U-Turn on Green Cards

By SUZANNE GAMBOA
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 17, 2007; 7:26 PM

WASHINGTON -- The government did an about-face Tuesday and announced it is accepting applications for green cards filed by skilled immigrant workers.

Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Homeland Security Department, said in a news release it will accept the applications through Aug. 17. Applications already filed, which the agency planned to reject, also will be accepted.

I did this thinking it was like that one thread but I was wrong but I'm putting this here anyway... 5 min worth.

http://wacreative.com/12HourDays.jpg

I am on H1B extension. Means my stamp is expired.
I have a ticket to go to India. I am traveling through the following route

Boston- London- Bahrain - Bombay.

I heard that I need to have transit visa for UK as my connection is in UK (2 Hrs).
I don't have the UK visa and I will not have the US visa at the time of entry in UK.

I have very sort time now in my hand.

1. I really need to have the UK transit visa?
2. Yes then how to get this?

What should I do now?

does anyone know how I can put the items of a combobox into a listbox?

thx

Look around for those threads. People posted suggestions of what can be done when I-140 receipt notice is not available. To start with look here.

http://www.immigration.com/fromtheagency/nsc112006.html

Hope this helps

A while back someone posted a link where I could search for my company's all H1 filings (in general, w/o specific receipt numbers).

Could you let me know what is the site? Wanna see if my H1 extension shows up.

Hi,

Can anyone know whether IGNOU(Indira Gandhi national open university)from India will consider in the list of recognized universities for applying H1 visa?

Kindly Advice....

I was laid off in Dec 2009, but severance will stop till early Feb. Now I found two potential jobs. Company A is a corporation in same state, but company B is a university in some other State.

1. How long will take them to transfer my H1B? does the different States matter on this transfer time? I want to make sure which one can submit the H1B transfer before my paycheck stops in Feb.

2. In order to apply for Green Card later, which job is better for Green Card application? I heard university will not help the staff (accountant) for Green Card application. Is that true?

Thank you so much!

So I am happy that USCIS is not confused. They know what they are doing.

Added!

Do I need to attach denial letter too.

Embassy of the United States of America in Manila (http://manila.usembassy.gov/wwwh3023.html)

Some big compromises in the House version that dropped this morning. First, there will be $2525 in filing fees, $525 of which is due at the outset and $2000 of which is paid five years in to the ten year conditional non-immigrant period. That should presumably answer critics who complain that DREAM will add to the deficity. Also, conditional status is granted in two five year terms and the college education/military service requirements must be met in the first five year term in order to get the extension approved. Here is the new bill. HR6497

More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/12/house-dream-act-includes-new-fee.html)