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I am on F1 too and i recently went to India after we had applied for i-485. I used my AP and when i had asked in my Office of International education I was told that the moment i applied for i485 my F1 was cancelled.

1 genius said "kaplan doesnt issue I-20's anymore."
so Does anybody know anywhere else can issue I-20 ?

2 Good question : Are you sure than ,while the H1B is being processed ,you can live here legally?


looking for answer ,too. Thanks a lot !

Here's a rather strange and may be uncommon situation for someone I know who needs suggestions from gurus here...such huge PD movements do result in strange situations such as these :)

EB3 India Labor + I-140 certified with PD Feb 2003
EB2-140 pending at NSC hoping to port the EB3 PD date

So both cases are now current, which leads to a couple of options for AOS:

1. File based on approved EB3 (and risk a potential retrogression in future)

2. File based on pending EB2 140 before it is approved (and risk potential RFE, etc. and who knows if it would be too late to revert to the EB3)

The other option is to upgrade the EB2 140 to PP, but could you please list the relative merits of the above two options?

My case is also similar and I decided to go with EB2

My EB3 PD is Nov 2002. I got promotion this year and same company applied for my EB2 labor via Perm and got approved with in couple of months.

My attorney already filed my 485 application concurrently while applying for EB2 I-140 PD (PP) last month. I got an RFE(edu: 3 year Engineering degree). My EB2 I-140 is approved yesterday after receiving the RFE response. It's better to utilize the EB2 category if you can, in case if they decide to retrogress again, it's likely that you will get the GC soon with EB2 PD than EB3 PD.

Upgraded to PP on 06/27 and received RFE on 07/06 ability to pay.

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That particular episode of Family Guy was on last night :P :D

Actually I had suggested a phone/fax campaign to Durbins office. The Anti-immigration/protectionist organizations such as Programmers Guild have targeted this senator for a reason.....but no one is getting our point of view across to him.

I don't think he's anti-immigrant, but the fact is no one from our community has reached out to him in an organized manner.

I suggest we start a phone/fax and flower compaign....

Doesn't hurt to record conversation though - the most that will happen is that the lawyer will say that it is not admissible in a court of law.

If the other party came to know that the conversation was recorded, they can counter sue.

Here is a link for laws surrounding this in each states.

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/

I am changing my employer and wanted to retain the services of legal firm representing current employer. Upon asking that I want to retain their services after I leave current employer, I have been told to pay upfront retainer fee of $2500.

- Is it normally the case? I have been told that this fee will be put in my account with the firm and used to pay the charges for the services I request.

- If with God's grace my case is approved without requiring attorney's help, is this retainer refundable in full (I have asked attorney this question and waiting for thier reply). Anybody has a similar experience.

The firm is trying to milk you. looks like better switch the lawyer, appears to be greedy.
my 2 cents...
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Can anyone please respond? What should I do?

This is under ideal conditions. How many 485 has complications and how many are not arranged properly. They have to consider everything. Just to get the papers right for review might take several hours. In between, they may be called for meeting, smoke break, tea break. So give them some slack. Two applications per day is good enough work for an employee considering each app has one or two dependends.

Last but not least, the ex-director or USCIS is an anti-immigrant and was member of an active anti-immigrant group. Now you go and figure how USCIS will work. Even if numbersusa is good enough to take 10% of USCIS into their org, we are screwd and they are doing it already.

get relief from retrogression. Capture of unused visa numbers etc will make us ignore how many apps USCIS received.

Good thing is that people will get interim benefits like EAD/AP.

First they need to cope with the scores of petetions, USCIS and FBI.
For how long will they work overtime to resolve this mess? such bouts as the one we saw in the last two weeks of june are short and few. If they are smart they will flush out the approvable cases early without going thru the EAD cycles year after year.
This is exactly opposite to what they have been doing. If there were 60k approvable cases, i wonder what they were doing all this time. Approving those cases earlier wud have allowed others to get in the system earlier.
Additional VISA numbers may not help anybody, if they don't use them properly

1)Incase my 485 application gets denied, can I start the process again and use the PD of my current application?

2) Can I move to and start the GC process with another company and use the current PD (I140 approved, 180 days passed), even if my current company revokes I140 and my Job description is very different --- I'm assuming yes.

3) What if I leave the country and come back after 2-3 years and reapply. Can I reuse the PD of my current application?

I was told by a friend that the priority date is mine forever since my I140 is approved. Is that correct?

Thanks

YES YES YES - go ahead screw your smalltime employer

I wish the USCIS took this out as a requirement for AC21. Then life would be sweet!


from AC21 memo issued on December 27, 2005

Question 14. Must the alien have a new offer of employment at the time the I-485 is being adjudicated under the I-140 portability provisions?
Answer: Yes. The alien cannot still be looking for �same or similar� employment at the time the I-485 is being adjudicated under the adjustment portability provisions. The alien must be able to show there is a new valid offer of employment at the time the I-485 is adjudicated.

So find a new job before I-485 is approved.

Isnt Labor & I 140 property of the employer and labor can be transferred to some one else (not allowed now but was in past) the employee comes into picture only at the 485 stage and that is when the intent should be looked into. Its a pretty complicated question so lawyer is the best person to answer.

John Kyl from Arizona wants to put an amendment to make "current legals ineligible for this benefit for this if they go out of status from now on".

Check the message by saturnring11 in this thread. He linked the USCIS document which states that PD is retained by the employee once the I-140 is approved unless I-140 is revoked for Fraud.

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2368

Here is the link that he posted :

Look on Page 27 of the USCIS Press Release
http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/afm_ch22_091206R.pdf

Yes.. I did contacted to congresman office.

His office informed me that our cases are assigned to adjudicating officer.

damn! sorry to hear that Chris, did you contact any congressmen? as for me, I need to take some vacation, this gc bug has bitten me and its hurting now.:)

Dec 21st 06. Is that really true? On , there are many people in Nov who havent got it approved yet. I know, those guys might not have updated after their extension was approved.

Is there any one in here who is before Dec 21st and got it approved? It sounds unbelievable to me because it moved from Oct 31st to Dec 21st (51 days?? )

H1B Stamping in Halifax Canada (only for revalidation)

She told me ( as with other applicants) that my information is not in the new system called PIMPS, so its possible that I could not get my passport the next day at 3 pm.


PIMPS? :D
I think it's PIMS. :cool:

You have a valid point but in worst case scenario, can i use the EAD and handle the RFE at the time of citizen ship... is the RFE during approval of GC or during citizen ship ?


You won't get an RFE during approval of GC since you are legally here all the time due to AOS but your wife will get it when you file for her GC since she would be out of status all this time.

hi mpadapa,

I couldnt find that question. Do you know aapprox what time after the conference call started or the name of the guy who posted that question?
thanks