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This would be a great benefit to all the applicants who have worked their asses off to get a Masters or Doctoral degree in the US and have been waiting in line forever now.

04/08/2009: USCIS Projected I-140 and EB-485 Processing Times and Ongoing Massive Adjudication of Pending Visa Number Available I-140 and EB-485 Cases

* The I-140 and EB-485 waiters, particularly those who filed the cases during the period of FY 2007 July Visa Bulletin fiasco period, are currently receiving either the RFEs and approvals or denials en masse from the Service Centers, turning a lot of waiters into smiley faces. On behalf of all of these smiley faces, we want to send our message of "THANK YOU" to the leaders of the USCIS and the Honorable Napolitano of DHS for the action in place to remove the backlogs. Thank you, Thank you, and THANK YOU!!

I don't think they will be out of status but may be out of job which I am sure is very well justified. ;)

Nice one. RFE for USCIS.:D
If they can't answer in time. Will they be out of status:D

Thanks amsgc!! I will process your e-mail this evening.

With amsgc and my latest recruit, we are now up to 27 members!!!

Lets Go IV, Go Team IV!!

-NolaIndian32

Since people would be filing taxes early next year, and most expect some returns from Uncle Sam, how about starting a thread to pledge $ 200 from tax returns?

Also, someone had once suggested IV set up a mechanism via Pay Pal to make auto deduction of say $ 20-25 every month. That should get it more continuing contributions and help even out IV's cash flow.


That is a nice thought.

But I realized after watching from the sidelines for over six months now, is that, it is easier to achieve smaller goals. Basically, I mean, request donations, but without specifying the amount. And in good conscience, if they can donate $50 that is some contribution than none (numbers like $200.00 etc. might drive interested people away). There is a chance for second and third contributions, as and when they see positive developments because of IV efforts (I know that it is advantageous for IV if there is one large payment, rather than many small payments, but at this point, I am more interested in ONE SMALL PAYMENT).

Pineapple, please help add ONE member!
Everyone, please add ONE member before December 31st.

I am sure we can achive this very easy goal!

There are MANY MANY Chinese in the same situation but I guess there might not have so many Chinese in IV. IV core group may think of some better way to reach more Chinese or other communities.


We need a LOT more chinese who actively participate in the forums also. You are our best messenger to other Chinese. Please publicize IV's efforts to the Chinese community.

Our Bill is expected to come up in Feb. Please act ASAP.

I have submitted all the documents to my laywer on 6/25 itself (including medical) but they are just heavily back logged and won't be filing my case till Jul 10. I am just frustated now. I even offered to pay extra to speed it up but no use. I am only worried if dates retrogress half way through?

To my real question.. Can we just file on our own with out the lawyer? I would hate to loose this window just coz my laywer couldn't do it. Not sure how I would break that kinda news to my wife, "I know the dates were current for 10 days in July but our lawyer didn't have time so now you will have to stay at home for 1 more year".

Hi! You are not the only one, many people like us are in the same situation as yours. However, there is nothing you can do if the dates retrogress.
Lot of people are filing 485 on their own and you can do that too, I guess. There is a seperate thread for this, please refer to that thread.

GC reform itself is long process and jumping next step is not a good idea. Also having Gc and citizenship will not make much difference. Only difference is voting , a very few government jobs and staying out of country for long time. It may be Ok to wait 5 years for citizenship for most people though it is preferable to reduce the waiting time.Green card is more important to resolve many issues. Still last time there was an attempt to reduce the waiting period 3 years.

I am also struggling to get my GC. It is my 9th year in H1B visa. My intention is, atleast we can reduce the period for waiting to get the citizenship. It can also be considered as a good benefit for our community. Just my thoughts...

Please check my previous post on this and reply from Ron Gotcher on AILA law suit. Let them do and we can also continue what we are doing. As long as we the desired result I am fine

Snathan,
I agree with you that we should continue the efforts from all the avenues open for us. There has been quite a lot of people that have suffered the same faith and its time we start taking some action. :)

I don't know if there was a memo. I think AILA communicated this to the lawyers and I read it on Ron Gotcher's forum.

Apparently, the re-interpretation of laws were based on the changes in AC21, something they were ignoring till 2008.

Thanks. I also do not want to drag us into that direction. Just for the sake of my satisfaction, may I ask to you or anybody here to put any link/doc for any memo or other USCIS doc which states this?

SFO is taking 3 weeks for in person renewal. I gave mine and got date of April 2 (which was 3 weeks away). Probably mail would take few extra days.

I got it in 3.5 weeks. I did it over mail

Also one unusual acitivity of USCIS has been to suspend premium processing of I-140 for the month of July. That to me suggests that they are preparing for the deluge of I-485s.


they could be planning to agressively process all old cases. May not want to touch new ones.

All,

My lawyer received the following RFE during premium process of my PERM I-140 application.
===Here is the text from original RFE========
Submit evidence that alien obtained a true 4 years bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, Math or Equivalent. Evidence of education must be in form of an official diploma, record/transcript showing all dates of attendance, area of concentration of study, and date of degree award, if any. The evidence submitted shows that the alien completed a three year Bachelor in Science Degree in India
===========

fyi: I have 3 years of B.Sc and 2 Years of Post Graduate Diploma in MIS from India.

Let me know if anyone here has received thia kind of RFE and what could be the best next step to overcome this RFE.

Thanks,

-Dhiraj

Under which category you applied I-140? EB2 or EB3?

^^^^

E-filed EAD on 24th April.
Supporting documents received on Apr 28th.
Received EAD receipt on April 30.
Last year I remember receing the receipt and biometric appt letter together.
Has anyone who efiled for EAD renewal this year have received biometrics appointment?
Please let me know.

Thanks,
indian111

I efiled ead petitions for both myselft an my wife on April 19th. I received the approval and the card on May 1st for my petition. I did not receive any biometric appointment. I have done efiling last time too.
however my wife did not get her approval yet although both of them were filed on the same day. had some luds and then no updates since april 27th.
hope this helps.

some brand new "junior" members with 2 posts all made today strogly believing these rumors.

One wonders;)

I beg to differ from your point of view that approvals are on PD. If you take a good look at the PDs of approved cases posted here, you will there are many post July 04 (mostly in Oct and Dec 04) and we all know there are many before that.

They are clearly going by ND. I have seen 1/2 case approved that had ND after 8/30/07



High number of approvals over the first few days were expected. Centers review/preadjudicate cases based on 'real' receive dates (which are close to notice dates), as physical files are sorted in that sequence. That is happening. Sept VB was available couple of weeks ago, which prepared them to issue formal approvals as soon as September starts. USCIS SOP describes that once cases are preadjudicated they are shelved (wating for visa) in sequence of PD's. Therefore, most approvals are preadjudicated cases.

Congratulations to All who got approved. Best wishes to those still counting. If you ND is not too far from published dates (i.e. it is sometime in Aug/Sep/Oct 07), and your PD is high, there is very high chance of you getting a good news soon.

I am sure a lot of skilled people like us, especially immigrants, have a strong desire to work hard, smart and make money. Thanks for taking the initiative.

1. Do you plan to buy stocks directly from the companies or use a broker like TdAmeritrade, Charles Swab etc.,
2. Is there going to be one trading style like you mentioned about Pattern Day Trading.
3. Is there a plan to conduct some series of tutorials or sort and practice at our own risk without supervision
4. Will there be any local, phone or online meet
5. Above all how is it going to BENEFIT IV.

You got me glued to this now.

No, as my priority date never became current before my son turned 21.

You can take these at any Hospitals or Clinic. They are quiet costly but my insurance covered them 100%.

From my understanding you need all these completed to be able to file I485, when ever that may be.......

Going back to the original subject of discussion - before the thread got hijacked by plainspeak and some really divisive and dangerous viewpoints -
This is typically what anti-immigrant and competitor websites do, they never donate or take part in advocacy activities - like PlainSpeak. examples of anti-immigrants are numbersUSA, FAIR and many others. your game is up, you can leave this website.
They pick up a thread that educates members about advocaccy and pretend to have an argument and completely divert the topic. If people have questions there are better ways to talk to management or core.
There were very valid posts about meeting lawmakers and requests for ideas for a better EB system, which were all supressed thanks to the negative campaign.
Admins please delete posts of PlainSpeak as his goal is to hamper advocacy efforts.
This is a grass-root effort and there is no nice way of getting rid of weeds.
Freeloader weeds are just filling up our Server disk space that we pay for, with their bullshit.