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$100 from me.

Rahul :)

I love my country and want to go back, but it is in the hands of rapists and looters and I suspect it will remain that way...either I become a Gandhi and spend my life liberating it, or live year with my eyes & ears closed...

It is actually funny to watch you guys fight over the US vs India.

Let me ask you this:

-If you didn't choose to study medical or IT and never came to US, would you be thinking the same (problems in India and reasons not to settle in India etc) as you are thinking today?
-If US government didn't have the provision of employment based GC, would you be thinking the same as you are thinking today(problems in India and reasons not to settle in India etc) ?


The answer of the questions above is either YES or NO. I'm sure that many of us will answer these questions as NO.

And if the answer is NO and and you are still counting problems in India and trying to justify your stay in US, then I'm afraid my friends you guys are being opportunistic.

No matter how bad it is, that country made you capable of using this forum. You shouldn't backbite and find problems and issues in that country. You should rather use your energy in solving problems in India. Don't say it is not possible. Nothing is impossible.

You can send emails/letters/flowers to senators and officials here for GC, but I'm sure that there will only be handful of you; who actually tried to send their feedback complaints to Indian government and its officials.

I can go on and on, but I leave this thought with you guys and end my post here, as I know that you got the point.

Rcvd Receipt Notice from my Attorney.

Filed: July 2nd
PD: Jan 2006
I-140 Apporved: Nov 2006
Receipt Date: 8/10/2007 (Received 8/13 Today)

Aug 13 2007: LIN0723350001-LIN0723354665 (NEBRASKA SERVICE CENTER)

If someone ports from eb3 to eb2 they should get the priority date of the day they were eligible to file an eb2 and not be able to carry the date from eb3.
Porting makes sense in a family based visa where your petitioner can file for an application while he is still a green card holder and then becomes a citizen which upgrades the beneficiary's category as well.
On an employment visa you file for an eb3 when you are eligible for an eb3 job, you file for an eb2 when you are eligible for an eb2 job. Why would you be able to jump ahead in the eb2 line when you were clearly did not have an eb2 job ? Just because you filed an application at some point of time in eb3 and waited a decade to get a better job doesn't mean someone else has to pay for your (pick one - laziness, ineptitude, lack of skill or lack of knowledge).
Most of IV Core is made of eb3 applicants and therefore there has never been any push from the core on this matter. And as someone said .. You ARE eating my lunch..

ha ha ha ha ha .... till few days back EB2 guys were saying we are with you.... do not be jealous.... fight together for EB... now after this article, now some of EB2 people are not happy with rules & sharing true color of spirit they were talking about...

Hi GCCovet,

As promised, I am contributing another $25.00 as $1000.00 has crossed.

I will again donate another $25 when we cross $2000.00

Details:
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Payment Sent (Unique Transaction ID #3LK7417540480844L)
Total:$25.00 USD
Date:Feb. 10, 2009
Time:11:23:38 PST
Status:Completed
Subject:Immigration Voice
Method: PayPal



Thank you Sanjay!!!

With Sanjay's additional contribution as promised, we are now at $1169.00

Thank you to all who have contributed so far... and a request to those who have not contributed yet, to please contribute.

Thank you all.

GCCovet

" Why don't you sign unless it say until and after 1 year approval. You can leave employment after 6 months of filing I-485 and see what happens at that time, you have nothing to loose " - DSJ

I dont have a problem signing 1 yr agreement because my 140 will take at least another 8 months ( Feb 08) and by the time next years budget opens up for good new Jobs its already Mar 08.

But my concern is if my employer wants me to hang on with them till 485 is approved and then 1 more year

I meant "whole sentence from the employment agreement". All depends on the wordings. If your agreement is linked to I-485 approval date then there is a way out. Every contract must have well defined terms. Since date for I-485 approval is not known, such contracts are difficult to stand in court of law. However, if it says "the employee must work for 2 years or 6-months after I-485 approval date (whichever is earlier) otherwise he/she will pay all GC related expenses" then the contract is more likely to be enforceable.

All depends on the wordings of the contract.

Please consult a good lawyer BEFORE signing any contract.

Not a legal advice.
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Green Card holder since May 2002

desi3933 at gmail.com

Hi,
I filed mine on 27th July, 2007;
Do I need to apply for renewal now? How sooner or later we can apply for renewal?

You can file for renewal beginning 120 days before your EAD/AP expires.

It already does, if you have an approved I-140 based on your LC.

with LC sitting in BEC for 5 years or more it does not. There are many many people I know whose PD could not be recaptured because of the insane amount of time LC certifications used to take. With PERM its a 5 month + 15 day (if I-140 PP is restored) thing; in my time (gosh I feel like an oldtimer now) it was a 4-5 YEAR wait for LC, then another year for I-140 (as there was no PP). And in 2001-2003 not all companies that sponsored LCs survived to see what came out of that process, and the sponsored employees were left with nothing.

Hi

I have donated $50 earlier and want to donate another $50 for the Advocacy day but everytime I click on donate it shows me some wierd message from paypal. Please help, I would prefer to pay via paypal or donate by credit card.


Cheers,
DD
Participating in Advocay day
Getting one more person by using miles
Let's make it happen for us and all

Here is my update:

EB2 - India
PD - Sep/2006
I 140 approved - Dec 2006
I 485 Date received July 2nd 2007
RD - checks were cashed (date - July 30, 2007)
FP - Got a mail from USCIS regarding finger printing (scheduled - August 29,2007)

So far no receipt by mail, application is at Nebraska.

Yo man, you are one lucky dude! Nebraska hasn't issued many fp mails to July filers.

Case might have got transferred to CSC. I applied on Jul' 23rd and no news yet.

Thanks,
-rk.

Rk,
Thanks for your reply. Lawyer sent 140 to Texas. But, it was transfered to NSC and got a receipt from NSC for 140. Do you think it is transferred to CSC not toTSC?

Filed two EAD renewals to TSC: one on 07/06/08, another on 07/14/08.
Both included only the documents required by the filing instruction, nothing besides.
The first one was accepted, ND 8 Jul, the second returned with a request for a copy of I-485.
Added and re-sent again- no receipt yet.

You need to be signed up for recurring donations. One time donation does not count.


I have signed up for recurring donations and still don't have access to lot of Forums

done... Congressman changed in recent election.

Newly elected lawmakers are not members of the Congress until 7th January, 2011. In the lame duck session i.e. time between elections and end of the year, the same lawmakers will continue to vote even if they lost their election.

The names of the Members of Congress is correct.

Why not in DC... IF we really plan then we can do this in DC.. ? may be next weekend?
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It would be great if we can coordinate nationally, that way we can synergize our efforts.

I think the real rush would be this week....

Anybody with case filed on aug9th with NSC recieved any notice??

Is Lin for Lincoln, NB or something like that? Is one I-140 and the other I-485?



LIN is the prefix of the id number given to your application if you are applying to Nebraska service center, like WAC is for the california service center. it might possibly mean Lincoln,Nebraska.

I believe all 485(along with 765 and 131) applications should go to Nebraska service center after the bispecilization rule became effective. Not sure where the 140 application should go to though.

here is how you decipher the receipt number, be it from Nebraska,California,Texas,Vermont

LIN-03-123-5-0001

LIN - Service center,LIN for Nebraska,WAC for california,SRC for Texas and EAC for vermont

03 - the year 2003, it should be 07 for this year

123 - working days count from the start of the immigration year(immigration year starts in october i believe)

5 - Not sure what this number is, all i know is, it is 5 for all the 4 service centers

0001 - count of the applications received at this service center on the given day(in this case day-123). This can go from 0001 - 9999 but normally its about 2000-3000 application worst case 5000-6000 applications per day(not sure how they managed when 150,000 H1 applications came in one single day!)

Please correct me if i am wrong...

EB2 India
PD 5/04
I-140 approved 6/06 at TSC
I-485 filed July 2 at TSC

No receipt or check cashing yet !!!

By the way, latest update by TSC shows TSC at 6/28/2007 (only 2 days move!!). NSC is still at 7/1/2007

Received by USCIS on 12th June.
Lud on 18th June.
No receipt received. Found SRC number through cashed check.
No further movement yet.

Eb-3/India/17th Jan 2003.