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Guys u can mark my words - there will be no relief for Hi Tech Workers, as the policy makers know, if not here we will find comparable jobs elsewhere, and wont make a noise.

It will come down to making a noise in a big way if we have to achieve our immigration goals. When illegals can take to the streets, c'mon we r legal and following the process (which is broken) and we want that process fixed. Is taht asking too much!

Gone are the days when immigrants were welcome in US, although everyone in US is an immigrant, we r the unlucky ones to have been caught in this wave of backlogs, anti-immigrationists and illegals.

deleting...

Thanks Marty.
Just keeping my fingures crossed.
POE will be peace bridge niagara falls.

I think it will be smooth. Landing by road is easier than by air. You need to do the following as soon as you have landed. I recommend you land early in the morning as gov. offices are closed at noon:

1. Locate an HR office and get your SIN number. This will take 30 min to an hour once you are there. You will need to show your Passport and COPR document as a proof.

2. Locate the medical insurance office and obtain your medical insurance card.

3. Go to the post office and obtain a PO box.

4. Open a bank account. Use the PO box address as mailing addres.

Good luck.

As you have efiled your EAD the FP you have received might not necessarily mean the FP for 485, it could be just for EAD. Gurus any comment!!

Well in my opinion(although it doesn't count) an FP is an FP and it is for I-485 and EAD happens to use biometric information on the card.

I 'll try not to lose my sleep over it... chill!!!!!!!

-R

Been in the US since 1998, have an EB-2 PD of 2001, have played by the rules all along. Still no GC... And, the dates are going back to 2000 from the new year.. I've lost hopes...

I'm pretty close to getting clinical depression because of this game played by USCIS, Labor Dept, FBI and my own bad luck.

SKILL bill, OMNIBUS, etc. comes and goes. IV does seem to be doing things to lobby for the community, but let's face one reality. Like a news article said, no one in congress or senate wants to touch immigration even with a long pole until 2009.

The US has been very good to me (other than the GC part), more than my home country (India) which is why I'm still here.

Have invested too much of time in this country to just pack up and go. Just curious if any of you feel this way? How do you handle such depressing feelings?

--Hopelessness, negative thinking and depression are real feelings. Many people live in denial. Some realize and never express it till it consumes them completely. Some express it to their relief but may suffer from not knowing the reason causing depressed feelings.

In your case , you are not in denial, you are expressing it and most importantly, you have identified the reason behind feeling hopeless and depressed.

If you can do anything to solve the problem, then do it without worrying about the outcome. If the situation is beyond your control, you are not going to solve it by worrying more about it.

Be in control. Don't let it control you.Keep yourself occupied by doing things that you like and entertain yourself.

I am going through the same.Yours truly has been waiting for a settled life since 1998.

Good luck.

EAD RD: 21 May 2008
LUD: 6 June 2008
FP/Photo: 15 Jun 2008
Current EAD Exp Date: 30 Aug 2008

dingudi,

I tend to disagree from you on your comment regarding a possible link between name check and FP. I think they are seperate processes and run in parallel - one does not depend on another. I've read somewhere that a guy's name check was initiated like a month before he went for his FP. He got that info from infopass appointment. Also, wouldn't the IOs mention about the pending name check if it was related to FP notice?

Regarding reaching a non TSC IO, I think is impossible since the call gets directed to TSC or NSC based on the receipt number that you key in when you call.

I agree with you that we'll end up getting the same damn letter as our friend about no appointment availabality at local ASC for our SR response. It seems to me that we have to try either the Infopass or just wait it out.

Has anyone thought about writing to ombdusman (if I spelled it correctly) about this FP notice issue or will that be not worth it?

Dear Mehul,

You are a great inspiration of strength to the rest of us, miracles do happen and don't loose hope...my thoughts and prayers are with you!
AS for GC, I have a coworker whose dad, the primary applicant , passed away, and only 1 dependent was able to continue process and just recently got his GC. Most likely, your wife will not be forced to return home.
Stay strong and positive!

July 3rd at 9:03 received by R.William--

I am still waiting...
Just checking to see how are others doing, If you have not received receipt number please let me know. If I am the only person left then I need to escalate this issue with my laywer..

Please respond, I know 10 days back there were few people still waiting
Any updates from....

i99
helpme1234
kingnaga
waitforgc123

What is the name of your employer? Atleast it will help others to be aware of them.

Hey,

Just keep in mind those dots doesn;t count...what will count is how in the world are we going to tell USCIS our pain and this hostile situation ....

Americans and agencies generally better understand the language of lawsuits. Polite requests and working with congress does not make sense to them.

Shana04,

We cannot divert the funds already donated to the core IV funds at this moment(we are working on to see if this can be done). We are only collecting the pledge here to come up with the total.


Hearfelt thanks for your contribution, but it cannot be added as part of this drive (atleast at this moment)

Thanks !!!


My pledge $200.00

Aman,
You are the real hero, no words to express our gratitude. But would definetly say, you are the best.

Order Details - Jul 20, 2007 10:25 AM CDT
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Please use this order number to pay my contribution towards our hero Aman.

Thanks,
Nagesh

Good point, has anybody asked this to any lawyer ? Can we challenge this in court ? This is the definition of judiciary review...If we can proove the country cap to be unconstitutional..

Judicial Review is when the Supreme Court reviews an act of Congress to see if it is Constitutional.
Judicial Review is the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutuion (violation against the laws of the Constitutuion).


Anything that has language to exempt from quota is bound to run into severe resistance. However one thing here in US is to challenge any ambiguous negativity in courts. Has there been any instance of challenging country quota in the court as discrimination as some people brought it up earlier. Remember laws can also be changed through courts also, not just legislation.

Even though we are far from Citizenship test, I know there are 3 branches of government,
Judicial, Legislative and Executive.

We do not seem to have much hope in the Legislative(Senate/House) and Executive(president) what are the chances of using that approach.

First of all, congrats to everyone in the final stages of this tedious and frustrating process.

I have a question for people who filed I-140 and I-485 concurrently and got their receipt numbers.

I have gotten receipt numbers for my concurrently filed I-485 and I-765 as I paid for them (PD April 2003, I-140/I-485 filed at NSC). I do not have receipt for I-140 after more than 2 weeks. My employer is not giving me receipt number for I-140 as he may be wanting more money from me. Now, I have read in a forum that I-140 when applied concurrently should have receipt number very close to I-485 receipt number and normally I-140 receipt number is less than I-485 receipt number (i.e. if I-485's last four digits are 4600 then last 4 for I-140 number will be lower than 4600 and close to it. So, in theory I can scan numbers prior to mine and find closer ones for the same date and track them.

If you can please check your numbers and tell me if your I-140 number is before your I-485 number and how close they are to each other, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

I second this. It took me full 15 minutes to figure out that the rally was on 14th not 7th.

Please see the new thread below:

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6365

Admin, can you please make the new thread ( new url above) as the new sticky for 07/14 San Jose rally?

D%ck weed, I came to this country with the intention of studying and then working, but doing so legally.


Many of your posts are sensible but you use language which does not befit your self-imposed imaginary high standards. Anyways, the quoted statement itself shows moral contradictions and you have misrepresented your intentions when you went to the consulate. F1 is a non-immigrant visa with the underlying implication that you return to your home country. Please get off your high horse.

Thanks Marty.
Just keeping my fingures crossed.
POE will be peace bridge niagara falls.

I think it will be smooth. Landing by road is easier than by air. You need to do the following as soon as you have landed. I recommend you land early in the morning as gov. offices are closed at noon:

1. Locate an HR office and get your SIN number. This will take 30 min to an hour once you are there. You will need to show your Passport and COPR document as a proof.

2. Locate the medical insurance office and obtain your medical insurance card.

3. Go to the post office and obtain a PO box.

4. Open a bank account. Use the PO box address as mailing addres.

Good luck.

I received FP notices for myself and spouse on Saturday, Dec 22 for FP at the Charlotte office on Jan 11.

- gchopes.

GCHOPES,

My case transferred from TSC to VSC to TSC, I am from charlotte too. Did you had to do anything to get FP? My application reached USCIS on august 3rd. We got all except FP.

Here are some of the red dot comments I recieved for my early posts. Not that I care about red dots.

<quote>
no. i was hired because i was good. you were hired because you were willing to work as a slave for 40k.
BAN desi consultants, hoarding H1B's from deserving people, BAN everyone who supports them
</quote>

To the poster of this message,

This country is not for incompetent people who fear desi-consultants.

We will only come to this forum. We are 100 guys ready in DC.

485 Package received at NSC on July 23
No receipts, no checks cashed
I-140 approved TSC June 2007
I-140 LUD 8/12/2007
EB3 - India
PD - 8/2003