Mike Tyson Tattoos

Big contribution. This should motivate others.

I have sent my $20 through my bank. It should reach IV with memo gvby3000.

Let us keep on doing what we can. One day we will win. NEVER GIVE UP and NEVER DISCOURAGE IV.

Donated $500 today per my promise. Paypal ID #2863392354669581P

Apologies for posting this update on the wrong thread couldn't find the right one.

I've contacted NVC and the Consulate many times. Indeed, they just followed the rules and they don't consider it is an extraordinary case.

I have contacted congressmen and senators to try to highlight this issue and to be totally honest most of them have so little knowledge of immigration law they do not even understand the problem.

The CIS do not care, they follow the rules.

It is attention much higher up that is needed on Capitol Hill and someone who is willing to make it a REAL issue.

you can go to following website to contact https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml .. hope this helps

Thankyou , Just wrote my cry!

While I agree with most of what you have said, some of this anxiety will be removed or minimized if USCIS has a published or documented way of going through with these approvals (like PD,RD,ND etc)instead of randomly choosing a case.

^^^^ A very important day, where the house representation is expected to significantly change affecting the outcome of future bills, especially related to legal and illegal immigration.
Hope the changes today are for the better in general and will also help our situation.

Also I edited my first post in this thread with better statistics and more information I learn everyday, which will help newbies.

I'll do the best as I can to spread the message.

Please stay in touch regularly and let us know if something needs to be done.

We really don't have that much time. The issues should start coming up next month. We have to work on contributions now.

Thanks.

My case is similar to yours.

EAD/AP E filed on 5/27@TSC
FP done 6/19
Soft LUD 7/22
AP approved: 8/11 :)

Waiting for EAD :(

Adding my case to the forum. I am also one of those strange 7/22 soft LUD guy.

EAD E filed on 05/22 @ TSC
FP done 06/19
SOFT LUD on 07/22

I don't think it should really matter as long as payment is received by IV.

If you do decide to switch to paypal, can you also make that $50/month .. :D .. just kidding.

I have signed with my bank online payment option to make recurrent payment to IV ... should i cancel that option and pay via paypal ?

Help yourself!
Attend or help someone attend the Advocacy Day!

In addition to or instead of?? Ithink the current clause should be replaced with the one you suggested.


Just a suggestion:

It may be more appealing to tie it with "five years of filing taxes as a "resident alien" including contribution to medicare ans SS taxes".

In other words, any permanent legal resient (GC holder) who has filed taxes as a "resident alien" for five years while working in US and contributed to medicare and SS taxes should be eligible for citizenship filing.

This should be added in addition to the current criteria of "five years of continuous stay after getting GC".

What do you think?

The second reason is fund raising. I have a fundraising goal of 5$00 this year ans starting out early will give me a higher probablity of meeting my goal or exceeding it. I am going to be writing letters to my friends/ family to contribute towards IV as early as next week. I will see if I can raise atleast 150 to 200$ by doing that. I am going to organize a summer BBQ and have a cover charge or put a donation box at the BBQ. I will see how much I can raise doing that. My third event will be around November. I was planning on partnering with some friends and baking some pie's, puff pastry's, Cookies, kebobs and selling them at a local farmers maket on a saturday. Hopefully I will raise more than $500 doing all these. This should be a fun filled year for me.

I want to emphasize on this posting by Santb1975. I know that several IV Members have put in a lot of hard work over several weekends for the past several months working on the letter writing campaign. This initiative, Team IV, is slightly different, and is centered around your personal fitness goals, and having fun. The fundraising goals for each Member are so nominal that about 2-3 events should get you to your targets easily. These events do not require more than 2-3 days of planning and execution combined. In the process, you are going to have some fun as well.

All you need to do now, is sign up with Team IV. You can sustain or start your committment to fitness training and sign up for one of the Team IV or local events. The fundraising can start as late as August and you will have plenty of time to wrap it up by January 18, 2009.

I am confident that several Team IV Members will exceed their initial goals of $300 or $500.

This is a year long, fun filled, fitness oriented way to support IV!!

Can you give links to visa bulletin which changed in the middle of the month?

This is true. I heared the same from my attorney too. If you look at the history, there are two times they have discontinued the VB in the middle of the month. So let us hope the best and we will prepare for the worst.

Speedo,
Yes I did call the USCIS the day prior to getting the welcome email. Now if that triggered the approval or not I can't be certain.

Lasantha, I have a similar profile like yours except for my PD will become current in May and I-485 was filed July 2nd. My question to you is that did you call the service center to inquire about your status, and that triggered approval.

EB3-ROW PD Sep 2005
I-140 approved in 2006
I-485 RD 07/02/2007

Maybe this has been discussed earlier but I was wondering if we can extend our funding champaign beyond the conventional website.
How about setting up booths/tents/tables(what the heck) at local temples(or any places of worship where we know immigrant community would visit) in the area on the weekends. This way we can educate fellow immigrants about immigrationvoice and try to get contributions.
It might sound stupid but what I want to ask is , Is it legal for a Nonprofit org to do this ? By this I mean promote IV and collect contributions in the way I described above ?

The three days were packed with drama - Like any good drama, this too had it's moments of tension, action, and humor....the funniest one was:

Right before the rally when Aman was EXTREMELY busy, he actually had 30 seconds for each reporter. Our sweet little Jane walks up to him and asks "Aman where are my clothes?"
Aman had the funniest expression on his face :confused:

Here is the background : All of us had stayed in the same hotel and at the check out time we had kept out luggage in the baggage room. Aman had the tags of Jane's bags and Jane thought that Aman would get her luggage @ the rally!

Guys u had to be there - It was hilarious:D:D:D:D


Meenal

Ha Ha Ha . This was hilarious. Could not stop laughing....

/\/\/\

My wife's status changed from H4 TO H1. Recently when she went to apply for her SSN, the officer there took her original approved H1 along with I-94 and never returned it to her. She assumed that they would need the originals . I didn't know about this since I live about 200 mi away from her.
We will contact them on Monday but in the worst case scenario, if they have lost it. Do I need to apply for a new I-94 or a copy will suffice.
Any hope??
Thanks
avi

You will need the original while going out of the country. For other stuff, usually they only need a copy.

I am happy that this thread is live again after 2 years (I started this in 2008).
Thanks for starting this thread. The next 2 years should be the right time to pursue this I feel. With EB2 approvals picking up at a good rate and the good predictions by qeshmk, TeddyKochu etc in other threads, it gives hope to many of us. Hopefully our fellow EB3 friends also get their approvals by mid 2011. Given the recession in '07, '08, we don't see too many new apps files for ROW in that period, so hopefully we'll have some spillover again in FY'11. That should help both EB2 and EB3 categories.

Having said that, this will be the right time to purse this agenda...Many of the folks suggested, counting date for citizenship from I-485 receipt date or I-140 receipt date. If you google 'Backdate GC', we can see that many other folks in murthy, rajiv khanna forums are also talking about this. So, we might have enough members to pursue this further. Many of us have been here close to 10 years (Me from 2000 on F1, OPT, H1B etc). Its only fair to have some of those years counted towards citizenship.

Pappu, IV leadership,

Please let us know how to proceed further on this...

but isn't it the best outcome? Now they can precisely set the cut-off date, instead of guessing. that should maximize the visa usage in the following years.
Once USCIS completes data entry of all 800K 485s (may be with in next month) they will have clear picture. They may give a report to DOS, how many waiting in each catagory (EB1,2,3) with PD with countrywise break out. Then DOS will easily setup the cutoff dates. This may happen in Jan or Feb.

I feel that EB3 India may stay like this (in 2001). EB2 India may go back to 2003 or 2002 , based on how many guys in EB3 with PD 2002, 2003 converts to EB2. All other countries may see slight forward movement.

i got green today

Awesome. Enjoy the freedom.

Can you also post what decision you have made regarding changing employers or if you are waiting till next month for PD availability?

In the same situation as you are in.