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Why is this thread acting up? not going to the top?
Yeah, I don't know why.

I got my green card in the mail yesterday. Only 4 days after the 'Card Production' email.

It is great relief.

Thanks all of you for your valuable information. Good luck everyone.

why bother show up on IV now? I dont like ppl joining IV just to declare their GC status - no contribution.

It will go up once all guets can join us as member...
GUESTS, can you please join us... PLEASE.....


ALL guests please join. It is free..
We need to raise awareness, add more members.

Thank you

Few Things:
1) Do not panic
2) Understand that the attorney owes loyalty to your company not you
3) Consult an independent attorney and find out your options
4) Have a cool and collected discussion with your employer laying out very clearly your concerns and why you think it is necessary to move fast on this. Many times employers think they can walk over you and you will do good to have a nice long discussion to tell him/her politely that the I485 stage can take upto 3-4 years or more. This is a fact because you may get stuck in name check or background check, you will have to do the medical get your AP and EAD and then you should have a visa number available after you are done with all the above. So tell your employer that just in order to start these processes, it is required for you to file I485 as soon as possible. Hopefully once your employer knows that you are not going to get your GC anytime soon due to the delays involved AFTER filing I485, he/she will budge and help you out. Also try to define a time line for filing the I485. In short have a rational discussion with your employer and don't be afraid to ask questions.
5) Have faith in god and be assertive, do not keep quiet or go to the extreme of trying to bring your employer to his senses by using legal action unless you have tried all of the above and he/she refuses to cooperate.

I am not an attorney, use my advice at your own risk.

Best of luck.

I am going crazy ... ever since an email from CRIS popped up. I GOT IT !!!!! :D

now that you are looking up to me for encouragement I really need to train. :confused:

Common folks let's do it. Let's make year1 of Team IV successful

I was just joking..........anything that will help people signup and keep this thread on top.
In fact I am relieved that experienced people like you and nolaIndian are coming to DC; I will need your encouragement. My dog and I have started walking 10 miles on Sat/Sun. We have also started running/walking 4 miles on weekdays.
Sign up guys........if not for IV; at least for your health!!!
Once you signup, you will have a deadline to work towards and that will be the greatest incentive that you can have.

What is your PD illusions?

It's July 06

Folks, as a FYI, don't get too bogged down with all the details. Here is my status.
Applied on 3rd march for name correction/reissue of fresh passport.
1) Got a money order for $60
2) Filled out the online form
3) Took copies of relevant pages from passport, license, utility bill.
4) Signed each copy attesting that it is a true copy
5) Took a photo from my digital camera, cropped it on epassport.com and got 8 copies for 20 c. It is true that their scanner blurs the quality of picture, so better have a white background.
6) A couple of email exchanges. This is the best form of communication and I recommend being courteous. Be prepared for vague and sometimes obvious answers.
7) Received new passport on 30th March, although their website says 7 working days.

Wow!!! I wish I could have attended this mesmarizing rally experience. Now can you guys come up with more data on who (Rally member) met who (Law makers / Media Persons ) and how those meetings were and what opinions you heard at least verbally. What we could successfully conveyed particularly to law makers etc...


While we need to collate all the lawmaker meetings data, PLEASE DO NOT post any meeting details on the forum. We do not want to make any of the confidential data public.

We shall let you all know how we wish to collect the information.

Thank You.

So now this thread has turned into a sob story of how a handful of misused EB1 visas are bad for the whole group (i am a screwed up low level EB3, i am not in competing with EB1's or 2 or 4's for that matter) ...we just need some bad guys to pin the blame on. We are loosing sight of the big picture here. We can either complain or cry or do nothing, to each his/her own. write a letter to the authorities. they will take 5 years to investigate and 10 more visas will be available to for redistribution to Eb2 from EB1, meanwhile we will create a new thread everymonth and complain how messed up the system is and how screwed up we are...:p.

...reminds me of a quote from Maya Angelou:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

Lets all get together and work for visa recapture, it is free of country and category caps, everyone will benefit.

I completely agree. Tell me how are we acting differently than the Americans blaming the foreigners for bad economy? Look at the bigger picture before pointing fingers at each other. BTW, I am not an EB-1; I am just an EB-3 :)

I agreed with you.

Use spill over visa to give GC based on PD not on country specific. It will solve the backlog in 2 uears. Right now EB2 I and C getting spill over from EB1 as well from EB2 ROW.

This is not fair for EB3.

I fully agree. I mentioned the same a month back. But got only reds :mad:

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum89-news-articles-and-reports/479932-how-low-indian-companies-can-go-2.html#post815445

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Well said....I some times wonder, they should allocate the spill over based on priority date instead of just category.

Already because of the categorization (country based limit) we have such a big queue...Why further categorize each country as EB1/2/3..etc.? ....As you aptly mentioned most of EB2 & EB3 guys do the same job...but the employer decides whether it is EB2 or EB3, even though many have masters degree and more than 5 years experience.

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In addition to calling the CHC members, We may be better off in getting support from individual law makers if we target each one individually ( Law makers who have been pro legal immigration ) If 10 members call such law makers it would help them make up their minds and show support for these bills

Just my 2 cents.

How about DC guys (for mailed in PP renewal)?

Dear All,

The idea about the oath is good. Most of us do great, creative things at work and earn the appreciation of our peers and seniors. Why not we brainstorm now, come with creative ideas to help ourselves?

Guys the Satyagraha and Anthem are good ideas and can be implemented. There is no shortage of good ideas.
The shortage is of people who will participate and do things. Less than 50 have registered so far.

Of course you understand talking face to face with lawmakers in large numbers is the best way to convey our ideas. Why are we talking about mails when the goal of this thread is to meet them ?

I sent to the address that was mentioned in the confirmation page. Yes I did see a LUD the next day after they received my documents.

But I am still waiting to hear from them about the Biometric appointment. Did any one here get approvals with out Biometrics after e-filing?

Thanks folks.

Finally, done

PD: June 7th 2006
SC: Texas
I-485 Status: Card Production Ordered
LUID: 05/04/2011

Thank you all IV friends.

One question,

Yesterday I sent my EAD renewel application. should put stop payment on check or should I call USCIS.

Thanks

MC

And ALAS ! MC got it. Congrats dude ! Hope you will still remain on the forum to help others

Here is the link

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/L?d110:./temp/~bdafaSy:1[1-128](Amendments_For_H.R.2)&./temp/~bd7EAg


87. S.AMDT.187 to H.R.2 In the nature of a substitute.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 1/24/2007) Cosponsors (4)
Latest Major Action: 1/24/2007 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 187 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.

I don�t know what is so hard about this deadlock. Don�t they know that if:
1. Illegals are given temporary visas for them to return after a number of years, no-body would come forward. The illegals would see this as shooting themselves in the foot. They would prefer to remain in the dark and live here permanently. Purpose defeated.
2. A tough enforcement only bill is passed, with the hope that there would be attrition after a while: How long would it take for all 12 million illegals to finally leave? 1 million per year? 500K per year? 24 years? Yeah right! Ok assuming they leave at a rate of 500K per year (which I know wouldn�t happen) what would be the rate of inflow of more illegals?? What would be the balance of illegals after say 10 years? Think about it.
3. Give them a path to citizenship. Well they are here anyways but this idea might jeopardize the bill.

So my proposal is: Since �a path to citizenship� is the major road block to this bill, make a law that gives the Illegals an opportunity for GC but include in the law that �Anybody that ever comes into the country illegally CAN NOT become a citizen�. i.e they can get a green card but they can never be eligible for citizenship. I am sure this is a reasonable middle ground�. a path to PR but not citizenship. I am sure those illegals don�t care about citizenship anyways. They just want to be free and be mobile.

Just my thots.

TPS - temporary protected status is given to people from Honduras, El Salvador and some more countries. What you said is in line with some of that status. It is less than a Greencard as there is no path to citizenship, yet the people in TPS can hang on here for years and years. Congress is forced to renew this every year for politics. Eventually people in TPS marry locals and settle here.

Tancredo and his chums tried to dissolve this feature completely from immigration code. TPS is the best way to go. No amnesty as there is no citizenship/GC. And all these folks can come out in the open and play by rules.

I need to go to some place where I can spit out my frustration. This is just not done. Completely unfair.

With a user id that you have and your comment above :D, I think people might take you seriously. Take it easy buddy.:) I might not go to the mall today as I was planning to and stick to home.

Life has lots of other issues,so while the GC is important it cannot and should not come before all other problems in life. Talk to the people who have been diagnosed with cancer or something else and have been told that they will live 6 months at the most, you'll understand what priorities in life are.

I do wish it was Friday today then could have downed a few pegs tonight :rolleyes:

You all have been doing a great job. There is no stopping you'll now!

PERM Filed : March 03, 2008
Audit date : No Audit
Reply Date : NA
Category: EB2
Status: Appoved on May 07,2008
Field: IT (Software)
Country : India

But still i will participate if you come up with any action item... Do not want any one to go thru pain of uncertinity...