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i met a guy like this last weekend. came to US 2/3 yrs back. has masters in India and has 5 yrs total experience. not doing any research. He is actually a contractor at a client. the employer, applied his GC under EB1. he got GC under 1yr. I was amazed.
he says, his employer applied for few of his other colleagues too, but rejected. most amazingly, for one of his boss (1 or 2 levels above him) also they applied under EB1 but his app was rejected. unbelievable stuff. i guess the EB1 verification is random.

EB1 spillover may never come for some time in the future. The Indian IT companies are applying under EB1 for their PMs and Senior PMs (req: BS in any discipline + 6-7 yrs exp), labeling them as multi-national executives. They are also making the employee pay for the 140 and 485 so that the financial impact is reduced a lot by a potential rejection of the 140.

This is as much BS as labor sub. I think everybody here knows how tough it is to get EB1 classification for researchers. But what scrutiny is there for these "multi-national executives" ? All they have to do is spend some time in India or any other country as a PM or SPM, come to the US on H1B and promptly apply under EB1. :mad:

So am I..
I thought to send message once we meet 14,000..

But thing is how many are active and wants do something out of 14,000.

exactly.

When every one send individual letter, they will read the first one and then will just ignore others. Because the content and issue is same. When we 50+ people send one neatly drafted letter...I am sure it will draw considerable attention. Ron is willing to help us. I am not sure if we need to hire him for this. If so, how many of you ready to share the expense.

We have around 75 peope in this thread. If we every one puts in 50 to 100 dollars on an average per person.. It will be 5000 dollars to pay as a fee to Ron to help us with this cause. We can channel this fee through IV.

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

I have a BC which is issued on 2004. Do I still need 2 affidivits? My Lawyer didn't ask me to gather affidivits. Any thoughts on that?

Did anybody filing through FDBL? Any idea how long they are taking to file once they have all the documents and papers?

Thanks!

You need to submit the translation for your Hindi birth certificate. There are plenty of translation services available, Trustfortecorp is one of them.

THanks for this info.Do you know how much time it takes to complete the translation ?

anyone???

can we check the status of EAD application without receipt number?

CIR wont pass in 2009 or 2010. It may pass in 2011. Here is why..

- No lawmaker tocuh a big immigration bill when unemployment numbers going up
- Health care bill is a major major change. lawmakers need atleast one election cycle to rethink and pass any other controversial bill like CIR
- Dems does not have enough votes in the house to pass CIR. think Blue dogs.
- CIR wont be touched in an election year 2010
- Obama already satisfied Hispanics with Supreme court judge
- Health care reform already turned into Immigration reform and you know what happened.

There are plenty of reasons CIR wont happen.

we really do want to hear everyone's experiences
tell us what it was like to meet pappu and logiclife
and aman...
not to forget macaca and jaime!!!!!

btw i never met jaime...there's one regret finally....

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

Well I really think this is reasonable suggestion to factor Priority Date to determine eligibility for citizenship. It could be 5 or 10 years past your priority and only after approval of green card. Currently many people wait for 8 to 10 years for green card and another 5 years to be eligible for citizenship and some lucky ones get green card in 2 to 3 years and citizenship in another 5 years. System should somehow be balanced to have close to uniform wait times towards citizenship for all.
sorry to sound like a beaten record - but it seems that everyone here pretty much sees citizenship as fait accompli!

how has our respective motherlands harmed us that despite being pushed around by US for years on end -we are desperately seeking US citizenship?? after all - in many cases - its the basic and advanced education received at our respective countries that has made us qualify as "highly skilled" immigrants here.....

go ahead - put all the red dots - but do some soul searching before that!

here is the first line of US citizenship oath - "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen" - while i can absolutely live in US as a law-abiding, tax-paying resident - how can i renounce my country of birth?

I third!

i fourth :D

My priroty date is August-2006 in EB-3. Last year i asked my employer to file in EB2 PERM petion and he has agreed for it. They applied my PERM application in August 1st 2010 in EB-2. I have been communicating the petition status with my attorney since my petion has been filed with DOL. When i contacted my attorney's office to check the petion status, they said my PERM applicant is in-processing status all the time. Finally, i requested my attorney saying write a wirtten letter to the Department of Labor in last week. He called me yesterday and said your application has been approved the DOL in August 2010. But his office never recived any hard copy or email. When they checked the PERM status, they never saw the petion was in approved status. Today when the checked the petition satus, they can see the application has been approved in Auguest and it is now exipired.

Please let me know what options i have.

Can i re-appeal with the DOL? I am not sure wherether my company has filed or not. Can i file a lawsuite on DOL or my current employeer?

Well deserved one MC. Good to see you get it. Was a fun ride

Thanks Bitz,

11 years in USA,

F1 - H1, never paid a single penny to any attorney in last 11 years, i did all paperwork by myself.

Joined IV by many names. i am part of IV since beginning, even before Pappu

KAKA got banned
Dalai Lama got banned

Then MC still here.

IV is a great platform for us, i am willing to help IV in any ways.

Best of luck to all

Special Thanks to Teddy for his hardwork.

MC

This whole process has never been fair and I don't think it ever will be (at least in near future). Just have to suck it up and move on !!! I have seen it long enough to say this.

One of my relative has strange issue.While renewing H1b they forgot to renew H4( more than 6 months back). PD became current. Their lawyer is telling that she has to apply for h4(by giving explanation) before applying I485, If H4 extension is rejected because of overstay then they have to go back to India and if H4 extension is approved then they can file I 485. Did anyone faced the similar issue? Any suggestions?

Thanks, paskal. The pleasure--and pride is all ours! It was indeed great to be a part of the rally and be there with all other IVians.
And in the spirit of this thread, let me tell you, chanduv23 can talk about things besides IV too! During our drive to DC, ps57002 and I were successful in distracting his verbal barrage from immigration, USCIS, IV and have him tell us ghost stories--thus was our introduction to Rajnikanth's "Chandramukhi" :)

Look at past VBs... Nothing like, EB3 getting U from May has happened in recent past.
http://immigrationvoice.org/wiki/index.php/Past_Visa_Bulletin_Data

Guys,
Lets track August approval in this thread..
I am waiting for GC in August.

I talked with my lawyer yesterday, was informed that American immigration lawyers association (AILA) is filing for a class action lawsuit against DOL. There has been about 40% cases that are getting audited in Atlanta center. But after replying to queries, the center is not responding on a timely basis. There is light at the end of the tunnel.:)


# 5/15/2008 Atlanta National Processing Center Audit Survey
The AILA DOL Liaison Committee is gathering information about the increasing backlog of audited cases at the Atlanta National Processing Center (NPC). Please complete the brief survey of PERM audit processing and share your experiences with any audited case you have which is still pending at the Atlanta NPC. AILA Doc. No. 08051560.

http://www.aila.org/RecentPosting/RecentPostingList.aspx

The above link is asking to become a member inorder to read the document. Do we need to become a member of AILA to read the doc?

Any body from EB3 ROW consular pr.????
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EB3 ROW PD July 2006/I-140 still pending 380day