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I called all the numbers and talked to congressional staffers. I was lucky that i got to talk to a person and not VM.

Many of them assured me that congressman is supportive of the immigration issues and will probably support the bills. Two of the staffers took my home address.

It is my first time calling congressmen offices and i was surprised to find it fairly easy :)

6) Go and buy a Pre approved LC from Desi Consultant paying 15K or more

guys any more ideas?

one more question 7) I dont like recurring payment, but I will contribute monthly anyways.
That is like telling your fiance "I want to live with you for ever, but I dont want to marry you".

[QUOTE=singhsa3;248821]Folks,
Is this number correct?
Ciro Rodriguez
202 225 4511[/QUI

I guess it is right..

I am jumping ahead of the situation here, but I just wanted to see what other members think/know. Assuming that the 90K visa recapture happens, It doesnt take too long for them to be used up in the current situation where there are a lot of people with labors and approved 140's (w/PERM). Not every one will have an oppurtunity to file for a new labor and file for 485. If DOS makes the PD's current / post Mar 2005, wouldn't it be unfair to people who labors are pending for 3 yrs. How does this work out in the previous recapture? HLG doesnt say about numbers being forwarded to the next year though.
HLG wants to give these 90 K to the healthcare professionals Schedule A only...So I donot know about you but I donot get anything for sure.....Even if the recapture is for all categories it would not make much difference....May be EB3 ROW would become current...and EB2 India dates would move a bit....

When USCIS sent you the RFE notice, you would have seen "Request for Evidence". After USCIS receives your response, you would have seen the hard LUD, while the header is still for RFE. Then after some days (with in 60 days), the header changes to "Request for Evidence Response Review", while the old header "Request for Evidence" vanishes. I was in the same boat like you. I spoke to my attorney's team and they offered me the insight glimpse of working of USCIS.

Well I responded in Oct 2008 and it had RFE status. It didnt change for the past 2 years and it changed to "RFE Review" yesterday. Is this just a coincidence or something to extract out of it ?

AILA talks about the letter:
http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=22870

"The Department's unprecedented decision to reject adjustment of status applications has caused needless hardship and disruption to countless immigrants," noted Rep. Zoe Lofgren. "It has also come to my attention that USCIS began returning visa numbers to the State Department as early as Thursday, July 5, 2007, due to their inability to review applications effectively. The Department of Homeland Security has once again demonstrated its inability to complete even its core missions. This debacle demonstrates the need for more transparency and oversight of the department's operations and procedures."
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what does returning visa numbers mean? does that mean they still have visa numbers available, if that's the case they can't reject our applications :mad:

Lets reach the target of 10000 members before the 31st of this month.


I doubt it...this forum is like a snail... cannot even cross small roads and will be run over by a bycycle :mad:

Guys ... Ron has reported this campaign on his website forum:

http://immigration-information.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5110

I like his blog title : Its time to pull the teeth of the Hispanic Caucus

I am trying to get it listed by Matthew Oh, Sheela Murthy, and Rajiv Khanna

I truly believe, though IV's efforts can impact a little bit, they have to join other organizations to strengthen the efforts and results.

As I said before, IV should step up for EB3-I/C/ROW cause since policies seem to be working in favor of other EBs (which is good) but EB3 is stuck..

Here are some paths to consider.

1. IV has established relationships with some key politicians through the advocacy days, may be that channel can work
or
2. Allow interfiling with spouse
or
3. Allow folks to file I-485 for an approved I-140 even if the dates are not current
or
4. Have an endless EAD and AP (by endless I mean 5 years)
or
5. Recapture (Tie it to a bill...eg Zoe Lofgren or Feigngold will not sign Finance reform bill unless lost EB visas are recaptured). It will help EB2 folks as well. Give Feingold a call, he is voting no on Finance reform. May be he can kick in something for legal EB folks (similar to cornhusker) and may vote Yes and be the 60th vote.

What I suggest you guys to do is build upon these ideas above rather than destroy it or be sarcastic about it.

Thanks Lasantha :)


Hassan,

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=96b53591ec04d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCR D&vgnextchannel=52a46c854523d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1 RCRD

USCIS NSC

P.O. Box 82521

Lincoln, NE 68501-2521

90,000 VISAS

Our contacts in Washington have told us that there is a growing chance of a bill to recapture as many as 90,000 visas. The language of the draft bill that we've seen calls for a full recapture of the unused visas from 2000-04.

EVERYONE should contact their Congressman and let them know just how important this is


The above Email i got from Hammond LLC

What are you talking about? which bill? what 90,000? Care to explain???

i odn't think it passed. what was included in the amendment is s1121 and not s113 that has our provisions. please clarify.

you seem to be correct ....

i just looked at the amendments in detail and this provision was in SA 180 (page 1113)

On the other hand SA 187 (page 1121) seems to have passed.

I am a bit unsure though of what happened to SA 180. Did it get amended by some other amendment. It does not appear to have been tabled.

I apologize to everyone but I had stated right in the beginning that I may be totally wrong.

+1 to the GC benefit list for me..that i can say anything ;-)

You have been doing that without a GC for the longest time on this list!

Guys this may help you. I checked my status online today and saw that our cases got approved but I never received an email.

I just logged in to USCIS website and I disabled and enabled my Email option. Once I did that I got my emails in my inbox:cool:

I think you can try the same and try your luck.

IV or other organization

can propose

ANY one who has PAID US FEDERAL TAXES for Five Years ( Irrespective of their visa categories) and HAS MASTER OR HIGHER DEGREE IN THE STEM FIELDS, Should get their GC in THREE YRS after Getting their Greencard.

( Similar to marriage to citizen)
^^ Bump ^^ More ideas and suggestions from the high skilled and highly educated community....

My GC was approved today... I came to the US 10 years back. It's been such a long journey that it's tiring to even think about it. The backlog processing center, re-starting the GC process, Several H1b visa stamps, July fiasco rollercoster... At this point I think I am just tired - not happy, not sad...

Good luck to everyone out there!

My details:

PD: May 28th 2006
SC: Nebraska
I-485 Status: Card Production Ordered
LUID: 05/04/2011

CONGRATS and Enjoy the new life with freedom of visa renewals.

i odn't think it passed. what was included in the amendment is s1121 and not s113 that has our provisions. please clarify.

you seem to be correct ....

i just looked at the amendments in detail and this provision was in SA 180 (page 1113)

On the other hand SA 187 (page 1121) seems to have passed.

I am a bit unsure though of what happened to SA 180. Did it get amended by some other amendment. It does not appear to have been tabled.

I apologize to everyone but I had stated right in the beginning that I may be totally wrong.

We EB3 folks are not requesting for EB2 visas. We all will be happy to get 50% EB1 spill over visas. The other 50% can go to Eb2s.

right now 100% of EB1 spill over is going to EB2.

Allocation of immigrant visas is not a policy matter. It is based on law. Any change should come thro law change. Congress (&president) has to amend the law (INA) how to modify the allocation. It is not a simple matter. Both DOS and USCIS knows it unfair to keep EB3-IN in 2001; but they can't do any thing. Thats whu EB3-IN folks should try hard to make the congress to change the law. Contacting DOS or USCIS not going to help, as they have no authoity in changing the allocation methods (they only execute the methods).

Well it is against the law to employ illegals and this is enforced strictly, so we can forget about tax deduction at source, SS, etc. It will be minuscule. These so called publications are from their supporters which they have numerous of.

Yes, there lies 1/2 the problem. Illegal immigrants will come as long as there is somebody ready to provide them a job. If the business owners are held accountable with heavy fines and punishment - half the problem is solved and the other half of the problem will gradually come to an end. But such enforcements are not there and are not widely talked about. Easy to blame the illegals when they are looking for betterment of life, while the business owners are lapping in luxury!

Bring the border control, and add in tough enforcement on business that hire illegals - and then you still will have to address the people who are still here illegally. It may not be 12 million, but millions will still remain. That issue has to be addressed. The current president has said that they are to be a given a "path to legality" - pay the fine (yes, it may be trivial in our standards, but not theirs) and get in line. It is not blanket amnesty either.

Most of us in this forum don't support law breaking, at the same time, we have to be practical.....


There is no proof that the new bill will reduce costs at all! It will take many years to realize it anyway. Reform was needed but not at this moment when there were bigger issues that needed fixing in 6-12 months.
What reform was needed first? immigration reform before health reform? lets fix the problems of the foreigners first, and then lets take care of the dying? Does that sound right? Even otherwise, which ever reform the president and the congress had taken, would it have gotten support?

economy is doing well = tax break; economy is not doing well = tax break - does that make sense?
big govt is bad! please vote for me, I want to run for the govt!
education - we don't have much money. defense - we are always under attack, so lets spend more money on 20th century war craft!
list goes on an on.......


Citizenship is not the answer and I'm tired of seeing all immigration bills partial to illegals.
agreed
They should go to the back of the queue and get reform only after legal immigration is fixed.
They should go to the back of the queue and get reform along with legal immigration.
Their supporters are hampering our efforts.
absolutely! wouldn't you? they play the game of leverage and we would do the same.
There are millions of poorer people in Africa and India who need more help. These countries have better farmers too.
If they shared borders with the US, they would have done exactly what the mexicans are doing.

The sad thing that separates our community from theirs is that they stand up for their own people irrespective of wealth. Take our community - of the hundreds who got the green card/citizenship - how many stay to help us? Why are the older generation of Indian immigrants fighting the new comers?

Eliminate EAD renewals every year. This will reduce the paper work and hence improve performance. Unless people change their jobs, there should be no need to renew.



TravInd,

Consider that I am your angel and I just heard your voice. As of this moment, I grant you your wish. You no longer have to renew your EAD every year. From now on you could just renew your EAD every 2 years. Hope this makes you happy.

If you ask me something with your heart, I will listen and may grant your wish. Be nice.

Truly yours,

Angel # 4567


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