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This is my first post here but I am silent reader for past two years. I got my GC approved couple of weeks ago. A week before that, I applied for EAD and AP renewal. Is there any way to ask USCIS to refund the money back since they have debited the money from my account and also received the receipt notice for me and my wife as well? I need your valuable suggestion here,
Thanks

While at J1-visa, my employer applied for H1B for me. After 3-months of no response from uscis, we sent a check for $1000 for 'premium processing'. My H1B was approved 4 days after check was mailed out. A week after approval Uscis 'REFUNDED' the check with a note the 'case was approved in regular process' hence the refund.
You can hope to get the refund and if not write to uscis and they are honest about these things.

why is this under "All other Green Card issues"? In this google era, you find solutions to most of your day to day problems with a simple google search. You don't have to create a separate thread for this.

That being said, dispute your bill.

Previous bills often serve as an estimate of one's monthly electricity usage. Any anamolies in current bills can be disputed on comparison with previous bills.

Good luck btw...

My 485 interview (employment based) has been scheduled in San Jose, CA for Oct,29th.
Interview letter says bring following documents:

All Passports, all documents that submitted during 485, current employment letter, W2s , marriage certificate, insurance policies, rental agreements etc�.

I have few questions on this:

1.My wife interview is at 7:45AM and mine is 8:15AM. Does it mean we have to go
separate or can we go at the same time?
2. Do I need to carry employer tax returns also?
3. Do I need to carry affidavit of support for my wife?
4. Are there any documents that I need to carry apart from mentioned in the above list?

Also if you have attended interview in San Jose field office, please share your experience.

Thanks.

not a redundant mail..just their process.
I got the CPO email on Oct 22, a welcome notice in my email on oct 24, actual welcome notices in my snail mail on oct 27 and the actual cards on Oct 30...so it took me 8 to 9 days to get the physical cards.
I'd say wait till you get the cards in your hand before you travel if you can..it's a different feeling :)

yes it is like that all these years, but atleast now I hope them to use their idle and rusty brain.

There are tons of people with approved 140 with 2006/2007 PD. Even if they process they will not be in the position to grant GC to these people due to lack of visa numbers. So I hope they sort it out and process the applications based on PD.

The applications themselves are processed by receipt date but the approval still depends on your PD.Someone correct me if I am wrong...

Thank you for your responses.
My situation is different, since my 485 is not yet approved (PD Dec 2006 EB2).
Company A applied for my GC (140 approved and 485 filed in July 2007), but I have never worked for company-A. I had been working for company-B during all these on H1. However I am now with company-C for last 6 months using EAD.
I have never done the AC-21, since my lawyer said that is not required since I was with company-B and did not change jobs in between.

In my case, company-A is not closing down, and I am willing to work for them after 6 months or so.

My question is are there any risks in my 485 in this context?
Should I be moving to company-A to reduce any risk?

Would appreciate your responses in this.

Again the issue here will revert to the topic of SHAM EMPLOYMENT.

Either you should be working for the sponsor company or file AC21 and port out the process. That helps you to be on the safer side.

Even after filing AC21 two and half years back, my original approval notices went to my original GC sponsoring company's attorney's office.

Obviously using approved labor (or substitute labor) is a shady practice and many desi consulting companies are employing this scam. If they don't share this info with you, you can either:
1) Continue working with this company in the hope they are doing everything by the book and this will all work out
OR
2) Go work for a bonfide employer

I tried to post a couple of times and they are not getting posted. Does the comments need to be reviewed by some one before they get posted? Is it instantaneous?
They are not instantaneous. Mine showed up in an hour for sure.

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the problem is not with his opinions
sure he has a right to them
the problem is with the "facts" he shouts out.
even when he is wrong and is told so, he repeats them
this was nicely shown in the "hansens disease" episode
that time the southern baptists and the national press finally spoke up.

All brushes are not created equal. The arctic butterfly that Stephen mentioned builds up a static charge that causes the particles to cling to the brush. A brush without a charge just moves the particles around and leaves them in the cavity if not thoroughly blown out. More on that here (http://www.visibledust.com/index.php).

I've not had good results from eclipse, and you cannot take it on an airplane. I've had very good results with the combination of a blower and arctic butterfly. For extremely stubborn dirt, I've had good luck with a lens pen. More on that here (http://www.lenspen.com/).

Michael makes a good point about the possibility of loose brush fibers, so user beware whenever you stick anything inside the cavity.

If there are more than 61,000 with PD > 2006 then it will not help much.

Could you please explay why is that? What if there are nurses with PD 2002, 03, 04 or 05

Hi Surpreet,

Did you explore more on ARRA? Is it OK to take that benifit during AOS?

Thanks
Hi Dhundhun,

Sorry for my late response. After thinking long and hard, I have actually taken ARRA for my health insurance. I have decided not to go for Unemplyment. I read about a specific case somewhere online where an applicant got a RFE on his 485 after applying for unemployement. I am not sure if RFE was because of unemployement, but on that forum a lot of people suspected that applying for umpl could be one of the reasons.
For me, I was really running out of options, without ARRA, health insurance would have costed me over $1500 so I went for it.

Thanks

Hi,
I am on OPT till August 2009.
However my F1 visa expires May 30 2009.
Also I do not have a job at present.

Does my OPT override the F1 visa expiration?Can I stay legally in the US till August even if I do not have a job?

Worried,
P

[B]

I am 100% sure , H4 visa holders cannot work in any position which pays them. It is a violation of the visa.



Does that also apply to a case where the person is employed in another country and getting paid there? What about a case where the H4 holder travels to their home country and works for 3 months at a local company and gets paid for it?

Correct me if I am wrong but I would think the rule only applies if you work and earn money in the US.

I think there's a whole lot of people who haven't received a notice for the second round of FP and there is a group who have received it too.

My attorney also suggested that uscis is working on reusing the initial FP. Not sure if there's any truth to this.

Hi Matt - no problem. I am currently on a computer that doesn't have Flash installed, so would it be possible for you to e-mail me your SWF file [kirupa.at.kirupa.com].

If not, in a few hours I'll be back on a computer that has Flash, so I can change it then.

:)

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one of my colleague has received mail notification to the lawyer that application was picked in selection. H1b applied in masters premium.

Live webcast can be viewed during the hearing

http://judiciary.house.gov/schedule.aspx

Check Box for "Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law" to be selected to see the appropriate schedule.

Hi Surpreet,

Did you explore more on ARRA? Is it OK to take that benifit during AOS?

Thanks
Hi Dhundhun,

Sorry for my late response. After thinking long and hard, I have actually taken ARRA for my health insurance. I have decided not to go for Unemplyment. I read about a specific case somewhere online where an applicant got a RFE on his 485 after applying for unemployement. I am not sure if RFE was because of unemployement, but on that forum a lot of people suspected that applying for umpl could be one of the reasons.
For me, I was really running out of options, without ARRA, health insurance would have costed me over $1500 so I went for it.

Thanks