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I wonder how much power these committees have. It is clear from her letter that DOS/DHS chose not to respond to her or send her any info and defy her request to continue accepting AOS applications until she had a chance to review the matter closely. Committee has the subpoena power to force the document release and hold hearing but if DOS/DHS ignore her letter again, I wonder what would she do.

I guess the deadline is tomorrow so we'll see how this unfolds.

It might have been answered before elsewhere, but I'm wondering about the logic on how the spillover visas are allocated. Would have been nice if the spillover visas are allocated to oversubscribed countries instead of categories, this way 10k spillover visas that EB2-I is getting now will be distributed equally between EB2 and EB3 ... I believe that's one thing IV is going to or has taken up.

Looks like parents did a good job of taking both the sick kids to hospital, but the doctor treated only one kid saying that the second untreated kid is not good as the one getting the treatment :D ... if the 2nd kid survives thru the period of time the 1st kid recovers without any treatment, then the 2nd kid will get the treatment.

LOL, why am I extending the topic ...

I for one would like to know exactly what IV is planning to take up for the cause of EB3 before contributing.

Please sign up here... I will be in the pool on Aug 20th if I don't get EAD approval by 19th Aug.

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20828

Hi
I am living in Toronto/Canada.My Labor and I-140 is approved.My PD is current, so I can file I-485.I would like to know that, how long will take time to I come to USA and what else needs to be done?I appreciate if anyone help me in this matter.

Thank you:)

You cannot file for I-485. You can file I-485 only if you are present in United States. Since, you are living in Toronto, Canada, you have to appear for consular visa processing. This process is different than the process (I-485) for people who are on temporary visas in US and their PD has become current.

Finaly received the 1-year renewal EADs today. This time there was no "approval notice sent" email/LUD.

albertpinto and other folks who filed in April/May and still waiting...hang in there, you all should be receiving your cards soon. If you haven't already, try filing an SR by calling NCSC. I am not sure if that's what helped in our case, but it can't hurt your chances. InfoPass was useless in our case...the guy flat out said he cannot help us.

Here's a quick recap of our case:
EAD efiled at TSC May 27th
Receipt and biometrics notices received: June 1st week
Biometrics done: June 19th
First card ordered email: June 28th
InfoPass: July 28th
SR filed through NCSC: July 28th
Second card production ordered email: July 29th
Cards received in mail: Aug 2nd

got the second card production ordered email today. first one was on june 28th. hopefully this time, we'll get the approval notice sent email in the next couple of days...or latest in the next week or so.

regarding the state chapters
this is what i found on the page following your link



At first i thought there was no state chapter for California. Only after searching the page for the word "california" did i find the ones for Southern California and Northern California
which are not states but just different parts of California.
Was i supposed to magically just guess that it is listed this way...or am i a moron who just does not understand this simple thing?

Its plain and simple.
You have described yourself already in your post and you said the word Moron.
Why it is so hard for you to understand Northern California and Southern California?

I'm all for this. This is very close to my heart. I probably care more about this than I do, my 485 approval.(can't have one without the other, I know I know. But still.).

I don't know when I'll get my 485 approved, hopefully within the next year. But I'm willing to work on this, whatever it takes - contributions, lawmaker meetings, DC.

I'm in.

This has got to be simple too. When the citizenship law was first drafted, immigrants got their green cards within months of entering the country. Start to End of the greencard process took under a year, if not less.

The intention of the law was to have them learn the language, the ways of the country, and assimilate, which was expected to take about 5 years, before applying for citizenship.

These days the green card process itself take over 5 years for a lot of people. Most Indians and Chinese in the EB2 category, and pretty much the entire EB3 category have lived here longer than 5 years. In those 5 years they have gone to school here, paid income taxes, bought homes, and learned the language (well they had to, in order to qualify for an employment based green card!). What more "assimilation" do they need to do?

I definitely think that the following should be the criteria for eligibility to apply for citizenship,

- An approved green card
- 5 years of continuous U.S. residence starting from the date the 485 application was received.

Let's do this.

Excuse me, but what's 485 got to do with assimilation? It would be perfectly legitimate for people who are waiting for their dates to be current, following the exact same logic as above

People sometimes draw the line just where they themselves have just crossed it

Has anyone started fundraising yet??. I did not. I need to work on recruiting 6 more people atleast into Team IV. We should have 50 people for the Cal. Event atleast. I need to work on the networking events as well

I have started my fundraising, but that is only because I have all the fundraising ideas in my head.

I will start sending out the Welcome Packages this week. The Welcome Package has a section for Fundraising and will help each Team IV Member reach his/her goal.

The first T Shirt order has also been placed, last week, I believe. I should be receiving this initial order by mail shortly and then I can mail out the T Shirts to those who have signed up thus far.

We need to still concentrate on our recruitment efforts this week and the next.

The Dolphin South End Runners Club has welcomed us for their Aug 17, 2008 event. I am hopeful that we can get a contingent of at least 20-30 Team IVians to walk run that event.

Folks, I am happy to inform you all that I received CPO email at 12: 17 AM today. MY wife also received approval along with me .

************************************************** ************************************************** **********
On August 4, 2010, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

************************************************** ************************************************** ************

Mine is from NSC .

Steps I followed so far.

On July 29 contacted the congressman and initiated inquiry. I gave him the final documentation on Aug 2nd , 2010
On Aug 2nd emailed NSC with my I485 receipt notice and asked them to approve us as ( email address NCSCFollowup.Nsc@dhs.gov)
************************************************** ************************************************** **************
Dear Sir / Madam,

My name is XXXXXXXXXXXXX I have a I-485 application (adjustment of Status) pending at Nebraska Service Center. I have applied for my I-485(Employment based) in July 2007 and I received confirmation from Nebraska Service Center that it is accepted with a notice date of XX/XX/XX. My Category is EB2 and I am from India. As per the latest visa bulletin ( August 2010) USCIS is currently processing cases with priority dates in 2006, my priority date is XX/XX/XXXX but I still have not heard any decision on my pending 485 case.

Please kindly have a look at the receipts and adjudicate my case accordingly.

Here are my details

Name : XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX
I-485 Receipt Number : LINXXXXXXXXX
I-140 Receipt Number : LINXXXXXXXXX
Alien Number: AXXXXXXX

Your Kind attention is greatly appreciated.

Regards

XXXXXXXXXXXX , XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
************************************************** ************************************************** **************
On Aug 3rd contacted the customer service rep and opened a SR for my wife's application.
On Aug 4th took info pass and asked him to take appropriate action.
On Aug 4th 8:00 Spoke with a 2nd level IO about my application. she said she will email the person working on my case.

Can you please tell me who did you contact the congressman to initiated inquiry?

Of course the plan is not to imitate what Canada has directly, I'm sure the current job offer would have a big role, it does in canada too to a certain extent.
Also the EB queue needs to be considered while moving to the skill based one.

"Also the EB queue needs to be considered while moving to the skill based one" - I don't know what you meant by this line but I am in no mood to restart my GC application (for which I have been waiting for the past 9 years) just because some genius (whoever that person was) woke up one morning and decided that all the applications need to be reformed into a points based system.

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Please inform her about the rally in San Jose on Saturday. It would be great if we can get her support !

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Thanks.

President Bush is in Nebraska promoting the immigration bill. Let's what impact that has!

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Do you think Investing in Bank of America now is a good idea? Today it is 7.54 per share..

Be warm and start out slow. Let us know how it goes

Today its very windy and a bit cool outside.. I'm going out there to test it out.

Pappu, I really lost my interest in this. After waiting for so long, I have come to a state where I find this to be not worth it anymore. I don't want to continue with this uncertainity any longer and my children are growing up and I want to move on in my life. Negotiating a good job offer for a good position. Its not that I am going to get my GC in 6 months or let alone in 2 years with a total of more than 8000 people ahead of me. So, I am looking at a minimum of 2 years wait and I do not think its worth waiting any longer. Getting a GC in 3-5 years seems tobe a OK wait, but more than 7 years, I want to use my time in something else more precious. Did not mean to hijack the purpose of this thread, just wrote it because you asked that question.

Any reasons for R2i?

Is it your EB3 wait?
With a Jan 03 PD it is sad to see someone giving up after a 7 year wait and coming so close to getting current.

Illegals have nothing to lose. If CIR happens...they celebrate, now that they can all be legal and apply for their families to follow them
If CIR does not happen...they still continue to live here, work their jobs, keep sending money home, and try and get their relatives over here by paying the "coyotes"...it makes no difference to them.

Even if these guys are legalised, they will still NOT pay taxes, NOT learn english, NOT try and be upstanding residents.

WE (EB) have none of the above and a lot to lose)

Hence, the attitude.

This is a great point. Also I see these days, people seem to miss what is 'Right' and 'Wrong', 'Fair' and 'Unfair'. Doesn't seem to matter much anymore - let Inertia rule.

"Even illigal immigrants has more optimism"
They succesfully broke the law and think they are above most laws now

"If your lawyer and HR screwed you, it is your fault"
Yes apparently this is happening for more than 100K EB3s. Bonded labor? well don't trash EB3s - you have to be very good to get an American company to file an EB green card.

"Well educated and intelligent - Who? Did you mean Durbin and Grassley?"
Well, Lets be diplomatic :-)

Also I'm curious, why would someone give me Neg reps, are illegals lurking on these boards?

Total Iv members - 14,002...

Way to go.

The most ever users online at one point of time was yesterday.

I do not have a GC which means my entry in US is not guaranteed the next time I visit my home country. Period. The risk is simply not worth taking. Congrats to those for whom it worked out. You are far and few people.

I recently had the taste of this experience when my wife got 221(g) at Mumbai Consulate and had to enter using AP. Imagine if she did not have an AP and if we had a home what would we do?

Today in this scenario we can atleast sell everything we have and cash out of US. The stakes and dependency gets higher if we own a house. I would advise anyone against "investing" money in US when you dont have a GC.

I bought a property in India in the meantime and the value has doubled and I am pretty happy about it.

iCERT portal says they are processing regular cases as of Oct 2009 i.e. 10 months........I thought it took 7 months these days.

My PD is March 2010.... has anyone seen approval in 2010 yet from Jan, Feb?