nk2006
05-30 08:23 AM
I know there is a lot going on with CIR now.... and lot of it is UNKNOWN.
I am wondering how risky it is to change jobs now.
-I have a EB3 PD of Aug 2006,
-I have copy of my approved I -140
- I only have 17 months left in my 6 years. :(
Since my current H1b expires Feb 2008, If I continue to stick to my current job, they'll apply for H1b extension around October. (I am hoping I'll get 3 yrs extension).
Wanted opinions on the pros/cons of a job change now. (I am in IT)
I'm in almost exact situation:
EB2 PD: Sept '06
current h1b is valid till Feb 08 (completion of seventh year).
I140 is in process.
I was waiting for I140 approval, after which I was thinking of chaning jobs (idea was to get 3 year extension at the job change and get copies of my I140 approval letter to keep the priority date).
I am interviewing with a great company which I wanted to join for a long time - I went thru two rounds and got a tentative offer (pending background check) - they are ready to wait till mid-July (somehow agreed for delayed joining date so I can get I140 by that time and get three years h1b). Also agreed to start the PERM process as soon as I join them and use their current advertising for the process. I made up my mind until this thing came along and now I am confused.
I am wondering how risky it is to change jobs now.
-I have a EB3 PD of Aug 2006,
-I have copy of my approved I -140
- I only have 17 months left in my 6 years. :(
Since my current H1b expires Feb 2008, If I continue to stick to my current job, they'll apply for H1b extension around October. (I am hoping I'll get 3 yrs extension).
Wanted opinions on the pros/cons of a job change now. (I am in IT)
I'm in almost exact situation:
EB2 PD: Sept '06
current h1b is valid till Feb 08 (completion of seventh year).
I140 is in process.
I was waiting for I140 approval, after which I was thinking of chaning jobs (idea was to get 3 year extension at the job change and get copies of my I140 approval letter to keep the priority date).
I am interviewing with a great company which I wanted to join for a long time - I went thru two rounds and got a tentative offer (pending background check) - they are ready to wait till mid-July (somehow agreed for delayed joining date so I can get I140 by that time and get three years h1b). Also agreed to start the PERM process as soon as I join them and use their current advertising for the process. I made up my mind until this thing came along and now I am confused.
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06-26 04:15 PM
with ziplock i meant the plain transparent one .. not the fancy ones ... ( i was thinking to put the pic and check in the plain transparent bags and staple them to A4 paper , the other option wld be stapling the white envelops with check and pic..
mrsr...there is something known as analysis paralysis. When you over analyze a situation..you get stuck and end up asking questions that have little or no value.
I have read the mailroom procedures...and thats what they are.. mailroom procedures....you are not here to make their lives easier... you need to send a professional packet...if you think that a ziplock bag is better than an envelope...go ahead and use it.
mrsr...there is something known as analysis paralysis. When you over analyze a situation..you get stuck and end up asking questions that have little or no value.
I have read the mailroom procedures...and thats what they are.. mailroom procedures....you are not here to make their lives easier... you need to send a professional packet...if you think that a ziplock bag is better than an envelope...go ahead and use it.
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04-22 11:52 AM
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Has anybody tried getting letter from a senator? What should the letter say. Please can somebody share the contents. Thanks for any help.
Has anybody tried getting letter from a senator? What should the letter say. Please can somebody share the contents. Thanks for any help.
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desidude
03-31 08:30 PM
Congrats and enjoy the new privileges...
Hello,
Six years after initiating our green card process, I am happy to say that my wife and I have just received our green cards in hand. I have relied on ImmigrationVoice forums to get valuable information about policy changes, ask questions and I have also contributed several times (albeit modestly) to ImmigrationVoice. I remember the days when there used to be appeals made by the Core team asking members to contribute and I used to feel frustrated that I could do no more (at least financially). Granted I should have done more, but I have always felt as a community we all could have and should have contributed more to this grassroot effort. I hope to start/trigger a new fund raising event today by contributing again. Folks I have no reason to do contribute, but I feel I am reaping the rewards of some of the work done by IV. I hope to nudge some of you to re-evaluate your stance on contributing. Think about it, is it that hard to part with $50 or $100?
For everybody who has contribute time, money and effort to ImmigrationVoice; Kudo�s and Thankyou. I have listed my previous payments to ImmigrationVoice (including today�s payment) to convince the nay sayers :). I can give you exact Paypal transaction id�s also (PM me if you need more evidence :))
Mar. 31, 2008 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$100.00 USD
Apr. 7, 2006 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$200.00 USD
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Mar. 8, 2006 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$100.00 USD
PS- Its not my intent to be condescending or to offend anybody by this post. So if you feel so, then I can�t help it.. Sorry.
Thank you IV team and Good Luck to ya all..
Hello,
Six years after initiating our green card process, I am happy to say that my wife and I have just received our green cards in hand. I have relied on ImmigrationVoice forums to get valuable information about policy changes, ask questions and I have also contributed several times (albeit modestly) to ImmigrationVoice. I remember the days when there used to be appeals made by the Core team asking members to contribute and I used to feel frustrated that I could do no more (at least financially). Granted I should have done more, but I have always felt as a community we all could have and should have contributed more to this grassroot effort. I hope to start/trigger a new fund raising event today by contributing again. Folks I have no reason to do contribute, but I feel I am reaping the rewards of some of the work done by IV. I hope to nudge some of you to re-evaluate your stance on contributing. Think about it, is it that hard to part with $50 or $100?
For everybody who has contribute time, money and effort to ImmigrationVoice; Kudo�s and Thankyou. I have listed my previous payments to ImmigrationVoice (including today�s payment) to convince the nay sayers :). I can give you exact Paypal transaction id�s also (PM me if you need more evidence :))
Mar. 31, 2008 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$100.00 USD
Apr. 7, 2006 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$200.00 USD
Mar. 17, 2006 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$100.00 USD
Mar. 8, 2006 Payment To Immigration Voice Completed Details -$100.00 USD
PS- Its not my intent to be condescending or to offend anybody by this post. So if you feel so, then I can�t help it.. Sorry.
Thank you IV team and Good Luck to ya all..
austingc
05-13 07:11 PM
Thanks to all for the reply
To answer some of the questions mentioned above, my last (re)entry into US was on 6-Sep-2009
You did not really answer my questions.
To answer some of the questions mentioned above, my last (re)entry into US was on 6-Sep-2009
You did not really answer my questions.
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eastindia
01-04 11:49 AM
Don't you think this maybe racial profiling?
What about Greencard holders and Citizens of Indian origin?
There is no way one can look at the face and say H1B/EAD/GC/Citizen?
Should citizens also carry passports at all times. The drivers licence does not say a person is a citizen.
What about Greencard holders and Citizens of Indian origin?
There is no way one can look at the face and say H1B/EAD/GC/Citizen?
Should citizens also carry passports at all times. The drivers licence does not say a person is a citizen.
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Following text is pasted from ImmInfo Newsletter: Just How Bad is the Backlog? (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
let�s now take a look at the more complex problem of EB3 backlogs. Again, we will use the backlog information for EB3 visas shown on the CIS website, arranged, by priority dates, area of charge and year:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
Availability is a bit more complex in this situation. Recall that the third employment based preference category (EB3) is allocated roughly 40,000 visas annually. These visas are issued on the basis of those with the oldest priority dates receiving visas first. There is, however, a single state limit that prohibits no more than seven (7%) of the total number of visas from being issues to persons born in a single country. This means that no more than 9,800 visas may be issued to persons born in any single country. Note that it is country of birth that determines chargeability, not country of citizenship.
This 9,800 limit applies to all employment based applicants from a single country, including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth preferences. When a country is subject to the single state limit, the 9,800 maximum is divided the same way that the five preferences are divided within the overall EB quota. That is, each of the first three preferences receive 28.8% of the total. For EB3 purposes, this means that there is a maxium allocation of about 2,822 visas annually for each country subject to the single state limit, provided there are that many applicants with sufficiently early priority dates.
Let�s take a quick look at how this gets applied to the quota. We start with an overall allocation of 40,000 visas. The single state limits are not guarantees. They are maximum limits imposed on people born in those countries, within the overall limit. Within the 40,000 annual allocation, visas first go to those with the oldest priority dates. If, however, 2,822 people from a single country (including dependents) receive visas in a single fiscal year, then no additional applicants chargeable to that country may receive visas until the new quota becomes available in the next fiscal year. Unlike the second employment based preference category (EB2), there are no unused visas from the Worldwide category to be made available to the single state limited countries.
At the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, the Worldwide EB3 cutoff date stands at June 1, 2001. By law, no more than 27% of the overall quota may be allocated in any of the first three quarters. This means that approximately 10,800 visas will be used in EB3 during the first quarter. This figure is greater than the total number of EB3 AOS applicants shown in the CIS backlog charts (8,884) for all applicants with priority dates earlier than 2002 and is further evidence that those charts do not reflect the full size of the demand.
The Visa Office had earlier said that they expected to see the cutoff date for Worldwide EB3 move into early 2006 by spring of next year. This seems likely to happen. For single state limited country applicants, however, the story is very different.
For EB3, the maximum number of visas that may be issued in a single year to applicants from single state limited countries is 2,822 visas. Initially, India and possibly Mexico will have individual cutoff dates that will lag behind the Worldwide EB3 cutoff date. As the Worldwide cutoff date advances, Mexico should catch up, but then the Philippines will start to lag.
The country that is going to see the worst delays, by far, is India. Let�s take another look at the CIS reported demand for EB3 India AOS applicants, understanding that these numbers represent minimum demand and that the actual demand is greater:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
If we subtract 2,822 visas per year from these total, we see that all of the pre-2002 India EB3 cases shown here should be resolved before the end of FY 2010. This is where things slow down. At the start of FY 2011, there would still be 7,756 AOS applicants in line with priority dates for 2002. Reducing this number at a rate of 2,822 visas per year it will take almost three and a half years to eliminate all of the currently pending (and reported) Indian EB3 adjustment of status cases. This would be some time in the late winter or early spring of 2015 . At that point, the Indian EB3 cutoff date would likely move into 2003. At that rate, it would then be approximately 2020 before the cutoff date would move into 2004. There isn�t much point in taking this exercise any further. It is obvious that Indian EB3 is not going to go anywhere absent legislative relief.
Indian EB3 applicants have three options:
1. Stay the course and wait.
2. Hope for legislative relief.
3. Find a way to upgrade to EB2.
Unfortunately, there isn�t a fourth option.
Good News for EB2
Let�s take a look at the backlog information for EB2 visas shown on the CIS website, arranged, by priority dates, area of charge and year:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
The Worldwide allocation for EB2 is roughly 40,000 visas annually, plus all unused EB1 numbers. For fiscal year 2008, a total of 35,590 employment-based first preference visas were issued. Due to the failure of the CIS to adjudicate enough family based adjustment of status cases, about 25,000 visas from that quota fell over into the employment based quota and a total of 70,135 EB2 visas were issued. For fiscal year 2009, there were considerably fewer family based visas available for use by the EB categories. For FY 2010, the State Department estimates that there will be only about 5,000 such additional visas available. For our purposes, we can assume that EB1 will have about 5,000 leftover visas and another 5,000 will become available from the family based quota. This means that the EB2 visa availability will be approximately 50,000 for this fiscal year.
If we assume that all of the demand shown on the CIS website remains, and that there is no additional demand, the total of pre-approved EB2 cases pending before the CIS with priority dates earlier than 2007 is almost 52,000. In reality, this demand represents about two-thirds of the actual demand, so the likelihood is that the EB2 cutoff date will not move beyond May, 2006 by the end of fiscal year 2010 (September 30, 2010).
If the EB2 cutoff date does reach May, 2006 by the end of FY 2010, then it would likely reach the end of calendar year 2008 (and probably go into early 2009) by the end of fiscal year 2011.
Good Luck TO ALL...
let�s now take a look at the more complex problem of EB3 backlogs. Again, we will use the backlog information for EB3 visas shown on the CIS website, arranged, by priority dates, area of charge and year:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
Availability is a bit more complex in this situation. Recall that the third employment based preference category (EB3) is allocated roughly 40,000 visas annually. These visas are issued on the basis of those with the oldest priority dates receiving visas first. There is, however, a single state limit that prohibits no more than seven (7%) of the total number of visas from being issues to persons born in a single country. This means that no more than 9,800 visas may be issued to persons born in any single country. Note that it is country of birth that determines chargeability, not country of citizenship.
This 9,800 limit applies to all employment based applicants from a single country, including first, second, third, fourth, and fifth preferences. When a country is subject to the single state limit, the 9,800 maximum is divided the same way that the five preferences are divided within the overall EB quota. That is, each of the first three preferences receive 28.8% of the total. For EB3 purposes, this means that there is a maxium allocation of about 2,822 visas annually for each country subject to the single state limit, provided there are that many applicants with sufficiently early priority dates.
Let�s take a quick look at how this gets applied to the quota. We start with an overall allocation of 40,000 visas. The single state limits are not guarantees. They are maximum limits imposed on people born in those countries, within the overall limit. Within the 40,000 annual allocation, visas first go to those with the oldest priority dates. If, however, 2,822 people from a single country (including dependents) receive visas in a single fiscal year, then no additional applicants chargeable to that country may receive visas until the new quota becomes available in the next fiscal year. Unlike the second employment based preference category (EB2), there are no unused visas from the Worldwide category to be made available to the single state limited countries.
At the end of the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, the Worldwide EB3 cutoff date stands at June 1, 2001. By law, no more than 27% of the overall quota may be allocated in any of the first three quarters. This means that approximately 10,800 visas will be used in EB3 during the first quarter. This figure is greater than the total number of EB3 AOS applicants shown in the CIS backlog charts (8,884) for all applicants with priority dates earlier than 2002 and is further evidence that those charts do not reflect the full size of the demand.
The Visa Office had earlier said that they expected to see the cutoff date for Worldwide EB3 move into early 2006 by spring of next year. This seems likely to happen. For single state limited country applicants, however, the story is very different.
For EB3, the maximum number of visas that may be issued in a single year to applicants from single state limited countries is 2,822 visas. Initially, India and possibly Mexico will have individual cutoff dates that will lag behind the Worldwide EB3 cutoff date. As the Worldwide cutoff date advances, Mexico should catch up, but then the Philippines will start to lag.
The country that is going to see the worst delays, by far, is India. Let�s take another look at the CIS reported demand for EB3 India AOS applicants, understanding that these numbers represent minimum demand and that the actual demand is greater:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
If we subtract 2,822 visas per year from these total, we see that all of the pre-2002 India EB3 cases shown here should be resolved before the end of FY 2010. This is where things slow down. At the start of FY 2011, there would still be 7,756 AOS applicants in line with priority dates for 2002. Reducing this number at a rate of 2,822 visas per year it will take almost three and a half years to eliminate all of the currently pending (and reported) Indian EB3 adjustment of status cases. This would be some time in the late winter or early spring of 2015 . At that point, the Indian EB3 cutoff date would likely move into 2003. At that rate, it would then be approximately 2020 before the cutoff date would move into 2004. There isn�t much point in taking this exercise any further. It is obvious that Indian EB3 is not going to go anywhere absent legislative relief.
Indian EB3 applicants have three options:
1. Stay the course and wait.
2. Hope for legislative relief.
3. Find a way to upgrade to EB2.
Unfortunately, there isn�t a fourth option.
Good News for EB2
Let�s take a look at the backlog information for EB2 visas shown on the CIS website, arranged, by priority dates, area of charge and year:
? Not able to paste the table ?
but this is available at this link (http://imminfo.com/News/Newsletter/2009-12/just_how_bad_is_the_backlog.html)
The Worldwide allocation for EB2 is roughly 40,000 visas annually, plus all unused EB1 numbers. For fiscal year 2008, a total of 35,590 employment-based first preference visas were issued. Due to the failure of the CIS to adjudicate enough family based adjustment of status cases, about 25,000 visas from that quota fell over into the employment based quota and a total of 70,135 EB2 visas were issued. For fiscal year 2009, there were considerably fewer family based visas available for use by the EB categories. For FY 2010, the State Department estimates that there will be only about 5,000 such additional visas available. For our purposes, we can assume that EB1 will have about 5,000 leftover visas and another 5,000 will become available from the family based quota. This means that the EB2 visa availability will be approximately 50,000 for this fiscal year.
If we assume that all of the demand shown on the CIS website remains, and that there is no additional demand, the total of pre-approved EB2 cases pending before the CIS with priority dates earlier than 2007 is almost 52,000. In reality, this demand represents about two-thirds of the actual demand, so the likelihood is that the EB2 cutoff date will not move beyond May, 2006 by the end of fiscal year 2010 (September 30, 2010).
If the EB2 cutoff date does reach May, 2006 by the end of FY 2010, then it would likely reach the end of calendar year 2008 (and probably go into early 2009) by the end of fiscal year 2011.
Good Luck TO ALL...
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Jungalee43,
What horrible experiences you had for AC21?? I am at a spot where it seems I will have to use AC21.. probably no other option.Just trying to be cautious!!!!:rolleyes:
If you have got no other option, then yes you got to use it. But to me the author of this initial post is taking an unnecessary risk when he is so near.
What horrible experiences you had for AC21?? I am at a spot where it seems I will have to use AC21.. probably no other option.Just trying to be cautious!!!!:rolleyes:
If you have got no other option, then yes you got to use it. But to me the author of this initial post is taking an unnecessary risk when he is so near.
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09-25 06:08 PM
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drirshad
07-13 01:25 PM
Ok this is just for fun so no offense to anyone .....
Adding to the list of what can be done to get selected for a visa number.
1) Hack the visa bulletin websites across the globe so the next one never comes
2) Marry the IO so you get the gc this way or that.
3) Put a tent outside the local Senator's house so they get your case prioritized.
4) Fasting tents outside white house until we get the gc.
5) Leave the whole gc headache behind and go back home.
Current is a stale word and USCIS knows how to make that happen.
Adding to the list of what can be done to get selected for a visa number.
1) Hack the visa bulletin websites across the globe so the next one never comes
2) Marry the IO so you get the gc this way or that.
3) Put a tent outside the local Senator's house so they get your case prioritized.
4) Fasting tents outside white house until we get the gc.
5) Leave the whole gc headache behind and go back home.
Current is a stale word and USCIS knows how to make that happen.
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rajuram
12-29 01:37 AM
Lets recap 2007 and think ahead for 2008.
Achievements for 2007
Victory after July visa bulletin.
Frustrations of 2007
No legislation changes.
No visa recapture.
No additional H1s.
No changes seem to be possible till 2009
Most categories are still severely retrogressed, many people have been waiting for 5 to 6 years.
Name check is still a problem.
Visa Bulletin still a black box, no transparency with regards to declaring actual backlog figures.
It is clear our strategies are not working very well. Fresh thinking is required.
Achievements for 2007
Victory after July visa bulletin.
Frustrations of 2007
No legislation changes.
No visa recapture.
No additional H1s.
No changes seem to be possible till 2009
Most categories are still severely retrogressed, many people have been waiting for 5 to 6 years.
Name check is still a problem.
Visa Bulletin still a black box, no transparency with regards to declaring actual backlog figures.
It is clear our strategies are not working very well. Fresh thinking is required.
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pappu
01-25 07:44 PM
(Please ignore my profile of 485, it is not correct, as I was trying to enter random information to get access to IV[/I])
Sorry to hear about your situation. Hope you get answers from fellow members.
You should not be entering random information anymore to get access to IV. We have fixed all such issues. Please correct your profile information so that it helps others tracking similar cases.
Sorry to hear about your situation. Hope you get answers from fellow members.
You should not be entering random information anymore to get access to IV. We have fixed all such issues. Please correct your profile information so that it helps others tracking similar cases.
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immique
06-18 09:07 PM
Dear friends, did anyone visit Hawaii? I am trying to find out if you need to have passport/visa to visit Hawaii. I know it is an outlying territory of US and so can you travel with valid ID/drivers license instead of carrying passport? I don't have a H1 stamped in my passport.
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abhijitp
11-20 03:36 PM
Considering the fact that the Congress may not pass any legislation to give a relief to the current employment-based immigration system until 2009 after the national election is over, we indeed do not see any light at the end of tunnel. People will just have to learn survival tactics for the long journey, overcoming any potential obstacles that can develop along the way.
Source: www.immigration-law.com
This is not a fact, because the game is not over!
Act now and join your state chapter, contribute, volunteer, meet your lawmakers, make this your campaign. Don't take things lying down!
Source: www.immigration-law.com
This is not a fact, because the game is not over!
Act now and join your state chapter, contribute, volunteer, meet your lawmakers, make this your campaign. Don't take things lying down!
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Do guys know what time is the conference call.
ffb613
06-03 08:40 AM
ok... he's a religious worker and therefore those visas are current, acc. to the state dept.'s website. so i think i will try the I-129 route and get him in on an R-1.
but is it illegal to come in on a non-immigrant visa and then file I-130????
but is it illegal to come in on a non-immigrant visa and then file I-130????
garybanz
12-31 04:06 PM
let's not write off 2009 just yet.
administrative changes especially - remain in the works.
we are talking directly to the admin on this, recent USCIS
statements show that significant progress has been made towards
the idea of a 3 year EAD/AP. another important change we are
pushing for is a change in EAD work description to allow for
"similar" and "related" occupations, not in the precise occupational
code. also recapture remains on the table, hard as things are.
hang on guys, it's a wild ride!
Did you mean 2007?
administrative changes especially - remain in the works.
we are talking directly to the admin on this, recent USCIS
statements show that significant progress has been made towards
the idea of a 3 year EAD/AP. another important change we are
pushing for is a change in EAD work description to allow for
"similar" and "related" occupations, not in the precise occupational
code. also recapture remains on the table, hard as things are.
hang on guys, it's a wild ride!
Did you mean 2007?
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