augustus
11-06 06:15 PM
Dear All,
I wish you a very happy Diwali and May almighty shower on each one of us, happiness, prosperity and end the woes we face in achieving permanent residency. I truly wish this for each of us. I think when we pray to almighty, we should collectively pray for this cause. Who knows, maybe lord will help us out soon.
This forum has been great to all of us in finding solace, and importantly exchanging knowledge and ideas.
Happy Diwali once again. I know they may delete this thread but I think they shouldn't because many others will offer their good wishes too. Amidst our worries, we should be able to cheer up in the light of Diwali and keep our spirits up and march ahead for another wonderful year.
Thank you everyone!!!!!! Happy Diwali :-)
Sending lots of good wishes your way,
Augustus
I wish you a very happy Diwali and May almighty shower on each one of us, happiness, prosperity and end the woes we face in achieving permanent residency. I truly wish this for each of us. I think when we pray to almighty, we should collectively pray for this cause. Who knows, maybe lord will help us out soon.
This forum has been great to all of us in finding solace, and importantly exchanging knowledge and ideas.
Happy Diwali once again. I know they may delete this thread but I think they shouldn't because many others will offer their good wishes too. Amidst our worries, we should be able to cheer up in the light of Diwali and keep our spirits up and march ahead for another wonderful year.
Thank you everyone!!!!!! Happy Diwali :-)
Sending lots of good wishes your way,
Augustus
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zoxtannin
03-22 02:57 AM
Got an offer this year from a New Jersey based company called PR Consultants. Does anyone has any information about this company? Any help can be really useful ..
svdcpa
06-06 10:45 AM
i am a cpa and my labor certification still gathering dust at the dallas backlog proc center. i did received the 45-day letter march 2005.
2011 Kristen Stewart and Robert
senthil1
03-12 08:38 AM
CIR may be passed but may not give much benefit to high skilled community. This article shows that
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/12/h-1b-visa-curbs-india-cannot-do-anything-says-menon.htm
The anti-immigration groups seem to be busy with strategic plans to challenge CIR. Hope IV is ready to make a strong case too.
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,0312.shtm#comment
http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/mar/12/h-1b-visa-curbs-india-cannot-do-anything-says-menon.htm
The anti-immigration groups seem to be busy with strategic plans to challenge CIR. Hope IV is ready to make a strong case too.
http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2009,0312.shtm#comment
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satishnarra
07-29 01:14 PM
Dear Experts,
My wife's H1 is pending from H4. Its got selected in lottery and waiting for approval. But in the mean time we have to go to Canada and come back within 3 days. I would like to know if this impacts the COS. If it so, what are the options, means again can we apply for COS once we get the H1 approval without COS? Please let me know the options.
Thanks in advance
Satish Narra
My wife's H1 is pending from H4. Its got selected in lottery and waiting for approval. But in the mean time we have to go to Canada and come back within 3 days. I would like to know if this impacts the COS. If it so, what are the options, means again can we apply for COS once we get the H1 approval without COS? Please let me know the options.
Thanks in advance
Satish Narra
BumbleBee
08-16 03:14 PM
Can people convert LC pending in BEC to PERM? If So, how safe it is and how much time it takes totally.
Yes, and its well known. Talk to or just visit Murthy or Immigrationportal and you will find lot of discussion on this topic. In a nutshell, as long the PERM application is identical to BEC pending application you can convert to PERM. Make sure to find an attorney familiar in such type of cases.
BumbleBee
Yes, and its well known. Talk to or just visit Murthy or Immigrationportal and you will find lot of discussion on this topic. In a nutshell, as long the PERM application is identical to BEC pending application you can convert to PERM. Make sure to find an attorney familiar in such type of cases.
BumbleBee
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Blog Feeds
01-03 07:10 AM
Arizona's reputation for right wing lunacy certainly will be enhanced by this effort. Or maybe there's some pretty rational thinking behind SB1070 and eliminating rights for American born citizens of Hispanic descent. 30% of Arizonans are Hispanic. 42% of all students from kindergarten through twelth grade are Hispanic and the percentage goes even higher for the younger grades. Even if the efforts don't stand up to constitutional muster, maybe the real goal is not to get rid of illegal present immigrants, but, rather, all Hispanics, whether they are legal immigrants, born in the US or illegally present. Hispanics vote overwhelmingly...
More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/12/arizona-antis-pushing-birthright-citizenship-measure-.html)
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coolmanasip
07-19 01:54 PM
Guys,
I submitted 485 application for me (primary) and my wife (secondary); now she is changing her job before we can get the receipt for 485 filing....she is on h1B....the new employer will file her H1B transfer..........does anyone see any issue with this????
I think its fine as her H1 status is independent of we filing 485....any thoughts?
I submitted 485 application for me (primary) and my wife (secondary); now she is changing her job before we can get the receipt for 485 filing....she is on h1B....the new employer will file her H1B transfer..........does anyone see any issue with this????
I think its fine as her H1 status is independent of we filing 485....any thoughts?
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ramreddy
08-24 07:38 AM
Hi Folks
just got my GC. Now if I contract for a security clearance job, like Armed forces, or Defense related one through the same employer that sponsored by GC, CAN I BE ELIGIBLE for a waiver of the 5 years waiting period -to what extent is is waived ....100% or only part of the 5 years wait, if at all .
My Company is a US Defense Vendor .
Can someone pt me to the right place where all this is clarified.
Also would the same kind of waiver apply if you work for a Govt agency or it is strictly defense...
are there some other ways where GC-> Citz can be expedited
just got my GC. Now if I contract for a security clearance job, like Armed forces, or Defense related one through the same employer that sponsored by GC, CAN I BE ELIGIBLE for a waiver of the 5 years waiting period -to what extent is is waived ....100% or only part of the 5 years wait, if at all .
My Company is a US Defense Vendor .
Can someone pt me to the right place where all this is clarified.
Also would the same kind of waiver apply if you work for a Govt agency or it is strictly defense...
are there some other ways where GC-> Citz can be expedited
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gc_kaavaali
12-19 07:15 PM
Applying for SSN doesn't invalidates your H1..
HI
if we apply ssn on ead istead of h1 will H1 get cancelled.please suggest me.
HI
if we apply ssn on ead istead of h1 will H1 get cancelled.please suggest me.
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zofa30
09-15 04:46 PM
Hi,
I am on EB2+PERM. I got LC approved and currently filed for I-140 and 485.
As I understand unless the I-485 is pending for more than 180 days after the approval of I-140, I have to restart the whole process again with the new employer (expect that I can port PD if I want to).
Now are there any chance that if the above scenario happens, and my employer did not revoke I-140 or 485, that I can still receive my GC? Or that will be illegal? Please clarify.
Thanks
I am on EB2+PERM. I got LC approved and currently filed for I-140 and 485.
As I understand unless the I-485 is pending for more than 180 days after the approval of I-140, I have to restart the whole process again with the new employer (expect that I can port PD if I want to).
Now are there any chance that if the above scenario happens, and my employer did not revoke I-140 or 485, that I can still receive my GC? Or that will be illegal? Please clarify.
Thanks
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calabor2001
03-27 09:42 PM
My application was filed in EB3 category and PD is current (has been since start of this year). I have an approved I-140 since Feb 07 and the I-485 was filed prior to the mess of 2007. I have taken 4 Infopass appointments trying to find out why is it taking this long to get "a decision". At this point, I don't care what the decision is, as long as there is one so that I can move on in my life. Called and spoke with the processing center that the case is outside their "normal processing time" only to hear, "We are processing". They won't tell me what is going on.
Wondering about my options here? Congressional inquiry? Writ of Mandamus? Anything? Anyone in the same position as me?
Wondering about my options here? Congressional inquiry? Writ of Mandamus? Anything? Anyone in the same position as me?
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TheCanadian
03-14 02:49 AM
Damn, that's good for fingerprinting.
tattoo Robert Pattinson amp; Kristen
Macaca
05-19 07:54 AM
3 Months of Tense Talks Led to Immigration Deal (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/washington/19immig.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) By CARL HULSE (http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.html) and ROBERT PEAR (http://www.nytimes.com/gst/emailus.html), May 19, 2007
WASHINGTON, May 18 � Hours before a bipartisan deal on immigration policy was to be announced Thursday, a tenuous compromise was threatening to unravel, and tempers flared once again.
Just off the Senate floor, Senators John McCain of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas, both Republicans, exchanged sharp words, with Mr. McCain accusing his colleague of raising arcane legal issues to scuttle the deal. Mr. Cornyn retorted that he was entitled to his view and noted that Mr. McCain had spent more time campaigning for president than negotiating in recent weeks.
The senatorial dust-up, described by witnesses, was just one of the tense moments in remarkable negotiations over the last three months that resulted in this week�s accord. Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who oversaw the talks, compared them to a floating craps game, with a changing cast of characters and shifting sites.
Lawmakers and staff members who participated said passions occasionally ran high in the dozens of meetings, with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, sometimes using his temper as a negotiating tactic. Senators who had spent hours anguishing over the smallest details had little patience for colleagues who made brief appearances to offer their views.
�New people came in and wanted to revisit the whole deal,� Mr. Specter said. �That happened all the time. It was very frustrating.�
In the end, negotiators overcame political divisions and some level of distrust to produce the agreement that will be debated in the Senate beginning next week. Lawmakers said they forged bonds partly through the telling of personal stories about their own family roots, as well as long hours spent together and the prospect that the bill might be a last chance at reaching consensus on a major national problem.
�It was like waiting for a baby to be born,� said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, about the negotiations. �On occasion, it was like being in mediation with a divorced couple. It was like being at camp with your buddies. It was feeling like a part of history.�
As difficult as the negotiations were, they might ultimately seem tame compared with the fight the authors of the plan now face. Before the language of the bill was even published, the proposal � a major domestic objective of the Bush administration � was under attack from the right for allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship and from the left for dividing families. The offices of the negotiators were under siege from critics who had the phones ringing endlessly.
�It is real easy to demagogue this thing, and some people probably won�t be able to help themselves,� said Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida and another key participant in the talks. �We are going to have to stick together on the fundamentals of this agreement.�
The talks had their genesis in last year�s failure on immigration after House Republicans essentially chose to ignore a bill passed by the Senate that conservatives derided as amnesty since it would have allowed some of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to remain and eventually qualify to be citizens.
President Bush helped plant the seeds of this year�s negotiations on Jan. 8, at a White House event celebrating the fifth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act. Mr. Bush pulled aside Senator Kennedy, and they went into a room off the Oval Office to talk about immigration.
A month later, Senator Jon Kyl, a conservative Republican from Arizona who would become an important figure in striking the deal, began meeting with other Republicans and administration officials to explore ways to find a legislative response to an issue with potent political and humanitarian ramifications.
When those talks progressed far enough, the Republicans on March 28 invited in Democrats like Mr. Kennedy, a longtime advocate of immigration changes, and Senators Ken Salazar of Colorado and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. What followed was a series of meetings around the Capitol, typically on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, as the lawmakers, staff members, White House officials and two or three cabinet secretaries immersed themselves in immigration rules as part of unusually direct high-level negotiations.
�To take an issue and basically start from scratch and write it from the bottom up is something I haven�t seen done in a really long time,� said Candida Wolff, chief of Congressional relations for the White House.
The first big hurdle was cleared a few weeks ago when the negotiators settled on what they called the grand bargain, the main outlines of the issues they were going to address. Major elements included border security improvements and other measures that would have to be undertaken before new citizenship programs were put in place; potential legal status for millions of illegal immigrants; new visas for hundreds of thousands of temporary workers; and clearing a backlog of family applicants for residency.
Republicans also won support for a new �merit-based system of immigration,� which would give more weight to job skills and education and less to family ties. The negotiators decided to adopt a point system to evaluate the qualifications of foreign citizens seeking permission to immigrate to the United States.
No question was too small for the senators. They asked: How many points should be awarded to a refrigerator mechanic with a certificate from a community college?
The negotiations were a roller coaster ride that continued until the deal was announced Thursday, with negotiators expressing despair one day and optimism the next.
�Wednesday evening was one of the most important moments,� Mr. Kennedy said in an interview. �The mood and the atmosphere were good. You got a feeling that maybe this would all be possible. But on Thursday morning, it suddenly deteriorated again.� He told his colleagues that �it�s imperative that we announce an agreement� on Thursday afternoon, or else they could lose momentum. The announcement was made.
In some respects, the lawmakers benefited from the Congressional focus on the Iraq war as they were able to negotiate below the radar, avoiding the disclosure of every twist and turn in the talks and pressure from influential interest groups. Those involved also said the deep participation of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was vital.
The senators who put together the bill say they have their own reservations about aspects of it. And some of the regular participants, including Senators Cornyn and Menendez, have backed away from endorsing it. But those who have embraced the bill say they intend to see it through.
�We made a pact,� said Mr. Specter, who was referred to as Mr. Chairman even though Democrats control Congress. �We will stick together even on provisions we don�t like. We are a long way from home in getting this through the Senate.�
WASHINGTON, May 18 � Hours before a bipartisan deal on immigration policy was to be announced Thursday, a tenuous compromise was threatening to unravel, and tempers flared once again.
Just off the Senate floor, Senators John McCain of Arizona and John Cornyn of Texas, both Republicans, exchanged sharp words, with Mr. McCain accusing his colleague of raising arcane legal issues to scuttle the deal. Mr. Cornyn retorted that he was entitled to his view and noted that Mr. McCain had spent more time campaigning for president than negotiating in recent weeks.
The senatorial dust-up, described by witnesses, was just one of the tense moments in remarkable negotiations over the last three months that resulted in this week�s accord. Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican who oversaw the talks, compared them to a floating craps game, with a changing cast of characters and shifting sites.
Lawmakers and staff members who participated said passions occasionally ran high in the dozens of meetings, with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, sometimes using his temper as a negotiating tactic. Senators who had spent hours anguishing over the smallest details had little patience for colleagues who made brief appearances to offer their views.
�New people came in and wanted to revisit the whole deal,� Mr. Specter said. �That happened all the time. It was very frustrating.�
In the end, negotiators overcame political divisions and some level of distrust to produce the agreement that will be debated in the Senate beginning next week. Lawmakers said they forged bonds partly through the telling of personal stories about their own family roots, as well as long hours spent together and the prospect that the bill might be a last chance at reaching consensus on a major national problem.
�It was like waiting for a baby to be born,� said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, about the negotiations. �On occasion, it was like being in mediation with a divorced couple. It was like being at camp with your buddies. It was feeling like a part of history.�
As difficult as the negotiations were, they might ultimately seem tame compared with the fight the authors of the plan now face. Before the language of the bill was even published, the proposal � a major domestic objective of the Bush administration � was under attack from the right for allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship and from the left for dividing families. The offices of the negotiators were under siege from critics who had the phones ringing endlessly.
�It is real easy to demagogue this thing, and some people probably won�t be able to help themselves,� said Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida and another key participant in the talks. �We are going to have to stick together on the fundamentals of this agreement.�
The talks had their genesis in last year�s failure on immigration after House Republicans essentially chose to ignore a bill passed by the Senate that conservatives derided as amnesty since it would have allowed some of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to remain and eventually qualify to be citizens.
President Bush helped plant the seeds of this year�s negotiations on Jan. 8, at a White House event celebrating the fifth anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act. Mr. Bush pulled aside Senator Kennedy, and they went into a room off the Oval Office to talk about immigration.
A month later, Senator Jon Kyl, a conservative Republican from Arizona who would become an important figure in striking the deal, began meeting with other Republicans and administration officials to explore ways to find a legislative response to an issue with potent political and humanitarian ramifications.
When those talks progressed far enough, the Republicans on March 28 invited in Democrats like Mr. Kennedy, a longtime advocate of immigration changes, and Senators Ken Salazar of Colorado and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. What followed was a series of meetings around the Capitol, typically on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, as the lawmakers, staff members, White House officials and two or three cabinet secretaries immersed themselves in immigration rules as part of unusually direct high-level negotiations.
�To take an issue and basically start from scratch and write it from the bottom up is something I haven�t seen done in a really long time,� said Candida Wolff, chief of Congressional relations for the White House.
The first big hurdle was cleared a few weeks ago when the negotiators settled on what they called the grand bargain, the main outlines of the issues they were going to address. Major elements included border security improvements and other measures that would have to be undertaken before new citizenship programs were put in place; potential legal status for millions of illegal immigrants; new visas for hundreds of thousands of temporary workers; and clearing a backlog of family applicants for residency.
Republicans also won support for a new �merit-based system of immigration,� which would give more weight to job skills and education and less to family ties. The negotiators decided to adopt a point system to evaluate the qualifications of foreign citizens seeking permission to immigrate to the United States.
No question was too small for the senators. They asked: How many points should be awarded to a refrigerator mechanic with a certificate from a community college?
The negotiations were a roller coaster ride that continued until the deal was announced Thursday, with negotiators expressing despair one day and optimism the next.
�Wednesday evening was one of the most important moments,� Mr. Kennedy said in an interview. �The mood and the atmosphere were good. You got a feeling that maybe this would all be possible. But on Thursday morning, it suddenly deteriorated again.� He told his colleagues that �it�s imperative that we announce an agreement� on Thursday afternoon, or else they could lose momentum. The announcement was made.
In some respects, the lawmakers benefited from the Congressional focus on the Iraq war as they were able to negotiate below the radar, avoiding the disclosure of every twist and turn in the talks and pressure from influential interest groups. Those involved also said the deep participation of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was vital.
The senators who put together the bill say they have their own reservations about aspects of it. And some of the regular participants, including Senators Cornyn and Menendez, have backed away from endorsing it. But those who have embraced the bill say they intend to see it through.
�We made a pact,� said Mr. Specter, who was referred to as Mr. Chairman even though Democrats control Congress. �We will stick together even on provisions we don�t like. We are a long way from home in getting this through the Senate.�
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sundevil
06-07 08:52 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_go_co/immigration_congress;_ylt=ArnshjTvhSvm1qUHwgpvIYME tbAF
Republicans were working to break an impasse on a proposal that would let employers continue to handpick the high-skilled workers they want to get green cards, rather than requiring workers to qualify through a new, government-run point system.
That change, sought by Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., and Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, with vigorous backing from the high-tech community, could upset the delicate balance underlying the contentious immigration measure.
Republicans were working to break an impasse on a proposal that would let employers continue to handpick the high-skilled workers they want to get green cards, rather than requiring workers to qualify through a new, government-run point system.
That change, sought by Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record), D-Wash., and Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, with vigorous backing from the high-tech community, could upset the delicate balance underlying the contentious immigration measure.
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Sneha_2010
03-16 09:53 AM
During my last H1 transfer in 2008,LCA was filed for 60k per anum.LCA was filed in as work location Lanham,MD
Last Year ,my payroll ran for 90k per annum.
This year , my pay stub is running for 60k per annum. Still my Labor is for 60k only.
Will this be a problem when I am applying for Labor and at I140 stage in GC process?
Now If I am applying for H1b Extension,because of this drastic difference of 30k per anum,
will this be a problem.
please help me with answering this question.
Last Year ,my payroll ran for 90k per annum.
This year , my pay stub is running for 60k per annum. Still my Labor is for 60k only.
Will this be a problem when I am applying for Labor and at I140 stage in GC process?
Now If I am applying for H1b Extension,because of this drastic difference of 30k per anum,
will this be a problem.
please help me with answering this question.
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Blog Feeds
07-08 11:30 AM
Iranian-born Omid Kordestani was Google's 12th employee and he is one of the key executives who has turned the firm in to one of the world's most successful companies. I just read an interesting article about Kordestani where he credits his immigrant background for much of his success and urges America's young people to adapt an immigrant mindset: �To keep an edge, I must think and act like an immigrant. There is a special optimism and drive that I benefited from and continue to rely on that I want all of you to find. Immigrants are inherently dreamers and fighters�...
More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2009/07/immigrant-of-the-day-omid-kordestani-it-pioneer.html)
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kirupa
05-19 08:49 AM
Hey afterhourz,
Select all the cubes and go to Modify | Group. It should group the cubes as one object. Now, when you animate them, the whole group of cubes will animate in sync with the rest.
Select all the cubes and go to Modify | Group. It should group the cubes as one object. Now, when you animate them, the whole group of cubes will animate in sync with the rest.
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gregspirited
08-26 04:14 PM
hi,
Currently I'm working for a major software firm (10,000+ employees) as a senior software engineer. My 6-yr H1-B expires by January 2010.
I filed for PERM with PD of October 2007 in Atlanta center under EB2 category for Sr.Software engineer position. As we know it is still in PENDING status after a AUDIT request.
Now, I have received an offer for a Sr.Technical Program manager internally in my company.
What are my options now?
1. Can I withdraw my current PERM (while it is PENDING after AUDIT) and apply for a new PERM under new position? OR
2. Can I use the same PERM since I'm staying with the same company?
3. Does the company size help in any way?
Currently I'm working for a major software firm (10,000+ employees) as a senior software engineer. My 6-yr H1-B expires by January 2010.
I filed for PERM with PD of October 2007 in Atlanta center under EB2 category for Sr.Software engineer position. As we know it is still in PENDING status after a AUDIT request.
Now, I have received an offer for a Sr.Technical Program manager internally in my company.
What are my options now?
1. Can I withdraw my current PERM (while it is PENDING after AUDIT) and apply for a new PERM under new position? OR
2. Can I use the same PERM since I'm staying with the same company?
3. Does the company size help in any way?
Quirky Quantum
10-27 10:05 PM
Here's my button, I'm still not sure how I feel about it (mostly the highlight).
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gcwait2007
05-01 03:00 PM
Congrats...
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