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goosetavo

03-23 03:43 PM

Looks like we have a 4th member from WA going to the event! WOW!
Folks from Microsoft and other companies came together and helped sponsor some of our attendees, how are the rest of you doing?

GO IV!

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naidu2543

05-01 11:18 PM

On what basis does DOL pick a company for audit?

I think there is not really any basis for audit unless there is a big mistake in the filing.

I filed through a MNC which is a automotive company.

The other rumor I heard that DOL hired lots of new people and audit process was part of their training. Do not question me how far it is true..

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TeddyKoochu

05-15 07:27 PM

Just got the CPO mail.

Thank you IV for all the efforts.

Special thanks to 'Q' (who started original EB2/EB3 Predictions rather calculations thread), Teddy, Vdlrao and everybody who are contributing here. Your predictions gave me hope when I was really lost. Hope you will also get it this year.

My best wishes to all who are still waiting.

Many congratulations and thanks for your kind words. Enjoy your green life it's good to know that people find the predictions and calculations blog useful.

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smisachu

08-03 04:03 PM

[QUOTE=X-Wing;1974909]Another one rides the bus......

Day 3 and counting. How does anyone here sleep at all![/QUOTE

Darth vader- I like your signature...

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little_willy

05-17 08:04 AM

Can you also post what decision you have made regarding changing employers or if you are waiting till next month for PD availability?

In the same situation as you are in.

Decided to move on to the new employer. Let's see what happens.

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amitjoey

01-04 11:26 AM

Welcome to our 8000th member "vatsa" ...Friends we are only 20% away from target. At least if you cannot make contribution in terms of $$$'s please at least add members and take it to the finish line....

Another suggestion is to use Orkut.... use your orkut network, join communities on Orkut which you may feel can have potential members and send a message to the whole community.


Thanks Anurakt

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newuser

05-15 09:37 AM

How can you employer to sure that the dates will remain the same. He is trying to delay your I485 process. Yesterday I was talking to a friend of my mine and he mentioned the same. The employer want to squeeze more $$ and drag the process.

Best of luck.

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amitjoey

01-19 11:08 AM

You may think that your contribution does not matter as long as others contribute. You may think that your contribution cannot change anything. ... If you think so, then you are wrong.

Your contribution is critical to this organization! You contribution is important to yourself--the legal immigrant!

Let me tell you what will happen if you don't contribute now:
With the number of people who have contributed stabilizing at a low level, IV's lobbying will be very very limited.
Then people who have contributed would feel disappointed.
Sooner or later, those people would withdraw their contribution.
Eventually IV will be closed.
From then on, you, who don't contribute now, will have no organization to speak up for you.
From then on, you will complain your situation in your company, seeing your peers get promoted while you get stuck in the same position because of your GC application.
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Maybe, at that time, you will say to yourself, "if I have contributed to IV in that special year, if all people like me have contributed, we would have get our GCs. Then, maybe, my life would have been totally different..."

Let me also tell you what you can lose if you contribute.
Your immigration status will NOT become worse, if it cannot get better.
The only thing you will lose is about $200 or less if you contribute $20/month. It will happen this year or never! If it does not happen this year, you can always withdraw your subscription.
I believe many people would pay $20,000 to buy a GC if possible. If IV brings 1% chance to help pass the bill, $200 is a very fair price! Besides, I believe the opportunity cost for people who has no GCs is probably more than $20,000 a year, considering a potential promotion or a job change. For those people, don't you think $200 is a very reasonable price to buy yourself a 1% chance?
Besides, the chance that IV brings to us is much much higher than 1%!
You are all high skilled workers. You can do this math very well!

So come one! Make contribution now or you may have no chance to make this great deal!


very well said, waitinggc.

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k3GC

09-01 02:10 PM

Is this happening this year too - TSC is giving approvals and not NSC? Last Aug / September when my priority date was current - it was the same, i know of people who got approved from TSC whose PD were 12/05.

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eb3retro

07-15 09:21 AM

so, you are saying dates in eb2 moved because, few of the eb2 folks showed up in DC. I think its time for you to up your medication...

This has become a ranting thread of EB3 folks. One simple question:

How many of you EB3 India folks who are complaining actually went to Washingtno DC last month for IV Advocacy event?

I hear it was not even 250 people. If you take out all EB2 people, so few EB3 people. This means EB3 people do not really want to do anything but after every visa bulletin come to the site and rant.

We in EB2 do not have much to worry. Our dates will move fast. But you EB3 had a chance last month and you blew it by not doing anything. So stop complaining.

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santb1975

04-07 07:15 PM

Let us become part of Team IV and raise funds for our Lobbying

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ram112

09-02 07:56 PM

I am sure you would get that as well...and pretty soon. it would help though to not focus on the gc too much as who is getting earlier or later and how randomly USCIS look at things. It's better not spend our energies on something that we don;t control ..but focus on things we do or can..my 2 cents.

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bskrishna

05-09 10:10 AM

May 3rd 2011. When did you do yours?

Did mine on 5/6. I did see on another forum that some of the SRs are getting a response to wait for 30 days.

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susie

05-07 01:36 AM

important


see this memo

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/CSPA_factsheet_050608.pdf

could benefit many and also sign and support
http://www.expatsvoice.org/forum/petition.php

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Kalai

10-07 12:30 PM

Applied in person Sept 22 2008 at CGI Houston, The person at the counter told they will send the passport in 7 Days. Still Waiting no response when i tried to call their number.

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eb2_mumbai

09-25 10:57 AM

Recapture.
Recapture.
Recapture.
Recapture.

Please do not make me say "Recapture" a million times to get my point across.

Spillover is not going to help EB3-I much.

I read on some posts that an executive order may be sufficient to recapture lost visas.


I agree with you. Recapture is ony way out. Spill over was done from 2002 - 2006 and EB3 I was still struck in 2001. Adding 20k visa would barely move EB3 I With all the labor subs that happened in 2007 there are many more people that have jumped the lines. All Spill over can do is barely move Eb3 from 2001 to early / mid 2002 that is all. So for folks post 2004 PD you are struck because by the time your PD gets spillover there will be EB2 I & C fighting for the same visa# that you need. So spill over helps a small section either Eb3 I with PD between 2001 - 2003 or EB2 with PD 2005 - CURRENT. For all others only real chance is recapture

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reddymjm

04-20 09:56 AM

he didnot apply new H1.my wife came to u.s.a on april 2 and he took the i-94 and
he has applied for transfer to the old H1(2005 one for which stamping was no done)with i-94 attached
This is some what tricky. She was counted against the cap in 2005. So she should be good for next 6 years as it will be counted only once in 6 yrs against the cap. I am not sure if any employer can do a transfer based on the old H1B. I think the old H1B is no longer valid. She entered the country on H4 with a new I94. The old I94 is not valid. If the attorney knew all these. He could have filed change of status from H4 to H1 and exempt her from the cap as she was already counted against the cap in 2005. Hope it helps.

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PlainSpeak

01-12 05:59 PM

Eb1 doesnot care about Eb2 & Eb3.
Eb2 doesnot care about Eb1 & Eb3.
Eb3 doesnot care about Eb1 & Eb2.

Embarrassingly this is the truth!!!


Correction ..
EB1 do not care about anyone

EB2 and EB3 care about what is happening because i have seen EB2 guys on this forum talk about the EB3 backlog and on the flip side there are EB3 guys who are working with IV on whatever garden path they are being led on.

My effort is to make IV core aware of the fact that maximum EB3 guys do not believe in IV direction. Now that is an eye opener and if IV really believes that they they are a representative of all EB they must face the fact that they do not have support of maximum of EB3 folks

Now if IV comes up with some genuine action items which will relieve the pressure on EB3 then they will see that EB3 folks will start believing in this whole lobbying and advocacy effort.

For example this 55k bill could include terms for EB3. Now no one from IV is talking about that and one enlightened eb2 volunteer says let the bill come through then we can include but if IV does not talk about it now how will any EB3 believe that IV would do in crunch time

The usual spiel of IV stating once EB2 becomes current EB3 will move will not hold water any longer because IV cannot promise that EB2 will come to a point where it has no more apps and spillover will go to EB3.

So that mean the whole IV approach is flawed

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vls

05-15 04:13 PM

Ours was around 30 days after receiving the I-485 receipt.

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franklin

06-13 11:39 PM

Years we have been told priority date establishes your place in the queue.

We have spurned job offers and declined the new PERM process to hold on to the priority dates.

Many are still awaiting labor certifications from the backlog elimination centers. Out comes USCIS and says everyone with a LC can file I140 & I485.

People still waiting for LC with priority dates in 2003-2004 are seeing applicants who have priority dates as late as 2007 but with approved LCs through PERM walk through to I485.

Net result, USCIS is going to be flooded with applicants enough to retrogress the priority dates 3-4 years back as early as september. (Everybody with a LC will be able to file for I485 in July). So applicants with priority dates of 2007 are going to get EAD and GC, while LC backlogged 2003 applicants to have to wait for another 3-4 years before they can even file I485.

Aint fair. Aint fair at all. How can this be. How can rules be changed in the middle of the game.

I totally feel for you right now. A lot of people are celebrating the unexpected news, and those that have applied for labor possibly MUCH earlier are still stuck.

Let's hope that the BEC keep to their new revised deadline and the Visa Bulletins remain rosy for you

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bishwas123

02-16 09:02 AM

Thanks so much

regards

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