gccovet
08-11 01:18 PM
I had my fp done on June 19th.
When I spoke to the IO they told me that they have received my "approved" FP on 7/22
thanks, hopefully, we will all get our EAD's shortly. Keeping my fingers crossed. :-(.
When I spoke to the IO they told me that they have received my "approved" FP on 7/22
thanks, hopefully, we will all get our EAD's shortly. Keeping my fingers crossed. :-(.
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gk_2000
02-16 04:53 PM
An idea:
Is it possible to recite the oath of citizenship in front of the senate en-masse? And maybe get some reporters to report the event..
Another, letter campaign, in which people will sign on the oath and snail mail to WH and also local senators
These might bring attention to us.. but feel free to knock it down (or ignore) if sounds absurd
Is it possible to recite the oath of citizenship in front of the senate en-masse? And maybe get some reporters to report the event..
Another, letter campaign, in which people will sign on the oath and snail mail to WH and also local senators
These might bring attention to us.. but feel free to knock it down (or ignore) if sounds absurd
gdhiren
09-20 11:40 AM
There are just too many fond memories to share in one post... but I do want to specially thank leo2606 who drove 70 miles to pick up myself, venkygct, vsraja and punjabi at the Dulles airport and then took us out for breakfast, then to the rally venue, then for lunch, finally to a hotel room we had booked for a quick shower, basically... like a shadow he was with us wherever we wanted to go! And... whenever we thanked him (and gdhiren who co-ordinated pickups/dropoffs for many others like the 4 of us) these guys, instead of saying something like "You are welcome", would profusely thank us for flying in!
Its people... like leo2606 and gdhiren.. and many others are the true strength of IV!
abhijitp, You deserve to be the MAN OF THE RALLY (I don't like to argue with ladies so I am choosing MAN :)) Whaever crowd we had at the rally the credit goes to you for the Partner thread which really helped increase the attendance and eventually out of area crowd beat the locals. Not to mention the great permonance on guitar on my favourite music.
Its people... like leo2606 and gdhiren.. and many others are the true strength of IV!
abhijitp, You deserve to be the MAN OF THE RALLY (I don't like to argue with ladies so I am choosing MAN :)) Whaever crowd we had at the rally the credit goes to you for the Partner thread which really helped increase the attendance and eventually out of area crowd beat the locals. Not to mention the great permonance on guitar on my favourite music.
2011 declining; Your job offer
pakrish
08-06 10:07 AM
I just checked my online status this morning. It had not changed since I filed but now I saw a LUD in today’s date. I checked the case status and both me and my wife have the Card Production Status. No emails or text just the update:). BTW my case is with NSC
Thanks IV for all the efforts.
Thanks IV for all the efforts.
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senthil1
04-07 01:24 PM
Accenture and other big firms will survive without H1b by recruiting GC holders ,Citizens, L1 and B1. So there will not be any long term impact because of this bill. Still most of the H1 cap will be filled as the companies will try to comply the regulations. I do not see any issue in proving that no USA workers available if it is really the case. Right now if H1b and US worker is available with same skills Indian companies are purposefully avoiding US workers for obivious reasons. We everyone aware of it. Because we are impacted personally we are opposing this bill. This attitude will not win. We should be ready for some compromise if deadlock
Why to you want to discriminate between one set of companies from another set of companies? In effect, discriminate between employees of one set of companies with the employee of other set of companies? Let me guess, you do not work for one set of companies but may possible work for another set of companies, right? I see some posts on the forum want to change the system as to best suitable their individual situation and they don't care if rest of the world is screwed.
With the green card backlogs, a lot of companies have many employees on H-1B status, waiting for their green card. As such the ratio of people on H1 to green card is increasing. Why do you want to punish the employee on H1, waiting for the green card for many years, because of retrogression? I am not able to understand the objective and rationale of your suggestion?
This bill is not just about limiting the % of employees on H1. It also says that employers will be "investigated" and "audited". "Investigation" is done when there is an allegation of a wrong-doing. So in essence, the bill says that as soon as you employ someone on H1, you have done something wrong. Even after listing the job on DOL website for 30 days and going through all the other stringent requirements, is that how it should be? When an employer hire an employee on H1, the employer is paying filing fee, lawyer’s fee and 8-10% taxes for hiring each employee. This "Investigation" and other stringent provisions to make it impractical to file H1 is simply to destroy H1 program. For now you may see the bill as to how it best suits your individual situation and then you may suggest how it further fit exactly into your situation before coming with an idea, like the one you suggested, but the bottom line is, this bill makes entire H1 program "non-workable" as mentioned by the administrator. And it applies to Oracle & IBM Consulting, PWC, Deloitte and every other employer.
Why to you want to discriminate between one set of companies from another set of companies? In effect, discriminate between employees of one set of companies with the employee of other set of companies? Let me guess, you do not work for one set of companies but may possible work for another set of companies, right? I see some posts on the forum want to change the system as to best suitable their individual situation and they don't care if rest of the world is screwed.
With the green card backlogs, a lot of companies have many employees on H-1B status, waiting for their green card. As such the ratio of people on H1 to green card is increasing. Why do you want to punish the employee on H1, waiting for the green card for many years, because of retrogression? I am not able to understand the objective and rationale of your suggestion?
This bill is not just about limiting the % of employees on H1. It also says that employers will be "investigated" and "audited". "Investigation" is done when there is an allegation of a wrong-doing. So in essence, the bill says that as soon as you employ someone on H1, you have done something wrong. Even after listing the job on DOL website for 30 days and going through all the other stringent requirements, is that how it should be? When an employer hire an employee on H1, the employer is paying filing fee, lawyer’s fee and 8-10% taxes for hiring each employee. This "Investigation" and other stringent provisions to make it impractical to file H1 is simply to destroy H1 program. For now you may see the bill as to how it best suits your individual situation and then you may suggest how it further fit exactly into your situation before coming with an idea, like the one you suggested, but the bottom line is, this bill makes entire H1 program "non-workable" as mentioned by the administrator. And it applies to Oracle & IBM Consulting, PWC, Deloitte and every other employer.
GCneeded
05-16 12:59 PM
Thanks sravani,
So will the doctor still give me a report even if I don't complete all medical exams?
Also on a side note, Do you know how long does it take to get the report once the tests are done?
Thanks
So will the doctor still give me a report even if I don't complete all medical exams?
Also on a side note, Do you know how long does it take to get the report once the tests are done?
Thanks
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gcretroiv
02-02 01:32 PM
I guess it is time to pack and go back, after seeing all these developments
2010 If you got a job offer would
pappu
02-03 11:01 AM
This is a good idea. See my answers in red inside your post
Pappu, thanks for the initiative. I will contribute.
No need to thank. Just show up in DC to community your GC problems to lawmakers. That is a big thank you to IV team in itself for all the time, money and energy we are going to spend organizing this event.
You will contribute for yourself. This advoacy day is for you and your own greencard. It is not a charity to IV. IV is you and me and we are only providing another avenue for each one of IV members to come to DC and tell lawmakers about the suffering they undergo during the greencard process.
I also have another suggestion. Why don't we also do a targeted campaign at partnering with corporate HRs to push for EB relief.
Yes we also want that and need your help and everyone on the forum to help us
Many corporate HRs are aware of the EB2 and EB3 retro pains.
Incorrect. How can they be aware of any pain themselves? Has anyone even approached the senior management asking for help. Raely anyone has done that. And whenever someone has done that and help was offered , we have known. The fact is HR of big companies do not know of any pain. Even if they know of any pain, they will not do anything about it unless their OWN employees tell them about it and ask them to help them by supporting IV. This is not happening and that is the problem. IV is you and me and everyone else on this forum. Not just pappu or core team. Each one of us working for big companies need to gather courage and approach the senior management. It is very easy to comment on the forum and provide big ideas and direction, but I have seen that when it comes to walking the talk very very few have the will or interest to carry out their own suggestion. IV was created precisely for this reason. People were lurking on various forums before IV and hiding behind anonymity. They were scared to do anything and could only hope to GOD , lawyers or whoever could help them. Everyone was throwing ideas at each other and not doing anything. The whole community was screwed and nobody was even willing to even go and talk to the media with their real name, go to DC and talk to lawmakers on their own money and vacation time. People would not even open up to their friends and talk to their friends about green card problems and do something together. This community had to stop living a life of tail between the legs and blaming their fate for their own problems. IV is a platform where you no longer have to complain. Each one of us on this forum has now enough awareness, has seen what we all are capable of doing together in advocacy so there is no reason to not approach our employers.
These corps rely on EB2 and EB3 folks for innovation and technology. Corporations have a lot of power in pushing legislation.
If this is true, what is stopping us try this route?
I am just suggesting to try other channels as well. Corporates being just one.
I agree. Let us try.
Here is a list of some major corporations in the Midwest to start with. Others can add to the list from midwest and other geographies.
Company Mail address
All State 2775 Sanders Road, Northbrook, IL 60062
State Farm State Farm Insurance, One State Farm Plaza, Bloomington, IL 61710
Kraft Three Lakes Drive, Northfield, IL 60093
Walgreens 200 Wilmot Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
Abbott Labs 100 Abbott Park Road. Abbott Park, Illinois 60064-3500
Caterpillar 100 North East Adams Street, Peoria, Illinois USA 61629
Motorola 600 North U.S. Highway 45, Libertyville, Illinois 60048 USA
Eli Lilly Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285
Address is not of any value. What we need is real humans in our community who can approach their senior management and talk about their plight. If you are really serious about your idea, contact us. We will help you. You can lead this effort by providing guidance and information to other members how to carry out this idea. If you work for a large corporation, you can first try it yourself and lead by example. If you work for a small firm, then you can volunteer by collecting interested people on the forums and coordinating this effort.
The fact is, each one of us is capable of carrying out our ideas if we have the will to do it. This will happen only if we are sincere about this effort and really want to do something about our own greencard. If we all think that simply coming to a forum and posting some ideas or arguing with others over spillovers or predictions is all they can do, then we are all wasting our time, energy and money. There are many other sites out there where you can track your applications to waste your time. Or post unlimited ideas for nobody to work on or just argue with other. None of the people benefit from such sites, except the owner of such sites that make lot of money from the internet traffic or publicity of their legal business or any other business services. The longer this community stays in this screwed state the more money these sites will continue to make. This ignorance of the community is sad and laughable to some extent. If you come to IV and give suggestion, better be serious about what you think and we will help you will all you need to lead your idea on this platform.
Pappu, thanks for the initiative. I will contribute.
No need to thank. Just show up in DC to community your GC problems to lawmakers. That is a big thank you to IV team in itself for all the time, money and energy we are going to spend organizing this event.
You will contribute for yourself. This advoacy day is for you and your own greencard. It is not a charity to IV. IV is you and me and we are only providing another avenue for each one of IV members to come to DC and tell lawmakers about the suffering they undergo during the greencard process.
I also have another suggestion. Why don't we also do a targeted campaign at partnering with corporate HRs to push for EB relief.
Yes we also want that and need your help and everyone on the forum to help us
Many corporate HRs are aware of the EB2 and EB3 retro pains.
Incorrect. How can they be aware of any pain themselves? Has anyone even approached the senior management asking for help. Raely anyone has done that. And whenever someone has done that and help was offered , we have known. The fact is HR of big companies do not know of any pain. Even if they know of any pain, they will not do anything about it unless their OWN employees tell them about it and ask them to help them by supporting IV. This is not happening and that is the problem. IV is you and me and everyone else on this forum. Not just pappu or core team. Each one of us working for big companies need to gather courage and approach the senior management. It is very easy to comment on the forum and provide big ideas and direction, but I have seen that when it comes to walking the talk very very few have the will or interest to carry out their own suggestion. IV was created precisely for this reason. People were lurking on various forums before IV and hiding behind anonymity. They were scared to do anything and could only hope to GOD , lawyers or whoever could help them. Everyone was throwing ideas at each other and not doing anything. The whole community was screwed and nobody was even willing to even go and talk to the media with their real name, go to DC and talk to lawmakers on their own money and vacation time. People would not even open up to their friends and talk to their friends about green card problems and do something together. This community had to stop living a life of tail between the legs and blaming their fate for their own problems. IV is a platform where you no longer have to complain. Each one of us on this forum has now enough awareness, has seen what we all are capable of doing together in advocacy so there is no reason to not approach our employers.
These corps rely on EB2 and EB3 folks for innovation and technology. Corporations have a lot of power in pushing legislation.
If this is true, what is stopping us try this route?
I am just suggesting to try other channels as well. Corporates being just one.
I agree. Let us try.
Here is a list of some major corporations in the Midwest to start with. Others can add to the list from midwest and other geographies.
Company Mail address
All State 2775 Sanders Road, Northbrook, IL 60062
State Farm State Farm Insurance, One State Farm Plaza, Bloomington, IL 61710
Kraft Three Lakes Drive, Northfield, IL 60093
Walgreens 200 Wilmot Road, Deerfield, IL 60015
Abbott Labs 100 Abbott Park Road. Abbott Park, Illinois 60064-3500
Caterpillar 100 North East Adams Street, Peoria, Illinois USA 61629
Motorola 600 North U.S. Highway 45, Libertyville, Illinois 60048 USA
Eli Lilly Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285
Address is not of any value. What we need is real humans in our community who can approach their senior management and talk about their plight. If you are really serious about your idea, contact us. We will help you. You can lead this effort by providing guidance and information to other members how to carry out this idea. If you work for a large corporation, you can first try it yourself and lead by example. If you work for a small firm, then you can volunteer by collecting interested people on the forums and coordinating this effort.
The fact is, each one of us is capable of carrying out our ideas if we have the will to do it. This will happen only if we are sincere about this effort and really want to do something about our own greencard. If we all think that simply coming to a forum and posting some ideas or arguing with others over spillovers or predictions is all they can do, then we are all wasting our time, energy and money. There are many other sites out there where you can track your applications to waste your time. Or post unlimited ideas for nobody to work on or just argue with other. None of the people benefit from such sites, except the owner of such sites that make lot of money from the internet traffic or publicity of their legal business or any other business services. The longer this community stays in this screwed state the more money these sites will continue to make. This ignorance of the community is sad and laughable to some extent. If you come to IV and give suggestion, better be serious about what you think and we will help you will all you need to lead your idea on this platform.
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dohko
04-09 08:20 PM
Of course but the fact that they did unethical things is not an excuse for this indian companies to do the same.
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ca_immigrant
05-23 05:19 PM
could it be true that only 23% of the folks who became current in May have got the approvals ? It almost the end of the month, I know that it need come in May but still...
or is it a case of people not bothering to come back here after the gety approvals -;)
Can someone start a thread for June approvals...
I know that June approvals will come only in June....but no harm in starting it and getting a count on how many are current starting june
I tried but was not sure how to setup a poll :rolleyes:
or is it a case of people not bothering to come back here after the gety approvals -;)
Can someone start a thread for June approvals...
I know that June approvals will come only in June....but no harm in starting it and getting a count on how many are current starting june
I tried but was not sure how to setup a poll :rolleyes:
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jsb
04-08 04:05 PM
Hope you had a nice vacation. :p
Couldn't resist. Please follow the FOIA thread that is in red.
10,000 was collected and 2500$ advance was sent out to USCIS. Now we wait to hear back from them.
Do you honestly think something will come? I doubt. They asked for $10K as a routine without investigating into what is possible. While quoting the cost, they even asked "What is a Priority Date".
PD's are not anywhere in the system. They are nowhere other than filled in ink on I-140, or I-485 applications or receipts. Even there, sometimes they are blank or wrong. They check manually on these dates while approving applications. That's the whole reason that all cutoff date movement is based on pure guess work, and approvals are never in order of PDs.
Do you think they will check each application manually, and count them based on PD's?
Couldn't resist. Please follow the FOIA thread that is in red.
10,000 was collected and 2500$ advance was sent out to USCIS. Now we wait to hear back from them.
Do you honestly think something will come? I doubt. They asked for $10K as a routine without investigating into what is possible. While quoting the cost, they even asked "What is a Priority Date".
PD's are not anywhere in the system. They are nowhere other than filled in ink on I-140, or I-485 applications or receipts. Even there, sometimes they are blank or wrong. They check manually on these dates while approving applications. That's the whole reason that all cutoff date movement is based on pure guess work, and approvals are never in order of PDs.
Do you think they will check each application manually, and count them based on PD's?
hot between a job offer and a
Macaca
02-02 11:38 AM
If this amendment had really passed, and if it had not been modified in the conference between house and senate and if hard cap had become a law, then this amendment would have done more harm than good.
This is senate approval only. Doesn't it have to go through Congress also. Where are the votes in congress?
I also understand that there was no real intention on Kennedy to bring up our case. It was pure politics.
Please explain both points. Thanks
This is senate approval only. Doesn't it have to go through Congress also. Where are the votes in congress?
I also understand that there was no real intention on Kennedy to bring up our case. It was pure politics.
Please explain both points. Thanks
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house or decline the offer.
Green_Always
01-23 10:44 PM
Chintu, Thank You !!!
U can click on the "Blog : 1" next to my name above this post in my name column
U can click on the "Blog : 1" next to my name above this post in my name column
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Saralayar
07-12 06:48 PM
Pappu,
I've sent you a PM. Please let me know. We are committed to follow the instructions of IV leadership to take this further.
All,
Please send me a PM to me join in this parallel effort. Lets collect a list of folks and organize a dedicated effort.
I fully second Pappu's comment as the current IV core leadership does not have time/$$ to spend on Citizenhip. Getting GC for all of us has and should be the first priority. Thanks to IV core and many of us fellow volunteers, their effort has paid off as things are moving decently fast for EB2 for now. Hopefully our fellow EB3 friends also see some hope in FY'11. As I was saying in the previous posts, many big corps have not filed for new labors in FY'08, FY'09 which should free up many ROW visas. This should help EB3 in the near future.
I can also join on this effort.
I've sent you a PM. Please let me know. We are committed to follow the instructions of IV leadership to take this further.
All,
Please send me a PM to me join in this parallel effort. Lets collect a list of folks and organize a dedicated effort.
I fully second Pappu's comment as the current IV core leadership does not have time/$$ to spend on Citizenhip. Getting GC for all of us has and should be the first priority. Thanks to IV core and many of us fellow volunteers, their effort has paid off as things are moving decently fast for EB2 for now. Hopefully our fellow EB3 friends also see some hope in FY'11. As I was saying in the previous posts, many big corps have not filed for new labors in FY'08, FY'09 which should free up many ROW visas. This should help EB3 in the near future.
I can also join on this effort.
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coopheal
04-16 08:26 AM
A remote +ve sign.
As per Feb 2009 statistics (http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/APPLICATIONS%20FOR%20IMMIGRATION%20BENEFITS_Februa ry09.pdf) Number of pending I-485s are reaching the levels of August 2007. To take a look at I-485 numbers for previous months see IV Wiki link Past Visa Bulletin Data (http://immigrationvoice.org/wiki/index.php/Past_Visa_Bulletin_Data)
As per Feb 2009 statistics (http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/APPLICATIONS%20FOR%20IMMIGRATION%20BENEFITS_Februa ry09.pdf) Number of pending I-485s are reaching the levels of August 2007. To take a look at I-485 numbers for previous months see IV Wiki link Past Visa Bulletin Data (http://immigrationvoice.org/wiki/index.php/Past_Visa_Bulletin_Data)
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RandyK
12-15 04:15 PM
I have already emailed 2 friends asking them to become members. I will do more in the coming days
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susie
10-30 01:43 AM
American Families united is an orgalization that is trying to bring legislative changes to family related issue including the Age out issue. This is their website.
http://www.americanfamiliesunited.org/
But that is only for USC who marry and for the spouse's dependent children not to protect all children aging out and yes I am speaking with Randell Emery, the site owner.
Its all about money, to get our voices heard thats what we need to employ a lobbyist, unless we happen to know a congressman or his aides
Have been speaking with Connie Mack's office who has a copy of my law suite also Adam Putman's office, seem interested.
We all need to write to our congress people to raise awareness.
http://www.americanfamiliesunited.org/
But that is only for USC who marry and for the spouse's dependent children not to protect all children aging out and yes I am speaking with Randell Emery, the site owner.
Its all about money, to get our voices heard thats what we need to employ a lobbyist, unless we happen to know a congressman or his aides
Have been speaking with Connie Mack's office who has a copy of my law suite also Adam Putman's office, seem interested.
We all need to write to our congress people to raise awareness.
girlfriend that well-paid job offer.
oliTwist
01-23 11:59 AM
These view points are different and relavant depending on the places we are living. What is right in rural Texas is not same with that in bay area.
If Slumdog and his ilk is happy with their quality of life! Let them be. Just as xycgc mentioned, dont ever default and leave the burden to the rest of the citizens.
My friend used to wax this quote
"There is no glory greater than the glory of illusion"
:)
In a way, we are all doomed, by owning or renting the house, with the impending tax increases because of carelessness of a few.
If Slumdog and his ilk is happy with their quality of life! Let them be. Just as xycgc mentioned, dont ever default and leave the burden to the rest of the citizens.
My friend used to wax this quote
"There is no glory greater than the glory of illusion"
:)
In a way, we are all doomed, by owning or renting the house, with the impending tax increases because of carelessness of a few.
hairstyles job offer letters,
anshulk77
06-29 04:06 PM
I dont if this is old news but immi-law is reporting that State Dept might issue a revised bulletin On july or July 3 that will change all dates fom Current to unavailable
sdrblr
09-02 09:43 AM
I beg to differ from your point of view that approvals are on PD. If you take a good look at the PDs of approved cases posted here, you will there are many post July 04 (mostly in Oct and Dec 04) and we all know there are many before that.
They are clearly going by ND. I have seen 1/2 case approved that had ND after 8/30/07
High number of approvals over the first few days were expected. Centers review/preadjudicate cases based on 'real' receive dates (which are close to notice dates), as physical files are sorted in that sequence. That is happening. Sept VB was available couple of weeks ago, which prepared them to issue formal approvals as soon as September starts. USCIS SOP describes that once cases are preadjudicated they are shelved (wating for visa) in sequence of PD's. Therefore, most approvals are preadjudicated cases.
Congratulations to All who got approved. Best wishes to those still counting. If you ND is not too far from published dates (i.e. it is sometime in Aug/Sep/Oct 07), and your PD is high, there is very high chance of you getting a good news soon.
They are clearly going by ND. I have seen 1/2 case approved that had ND after 8/30/07
High number of approvals over the first few days were expected. Centers review/preadjudicate cases based on 'real' receive dates (which are close to notice dates), as physical files are sorted in that sequence. That is happening. Sept VB was available couple of weeks ago, which prepared them to issue formal approvals as soon as September starts. USCIS SOP describes that once cases are preadjudicated they are shelved (wating for visa) in sequence of PD's. Therefore, most approvals are preadjudicated cases.
Congratulations to All who got approved. Best wishes to those still counting. If you ND is not too far from published dates (i.e. it is sometime in Aug/Sep/Oct 07), and your PD is high, there is very high chance of you getting a good news soon.
anilsal
09-21 02:34 AM
Is it because:
a) he never smiles?
b) every word that comes out of his mouth makes sense?
c) attractive IV handle?
a) he never smiles?
b) every word that comes out of his mouth makes sense?
c) attractive IV handle?