Monday, July 4, 2011

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  • BMS
    07-03 10:17 AM
    I am ready to contibute




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  • anzerraja
    07-19 08:37 PM
    Could you please update your pledge amount here, so that it is easy for us to keep track of the amount.

    ^^^^^




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  • gsc999
    07-07 12:21 AM
    I am impressed with the Chinese!

    Ask the Chinese (and everyone else) to stay tuned (and join) your meet whenever it takes place!

    BTW, thanks for getting rid of msyedy! What a relief without the spectre of msyedy!
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    - Macaca, yes, I will do that.
    - I am thinking about approaching Phillipino organization for their help to gather more attendees. If any Philipino member is reading this or a Registered Nurse, please provide me with a contact in Bay area. Chinese, Philipino and Indians are the most impacted nationalities.
    - Last time in San Jose, during Guttirez meeting, I met a family from South Africa. Please stay tuned if you are reading this.
    - I know we have members from Britain
    - It would be great if we can showcase a multicultural group
    - Please call out if you feel left out and have contacts in Bay area.
    - During the march which is tentative for 14th July, I will have some T-shirts with Immigration voice print. I would like to auction them to provide funding to IV. ( Pappu, please let me know if this is a good idea? If yes, let me have a design print in case you have one handy, otherwise I will go for plain and simple)


    ps: As far as msyedy, he left but now my ID has a red flag. It is no fun to be a lightening rod for anti-immigrants, is it?




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  • sriwaitingforgc
    07-24 11:46 AM
    I applied on June 12th, received 13th and notice date June 16th. I see some approvals for those who applied in that time frame and also some pending for those who have receipt date in May. Is the approvals being done randomly?



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  • ragz4u
    05-02 10:45 AM
    The �SKIL� Bill
    Short Title: Securing Knowledge Innovation and Leadership (SKIL)

    Title I � Access to High Skilled Foreign Workers

    Section 101. H-1B Visa Holders
    Exempts professionals who have earned advanced degrees (e.g. Master�s degree or higher) from accredited United States universities and those who have been awarded a medical specialty certification based on post-doctoral training and experience in the United States from the annual H-1B cap.


    Section 102. Market-Based Visa Limits
    Raises the H-1B (specialty occupation) cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and creates a flexible system that adjusts with the market.

    Title II � Retaining Foreign Workers Educated in the United States

    Section 201. United States Educated Immigrants.
    Exempts U.S.-educated professionals with advanced degrees and those who have been awarded a medical specialty certification based on post-doctoral training and experience in the United States from the annual green card (i.e. immigrant visa) cap.

    Exempts professionals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math, and who worked in the U.S. for at least three years in a related field, from the immigrant visa cap.

    Exempts spouse and minor children of professionals from the employment-based cap. Under current law, only about fifty percent of employment-based visas go to actual workers.

    Section 202. Immigrant Visa Backlog Reduction.
    Raises the immigrant visa (i.e. green card) cap from 140,000 to 290,000 and allows unused visas to fall forward annually.

    Exempts aliens of extraordinary ability, and outstanding researchers and professors from the annual green card limit.

    Section 203. Student Visa Reform.
    Many employers seek to hire U.S. educated students full-time upon graduation, and this change would enable the employer to start the green card process while the foreign worker is on a student visa (F-1) during Optional Practical Training (OPT). Codifies OPT; which will allow U.S. educated foreign students to work in their field for up to two years after graduation.

    Section 204. L-1 Visa Holders Subject to Visa Backlog.
    Allows an extension of an L-1 (intracompany transfer) visa beyond the fifth or seventh year if the individual has a green card application pending and is simply caught in the green card backlog. This extension is currently allowed for H-1B (specialty occupation) visa holders, but not for L-1 visa holders.

    Section 205. Retaining Workers Subject to Green Card Backlog.
    Allows foreign workers who have started the green card process, but who are subject to green card backlogs, to pay a $500.00 supplemental fee to file an application to adjust status. This change would enable foreign workers to remain in the U.S. until the green card becomes available.

    Title III � Business Facilitation Through Immigration Reform

    Section 301. Streamlining the Adjudication Process for Established Employers.
    Requires the creation of a pre-certification program that streamlines the adjudication process, and reduces paperwork burdens, for employers who file multiple applications and who have no history of fraud or abuse. Pre-certification would allow those employers to file a petition on a separate review track and not submit repetitive organizational documentation.

    Section 302. Providing Premium Processing of Employment-Based Visa Petitions.
    Requires USCIS to allow employers to file a �premium processing� fee for expedited adjudication of employment-based immigrant petitions, as well as for administrative appeals of any decision on an employment-based immigrant petition.

    Section 303. Eliminating Procedural Delays in Labor Certification Process.
    Requires the Department of Labor to process all applications filed prior to the electronic PERM system within six months of enactment. Clarifies the Department of Labor�s process in providing prevailing wage determinations and requires the Department of Labor to establish a website to post open job orders.

    Title IV. Miscellaneous

    Section 401. Completion of Background and Security Checks.
    Requires that no immigration application may be approved until the appropriate background and security checks are completed and any allegations of fraud have been resolved.

    Section 402. Visa Revalidation.
    Allows temporary workers who have not violated their status to renew their visa from within the United States.

    Section 403. Severability.
    Clarifies that if any part of this act is determined to be invalid it will have no effect on the remainder of the provisions.




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  • srikondoji
    07-09 10:48 AM
    Logiclife,
    I do understand that our biggest goal is to reduce backlog. With due respect to your opinion, i suggest that we restrict to july fiasco first and then when we get enough traction with this issue, we can then focus on larger issues like backlog reduction etc.
    Now that each one of us breathing hot and cold about july error, we better trade on that line.
    Just my 2 cents.
    sri

    Bay area residents:

    Please begin the process of getting permit from the city to do this in the time-frame and route mentioned. But please move the date to either saturday July 14th or July 21st.

    People wont be able to come tommorow so this must be done July 14th or July 21. Also, the rally should not be about just the July bulletin. It should be about backlogs and numerical caps as the root cause of this mess.

    But do get city permit for around 100 people (that's what I expect will show up in Bay area based on past experience with Gutierrez rally).

    Let's get some attention from CEOs of Oracle, Cisco, Sun and Google and also some attention from Rep. Zoe Lofgren and Nancy Pelosi. There couldnt be a better place than Bay area to do this, especially San Jose.

    Let's do this.



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  • rpulipati
    01-08 06:36 PM
    Received yesterday for 01/23.

    Case details: TSC -> CSC -> TSC




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  • h1b_forever
    09-23 03:56 PM
    I am sure you dont deserve EB2, it shows clearly

    "EB-2 India. This category is expected to remain unchanged or to move very slowly forward (by a week or so) in the short-term. This is mainly caused by the fact that many EB-3 India applicants (there are approximately 60,000 EB-3 India pending cases) are �porting� their priority dates into the EB-2 India category and are thus taking visa numbers.


    EB2 India is slowwly becoming EB3 as thousands are porting from EB3 to EB2. Some of them are really worthy of EB2 and some of them are fradulent.

    EB2 India applicants should wake up from their celebratio of a few months leap and get ready for slow movement or retro.

    Guys wake up and fight to make the porting rules veryu strong if not stop porting. The rule should be if I140 for porting is denied then the applicatnt should loose his/her initial EB3 priority date also as he /she has indicated that he/she is no longer working in the position as described in EB3 labor. This will make sure that fradulent applicants cannot port from EB3 to EB2.

    P.S: I know I will get thousands of REDs. I do not care... EB2 I guys wake up.. Time is running out.. EB2 I will very quickly become same as EB3I.



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  • jsb
    10-30 02:11 PM
    My current employer is not willing to provide copy of I-140. I got EAD in 2nd week of October 2007. Can I change job using AC21 without copy of I-140 from current employer. What are the documents I need to change job using AC 21? Thanks in advance for your replies

    Who filed your AOS? Your I-485 filing has to include an approved copy of I-140 and LC. Since I-485 is your filing, you can ask the attorney to give you a full copy of the filing (including I-140 and LC).




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  • royus77
    08-01 01:47 PM
    I 140 from TSC and I 1485 received at NSC on july 2 8:00 AM



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  • acecupid
    09-25 03:58 PM
    Saw an interesting video on youtube the other day. The first thing that came to mind was the EB2-EB3 fights. If only we can fight together rather than each other ! ;)

    YouTube - Every Indian must see this Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc4UltkRJsw)




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  • csreddy329
    11-17 03:53 PM
    Done



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  • sukhwinderd
    02-02 08:40 AM
    can we have fliers ready (as someone suggested is some other post), to increase aawareness, so that we can post it in indian stores, gurudwaras, mandirs etc.




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  • vijayrudra
    05-23 01:09 PM
    Emailed to the listed and WI senators



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  • techbuyer77
    06-18 10:40 AM
    When was your friend's Priority Date current? June 1st? Or, I assume, before that?
    i dont know her pd, she sent the stuff on may 18th and she got the receip around the 6/6/7




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  • gccovet
    05-21 11:28 AM
    last week i took infopass and got shedule for biometric , i am also july 2nd filler and had not receive appointment until last week.
    my appointment actually at 28th may 2008 but yesterday i went to asc and told them i will be leaving usa next week and request to take biometric fineally i am able to get biometric yesterday.
    but i have to pay $25 for him doing my fevour because with out that he isnot willing to do so.
    there is no lud today on my i-485 so could you please tell me how long it take to get lud ?
    how long it take to clear fbi?
    what is soft lud and hard lud ?
    my pd is current so will i soon see my i-485 processing ?

    Hi,
    Why did you have to pay $25? Is it for any official fees? Did you get a receipt for that 25$?
    Just curious.
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  • desiguy22042
    09-23 06:54 AM
    Hi mnq1979,
    The application was filed with CSC as all nos., which I have seen, are WAC nos. EAD was issued from CSC on (and I am guessing here) 18th, left from KY (40701) on 20th Sept (according to post mark) and reached my house on the 22nd Sept. If it was India and if the post man had delivered this to me, I would definitely have given him something for "mithaai" :D
    It was only 3 days ago I had got the transfer notice from CSC saying that they had move our cases to TX.
    I got the cards directly as my lawyer had not sent me the application no. yet. There were no notices for EADs.
    More than me, my wife is happy that she wouldn't have to sit around feeling like a "dependent" ;).


    I belive my situation is the same as urs....i received mine and my wife I-485 receipts in mail but nothing related to EAD. My case is also transferred to TSC from California on Sep. 17 as my I140 is approved from TSC.
    I want to ask u that how long did it take u to get ur EAD card after u received ur I485 receipt and from where ur EAD was issued, is it from CSC or TSC.
    Did u received any receipt of EAD or u jst got the EAD directly.

    Pls. advise. thanx




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  • fetch_gc
    10-16 10:01 AM
    Hi gcspace,

    I'm still waiting for I485/765/131 receipts from NSC, filed on July 16th@11.16 am, signed by F.HEINAUER.

    Today is the 91st day and I do not know how many days we need 2 wait.




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  • gjoe
    10-08 02:33 PM
    What is wrong if people want USCIS to process EB based I485 strictly on PD as per the law. You may claim that is what they are doing, but it is not true all of us know that. This whole thing is working like the GC lottery with more complexity.
    I would say IV should make PD based processing as the top most priority in their agenda. This is the simplest thing that can be acheived. Asking USCIS to follow the rules is not as complex as lobbying for ending GC backlog.
    People coming up with points of legal stay and other things are just frustated with the system, they want something which is more predictable in the current process not just eliminating GC backlog due to visa numbers.
    Asking people to attend state chapters and asking people to contribute is ok, but trying to shutdown peoples thoughts just because they are not the same as someone elses in not right

    Excuse me for being a little blunt...but

    People really need to stand up and see what it takes to bring about change. People are loathe to drive 10 miles and attend a state chapter meeting, and you want to overhaul a system to the extent that you get credit for time/experience in US?

    I am not saying its a good or bad thing. What I am saying is, what you are asking for is a major overhaul. GC is driven by A PARTICULAR POSITION offered by A PARTICULAR EMPLOYER, where its proven that NO US CITIZEN WAS WILLING, QUALIFIED AND ABLE TO do the job. How can your previous job get you credit for such a position and petition driven GC process? If you want that, then system needs major change where GC is not drive by one particular job offer from one particular employer who sponsors you.

    So basically, you are looking for a RADICAL change in the system. Nothing wrong with dreaming, but kindly show some friggin activity and effort on your part before putting up new ideas on forums.

    Otherwise if you are sitting around and

    1. Offering new innovative ideas for GC reform on forum posts that lawmakers dont read.

    2. Never go to lawmaker meetings in DC or locally or attend any local meetups of IV.

    3. Cancel recurring contributions as soon as your EAD card shows up in your mailbox.

    Then please, keep your really creative and excellant ideas to yourself. Because Ted Kennedy is not going to change the system and give you credit for working here since 1999 or 1929 and reset your PD to 1999 or 1929 BASED ON YOUR BRILLIANT IDEAS on forum posts.




    reddymjm
    05-12 09:23 AM
    USCIS case predictions made easier.... :)

    http://www.immigrationwatch.com/immi_predict_form.jsp


    Also check out their Application Processing Statistics

    http://www.immigrationwatch.com/uscis-processing-statistics.html

    Recent Approvals Etc..

    These websites need an upgrade to atleast consider EB2/EB3 or ROW/Notrow.




    javadeveloper
    07-20 09:12 PM
    IF you are in such a big hole, you will have to come forward and work for yourself. We want others to work for us and solve our problems. That is my issue here. With 11.25 K EB3 members we would have still collected quarter million bucks.(@ 25$/person) If EB3-I does not care for itself, why would anybody else give a damn? (PS : I did contribute for the drive as I want everybody's issues with respect to GC resolved, not just mine)

    So, the original post still stands true.

    Problem was ours (EB2 & EB3) and we fought together until EB2&EB3 dates were retrogressed.Now the problem is only for EB3s so EB3s only have to come forward and work for ourselves. Thank you Sir...

    What I am saying is we(EB2&3) will fight together and you are saying that It's your problem and you(EB3) have to work for yourself.So do we have to start a new community called eb3immigrationvoice?



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