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I have a question.

I am EB3 with priority date Oct. 2006. My qualification from India is 3 years (B.Com) plus 1 year of M.com (I didn't complete the 2nd year) plus Intermediate ICWA and Chartered Accountancy. I got here in the USA in December 1999 on H1B and always maintained the status. I completed CPA in 2002 in the USA.

I did some research to port to EB2 (based on Bachelors degree plus 5 years experience) but it seems that USCIS wants 4 years continuous degree to be considered for EB2.

Is that true? Is there anyone in my situation who has done this porting successfully?

Any help will be greatly appreciate.

Thank you,

That is correct. Mixing and matching with certifications doesn't work. Although I don't know about CPA, if it goes towards professional degree.

What is wrong with people here ?

The UK Doctors WON the case on Appeal - the UK courts ruled that the actions by the UK Governments were unlawful.

People - please no doomsday expressions on these forums if you are so unhappy look elsewhere - I read a post where one poster (Invincibleasian) mentioned that "I hope that they dont flood the US from UK" - well you came here and no one said anything so why this "pull up the ladder" mentality.

Folks - Remember United we stand ! we are immigrant Employment based workers and in this flat world we are all impacted by legislation equally irrespective of which country enforces them.

Enough said :mad:

you can use any of the consulates in india.

but usually dates opens up if any cancellation. check vfs site often. nowadays it is easier to get appt than it used to be.

disclaimer: I'm not an immigration attroney, so consult one for your situations as laws/procedures are changing often.

I just noticed that the dates in Chennai are not available for returning H1's. What should i do ??Can i book in any consulate ..

Hi,

One of my friends got fired from a company and the company made him to sign a document that he was resigning. This guy somehow signed it so that he could get his salary. The employer eventually paid him the salary after signing the resignation document.

Few questions about his H1B visa.

1. How many days can he legally stay in the US before he finds one more job gets new H1B.

2. Can he transfer his H1B visa to a new company or does he need to apply for a new H1B visa (which is within the cap)?

3. Incase if he doesn't find a job within the legally permitted time, what are his options apart from going back?

4. Will he have any problem when he tries to transfer his H1B after the legally permitted time?


I would really appreciate if anyone can please help me with this questions.

Thank you very much!

Dont worry. You are about to get your FP notices :o

Ron says, The USCIS teleconference concerning implementation of PL 111-230 provided the following information:

* The new tax DOES NOT apply to extensions or amendments


This will help the people like me who are stuck in GC process...

Dont Think only big companies will enforce NCA..now NCA's have become a source of revenue of consulting companies.If you are going to loose the case ,you will only pay their legal expenses.. Two of my friends are have done that and it took them 2 yrs of time and cool $30,000 dollars(from their own pockets) to settle at the end...

So Dont be over confident.Pay few hundred dollars to good attorny and get his legal opinion.

Its a good idea but make sure you guyz are comfortable. It must be hot out there.
Have every one wear white as the color of peace/silent protest/sadness.

No actually its seems different from the receipt numbers which usually starts with SRC-xxxxxxxxxx

This one seems different like : PIT-xxxxxxxxxxTSC

It doesn't seems to work anywhere.
did u call 18003755283....and given them this receipt number...

Some of my friends who used AC21 moved to jobs having salary more than 50% of their current one. All got their GCs approved and didn't have any issues. But from what i read from multiple sites, the salary should never go below the one that's mentioned in LCA.

There was lot of talk in the past about lawsuit against USCIS against Porting and moving dates slowly etc.

Has anything been done yet?

This is something like filing a law suite against Manmohan Singh for having inefficient ministers under his goverment.

Hire a top attorney, paying him half of your earnings to get an answer from the court saying that "thats how things work".

I did some research on murthy.com and found that AC21 did abolish 'per country of birth quota' on recycled numbers. I am posting a link to this murthy.com article of Oct 6, 2000 which clarifies the issue.

http://www.murthy.com/news/UDh1det.html

If the link fails I am reporducing the paragraph here: -

Major highlights of ACTA are listed below :

Per Country Quotas for Immigrant Visas

"Under Section 104, with respect to immigrant visas, the per country quota, which has been adversely affecting those from China and India and which the U.S. State Department had stated could possibly affect those from the Philippines in the near future, may have been resolved with this Bill. It has always been the case that not all of the available immigrant visas were issued, since most countries did not have enough applicants to use the total available. ACTA provides that if the INS or the U.S. State Department does not issue all of the immigrant visas that should be issued in that FY, the unused immigrant visa numbers should be made available to all countries without the per country quota limit applying."

Retrogression started as the recycled numbers are no longer available and with that country quota showed its horrible effect. It is clear guys we have to concentrate our energy and our thoughts on this quota. Quota on the basis of "country of birth" on talent or skill needed is really hard to explain and we can have good logical arguments to support its abolition.
Good work jungalee32,
It is also part of our resource data base that sandeep compiled, where all these issues are clearly explained. That is why once we have the unused numbers it is like increasing the per country quota. It will bring the priority date to current for a couple of years(even if there are more cases than unused numbers with them. Just because they cannot process that faster)
--MC

Here is what I have after analyzing the FLC Data Center MDB files

>2001 May 8 = 504 Certified Labors
2002 = 79784 Certified Labors
2003 = 62912 Certified Labors
2004 = 43582 Certified Labors

Total: 186782 Certified Labors
The above data is for world

Let's say India is 25% of world and 75% of India is in EB3

This gives 186782 * 0.25 * 0.75 = 35022 for India from 2001 to 2004

Since the country of the alien is available for Perm, let's use it for 2005 and 2006

2005 India = 1350
2006 India = 22298

Total for India in 2005 and 2006 = 23648

Pending in BEC: 111000
Applying the same formula for India EB3: 111000 * 0.25 * 0.75 = 20812

Total for India in all years till Dec 2006 = 35022 + 23648 + 20812 = 79482
Let's say 20% labors are duplicate or deserted. This gives 79482 * 0.80 = 63586

Total for India in all years till Dec 2006 with Dependents = 63586 * 2.2 = 139889

Total EB3 visas for India in a year: 140000 * 0.07 * 0.286 = 2802

Without any Law:
139889/2802 = 50 Years

Assuming CIR passes with
1. Dependents not counted
2. EB visas increased from 140,000 to 650,000
3. Per country quota raised to 10%
4. Exempts advanced degree holders

Total EB3 India visas per year = 650,000 * 0.1 * 0.286 = 18590

Total for India in all years till Dec 2006 without dependents: 63586

Assuming 20% have advanced degree holders = 63586 * 0.2 = 12717

Total for India in all years till Dec 2006 without dependents and advanced degree holders

= 63586 - 12717 = 50869

For India EB3 Priority date to reach Dec 2006 = 50869/18590 = 2.7 Years

Conclusion

Without Law: 50 Years :confused:
With Law: 2.7 Years :D

So do I actually have to be in the US to mail in the AOS forms (I-485s)? I've been a legal US resident for years on an H1-B, and have been fortunate to have never had out-of-status issues or anything like that. BUT, as it happens, I'm up in Canada on vacation at the moment, planning to return next week. I've never had to get a visa stamp or surrender I-94 or any of that stuf.

Do I need to actually be back in the US before lawyer sends in AOS forms ? Or is it sufficient that I'm a resident and will be back in the US once the AOS is processed.

- GS
I think you need to be in US when the application reaches the USCIS office.
Right now you can send the application to your lawyers office and ask him to check the application.Mail it to the USCIS when u r back in the country.
Once you travel outside the US you dont have any status,u need to be in country to adjust your status from non immgrant to immgrant.

okies, add me please.. thanks!

Your spouse was in US when your application reached USCIS so you should be fine.

Am I in the same situation? My spouse left US today to INDIA. However we filled the 485 on July 2nd. Will they consider that as abandonment of the application?

Although that the rule..I dont think USCIS actively follows it. The reason for that being the ombudsman report that states that the adjudicating officers pick low hanging fruit first (simple strforward cases) and that is reflected on where people have been getting their 485 approved within 90 days (which the ombudsman's report states is uscis's goal). right now the processing date is holding at 9 months. maybe to dissuade people from continously calling the NSC 1800 number.

Congratulations on your GC. Yes, tell your sister to send you the GC by mail. Once you get it, you can get back into the U.S. using your GC. I know few people who have done this. Good luck.

The above said is correct only if you have an approved AP with you.

PM me ur email address. I will send u the reply via email :-)

Thx


1. My parents included their Indonesian bank statement in rupiah. And they went to US embassy in Jakarta, their hometown. Does it make a difference to go to other city after they got rejected twice? If so, which one?
2. I had never gone back to Indonesia since I got the asylum. I'm not supposed to although I have already got my greencard. In fact, VO asked them if I ever went back to Indonesia. And my parents said no.
3. I didn't include my US bank statement because my parents self-sponsor themselves. I don't have much anyway to sponsor them.

Please let me know your advice. Thank you so much.

No...........I'm going to wait until the next generation camera phones come out........rumor has it the developers are going to include a 70-200 2.8 L IS
with the ability to interchange with several other lenses not yet in development.

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