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SA1249 amendment was it voted....

Request transfer to Counsular processing, withdraw I-485, I-131 and EAD
remeber cannot come back to USA using F1, B1 or any such non-immigrant visa.

H1/L1 can be used is there is time left on these/ spent 1 year abroad if not

Hi Guys,

For those who applied for EAD using eFile, please post information on supporting documents you sent.

Any other info on post-eFile of EAD is welcome.

Thanks.

Edit:

Prepared the following documents today along with a cover letter -

Copy of the Confirmation Receipt notice
Copy of Current EAD (Front & Back)
Copy of I-485 receipt
Copies of I485 Case Transfer notices if any
Copy of Cut out mailer of previous EAD Approval.
Copy of I-94
Copy of Passport (which has Bio-graphic data)
Copy of Drivers License


Important: YOU DONT HAVE TO SEND PICTURES


I intend to send mine and my spouse's documents seperately.

Update: Got my receipt (and my spouse's) from TSC today. (Exactly after a week).

Hello Friends,

Could somebody pls. help and respond to this query.

In case of approved Change of Status from H4-H1B , when can the H1B holder apply for a SSN. Do we need to wait till Oct. 1 to apply for the SSN or can we apply earlier.

I heard that it can take anytime between 2-8 weeks and the H1B holder is not supposed to start working till they receive the SSN.

Thanks a lot for your help, its greatly appreciated.

You can apply only after October 1st, since that is the day the H1B person is eligible to work (and that's what I did for my wife).

Please cross check, if there is any way you can apply earlier.

Let us give our leaders a break for now. Let us focus on filing the apps ASAP. IV core has been working on these issues for a long time. Let us knock one wicket at a time.

Superdude and others -- momentum does not stick around -- acting before the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo starts is pretty important. While the Emilio Gonzalez and Co are still feeling the heat, while Lofgren and Co remember why this happened in the first place, before Numbersusa and Co get their story together even on this issue. The attention span of Congress, the attention span of the press is very very short.

To be completely frank, EADs and APs are crumbs -- crumbs we will all be eating for years as we wait for our green cards.

I have been reading all the posts and been contributing modestly and been suffering for a long time because of retrogression. In my humble opinion what ever we do if it needs to succeed we definitely need to *distinguish* ourselves from illegal aliens and other professions and prove that us staying here is in best interest of the US. Not to discourage anybody but CIR is a big task and I don't think politicians are really ready to solve this problem because of its magnitude and huge implications it is going to have for deciding to go one way or another. Probably retrogression would have been solvable with relative difficulty if it is not for the timing of CIR.
and somebody mentioned that allowing to file for 485 with out need for waiting for visa numbers may actually increase the retrogression because of some of the privisions for illegal aliens..I am not totally sure on this but if it is true it just makes all the more important that we need to establish seperate category for high skilled workers.
I think SKIL bill would be one way to go and another would be to actually lower the limit of investment category visa..I know the second one seems like a long shot because currently it requires $500K in rural areas and generally one million but hear me out
If we could lower that limit to $100 k and make it investment in any US based companies in addition to having certain years of work experience in the US. We can argue that we are actually contributing to economy in more than one way and us being here helps generate more jobs in the US and it definitely makes different from others.
I know preapproved labors were being sold at >$25k at one point and if people knew that there wouldn't be any problems with that then a lot of us would have shed that money for a guaranteed GC so if 100k over a period of time would guarantee a GC and that 100k is still going to be with us after certain amount of time then may be it is not that bad idea....



I am glad some one else also agrees with my thoughts..Let us continue this discussion on old thread..

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=600

I suppose your pd has been current for a while now. are you stuck in name check ? do you know why your 485 approval is taking so long ? I'd say you should be getting your GC rather than the ead card.

And why does your public profile say Labor Approval Date: 05/10/2005 where as in your post you say PD is Feb 2002.

Labor filed date is Feb 2002. Thats is what called PD. Fortunately it took only 3.8 yrs to get my LC approval. Some poor souls got their LC approval in 4 yrs and 5yrs.

I don't know if you heard about PBEC and DBEC. I am one of the victims of backlog elimination center.

Anyway my name check is still pending. But if they really implement this 180 day rule, my case is good to go.

I just read the instructions for E-filing of AP. This is what it says -

Who is Not Eligible to e-File This Form:
You are not eligible to electronically file this form if:

You have a pending I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence Status or Adjust Status currently at a USCIS office and you are eligible to file the I-131 for no additional fee.

Does that mean that only if your 485 application is @ a local office. My 485 is @ NBC, Biometrics is next week. I was told by my attorney that my application will then be transferred to local office for a interview. Don't know when though. Am i still eligible to E-file. Would appreciate any advice.

Thanks !

Also wanted to mention that your I-20 will have information on when the OPT was applied (at least that's how it was in my case). I got a new I-20 when I applied for OPT (indicating that it was pending), and then another one when it was approved.

Another point - they generally approve the OPT and issue the EAD within three months. So now you have the month narrowed down to 3 (from the month of your approval).

Anyone?

Thanks

They are reloading. ;)

Does anybody have actual TEXT from Managers Amendment from Thomas?

You can leave it as blank, you will getting the A# with the 485 receipt ...

Guys,
Can any one explain his comments,

"We presume some folks are still waiting on their July 2nd cases to be returned and are debating refiling new cases rather than waiting. Unfortunately, there is a risk of not getting the package back before August 17th and some people will need to refile without proof of the earlier filing."

Shouldn't any application rejected on July 2nd have already reached our lawyer's office by now?
Also, if my appliction, filled on July 2nd, has not been returned yet, shouldn't we assume that it will be accepted?

This is a very complex bill with some provisions that could be detrimental to us. But there are some amendments that could help us (and some that could hurt us).
But I some times feel like you do. We as a groups seem to be confused. All along we want to have control over our GC process and not succumb to employers. But when this bill would have given what we wanted all along, we don't want it.

It would have been better to get some of provisions in that would help us rather than an out right opposition. As I said this is a VERY VERY VERY complex bill and there are VERY FEW that understood this completely.

Thanks for your response

As per my employer adv :

Required degree : Masters degree in Engineering or related field (no experience)

The education evaluation was done from ITES inc., I have got this for applying H1B in Apr 2005, which includes my prior experience. We have used the same education evaluation for I-140 in Aug'07. Since the experience was combined in my education evaluation, CIS is now asking for a new evaluation based solely on education.

If you cld submit an eval just for education, you shld be ok

somebody please reply

Bidi, I guess.
By the way, what do you smoke?

Contribute now so that IV dont have to pass an opportunity during lame duck session or early next year.

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Hi

My Labor for GC was filed on april 9 under EB3

I got promoted just yestaerday

Is it true that the title change and increase in wages may create a problem with labor certification?

Ashutosh

Guys Here are my ideas for actions.

Our community is facing basically two types of problems

1) Visa number shortage.
2) USCIS Administrative problems.

Visa Number shortage is not fixable without proper law change.

While USCIS Administrative problems are easier to handle.

I would suggest, after new homeland security secretary (Janet Napolitano) takes office on Jan 20 2009, We should simply take 30 minute appointment.
Sit down with her....and explain her along with "Power point" presentation.

We are highly skilled professionals, so lets tackle these issue very professional way.

We should explain her about following things

- Out of order case processing ( this will fix about 40% of our problems)

Since our case becomes very very predictible.. one can sleep at night without checking their emails from CRIS.

- Timely publication of numbers.

- Proper publication of backlog numbers with details for each category.

- Open communication with IV community just like Ombudsman take calls from public.

- Please add your idea here

Thanks!
Naushit.

See my answers. WE just came back on AP, no issues.
I am July 2 filer and have EAD card for myself and mywife. We are planning to go to INDIA for 30 days. I have H1B extended until 2010 but H1B STAMP is expired in passport. I have following questions:

1. Should I apply for AP for both of us?
YES
2. If we have AP documents for both of us, Do we need to have NEW H1B STAMP in passport?
NO
3. When you aboard in flight from INDIA, do they question for expired H1B VISA stamp in the passport? What document we need to show them at that time?
In my case (we just returned on AP) the IO at Chicago did not take us to a room. He stamped AP thereon the counter, kept one copy and returned other to me. Carry all three copies of AP along with a photocopy.

Your help is greatly appericated.

Thank you.