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  • puddonhead
    06-18 11:49 AM
    >> Your reasoning is weak. If the same Goldman manager wants to screw you - he won't see if it is recession or not - he will screw you - period.

    Well - I am not assuming that the Goldman manager "wants" to screw me/you/anybody.

    I am assuming that he is there to do his job at the least cost possible. By introducing costly disruptions - we tilt the balance in favor of porting the entire division out (thereby indirectly screwing ourselves. Note: the Goldman manager is not screwing us - we are indirectly screwing ourselves by bidding up - aka UAW of GM). Since the threshold for outsourcing is quite a bit lower in a recession - I am suggesting that we don't pick this fight right now and wait for a little while.





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  • mallu
    10-05 03:58 PM
    Hi

    I just spoke to a very nice IO. I asked about my name check , she said that it's pendig and FBI name check is 9 months behind the scheduale. That all the information she gave me.

    does everybody go through FBI check name or only a percentage?

    Everybody has to go through name check. A "small percentage" get stuck. Right now most of this forum is in "receipt mode". Let us wait for 1 more year to see how many scream " i am stuck in namecheck" . Just ask Indians/Chinese/Russians.





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  • Rayyan
    08-19 10:49 AM
    Hi All, I had a quick question.
    My I-485 got approved earlier this week from NSC and I received the approval/welcome letter by USPS.
    My online status is at post-decision activity and not at CPO.
    Though my welcome notice says that I should receive the card in 3 weeks, I am wondering if I need to be at CPO status before that happens....also I read somewhere they may require another FP before CPO (that was talking more abt transfer cases, but mine has always been at NSC).....but nowhere in my approval notice does it ask for an FP.
    I was wondering if I should just sit tight and wait for the physical card or try to find out more information.
    Thanks so much.


    My Status remains on Post Desecion activity and I got Green card within a week after it changed from CPO to Post decision activity.....





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  • factoryman
    05-16 06:14 PM
    after filing for I-485 on Jun 1. Also filing for EAD for self and 3 family members. EB3 Nov 2001. H1B stamped in visa valid till Oct 2008.

    Do I need to wait for Receipt of Filing?

    Cancellations charges ( USD 200 per ticket - 4 tickets) and new tickets (difference of 300 per ticket - 4 tickets) will cost a lot. Anyone else in similar situations? Anyone know something? Anything?



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  • BharatPremi
    09-25 01:50 PM
    I saw this link Murthy's email too. The total pre-adjudicated cases in the chart is matching with the total in the document. Well now there are more un-answered questions:
    1. Does all other pending 485 include employment based ? If yes what % are employment based ? Obviously we do not have any country specific data on these.
    2. Is there any way to know whether individual case is pre-adjudicated or not ?
    USCIS has fooled us again. No good statistical analysis can be done on incomplete/inaccurate data. I am going from hopeful to hopeless again. I am EB2-I Feb 2006.
    Thanks a lot for staying on top of this and posting your analysis.

    This trend chart/volume chart certainly represents both family and employment base applications. Following is my thought process now with keeping both trend chart and teh worksheet in this thread chain together.

    (1) In Worksheet USCIS claims total EB pending case 233816 by December 2009. Yet we
    have not reached to December 2009. Trend chart claims total pending 279031
    including family base applications. Since famaily to EB ratio is unknown I would
    consider worksheet's figure as authentic for pending EB based 485 cases. One practical
    clue for inclining to do this as I know USCIS has approved tons of green card in
    parental family category. Many of my friends have got GCs for their parents in a
    relatively very small time frame - 1 year

    (2) I remember somehow that out of 775000 485 applications in October 2007, there were
    around 300000 application were from EB category based on USCIS's published
    notification ( I tried to find it on internet but some how I do not see it now). If
    somebody has a more solid proof this stats from which we can derive nearly accurate
    ratio we may consider those stats. But as I mentioned in point 1 USCIS seems to have
    cleared more family bassed 485 with comparison to EB categories I would just
    assume for now that 60% preadjudicated cases and "awaiting customer action"
    and "New receipts" are from family category and 40 % are from EB category. Total
    preadjudicated cases per trend chart is 178418. 40% of that around 71367 - for the
    sake of easiness let's make it 71500. This way "awaiting cutomer action" cases for EB
    categories could be around 18-19000. "New receipt" cases could be around 18000
    roughly.

    3) Now total EB based 485 cases by July 2009 could be = Pending cases + preadjudicated
    cases + cases awaiting customer action + new receipts = 233816 + 71500 + 18000 +
    18000 = 341316. Just the sake for simplicity in assumption we may consider total EB
    based 485 workload with USCIS around 350000.

    4) "In general" the first lot who will come out from this gutter is "preadjudicated" then the
    lot "awaiting customer action" then the "pending ones" and then " new receipts"

    Now based on my talk with USCIS guy I can state that USCIS generated RFEs innear past for many cases as apart of preadjudication process, particualrly for may AAC21 usage related cases - Asking for proof of employment in the same job classification. According to that talk if USCIS gets required response to the RFE then USCIS settle that case in a "preadjudicated" shelf. In other words the AC21 guys who got the RFE - responded and case is resumed - most of them should be on "preadjudicted" shelf. If we call USCIS generally let us know that whether our particualr case is preadjudicted or not.Lucky one may get that reply in first call and somebody may have to try calling multiple times.





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  • addsf345
    10-09 06:10 PM
    Your router may have the problem.
    You need to buy a good router. Your phone is good with long range.

    WiFi is 2.4 GHZ.

    5.8 GHZ phone will have many disadvantages.

    The BEST choice for cordless phone for range, and lack of interfearance is a DECT phone.. the 1.9Ghz range is a licenced radio frequency for the exclusive use of cordless phones, unlike any other cordless phone frequency (900Mhz, 2.4Ghz, 5.8Ghz.) and as it is lower in frequency (aside from 900 Mhz) it operates with the furthest distance than any cordless phone.

    I am using DECT phone. It is mentioned as DECT 6.0

    is it same as 1.9GHz or different 6.0 GHz?



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  • singhv_1980
    02-12 10:52 AM
    I am also stuck in PIMS.. here are my details

    H1 renewal and change of employer
    H1 approved in March 2007
    Service center: WAC

    Visa appointment on Feb 11 at mumbai
    Documents submitted to VFS on Jan 28

    On feb 11 I went to consulate and it was a long wait.. overall it took 3 hours to finish everything. When I went inside they handed over my application to me and I noticed that "Not in" was written on my DS156 form on top right corner box. here is the communication with IO

    IO: so you are working for xyz company.
    me: yes
    IO: what are you doing for them
    me: explained my role and skills
    IO: are you working inhouse or at client place
    me: gave client name and details
    IO: till which date you are going to work for this client
    me: gave details
    IO: everything looks fine in your case but similar to what I have told everyone else due to the new system we need to verify your data and it will take about a week for that. (and then he wrote PIMS on my form)
    me: I have a return ticket on so and so date...... can I expect before that.
    IO: your case is pending only for the online verification unlike other administrative processing so it should take about a week so you should be fine.

    he then gave passport back with some envelop and also one yellow paper by selecting following option in that paper

    "when administrative processing is completed on your case, you will be contacted and requested to submit your passport, this letter and the accompanying envelope to the nearest VFS office."

    though he selected this option, he specifically wrote PIMS on my form.

    Note that PIMS problem was there for lot of cases on that day as he explicitly told me that he had to do this for lot of cases.


    Thanks for sharing your experience. Hope you will get your PP soon.

    Good Luck!





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  • crystal
    07-12 09:36 AM
    http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070711/NEWS/707110343/1001



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  • logiclife
    01-06 02:09 AM
    Public rallies are hard to organize compared to intense dicussions online. There is an issue of permits from the city before you hold a public event and also other things to take care of. Its not worth doing it unless it gets attention of national media for which you would need atleast 5 to 10 thousand people.

    For example, if you want to hold a rally in central park in New York City, you would need a permit I believe from City of New York and then organized efforts to make sure that the media shows up there and you can say something for the cameras.

    Immigration is not one of the issues that are hot enough to get media's attention and time and cover a public rally.

    Our strategy is to get the attention of specific groups of people:
    The congress.
    The people affected by retrogression
    And the people who hire people affected by retrogression.

    Using energy to take our cause to the entire populace is not fruitful because it will be forgotten soon and the people who need to hear us are very few.

    ON the other hand, if you or others on this website can organize get-togethers at a private venue, like a banquet hall or something and mobilize people to volunteer on this website in terms of time effort and money, then it would be just SWEEEEET and we would be sending you a thank-you note.:) :)





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  • pappu
    03-31 12:55 PM
    Thanks for the info....I believe it will be either Dec 2006 or Jan 2007

    During the discussions on 1485 filing provisions we there were questions related to EB2, EB3 backlog numbers post 2007 july + Based on the recent information we got on pending numbers + our discussion on if EB2 will get current this year helps us understand how the last quarter will behave. This analysis is not official and is our own interpretation based on information we know. We do not wish to seek out specific information on visa bulletins. It has not been IV policy. VBkris has been involved with IV statistical analysis of data and has been in meetings with officials. He has come up with an explanation to this news and how it may play out for the last quarter. His interpretation makes sense to me and I have asked him to post on the forum.



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  • pitha
    09-26 10:38 AM
    cir failed because the senate did not have a filibuster proof majority (60) to pass cir. This time the democrats are expected to gain 4 to 5 seats in the senate, that will take there majority to 54 or 55 from the current 50 (49 +liberman). With a majority of 54 or 55 the filibuster will not happen again in senate and cir will pass in the senate.

    The difference between Bush and obama in calling for cir is that Bush was an unpopular lame duck president, his party was a minority in both the house and senate. Obama if elected president would have the democrats in control of both the house and senate, therefore when obama says he wants to pass cir, it will happen, so take it seriously and dont live in a fantasy that CIR will fail again.

    to all those people who cliam that cir won't be bad, please, please name some provisions that were good for Eb immigrants. Please dont use words like "hope", might" etc,durbin wants to knock the living daylights out of EB immigrants. I want to know if there was anything good in cir, not good things you hope to be in cir

    These are a list of bad things that were in cir and will be in durbin cir

    -DId cir have stem exemption? answer no
    -Did cir have visa recapture? answer no
    -Did cir increase the eb quota to reduce the backlog? answer no
    -Did cir exempt the existing EB applicants from the new "points based
    system", answer this seems to be a gray area, no clear answer (there is a
    debate about this)
    -Did cir have draconian restrictions on H1, answer yes
    if there are any more nagatives please add to the list.

    guys, the reason behind this post is not to pick a fight with anyone or to win an argument, but to look at the facts and realize the deep shit we will be in and address the issues. Just like a sick patient will expire if he lives in denial and does not take his medicine, we the eb immigrants will expire with cir if we dont realize we will be sick with cir and start looking for medicine.





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  • sugaur
    09-12 07:59 AM
    My priority date is current since september 2010.
    My H1B transfer application is with USCIS since Aug 27th, 2010. The date for transfer requested is Novemebr 1st, 2010.
    My I 485 was filed in Aug 2008. I have been working with the current sponsoring employer since 2005, no breaks.
    I am expecting an RFE for my I 485. Anyone who was in similar situation share what kind of RFE is likely to be issued? I already have a job letter from the new employer essentially stating same kind of work duties.
    Thanks.

    PS: Also, how do you start a new thread on IV?



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  • fatjoe
    10-05 01:58 PM
    Some of us with 2004 are still waiting.

    Hi vikki76, bpositive, dipika, caliguy, leoindiano:
    If I am correct, your PDs are current, right? Do you guys know if your case was pre-adjudicated and/or assigned to an IO? I keep reading from the forums that some apps with PDs as late as Dec 2004 and a couple of Jan 2005 got approved. Wondering why the earlier (eg. mine is July 04) not approved yet. Could we all join togther and write a letter to Napolitino(Thanks to SoP for the idea) and ask her to take some action on our cases?





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  • pranju
    06-15 11:42 AM
    Is it mandatory to submit Form G-28 ?


    G-28 is for lawyer if u r gettign the help of lawyer then yes , if yrelf then no ... but please confirm with others too - thanks



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  • lostinspace
    01-27 12:44 PM
    The requirement for a transit visa to enter the UK is not a new requirement. They were introduced because a significant number of passengers decided to remain in the UK rather than simply transit.

    Before they were introduced, passengers had the ability to remain in the UK for up to 24 hours, enter the UK, change airports etc (this is called TWOV or Transit Without Visa and still remains for applicable nationals).

    The intent of the Transit Visa is to ensure that the passenger will be accepted by the third country.

    There are still issues with passengers who hold transit visas with a stated intention of transitting the UK. Either they are not accepted by the transitting airline and are returned to the point of origin, or they simply claim "political assylum" when they land in the UK and then they become the responsibility of the British Government.





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  • Dhundhun
    10-07 07:37 PM
    Leo & Dhundhun,
    If it AP is not a immediate necessity, I will wait for few weeks and hope for the best.........

    It is not immediate necessity, but most of the family in India, son in Canada - it is for any unforeseen situation.



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  • desi485
    11-18 03:41 PM
    The glitch is - once you have started using EAD and you apply for h1 - you have to get it stamped before you can use it ie your h1 approval comes without a i 94 extension - the costs towards going out - getting visa appointment , stamping etc.... are to be considered, and remember stamping in Canada and Mexico is not easy these days.

    Chandu, what if a person has used only 4 out of total 6 years of H1 period. Still it needs stamping?





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  • drirshad
    01-04 03:16 AM
    Long but must read ...............

    http://www.ilw.com/articles/2006,0104-endelman.shtm





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  • akela_topchi
    08-07 11:54 AM
    I thought you already left for the law firm...

    I am impressed by your qualifications, what is your PD?





    sjpg
    07-12 09:47 PM
    Guys,

    I come from South Florida (MIAMI / FT LAUDERDALE /WEST PALM BEACH). Sun-Sentinel is a news paper major in this part of the world. We are expected to see a front page coverage about this turn-about by DOS and USCIS on july 07 bulletin.





    MeraNaamJoker
    08-16 10:08 AM
    i got my 'decision' email on 10th. But after that nothing. No CPO email/No welcome email/ No LUD.
    I am hoping that they didn't let my case 'drop through cracks'. Considering USCIS's way of working I wouldn't be surprised. Will give a week or two more.

    You got it right.

    They have thier own of operation. My CPO status was registered on Aug 5th. I got CPO email the next day. Then on August 12 it went back to post decision activity. I got the approval or welcome mail (snail) on August 12th itself. After that there is not change or update. All we can do is to sit back and wait for little bit more.



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