Monday, July 4, 2011

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    • wait4ever
    08-10 11:38 AM
    Do USCIS have the right address on file? If yes, then perhaps you should wait for another week before starting to inquire.

    Folks a quick question -

    Did all of you get the I-485 approval notice at home OR did it go to your lawyer ?

    I know that the card itself come to the home address -

    Thanks



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    • vbkris77
    05-08 01:57 PM
    You just typed the message in my head.. Can IV Take this as a bullet and campaign saying since it is not clear in law and cfr, Give us the benefit of doubt?



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    • ramus
    07-07 10:07 PM
    who is up for DC?



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    • sanjeev
    06-18 10:49 AM
    Sanjeev: How do you know it was received by NSC on June 4th,is there on line reference? did you get a letter of recepit? DId your lawyer call them or you just checked the courier company on line receipt?

    Lawyer had given me a tracking number.


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    • gcnirvana
    05-23 12:09 PM
    Sent emails to 2 + 10 Senators. I will fax them in a while. Thanks logiclife for coming up with this template.

    Go IV Go...



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    • ksurjan
    08-11 10:07 AM
    Applied for myself and wife on 6/30. No update yet. I hope I get it before the current EAD expires on 9/9.


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    • eb3_nepa
    08-18 02:45 PM
    Is it fair to have an EB2 person write - what "a" unfair system :eek:

    Yeah tell me about it! It is not enough that Eb3 gets screwed left right AND center. Now we have people applying pressures from the top and bottom as well, and to top it off, Eb2 people who:

    1) Get ALL the spill overs from Eb1 and
    2) Have fewer people drinking from their pool (As opposed to every tom dick & harry taking their share from the Eb3 pool, nurses to name a few).

    now complain that the system is unfair coz processing is not sequential. So everyone in the core team, please forget all about the people suffering in Eb3 and focuss SOLELY on the Eb2 people. Actually dont even focus on all EB2, just the fact that EB2 is not being processed sequentially.

    What a load of crock!!



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    • reddymjm
    09-23 05:07 PM
    I dont see this News as disappointing at all. All of them are moving fwd at some pace in all the bullitens. :D


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    • isantem
    02-23 10:06 PM
    Your receipt number for this payment is: 0578-5089-3157-9050.

    I just donated $100 for the event.
    I will be participating in advocacy effort. I am coming from Richmond, VA and I can pick-up 3 more people from the area. I can also do carpool in DC during the events (Hotel - Captol Hill or Airport- Capitol Hill)

    Thanks



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    • sparuthi
    09-14 12:47 AM
    I will contribute $200 from my side, and I can also get discount on Lawyers thru my firm...


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    • desi3933
    07-09 11:50 AM
    The text you quoted below only states that the AOS petition can only be approved if a visa number is available, no where does it say that AOS petition cannot be accepted if visa number is not available. we are not asking for AOS petition to be approved we are only asking that AOS petition be filed and accepted by USCIS.

    Read again -

    (3) an immigrant visa is immediately available to him at the time his application is filed
    it means that
    At the time of application (i.e. when I-485 is filed), an immigrant visa is immediately available to him

    Also read my other post
    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=103927&postcount=103


    ______________________
    Not a legal advice.



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    • gc28262
    06-26 08:44 AM
    Law clearly states employer cannot discriminate based on immigration status.
    Walking dude has a point. I think we should take this up. We shouldn't be calling the employer and notifying them. We should notify the ad to appropriate authorities.


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    • floridasun
    02-03 08:47 PM
    Well, culture has tremendous impact on people. Looking at the state of our country, what have we become in last 63+ years? Major percentage of population still live under poor living conditions. We are one of the most corrupted countries in the world. Some people want to live in denial. Boasting about greatness that doesn't exist is of no use to the current and future generations. We have to make our country great by changing the conditions. In order to do that, first we need to acknowledge that there are serioous issues. Unless we all unitedly agree that the conditions are pathetic and will worsen, nothing is going to change.

    well said. I totally agree that the conditions in India - call it culture or problems, are pathetic. after 63+ years, rich have become filthy richer and still majority have poor quality of life. just see how much black money these filthy rich ppl hoarded in swiss banks. sure, India has great ancient history/achievements; to me, present and forseeable future matters most because that is the time I am alive ! I came to this Country on a Student Visa - This Country gave me decent paying job, much much better quality of life, low cost of living, Freedom of expression/speech, good amount of free time to invest for my personal interests.



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    • arun_ramani
    02-01 02:36 PM
    Contributed $100 for Advocacy day. I will also inform few of my friends who can also contribute.

    Best Wishes,
    Arun


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    • buddyinsd
    08-25 01:40 AM
    Congrats man...U took off as well :)

    Got CPO today..
    Priority Date: Feb 21, 2006
    EB2 India, NSC

    Thanks every one



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    • clockwork
    07-02 09:53 AM
    Only 50 people mailed their package for July 2nd delivery. You got to be kidding. Please post details of your friends as well if they shipped on July 2nd. I remember seeing a post on another thread with speculation of 100K packages. Thanks -:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:


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    • hebron
    07-19 08:08 PM
    I am starting this new thread to discuss about EB visas spillover usage based on oldest priority date irrespective of category/country. Currently the spillover happens vertically(a top down approach) from EB1 -> EB2 -> EB3...etc. Instead it should be first used on cases with oldest priority date. This will not only give a good move to clear the backlog but will also be a fair rule for those who are patiently waiting in queue for a long time. I wrote my concern about this to my local congressman. I also request each one of you, who is impacted by this, or who is interested to help us out, to kindly contact your local congressman/woman to express your concern. In turn they can contact USCIS to implement this fair rule to help us all out.


    I can't understand why Sanhari's suggestion would rile up EB2 folks. All he suggested was to use the EB spillover visas for oldest cases irrespective of EB category and country.

    Sanhari - Are you sure that this is a USCIS decision? Can USCIS change the way the do the spillover without legislation change?

    Folks, There is a another thread on here that says IV is neither against EB3 nor for EB2. If that's really the case why would Sanhari's suggestion not find favor? If IV seriously want to do something for the backlog, Sanhari's suggestion should be taken up.

    I anticipate and welcome reds, greens, blues for this post :)



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    • pd052009
    11-17 03:28 PM
    Sent to Sen. and Rep. of NC.



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    • rpulipati
    10-09 10:16 AM
    I understand that you want to use experience before PD. However, there is no much gain and makes it more complex.

    For example, the person who does not start PD for 5 years on work can get only 6 months earlier preference.

    My thoughts.
    For old PD, pending I-140 should not be bottleneck.

    PD should be first criteria but US experience should not be ignored completely. US experience should be giving less point then PD.

    10 points for each month for PD and 1 point for each month for being in US. GC priority should be created after calculating total points for PD and for being in US.



    joydiptac
    09-09 09:13 PM
    Visa Bulletin October 2009 (http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4575.html)

    Rolling back dates is so unprofessional :mad: - means those idiots have no idea of how much demand there really is or will be :rolleyes:. This is not a stock price that has to go up or down based on current demand.
    Rather than immigration reform. They should clean up USCIS & DOS. get more efficient people in there. Now that the economy is so bad they should be able to get a lot of good people.

    Either case, I don't think those Behan Cs at USCIS are going to change the dates for EB3 until they are done going thru all the pending cases. Plus, unless there is searing pain all around there is no need for legislation. So dates rollback maybe a positive sign - a build up for CIR. But who am I kidding?



    phillyag
    08-25 06:38 AM
    The Last updated date for my I -485 application is showing as 8/24/2010 now.
    What does that mean ?


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    • SFSweta
    08-25 11:17 PM
    Okay - so I know this is premature....but just today I logged into my CRIS account and I saw that they've touched my case on Aug 25th!!

    Probably not a big deal for anyone but MEEEE!!!

    And my priority date is July 17th 2006- so people there are numbers available for September. :) :)



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    • psaxena
    09-10 07:23 PM
    YOu are a USELESS fellow. Thats right.. Immigration voice core are the ones who are doing whatever they can for you thankless idiots like YOU!!

    Why do you care if they care about EB3 or not.. do you care? Seperate effort.. what will you do in that.. again a back bench behind the alias pushing others to do something, without donating or contributing. Who gave you even the right to write here and put your views when you cannot even can consider it trustworthy to donate 2 cents.

    BTW keeps your "2 cents" to yourself. I hate reading the post like these.

    In my opinion, we need to have separate efforts for EB3 (now that EB3 I and EB3 ROW are in the same boat). If we have someone with leadership qualities and wants to use some social networking site for discussing EB3 issues and identifying approaches to solve the EB3 issues, there will be many EB3 folks willing to support the effort. Immivoice is just useless portal, it doesn't have open forums and the core folks here don't care for EB3. In fact, their lobbying efforts were behind USCIS changing the rule for spilling over the unused visa numbers to EB2 first. Just my 2 cents.



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    • StarSun
    02-09 10:53 AM
    Your transaction ID for this payment is: 32R78275M69540623.
    donated $50

    I will be in India around that time so cannot attend the campaign in person.

    All the best to IV .. hope we get the justice ASAP.

    Thank you psaxena for your donations. Please talk to members from your state and encourage them to participate.



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    • gk_2000
    02-17 02:45 PM
    Answer to this:

    effective marketing...something called MLM was used and some false promises.

    This event cannot run based on MLM or false promises.

    It can be successful only if every member understands their contribution and participation is key for this event and they are the one who can solve their immigration issue by taking this event seriously.

    this:

    I respectfully disagree. It has nothing to do with marketing, fraud desi companies put up free ads on sulekha, its the mindset of a large number of our audience we are missing and need to account for. maybe it has to do with jugaad/kludge - the goal defines the means (loosely).
    Of course many of these expectations cannot be satisfied in a honest non profit.

    And this:
    A dinner for a family costs $50 easily.
    A movie for a family costs $50.

    The mindset is incepted deep inside and it is extremely difficult to change.

    Sometimes, I see people wanting to do something, but their spouses don't allow them to.

    When I told people that I received GC - some desis who r still waiting got pissed. I heard all sorts of things, some say "You cheated", some say "Never knew you were Eb2", some say, "Are you sure?, have you got the cards yet?, Did you finish biometrics?" Some eb3 folks said "We will get ours too, some issue with finger prints , my husband's boss is very close to the congressman and we have influence in INS", some say "Your lawyer did some magic" etc.....

    People carry such mindsets, it is difficult to bring about awareness and change.


    is this:

    agree, it cannot be really changed by us. even if people willingly try to achieve a new mindset with positive programming, it takes months to achieve.
    Guess we have to work with what we have. There may be a solution, but only people with a similar mindset can come up with it.

    Positive programming. Could we start it inside ourselves first? Stop ranting and lamenting?


    The point is not that tri-state was crooked etc. The point is, they got the cash because they made themselves known as an entity that does some service

    Same with IV. If IV is just a rant board, who will believe? We must change IV!


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    • arihant
    05-02 11:40 AM
    The relief for EB3 comes because a lot of EB2's/EB1's will be gone from the quota. So, if the queue is smaller, you get it faster. The way I look at it, we want the queue to be smaller.

    mrajatish is right.

    Also, if you have an advanced degree from an acredited university outside US AND have been working for 3 years in a related field, you will also be exempt from the cap regardless of whether you are applying/have applied in EB2 or EB3 (believe me...you would think that people with advanced degrees would have applied in EB2...but there are cases where people have had to apply in EB3 category even with an advanced degree).



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    • Lasantha
    07-05 12:57 PM
    Yes, The word Gandhigiri is a combination of Gandhi - giri , the first is in reference to Mahatma Gandhi and giri is a slang for doing things in a certain way. Gandhigiri means protesting in a peacful way but in a way that embaresses the people being protested against.

    Thanks Crystal and nfinity for the explaination. Sounds like a great idea. Count me in.


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    • guyfromsg
    07-11 07:58 PM
    I posted this message in other thread. I think this is the right place.

    I uploaded in Youtube and put some description about the protest. If you feel it's not good I'm open for better suggestions. The still image is selected randomly I changed it, it may take up to 6 hours.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigvhFq8zhY



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    • kopra
    08-25 09:03 AM
    I Remember US companies directly recruiting from India during 1997-99 .This was a very costly affair for the companies. They used to take phone interviews, and then sponsor the H1B for the employee with very high Compensation, pay the tickets for employee and family( usually first class) , give hotel/furnished apartments for 1-2 months, Rental cars etc. This was done when there was a genuine need for the company to hire H1B's as they could not find enough qualified people in US. By 2000 the equation changed and small H1b companies started appearing like mushrooms in most of the big cities who asked for H1B filing fees. Companies were also gaining from this as they have no legal hassle of H1b and the rates were competitive.



    I understand taking money from candidates to file H1 is non-sense. I haven't come across any company that does that when I applied for H1. I contacted couple of H1B sponsors. None of them asked for money. I was really happy the way I was treated by my sponsoring company.

    However I dispute your point "some companies file petitions when there isn't an immediate job offer".

    There is nothing wrong with this. That is the way consulting works in USA. It is a legitimate business model.


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    • NKR
    04-23 06:20 PM
    You can view my past posts in IV, I am not Desi employer but I may become very soon to employ myself (very close to get GC :-) )

    Anyway have you gone through yourself with same situation/tension as OP going through or do you know someone closely who have gone through? Have you dealt with attorney yourself?


    If that employer sue you, definitely you can counter sue for violation of wage related or h1b related rules and attorney will be the best person to advice you on that. make sure you go to an attorney who practice employement laws and have knowledge or have some other attorney in the same firm who deals in immi related matter. But question is, do you want to go through nightmare of law suites or you just want peace of mind.

    Your suggestion of talking to an attorney is well taken but not the advices. Thanks, good luck in your business



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    • sam2006
    07-20 10:53 AM
    Sam2006

    I think you didn't notice my message.


    Looks like you haven't filled in your pledge amount. Could you do please ?

    Thanks
    Anzer

    but i had already paid 100 yesterday
    is there any way to divert the funds i paid yesterday to this funding drive ?


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    • gcbikari
    04-24 11:44 AM
    Another silent deshi employer here trying to scar H1s not to sue. I guess he created his ID (Join Date: Apr 2008) just for this.
    Go and create another website in favour of deshi blood su&^%$rs called reverse-IV.org. Don't try to mock here.

    Oh Boy. What I wanted to know was if attorney is willing to work on contigency basis (couldn't get that word right), then we can risk. I wish I was a desi employer. I know in a chaos situation everyone is a suspect. I didn't give more accurate info in my profile because, i know some of my colleagues spy for my employer. I am in my 9th year on h1 and still struggling. though i said example of my friend, i personally paid 350 to a labor attorney last week to evaluate my non-compete. no matter who says what, i again repeat u either have to spend money and or loose job if you violate. ofcourse each case is different and has to be reviewed.

    BTW I believe H1 issue and non-compete are different. I think (y)our desperate situation and anger on h1b process is leading to this reply. but non-compete comes under labor and employment.



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    • h1bmajdoor
    07-07 08:57 PM
    All officials have talked about processing 60k visas in a month to avoid visas going waste.
    None was honest enough to say the unused visas expire on 09/30 NOT 06/30.
    So, why the mad rush to give out all visas by 06/30?? We all know why..

    some people say this was because of the Kennedy-Bush bill... to get good press for the bill.

    IMO that may be true, but having seen the way US works, i'm willing to bet 25 cents that some high official's bonus depended on ending retrogression. So he did it, for all of 2 weeks.


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    • ssss
    03-26 03:21 PM
    I am not sure if I can get GC in 2011



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    • SGP
    09-27 09:45 AM
    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) exellent one. United we stand divided we fall. The british too took advantage of our non-unity. Let's learn a lesson from our history.:)


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    • reddymjm
    06-13 07:03 PM
    Atlast all my checks are cashed today. I am able to get my case number from the checks. Even though INS received my application on June 6th, in my 485 it says that they have received my application only on June 11th. Wonder why?
    They fwded the bundle to texax your receipts start with SRC not LIN.



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    • unitednations
    08-26 02:05 PM
    I wish they go after the fake companies that acts as GC boutique and also those who "bought" GC from them. (I mean not really bought, but who got GC from a company who originally never intended to work for them or never did). And of course use those numbers for LEGITIMATE cases (I hate to see those numbers go waste).

    That is always the problem; what people define as legitimate?

    A lot of people think their cases are legitimate and others aren't


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    • amitjoey
    07-09 09:26 PM
    This is great but not at all enough, If major news and print media does not cover this, than this effort will go waste. If it gets unreported, than we have ourselves to blame. The whole point is for this to get covered nationally. Your local news and print media needs to be made aware, if it gets printed enough times, it will be picked up in major news channels. So please email the story, make the reporters aware of this. I know, we have a lot of us that we can write, copy paste the same message. I have a feeling it is going to make a great news story, just want to be doubly sure.



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    • eb3retro
    08-18 02:45 PM
    I don think this issue concerns you. So , with all due respect, please BACK OFF.

    I am sorry SunnySurya but this issue DOES concern me. If everyone starts asking the IV core for their time just for their own issues, what about the rest of the community?

    If you expect the IV core to dedicate it's time JUST for a particular secction of people, then you need to justify that demand.

    In your opinion, EB3 is a LOWLY category as compared to EB2. So it is not enough that Nurses feed from it and just about EVERYONE else feeds from it. To top it off, overflow from eb1 goes FIRST to eb2 and then (and almost NEVER) to eb3. SO Eb2 gets a fair chunk of the greed cards, and over and above that you now want the IV core to further drop everything else and help JUST eb2 out? And who should make this demand? None other than someone who is trying to BREAK the community up into Eb2 vs Eb3.



    excellent points eb3 napa..Sunny surya i think you surely need to come up with some proper reply (instead of one liners) to eb3napa to convince people here.



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    • Googler
    07-07 09:08 PM
    Something to chew over -- this is a Secretary of State who won't even admit to major blunders in Iraq, she is not about to admit they screwed up on this.

    but she's right. the US immigration law is extremely detailed and totally unforgiving. the country quotas being applied to employment visas looks like some lawyer gone overboard with putting constraints while writing the law, but now it is the law, and they don't change laws here unless there are votes or lot of money involved.


    H1bmajdoor -- the blunder I am talking about here is making the dates all current (the original July bulletin) -- who the hell asked them to do that?? Why not move them another year forward? Had they done that I doubt USCIS would have panicked and gone crazy approving people without security checks, approving people whose dates were not current in June or even on July 2.

    That had nothing to do with the law, or the ceiling set by law -- it was an arbitrary roll of the dice by DOS, a decision made WITHOUT consulting USCIS.



    gccovet
    05-12 01:08 PM
    June VB is out !
    http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4231.html

    For India:
    EB2 - Progressed to 1APR04
    EB3- Did not change.
    EB3 other - No change (1 Jan 03)

    ROW- EB2- Current
    ROW- EB3- 1 Mar 06
    ROW- EB3Others- 1 Jan 03.

    For China
    EB2 - Progressed to 1APR04
    EB3- 22Mar 03.
    EB3 other - No change (1 Jan 03)



    gc_wow
    09-09 08:26 PM
    Oct 09 bulletin indicates jan 22 2005, they should have Visa numbers atleast to cover all the 2004 eb2 in september.How they can calculate so accurately, I am guessing that there could be some more extra visas that may be available at the end of September.If that is not happening then visa numbers could be lost. For eg: If some 2004 cases are not approved by the end of the month for what ever reasons then there will be some visas available which may advance visa dates furthur. So the big question is what will USCIS do with still left visas? Will they approve beyond 5 Jan 2005,with out bulletin being current or just waste Visas?


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    • gc_lover
    07-05 06:02 AM
    my 485 also reached Nebraska on July 2nd at 9:01 am
    by FEDEX.

    Is my boat Sinking or floating

    Mine reached on Juny 2 9:01 AM too. Its sinking, my friend. Your boat is sinking...just like mine.

    See you at the bottom of the ocean!



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    • hopefulgc
    10-09 10:57 AM
    People,
    no offense .. but what kind of crack are we all on?
    what ever happened to queuing theory?
    Visa number assignment is a classical queuing case that can be solved even by a newborn who fires a projectile pee without warning.

    and yes as long as we are all stating what we want..
    I want three parle-g biscuits with garma garam chai.


    It would be more effective if not effecient. You need not wait until the year end to issue visas, visas can be issued using a mathematical model which would allow old PD filers to get a visa ahead of others as soon as his case comes in and other criterias are fullfilled. Basically no one needs to wait for filing I485. People with old PD will get visa numbers first as soon as they enter the application.



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    • gc_chahiye
    10-08 01:11 PM
    Being a 2001 PD myself I fully sympathize with you for your trauma and support your notion that the Immigration System should give weightage to the number of years in the US, I do not support the notion of ending retrogression. Given that there are only a finite number of visa quotas, ending retrogression will make the GC a game of Inky-Pinky-Ponky. Either they give it to everyone (all the 800000 that applied) or they do FIFO based on date of entry in the US. If not, the present system of retrogression at least ensures that a person who came into the US in 2007 does not win the Inky-Pinki-Ponky game before a person like me in the queue since 2001. I agree that some extremely unfortunate people like you lose out, but it is still fairer than having no retrogression with the quota limitations in place, as that would be totally unfair.

    I totally miss your point: why is ending retrogression bad? Because all 800K people might get the GC within 6 months? Whats wrong with that? Its not fair to those who have waited longer than others? Dont be a member of the "just because I suffered I want everyone else to suffer" That makes you no different from that talkshow host (who is now a citizen) on the radio channel recently who said he waited 10 years to get his GC, so everyone else also should, otherwise its not "fair"

    Or, are you mixing up ending retrogression with making dates current? No thats not what we want. We want dates made current after the visa supply = demand. Just making all VBs like the July VB is pointless, and does lead to lots of uncertainties. By ending retrogression I mean making sure we have enough visa numbers for all who have been qualified by DOL (LC) and USCIS (I-140), by:
    - ending per-country quota
    - not counting dependents
    - recapturing wasted visa numbers.



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    • gcspace
    09-17 11:43 AM
    Can you please let us know who signed your package in NSC on July16th?

    Hi Guys,

    Self and Spouse 485/131/765 applications reached USCIS@NSC on July 16th,2007.

    No signs of any receipt notices yet??

    pls count me in.

    NSC EB3 INDIA
    (SUBST LABOR,NJ)
    PD:APRIL, 2002
    I-140 AD: OCTOBER,2005
    I-485/131/765: Sent (arrived )on 07/16/2007
    Notices??????


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    • doshhar
    07-07 05:33 PM
    Can we finalize the date for rally? Is July 14th ok with everyone of you? We have one full week to work on spreading this to different groups.



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    • gcstudent
    08-31 02:43 PM
    How am I being a racist? I'm just pointing out the fact that North and South Indians belong to different races and USCIS should stop clubbing them together.

    you sure look different... yes, there is a different quota for people like you.. You should check with your lawyer.


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    • Raju
    07-20 10:19 AM
    I pledge 200 for Aman.

    and also increase my monthly contribution from 20$ to 50$.

    Great going guys. Keep it coming. Yes we can for sure extend this to Monday. The more the better.



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    • a2k2
    11-17 04:54 PM
    Done!!


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    • gkdgopi
    07-07 08:38 AM
    Totally agree.. Can you tell which law has been broken by them.
    They didnt break a single law.
    USCIS broke a law last month by not accepting the EB3 Other workers, even when the bulletin said that the numbers were avaible.
    But this time , they just did something morally wrong ( that 2 i am not sure, based upon what i have read so far, which are more or less speculations)
    DOS updated the bulletin , for which they have full legal rights,
    and USCIS just follwed it, No Law was broken,atleast i cant see, which law was broken.

    If you go for a lawsuit , you would get those damages back, but as i said USCIS being a fees funded organisation, its will come back to you.

    What about the applications received before release of bulletin?



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    • romeshtrisal
    09-10 08:31 PM
    My papers were received at Nebraska Center by one... M. Schwitzer on 30th July. So far nothing... no receipts, no encashed checks.
    Latest frontlog update shows they have reached 29th July. It is a farce. In my office, I know of at least 5 guys whose papers were received in Nebraska Center between 17th to 20th July. Their checks are not even encashed till today.
    They just put in wrong and fake info just to please their bosses. This is a messy setup.
    Perhaps it is time for us to wake up one day and head to our "real and true" homes! May be we will eat Dal Roti only but we would be proud of ourselves and not remain at the mercy of these insensitive folks at INS. I am sure most of them are guys like you and me, but the system sucks and deep inside our hearts we off-load our anger and frustation at them....
    I am really pissed off.....


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    • bombaysardar
    04-18 06:57 PM
    exact same situation:confused:



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    • MunnaBhai
    02-04 05:18 PM
    Contributed $100.00
    Transaction # 2S237431VK1821121

    Will contribute more.


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    • acecupid
    07-03 02:31 PM
    I understand the pain you are going through... but we do not want to sound pissed! Just a simple best wishes will put our message through (if done by enough people). It burns no bridges... and it can attract the media... we want to shame them not ourselves!



    We dont want the morons to think we are appreciating their work. If we are not clear in our message it doesnt make sense to send the flowers. Its not going to burn any bridges in my opinion. There was no bridge in the first place :):D



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    • rk07
    09-26 01:44 PM
    Hi ,
    I have filed to NSC on August 2nd. Reached the cenetr on August 3rd. I see that many plp filed after me got RN's..anyone else in the same situation as me.

    Thanks
    Venkat

    Your case might have got transfered to CSC.

    Thanks,
    -rk.


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    • h1techSlave
    02-24 02:15 PM
    [I]One suggestion to admins, is it possible to send a simple one paragraph email to all IV users requesting for contribution?


    The newsletter mentioned above was sent out to all members yesterday afternoon. Maybe some have turned off emails from IV, or it went to the spam folder.

    I have received the news letter and it is pretty neat. But you know, many people are busy. So my suggestion was to send out another simple version with only the Advocacy day link with a request for contribution.



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    • pcs
    02-09 08:33 PM
    I am sending $ 20 ...

    Please keep sending emails to all members and encourage them to chip in regularly..


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    • gclongwaytogo
    10-10 01:32 PM
    Still Waiting.....



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    • ramus
    07-04 06:24 PM
    Thanks for all doing all this..

    Please visit following threads too..

    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=96850#post96850
    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=96932#post96932
    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5994



    I have e-mailed the senators in Illinois.

    Let's do following to keep this topic alive..

    1) Please e-mail senators to your respective states. You can find the e-mail format from http://murthyforum.atinfopop.com/4/OpenTopic?q=Y&a=tpc&s=1024039761&f=1474093861&m=8821024251

    2) We should have a rally to local USCIS offices.

    3) We should inform Media well in advance about rally so we can get enough coverage.

    4) We should contact Chinese groups for joining us in our mission.

    This is not a single person mission. We should get to gather at this CRITICAL time.

    Please don't let this fire go away.



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    • ramus
    07-07 09:27 PM
    I am sure we will get more member in DC. We can take a poll and see how many wants to join in DC. IF poll turns out to be large then we can plan.



    We will only come to this forum. We are 100 guys ready in DC.



    bebar
    06-06 09:00 PM
    No reciept yet..

    EB2 PD 05/2003



    rk07
    09-20 10:09 PM
    Seshu,

    Did you file at NSC?


    seshuvaidehi
    Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007
    Posts: 3




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    Labor Certified in June 2006-India
    I-140 approved Dec 2006
    I-485 filed on July 23rd 2007 > Checks got cashed > Got Recipt:WAC ###
    EAD filed on July 23rd 2007 > Checks got cashed > Got Recipt:WAC ###
    AP filed on July 23rd 2007 > Checks got cashed > Got Recipt : WAC ###

    How do I check if EAD card has been ordered and/or AP approved?

    Your all are awesome and Thanks to Immigration Voice.


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