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  • ndbhatt
    06-10 09:04 PM
    I disagree that it effects EB Community for EAD holders. COming on to options if the amendment stands it might take the form of TARP - God Forbid. Everyone of us predicted Financial industry has so much clout etc.. but those days are gone. I think US companies have decided to bend to laws and find ways to overcome them.

    Reg. Options : we are here to earn bread. Just FYI for countries like Canada they have already closed gates. for Ppl who already have PR's over there life is not easy as "is" here right now in getting jobs. Moving the all operations to different country is only possible for companies like Microsoft. not all. btw no one will hire undocumented.

    So we need to really motivate ourselves and friends against this headless draft version. This is not first time it came in to light everytime there was a immigration issue it used to come on top. But it failed as climate was cordial for immigrants or economy was good. Things have changed far far beyond in 2008 and TARP bill restrictions is one example where companies decided not to hire H1B at all (mostly) even it applies to TARP recipients.

    My thoughts.
    I humbly disagree with you on TARP analogy. TARP was due to direct funding by Government to save "Too Big to Fail" companies and obviously they had a say in that case since it was tax payers money. The focus was only on those limited companies. Having said that this text has a wider repercussions and doesn't spare anyone, whether they are financially sound or goverment funded.
    I completely agree with you that US offers better job prospects and earning potential. However, when the noose around the neck turns tighter with such "headless" bills, people will sooner or later, start looking at options.
    Trust me companies don't hesitate to move on if the environment isn't business friendly(reasons are higher tax, difficulty hiring immigrants, finding people with right skillsets, and so on) as they are more accountable to shareholders and they would care less if it is US today or Brazil tomorrow, the show must go on.
    You have heard of horrific stories of people getting CDN PR and hard to find jobs. Failure stories show up lot quicker than the success stories. I have known three close ones who are well placed in Canada.

    There are always two sides of coin and so is the half glass full, a half glass empty.
    Bottomline is if such bills turn into bill, its not just immigrant community but the economy as whole gets impacted.

    Bhattji





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  • reedandbamboo
    09-11 08:38 AM
    I am in for this. Is this something that can be a planned effort rather than a impulsive exercise?

    I think we should -
    1) Wait till this session of the Congress gets over.
    2) Form a work group that will chalk out the plan (of efforts).
    3) Execute the planned efforts.

    Efforts could include things like -
    1) Discussing the proposal with supporting Senators like Zoe Lofgren.
    2) Making conscious efforts to publicize our woes and genuine issues / conditions.
    3) Quantify the benefits of our presence - in evidence of a quantified evidence, idiots like Loo Dog, etc. can't refute that much.
    4) Talk to organizations like Lazaras (or some org.) form a more cosmopolitan group including Chinese and others as well.
    5) Letter campaign in mass to all Congressmen's offices telling them the sad story about waiting for 8-10 years.
    6) Any other efforts that CORE comes up with.

    Planned & focused efforts always yield desired results... I believe so.

    Others, please chime in.
    -A.

    A,

    There are some of us at this thread that are trying to address the latest retrogression and highlight USCIS inefficiency at this thread:

    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=21340&page=2

    Could we get together and put together our grievances? My letter to the Ombudsman (pending editing and re-writing) focuses on the random nature of approvals and the back and forth movements of the Visa Bulletin.

    Please comment!!

    Thanks.





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  • alex99
    07-07 08:27 PM
    Request More Eb3 Guys To Participate......

    Please....





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  • go_guy123
    05-26 07:38 PM
    I am sure you are not going to be silent and also going to act like a puppet when the border patrol will ask you. I have seen the similar case, when I was travelling back from india this fellow was ahead of me in the line at POE , his photo from the passport fall off and when he went to the officer and the officer asked what is this.. he was talking like a shivering cat. After interrogating him for an hour or so, he was let go.
    Luckily he was sitting next to me in the connecting flight, and now he was telling me the story in a totally different way. " I told the officer what can I do if the photo from the passport fall off".
    "I am waiting , but make sure that I get my connecting flight I got a very important meeting"... blah blah..

    I was laughing out loud in my heart.. Its quite interesting to see these kind of personalities.
    So I know what you gonna do , next time when you meet the border patrol. Accept the fact that we are middle class , god and immigration fearing creatures, who definitely have a lot of anger and aggression towards these laws and discrimination but cannot do anything about it and Also we like the life style and show off to the relatives in the India, that you are smart and rich NRI, are the reasons, we are not leaving this country despite of all these things.
    Good to know all this so while travelling just be prepared.. but I dun see a reason for making this coversation of 10 pages thread.
    Well I am gonna get more reds.. but I dun care.


    psaxena....you are the man....or woman (i dont know). every line is true.



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  • GCBatman
    01-09 08:54 AM
    Here is the answer would you hire me now :D
    When several operations occur in an expression, each part is evaluated and resolved in a predetermined order called operator precedence. Parentheses can be used to override the order of precedence and force some parts of an expression to be evaluated before other parts. Operations within parentheses are always performed before those outside. Within parentheses, however, normal operator precedence is maintained.

    When expressions contain operators from more than one category, arithmetic operators are evaluated first, comparison operators are evaluated next, and logical operators are evaluated last. Comparison operators all have equal precedence; that is, they are evaluated in the left-to-right order in which they appear. Arithmetic and logical operators are evaluated in the following order of precedence:

    Arithmetic (Exponentiation (^),Negation (-),Multiplication and division (*, /),Integer division (\),Modulus arithmetic (Mod),Addition and subtraction (+, -),String concatenation (&))
    Comparison (Equality (=),Inequality (<>),Less than (<),Greater than (>), Less than or equal to (<=),Greater than or equal to (>=),Is)
    Logical (Not,And,Or,Xor,Eqv,Imp,&)


    When multiplication and division occur together in an expression, each operation is evaluated as it occurs from left to right. Likewise, when addition and subtraction occur together in an expression, each operation is evaluated in order of appearance from left to right.

    The string concatenation operator (&) is not an arithmetic operator, but in precedence it does fall after all arithmetic operators and before all comparison operators. The Is operator is an object reference comparison operator. It does not compare objects or their values; it checks only to determine if two object references refer to the same object.


    ....An experience guy might find it difficult to answer questions like �what is operator precedence?� ....





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  • 53885
    08-15 08:51 PM
    If people were not busy preparing for Sept 18th DC rally, this thread would have been 20 pages plus, but if you REALLY want to discuss some thing then here it is........

    Employment Based (EB) Green Card (GC) Laws
    � The yearly GC quota is 140K. This includes GC for spouse and children. On an average, GCs are given to ~60K families.
    � Each country is allotted 7% (of 140K) GCs (equally distributed among EB-1, EB-2 and EB-3) plus any unused visa from other countries. For India, average numbers of EB GCs issued in last seven years were 32K (~12K families).
    � As per USCIS Ombudsman report
    o Between 2001-07, USCIS was not able process all applications and hence ~155K GCs went waste as unused GCs in a year can not be reused in following years. This was most likely due to resource constraints.
    o The report estimates the submission of 500K-750K (yes 500K+) AOS applications between June 1 and August 17 2007.
    o FBI security checks may be the single biggest obstacle to the timely and efficient delivery of immigration benefits.
    � There were ~200K pending EB Adjustment of Status (AOS) or I-1485 applications as of June 1st.
    � So far EAD renewal has been taking around 3 months. Due to the volume of applications, EAD renewal may take 3-9 months. Thus, you may have to apply for renewal more frequently.
    � FBI security check backlog is likely to get worse, because the August USCIS fee increase has prompted a 50 percent rise in new naturalization applications so far this year.
    � EB Immigration reform does not have enough support in Congress (failure of SKILL, STEM ..). As a matter of fact, it does not even get enough support to make it debatable, let alone final voting.
    � The laws need to be changed and the process improved to fix the situation.
    What does it mean?
    � There will be around 1Million AOS/I-485) applications by Aug 17 which will take 1M/140K = 7+ years to clear the backlog. Thus, late priority dates will remain retrogressed for several years.
    � Some, who could not file AOS by 08/17, may have to wait for several years (5+ years).
    � Longer EAD/AP renewals cycle and 1 year validity may have the following affects.
    o You will have to stop working, if your EAD is not renewed in time.
    o Several employers (and rightly so) may view EAD as a temporary permit and may be reluctant to hire you.
    � You have to be in the same position with same job responsibilities for an indefinite time period, otherwise your GC application will be rejected.
    � If you were unmarried at the time of filing and planning to bring spouse to the USA upon marriage, you will need to continue on current status (e.g. H-1B) or wait till your PD become current.
    Immigration Voice (IV) Executive and Legislative Efforts
    � Lobbying is an efficient tool to influence law and rule making.
    � IV was very active in lobbying for CIR 2006, which was passed in Senate but failed in House.
    � IV grass-root effort (flower campaign + San Jose Rally) was an important reason for retraction of July Visa Bulletin.
    � Due to upcoming presidential elections, next congress session in October�07 may be our only window of opportunity for several years to influence the lawmakers.
    Your options:
    a) Struggle for several years.
    b) Leave USA
    c) Help yourself by joining IV.



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  • zen
    03-29 10:32 PM
    Please pardon me for my ignorance but why is that every admin fix will work with money in this country?

    Does this mean we have to pay money to fix something in the system that will be useful to this country (eg: Senetors take the money and introduce the bills. Do you guys think it is equvalent to Bribe in other countries?)

    I could recall that July '07 fiasco has been fixed without we donate anything.

    Yes, I know that nothing is free in this country however I am not sure why should we pay bribe (or whatever you call) to fix something in the system?

    These senetrors should have minimum knowledge that if they give GCs to us then we will flourish the economy in return. That is my point...
    very good point and I agree 100 percent ..sad part is that such a good post gets buried under 20 posts which ask for more donations.
    as far as I know FOIA campaign was for 5000 dollars ..then it was increased to 10,000. will it increase again ?





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  • ns007
    12-28 08:36 AM
    How do you get time to post all day long on IV.org?

    I would love to have your job. Making 140K for browsing and posting on IV.org !!!

    Kidding !!!

    I am on page with you. I did it 3 weeks back. Now I am starting the whole labor at the new company , making almost 140K (60% more) with a fortune 20 company . Good position and happier......

    I did the same and didn't hung up myself on GC .... life is more than GC let us live our life.



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  • yabadaba
    12-27 08:22 AM
    this was back in 2004...was on opt till then...wellsfargo just needed my h1b approval notice to approve my mortgage

    plus for tax purposes u r considered a permanent resident. that means u have lived in ur state for x number of days in a calendar year...never had issues with getting credit cards, car loan, etc.

    of course i had 4 yrs of credit history before that..dont know if that helped.





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  • a_yaja
    04-06 09:32 PM
    well if the employer is not supporting you ..then maybe the IO does have the authority to refuse ?? (well assuming that these cases are correct ..then I guess we can assume that IO has recd instructions from his superiors) it is good to hear from Pappu that IV is ready to take up this issue ...but till someone comes foward ..can IV focus on other issues like recapture, removal of country limits etc (there is no shortage of issues where focus is needed)

    To be denied entry, the visitor has to go through secondary inspection. That is the process. The CBP officer at the primary inspection does not have the authority to send some one home. Look at this link from Syracuse University that details this process:
    http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/142/

    Quotes from this page:
    In a procedure known as Primary Inspections, the officers interview people appearing before them and check their documents. In addition, the documents are scanned into a computer to detect past immigration violations, criminal problems, and national security concerns. The entire process is very brief, averaging less than one minute per person to keep up with the crush of arriving travelers.

    In Secondary, a new set of Inspectors have additional time and latitude to investigate whether a person's papers � and their reasons for coming to the U.S. � are legitimate and legal.

    So whoever said that the CBP officer at the primary inspection called up employer and asked the employer if they cannot find US citizens is not telling the truth. Probably the guy started the rumor :D.



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  • like_watching_paint_dry
    05-27 05:22 PM
    I-485 application instructions (http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485instr.pdf) ask you to make photocopies of your passport.





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  • sweet_jungle
    03-12 01:08 PM
    I am a july 2nd filer and have changed job 2 times in the past one month and I have no intention to let know USCIS because

    a) There is no mandatory law that states that we should do it.
    b) I personally feel that sending AC21 documents will trigger an RFE for sure,(in the other case, there are chances that u may not get this).
    c) Lawyer is asking for $1500 for doing nothing on this.
    d) I am prepared to deal with the RFE if it comes thru.

    All of the above I did for changing my 7 year old employer who exactly knew that I cannot change job and kept me in the same position for 7 years even though I was exemplary in my job performance.

    What about the H1? Your sponsoring employer needs to revoke H1. Won't INS come to know through that?



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  • mayhemt
    02-10 10:28 AM
    Can anyone suggest hotels and/or if already booked can you post those hotel name & locations?

    Also, just a suggestion, this thread is getting complicated as far as matching donors with travelers is concerned... May be create a Google spreadsheet with all the donors (miles, accommodations) and match them with travelers from just one central location?





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  • dkjariwala
    04-08 11:32 PM
    Pappu, I also thought that these are rumors as there hasn't been a single instance where the person who was refused visa put up a post on IV [or other immigration message boards.]

    But today morning, my colleague said that his friend was harassed by IO. My colleague's friend came to JFK last week and IO called the professor he was working with. [My colleague said he is a doctor, doing medical research here]. IO gave him I-94 expiring in 5 days and asked him to go back. I have asked contact details for his friend and I will make sure that he gets in touch with IV so that IV can do something about it.



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  • desi3933
    03-11 11:12 AM
    See here this guy is also saying the same thing what my lawyer has predicted.
    http://immigration-information.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28881#post28881

    This is what Ron has said (link provided by you)
    --------
    I am just speculating, but it appears that the CIS has decided to concentrate on EB3 AOS cases and is trying to use up as much of the quota as possible there. At the same time, the State Department is slowly advancing the China/India EB2 cutoff dates to try to use up numbers there.
    -------------

    Two things -
    2. EB3 are being approved so use to use all available quota for EB3
    2. How slowly advancing for eb2 means current to you?





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  • chanduv23
    03-09 12:31 PM
    VDLRao is ONLY a stress reliever - not to be taken seriously.
    I am surprised that the community still does not realize the gravity of the situation and still thinks and plays the "positive attitude" game on their own lives.

    Hello - economy is tanking and right now, we cannot see any positive movement in near future.

    Please be prepared to protect yourself from job layoffs and immigration challenges rather than sitting and playing the predictions game



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  • perm2gc
    01-10 09:33 PM
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  • sledge_hammer
    07-16 05:45 PM
    This type of false propoganda makes my blood boil :mad:





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  • GCAmigo
    12-27 06:55 PM
    So you were in Amsterdam for 1 day. ;) Did you visit any of the legal hesh bars? (Just kiddin).
    all the stranded formed a group & wnet around the city.. so didn't get he chnace to venture out.. we did go thru' the 'main' area though.. & yes that evening Hooland lost their Worldcup soccer game too..





    gk_2000
    05-23 03:51 PM
    Yes you suffer from inferiority complex !

    And rightly so, I may add :D :p





    rajeev_74
    07-05 11:09 AM
    Hope this helps...
    Answer me this. God forbid but if you have a cancer and your brother has a malaria and you have just one doctor to treat. Would you ask doctor to treat you first since you have a bigger issue than your brother? No, right.
    Dude, we all are brothers in this mess and everyone deserves to be treated fairly. I agree that core should work to eliminate BEC problem as well as any other opportunity to get any other immediate relief but core has limited resources, very limited funding plus and core needs to work on areas which fixes maximum number of lives here.
    There are around 40000 people stuck in BEC and if 20% of those can join core and contribute, I'm sure that is enough number to allocate resources accordingly. But somehow people has got the wrong idea that IV is not for people stuck in BEC. I've seen similar posts in immigrationportal.com as well.

    Now if IV will work for people who were eligible to file in July or even for people who just filed on Jul 2nd, i'm sure people will come and say that IV is for July 2nd people only. But that is not the case. Any issues/bill/ammendment which can bring some immediate relief should be worked along with our core issues which is retrogression. Once you are out of BEC (I hope you do asap as several of my friends stuck there), I'm sure your main issue will be retrogression and not BEC even if there are other people stuck there.
    So lets not divide these communities any more, work together towards common cause that can bring some relief to our brother, sisters and ourselves. We all be benefitted if we all support each other.

    Hope you understand.
    Thanks



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