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08-24 07:00 PM
Every Tuesday, USCIS releases its data on the pace of usage of H-1B numbers. I'm monitoring that usage and projecting the end date for H-1B numbers. It's not complicated science, but I'm basically using a rolling average of the prior four weeks of H-1B usage to minimize the anomolies of one particular week and then assuming that usage over the prior month will continue at roughly the same pace. If usage picks up, the exhaustion date will be revised to be sooner and vice versa if usage declines. We actually saw a decline from prior weeks with 800 H-1B applications...
More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/08/h1b-quota-exhaustion-target-still-march-2011.html)
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12-11 10:00 PM
Here's the link. Bad news in the family categories as much of the advancement of the last two years has been reversed with major retrogressions. The only good news was a ten month jump for Mexico EB-3 cases. Family 1st- 13 month retrogression for most countries to January 2005; six month advance for Dominican Republic to January 2005; one week advance for Mexico. Family 2A - world numbers retrogress 20 months to January 2008; Mexico retrogresses five years to April 2005. Family 2B - world numbers retrogress more than two years to April 2003; Dominican Republic advances two months to...
More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/12/january-2011-visa-bulletin-rundown.html)
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maveric979
09-07 06:30 PM
I am predicting EB3 move to June 2002 by end of Sep 2011
1st Qtr: 3/1/2010
2nd Qtr:4/9/2010
3rd Qtr: 5/6/2010
4th Qtr: 6/1/2010
1st Qtr: 3/1/2010
2nd Qtr:4/9/2010
3rd Qtr: 5/6/2010
4th Qtr: 6/1/2010
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coopheal
04-05 08:40 AM
Are you a present/past member of Golden Key International Honour Society. Do you think it is worth the membership.
Here are couple of links for this.
Golden Key Website (http://www.goldenkey.org/)
Wiki Link (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGolden_ Key_International_Honour_Society&ei=oei5S-icMKXkNPWx0OEL&usg=AFQjCNGepwVoAcLdOLaBOpEv0t4dcW_0Eg&sig2=zfz0FIxBrxZh1KqoO7yNEg)
Here are couple of links for this.
Golden Key Website (http://www.goldenkey.org/)
Wiki Link (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGolden_ Key_International_Honour_Society&ei=oei5S-icMKXkNPWx0OEL&usg=AFQjCNGepwVoAcLdOLaBOpEv0t4dcW_0Eg&sig2=zfz0FIxBrxZh1KqoO7yNEg)
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black_logs
01-30 10:16 PM
I am recalling TX from the States Calling List(AZ/TX/CO/WA). Lot of People from AZ/CO/WA signed up allready. I don't want a mess in the conference, rather I would like everyone to be able to speak. We'll do Texas/Tennessee conference on Thursday 10PM EST (02/02/2006)
martinvisalaw
06-19 02:18 PM
The answer depends on how far you have got in the permanent residence process. If the I-140 is approved and the 485 has been pending for 180 days, you can change employers if the new position is in the "same or similar occupational classification" as the one on the labor cert/I-140.
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pappu
03-03 10:08 AM
We have started this new area on IV forums to help members find leads for jobs and also to network with others on the forum for jobs. Hope this would be helpful to members.
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pmat
02-26 03:02 PM
Your PD must be current and 485 filing date (which is also called RD - received date) should be close to USCIS processing times. Currently, I believe that USCIS is working on applications that it received in July 2007.
But it is USCIS :D - miracles happen!!! Last year, they approved 2006 PD cases while applicants with 2003/2004/2005 were waiting :D Good luck.
But it is USCIS :D - miracles happen!!! Last year, they approved 2006 PD cases while applicants with 2003/2004/2005 were waiting :D Good luck.
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mbartosik
11-21 03:32 PM
Please take a look at this thread
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15540
and suggest some witty ideas for the text.
thanks
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15540
and suggest some witty ideas for the text.
thanks
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vandanaverdia
11-14 08:05 PM
Have YOU made a difference?????
Stand up & be heard!!!
Stand up & be heard!!!
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04-26 11:30 AM
A piece of good news on immigration was largely overshadowed by the Arizona mess. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana and Democrat Dick Durbin sent a letter to DHS Secretary Napolitano urging her to stop the deportations of students who might be eligible for relief if the DREAM Act or comprehensive immigration reform should pass. DREAM would allow some who entered the US as children to obtain permanent residency if they attend college or join the military. No word yet on how Napolitano reacted.
More... (http://blogs.ilw.com/gregsiskind/2010/04/biparisan-call-for-ending-deportation-of-students.html)
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GCcomesoon
03-14 02:27 PM
Hi
Now that the EB2 dates have moved forward till Dec 2003, how many of us expect our approvals in the coming months ? Would the bulletin move forward in coming months or would go back or may be become unavailable again ? Any thoughts ?
I hope the same forward movement happens for all EB3 applicants too.
How does one now expedite thier case if they are current ? Just by 1-800 .... calling or Infopass ?
Thanks
GCcomesoon
Now that the EB2 dates have moved forward till Dec 2003, how many of us expect our approvals in the coming months ? Would the bulletin move forward in coming months or would go back or may be become unavailable again ? Any thoughts ?
I hope the same forward movement happens for all EB3 applicants too.
How does one now expedite thier case if they are current ? Just by 1-800 .... calling or Infopass ?
Thanks
GCcomesoon
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Macaca
07-22 05:33 PM
For Real Drama, Senate Should Engage In a True Filibuster (http://www.rollcall.com/issues/53_8/ornstein/19415-1.html) By Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, July 18, 2007
For many Senators, this week will take them back to their college years - they'll pull an all-nighter, but this time with no final exam to follow.
To dramatize Republican obstructionism, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to hold a mini-version of a real, old-time filibuster. In the old days, i.e., the 1950s, a real filibuster meant the Senate would drop everything, bring the place to a screeching halt, haul cots into the corridors and go around the clock with debate until one side would crack - either the intense minority or the frustrated majority. The former would be under pressure from a public that took notice of the obstructionism thanks to the drama of the repeated round-the-clock sessions.
It is a reflection of our times that the most the Senate can stand of such drama is 24 hours, maybe stretched to 48. But it also is a reflection of the dynamic of the Senate this year that Reid feels compelled to try this kind of extraordinary tactic.
This is a very different year, one on a record-shattering pace for cloture votes, one where the threat of filibuster has become routinized in a way we have not seen before. As Congressional Quarterly pointed out last week, we already have had 40 cloture votes in six-plus months; the record for a whole two-year Congress is 61.
For Reid, the past six months have been especially frustrating because the minority Republicans have adopted a tactic of refusing to negotiate time agreements on a wide range of legislation, something normally done in the Senate via unanimous consent, with the two parties setting a structure for debate and amendments. Of course, many of the breakdowns have been on votes related to the Iraq War, the subject of the all-night debate and the overwhelming focus of the 110th Congress. On Iraq, the Republican leaders long ago decided to try to block the Democrats at every turn to negate any edge the majority might have to seize the agenda, force the issue and put President Bush on the defensive.
But the obstructionist tactics have gone well beyond Iraq, to include things such as the 9/11 commission recommendations and the increase in the minimum wage, intelligence authorization, prescription drugs and many other issues.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his deputy, Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.), have instead decided to create a very different standard in the Senate than we have seen before, with 60 votes now the norm for nearly all issues, instead of the exception. In our highly polarized environment, where finding the center is a desirable outcome, that is not necessarily a bad thing. But a closer examination of the way this process has worked so far suggests that more often than not, the goal of the Republican leaders is to kill legislation or delay it interminably, not find a middle and bipartisan ground.
If Bush were any stronger, and were genuinely determined to burnish his legacy by enacting legislation in areas such as health, education and the environment, we might see a different dynamic and different outcomes. But the president's embarrassing failure on immigration reform - securing only 12 of 49 Senators from his party for his top domestic priority - has pretty much put the kibosh on a presidentially led bipartisan approach to policy action.
Republican leaders have responded to any criticism of their tactics by accusing Reid and his deputy, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), of trying to squelch debate and kill off their amendments by filing premature cloture motions, designed to pre-empt the process and foreclose many amendments. There is some truth to this; early on, especially, Reid wanted to get the Senate jump-started and pushed sometimes prematurely to resolve issues.
But the fact is that on many of the issues mentioned above, Reid has been quite willing to allow Republican amendments and quite willing to negotiate a deal with McConnell to move business along. That has not been enough. As Roll Call noted last week, on both the intelligence bill and the Medicare prescription drug measure, Republicans were fundamentally opposed to the underlying bills and wanted simply to kill them.
The problem actually goes beyond the sustained effort to raise the bar routinely to 60 votes. The fact is that obstructionist tactics have been applied successfully to many bills that have far more than 60 Senators supporting them. The most visible issue in this category has been the lobbying and ethics reform bill that passed the Senate early in the year by overwhelming margins.
Every time Reid has moved to appoint conferees to get to the final stages on the issue, a Republican Senator has objected. After months of dispute over who was really behind the blockage, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina emerged as the bte noire. But Republican leaders have been more than willing to carry DeMint's water to keep that bill from coming up.
The problem Reid faces on this issue is that to supersede the unanimous consent denial, he would have to go through three separate cloture fights, each one allowing substantial sustained debate, including 30 hours worth after cloture is invoked. In the meantime, a badly needed reform is blocked, and the minority can blame the majority for failing to fulfill its promise to reform the culture of corruption. It may work politically, but the institution and the country both suffer along the way.
Is this obstructionism? Yes, indeed - according to none other than Lott. The Minority Whip told Roll Call, "The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail. For [former Senate Minority Leader Tom] Daschle, it failed. For Reid it succeeded, and so far it's working for us." Lott's point was that a minority party can push as far as it wants until the public blames them for the problem, and so far that has not happened.
The war is a different issue from any other. McConnell's offer to Reid to set the bar at 60 for all amendments related to Iraq, thereby avoiding many of the time-consuming procedural hurdles, is actually a fair one - nothing is going to be done, realistically, to change policy on the war without a bipartisan, 60-vote-plus coalition. But other issues should not be routinely subject to a supermajority hurdle.
What can Reid do? An all-nighter might help a little. But the then-majority Republicans tried the faux-filibuster approach a couple of years ago when they wanted to stop minority Democrats from blocking Bush's judicial nominees, and it went nowhere. The real answer here is probably one Senate Democrats don't want to face: longer hours, fewer recesses and a couple of real filibusters - days and nights and maybe weeks of nonstop, round-the-clock debate, bringing back the cots and bringing the rest of the agenda to a halt to show the implications of the new tactics.
At the moment, I don't see enough battle-hardened veterans in the Senate willing to take on that pain.
For many Senators, this week will take them back to their college years - they'll pull an all-nighter, but this time with no final exam to follow.
To dramatize Republican obstructionism, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to hold a mini-version of a real, old-time filibuster. In the old days, i.e., the 1950s, a real filibuster meant the Senate would drop everything, bring the place to a screeching halt, haul cots into the corridors and go around the clock with debate until one side would crack - either the intense minority or the frustrated majority. The former would be under pressure from a public that took notice of the obstructionism thanks to the drama of the repeated round-the-clock sessions.
It is a reflection of our times that the most the Senate can stand of such drama is 24 hours, maybe stretched to 48. But it also is a reflection of the dynamic of the Senate this year that Reid feels compelled to try this kind of extraordinary tactic.
This is a very different year, one on a record-shattering pace for cloture votes, one where the threat of filibuster has become routinized in a way we have not seen before. As Congressional Quarterly pointed out last week, we already have had 40 cloture votes in six-plus months; the record for a whole two-year Congress is 61.
For Reid, the past six months have been especially frustrating because the minority Republicans have adopted a tactic of refusing to negotiate time agreements on a wide range of legislation, something normally done in the Senate via unanimous consent, with the two parties setting a structure for debate and amendments. Of course, many of the breakdowns have been on votes related to the Iraq War, the subject of the all-night debate and the overwhelming focus of the 110th Congress. On Iraq, the Republican leaders long ago decided to try to block the Democrats at every turn to negate any edge the majority might have to seize the agenda, force the issue and put President Bush on the defensive.
But the obstructionist tactics have gone well beyond Iraq, to include things such as the 9/11 commission recommendations and the increase in the minimum wage, intelligence authorization, prescription drugs and many other issues.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his deputy, Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.), have instead decided to create a very different standard in the Senate than we have seen before, with 60 votes now the norm for nearly all issues, instead of the exception. In our highly polarized environment, where finding the center is a desirable outcome, that is not necessarily a bad thing. But a closer examination of the way this process has worked so far suggests that more often than not, the goal of the Republican leaders is to kill legislation or delay it interminably, not find a middle and bipartisan ground.
If Bush were any stronger, and were genuinely determined to burnish his legacy by enacting legislation in areas such as health, education and the environment, we might see a different dynamic and different outcomes. But the president's embarrassing failure on immigration reform - securing only 12 of 49 Senators from his party for his top domestic priority - has pretty much put the kibosh on a presidentially led bipartisan approach to policy action.
Republican leaders have responded to any criticism of their tactics by accusing Reid and his deputy, Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), of trying to squelch debate and kill off their amendments by filing premature cloture motions, designed to pre-empt the process and foreclose many amendments. There is some truth to this; early on, especially, Reid wanted to get the Senate jump-started and pushed sometimes prematurely to resolve issues.
But the fact is that on many of the issues mentioned above, Reid has been quite willing to allow Republican amendments and quite willing to negotiate a deal with McConnell to move business along. That has not been enough. As Roll Call noted last week, on both the intelligence bill and the Medicare prescription drug measure, Republicans were fundamentally opposed to the underlying bills and wanted simply to kill them.
The problem actually goes beyond the sustained effort to raise the bar routinely to 60 votes. The fact is that obstructionist tactics have been applied successfully to many bills that have far more than 60 Senators supporting them. The most visible issue in this category has been the lobbying and ethics reform bill that passed the Senate early in the year by overwhelming margins.
Every time Reid has moved to appoint conferees to get to the final stages on the issue, a Republican Senator has objected. After months of dispute over who was really behind the blockage, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina emerged as the bte noire. But Republican leaders have been more than willing to carry DeMint's water to keep that bill from coming up.
The problem Reid faces on this issue is that to supersede the unanimous consent denial, he would have to go through three separate cloture fights, each one allowing substantial sustained debate, including 30 hours worth after cloture is invoked. In the meantime, a badly needed reform is blocked, and the minority can blame the majority for failing to fulfill its promise to reform the culture of corruption. It may work politically, but the institution and the country both suffer along the way.
Is this obstructionism? Yes, indeed - according to none other than Lott. The Minority Whip told Roll Call, "The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail. For [former Senate Minority Leader Tom] Daschle, it failed. For Reid it succeeded, and so far it's working for us." Lott's point was that a minority party can push as far as it wants until the public blames them for the problem, and so far that has not happened.
The war is a different issue from any other. McConnell's offer to Reid to set the bar at 60 for all amendments related to Iraq, thereby avoiding many of the time-consuming procedural hurdles, is actually a fair one - nothing is going to be done, realistically, to change policy on the war without a bipartisan, 60-vote-plus coalition. But other issues should not be routinely subject to a supermajority hurdle.
What can Reid do? An all-nighter might help a little. But the then-majority Republicans tried the faux-filibuster approach a couple of years ago when they wanted to stop minority Democrats from blocking Bush's judicial nominees, and it went nowhere. The real answer here is probably one Senate Democrats don't want to face: longer hours, fewer recesses and a couple of real filibusters - days and nights and maybe weeks of nonstop, round-the-clock debate, bringing back the cots and bringing the rest of the agenda to a halt to show the implications of the new tactics.
At the moment, I don't see enough battle-hardened veterans in the Senate willing to take on that pain.
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vikramark
01-12 10:35 AM
Hello,
I had E-Filed AP for me and my family on July 7th, 2008. Still it is showing as pending, On December 16th, 2008, I send a request to USCIS for expedite processing, December 26th I received a letter from USCIS that an officer is assigned to our case but after that there is no change in the status.
Can somebody pls suggest any steps that I should take to get my AP approved?
Thanks in advance
Vikram
I had E-Filed AP for me and my family on July 7th, 2008. Still it is showing as pending, On December 16th, 2008, I send a request to USCIS for expedite processing, December 26th I received a letter from USCIS that an officer is assigned to our case but after that there is no change in the status.
Can somebody pls suggest any steps that I should take to get my AP approved?
Thanks in advance
Vikram
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ds37
10-29 10:52 AM
:)I was cited under open container law in state of NJ newark pennstation.will this impact on my immigration status . I am a july 2007 filer waiting for the GC and working on EAD
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum5-all-other-green-card-issues/1599351-august-2010-approvals-tracker-post1975524.html#post1975524
You got your GC in aug and now again you are waiting for GC ??????
You don't get GC every month OR you are still under the influance with that open container thing.
ds37
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum5-all-other-green-card-issues/1599351-august-2010-approvals-tracker-post1975524.html#post1975524
You got your GC in aug and now again you are waiting for GC ??????
You don't get GC every month OR you are still under the influance with that open container thing.
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rahul2699
04-27 01:04 PM
I am listening to the USCIS conference call now.
let us know what you find out
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martinvisalaw
06-08 03:08 PM
The AP document should say that you can be paroled until ABC date. That is the expiration of the AP.
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sertasheep
10-16 09:28 PM
Check out tips and tricks as well as pictures from meet-and-greet events at some of the IV Chapters on the IV blog at immigrationvoice.blogspot.com (http://immigrationvoice.blogspot.com)
Also check out the list of quick links on the left hand side of the blog to access your state chapters.
Also check out the list of quick links on the left hand side of the blog to access your state chapters.
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san_visa
06-07 12:09 PM
I just received the I-140 Receipt Notice and noticed that the section I am filed is not correct Sec.203(b)(1)(c) i.e multi-national Executive or Manger
where as I should have been filed for sec.203(b)(3)(A)(i) or (ii) Skilled Worker or Professionsal
I am going through Substitution process and the Previous I-140 was approved for sec.203(b)(3)(A)(i) or (ii) Skilled Worker or Professional
Now my question is what is the procedure to rectify this ? Also will I hold on to the processing dates {NOT Priority date} (say May 25th) for I-140 or should the lawyer file new appliaction which will push my I-140 petition dates to June?
Thanks,
San
where as I should have been filed for sec.203(b)(3)(A)(i) or (ii) Skilled Worker or Professionsal
I am going through Substitution process and the Previous I-140 was approved for sec.203(b)(3)(A)(i) or (ii) Skilled Worker or Professional
Now my question is what is the procedure to rectify this ? Also will I hold on to the processing dates {NOT Priority date} (say May 25th) for I-140 or should the lawyer file new appliaction which will push my I-140 petition dates to June?
Thanks,
San
amsgc
07-31 09:26 AM
Hi,
My H-1 was approved in 2004 by the Texas Service Center. According to the instructions for I-539, for change of status to H4, it says:
"If The principal’s petition and change of status request are approved, mail form I-539 to the same Service Center that approved the principal’s I-129 and change of status or extension application. Include a copy of the principal’s approval notice."
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2eede945cbc21110VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCR D&vgnextchannel=fe529c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1 RCRD
- Could someone who has filed I-539 recently please respond?
- What is the correct address (P.O.Box etc) for TSC, for I-539
- Can the I-539 be sent to the physical address using private courier?
Thanks,
Ams
My H-1 was approved in 2004 by the Texas Service Center. According to the instructions for I-539, for change of status to H4, it says:
"If The principal’s petition and change of status request are approved, mail form I-539 to the same Service Center that approved the principal’s I-129 and change of status or extension application. Include a copy of the principal’s approval notice."
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2eede945cbc21110VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCR D&vgnextchannel=fe529c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1 RCRD
- Could someone who has filed I-539 recently please respond?
- What is the correct address (P.O.Box etc) for TSC, for I-539
- Can the I-539 be sent to the physical address using private courier?
Thanks,
Ams
scho69
05-10 05:33 AM
We are family of four and have the following status
Self - Adjustment of Status (AOS - 485 filed in July'07), AP, EAD and a valid H1 (renewed recently)
Spouse - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, EAD, H4 expired end of April 2010
Son 14 yrs. old - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, H4 expired end of April 2010
Daughter - 11 yrs old - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, H4 expired end of April 2010
Does my family have valid status? Specially my kids since they don't have EAD. Shall I renew their H4 for valid status? I was in the impression that if 485 is filed then there is no need to renew H4. Please advice me. I am totally confused.
Self - Adjustment of Status (AOS - 485 filed in July'07), AP, EAD and a valid H1 (renewed recently)
Spouse - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, EAD, H4 expired end of April 2010
Son 14 yrs. old - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, H4 expired end of April 2010
Daughter - 11 yrs old - AOS 485 (filed in July'07), AP, H4 expired end of April 2010
Does my family have valid status? Specially my kids since they don't have EAD. Shall I renew their H4 for valid status? I was in the impression that if 485 is filed then there is no need to renew H4. Please advice me. I am totally confused.
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