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  • Hassan11
    04-11 09:29 AM
    :)

    Congratulations Lasantha. I am very happy for you. You are a great contributor to this forum and you helped a lot of fellow EB Immigrants with your advice.

    You deserve it. go out and celebrate :D
    Please do come back to this forum when you get a chance.

    Hassan

    Friends,

    I have some happy news. I received the welcome email today. I am so so so happy!!! I haven't received the card ordered email yet but hopefully I will get it soon.

    Thank you so much to all of you for your help !!! This forum is a gold mine and I appreciate all your advice and guidence in this journey!!!

    Hassan, Randy, Illusions and others, I have a strong feeling that your turn is right around the corner !!! Just hang in there for just a little longer and you will get yours pretty soon!!!!



    Application Type: I485 , APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR TO ADJUST STATUS

    Current Status: Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.

    On April 10, 2008, we mailed you a notice that we had registered this customer's new permanent resident status. Please follow any instructions on the notice. Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later. If you move before you get your new card call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.





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  • dixie
    01-19 11:03 AM
    From my experience with trying to convince EB applicants to join and contribute to IV, I get the impression that most of them suffer from a 'subsidy mentality' - they hope others' efforts and money will subsidise their GCs, just like their home countries subsidised their education. Sorry, that mentality just wont carry us too far in America, the temple of capitalism. It is up to us to solve our own problems - no one will feel sorry and wave the magic wand for us.

    They don't even have a towel , they are just sitting on the benches and watching !! Many don't have the guts to fight.





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  • ebizash
    01-14 01:32 PM
    Since this topic is already being discussed....

    I live in Illinois and have to renew my passport at Chicago consulate. My original passport was issued for 5 years only so as per the website, I need to file for "Renewal of short validity passport".
    http://chicago.indianconsulate.com/Passpins.html#Renewal__of_Short_Validity_Passport_

    But when I click on the link (under download form) itt actually open the "Misc service" form. http://chicago.indianconsulate.com/pdfforms050703.htm

    Does anyone know which form to use?

    Thanks





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  • alok97
    02-19 07:42 PM
    Hi, Can somebody let me know, what would happen if first labor was approved from BPC (Not from PERM) and 2nd Labor is being filed in PERM (both from same employer)? Would DOL automatically deny the first labor or do some audit?



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  • tonyHK12
    11-03 03:42 PM
    Senate Bill S 1085 is active, Senator Menendez from New jersey.
    Please meet or call your Senators office to support, co-sponsor this Bill.
    The lame duck Session until end of 2010 is a good time to bring Piece meal Bills.
    I see we have 274 members who are interested, This is a good time to get into action, all others please join too!

    Original note from member Rajeev:
    http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/forum107-interesting-topics/1686304-no-house-for-democrats-no-cir-2.html#post2080154

    "It seems that the bill S 1085 (the Reuniting Families Act (RFA) has become active again. I received e-mails from Senator Menedez and Senator Lautenberg talking about the bill. Senator Menendex mentioned the recapture employment-based visas that haven't been used in past years so that they may be used in future years. Among other things, he also mentioned that he will continue to address the concerns of employment-based visas in the context of comprehensive immigration reform. He is the sponsor of the S 1085 bill."





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  • Regal22
    06-13 11:41 PM
    It is obvious that DOL backlog center is processing cases with utter disregard to FIFO procedures. Some people with priority dates in 2004 or 2005 have obtained their labor certifications, but some people with priority dates in 2001 or 2002 still do not know what is happening to their cases. If we file lawsuit against DOL on their inability to maintain FIFO procedures, what are the chances of success? Their inability to maintain FIFO procedures has brought great misery in lives of the people who stood in line for so many years so patiently.



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  • claudia255
    03-19 09:33 PM
    -Visa Recapture
    -File I-485 irrespective of PD
    -Stop counting dependents against quota
    -Require CIS to quarterly publish number of people that applied under EB and report the number of visas given by EB category and country of changeability (probably a dream)





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  • nepaliboy
    08-06 07:24 PM
    Ead and ap filled on june 1st 08 but no Lud after 06-07-08.



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  • Lasantha
    04-16 05:46 PM
    Guys,

    I received the card in the mail today. It was mailed in Texas on 04/14.

    So here is the events from 04/10 when I received the Welcome email.

    04/10 - Welcome Email
    04/10 - Card Production Email
    04/15 - Case approved Email (Shouldn' this be the first one they should have sent? Anyways I'm not complaining :D)
    04/16 - Card received.

    It felt so good have it finally in my hands!!!!





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  • abhijitp
    05-16 08:02 PM
    Not able to leave a VM with one of the offices. I will try again on Monday.

    Kudos to the CORE team and everybody else who is helping this cause!

    P.S. Lately haven't been able to spend much time on/ for IV, but this opportunity is too important to let go!!!



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  • surachi
    09-03 02:56 PM
    Opened SR today(09/03/09) at 9.30 AM EST and with in 4 hours received CPO emails for me and 2 dependents at 1.00 PM EST.

    EB2 I
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    PD : 11/17/2004
    Received date on notice : 07/25/07
    Received date online : 09/14/07
    Notice date : 09/17/07
    SLUD : 10/20/2008
    LUD : 09/03/2009





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  • tradahoo
    01-30 06:24 PM
    Hopefully the new people at DOL will stop over-scrutinizing PERM filings and let the processing time go back to normal levels! Let's be optimistic!

    It has take mine for eight months now...since May 2008 (got audited). I really don't know what else can be done to make the point to DOL how frustrated it is to wait for the lengthy PERM process. I am sure many are still waiting and their caes are back to July - Aug 2007.



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  • aachoo
    01-24 11:29 AM
    I believe there are always two camps in any group, different view points, ideas and observations.

    I firmly believe even if words are harsh from some members they donot mean that bad, or they just simply cant see other's view point.

    Over last few year, i have observed something and that bothers me, the point is
    "We (Indians) are interesting people, we want to live as an indian in america";
    save a lot of money, go home(india) for 15 days ....say bad things about india
    and then come here...start saying bad things about america.


    Nothing about this behavior is specific to Indians. It is a first generation immigrant behavior. See if you children are going to do it...


    I like some points aobut half hearted work from some fellows. I totally agree.
    Here is my simply take, if we want to live and compete hapilly, we have to really live in america as an american.
    How can an indian who slept all afternoon on weekend, then watched a movie and ate heavy dinnner at night with 5 indian families who all taked about negative things in america; will /can compete with american on monday morning...when this american
    got up early on saturday, ran 10 miles ...full of energy....took his/her kids for camping or went on its own, ran /exercised on sunday may be a long trek in woods...he is fresh, ready to work, creative...
    I donot think anyone who slept all week/watched movie/talked negative about american society /about america can compete with someone who lived for full weekend.


    Really? An active lifestyle, being outdoors, energetic etc. are qualities of an American? A country where 70% of people are supposed to be overweight? Where some say 30% to 40% of schoolchildren are obese? I would agree with your argument for an active lifestyle versus a lazy one. However generalizing to things like getting up early/running/trekking/outdoorsy etc. as typical American traits is pushing it.

    If I want to catch up on my sleep on the weekends, why not? I sleep less than 6 hours a day on average during the week. Sleeping less = poor output and also has been linked to poor cardiac health.



    These are just small observations.
    In short, most of us are still living an indian life in america. This will not take us far,
    If we want to be happy we got to live as an american in america.
    Money is not everything,a big bankbalance will do no good to anyone at age of 65 when you cant move your leg let apart run or play.

    I also believe, we (indians) donot give time to ourselves. Ex. husband, wife, kids all together all the time. No good, give time to yourself, do somtihngs togehter and some things seperately, This will give time to observe life as an individual too.


    You dont have to blindly believe that everything that is American is good.
    For example, Americans work the longest hours of any developed country. Does this increase your standard of living. They have the fewest holidays/vacation days.

    Maybe doing things separately is your "American way" of fun. Doing things with my family is my way. What's wrong with that. At least we dont have a 50% divorce rate and dont kick our kids out of our homes when they turn 18.


    how many indian go out for just all boys groupings, not many. Why??? how bad it can be, when you just go out kick some dust drink beer if you please, atleast releax.
    When i started doing it, it was lot of fun.

    Same should be with girls, wives, you all should go out and do things with your friends for a change.

    same for kids, if your kids want to go camping with school friends, let them go. Let kids live their life. Imaging what your kids talks about weekend, when rest of american kids talk about running in wood, fishing, hunting, mud racing.....????

    Just my thoughts and i believe in living life to fullest; and try to live it to fullest too.

    I go out and meet friends by myself. Why does it have to be all boys? Why do I have to drink beer (yucky/stinky stuff by the way). My wife does the same with her friends. Kid is too youg for this.

    My point is you are trying to fit into your image of an american. You will never fit in completely. You are hoping your beer buddies are laughing with you and not at you. Be yourself- however Indian or American it may be.
    -a





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  • forever_waiting
    01-12 12:55 PM
    So are we ready to create a group of 20-30 people who will schedule appts with their lawmakers and discuss overall IV provisions along with support for this specific bill?? Hundreds of such bills are introduced every year in Congress (this specific bill has been introduced several times in the past)..so we need to truly understand whether there is any appetite for lawmakers to vote for it..instead of re-assuring ourselves that this bill will somehow help us.

    My lawmaker appt is on Feb 3rd. We need a structured approach with a proper group whose members follow up with each other and keep updates from lawmaker meetings. Not random posts on this thread, once in a while, that "I sent spam mails to all my senators..(mails that they will never read)". Lawmakers receive hundreds of emails everyday.
    we need to create a grassroots rapport with lawmakers.

    Every member who is discussing this thread and thinks this bill has a chance, schedule a meetign with your lawmaker today so that you can discuss OVERALL IV provisions and get a specific response on whether they will support, co-sponsor and vote for this bill. That will give us a direct answer instead of us speculating on the thread for months together.
    If we get 40-50 lawmaker meetings scheduled over the next 3-5 weeks, that itself will provide us with enough feedback to decide whether this bill is worth it or not.
    The point I am trying to make is that IV core is here to guide us and support us with national level advocacy. Nothing is going to happen in Congress until the grass roots efforts pushes congressmen/congresswomen/senators to think about a bill. Us sitting here and requesting IV to take up a cause (without any grassroots effort to back it up) is NOT going to help.
    Its only after meeting a lawmaker that we realize how Congress works. No one is waiting to fight our cause...we have to push for it and use the IV platform.
    So the plan can be -
    1) everyone here who is positive about this bill..schedule a lawmaker meeting. I volunteer to coordinate the list of lawmaker meetings scheduled.
    2) create a googlegroup with list of people working on the initiative. Keep track of feedback from each meeting.
    3) WIth the feedback from the 40-50 meetings, we will know if this bill has any steam. Even if not, we will at least have established a rapport with local lawmaker offices which can be used for other piecemeal legislations that come up.
    4) Keep the list of lawmaker meeting volunteers open and growing so that we will eventually have a large group of grass-roots volunteers regularly working on lawmaker meetings. These folks can keep track of legislations (through the forum, coordinator) and immediately schedule grass-roots advocacy/meetings when needed.

    We have to create a culture and a habit within the EB community of regularly meeting with lawmakers so that every one of our local lawmaker offices has our issues on their fingertips (even if they oppose us). merely coming to a forum and requesting iv core to do all they can, the day before a bill is to come to vote, is (for lack of other terms) plain stupid.

    Is anybody in?



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  • paskal
    07-11 07:15 PM
    stop this stupidity please

    far as i know we did not write the letter.
    all we did was send flowers to let people know we were screwed over.
    if you don't even want to do that...
    hey it's ok to roll over and play dead. but you can do that without bothering to come here, can't you?
    iv has not raised any security related issues as a policy. we have not denigrated uscis for working efficiently either. all we asked was to honor the july bulletin.
    so what stupidity should be stop dear kramer?





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  • NolaIndian32
    04-15 08:41 PM
    Great initiative and kudos to NolaIndian for making it happen!

    I love to go for long walks, so count me in for that part! Not sure if I can commit myself to the SF event... need some more time to make up my mind on this one!

    Thanks for your support Abhijitp. And thanks for joining Team IV, if you haven't already, please send us an e-mail at TeamIV@yahoo.com so that I can e-mail you the Membership Form.

    As far as your concern about being able to do a 5K walk, i can assure you that if you are already able to go for long walks, a 5K will be right up your alley. The 5K is 16 weeks away and with our friends from Runner's World Online, you can actually train to run or walk a 5K within 6 to 8 weeks. So this is completely do-able. A 5K walk is only 45 mins.

    When I was a kid in India, some evenings, I could not get a BST Bus to get home from school, so I used to walk from Matunga Circle in Bombay all the way home in Chembur. I was 12 years old and and it took me less than 2 hours. :)

    Please PM me your e-mail address or e-mail me at TeamIV@yahoo.com.

    Thanks,
    NolaIndian



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  • susie
    08-20 11:46 PM
    Hi,
    I saw response from one of the moderator.
    I think that we need to point out to law makers that employment based petitioners are being differentiated from citizens . Whlie in their case the date of child is frozen on the date of the I-130 application, why not same treatment should be given for I-140.
    I again hope our Core Team members will take up this issue.

    Excellent point.

    Discrimation between children is disgusting





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  • bfadlia
    06-27 11:25 AM
    To all EB3 members whose PD is current:

    Monday is the last day. If you don't get your GC approved, you got to wait for at least 7/8 months before they start moving dates forward. Beginning of each fiscal year, the dates are generally very conservative.

    And for ROW EB3, if the bill passes to eliminate country quota, you will be getting your GC in not less than 5 years from now which you could have get it if your f**ing attorney/company would have file it 7 days earlier! Big time screwed! I am one of them!

    The good thing is eliminating the country quota is always lumped with doubling the total quota and/or recapturing previous years waste, so hopefully the affect evens itself out.. Eliminating the coutry qouta by itself is a disaster.





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  • nlalchandani
    05-15 01:06 PM
    If a birth certificate was recently issued, then it MUST BE SUBMITTED along with Affidavits of Birth, Executed by two immediate family members who were 5 years of age or older at the time the birth took place�(Please see attached sample)
    .......

    Why would we need a affidavit if the birth certificate was recently issued eg last year.?





    Hassan11
    03-17 03:26 PM
    we need more EB3 ROW with PD 2004 to vote on poll to get a more accurate picture of # of pending 485s with USCIS.

    Please vote on poll.
    Thanks





    like_watching_paint_dry
    04-08 02:59 PM
    This sucks.. I always thought it was those 245(i) illegals are clogging up EB3. Not sure what else is constipating the system so it barely gets past Nov 2001.



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