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  • gene77
    02-04 11:52 PM
    I landed in June 2006 in Toronto. If anybody needs information please feel free to ask.

    What documents, applications need to be filled out after we land in Canada; in-terms of applying for the Resident Card, Social Insurance Number etc. I don't even know what else needs to be filled out.

    Can we fill these applications on-line or must be fill them out only after we have landed physically in Canada?

    After landing, how long before we can come back to the USA for resuming our job?

    Thanks Lasantha.




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  • drona
    07-09 06:13 PM
    Done. It was on the original press release but I went ahead and removed it anyway.




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  • GC08
    07-08 05:37 PM
    H1B is a non immigrant visa, and they dont have the full constitutional rights, for eq they dont have the right to vote.

    Legally we are not immigrants, that is the worst mistake( calling ourselves immigrants) ,being done by us,

    If USCIS denies GC for security reasons, you cant sue them.

    No onde denies that we cannot vote. But we have the basic rights, like being treated "equally and fairly". For example, if some employer violates labor law and did not pay you for your work, I am sure you can sue, even though you are not a citizen. There are some basic rights that everyone has, esp. if you hold good fainth and are damaged. Statement that you do not have any rights as you are not a citizen is just wrong. I am wondering how this will impact people's (esp. people from other countries) perception about this. :confused:




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  • gsc999
    07-20 02:08 PM
    Zoooom, Anzeraja & All pledgers,

    Thanks for driving this effort. Subsequent to Aman's post, we can direct these pledges to the normal contribution drive for IV.

    It was amazing to see such response to call for funds for Aman and other core members.



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  • amitjoey
    05-23 04:35 PM
    Sent email to 2+10 senators.

    Thanks, please also webfax. It is just one click.




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  • priderock
    06-27 04:12 PM
    I am really surprised that you guys are contemplating on going against your employer for a employment letter and filing your GC. I mean, how hard is it for you guys to agree to the terms of your employer that you will work till you get your GC and upto 6 months beyond that..

    If you guys came before 2001-2002 and seen how the situation was for green card filers you will now what I am talking about..

    1. There was no concurrent filing of I-140/485
    2. There was no premium processing for Labor
    3. There was no premium processing for I-140
    4. There was no AC-21, so there is no way of switching jobs..

    Still it used to take 4-5 years to get a GC.

    And you guys are complaining about your employer because you worked for 1-2 years and you want to quit as soon as you get EAD..

    Just imagine what would have happened if the dates were not CURRENT.. How many more years you would have worked, cursing USCIS

    Your greed will ruin you in future, just like you are cursing your employer's greed..

    Also, before you curse your employer, it was you who joined the company and you had many months to find out what kind of employer you have and it quit the company long time back.. You could have switched to different company long time back..


    I agree , and if the cost of leaving this stupid employer is just $10K, I would gladly pay and have some peace of mind.

    Also don't make decissions based on the current provisions/laws only. It is safe to assume you are going to be with your employer (who filed your GC) until you get your GC. You make a decision assuming that you can use AC21 after 6 months, but what happens if they remove AC21 in two months ??? People got burned when they assume status quo with the laws/provisions and they subsequently change.



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  • xbeartai
    05-23 01:52 PM
    Link:
    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists
    /thomaslfriedman/index.html?inline=nyt-per
    By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

    Published: May 23, 2007

    First I had to laugh. Then I had to cry.

    I took part in commencement this year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
    one of America's great science and engineering schools, so I had a front-row
    seat as the first grads to receive their diplomas came on stage, all of
    them Ph.D. students. One by one the announcer read their names and each was
    handed their doctorate - in biotechnology, computing, physics and
    engineering - by the school's president, Shirley Ann Jackson.

    The reason I had to laugh was because it seemed like every one of the newly
    minted Ph.D.'s at Rensselaer was foreign born. For a moment, as the foreign
    names kept coming - "Hong Lu, Xu Xie, Tao Yuan, Fu Tang" - I thought that
    the entire class of doctoral students in physics were going to be Chinese,
    until "Paul Shane Morrow" saved the day. It was such a caricature of what
    President Jackson herself calls "the quiet crisis" in high-end science
    education in this country that you could only laugh.

    Don't get me wrong. I'm proud that our country continues to build
    universities and a culture of learning that attract the world's best minds.
    My complaint - why I also wanted to cry - was that there wasn't someone from
    the Immigration and Naturalization Service standing next to President
    Jackson stapling green cards to the diplomas of each of these foreign-born
    Ph.D.'s. I want them all to stay, become Americans and do their research and
    innovation here. If we can't educate enough of our own kids to compete at
    this level, we'd better make sure we can import someone else's, otherwise we
    will not maintain our standard of living.

    It is pure idiocy that Congress will not open our borders - as wide as
    possible - to attract and keep the world's first-round intellectual draft
    choices in an age when everyone increasingly has the same innovation tools
    and the key differentiator is human talent. I'm serious. I think any foreign
    student who gets a Ph.D. in our country - in any subject - should be
    offered citizenship. I want them. The idea
    that we actually make it difficult for them to stay is crazy.

    Compete America, a coalition of technology companies, is pleading with
    Congress to boost both the number of H-1B visas available to companies
    that want to bring in skilled foreign workers and the number of employment-
    based green cards given to high-tech foreign workers who want to stay here.
    Give them all they want! Not only do our companies need them now, because we
    're not training enough engineers, but they will, over time, start many more
    companies and create many more good jobs than they would possibly displace.
    Silicon Valley is living proof of that - and where innovation happens
    matters. It's still where the best jobs will be located.

    Folks, we can't keep being stupid about these things. You can't have a world
    where foreign-born students dominate your science graduate schools,
    research labs, journal publications and can now more easily than ever go
    back to their home countries to start companies - without it eventually
    impacting our standard of living - especially when we're also slipping
    behind in high-speed Internet penetration per capita. America has fallen
    from fourth in the world in 2001 to 15th today.

    My hat is off to Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry, co-founders of the Personal
    Democracy Forum. They are trying to make this an issue in the presidential
    campaign by creating a movement to demand that candidates focus on our
    digital deficits and divides. (See: http://www.techpresident.com <http://www.techpresident.com>.) Mr. Rasiej, who unsuccessfully ran for public advocate of New York City in 2005 on a platform calling for low-cost wireless access everywhere, notes that "only half of America has broadband access to the Internet." We need to go from "No Child Left Behind," he says, to "Every Child
    Connected."

    Here's the sad truth: 9/11, and the failing Iraq war, have sucked up almost
    all the oxygen in this country - oxygen needed to discuss seriously
    education, health care, climate change and competitiveness, notes Garrett
    Graff, an editor at Washingtonian Magazine and author of the upcoming book "
    The First Campaign," which deals with this theme. So right now, it's mostly
    governors talking about these issues, noted Mr. Graff, but there is only so
    much they can do without Washington being focused and leading.

    Which is why we've got to bring our occupation of Iraq to an end in the
    quickest, least bad way possible - otherwise we are going to lose Iraq and
    America. It's coming down to that choice.




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  • unitednations
    08-24 09:28 PM
    Maybe we are getting off the topic.

    USCIS is giving a hard time for h-1b's.


    If vemont service center:

    ensure LCA is for client location and company location.

    ensure that you can get a legitimate letter/contract from place you are actually working. ensure letter/contract says that the terms (duration) is extendable (under the law; uscis only has to approve the h-1b until the PO finishes if it is less then three years).

    For companies: Cancel h-1b for people who have left. Cancel h-1b's for people who have not joined (uscis in their rfe's are frequently quoting number of h-1b's filed and comparing to current head count).

    for california service center:

    companies need to analyze their DE-6 and look to see who hasn't been paid the lca wage for all four quarters. Give proper/proactive explanations for people where it is not obvious why they weren't paid proper lca wage.

    get legitimate client letter/purchase order from end client. Ensure that when filing H-1b; the LCA covers the client location. USCIS will generally not accept a new LCA covering the location after the h-1b has been filed.

    Ensure the numbrer of active h-1b's is close to your headcount. If people haven't joined or aren't going to join; cancel h-1b's immediately.

    For consulate: do not ever give fake purchase order/client letter. Consulates are very smart that they know major companies do not give such letters. They are frequently referring cases to department of state in kentucky to contact clients who wrote the letters. If client doesn't confrm (ie., HR at client company) then it is a very, very big problem for all people concerned.

    For extensions; file as early as possible so you don't have issues with your drivers license, etc.

    USCIS relies on a lot of case precdece to deny cases. many times they are misapplying these cases and going outside the law what is really required. In motion to reopens; california is very quick in givingin another decision. However; vermont sits on it for many, many months and they very rarely change their decisions.

    When changing client locations then as a minimum get a new LCA but if you really want to cover yourself then consider amending h-1b for new location.



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  • dilbert_cal
    06-05 11:08 AM
    The question is: Is he milking you or your your company? LOL and UDD.

    UDD for use due diligence.

    Not everyone is filing 485 only. Some folks are filing 140 and 485 and in that case, technically, there is one part which has Premium Processing.




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  • paskal
    07-08 09:40 PM
    140K GCs are available on Oct 1. But, dates are not current. Based on this, there appears to be a law that prevents USCIS from recieving ALL AOSs. I am guessing that this law specifies a cap on AOSs that USCIS can recieve from lawyers. (This is why I am keen on knowing conditions for setting dates in VB)

    The following argues that it is hard for this cap to reach exactly on the end of every month.

    It is impossible to believe that this cap was not violated in June when it is possible that USCIS got 200K-600K AOSs.


    only 27% of the annual quota is released Oct 1
    the first 3 quarters cannot use more than 27% each
    that is the whole issue
    on the first working day of the month/quarter, where were the remaining 19%
    that should be available by law?
    how can they allot them on sunday (july 1)? if so they must be willing to accept my application on sunday too...



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  • rbharol
    10-25 12:12 PM
    Lets wait another two weeks and see who wins :)

    If opinion polls and media coverage are any indication, it appears democrats shall rule
    the house.

    For us the best congress would be the one which passes SKIL bill.

    It was unfortunate that despite Republicans ruling the house, they did not even discuss
    anything on immigration, specially for high tech skilled workers, even though SKIL was
    introduced by Republican leaders.

    I hope they do *something* during lame duck session.




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  • felix31
    12-07 03:54 PM
    why you even pay attention to the guy - we are all directing our efforts toward our common goal.

    That said, lets all go back to faxing, calling our representatives and put an end top this retrogression.

    To moderators: This thread should be closed, its an old thread and belongs to the past.



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  • ocpmachine
    09-03 06:17 PM
    Paper filed EAD for me and wife on June26..TSC RD -June30..CPO on Sep'02.

    Looks like people whose RD is around last week of June'08 are getting EAD approved...Good luck.




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  • Rohan99
    09-04 03:56 PM
    Hello, Anyone on July 3rd R.William 9:00am NSC got receipt yet??

    PD:May 2006
    140: Aug 2006
    i-485 : @ NSC july 3rd waiting for receipt

    July 3rd R.William 9:00am NSC



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  • GCcomesoon
    11-06 04:00 PM
    Hi

    What did the infopass appointment tell you? Were the officers knew what they were talking about?

    Thanks.


    They said they will send email to TSC & hopefully I should get the FP in next 30 days , if not I should come again which I did. This time they did the same email thing .Actually I went 2nd time to know whether my NC was clear or not. Menwhile I had created 2 SR's by calling USCIS too.

    I hope to get the FP in next few days .

    Thanks
    GCcomesoon




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  • psk79
    08-19 10:53 PM
    I140-TSC approved.
    LUD on 7/28
    I485 mailed to NSC Jul2nd.


    Please reply, We would like to know if anybody got receipt notice (or cheques encashed) and satisfy following criteria:

    1) I-140 approved at TSC
    2) LUD on I-140 on 07/22, 07/28, 08/05, 08/12 etc...
    3) I-485 mailed to NSC during last week of June or early July ?



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  • gc_bucs
    03-28 02:08 PM
    Thanks dingudi. If you know of a solid case where someone was RFE'd because of landing while on 485, then it looks like I might seriously consider abandoning it as well.

    One last question: Let's hypothetically say that I do decide to land and somehow manage to get back into the US without any issues using my AP. However, every subsequent time I leave the U.S. and return, I run the risk of getting "caught" at the POE with regards to the 485/Canadian residency conflict. Am I correct in this assessment?

    Again, I appreciate your input immensely. Thanks!

    I landed on March 17, 08 and came back the same day to the US using Automatic Visa Revalidation. I had no questions asked either by Canadian or US authorities. When you land the Canadian authorities will staple a piece of paper to your PP as proof of PR until you get the PR card. While re-entering the US I remove that stapled paper as it was very annoying every time you opened the PP. Nobody will question you just because you have a plan B.




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  • saisujatha123
    05-11 02:35 PM
    What location?
    How and where do we send flowers to obama?




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  • jungalee43
    11-17 03:24 PM
    Done. It correctly showed the representitive and the senators. But I am not sure it went. Particularly the screen of advacacy to send mail to 6 frineds kept on coming up. If I don't receive confirmations to my account, I will send once again. Or I will call them also.




    Macaca
    12-11 09:36 PM
    I have mentioned IV to a some Indians. They have no interest. Some of them are not bothered about retrogression. They exepect the GC to fall in their lap while they are sipping tea and eating samosa.

    Also, it is hard to trust a mainly Indian set up. The Indian contracting companies have set a very shameless level. I told my friends that IV appears different but it is hard to change your opinion when you see something else 10 times a day.

    I apolozie to the sensitive Indians if I this is breaking news. But this is the general feeling and a reason for hate in the blogs: where there is smoke there is fire. It is embarassing.

    For the life of me, I couldn't figure this out either.
    I also don't understand why most of EB applicants are so oblivious to the EB-based immigration situation.
    I am from ROW, and I could only shake my head in disbelief when one of my Indian friends asked me innocently if the 'situation' was 'really that bad'?
    If there really are 600K EB applicants, and all we can get is 6K members, then perhaps we deserve the crappy situation we find ourselves in today.




    BharatPremi
    12-16 01:01 PM
    " Hope abides; therefore I abide.
    Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
    I am still alive, vibrant with life.
    The black cloud will disappear,
    The morning sun will appear once again
    In all its supernal glory. "

    Courtsey: Sri Chinmoy



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