Monday, July 4, 2011

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  • pranavgandhi
    09-16 05:39 PM
    This is the first time I think, it is worth to contribute.

    99.99% going back to India but still ready to contribute for this cause.

    See if we can do something at international level.
    Be in major news. Show them what US is doing with immigrants.

    Taking money with all for all citizen cause and not giving single benefit.

    Most eligible country for filing Bankruptcy.




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  • samrat_bhargava_vihari
    06-11 05:33 PM
    I think the answer is yes, we will get our EAD and AP.

    USCIS only looks at your PD while they issue case number (when you file for 485) and next when they approve your case (they issue your GC)

    they will issue an EAD and AP for all pending applications. EAD and AP don't need PD. as long as you have a case pending with USCIS you can get new/renewed EAD and AP

    bostonqa is right




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  • vkrishn
    08-20 04:14 PM
    I contacted my Attorney (Its company attorney) and he told me that he will make an enquiry with USCIS. Apparently he has a list of all the pedning cases who are current this month and he is planning to send the list to USCIS.

    Lets see what i get next week. Week 3 done. Week 4 starts!




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  • shana04
    07-20 11:20 AM
    Shana04,

    We cannot divert the funds already donated to the core IV funds at this moment(we are working on to see if this can be done). We are only collecting the pledge here to come up with the total.


    Hearfelt thanks for your contribution, but it cannot be added as part of this drive (atleast at this moment)

    Thanks !!!

    I would be happy either way that I have contributed to IV, but would be even more happy if the fund is used towards a great cause.

    Thanks,
    Shana04



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  • ragz4u
    05-02 10:45 AM
    The �SKIL� Bill
    Short Title: Securing Knowledge Innovation and Leadership (SKIL)

    Title I � Access to High Skilled Foreign Workers

    Section 101. H-1B Visa Holders
    Exempts professionals who have earned advanced degrees (e.g. Master�s degree or higher) from accredited United States universities and those who have been awarded a medical specialty certification based on post-doctoral training and experience in the United States from the annual H-1B cap.


    Section 102. Market-Based Visa Limits
    Raises the H-1B (specialty occupation) cap from 65,000 to 115,000 and creates a flexible system that adjusts with the market.

    Title II � Retaining Foreign Workers Educated in the United States

    Section 201. United States Educated Immigrants.
    Exempts U.S.-educated professionals with advanced degrees and those who have been awarded a medical specialty certification based on post-doctoral training and experience in the United States from the annual green card (i.e. immigrant visa) cap.

    Exempts professionals who have earned advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math, and who worked in the U.S. for at least three years in a related field, from the immigrant visa cap.

    Exempts spouse and minor children of professionals from the employment-based cap. Under current law, only about fifty percent of employment-based visas go to actual workers.

    Section 202. Immigrant Visa Backlog Reduction.
    Raises the immigrant visa (i.e. green card) cap from 140,000 to 290,000 and allows unused visas to fall forward annually.

    Exempts aliens of extraordinary ability, and outstanding researchers and professors from the annual green card limit.

    Section 203. Student Visa Reform.
    Many employers seek to hire U.S. educated students full-time upon graduation, and this change would enable the employer to start the green card process while the foreign worker is on a student visa (F-1) during Optional Practical Training (OPT). Codifies OPT; which will allow U.S. educated foreign students to work in their field for up to two years after graduation.

    Section 204. L-1 Visa Holders Subject to Visa Backlog.
    Allows an extension of an L-1 (intracompany transfer) visa beyond the fifth or seventh year if the individual has a green card application pending and is simply caught in the green card backlog. This extension is currently allowed for H-1B (specialty occupation) visa holders, but not for L-1 visa holders.

    Section 205. Retaining Workers Subject to Green Card Backlog.
    Allows foreign workers who have started the green card process, but who are subject to green card backlogs, to pay a $500.00 supplemental fee to file an application to adjust status. This change would enable foreign workers to remain in the U.S. until the green card becomes available.

    Title III � Business Facilitation Through Immigration Reform

    Section 301. Streamlining the Adjudication Process for Established Employers.
    Requires the creation of a pre-certification program that streamlines the adjudication process, and reduces paperwork burdens, for employers who file multiple applications and who have no history of fraud or abuse. Pre-certification would allow those employers to file a petition on a separate review track and not submit repetitive organizational documentation.

    Section 302. Providing Premium Processing of Employment-Based Visa Petitions.
    Requires USCIS to allow employers to file a �premium processing� fee for expedited adjudication of employment-based immigrant petitions, as well as for administrative appeals of any decision on an employment-based immigrant petition.

    Section 303. Eliminating Procedural Delays in Labor Certification Process.
    Requires the Department of Labor to process all applications filed prior to the electronic PERM system within six months of enactment. Clarifies the Department of Labor�s process in providing prevailing wage determinations and requires the Department of Labor to establish a website to post open job orders.

    Title IV. Miscellaneous

    Section 401. Completion of Background and Security Checks.
    Requires that no immigration application may be approved until the appropriate background and security checks are completed and any allegations of fraud have been resolved.

    Section 402. Visa Revalidation.
    Allows temporary workers who have not violated their status to renew their visa from within the United States.

    Section 403. Severability.
    Clarifies that if any part of this act is determined to be invalid it will have no effect on the remainder of the provisions.




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  • tonyHK12
    02-09 06:25 PM
    thanks gujju, srinivas_o for your contributions and continued support. It is nice to see EB3 guys being proactive. Giving up or doing nothing is not an option. This is the best chance we have until 2013.
    There are 100,000+ in the EB3 queue, and nearly 30,000 in the EB2 queue.

    Amount raised = $1700.00
    Contributions needed = $48,300.00



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  • anzerraja
    07-20 02:48 PM
    If you are asking just about this thread, yes there is a spreadsheet tracking this.

    If in general, i am sorry i am not aware of anything.

    Is there any way of knowing how much each user has contributed? (I am not interested in knowing about others ) but would be nice to know atleast for myself how much I contributed.

    Thanks




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  • life99f
    07-08 09:12 PM
    It doesn't matter.
    Chicago and DC , or other cities . We can make it happen at same day.


    Forget aboit other cities ,Here we are not able to get enough people in DC , which is having a decent community .If you planning to get 100 in chicago , can you make i to DC nbext weekend .



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  • apt29
    01-30 05:02 PM
    Funny... Sathweb took his post back, which even he does not agree with anymore and you now agree with it..

    Point is very simple: If a person has a valid job offer then by all means go ahead and apply for H1 from any status (be it H4, F1, B or Z...) but if you don't have a proper job offer then please don't apply for the H1 visa through a body shop as you are taking away a valuable visa #, which unfortunately are very limited.

    QUOTE=sumanitha;314025]I Completely agree with your reply. First, when I read the comment of that guy, I couldnt accept at all.

    You have given a nice and neat reply.[/QUOTE]

    Pardon me, if this is not appropriate question. You mentioned that your wife went to School here. Is it Masters Degree? If yes, she can apply for H1 under the 20,000 quota, which is not lottery based(at least for few weeks).




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  • vinabath
    04-23 04:38 PM
    This is not a personal advice but general appeal to all would be employers.

    I hope you have researched and understood obligations of an employer.

    By virtue of owning the business and taking 100% of returns, the employer has to assume 100% risk.

    If not on revenue sharing with employee ( 80-20 etc) , the employer has no business of NOT paying on bench. Either the employee is on rolls or has to be advised to take LOA or let go.

    For other unprofessional tactics, there is simply no excuse. Employment is at will. If employers cant deal with that, too bad. They should not be starting the business.

    I have worked with Desi employers who have consistently run on best practices and completely adhering to law of the land. It can be done and the cost of doing that has to be factored into the business plan. If it is too costly as per your financial numbers, then you are not ready for it financially.

    There is moral obligation too. Whenever you hire H-1s make sure most of them have dreams to get GC and settle down. Dont take risks in such a ways their dreams get shattered because of poor business practices. just to hire people dont run in your businesses on losses and in turn force yourself to shut down the business.



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  • pcs
    06-25 10:44 PM
    Look at this ad...

    This guy is a bigtime white racist... he does not mind only Canadian TN VISA guys but not the Mexicans...

    Equal opportunity Emp will call for either do not sponsor ANY VISA catagory for people present in US or NO VISA at all... BUT this guys is OK with VISA for Canadian but No Mexican.... forget about H1-B etc... OPT

    PROCESS ENGINEER / CHEMICAL ENGINEER - Petrochemical / Refining / Oil and Gas job in Martinez, CA: Engineering and Engineering careers - Yahoo HotJobs (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobseeker/jobsearch/job_detail.html?job_id=JL84XW2ILFG&source=jobalert)

    I do not need any job but I am going to write to the VP of this company and demand explanation to prove why he be not considered a racist or at least a NON Equal Opportunity Employer




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  • h1techSlave
    04-29 10:59 PM
    H1B quotas for 2001, 2002 and 2003 were 195000. Three times the norm. This could be the reason they quotas were not met during those years. Sure market conditions also helped.

    I thinks EB3 INDIA will move between 9/11/2001 to JAN 2004 , because after 9/11 probably few people applied for GreenCrd because of market condition, even h1b quotas are not used for 2002 and 2003, i applied for h1b on 2004 April , no surprise the quota available because of market condition.



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  • shreekhand
    02-02 02:25 PM
    Well, I kind of expected a response to my kind of personal remark in the earlier part of the post than what I wrote later in the message... never mind, that's the human mind.

    Don't know about you but I for sure don't rely on just conversing with NGO's or reading news about "atrocities", but actually have involved myself in traveling, teaching and helping institute schools in tribal areas of Jharkhand (Ghatsila-Singhbum), where education had never even reached. The sparkle in their eyes, hospitality and values beats what we find urbanized and modernized world (had the same experience when I visited central Cambodia last month). I also see that casteism is not the same all over in India (a lot less in the west (when I was in Nanded district in Maharashtra) than the north and parts of south) and that it is rapidly changing (compare the caste discrimination 70 years ago with that today, even my active 85 year grandma who has traveled a lot in India, couldn't resist expressing her positive wonderment). The caste discrimination is severe no doubt in certain parts, nor am I trying to water down your experiences - but remember making a blanket statement for 1.2 Billion people demands a lot of explanation!

    There is difference working on the ground to make a transformation and witness it from a holistic sense than having a 5 feet level view. Hope you don't take anything personally... but maybe just grasp the gist of my experiences/thoughts.

    Really apologize if I hijacked the thread in anyway!


    This shows how ignorant you are about the most prevailing and backward situation in INDIA. Unfortunately the above comments show you like the cat drinking the milk closing eyes thinking nobody is watching her.
    Do you even know why the quota system was introduced. it is a different thing that it is not being utilized the way it had to be put into use. You are just from western part of India don't speak as though you are from western part of the world. I guess you don't watch the news where they speak about the various atrocities done on the backward class by the forward class. I feel sorry for your ignorance that is all I can do. When possible go to any NGO social service people and ask about caste system and they will give you ample stories which might shatter your belief. What I agreed with the fellow IV member was on a different issue and I acknowledge the fact that things are wrong in each part of the world and every country has its own share of issues. Just like nobody is perfect not every place is perfect. But not acknowledging the fact that something is so widely prevalent in India just shows how far as an individual you are away from reality.

    Peace.




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  • harpomarx
    07-10 01:04 PM
    Can anyone do a cartoon and we can post it on the internet?

    How about a caricature of Gonzalez holding a sign as follows:

    WASHINGTON�The Department of State has revised its July Flower Bulletin to reflect that all available flowers have been allocated for fiscal year 2007.
    As a result, beginning today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is rejecting applications to send flowers (Form I-356937) filed by aliens whose priority dates were current under the original July Flower Bulletin.
    U.S. immigration law limits the number of employment-based immigrant flower receipts that may be issued each fiscal year.



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  • deepakjain
    05-12 06:46 PM
    How do we contribute and participate in any campaign of IV....how to even become a donor???




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  • feedfront
    08-26 01:56 PM
    I had taken infopass and officer sent an email to TSC enquiring about current status. Today, I got snail mail reply..

    "Due to the high volume of expedite requests for this case type, we are strictly enforcing the criteria that has been set for these expedite requests."



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  • desi3933
    01-30 05:23 PM
    You being US citizen or president of USA does not mean much to us! I have requested you to show me "so called 30 day rule" on any of the official web site (For example USCIS). I have asked you this several times. Every time You just direct us to some lawyer's web site/university web site and expect us to believe them.

    Show me the information on official web site and I will shut up.

    Since you asked -

    Here is link from Department of Labor website. Read for yourself and I have included relevant quote.
    Link (http://www.dol.gov/dol/allcfr/title_20/Part_655/20CFR655.731.htm)

    (ii) Even if the H-1B nonimmigrant has not yet "entered into employment" with the employer (as described in paragraph (c)(6)(i) of this section), the employer that has had an LCA certified and an H-1B petition approved for the H-1B nonimmigrant shall pay the nonimmigrant the required wage beginning 30 days after the date the nonimmigrant first is admitted into the U.S. pursuant to the petition, or, if the nonimmigrant is present in the United States on the date of the approval of the petition, beginning 60 days after the date the nonimmigrant becomes eligible to work for the employer. For purposes of this latter requirement, the H-1B nonimmigrant is considered to be eligible to work for the employer upon the date of need set forth on the approved H-1B petition filed by the employer, or the date of adjustment of the nonimmigrant's status by INS, whichever is later.

    ____________________
    Not a legal advice.
    US Citizen of Indian Origin




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  • ashwin_27
    11-19 01:25 PM
    The goal of this action item is to get as many impacted EB folks to write to/talk to their lawmakers. i assume that is why this action item was announced on the public forum.
    For every anti-immigrant who might view this message, we hope that there will be 20-50 EB folks who speak up and act on the action item. We cannot be scared of opposition and limit every action item to members only...that way we will never get a mass response that is required for such an initiative.

    We have 29 guests viewing this thread as I type! Can we make this forum members only? IMHO they are not adding any value and may contain prying anti's in their mix....




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  • nsrinivas
    09-12 03:04 PM
    No not sure who recieved it as my Lawyer has sent the packages on behalf of me and she has the delivery confirmation.

    But I feel your's should be coming out soon too as your dates are same as mine.

    Good Luck !




    rama2007
    11-17 06:52 PM
    Done




    manchala
    11-19 09:39 AM
    Done and I got it done with few friends also.

    I will try contacting them today and will keep u posted..

    Best..

    RV



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