Vatives galleries

done!!

I dont generalize the L1 abuse. This is how it works L1 is meant for company transfer and not to work on consulting positions across United states. Please read the law completely before you know what you are talking about. These L1 people come through intra company transfer and work on $10/ hr jobs undermining the folks on H1-b and L1's too. I dont know about your case and i dont want to comment on it too but do see my point. Please just dont oppose because you have to.

L1's working for consulting should be stopped , it should be meant as intra company transfer for learning and implementation of company projects and not to work at client sites. Thats the law my friend.

Fake profile alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More reds to you

Green Card Category
EB3
Nationality
India
Country of Chargeability
India
Service Center
Nebraska
Labor Type
Regular
Perm Center
Others
Labor Approval Date
01/12/2004
I140-I485 Concurrent Filing
Yes
I140 Mailed Date
01/12/2004
I140 Filing Type
Regular
I140 USCIS Rcvd Date
01/12/2004
I140 Rcpt Notice Date
01/12/2004
I140 RFE Date
01/12/2004
I140 Approval Date
01/12/2004
July 2007 Filer
No
Adjustment of Status Application Type
Adjustment of Status (I-485)
I485 Mailed Date
01/12/2004
I485 USCIS Rcvd Date
01/12/2004
I485 Rcpt Notice Date
01/12/2004
Finger Print Notice Date
01/12/2004
I485 RFE Notice Date
01/12/2004
Application Status
Approved
I485 Approval Date
01/12/2004
EAD Mailed Date
01/12/2004
EAD RFE Date
01/12/2004
EAD Approval Date
01/12/2004
AP Mailed Date
01/12/2004
AP RFE Date
01/12/2004
AP Approval Date
01/12/2004

25 minutes lunch now, after lunch hope they will discuss.

Congratulations

Amazing, I think we are the most self critical group of human beings on this planet. Unwilling to acknowledge and boast of the right things we do and predisposed to criticising ourselves when things are not PERFECT.

Signed

@ caliguy

Could you please send me the letter that you sent to Sec. Napolitano? Also, what is the email address of ombudsman?

Just went thru Ron's forum -
what does this mean-

Re: HR 5924 relief for the shortage of nurses

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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus again reiterated its opposition to any immigration legislation that does not address an amnesty for illegals and said that they will block any attempts to pass smaller immigration bills.
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Very bad. They do it all the time. :(

Every bank is here to make money. I do transfer money through SBI and ICICI , didn't find any difference as far as rates are concerned. Services at ICICI are much better than Sarkari SBI. At least you can do many things with ICICI by sitting here rather than SBI.

Switching is not a good option, What you gonna do if other bank also doing with you the same thing. I would suggest complain it with RBI whatever you are not satisfied with.

Dear All, Which number do you call to talk to Chennai consulate officials? The number given on the website seems to only have information, and no operators.

Let's try:

Oh hey you're right :)

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Post edited again, I redid my entries later on in the thread.

They have all gathered, and probably some media is there, I bet that Logiclife - Franklin - Etc. are updating the core team about the events, if anybody is having any conversation with anyone at the rally please post the number of people, media, etc, thanks


Just got back from the rally, i would say it was a big success. Media coverage on the issue was fantastic. I saw the ABC7 news truck. There were many reporters from SJ Mercury news, SF Chronicle etc. Crowd was good, dont want to speculate on numbers yet but we should have an official word soon.

Police were very friendly. The crowd was very enthusiastic and also obeyed the rules. All of us stayed on side walks. Logiclife and Frankilin among others were there. Many reporters spread out and spoke to people.

Lot of members from another groups called Immigration Rights also joined us.

We got lot of honks. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Great JOB IV and everyone.


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Ok, if advertising is too far-fetched, then hold some cultural events and make money on those. Brainstorm with members to find other ways to make money.

Organizing cultural events does sound like a good idea, but again the problem is "organizing". I volunteered in a few cultural event organizations and know that its hardwork and need many volunteers even in a small city (especially if its a fund-raising type). My understanding is state chapters are crying for members, if state chapters have enough volunteers it would be a good idea.

I think there were many brainstorming discussions on fund raising earlier on these forums. The problem with these anonymous forums are that anyone can give a suggestion and then do nothing about it (I am guilty of the same sometimes). Thats why I liked the idea of state chapters where members know each other and may be able to motivate each other to volunteer some time/money/etc.

Yes, I guess the slowdown will happen when it hits the 2005 mark when PERM was introducted and a lot of EB3 were converted into EB2

Yep, that's "bull period". But assuming AOS bulletin mirrors CP bulletin, it looks like USCIS has decided to play with EB2-India. According to its own process, if USCIS might be working then this bulletin was not expected. 2 things I can think of. (1)EB3-ROW (From which numbers flow to EB2 -ROW then Eb2-countries) is confirmed empty and thus EB2-ROW is empty too (2) Somehow abrupt decision. If it is no:1 then it is really good news. But if it 2 then it will be bad for EB3-India as EB3-India is the MOST suffered lot during 2002-8. and Per country limit will make it more suffered with this illegitimate forward movement of EB2-India. Let's wait for AOS bulletin.

Memos are for interpretation of laws by USCIS. Any memo is advisory in nature and does not have force of law. These memos, unless challenged and turned downed by court or withdrawn, are valid.

Your saying that memo is illegal does not mean anything more than your personal opinion.

H-1B petitions have denied in past based on employer-employee relationship, unable to specify duties at end client, and self employment cases. If you are interested, let me know, I will put links here.

PS: This does not mean that I personally agree/disagree with the memo. This is just to show the legal aspect of it.


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Not a legal advice.

I know what you are referring to. USCIS has tried to raise this issue in the past in 2 instances. Once in 1990s and another in 2006 timeframe. In both cases lawyers were able to force USCIS to back down. Lot of consulting company applications have been approved since then.

The only difference this time is, it has come in the form of a memo. It is in fact a blessing in disguise. AILA has some reference document against which they can fight in court and get it overturned permanently.

Please refer this link

http://www.murthy.com/news/n_repatt.html



Legacy INS (now USCIS) raised many similar issues, in the early- to mid-1990s, regarding the length and nature of the projects in the U.S., timetable of assignments, and the H1B employer’s ability to pay the required prevailing wage. Senior Legacy INS officials from headquarters in Washington DC addressed the concerns of those examiners by pointing out that the law does not permit them to investigate a U.S. employer’s ability to hire H1B employees. The USCIS is bound by memos and policy guidance of the Legacy INS. After that memo, Legacy INS stopped issuing lengthy RFEs on these matters.
The law does not require any such letters by end-user clients for the issuance of the H1B visas to the visa applicants.

Ok. But how does this apply to immigration?

On the page you quote, below is what I see -

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice enforces federal laws that prohibit discrimination in:

Education
Employment
Housing
Lending
Public Accommodations
Law Enforcement / Police Misconduct
Voting

The "per-country limit" is definitely unfair within the realm of employment-based immigration due to the outdated and irrelevant law which needs reform. However skewing this to make it a civil rights issue is pushing it a bit too much.

So coming back to Immigration (which is what, I believe, we are discussing), below is what I came across on congress.gov.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Congressional power to regulate naturalization, from Article 1, Section 8, includes the power to regulate immigration (see, for example, Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong, 426 U.S. 88 [1976]

In other words, the Constitution does not specifically mention immigration but based on the above, delegates power to the Congress to pass laws to regulate immigration. This Article of the Constitution also clarifies the part about rules for immigrants and quotas being set at the Federal level and not State level.

The above is a fact, not my opinion. Therefore, No - I do not agree that your reasoning has any direct parallel to our case since the correct approach and reasoning involves challenging a Supreme Court Ruling on Article 1 of the Constitution, which you would agree is next to impossible.


Thanks for asking this. I found this: Civil Rights Division Home Page (http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/natorigin.php)

IMO, rather useful in our discussion, though not relating to the constitution. But if you insist, I might point you to the 14th amendment ...

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitu tion)

Read the "Equal protection clause". It mentions this case:
The Court has also struck down redistricting plans in which race was a key consideration. In Shaw v. Reno (1993), the Court prohibited a North Carolina plan aimed at creating majority-black districts to balance historic underrepresentation in the state's congressional delegations

Do you agree that we can draw a direct parallel of this case to our case, where they are segregating visa numbers based on the country of origin?

IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THIS ----

IV has to convince the government that this mess was created because close to 100000 visas were WASTED/UnUsed while BEC was busy(or not busy) sorting through the cases. If it is the mistake of a govt department, then the govt should fix it by recapturing these visas. They will act only when you make them look bad or file a suit against them. Why hasn't IV been able to push a simple argument like this????

If only it was that simple. There is too much of corporate vested interest
to allow the H1B servitude to go on. So much vested interests in the
Hispanic caucus not to allow "only" EB reform to pass without CIR.

Wonderful!
It must be exasperating to you guys sometimes, but getting information out about QGA activities will enhance chances of more 'fence sitters' joining!
Of course, some will keep sitting on their fences unfortunately, but at least it will get a few more to join!
Hope there is a way to elicit Corporate contributions to our cause as well!
We are moving, and we are doing great - but unfortunately we are surrounded by a culture of instant gratification, which I am not personally fond of!
I will try to persuade more community members to join!

Hey

you have any link to the memo?


http://www.visaportal.com/downloads/Yates%20Memo%20ability%20to%20pay.pdf

USA has a right to choose who they give green card to but not fool Indian people by swinging visa bulletin by 4 years every now and then. Not by discriminating. There should be some transparency to the process and law should be followed. If USA makes a law that Indians wont get GC in EB, I am happy to note. Can they remove their gloves?

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