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Now that your faith is restored, I'm assuming we'll see you in DC? :)

Quick question... why is the faith in an organization so shaky, like a suspicious spouse? :)

The efforts that the core team puts into this, as also those of other active members of the community, and the recent events should provide a good grounding in IV's mission, intentions, and leadership.

You have all the rights to question, for sure, but I would PM one of the moderators/core team. If my concerns aren't suitably addressed, I would feel free to post on the forum.

cheers!
jazz
I do not want to be involved in faith restored discussion.... I have been in IV for long enough to know about IV... and since i know IV considerbly well... that is the reason i put forward my question in this open forum... Since IV is open organization.... some might prefer it to be PM but i prefer it to be open discussion

Is there a USCIS URL/publication that explains the following? Thanks.

These should be USCIS rules like IRS rules. Everyone should be entitled to see them like IRS rules.

If you have 140K visas, how many go to
EB1
EB2 ROW, EB2 India, EB2 China, EB2 phillipines
EB3 ROW, EB3 Indian, EB3 China, EB3 Phillipines?

What happens with EB1 has unused visas? How do they flow?
What happens with EB2 has unused visas? Where do they go?

Hey EndlessWait, thanks for your input and assurance. Thats what my lawyer said but he also mentioned it depends on the adjudicating officer and to keep my fingers crossed.


I dont understand the element of discretion attributed to teh adjugating officer. Isnt the 180 days a LAW? Is it possible that an application is denied if its less than 180 days and the person has reentered multiple times?

Now that your faith is restored, I'm assuming we'll see you in DC? :)

Quick question... why is the faith in an organization so shaky, like a suspicious spouse? :)

The efforts that the core team puts into this, as also those of other active members of the community, and the recent events should provide a good grounding in IV's mission, intentions, and leadership.

You have all the rights to question, for sure, but I would PM one of the moderators/core team. If my concerns aren't suitably addressed, I would feel free to post on the forum.

cheers!
jazz

Got few clarifications on this thread... Thanks for the same... Really good to know that my apprehensions were proved false....

You guy are not making me nervous yet..... yeah web campaign is free and this costs money ..... hmmm ....

Hey hey :D :D I am still winning the challenge ..... I think this forum is full of watchers.... not doers !!

1. they have country limit for diversification. >> us(culprit) immigration is broken.
2. substitution labor >> desi employers(culprit) sold it.
3. my employer did not file for GC because layoffs couple of years back. >> general public are culprit. they caused our employer to get loss.
4.other employers filed GC for other people. >> other employers are culprit. they filed GC to retain their employers.
5.EB2 category : if they do not exist, I would have got spillover visas.
6.EB1 employers : employers are filing in EB1 category for the same skill set as mine
7.EB2 employers: employers are filing in EB2 for the same skill set as mine.
8.Dollar : Seriously. Dollar is a culprit. Last year Dollar value is less. So many foreigners are able to afford dollar and they filed for investor visa. Without that I would have got spillover visas
9.140 portability : many people are porting 140, PD from previous employer to new employer. They are able to retain old priority dates than me.
Any others??
How can I get GC with all these things.

Folks, this is for your information. not for the argument.

just kidding. :)
How about stopping the disscussions which divides the community.

I can understand the frustration of long wait for GC. The fight is for immigrant and non immigrant visas. Everyone(individuals like you and me), desi employers, desi MNCs, american companies wants to play by rules. The system is not fair. thats the reality.

Well, I thought OP had a good point. Do you support substitute LC?

Disclaimer: I'm not a beneficiary of a substituted labor certification.

GCisaDawg

You guys are awesome. This is a great victory !!

But he also mentioned that you had not started your GC process. The reporter wanted to speak to someone who is already in the process and affected by it.

We also were in touch with another highly skilled/educated PhD holder from China who was very eager to help but unfortunately his GC process had also not started

If this is incorrect, please let me know asap.

<potatoeater quote>
I predicted last month that EB2-I will become "U" soon, and it has happened (almost).
</quote>
Congratulations. You have done a great job. The dos is not able to predict the future dates of bulletins. You are able to predict it. Can you give some guidence for next couple of years? That will be lot helpful to immigration community.


<krupa quote>
Immigration Voice should take up this issue with USCIS. Those who came to US after 2007 should get PD of the date they applied for transfer of Labor OR applied for 140. Other wise it is abuse of law.
</quote>
Those who came after 2005 and who got green cards should be revoked and assign pds so that who came earliar should get green card first.


<zram1977 quote>
Well Said...
Is there any agenda from IV core on this issue.
</quote>
Is there any agenda from IV core on the issue of, " I Pallavi, should get visa" :))

Guys. Immigration reforms are going on. participate on those instead of digging something happened while ago.

We have been fooled so many times in the past with the predictions of the visa allocation being over etc. I would take this with a grain of salt.

Whenever someone starts the thread with a line "A friendly IO told me blah blah blah"....my response is *YAWN*

What will happen to the applications that weren't processed because the cap, would they return the filing fees? My guess is they don't.


They will return filing fees.

We have reached 40%. To reach 50% we need $6000 more. If more people can contribute, we can reach this in no time.

The core and a lot of serious members have already contributed.

There are 2 mind sets of people on this forum:
1) I have contributed $500+ , I do not need to contribute $20 more, In anycase what is my
$20 going to do?.
2) I have never contributed, but I am ashamed of making my first contribution of only $20.
(Although that is what I am comfortable doing at this time.)

Both the above mindsets are wrong because If we have 7000+ members, out of which say 1000 have already contributed, that leaves us with 6000 members. If 6000 members contribute $1 each, we are at $ 6000 - 50% met.
Now all are not going to do it.
So you see $20 is still a good amount to start.

Sorry that I had to wait this long to contribute. Been tight with my debt and payments and also secretly monitoring this board and praying for your success. My first contribution of $20 was sent via paypal.

I personally feel that not a lot of people out there know about paypal or are just too scared to transact online.

It would be awesome if a portion of the money could be used to start a mailing campaign via snail mail by including a contribution plea letter along with a form that can be filled and mailed with a cheque to IV. Just like those credit card offers. Obviously to all the registered members.

Also, psychologically, when you navigate to the contribution page, the list of contribution amount options starts with $100. And then all the way to the right is the "other" option. It takes time for the eye to get to the "other" amount option as a result of which an anonymous/interested user navigating to the page sees contribution amounts in multiples of $100 thereby creating doubt/hesitation without realizing that you can choose the "other" option to contribute in smaller numbers. It would be great if you could put in a blank text field first and then the other options with multiples of $100.


Just my 0.02 cents.


Keep pushing and for all you guys watching in the sidelines watch "Gandhi" - the movie, for inspiration. Seriously!

Even if you don't contribute, walk up to Blockbuster or go online on Netflix and rent the movie out.

IV is doing a tremoundus job. I have been watching and waiting silently until I saw the movie "Gandhi".

I know many of you single non-immigrants living alone don't have to shop around for Christmas. I know I don't because my family doesn't live here. So maybe you can gift IV with a small contribution.

Maybe you can skip a carwash this month (for all those living in the south, i.e.) and do it yourself and send in the money to IV. Small drops of water make an ocean. So don't think your contribution, however small it may be, is not going to help.

If you really don't have the money to contribute, atleast buy a $1 greeting card and a $0.39 stamp and send it to IV thanking them for fighting on your behalf. Its that simple.


Good luck and god bless.

Pity on u man..you are asking the the lord..the supreme for a freakin green card..ask for something bigger:)


May be a SUV or a house.. :D:D:D

Made another $100 contribution through Paypal.
Transaction ID: 7RL94888U3632145P

Those of you who have not contributed yet, please do so ASAP. Please contribute to this worthy cause.

Nag
Thanks for your contribution

BTW, our dear macacay.
I am surprised to see that you don't know what ROW is.....

P.S.
I apologize for this utterly useless posting, but I really wanted to use the word 'macacay', the sub-continentalized version of 'macaca'

I don't know a lot. I understood retrogression last month although I have been waiting for I-485 application for 1 yr.

I also don't know RIR which I saw in your posts, I think.

Thanks for picking on me. Never heard about macacay. Actually, I had never heard of macaca until George Allen used it.

Please explain this sub-continentalized version preferably with URL.

There is nothing more to do. So useless posts are the only posts that will be there.

thanks amsgc, wizard20740, ksircar - I had requested $20 but you all went way beyond the request, hats off to you..

you all are good inspiration to everyone else...I think the magic number is 20 now..again there have been around 800 views :) so common members...at the same time let's not loose track of the " add a member campaign" ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/20/AR2005122001748.html

Will Words Fail Her?
Immigration Officials Snub Literary Sensation Yiyun Li Despite Her Peers' Praise


Despite being compared to Hemingway, Yiyun Li lost her first bid for permanent residency because an agency says she has not "risen to the very top of the field of endeavor."

By Bob Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 21, 2005; Page C01

Five years ago, Yiyun Li had a problem: How do you persuade the literary world to take you seriously when you're a 28-year-old native Chinese speaker trying to write in English, you've published exactly nothing and your training consists of a single adult-education class?

Since then, the Beijing-born Li's career arc has been so steep it gives her peers vertigo.

She's had stories published in prestige magazines such as the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She's won the Pushcart Prize and the Plimpton Prize for New Writers. Random House has signed her to a $200,000, two-book contract, which Executive Editor Kate Medina calls -- in what qualifies as a serious understatement -- "most unusual" for a literary writer at this stage of her career. Her first book, a story collection called "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," was published this fall to wide praise.

Now she has another problem: How do you explain to the federal immigration bureaucracy what the word "extraordinary" means?

n the summer of 2004, Li petitioned the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become a permanent resident of the United States. To approve her application for a green card, USCIS would need to agree that she was an artist of "extraordinary ability," defined in Title 8, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 204.5(h)(2) as "a level of expertise indicating that the individual is one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavor."

To the upper echelons of literary publishing, Li looks like a slam-dunk to meet this definition. Not to the USCIS, however. A year after she filed it, her petition was rejected.

She has appealed. A USCIS spokesman says she is likely to get her answer in a few weeks.

The appeal was rejected around Jan 2006 - Appu

http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/asian/Daily_News_Mar1.asp

The 33-year-old author, who plans another effort to get her green card, had applied based on "exceptional ability" in the arts. Her previous literary honors include the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a Pushcart prize,

Cheers

Pledge: wandmaker will donate $50 for every $2500 & santb1975 will donate $100 for every $5000 we raise thru Holiday Funding Drive (http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=15493)

Raise the bar......

I agree.... there are no IOs at the fingerprinting offices let alone talking to them.

I had an infopass appointment today and the IO there told me a lot. She told me that me and my wife's namecheck and fingerprints were cleared. She also told me that the case has not been assigned and therefore she opened a Service Request for me to expedite the case (dont know if it will help). She also mentioned that there is no memo stating that the vsa numbers have been exhausted.

And believe me.. i overheard the other IOs in the saying that the immigration system is screwed up and the service centers dont know what they are doing... so guys you can see what the system thinks of itself.....

so again as i have said....sit tight and hope and pray ....

cheers


Nice to know that. Now on what basis do we believe you and not the other guy? In this anonymous environment you are as much/less credible as the other guy. The best thing for everyone is to keep hopes low and wait till September passes. There's so much information,rumors,gossip doing the rounds to drive everyone crazy.

http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=6191

Additional threads are confusing members.

Sorry I have to close this thread as this has many wrong posts having wrong message and zipcode.