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05-05 08:55 AM
MC, Congrats.
I am fan of your's one liners. Enjoy my friend.
I am fan of your's one liners. Enjoy my friend.
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catfish
12-26 02:35 PM
I became a member today, through rsayed. Hope something positive happens for us in 2007!
Happy new year, Guys!!!
Happy new year, Guys!!!
humdesi
07-12 01:12 AM
Will the reply be made public? Grassley and Durbin wrote to TCS, Infosys and other big bodyshoppers with a list of questions. The replies were never made public.
Also, wonder if greencards issued without security clearance will be revoked? Anything is possible in this immigration circus.
Also, wonder if greencards issued without security clearance will be revoked? Anything is possible in this immigration circus.
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Edison99
09-29 11:41 AM
Could you update your profile before drafting your plan? It helps IV community to understand your concerns�
Well I had called a NY congresswoman when I was stuck in a H1 name check. I found them open and willing to help. She even contacted the FBI.
Well I am just an ordinary person, and the same as everyone here, and not saying I will do everything myself. There are persons who are better skilled at this and know the immigration law better.
Also don't rule out lobbying, I just said we also need something else that should justify our case without a lobby. I'm asking for suggestions or ideas.
I may be new here, If you see my post on the other forum, I'm asking for the creation of an organization with skilled people who will create a new campaign among legal immigrants. Kind of like Grass roots movement.
Well I had called a NY congresswoman when I was stuck in a H1 name check. I found them open and willing to help. She even contacted the FBI.
Well I am just an ordinary person, and the same as everyone here, and not saying I will do everything myself. There are persons who are better skilled at this and know the immigration law better.
Also don't rule out lobbying, I just said we also need something else that should justify our case without a lobby. I'm asking for suggestions or ideas.
I may be new here, If you see my post on the other forum, I'm asking for the creation of an organization with skilled people who will create a new campaign among legal immigrants. Kind of like Grass roots movement.
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pappu
12-16 05:00 PM
Great work everyone. We now have 7,599 members. 2001 more members needed by Dec 31. If everyone can get at least one member in IV we can easily cross this target.
It is also a reminder to everyone to contribute. In the past 2 days there have been no contributions. In this whole month, less than 15 people have contributed. only 2 people contributed $200 and some $100 and everyone else less than $100. With this you can imagine how much contributions we get. This holiday season, all make sure to contribute some amount to IV. This money will work for you.
It is also a reminder to everyone to contribute. In the past 2 days there have been no contributions. In this whole month, less than 15 people have contributed. only 2 people contributed $200 and some $100 and everyone else less than $100. With this you can imagine how much contributions we get. This holiday season, all make sure to contribute some amount to IV. This money will work for you.
GC_sufferer
07-11 07:55 PM
It's still there.
USCIS has removed the flower related press release from their website.
USCIS has removed the flower related press release from their website.
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Saralayar
04-14 10:00 AM
This is good and healthhy discussion except for few who dont want to think beyond today's goal.
As someone has listed already few advantages of citizenship.
I would like to add that GC give you freedom in terms of the Emplyment and Residing in US. But it also has very strict criteria how you live in this country. You are no free with getting GC. Giving some points
You need to carry your GC all times with you.
You can be deported out of country if you dont report you forget to report your address changes.
You can be deported out of country for very small crimes such as DWI, shplifting etc.
Most of the states and federal govt dont emplyee non-citizens.
Several goverment benefits are not available to non-citizens
You can not be out of country for more than 6 months. And also not multiple time.
You need to able to prove that you ahve permanent ties to this country all the time you travel outside. (irrespective of time frame)
I am sure some other members can add lot to these points.
So in nut shell GC and Citizenship are totally different.
GC will just give you freedom from your employer. I am sure in long run you will also realize that your that freedom does not help you too much. May be a little bit if you are with consultant or IT field.
There is no harm in thinking ahead and thinking about citizenship. Those who will be satified with GC, does not need to worry about this discussion as they are no more interested in this future benefit.
Also there are lots of reasons that can be listed, why law makers will be interested in the advancing Citizenship benefit for HIGHLY SKILLED IMMIGRANT who is in the country for long time, has contributed to the Federal Taxes for five years, has good skills in STEM areas and has to suffer in comparision to Family based or marriage based applicants in terms of Citizenship. You can see recent advance of OPT for STEM graduates as small justifification for such hope.
So lets continue this discussion, and comeup with good demand list and supporting justification , in terms of Citizenship benefit for highly skilled immigrants who get GC based on emplpoyment.
Excellent. ^^Bump^^
As someone has listed already few advantages of citizenship.
I would like to add that GC give you freedom in terms of the Emplyment and Residing in US. But it also has very strict criteria how you live in this country. You are no free with getting GC. Giving some points
You need to carry your GC all times with you.
You can be deported out of country if you dont report you forget to report your address changes.
You can be deported out of country for very small crimes such as DWI, shplifting etc.
Most of the states and federal govt dont emplyee non-citizens.
Several goverment benefits are not available to non-citizens
You can not be out of country for more than 6 months. And also not multiple time.
You need to able to prove that you ahve permanent ties to this country all the time you travel outside. (irrespective of time frame)
I am sure some other members can add lot to these points.
So in nut shell GC and Citizenship are totally different.
GC will just give you freedom from your employer. I am sure in long run you will also realize that your that freedom does not help you too much. May be a little bit if you are with consultant or IT field.
There is no harm in thinking ahead and thinking about citizenship. Those who will be satified with GC, does not need to worry about this discussion as they are no more interested in this future benefit.
Also there are lots of reasons that can be listed, why law makers will be interested in the advancing Citizenship benefit for HIGHLY SKILLED IMMIGRANT who is in the country for long time, has contributed to the Federal Taxes for five years, has good skills in STEM areas and has to suffer in comparision to Family based or marriage based applicants in terms of Citizenship. You can see recent advance of OPT for STEM graduates as small justifification for such hope.
So lets continue this discussion, and comeup with good demand list and supporting justification , in terms of Citizenship benefit for highly skilled immigrants who get GC based on emplpoyment.
Excellent. ^^Bump^^
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eb3India
06-12 11:20 AM
I always tried to keep my life not effected by GC even used AC21 to change company, but at this time i am really frustated as I am losing many opportunites which are directly related to my GC.
I don''t feel America is an immigrant country any more we may well be make an history here as the first batch of legal immigrants returning back to our own country.
It is naive to think that law makers does not understand our plight, they are very well aware, they just need more H1bs, temp workers program to bring in slaves to work for their benifit
I don''t feel America is an immigrant country any more we may well be make an history here as the first batch of legal immigrants returning back to our own country.
It is naive to think that law makers does not understand our plight, they are very well aware, they just need more H1bs, temp workers program to bring in slaves to work for their benifit
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chanduv23
04-08 10:19 AM
Well that would be an option make H1b portable.
But then most consulting companies will not hire H1B's because it won't be cost effective.
Anyway just by checking most of this consulting firms businesses they will be able to uncover all the fraud.
It's very unethical to make you lie on your resume and then try to market you to an employer with fake experience, also nobody has responded to my comment. Real Companies like PWC, IBM pay you while you're on bench, while
this indian consulting companies break the law by not doing that.
I have seen tons of American citizen resumes with Fake experience. When we conducted background check, we found that a lot of companies they listed on thier resumes could not be found as their employer and a lot of people also fake on education saying they are from Harward etc..... This has become very common now locally. A lot of American people get JOBS ONLY through recomendations of friends or relatives and by word of mouth. They do not go through a stringent interview process. They will do everything possible to keep their jobs and get jobs in an easy manner. The companies that hire people on h1b as employees or contractors actually look for "real" skilled workers so that they have a strong skill based workers.
Body shops want you to fake ur resume only when
(1) You want to get your wife a h1b placement through a body shop, who actually has no experience but you approach the body shop for filing ur spouse h1b
(2) You do Master's and want to get a placement through a body shop.
(3) Your skills are not marketable by body shopping requirements.
Body shops care for themselves. The kind of consulting jobs they deal with are jobs that require wierd skills and most times and thats why they get those requirements.
You can survive without faking resume if
(1) Keep trying hard for direct jobs and meet minimum standards
(2) Be competitive, try to crack the googles and microsofts multi layer interviews, go back to basics and learn and work hard
(3) If you are subject to cap - work around it. Look for options.
(4) Increase your skill base. Do projects at home on your laptop. Go to open source or google user groups and gain more knowledge.
Make a body shopper dependent on your skills. Get selected for a contract job without faking resume and then carry your body shopper to sign the corp to corp contract. You can keep your skill and update as well as do body shopping without faking resume.
So if you blame body shopping companies for the mess, it will directly feed into anti immigrants as they want reasons to get back into their lazy easy job lifestyle and get rid of the competitive H1bs.
But then most consulting companies will not hire H1B's because it won't be cost effective.
Anyway just by checking most of this consulting firms businesses they will be able to uncover all the fraud.
It's very unethical to make you lie on your resume and then try to market you to an employer with fake experience, also nobody has responded to my comment. Real Companies like PWC, IBM pay you while you're on bench, while
this indian consulting companies break the law by not doing that.
I have seen tons of American citizen resumes with Fake experience. When we conducted background check, we found that a lot of companies they listed on thier resumes could not be found as their employer and a lot of people also fake on education saying they are from Harward etc..... This has become very common now locally. A lot of American people get JOBS ONLY through recomendations of friends or relatives and by word of mouth. They do not go through a stringent interview process. They will do everything possible to keep their jobs and get jobs in an easy manner. The companies that hire people on h1b as employees or contractors actually look for "real" skilled workers so that they have a strong skill based workers.
Body shops want you to fake ur resume only when
(1) You want to get your wife a h1b placement through a body shop, who actually has no experience but you approach the body shop for filing ur spouse h1b
(2) You do Master's and want to get a placement through a body shop.
(3) Your skills are not marketable by body shopping requirements.
Body shops care for themselves. The kind of consulting jobs they deal with are jobs that require wierd skills and most times and thats why they get those requirements.
You can survive without faking resume if
(1) Keep trying hard for direct jobs and meet minimum standards
(2) Be competitive, try to crack the googles and microsofts multi layer interviews, go back to basics and learn and work hard
(3) If you are subject to cap - work around it. Look for options.
(4) Increase your skill base. Do projects at home on your laptop. Go to open source or google user groups and gain more knowledge.
Make a body shopper dependent on your skills. Get selected for a contract job without faking resume and then carry your body shopper to sign the corp to corp contract. You can keep your skill and update as well as do body shopping without faking resume.
So if you blame body shopping companies for the mess, it will directly feed into anti immigrants as they want reasons to get back into their lazy easy job lifestyle and get rid of the competitive H1bs.
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NolaIndian32
09-01 12:18 PM
Congrats to all those who have received their approvals. Do you get a "Card Production Ordered" email or "Welcome" email or both?
My attorney got an e-mail, i haven't gotten an e-mail yet. But i checked my online case status, which says card production ordered, should have card in 30 days time. My atty said that they are having some trouble right now with card production, so maybe that is why it says 30 days instead of 10 business days as it did in the past.
My attorney got an e-mail, i haven't gotten an e-mail yet. But i checked my online case status, which says card production ordered, should have card in 30 days time. My atty said that they are having some trouble right now with card production, so maybe that is why it says 30 days instead of 10 business days as it did in the past.
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abhisam
05-12 04:48 PM
Just recieved a notification from USCIS that my EAD card production has been ordered. that was pretty fast!
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akshayae
05-19 05:31 PM
Called 4 of the offices and spoke to the staffers at each office. They seem to know the Group !
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m.anderson
05-25 01:00 PM
I would like to join as well. I do have my case number also.
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somegchuh
06-29 05:15 PM
ok so essentially this drastic forward movement of dates means that people who have really old PD's will get screwed as the dates will beocome unvailable for a few months and then like 2005 the dates will go back to 1999 and then take another 6 months or 1 year to come back to 2001-2002 timeframe.
As much as I want everyone to have the benefit of EAD/AP with this date movement, this date movement is going to create serious trouble for those who got stuck in BEC's. Either they won't have the opportunity to apply 485 because they are still stuck or if they managed to file 485 after years of agony they will be stuck in 140/485 queues. Ahhh the wonderful pain of US green card. Sometimes it makes you wonder how much worth it really is :(
They wont adjudicate the applications until the quota for your country and category becomes current for your PD.
As much as I want everyone to have the benefit of EAD/AP with this date movement, this date movement is going to create serious trouble for those who got stuck in BEC's. Either they won't have the opportunity to apply 485 because they are still stuck or if they managed to file 485 after years of agony they will be stuck in 140/485 queues. Ahhh the wonderful pain of US green card. Sometimes it makes you wonder how much worth it really is :(
They wont adjudicate the applications until the quota for your country and category becomes current for your PD.
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01-04 03:36 PM
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she81
06-30 01:37 AM
July 2nd all will be in same boat.
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syzygy
07-11 05:29 PM
I think once couple of senators start rocking our issue others will start supporting too.
We need to acknowledge her support and do something to convey our happiness/gratitude over her reaction to this mess.
We need to acknowledge her support and do something to convey our happiness/gratitude over her reaction to this mess.
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pd052009
03-22 06:30 AM
^^^^^
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NolaIndian32
04-14 01:32 PM
Team IV Members will get details of fundraising ideas in the Welcome Package once the Membership has been processed.
Here is a glimpse of some of these fun ideas which can be done by Families or Groups of Team IV Members:
1. Pot Luck Dinner - charge guests $10 cover charge (check payable to Immigration Voice). Make this special by picking a specific cusine like Italian or Indian.
2. Coffee Hour - invite your friends over for coffee, while coffee is on the house, sell baked goods by the slice or by the pan.
3. Family Membership - get the kids involved with some arts and crafts activity like customizing plastic Christmas globes/decorations and sell these to friends/co-workers. Everyone wants a customized Christmas tree ornament!
Sound like fun to you, well sign up with Team IV. You get to spend some quality time with friends and family, raise money for IV and by walking/running, lead a healthy lifestyle.
Here is a glimpse of some of these fun ideas which can be done by Families or Groups of Team IV Members:
1. Pot Luck Dinner - charge guests $10 cover charge (check payable to Immigration Voice). Make this special by picking a specific cusine like Italian or Indian.
2. Coffee Hour - invite your friends over for coffee, while coffee is on the house, sell baked goods by the slice or by the pan.
3. Family Membership - get the kids involved with some arts and crafts activity like customizing plastic Christmas globes/decorations and sell these to friends/co-workers. Everyone wants a customized Christmas tree ornament!
Sound like fun to you, well sign up with Team IV. You get to spend some quality time with friends and family, raise money for IV and by walking/running, lead a healthy lifestyle.
jasmin45
07-11 05:12 PM
Some of the interviews with USCIS officials on july bulletin feaso, noted saying "not waiting for security clearence" adjudicated the cases working overtime during end of June. I guess all this will play against and they are in deep trouble now.
lincoln
01-17 10:17 PM
I have followed the activity at this site for a few weeks now. The Indian community in the US is probably the most well to do and educated of all the minorities. Yet history repeats itself. Most are more concerned about esoteric subjects, nuclear treaties etc than the plight of the people here from their own country. If all the Indian community naturalized or not would stand up for this cause, people would listen. They would be forced to. But as always divided we fall. Somehow once this dash for permanent residence is over for people, they not only lose sight of their own struggle but also of the thousands of others involved. How many members on this site are actually green card holders or citizens?
I do hope that everyone here endeavors to contribute with the same vigor ever after he or she has obtained his permanent residence. Immigration will always be a struggle and all should be united for the people who will come and face this daunting task over the years.
I live in Virginia and I have meet many of these so-called “Indian American” organizations who claim to be active in DC. None of these orgs of “established” Indian-Americans (IA) wants to help on green card delay issue. “established” IAs and their so-called active “Indian American” orgs are totally useless. Most IAs, who contribute to these orgs, make their contribution because these IA orgs get them opportunities for photo-ops with lawmakers or people of influence; and these IAs are happy with just their pictures with some Senator or congressman. These guys then probably show these pictures to their family and friends to give an impression that they are well connected and powerful. These people, some of them are doctors, do not want anything to do with our issue. Yes, nuclear issue draws their attention as it “sounds” like an “important” issue and makes them look more “important”, working on an “important” issue. And their contribution to Indian-American orgs is simply a hogg wash, just to get an opportunity for some useless pictures. I have seen these people and these orgs operate very closely and none of these so called “Indian-American” orgs and these established Indian-Americans is of any use at all. I was also told by another fellow that some of these Indian Orgs in DC are front for their businesses. We are dealing with selfish idiotic egoistic XXXXXXXX…. So rnanchal, you are right, these Indian Americans are a “big force”…. but only to click their digital cameras to take pictures with the lawmakers. This “big force” has repeatedly refused to help on green card delay issue.
Totally agree with the philosophy of IV that if we have to do something, we have to organize to fix our own problems. I live in Virginia and had a few opportunities to attend events on the Hill. With what I have seen, I can tell you that we can organize and make a massive difference in this debate. And it would be not just foolish, but totally irrational to depend on anybody (including so called “Indian American” orgs in DC) to work on the issue of green card delays.
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lincoln, Please do not use any profanity. Please be civil and make use of non-offensive language to express your opinion.
I do hope that everyone here endeavors to contribute with the same vigor ever after he or she has obtained his permanent residence. Immigration will always be a struggle and all should be united for the people who will come and face this daunting task over the years.
I live in Virginia and I have meet many of these so-called “Indian American” organizations who claim to be active in DC. None of these orgs of “established” Indian-Americans (IA) wants to help on green card delay issue. “established” IAs and their so-called active “Indian American” orgs are totally useless. Most IAs, who contribute to these orgs, make their contribution because these IA orgs get them opportunities for photo-ops with lawmakers or people of influence; and these IAs are happy with just their pictures with some Senator or congressman. These guys then probably show these pictures to their family and friends to give an impression that they are well connected and powerful. These people, some of them are doctors, do not want anything to do with our issue. Yes, nuclear issue draws their attention as it “sounds” like an “important” issue and makes them look more “important”, working on an “important” issue. And their contribution to Indian-American orgs is simply a hogg wash, just to get an opportunity for some useless pictures. I have seen these people and these orgs operate very closely and none of these so called “Indian-American” orgs and these established Indian-Americans is of any use at all. I was also told by another fellow that some of these Indian Orgs in DC are front for their businesses. We are dealing with selfish idiotic egoistic XXXXXXXX…. So rnanchal, you are right, these Indian Americans are a “big force”…. but only to click their digital cameras to take pictures with the lawmakers. This “big force” has repeatedly refused to help on green card delay issue.
Totally agree with the philosophy of IV that if we have to do something, we have to organize to fix our own problems. I live in Virginia and had a few opportunities to attend events on the Hill. With what I have seen, I can tell you that we can organize and make a massive difference in this debate. And it would be not just foolish, but totally irrational to depend on anybody (including so called “Indian American” orgs in DC) to work on the issue of green card delays.
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lincoln, Please do not use any profanity. Please be civil and make use of non-offensive language to express your opinion.