I think this is the original video.Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v108126019cxrJJ9fa
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I think this is the original video.Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v108126019cxrJJ9fa
Spectator ,
Given there will be no spillover from EB2RoW ,will Eb2 the dates move to Aug 2007 in Oct visa bulletin ? Where will EB2I stabilize in FY2017 ?
Q - There was a video posted on youtube where ITServ alliance members were having a meeting and Rahul Reddy (Houston attorney) and Intellisofttech CEO Satish Manduva (https://www.linkedin.com/in/satish-manduva-27080b) were talking about the fact that if people get EAD right after filing for 140, it would be a big detriment to their company and they were planning to file a lawsuit against this provision that would have helped people like us stuck in backlogs. Rahul Reddy was also asking them to "take control" and push this forward and asked 100K to be set aside.Quote:
Originally Posted by qesehmk
The desi suckers who came here on H4/H1/F1 etc themselves are trying to ruin our lives; scumbags. I wish everyone goes there an updates their reviews on google.
Thank you smuggymba.Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
Unfortunately EVERYBODY understands this game except the sheeples that are H1B folks. Friends - wake up. I understood this long time back in 2004 and fought with my HR. My exact words to my HR were "I am not a slave".
Friends - tell that you yourself first. The problem today is that almost everybody here has a 6 figure package --- some of you probably have a 300K-500K package. But don't let that blind you. Your worth is more than that damn package. Freedom is invaluable.
I am not here to give you a sermon. This video just confirms what we already know. The question is - as an individual what is the worth of your freedom? Fight back ... take on this unjust system. Use that video in the courts. You are wrong in believing that there are no lawyers who will fight for you. That is absolutely not true. You just haven't found one yet.
Thanks Sub. Welcome to forum. Why dont you file your wife's green card in Family category. She will get her GC yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sub#Ash
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Originally Posted by YTeleven
Any changes in the update ?
Q, What freedom are you talking about? Just getting a green card doesn't set anybody free. For example, after getting green card, try quitting the job and sitting at home OR stop making a mortgage payment, etc. and then one will realize how superficial this freedom is! One still has to be slave to his/her employer, or may be if you change one...then to the next employer! The true freedom comes with only complete financial independence, and then GC doesn't make much difference! My two cents...Quote:
Originally Posted by qesehmk
Good point Vedu. I do agree with you on your broader viewpoint. One can take the same even further and beyond financial freedom and ask if one is really free!! Right?Quote:
Originally Posted by vedu
I was only talking about the slavery that H1B has become. I personally felt truly freed when I received my own GC long time back. I just hated the fact that I was tied to an employer, I was given a different badge than regular employees, I couldn't physically go into certain office locations, I had to always worry about visa stampings, couldnt bring the courage to buy a house and so on and so forth.
Q, I know and agree with what you are referring to. Sorry for diverting the main topic of discussion. I am still waiting for my own GC, but was fortunate to receive EAD by sheer luck once when they temporarily moved the dates all the way to April, 10. Since then life has certainly been easier!Quote:
Originally Posted by qesehmk
Don't be sorry. Exchange of thoughts is welcome and refreshing!Quote:
Originally Posted by vedu
On a more religious point of view for vedu's comment about freedom. The lack of "freedom" is destined for human beings. :-)
From Bible:
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To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
LoL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by gcq
Unless you are a swami / baba / priest / or a government babu. Then you get to eat without toiling at all.
I have been following date movement very closely since Sept 2015. It has been very frustrating after every VB. Really fed up. 12 years is a long time. Looking back, I feel I have sacrificed a lot for this. Hope life turns better after I get GC (god knows when). Talking of freedom, at least I am free from watching this stupid date movement.
I feel we must educate every new person coming from our country India ... what is in store. This is absolutely ridiculous. I make it a point to tell everybody to seriously think before taking this step. Coming for higher education here ... looking for an opening thereafter is like death trap.
Q I am in same boat as Sub#Ash. Can you please elaborate how a spouse can get GC faster in family category as compared to waiting for I-485 approval. F2A dates are somewhere in 2009. So if we apply for our spouse in family category, she shall have a PD of 2016. Please correct me if I am wrong.
We were married before my I-485 was filed; My wife was visiting india when I got current (PD Jan 2009: EB2-I); We missed the window for her hoping that retrogression was temporary.
Had we known that dates will never return; She could have flown back. Anyway that is history.
Even though I have my GC for a while; I still visit this forum to get trends for my wife's pending I-485 :)
Thanks for your help.
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Originally Posted by qesehmk
I thought the date was in 2014/1015. So I checked Aug bulletin and yes I am right.Quote:
Originally Posted by iamsam
What am I missing?
Q
My bad; Yes the dates are in Nov 14 for F2A. But they have only moved ~9 months in an year.
So on that logic; if we apply today for my wife, it will take another 2 years to get GC under F2A. The dilemma is whether EB2-I will reach Jan 5, 2009 (my PD) by then or not?
Or should i just wait to be a citizen by 2019 and then apply for her and get her GC right away and meanwhile we wait for her EB2 and stay on EAD/AP.
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Originally Posted by qesehmk
Q and others can provide a better response. But from what I see, as long as it is legal to have both FB application and EB application in parallel, it is advisable to to apply in F2A. Take advantage of both routes. You never know which one is going to move faster. In case you have to wait till you get your Citizenship, you can upgrade the F2A application to get it approved as the spouse of a citizen.Quote:
Originally Posted by iamsam
Hello All,
Seems like there is a petition going on for recapture of unused visa numbers from the past. A friend sent me this via whatsapp; please try and sign this. I know its a broken record but it doesn't harm to sign it.
QUOTING
H1-B,L1,F1 and EAD holders
Please spend 2 minutes of your time to help yourself!
Skilled Immigrants of America has opened a petition to white house to provide update on I140 based EAD and Recapture 500K wasted Green cards
1) How can you help yourself?
We need 100k signs by end of Aug 10, 2016. This is time sensitive!
a)We need your support by you and asking family members, friends to sign the petition. By going to below link and enter name and email details and then click the confirm link in the email.
http://tinyurl.com/z7aqbgr
Or scan this QR code with QR scanner app from your phone.
b) Share above URL in your Facebook timeline and ask tag all your friends to sign the petition and ask them to do the same in their face book timeline.
a) Copy the petition link, paste in your time line. At bottom of your screen click Tag friends/people and select the friends and click Post.
2) What happens after 100k signs are reached?
We will get an official update from white house on I140 EAD and recapture of 500k wasted green cards which will change your life in USA!!
3) How you will benefit?
a) Recapture of 500k Green cards will fetch you green cards within 1 year instead of 20 to 50 years wait time.
b) Using I140 EAD, you can change any employer without H1B visa, not have to be dependent on employer.
Join skilled immigrants of America Face book group. We have 100k members! Go to this link and click join Group:
http://tinyurl.com/FBSK2016
The end result of petition is a standard boring response from White House. Yes, signing is a waste of time. It has been many times before, you can read the response from WH on those.
Absolutely. I wouldnt suggest anybody abandon EB path.Quote:
Originally Posted by gcq
smuggymba,Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
As I said there is no harm in trying. Maybe we haven't made a big enough noise earlier or maybe this will be that one more time that does it. The more signatures we get the better chances we have. It takes less time to sign it then grabbing coffee at work and given the stakes we have in this, its certainly worth trying if one can. Even god helps those who try to help themselves.
Sorry almost but it's a waste of time; trust me.Quote:
Originally Posted by almost
The end results is something like this - The White House is committed to making America competitive in the world and we understand the importance of high-skilled workers etc. etc. etc.etc. etc. ...............that's it, nothing else. The outcome is a 5-6 liner standard response.
Quote:
Originally Posted by smuggymba
smuggymba,
I fully understand and appreciate what you say; I believe I accepted that in my first post itself. The fact remains that if you have enough muscle behind it people eventually listen. Honestly, it takes less time to sign it then to keep making a moot point. Also, pessimism has never accomplished anything; the resolve should go up with every failure and eventually you will succeed.
http://www.murthy.com/2016/07/20/pre...f-information/Quote:
Originally Posted by gcq
Quote:
On June 30, 2016, President Obama signed a law aimed at strengthening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Freedom of Information Improvement Act of 2016 implements policies to increase the transparency by the U.S. federal government. These important changes come on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the original FOIA going into effect.Background: 2009 Presidential Mandate
On his first day in office, President Obama issued a memorandum that directed government agencies to favor disclosure to the public. The memorandum set forth a policy of timely information disclosure and increased openness and transparency by the federal government.
Increased FOIA Filings and Resources Since 2009
Since 2009, the government has processed more than 4.6 million FOIA requests and made publically available more than 180,000 federal datasets and collections. There is now a centralized FOIA resource and a shared FOIA case-management system and public portal. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also has a mobile FOIA app, due to the large volume of immigration-related FOIA requests.
The Obama administration has provided extensive FOIA outreach, established a FOIA ombudsman, and formed a federal advisory committee for FOIA. More details on these activities are available in the MurthyDotCom NewsBrief, Improved FOIA System for Immigration-Related Requests (20.Mar.2014).
Summary of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016
The FOIA Improvement Act lays a foundation for one consolidated FOIA portal for all federal government agencies; prior to the enactment of the bill, 12 agencies were already using this online system. The law also curtails how and to what extent the federal government can deny a records request under any of the nine exemptions provided for under FOIA. The new law further places a 25-year limit on withholding information under "exemption 5," which allows the government to deny a FOIA request for privileged inter- and intra-agency documents, such as privileged attorney work product. Prior to this, such documents could be withheld indefinitely.
The FOIA Improvement Act also creates a new chief FOIA officers council to work with stakeholders inside and outside of the government to identify and address the biggest problems the public encounters when trying to access records via FOIA. The council also looks into the "release to one is a release to all" presumption by having all documents released three or more times under FOIA online.
Conclusion
The streamlined policies and transparency should help to obtain information through FOIA filings. This is of particular importance in the immigration context, given the massive number of immigration-related FOIA requests that are made each year.
Any Shashank Redemption fans?
Write a letter every week until Govt decides to give atleast part of what you want.
Then you write a letter every day until Govt decides to give what you want.
Similarly:
Open the same petition every month (with updates saying, Govt's empty words to last petition does not help in any way) and get to 100K signatures. They will not be giving the same answer after few months.
Just my thought.
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Originally Posted by almost
Great post!!Quote:
Originally Posted by skpanda
Do it methodically .. with discipline ... and don't forget to publicize wherever possible. Sitting idle is going to take you nowhere for sure. You might as well do something.
Spec,
You have maintained the trackitt approvals at http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...2012-vs-FY2011
The EB2ROW approvals are lesser than what they were at the same time last year. I do not understand why the EB2ROW retrogression happened. Either the trackitt to real world representation changed OR there is seriously something wrong and we might be in for a surprise where EB2ROW under utilizes and gives some SO to EB2I. Your take ?
I know the 140-EAD petitions came several times before but it never crossed the 62K signs though there are more than 100k affected people in this category.
Here is the new petition, please sign it:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...0k-green-cards
I urge our F1-OPT friends to take this URL to their groups and sign it to cross 100k Signs before 10-Aug-2016.
You might think how is this useful to you as this is related to 140-EAD.
But after 2 years from now you will be in H1 Q and eventually in GC Q with 140, you will then need this desperately.
As of today 77,401 signed. only 22.5k signatures required.
please help in signing this petition.
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Originally Posted by YTeleven
Tatikonda / YTQuote:
Originally Posted by tatikonda
Would you like us to blast an email to WhereismyGC users?
If so please draft content and reply right here.
I personally think that stating a lie in the petition is not good.Quote:
Originally Posted by whereismygc
The petition states "Thousands of green cards are being wasted every year, with an estimated 500,000 green cards wasted so far, while the highly-skilled workers continue to wait in a queue that may take 20-50 years.".
"are being" is present progressive tense. I do not believe EB green cards are wasted these days. They used to be wasted. I hope someone corrects it.
It may not be a lie. As I said - last year in 2015 - one can't reconcile EB3-I and EB2-I inventory reduction vs visas allocated. There is something fishy there. I do believe that is wastage.
I do not know whoever wrote that petition has actually done the calculation or is just shooting it off in the hope that it will stick.
So those claims may be unsubstantiated but I do not believe they are lies.
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Originally Posted by Jagan01
Interesting you say that. I do remember that when the 2015 report came out originally, Section 5 "Immigrant Visas issued..." was not published. We all thought it was because of the lawsuit going on at that time. Later when it did come out, we all saw the misallocation of EB3 Gcs to EB2.Quote:
Originally Posted by qesehmk
Try to reconcile visas allocated vs inventory reduction. I'd be curious what you find. I have done that. But want to know if others see what I see.Quote:
Originally Posted by EB3Iwaiting
EB3Iwaiting,Quote:
Originally Posted by EB3Iwaiting
Table V is almost always the last to be published and has been as much as 2 months later in previous years. There was nothing new this year.
Q,Quote:
Originally Posted by qesehmk
I'm not sure where you are going with this.
I've also carried out this exercise some time ago and the EB2/EB3-I numbers reconcile to within about 0.2k cases over 14.3k total approvals for FY2015.
The exercise also suggested reductions in the EB3-I inventory related to porting in FY2015 was about 3.8k, split 25% for cases within the COD that EB3-I eventually reached for the FY (22DEC04) and 75% for cases beyond the COD that EB3-I eventually reached.
Spec and experts,Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
Now that 2016 turned out to be a damp squib, is there any hope from October onwards for EB2I ? I am EB2I with PD of April 17 2009 and got EAD in Sep 2014 and have been waiting since then. Any projections for hope for upcoming FY17 that starts from October 2016 ?
saager,Quote:
Originally Posted by saagar_is_cool
I am relatively pessimistic for at least the first half of FY2017 (who'd have thought that of me!). None of the issues affecting EB1, EB2-WW, EB4 or EB5 that made FY2016 so difficult will have changed substantially. **
PERM certifications have continued at a higher than normal rate to date. Given there is then a 6-12 month delay from certification to obtaining LPR, we might expect ROW approvals to remain high through at least H1 FY2017. The graph below might help to explain what I am saying, based on a 7 month delay e.g a PERM certification in July 2016 might be reflected as an I-485 approval in February 2017.
Attachment 1060
As a side note, it's interesting that EB2-ROW approvals pretty much dried up on Trackitt after the August VB was published. That suggests the FAD was internally retrogressed immediately.
Eventually, the level of certifications should subside as the certification times reduce. When that happens, there will be a lag before the benefit is seen as lower EB2-ROW I-485 approvals.
In a FY where there is little spillover, it is really quite difficult for EB2-I to make meaningful progress. There is always going to be a certain amount of porting regardless of COD movement. In a low spillover FY, this represents a much higher % of available visas, which in turn hinders forward movement of the COD.
We need to see the next two USCIS inventories to assess the situation better.
** The EB5 Regional Center program is due to sunset at the end of FY2016. Since almost all EB5 visas are issued under this program, sunsetting it would potentially release a large number of EB5 visas. The sense of those speaking about the possibility, is that Congress will reauthorize the program for a short period while they pass tougher EB5 laws. Tougher laws (e.g. increasing the requirement from $1.0M and $0.5M to $1.2M and $0.8M might lower the number of future applications). However, there are already several years worth of pending applications, so no benefit would be derived in the immediate future.
My thoughts anyway - might not be worth much.
Spec,
As per the trackitt approvals data that you maintain, we are seeing lower number of approvals in all categories. What do you think about eB2ROW. They are currently utilizing less than what they did last year. If the trackitt to real world ratio is the same as last year, then we should get some SO from EB2ROW. Should't we ? Whats your take ?
Jagan,Quote:
Originally Posted by Jagan01
The fact that the EB2-ROW approvals dropped off immediately the August VB was announced is more indicative that actual approvals are higher than last year's Trackitt ratio would suggest. Therefore it's more likely that the Trackitt ratio is somewhat different this FY.
If spare visas were to be available to EB2-I in September, the FAD would have to move sufficiently far forward to use them. Everything CO has said to date does not suggest movement other than one week ahead of where EB3-I moves.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for miracles.
I have more faith in your trackitt data and lesser in CO's comments.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spectator
I am still hopeful that there might be some SO, or there will be an avalanche of EB2ROW approvals in September. I do not think that they have used up the annual quota for EB2ROW.
Thanks for your inputs.