GC Sponsorship

[mbasense]

They will not make it current. They may make it near-current but not actually current. I gather the reason is because they do not want EB2I filing for 140+485 concurrently, which you can only do if dates are current.

just for understanding, why wouldn't they want concurrent filing?

i have another somewhat unrelated query..

my employer informed me that they won't pay the legal fees for the 485 filing for my wife..is that a normal practice or is it my employer playing cheap again? getting a little frustrated with their attitude...

thanks as always

[makmohan]

just for understanding, why wouldn't they want concurrent filing?

i have another somewhat unrelated query..

my employer informed me that they won't pay the legal fees for the 485 filing for my wife..is that a normal practice or is it my employer playing cheap again? getting a little frustrated with their attitude...

thanks as always

Same with my employer. Paid my 485 fees, not my wife's.
FYI - It makes complete business sense for them.

- Makmohan

[imdeng]

My employer does not pay for any 485 filing at all - and they are usually quite generous. If your employer pays any part of 485 filing then consider yourself better situated than average.

About concurrent filing, I think the reason is mainly that with concurrent filing with so much backlog on the books, it may be possible for somebody who files 140+485 today to get GC before somebody with PD in late 2007 (for the present EB2IC case). I think USCIS/DOS are fine with some deviation in FIFO (matter of months that is happening right now) - but years of deviation that might result from concurrent filing would be too much.

just for understanding, why wouldn't they want concurrent filing?

i have another somewhat unrelated query..

my employer informed me that they won't pay the legal fees for the 485 filing for my wife..is that a normal practice or is it my employer playing cheap again? getting a little frustrated with their attitude...

thanks as always

[vizcard]

I have to consider myself lucky. The employer pays for both primary and dependent (no children though), including the medicals. They fill out the forms - we don't have to do anything. Recently, they gave us a web portal, where we simply have to upload all the documents and that's pretty much the end of GC hassle for us (except for the part of actually going to FP).

Although this comes up strings attached - 18 months of stint, or we pay the whole thing back including the expenses going back to initial stages. Back when they filed, they sent me a letter indicating my "total compensation" for the year, and the "immigration expenses" were in excess of $8000. Including the I485 expenses, it will be a sizable chunk.

I had the exact same thing. Although my lawyers suggested we FedEx the copies rather than upload them. I guess they didn't want to spend money printing. My Firm gave us an indication that the complete GC process would be between 8 - 12K with a 18 or 24 month post GC stay. If I don't quit before that time, I don't think I'll even quit this company

[mbasense]

My employer does not pay for any 485 filing at all - and they are usually quite generous. If your employer pays any part of 485 filing then consider yourself better situated than average.

Same with my employer. Paid my 485 fees, not my wife's.
FYI - It makes complete business sense for them.

- Makmohan

This is my understanding.

I will answer second one first. 485 stage is not the concern of the employer. Employer is only responsible for first two stages i.e, Labour and I-140. I-485 is the responsibility of the employee. It is up to the company if they want to bear the expenses and file for everyone, or only primary or none. My employer takes care of everything except medicals for dependents with a restriction. If i leave them before the mentioned time, I will have to pay all the expenses incurred for them on GC.

Now the first one. USCIS has limited source of income and so have limited number of officers adjudicating the files. If filed concurrent, the resources are split to process these applications else they can use these officers atleast to process EAD and AP petitions. Already we are talking about USCIS not able to process I-485 in time and use all the visa numbers for GC and so DOS is sending notices to people in 2011.

So i feel this is the reason, they don't want another head ache of applications to come in at this point of time.

Your employer looks relatively nice atleast they are paying for primary.

thanks Kanmani, imdeng, narendrarao,makmohan... never imagined my employer and 'nice' would go together in one sentence, , but i never thought i'd be current in 2012 too!

about concurrent filing, work load makes sense, but concurrent filing might help with getting a better estimate of the filers out there, humble two cents