
Originally Posted by
nishant2200
I would put chances of you being current and getting EAD as 90% for next year. I would put chances of you getting green card as 50% next year. This if you stick with same job.
When you join a new employer, most employers start GC after a year, except if it's a consulting company or a small company with less strict rules, or if during hiring, you get to convince them about your situation, sometimes even set in stone place bulge. Suppose you manage to convince to start after six months, they would need to go for a recruiting effort and advertising campaign for the GC job position. Then they would file PERM labor. I am assuming this in total will take 6 months. So suppose you leave in September 2011, then in September 2012 you would have an approved PERM. Now if in September 2012, your date, April 2008, is current, which is a 50-50 chance as per me (it would be 90% few months earlier in 2012 assuming CO is doing some BTM), you can file 140 and 485 concurrently, or just file 140. Now, suppose your 140 takes 4 months to approve, then in January 2013, at which time around (few months after), I am putting 90% chance you would be current (again), and could get 485 approved or be able to file. If you had filed 485 concurrently, you would get GC in late 2012, early 2013, if not, then late mid 2013.
If staying with current employer is making your life miserable, and if you are going to get new job in a non consulting company, which shall be able to prove ability to pay and will do a bonafide recruiting campaign, then leave. Else just stick around and get done with it. One more year, you should get EAD.
ps: LOTR quote to inspire: “The quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail. But hope remains, if friends stay true.”