bradley emmanuel

Hi,
I called up and spoke to the IO and asked him about the rejection of I-485 due to old fees and he defended that the application would be rejected without the new fee, I tried to explain him about the July bulletin 107 and that people who were on employment based category and whose dates were current should have used only the OLD FEES till August 17th, he did not agree about it and I did not force the issue!

If the IO officers don't agree about the right facts how would the people who just check the fee! I am sure that is why my application was rejected!

I am not sure what to do! Can somebody suggest anything!

How to let those people know that when we applied in August there was a bulletin which said that we can apply with old fee!

These are not "IO"s. These are called Customer Service Rep who are not hooked into the IO system. Their main purpose is to satisfy the mandate of servicing the Customer phone calls. There is no explicit mention of quality of service in the mandate. So go figure.

Let's push to achieve IV action items first!

Have you sent your 4 cards and the YouTube video?

^^^^

ok I'm not as good as Freddy (I think :) ) but here is my 2c

Manual adjustments in RAW Converter:
Temperature 6100
Tint +13
Exposure +0.65
Shadows 5
Brightness 50
Contrasat +50
Saturation +26

Curves 6 points

input 2 output 9
input 27 output 22
input 63 output 63
input 140 output 140
input 206 output 189
input 255 output 250
Photoshop:
Shadows/Hightlights
Shadows:
Amount 23%
Tonal Width: 29%
Radius 91px
Highlights:
Amount 44%
Tonal Width: 42%
Radius 47px
Adjustments:
Color Correction: +21
Midtond Contrast: -10

Unsharp Mask:
Amount 86%
Radius 1.0 px
Threshold: 4

Smart Sharpen:
Amount: 67%
Radius: 1.8
Remove: Lens Blur

removed dark spot, kinda get on my nerves :)

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Guys,
I am happy to share with you all that I applied my 485 on 1 week of June and it got approved today.

My PD was dec 2005. eb3. India.

Thought i would share with you all.:)

When you get approved, does it mean that you have to go for an interview?

After looking to so many threads on our forum regarding the receipt notice delay. IV have raised the same questions to USCIS. Today USCIS have come with the answers to your questions. We are told that USCIS has put additional resources to address the receipt notice delays.

Please visit

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=82b06a9fec745110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCR D

Travelling without recieveing receipt notice is still an unclear topic. uscis has given a vague answer on that

Friends,

Need help and suggestion.

To my surprise, today I got a electricity bill from Nov11 2008 to Jan23 2009 a total of :mad::mad::mad:$979.00 :mad::mad::mad:

I leave in a single bed room ground floor 785 Sq ft.

I have called the customer service for dispute and investigation.:mad::mad::mad:

Has any one encountered this kind of problems with electricity department. please enlighten !!!

:confused::confused::confused:

Pappu, Thanks for the link it is informative and looks like IV had raised the namecheck issue. Let us see if there are other members on IV still experiencing FBI check delay.

Maybe then a retouch of the issue will be helpful.

Hey! What about handsomes like me? Just kidding :). Wish you all Happy Diwali and properous new year.

I Wish God Give me Strength to Fight Legal Immigration Injustice.

When I Asked God for Strength, He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face - Swami Vivekanad

So, I know god is with me.

Wish all so deserved people Green Card this year.
This is the first time I came across.

Sorry to hear about the situation. I would suggest re-submitting the application under premium processing with the correct information and explain that you made a mistake with the earlier application. You should receive the approval in 15 days. I would not recommend taking chances by going to the visa interview with the petition having wrong details. This will be considered fraud even though it's a screw-up by your lawyer. Also, demand your lawyer to shell out the premium processing fee.

Famous Indian americans...

1. Are they influential Indian Americans?
2. If someone can post their mailing address and phone number, I can mail them like I did Rep/Senators of my area...

Thanks.

Is that really true? I am not so sure about that. I thought you can get unlimited H1B extension as long as you have your I-140 approved. Do you really have to be retrogressed? Can someone confirm this please.

If what you are saying is right then let's say that I have filed my I-485 already because PD is current and my H1B expires but haven't received my EAD yet, what would my status be then until I recieve EAD?

I gather that you can get a 3 year h1b extension when you have an approved I-140 and are retrogressed.

Update: I double checked this and you are right. Can get H1B extension after 6 years only if I-140 is approved and PD retrogressed or 365 have days have elapsed since the filing of labor. I guess the question now is what is your status if H1 has expired, I-485 is filed but EAD hasn't been received yet.

Thank you very much for your quick response. That is very sad though I would ask my lawyer to resubmit the application. My original document is with me in order to apply for H1 Visa at the Consular. At this point, I would send the original document back to my lawyer and ask him to do the premium process on my application. Another issue is that he refused to pay for the premium filing fee. He said that he would suggest me to find another lawyer in the case that he had to pay for my premium filing fee. He did not show any responsibilities on anything. Pls advise what I should do.

I changed jobs early this year with a 20% pay cut and with different titles and with different client type (private vs public). Got GC last month. No RFEs. I did not inform USCIS.

Before switching jobs, I checked with my attorney and made sure that I am covered, made sure that my previous employer will not revoke my approved I-140 and made sure that my current employer will cooperate with the process. Last month my GC got approved.

Good luck.

Are you generating the receipt numbers yourself ? :D


just using the code to predict the case numbers.

check it your self. just put any number on the "XX" part and go to uscis.

another interesting thing i found out, they are approving a lot of ead from those filed on june 30, 2007 but then again they may not be Emplyment based application.

Opening this new thread due admin closed the other one.

Lets track June 07 filers.

Good luck !



TSC Jun 25

Waiting AP and GC.

Well - so NSC is doing I-140 for Apr 23rd and Texas is July 21st... I would have got my freedom by now if i had filed I-140 at Texas :) Another good thing in this Bulletin Vermont H1b extension processing have moved a lot - from Apr 23rd to Oct 1st 2007 - wow !!!

Good Luck folks!!

Thank you USCIS for giving me this power of prediction....alright all, now I can predict TSC next processing dates that will be published in(Feb 08) so that we dont have to wait till next month: dates will be June 23rd if processing dates published exactly on Feb 14th, 2008 & it's going to June 25th if published on Feb 26th, 2008...

So having said that, now you all can do math on how ling it's going to take to process Aug 07 applied 140 cases.....perfect example any one can refer to or meaning of hopeless service=TSC

what sucks?
the page?? (i didnt even finished it :()
or what they did to me ( yeah, that sucks) :(

and i was only going to recieve 200 dlls for that page, i know it WAS my first job , but i've learned the lesson and i'm going to ask the first half of the price at the begining and the other half at the end :evil:

the only thing makes me happy is that i almost make my 100th post :cowboy: :P

My case is totally different. We applied on July 2nd and my wife got her EAD last week but my EAD not yet approved. Is it normal?

Hi Folks,

What is the fastest and perhaps a little economic way to get documents over to chennai (Tamil Nadu) or Calicut (Kerala) from here in San Jose, ca.

USPS has this service called Express Mail ($27.95) or Priority Mail ($12.95)
I guess USPS is claiming 6-10 days (guess no gurantee) to india.

Other couriers seems to be $70+ (FedEx, UPS, DHL)..

Anyone has had good luck with USPS ? or do you suggest the couriers mentioned above ?

Need to get docs for an interview for parents on Feb 26th in Chennai...

Thanks in Advance for your reply !!

USPS is cheap and best...


There is one more thing even cheaper...

put it in a water tight bottle and throw it to the pacific ocean...and pray it will reach chennai.:D

I'm on the same boat.. I-129 & I-539 recd on 7/16 at VSC and LUD of 7/19
Hi,

I'm in the same boat as you (I140/I485/I131/I765 - filed concurrently). I'm trying to self file for my H1 extension. I was not sure about one question on form I-129 part 4.7 the question is

Have you ever filed an immigrant petition for any person in this petition?

Last year when I filed for H1 extension I had checked 'NO'

But now that I-140 is pending, I'm not sure if I should check 'YES' or 'NO'

I will appreciate if you can help me with this.

Thanks,