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Entries for September, 2008

2 year EAD’s require I-140 approvals now

Two leading law firms have reported that the USCIS now requires that the I-140 be approved before 2-year EAD’s will be issued. Some of us may have been lucky and already received it.
http://www.murthy.com/news/n_2yrerr.html
More reason for USCIS to reinstate premium processing for I-140’s. Those that need the EAD will choose to go with premium processing, thereby [...]

USCIS Processing Dates Goof-up?

Notice the dates say “as of July 31, 2008″. Now even the USCIS posting dates are retrogressing ;).  I hope someone corrects this mess.
https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=TSC
https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/jsps/Processtimes.jsp?SeviceCenter=NSC
The actual processing dates on the page does not appear to have changed..

Finally a response from the USCIS for the I-140 processing delay

Chris B from the USCIS Leadership Journal Team responded to an angry comment by an Anonymous immigrant about the processing delay on the USCIS Director’s blog post on the leaderhip journal.
The comment by the Anonymous user on 9/25 was:
It’s a well known fact that no body pay too much attention to the post here.. If [...]

Obama responds to immigration survey questionnaire

http://www.promigrant.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=422
McCain’s response is yet to arrive. It is interesting to see Obama come out in the clean with his views on immigration. It is also good to see him support comprehensive immigration reform. Overall, though a little too diplomatic, leaving room for him to sway considerably if he gets to the White House, his opinions [...]

More analysis coming soon..

http://www.Trackitt.com has a tracker for all sorts of immigration petitions, including the I-140 and I-485. Their trackers are a necessary tool for immigrants, in the absence of any estimates for petition adjudication from the USCIS on many applications.
There are some limitations with the trackers though. They do not allow us to filter by Service Center, [...]

Two more EB3 I-140’s from NSC approved today

http://www.trackitt.com/discuss/140/87773089/
http://www.trackitt.com/discuss/140/53498917/
More reason to believe that NSC is approving I-140’s based on Labor filing date for EB-3’s.
For EB-2 filers, I am not sure what’s going on. Yesterday, there was an approval for a non-concurrent I-140 filing that was applied in May 2008, while there are plenty of from June and July 2007 EB2 filers that are [...]

Is it OK to change careers after getting an EB Green Card?

This has been a point of debate at many forums and groups. According to Rajiv Khanna, a reputed Immigration Attorney, YES. See his blog post -
Q1. Can a legal permanent resident(LPR) change career after say one year from his AOS approval to an entirely different field from the one for which his labor and his [...]

USCIS Ombudsman Teleconference Topics

The Ombudsman’s office acts as a channel for immigrants to communicate with the USCIC and regularly recommends improvements to the legal immigration process.
I wrote to them to include the I-140 Processing Delay and Request To Reinstate Premium Processing as a topic for a future conference. You can suggest the topic for future USCIS Ombudsman Teleconferences [...]

Want to talk to the USCIS Director?

Acting Director of USCIS Jonathan “Jock” Scharfen writes regular blog posts on the dhs.gov blog Leadership
Journal. Read his blog post on USCIS Processing Questions relating to Green Cards, Naturalization cases and I-140 processing.
First, I am glad that the Acting Director is taking the time out to communicate with the immigrant community. It’s a very [...]

100 votes and counting…

We have 100 voters that expressed their answers to the poll. THANK YOU for your support. The more votes we have, and the more posts and comment about this delay, the more our chances of getting noticed
Here are some ways to reach out to the powers to be:
1. I was told that Immigration Voice is [...]