********* THIS POST WAS WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED BY LISAKI ***********
Have you all checked the current visa bulletin for October 2009? It says that the cut-off date for EB3 is now JUNE 2002! Does this mean these people have waited for 7 years? Here is another question: The last year’s bulletin for the same month (October 2008) said the cut-off date was then JANUARY 2005. How is it possible that the date moved backward?
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September 16th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Hi Lisaki,
Answer to your questions.
1. Yes.
2. Yes. They call it retrogression. I call it THE ENDLESS WAIT.
Sorry, don’t kill the messenger.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
OK. So let’s assume that I’ll wait for 7 years. My H-1B will expire next March, so I’m going to apply for the extension. My understading is that this extension will last another 3 years. What will I do after that? Apply another 3 year extension or will it be 1 year extension? Each time we apply for an extension, it costs $$$. I’m getting very tired of even thinking about it.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
(IANAL)
Here an EB3 and his opinion. I’ve been in the Endless Waiting process for around 6 years. I’ve been on H1B for around 8.5 years, so yes, you’ll have to renew your H1B every year after the 6th year, as long as you have your GC process ongoing… I also already have the advance parole (AP), at some point you can move to AP and/or H1B, it depends on how flexible your lawyers/budget/company are…
For those in H1B that want to apply to GC (and will fall into one of the Endless Wait categories like EB3…) I remember my lawyer told me that if I started the process more than 2 years (verify that) before the end of the first 6 years of the H1B period, and the process is in Endless Wait, you can keep on reapplying for H1B every year… Forever and ever until you get The News, or until your company gets tired of you…
Let’s make a Circle of Patience, friends…
September 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Thank you for answering my questions. Here is another question. While you’re working with the H1B extention and waiting for the visa to become available, can I change the employer? For instance, if I lose your job, can I transfer the H1B?
September 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Uhm… I am not sure about this, but I am also interested in knowing it… Hopefully a person that has gone through the complicated process of changing an employer while on H1B may respond…
But considering the current situation of the economy, I don’t want to even imagine the big hassle if I lose the job…
September 17th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I have been in H1B for the last 10 years and under EB3 with priority date of June 2003. With my current employer in bankruptcy, i am wondering whether it was even worth coming to US!
So much for being the ‘land of opportunities’!
September 18th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I just ran across this site while searching for more info about the green card.
I’m from Italy. I’ve been in H1B since 2006 and applied for GC under EB3. My priority date is 29MAY07.
Do y’all have any idea how long I have to wait for the priority date to become current and how long it will take to receive the green card once I apply for adjustement of status considering I’m european?
thank you very much for your input.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Hi, same here, needed more info and found this website..I am from Hungary and right now waiting in line for a decision.. Have been on H1B, now under EB3, approved I-140 with a priority date 13/03/2007. We filed I-140 and I-485 together, based on my lawyer’s recommendation.
Any idea when will I get to hear anything with that priority date?? I really appreciate your input as well.
Good luck to you all!
September 18th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
The way these cut-off dates move is unpredictable, so no one can tell how long you’ll wait. And, sometimes it moves backward like now. And other times it just goes blank like it did for the last 6 months.
September 18th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Thanks Lisaki, that’s what I figured looking at the Bulletin but you never know maybe someone else has more or other information on this issue.
Thanks, have a good one!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 am
We asked this question to our lawyer of “how long” he said if we ever find out to let him know because we could become millionaires selling that info LOL.
On another note we are in the terrible situation described before. We were just waiting for our I-485 approval, our priority date is March 2005. My husband got laid of from his job (the company sponsoring the whole process) las july. Right now he is on AP and EAD. The lawyer said he needs to find another job with the same description and title (Go freaking figure…) ASAP. If we get our approval and he is not working in the company or a similar job for at least 6 months after green card approval, it is considered fraudulent, if they find out, the can revoke our GC and deport us. For that reason we would never even be able to think of becoming citizens because then they investigate since it was am employment based GC. So these bozos will consider our case fraudulent even though my husband worked for that company for 5 years and was laid off in the worst economy downfall of the US before he got his approval, just because their system is so inefficient that it delays processes endlessly. This system is so screwed up, that as long as you work for 6 months after GC approval you can live the rest of your life on welfare or unemployment and the be perfectly eligible to become a citizen, but us, who are hard worker, even if it is not in the specific position (you know how hard that is, specially now) we are delinquents. This is Screwed up big time and I am so disappointed with this country. We are on the process to going to Canada. The US can take their GC and put it where the sun don’t shine!
Sorry this was so long, just wanted to vent with people who understood.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
…same for November 2009, stuck on 1JUNE02…what an endless wait!
http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_4576.html
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I’m under eb3 of course…but my question is…does it worth it do a master and then start all the process again under eb2? I need a piece of advice from you guys before I start getting crazy…
thanks a bunch…;)
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:57 am
I would like to know if someone knows if you get a visa if your priority date is may 2004 and i think cut off date for march 2010 might be april 2005 i went trougt all the process i even went to the enterview i waiting for 485 to be aprove
if someone knows about this it will be really helpful thank you