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Entries Tagged ‘EAD’

Start a business while waiting for your green card

There are plenty of us that got into the green card waiting line in 2007 or earlier. To me, it feels like it just happened, but it’s almost 3 years!! And we’re still in line, which hasn’t moved an inch. Many of us have an EAD (employment authorization document) as a result of being in [...]

New USCIS.gov site launched with improved features

The new USCIS Directory, , announced the launch of the new http://www.uscis.gov website today.
Today our agency took a major step forward to put these ideas into action. After much hard work, including substantial feedback from the public, we launched a new and vastly improved USCIS.gov website. This new one-stop-shop will provide a range of tools [...]

The Country’s Apathy towards its Immigrants

**** This post was contributed by em. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us Em. *******
Hi,
Today I am writing because I feel very low and lost. I had tried coming up and working with representatives on some sort of arrangement to expedite Immigration to US.  However, nothing is paning out right.
Maybe today I’d like to [...]

Moving to San Diego using AC21

I haven’t posted on this blog in weeks now. Too busy with tons of things going on in my personal and professional lives I guess. Professionally, I took up a job in San Diego, CA. I am excited about the move. It was a difficult decision because I am going from being a generalist to a [...]

I-140, I-485, N-400 and I-765 Backlog Statistics for Year 2008

Backlogs for I-140 have remained close to the 140,000 mark for over a year. Recently, it has reduced to a few thousand under 140,000, providing some hope for us. But the EAD renewal application surge and the fact that all of these EAD’s need to be adjudicated within 120 days, is likely to put more [...]

Prepare for more delay…

More reasons why it is unlikely that I-140 or for that matter, I-485 processing will continue to remian sluggish (it can’t get any worse, it’s rockbottom already for most of us)
1. There was a surge in EAD Renewal applications in August 2008. USCIS plicy requires applicants to apply a maximum of 120 days in advance [...]

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 [...]