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  • gcisadawg
    02-10 08:30 PM
    I think, gcisadawg, the problem is the structure of the indian society. This is true with westerners too but as much true.

    An Indian/asian guy has to earn because he is perceived to be a bread winner. Unless he is properly settled he is not eligible for marriage.
    On the other hand, if a girl is not career-oriented she can still get good husbands depending on her personality and so on.
    And such girls invariably forfeit the right to send money to their parents. In such cases, one should not expect girl's parents to give her a share in their property. Its all clean.
    You have Indian house wives (many of them) but you have fewer house husbands. Even if your wife works, it is supplementary income and not the main.

    This is a complex equation and husbands and wives must understand the social structure we live in and adjust with each other.

    Well, couple of my friends are "house husbands" now...they got laid off and their wives are still working! :D

    Agreed, it is all situation based. As long as one is not forced, a couple can talk between themselves and come to an amicable solution.





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  • gapala
    09-09 10:55 PM
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    local business people who have a lot of black money. All of them together are keeping up the prices.

    The current middle class seems to realize that trying to save money in a bank in order to buy something is foolish since the paper money is losing its value over time. So they are either investing; or making purchases with borrowed money as long as they can make the EMI payments. Overall, the current middle class is not backing out of buying what they need for lack of money. (This trend will probably lead India in the same path as the US i.e. huge debt for everyone)[\QUOTE]

    I agree with your points. Just adding few comments.
    Huge debt for everyone? This is going to be the biggest problem because in US, we have a foundation for debt based economy (SSN, credit history, Credit score, credit ratings etc.) If you default the payment, you will have an effect and there will be an impact on future credit applications. There is nothing of this sort in India and the politicians will not allow such things to be setup as well. So essentially back to my point. Banks who lend money are at bigger risk of loosing it. There is nothing that they can do to report on consumer's default or fraud for that matter.

    Now per say consumer dump the property or bank attaches it for non payment of loan amount, Bank will be stuck with properties worth 1/4th for those crores that they loaned to people, maintenance will cost them more to prepare it for sale.

    In any account, there is a big problem ahead there.





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  • Milind123
    07-24 07:19 PM
    I keep reading people getting emails from USCIS. I don't remember providing my lawyer with my email address? When/where do you provide the email address? Tx





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  • coopheal
    05-04 06:31 AM
    call a few senator offices yesterday. they are saying since bill is not yet introduced, they do not have any position on the bill.



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  • Leo07
    11-09 01:55 PM
    Thanks to the glorious service of the Atlanta center :mad: I missed the I-485 bus by 7 days( Labor cleared on Aug end ). Many people with later PD's got cleared from the Chicago PERM center . Now I just watch as all members get their EAD's and AP's while I wait with nothing but hope and watch legislation after legislation fail in the senate and house , and the letters flying all over the place .

    Just so that you feel better...I missed by about the same time.

    Keep your hopes alive!





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  • ksach
    02-12 02:56 AM
    it means freedom and a respect for my education, my skills and my hard work.
    read my story below.

    -------------------------------------------------------

    America, the land of opportunity and freedom.

    These days when I hear America being any of the above, I usually
    sneer. 6 long years have thought me not to accept everything I hear.

    Back home, I had respect. I had a good education and a great job. I
    got an education from the best schools and the best colleges. I worked
    for a big multi-national with a big fat salary and lots of
    opportunities to travel to countries on work. I was a success. But I
    wanted to be more. I wanted to be global. I wanted to work in a
    different country for sometime. I loved seeing different cultures,
    seeing different places; I wanted to see the world. Thats when the
    offer for a job in the US came. I took it up because I could see the
    US of A, the land of the free, the land of opportunity, the land of
    the Cisco's and Microsofts and more importantly, the land of dreams. I
    thought a couple of years working away from home would do me no harm.
    Boy, was I wrong!!!!

    The first few years in my new country of residence were difficult. I
    worked for a startup with its crazy hours and insane schedules. Far
    from seeing new places, I was busy at work. But I did not complain. I
    liked the work and the company's passion to create something new. No
    longer was I working on the junk companies outsource to third world
    companies. I was working on the actual product, creating something
    that was not done before, something I could be proud off. I was busy
    at work, but it was not difficult to notice something, the Americans
    worked hard, the people with green card worked harder, but the people
    on H1-B worked hardest. I guess, the people on H1B had the most to
    lose. But I did not give a hoot. I had a product to deliver. I never
    had the time to think about my green card. I still wanted to go back
    to my country, maybe not right now, but I wanted to. Right now, my
    work was my priority and I would concentrate on that.

    Slowly the years went by, and unknowningly I started seeing the
    American Dream. I got a new car and expensive clothes, I started going
    out with my friends, visited new places, and more importantly I
    stopped feeling homesick. The apartment I shared with my friends was
    my new home. So when my company asked me if they could do my green
    card, I readily agreed.

    I should have seen the signs. There were many of them; but I chose to
    ignore. I should have know that people are exploited when I heard a
    top executive at my company say once that he expects everyone to work
    long hours and weekends because we had no options. The job market
    outside was bad and none of us could find jobs. I should have known
    that my cultural background mattered when the girl at the Albertson's
    counter did not even look up to me, but was very friendly with all the
    Americans ahead of me, or when an office colleauge introduced his girl
    friend to all americans but ignored the Indians. I chose to ignore all
    this, because I thought it does not affect me. As long as I did my
    work or followed the rule of the land, nothing else mattered. I was
    wrong again.

    Two things changed in 2005. My company went down and I got married. I
    was on H1B and had to find a job soon. I was already at the end of my
    H1B tenure so not many companies were interested. That is when I
    realized the disadvantage of being on an H1B. It did not matter that
    my resume was impressive. My H1B status was more important than my
    skill set. It it did not matter that I had already spent a lot years
    in this country and my green card had been filed. It was hard finding
    a job that would sponsor my H1B and my green card again. I did manage
    to find one. But I was not lucky on my home front. My wife could not
    work because she was on a dependent visa. She had given up a career in
    India to be with me, but reality hit soon when she started getting
    bored. She kept herself busy with books, TV and cooking. And life went
    on, hoping that we would get our green card soon and we would be free
    again. Free to find a job of my liking for me, and free to do any job
    for my wife.

    Its Feb 2007 now and there's still no sign of the green card. I
    stopped hoping for one. I dont care for one. All I care for now is my
    wife to be able to work in something she likes within any legal
    boundaries.

    Its been a long time since I legally came to this country. I was young
    and succesful then. And now as I cross another anniversary of my
    landing in the US, I reflect upon what I have gained. I have gained a
    big bank balance, a good car, a good lifestyle. What have I lost -
    plenty. I have lost my career, my freedom, my health, my marriage and
    my family. I have been stuck in the same job for many many years while
    all my friends have climbed up the corporate ladder back home in
    India. Its not easy working on an H1B. My marriage has suffered
    because my wife is unhappy that she cannot work, she's close to a
    breakdown, my health has suffered because of all the thinking, and my
    parents have sufferred because I have not been able to take care of
    them. I never have cried so much at my helplessness as I have cried in
    the last one year.

    One thing I have realized about the US is that it is no different than
    any country. Like any other country, the exploitable are always
    exploited. (The big companies are not willing to fight for the welfare
    of their employees. They fight to get more people into the country to
    exploit.) Like any other country, the only thing that gets politicians
    excited is money and votes. (Why do we need so money to lobby the
    politicians? Isn't freedom and justice reasons good enough?) Like any
    other country, it discriminates between the have and the have nots. It
    is a country that has no respect for people. (Ask anyone who goes for
    a visa stamping in the US embassy in India. I have seen old people and
    ladies with small kids spend hours in the hot Chennai Sun to enter the
    embassy for an appointment, just to be spoken rudely by the Visa
    office. There was not even a shelter outside to block the sun. I have
    never seen people turn into US haters so soon). It is a country that
    wants our brains, but is not willing to show a heart.

    Some people may argue that I have the freedom to quit my job and go
    back to my country. But that is not freedom enough. I want the freedom
    to choose when I want to go back. Its not easy to pack 8 years of your
    life in a jiffy. Its not easy to pack 8 years of your life into 2
    suitcases. Neither is it easy to restart your life in a different
    place, even if its your own. It reminds me of an Indian saying -
    "dhobi ka kutta - na ghar ka, na ghat ka". It means, a washerman's dog
    belongs neither to the house nor the river banks. Thats me in a
    nutshell, a "dhobi ka kutta."; a washerman's dog!!!

    ps: I love this country as much as I love my own. But I wish this country loved me back as well.



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  • yoda
    09-13 04:59 PM
    Sent it to the Indian Embassy. They have a monthly newsletter. Hope to see this in the Oct. newsletter.





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  • sayantan76
    01-07 09:07 AM
    Please read my statements properly. I have taught about 100 (the number of students in my last 5 classes were about 70, 30, 25, 25, 12). My colleagues have been observing the same issues for last 5-7 years when the number of students from India started to surge. The number 1000 is the estimate for over the 5 year period. Both numbers are conservative estimates.
    and why, pray, does your esteemed school keep accepting students from these so called "sub-standard" colleges in india? i would say 5-7 years of observed emperical evidence calls for some substantial action on your and your school's part in black-listing these institutions........so, either:

    1. you are blowing smoke through eveyone's a** here or
    2. the school is greedy for tuition fees - proving an earlier contention made in this thread about it being all about money....

    P.S - i am not from one of these schools so no personal stake!



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  • chanduv23
    10-17 03:25 PM
    Under the authority of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the CIS Ombudsman assists individuals and employers who experience specific problems during the USCIS benefits seeking process, largely to identify problems and to formulate recommendations to improve the USCIS service. Please see our website for more information about the CIS Ombudsman (www.dhs.gov/cisombudsman/).



    Our office believes that first hand information from individuals like you is the best source for identifying systemic problems in the immigration benefits process. Accordingly, our office will consider the information you provided regarding AC21 as we develop recommendations to improve USCIS� practices and procedures.

    This is good. I am sure it is going to encourage a lot of people to keep writing about the issue.


    Thank you for taking the time to contact our office, and for giving us the opportunity to serve you.



    Sincerely,



    CIS Ombudsman


    Hope the positive response will help boost confidence and more people will start writing letters





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  • needhelp!
    03-12 02:58 PM
    reddog, please explain how you have supported IV in the past in non-monetary ways. For lobbying, there is not much you can do other than support monetarily,or make trips to DC yourself.
    I am sure IV core will at least consider such non-monetary support on case-by-case basis.

    So your definition of support is 'monetary support' only?



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  • she81
    08-13 04:39 PM
    EB3 is totally doomed. They are not even approving 140s for EB3, visa number issues come later. Although I've been doing it, I seriously didn't come here to spend my time writing letters just to get one simple application processed for which I'm overqualified (I am qualified for EB2, but my company pushed me into EB3). And yes, that doesn't work either. USCIS does have time to draft and send back a reply to the congresman but not to look at my simple and sweet case.

    If they (USCIS) don't know what they are doing, who are we to educate them?





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  • Blessing&Lifeisbeautiful
    07-29 06:29 PM
    hi all,

    i also have been ff this blog but have not been sharing much bcoz i dont see a lot of sched a bloggers in here.anyway.please read the hammond law group about an amendment that apparently passed the senate to allocate the unused visa from 2001 till 2004 in which 50% will go to sched a workers.one of the bloggers mentioned so.cant verify the authenticity of such but it certainly lifts my dampen spirit.it is the bill that was introduced by senators hutchison and schumer.i am happy to see the support of the IV members towards the mission of this organization.it has been a great source of info for me.MY PD is oct 2006 and have been separated from my wife for over ayear now and our lil girl is growing up without the presence of her mother.it is very heartbreaking,not to mention my life without her.hope all our sufferings will end soon.

    Welcome to our thread and thanks for joining.



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  • beppenyc
    03-16 08:35 AM
    any update?





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  • chocolate
    06-05 08:44 AM
    Till the new bill becomes law you'll be ok.

    Those of you who got LC approved recently, did you apply to Chicago or Atlanta?
    Thanks for the input. My labor was stuck in BEC. It was approved last september . I sent all the documents to my employer to file 140/485/ead/ap.He is still going back and forth on filing. MY h1extension got an rfe and he wants to wait for it to get approved and then file. I hope i wont retire before that. I am only 28 yrs short of that.When will we know the decision to the bill. I hope it passes so that he files my next stages.Can i file it with my h1 extension application pending.



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  • I_need_GC
    03-14 02:06 PM
    Thanks for you post about Canada Visit. You mentioned that one shouldn't say vacation for purpose of visit. What should we say then? My wife and I are going for Landing to Canada and people have posted that if you tell you landed as immigrant in Canada then Border Officers give you a hard time as well and some have even got RFE's from USCIS regarding their intent with US immigration process. So either way we are in trouble!

    Friends please advise. What should you say to Border Patrol Officers on Re Entry to US with AP?:(

    Also would you mind sharing what was your purpose of Visit?

    AP was created for people who had an emergency to travel outside the US while there I-485 was being processed. but over the years these processes have elapse and now take longer. So now the USCIS is more lenient in issuing APs but the law still is that its for emergency travel. Now if you come across an IO who is having a bad day and asks you your reason for travel and you say vacation well he has the authority to deny you entrance. The IO can refuse you entry if he feels somethings not right.

    While you have a I-485 pending trying to get Canadian landing papers in theory is a good idea but heres the problem you run in to. After get us green card or passport you take on any other nationality they don't like that. They consider it that you no longer want to be a US citizen now if you have previously held any other nationality like Indian by birth they are ok with that.

    So yes if you tell the IO you went there for Canadian landing papers and are traveling on AP its sounds like you no longer want to be a US citizen.

    In the past I have said visit family they are ok with that.

    My Canadian visit was for work purposes. my company has a sister office in Canada. so when they asked I said to temporarily work in Canada. they were happy with that.





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  • nixstor
    07-06 10:31 AM
    Nixstor,
    AILA's publication itself said that checks were not done... Its evident on also. If you refrain from spicing up things its never going to come up in media. Who cares if 500 mm immigrants are backlogged ?

    You are saying that authorities will take retaliatory measures for saying something that really bad happened. Then dont even talk about lawsuit etc... Do you think a lawsuit aginst USCIS/DOS is going to please them very much ???

    Take either Boat1 or Boat2 -- Please do not sail keeping your foot in two boats. I apologize if i sound aggressive but it is what it is. Doing a work
    in weekend of 48 hours (consuming 25000 visas) which takes even more
    than 48 days definitely involves bypassing CRITICAL checks !!

    Truth is a truth - neither you or me or anyone can alter it.

    Thanks!

    Let me tell you one thing for clearly. I know that this is a hot button issue in both agencies right now. If you read Zoe Lofgren's letter, both secretaries have to answer her questions and it will be a press release as well. We need to make it a public story, but NOT by digging our own hole. Boat 1 is better for me, If I know for sure that Boat 2 will drown me in the ocean. In the heat of the moment, you might not see the consequences of the security lapse rumors.

    The established truth so far is

    USCIS used all the numbers ahead of time and shut the door on highly skilled immigrants on day one
    DOS revised its July 2007 visa bulletin on day one 1, which has not happened in a long time or never.

    The wind mill stories are

    Some law firms started hallucinating that the security checks were never done. They themselves do not know for sure. If you go and look towards the end of the blog post where it originated, he asks for confirmation instead of telling his resources.

    Do you know that there were people who got their GC in 45-60 days last year? I know some personally. The security check and how they say its done or not done has always been esoteric to us. Last year, some one put up the blog of a Taiwanese guy who got labor,140,485 approved in a span of 5-6 months. How can this happen? AFAIK, all the people who got their GC's have PD's like 2003 and 2004. Please do not sling mud, when we do not know for sure, esp when the issues are of paramount importance like security. I will leave things for your discretion.



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  • Keeme
    08-14 03:10 PM
    This is the third place where I am posting this ..well why not ..In my view this is worth a shot since greenspan is also talking about it.
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    Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicts U.S. house prices will begin to stabilize in the first half of next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

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    This is what will help us to clear backlog ! Wanted to post it few days back when news came from UK they wanted to bring more immigrants as one of solution to get their economy back on track.

    Guys, IF any thing may come as 'rescuer' this year and help us to come out from this backlog and move the dates forward in next year visa bulletins, that would be 'current economy and housing market situation'. IF any thing can convinced Congress to clear visa recapture bill this year, it would be only 'current housing market situation'. To get the economy back on track next year, housing market has to be improved and its not happening !





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  • styrum
    07-18 03:17 PM
    Once they accept I-485 in the system then they give us a Receipt#, with that Receipt we can file for EAD / AP (as long as your PD becomes available) then they will process your I-485, Just thinking.. what do you say guys ... Please lete me know.. Receipt Date Vs Visa Number ...

    Thanks
    You can file EAD/AP together with 485. That's how I did (actually I140 PP was in the same package too). Sent on 6/21 to I140PP address. Had all the receipts beginning of July.





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  • AllVNeedGcPc
    12-02 07:55 PM
    9years thank you for sharing all the information during the whole process...

    I got an email saying that "On December 2, 2010, we ordered production of your new card" today. Me and my wife both got emails. Our wait (green in our life) for so many years came to a very happy end. My hearty wishes to all the friends who have been waiting in the queue to have best of luck.

    Regards.





    funny
    09-12 01:44 PM
    At least I won't give u red dots if you can enlighten us how to get us out of this mess. And yes, we do want our green card so I don't think we can stop the process or stop spending money on that. Also please advise us how to bring all 70K people under one umbrella?

    I am in too...How can we organize all the members...70,000 is a lot of people, Any thing done effectively and efficiently will make an impact.





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