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I would suggest if you could get the perm process started ASAP. Now a days it is getting approved quite fast, you may be good. You may also want to ask your manager if you could work remotely from outside US for couple of months. As per my understanding, if say you are short of 4 months between your PD and H1 expiry date you can do one of the following
1. Shift to some other status like H4
2. Move out of country for 4 months. Your employer will need to get H1 extension and you new stamping.

But as soon as labor gets approved, you will need to file for I140 and your will be good for 3 more year.

This is just from my understanding. I am in similar boat. Going out of US for 6 weeks starting from July.

For nationality/changeability a ROW category is needed.

Kasi,

I had the same situation and asked my attorney last month. He replied "I-94 # is always the # on the white card which is stapled in your passport", meaning the latest I-94 (white card) given to you at the port of entry. It doesn't matter whether it is expired or not. Hope this answers.

I think the I-94 Numbers should be the same on all I-94's.

yes, but look at how many members they have. Close to half a million. How can IV with less than 1000 members be as strong? Looks like we have miles to go.....

lotr

I had all my records for vaccinations. But a friend of mine completed 3 vaccinations last july 2007. The civil surgeon put the dates for these on the form. For others the civil surgeon did the same thing , that he checked the "not appropriate age" but did not write anything like "child record not found" under the dates.He just left it blank. Also he checked the "eligible for waiver" in the field below. I am sure lot of cases are similar to yours.



I met with the Civil Surgeon who completed my I-693, today. It seems like USCIS did some mistake. He checked the sealed envelope and didn't understand why USCIS generated a RFE for this. We completed all our required vaccination back in June-July 07 when we did our medicals .

We did the 3 vaccination that are required , Td, MMR and Varicella. The Dr put the dates for these vaccination in the I 693 supplement form. For all other vaccine he put the 'child record not found' under the dates and checked under the column 'Not appropiate age'. I also checked that all other vaccine are not required since we crossed that age. USCIS has problem with the 'Child record not found' written under the dates. The Dr said that he has been filling this form in this manner for last 15 yrs and never had any problem with USCIS. This is the first time he is getting this kind of RFE. He said he will talk to the USCIS.


Its very difficult to get the records for those vaccination. Does anyone has any idea about how other Doctors handle this ?

With this situation I wanted to know what are the options we have ? Dr said that it might take one week to get the reply from them. Since there is time boundation to send the reply I m little worried what we can do about this.


Please suggest how we can handle the Medical RFE ?

As far i know you should have a valid H1 status or approved EAD to work and keep your status as valid.

Once you start working on EAD there may be gaps with next EAD approval.
Simply you will not claim working during that period but this is possible only after you start working on your first EAD.

simply if you do not have a valid H1 until you get EAD and claim working on EAD with your Employer by filling W4 forms etc. you will be out of status..

Please check with a attorney on this!!

Hi all,

I have been trying to get an appointment from Hyderabad consulate, AP, India for the past two days on 27th or 28th of May 2009.

When I check the availability, the website shows that 27 thru 29th of May are available for appointments. But after I create and save the application it doesn't take me to the page where I can select the appointment dates. We sent an email to VFS customer support but till now we did not receive any reply.We are two H1bs(myself and my husband) and two H4s(kids).

Did anyone get an appointment successfully ?

The entire process of H1b revalidation itself is a tormenting procedure. On the top of it VFS website is really annoying.Sorry for venting my frustration.

Can anyone please help me out and guide me through the process.

Thanks in advance

Amul

The Backlog centers should be ashamed of themselves. They make the state DMVs look like an efficient government departments.

18 more months!!! And they congratulate themselves?

You know, there is a saying "If you have infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters for an infinite amount of time, eventually they would come up with the exact creation of Shakespeare".

http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/

I hope they are sincere in meeting the 18 month timeline. That would have to mean the certifications are bound to come one after another starting in 2-3 months max.

I had the same issue. Still awaiting my AP which was applied in Nov 2008.
When I called up TSC where my application was filed, they kept insisting that they have really mailed it and they cannot issue it again unless they receive the AP saying it is undelivered.

I am sure my address is correct as per their records. I got my EAD delivered at the same address without any issue.

Finally I called them again, this time I talked to a more knowledgeable accommodating IO.

Keep calling the service center till you get an instruction similar to the following.

This is the instruction provided
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Fill out I-131 Application or use the copy of your original application
attach two photos

Mention the receipt no on the top of the form
Also mention REPLACEMENT : no Fees included
Add a covering letter explaining the situation

Post it to the following address

USCIS Texas Service Center
ADDRESS ( This is a special address, This not the standard USCIS address)

On Lower Left corner of the envelope mention:
do Not open in the mail room, No fees are attached

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I am still awaiting my AP after doing this. :confused:

Hello All,

I have a question....

The current processing date for Texas Service centre is July 17, 2007
I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status Employment-based adjustment applications July 17, 2007

My receipt Date is July2nd2007 and current for EB2 PD March2007

I had inccorrect fee issue but it got resolved and later got EAD/AP

My case status show's wierd incorrect fees yet

When can i raise a Service Request? August 19th

RD + 30days

I spoke with REP or IO( don't know dialled 1-800 16621 #SRC...#1 #3 #4

She said your case looks fine
I said " what next" she said your case would be assigned to an IO

what do you guys think?

Thanks for help

Immigration Voice is healthy and kicking. No flowers Please. Contribute instead !

I personally know some individuals who read IV and never registered/contributed. Please encourage those bystanders around you to be part of this movement.

Need a drop down for page list so that you click on that dropdown list click page number and it take you to that page, instead of clicking through the current pagination for couple of dozens of time, and also if possible need two options in pagination like << and >> once clicked on that it takes you 5 or 10 or some fixed number of pages ahead or behind. This is just a suggestion, and it doesn't take away the hard work and efforts taken by team whom developed it, kudos to them. :)

We just need GC without asking anything after working 10 years legally with paid all tax without hopeing for Social Security.



I like this point.

Definitely lets all agree to meet with our local house reps.
You can find your local congressman/woman from http://house.gov by entering your zip code.
They are generally very close to your geographic area.
Please ask if you have any questions, doubts.

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Enjoy

Sorry to hear about your cases. I can understand how the feeling would be right now. I had applied for my 1st H1B renewal and was just crossing my fingers and praying since i have a denied I-140 (Education issue, MTR opened for last 3 months).
Luckily my H1B renewal got approved on 1/27/09, in just 20days after recieved date(1/7/09) Ironically i had similar documents sent for my original I-140, the MTR and the H1B renewal. So we can imagine how it works in USCIS.

BTW, TwinkleM, gr8 job in helping the fellow IVian.

he can get a 3 yr extension no matter what because I am assuming that he will go through PERM and have his I140 approved through the new company in a year or so.
the only benefit of the old I140 is to port the Priority Date.

Could you elaborate ? Did you mean I'll eventually get a 3 year extension after I run out of 6 year term (assuming the new company files perm and the retrogression is still there then..) OR did you mean I can get 3 years right now ?

Jeez! This is a really deplorable situation. USCIS has all the information and they are asking AILA for help? Why not just ask the guys who have their AOS cases pending? It's so unfortunate that this needs to be done.

USCIS is really hopeless. Why even ask anybody with AOS pending. Do they not have the data of the people who have applied for AOS ? It is almost like the joke. It is like: "we have lost the AOS cases, please file again"

I voted up the Immigration questions.

Looks like the Anti-Immigration folks are trying to vote down our questions.

- JK

Voted UP for anything to do with legal immigraiton. 3-4 more hours its open.

Mine is Opposite. EAD issued for 2 years even though my PD is current (based on interfile). Don't know whether the interfile is successful or not.

steve,

I know a person who applied two H1s with two different employers A and B. He got reciept numbers for both H1s' After that he hot a ref asking about which company he is going to join with.

He replied as he is going to work for company A. USCIS again send a ref asking him , why he applied for H1 with two companies when he knows that he is going to work for company A. That issues is still going on.
I wish more of this wud happen to run these cheats out of business.