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I have been a member since 18 Nov 2006
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I added my last post on 06 Jun 2008
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petieweets's Immigration Cases
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| I-485 case:
Approved in 319 days (107 days less than average)
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petieweets |
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Australia |
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| Country of Chargeability: | Australia | Applicant Type: | primary | | | Service Center: | Texas | Category: | EB3 | | | Priority Date: | 08 Jul 2001 | Application Filed: | 22 Jun 2007 | | | USCIS Received Date: | 25 Jun 2007 | USCIS Notice Date: | 07 Aug 2007 | | | USCIS Receipt Number: | | I-140/485 Filing: | non-concurrent | | | I-140 Processing Type: | regular | I-140 Approval Date: | 14 Aug 2007 | | | First Fingerprint Date: | 31 Aug 2007 | Second Fingerprint Date: | | | | RFE Received?: | no | RFE Received Date: | | | | Reason for RFE: | | RFE Replied Date: | | | | Case Transferred to: | | Transfer Date: | | | | Name Check Status: | not sure | Name Check Approval Date: | | | | I-485 Status: | approved | I-485 Approval/Denial Date: | 06 May 2008 | | | Card Production Ordered: | | Card Received Date: | | | | EAD Applied?: | yes | AP Applied?: | yes | | | EAD Approval Date: | 14 Aug 2007 | AP Approval Date: | 16 Nov 2007 | | | EAD Received: | | AP Received: | | | | Time to Get EAD Approval: | 53 days | Time to Get AP Approval: | 147 days | | | Time to Get Fingerprinting Done: | 70 days | Total Time to Get GC: | 319 days | | | Most Recent LUD: | | Days Elapsed: | | | |
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06 May 2008 |
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AOS Approved 1500 May 6th,2008 |
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| I-140 case:
Approved in 193 days (78 days less than average)
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| User: |
petieweets |
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Australia |
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| Applicant Type: | | Service Center: | Texas | | | Category: | EB3 | Priority Date: | 08 Jul 2001 | | | Application Filed: | 18 Feb 2007 | USCIS Received Date: | 22 Feb 2007 | | | USCIS Notice Date: | 25 Feb 2007 | USCIS Receipt Number: | | | | I-140/485 Filing: | non-concurrent | Processing Type: | regular | | | RFE Received?: | no | RFE Received Date: | | | | Reason for RFE: | | RFE Replied Date: | | | | Application Status: | approved | Approval/Denial Date: | 30 Aug 2007 | | | Total Processing Time: | 193 days | Most Recent LUD: | | | | Days Elapsed: | | |
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06 May 2008 |
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| I-131 (Advance Parole) case:
Approved
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| User: |
petieweets |
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Australia |
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| Service Center: | Texas | USCIS District Office: | | | | Filing Method: | paper-based | Application Filed: | | | | USCIS Received Date: | 25 Jun 2007 | USCIS Notice Date: | | | | USCIS Receipt Number: | | RFE Received?: | no | | | RFE Received Date: | | Reason for RFE: | | | | RFE Replied Date: | | Application Status: | approved | | | Approval/Denial Date: | 14 Nov 2007 | AP Received: | | | | Total Processing Time: | days | Most Recent LUD: | | | | Days Elapsed: | | |
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14 Nov 2007 |
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Receipt Date was 8/7, LUD 8/12, LUD 9/19 |
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| petieweets's Posts |
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Topic: Travelling with green card
Come on guys.... enough of this misinformation.
HERE ARE THE REGULATIONS FOR FOREIGNERS THAT ARE LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF U.S.A.:
The US government agency that enforces oversight at points of entry is the CBP.
They use a variety of systems and you can research those independently.
Here is THE statement from CBP (one of many on their website. They don't care about foreign passports)
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Air/Land and Sea - Lawful Permanent Residents (Green card holder's) do NOT need a passport to enter the United States, however you may need a passport to enter another country. Please contact the embassy of the foreign country you will be traveling to for their requirements."
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Foreign nationals that are lawful permanent residents of the U.S. must present a Permanent Resident Card (“Green Cardâ€, INS Form I-551), a Reentry Permit (if gone for more than 1 year), or a Returning Resident Visa (if gone for 2 years or more) to reenter the United States. U.S. LPRs are not required by the U.S. to have a passport for travel, although most foreign destinations will require you to have one to enter their country. (LPRs that are out of the U.S. for more than 180 days are subject to new immigrant inspection procedures as per 8 USC 1101.)"
BTW, I tested this out last night when traveling from UK to US.
It works. You just need your permanent resident card (and your customs declaration completed).
ALSO: A pilot trial at JFK, IAD, and HOU will determine if they plan to expand the automated process (GLOBAL) to other gateways to speed it up further. | |  |  |
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Topic: Should we Quit USA?
I'm 50, travel all over the world as part of my job (in oslo tonight), and call north carolina home. I have a wife an plenty of children, some of whom are in college at state tuition rates. I am 9 years approaching 10 years on a H1B and GC in process since 2001 (got caught behind the big 2001 amnesty bulge) . I have never felt "trapped". I only feel liberated. I cannot understand why a mere paperwork process so dominates the minds of potential migrants who are already benefiting from most of what's on offer living in USA. There's a minimum salary by county, and a slow but fair and mostly orderly process to get you the piece of paper that tells you you're a resident alien. You can't vote in federal elections, but can vote in local and state elections, change jobs for the most part enjoy the quality of life in America, including a job, health insurance, a predictable standard of living and the chance to live in a safe community, travel, eat good food, do good things and send your children to quality schools, afford them the opportunity for growth, and for those of you who come from a less fortunate country, the opportunity to share some of your earned fortune with family abroad via monetary remittances. I cannot fathom the lack of perspective. As for complaining to politicians, well, you really need to broaden your view of the human experience. | | | |
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Topic: What 'bout the 9/30 magic date?
..."I HEARD IT ON GOOD AUTHORITY..."
All this misinformation from this guy - again. There's an old maxim that if you hear "I heard it on good authority..." that it's complete BS. Here are the FACTS: A number IS NOT allocated to an individual application at application time!
The USCIS does NOT allocate a number to an actual case - in the singular - until several things have happened - we all know about most of these, including Petition for an Alien Worker approved, clearance on finger-printing and name check, certification by civil surgeon recorded, approval of adjustment of status AND... there is one number available. This is why for many AOS categories, everything can be done towards finalization pending currency. What the USCIS does is forecast on mass, and adjust each month based upon inventory of applications on hand plus expecteds, minus approvals against a yearly constraint. They have always been good with IOH, and terrible - until recently - on the expecteds. Anyone who knows anything about IMS or WMS systems can explain the concept. Please, let's just stop the second guessing and on good authority anonymous attributables. Go speak to someone who actually adjudicates cases, or maintains the software and you'll get the skinny. Anyone wants my sources, you'll need to prove you can be discreet. | | | |
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Topic: Traveling on AP .. 2nd Inspection FP procedure
Complete nonsense. This is simply NOT true provided you have in H1B status - how many times have I seen this misinformation?
H1B is dual intent. You can come and go on a valid, current NIV + visa stamp irrespective of AOS status or stage. | | | |
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Topic: Case Status Online Outage
From Palestine, huh?
It must take quite a lot of courage to say nothing on the 80 years of complete BS. You don;t have to answer. | | | |
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Topic: July 2nd filer: Signed by R Mickels: no receipt notice yet
Guys... are yawl going somewhere?
CHILL.
Let the SURGE work!!! | | | |
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Topic: Can a person with EAD allowed to work from abroad?
Ahem... why again are you working for a company that (assumedly) tells you:
"But with H1-B it is not possible to pay US salary as the company should not deduct social security,medicare etc but it is allowed for Green card".
OK...
1) If you employed by an American-based company (incorporated in 1 of the 50 states) AND
2) They have you on a foreign assignment, THEN
3) Nothing changes, UNLESS
4) Your are attempting to avoid taxes, in which case, you're on your AL CAPONE (cockney rhyme and pun intended). | | | |
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Topic: Case Status Online Outage
Please select the official answer for this downtime:
01) "Immigration Form 9/11 changed everything";
02) "If we don't fight the bureaucracy here they will follow us home";
03) "We are all waiting for the Julio Iglesias Report";
04) "We'll listen to the pencil-whippers on the ground, not the second-guessers on third base";
05) "We need to support to clerks";
06) "As you know, you approve applications with the pedants you have, not the pedants you might want or wish to have later";
07) "We are not going to cut and run. We are going to stay the course. The obstacle course";
08) "I'm the decider, and I'll decide... what's best for USCIS is best for Slackerica;
09) "It's just an A.M.N.E.S.T.Y (Americans Making Noise and Not Ever Searching Truthful YadaYadaYada);
10) "I'm shocked... shocked... to find that processing is going on in here" (Apologies to the late screenwiters of Casablanca); | | | |
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Topic: Embassy abroad and application for AP/EAD
You can go to India.
Take your current (only in your case) I-797 notice of action with you.
Make an appointment early enough. I've heard there is a lot of people in India.
Make sure your passport does not expire in less than 6 months from the date of application at the consulate. You will need to complete the DS-156 and if male between 14-46, the DS-157 form. Both are available on line and a scannable barcode is imaged on the documents as you print them. You will need other items, including passport-type photos etc, and payment receipts for the local processing, along with original LCA petition documentation just in case, and a letter from your employer confirming employment.
There is no risk to doing this provided you follow the rules. H1B is dual intent. Ongoing processing at USCIS is not compromised by border crossings on H1B. If that were true, there would be several hundred thousand workers in the US unable to travel across the border(s) for 7, 8 9 years.
My 10th year extension just got approved. My labor cert was originally filed in 2001. I have crossed the border at least a dozen times since then, probably around 20.
CONDITIONAL NOTE:
a) If your AP is approved before you leave, and if you have the AP (I-512) WITH YOU IN HAND BEFORE YOUR LEAVE, you can use that when returning. Use of AP DOES NOT affect future H1B status. AP is for travel only. Use of EAD only affects H1B validity;
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b) If your AOS is approved before you leave, and you have been to the local USCIS office and had your passport updated with the temporary Resident Alien stamp, then you can consider AP and H1B a thing of the past.
If you have a spouse and / or dependent(s), you will need to consider those implications as well. If you are planning on getting married any time soon, then you need to consider implications for spouse visas, timing etc. | | | |
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Topic: Stop the frenzy please- Give them a brake!
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on their side? more assumptions.
I rang the USCIS's call-vetting contractor on that service line back in early August and poured on the charm and got my receipts numbers - all 14 of them - at a time when they where shutting everyone else out. You just need to not interrupt them while they are interrupting your explanations for calling, and you'll get through to them.
6.5 b people on the planet, half living in poverty, half again of those bereft of opportunities to improve, and you can't wait of few years of your hopefully long and prosperous life waiting to join the super-rich club.
They are not playing with your life - come on, only you can do that.
Learn how to play the game of life.
If you want something to worry about, how about adopting my two elder adult children before they age out. It's a race to 21.
While you're at it, take on the college education system for me and get them in-state tuition fees so I don't continue to go bankrupt paying "furreners" fees. Thomas B. - I'll be in Helsingborg next week... any messages for relatives?
Finally, everyone playing this employment sponsored gc game is earning WAY more than the phone vetting service people, so chill. They are following instructions. If you want to change something, start with how you treat them.
Remember, no one is kicking you out of US while you are waiting for the GC. You still have you somewhat priv. lifestyle while you wait. My wife has had to put her career on hold for nine years and never complained once.
I grew up in a house without running water, I have no formal senior education - it's all self taught, so let's all keep this in perspective. We are the LUCKY ones. Don't celebrate your 90th birthday with "oh.... now I get it! - it's about the ride, not the destination!" | | | |
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Topic: Stop the frenzy please- Give them a brake!
Another assumption a2007? Like the one you made about FP meaning visa number is allocated? or perhaps the one about using AP negating H1-B?
My lawyer is a very competent English woman who has been involved in migration law for 40 years, in Europe and North America and is fluent is several languages. She has won many professional awards, and as a senior AILA member is connected with many high ranking government officials, and so gets information directly from primary sources. I have been silent on blogs etc for many many years, but at this point, I am no longer amused by the petty panic over migration documents by the anxiety class. My first application for LC was lodged in 1999, but unfortunately the big wave of 245i apps during the mini-amnesty gummed up the works in SEWA in CA in 2000 and 2001. The INS as it was then, and the BCIS, screwed up the application when they entered AUSTRIA instead of AUSTRALIA as country of birth for several of my children. In those days when you wanted things corrected, you practically had to stand out of the queue. In 2002, the company I worked for broke camp and moved to France. So I got another job and started over. Yes, when my I-485 is eventually approved, my family and I are going to take A WHOLE SWAG OF VISAS NUMBERS from the pile. So no, my lawyer did not screw up. She's a saint. And all you twenty somethings and thirty somethings whining about governments, how many of you have ever offered public service? | | | |
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Topic: Stop the frenzy please- Give them a brake!
"If you are from Australia, UK or say Germany, those are under subscribed so you'll see such people get through within about 6 months or even less."
Yeah, right.
I'm not from India or China.
I'm 100% AUSSIE. (You know, the place where real cricket is played, not the hit-and-giggle stuff).
Guess what? I'm now approaching my 10th year of this BS, and I have 400 years of american ancestry - only the inuit and vikings and the bison they chased have more claim to this continent than me. So deal with it folks, wait your turn and count your blessings and STOP ALL THE WHINING. Get over it or get out. Are you in danger? Are you diseased? Are you in prison? No, well STFU be patient, and be grateful like the other 300,000,000 immigrants to the continent.
Enough of the time and money wasting petitions, complaints, marches, emails, calls to legislative representative etc. | | | |
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