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04-05 09:40 AM
Our friendly anti Jack has provided in the comments a couple of links to an intriguing story regarding Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (currently embroiled in another scandal - this time involving strippers and GOP money - oy!). Steele has been one of the moderate voices in the GOP when it comes to immigration reform in the past and apparently he met with a pro-reform group called the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM). Accounts differ regarding whether Steele promised to work for immigration reform and, more specifically, help round up a second GOP Senator to sponsor the reform bill...
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08-31 11:30 AM
Cuban-born Andres Alonso is the CEO of the Baltimore City Schools. Alonso graduated from Columbia University before going on to get a law degree and a doctorate in education at Harvard. Alonso was interviewed on NBC News last night about how federal stimulus money is helping to keep his school system running smoothly this year despite the economy. Alonso brings an interesting background to the job having worked for one of the top law firms in Washington, DC as well as a teacher in inner city Newark, New Jersey. He was the deputy chancellor of the New York City schools...
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Macaca
11-13 10:19 AM
The Can't-Win Democratic Congress (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/12/AR2007111201418.html) By E. J. Dionne Jr. | Washington Post, November 13, 2007
Democrats in Congress are discovering what it's like to live in the worst of all possible worlds. They are condemned for selling out to President Bush and condemned for failing to make compromises aimed at getting things done.
Democrats complain that this is unfair, and, in some sense, it is. But who said that politics was fair?
Over the short run, Democratic congressional leaders can count on little support from their party's presidential candidates, particularly Barack Obama and John Edwards. Both have decided their best way of going after front-runner Hillary Clinton-- who has been in Washington since her husband's election as president in 1992 -- is to criticize politics as usual.
At this weekend's Democratic fundraising dinner in Des Moines, Obama and Edwards not only attacked Bush fiercely but also issued broadsides against the larger status quo.
When Obama assailed "the same old Washington textbook campaigns" and declared that he was "sick and tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking and acting and voting like George Bush Republicans," he was aiming at Clinton. But Obama was echoing what many in his party have been saying about their congressional leadership.
And when Edwards said that "Washington is awash with corporate money, with lobbyists who pass it out, with politicians who ask for it," he was criticizing a system in which his own party is implicated.
It makes sense for Democratic presidential candidates to distance themselves from the party's Washington wing. A poll released last week by the Pew Research Center found that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the performance of Democratic congressional leaders, an increase in dissatisfaction of 18 points since February. Among Democrats, disapproval of their own leaders rose from 16 percent in February to 35 percent now; in the same period, disapproval among independents rose from 41 percent to 56 percent.
Democrats in Congress say that their achievements of a minimum-wage increase, lobbying reform, improvements in the student loan program and last week's override of Bush's veto of a $23 billion water-projects bill are being overlooked -- and that Bush and his congressional allies have systematically blocked even bipartisan efforts to produce further results.
For example: The increases in financing for the State Children's Health Insurance Program passed after Democrats made a slew of concessions to Republicans to win broad GOP support. But in the House, Democrats were short of the votes needed to override the president's veto, so the proposal languishes.
Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, notes that he has bargained productively with Republicans and that his budget bills have secured dozens of their votes. But the president seems intent on a budget confrontation.
In a letter to Bush on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to underscore the president's role in the stalemate by calling for a "dialogue" to settle budget differences that "have never been so great that we cannot reach agreement on a spending plan that meets the needs of the American people."
They went on: "Key to this dialogue, however, is some willingness on your part to actually find common ground. Thus far, we have seen only a hard line drawn and a demand that we send only legislation that reflects your cuts to critical priorities of the American people."
Pelosi and Reid have a point, and they want Bush to get the blame for a budget impasse. But Bush seems to have decided that if he can't raise his own dismal approval ratings, he will drag the Democrats down with him. So far, that is what's happening.
Yet the budget is just one of the Democrats' problems. Their own partisans are furious that they have not been able to force a change in Bush's Iraq policy. In the Pew survey, 47 percent said the Democrats had not gone "far enough" in challenging Bush on Iraq. Many in the rank and file are also angry that the Democratic-led Senate let through the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general even though he declined to classify waterboarding as a form of torture.
Congressional Democrats are caught between two contradictory desires. One part of the electorate wants them to be practical dealmakers, another wants them to live up to the standard Obama set in the peroration of his Iowa speech when he praised those who "stood up . . . when it was risky, stood up when it was hard, stood up when it wasn't popular." Is there a handbook somewhere on how to be a courageous dealmaker? Pelosi and Reid would love to read it.
’08 clock ticks for Congress (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/08-clock-ticks-for-congress-2007-11-13.html) By Manu Raju | The Hill, November 13, 2007
Anti-War Voters Lash Out at Democrats They Helped Put in Office (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a9lDtrJGGVyg) By Nicholas Johnston | Bloomberg, November 13, 2007
Democrats in Congress are discovering what it's like to live in the worst of all possible worlds. They are condemned for selling out to President Bush and condemned for failing to make compromises aimed at getting things done.
Democrats complain that this is unfair, and, in some sense, it is. But who said that politics was fair?
Over the short run, Democratic congressional leaders can count on little support from their party's presidential candidates, particularly Barack Obama and John Edwards. Both have decided their best way of going after front-runner Hillary Clinton-- who has been in Washington since her husband's election as president in 1992 -- is to criticize politics as usual.
At this weekend's Democratic fundraising dinner in Des Moines, Obama and Edwards not only attacked Bush fiercely but also issued broadsides against the larger status quo.
When Obama assailed "the same old Washington textbook campaigns" and declared that he was "sick and tired of Democrats thinking that the only way to look tough on national security is by talking and acting and voting like George Bush Republicans," he was aiming at Clinton. But Obama was echoing what many in his party have been saying about their congressional leadership.
And when Edwards said that "Washington is awash with corporate money, with lobbyists who pass it out, with politicians who ask for it," he was criticizing a system in which his own party is implicated.
It makes sense for Democratic presidential candidates to distance themselves from the party's Washington wing. A poll released last week by the Pew Research Center found that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the performance of Democratic congressional leaders, an increase in dissatisfaction of 18 points since February. Among Democrats, disapproval of their own leaders rose from 16 percent in February to 35 percent now; in the same period, disapproval among independents rose from 41 percent to 56 percent.
Democrats in Congress say that their achievements of a minimum-wage increase, lobbying reform, improvements in the student loan program and last week's override of Bush's veto of a $23 billion water-projects bill are being overlooked -- and that Bush and his congressional allies have systematically blocked even bipartisan efforts to produce further results.
For example: The increases in financing for the State Children's Health Insurance Program passed after Democrats made a slew of concessions to Republicans to win broad GOP support. But in the House, Democrats were short of the votes needed to override the president's veto, so the proposal languishes.
Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, notes that he has bargained productively with Republicans and that his budget bills have secured dozens of their votes. But the president seems intent on a budget confrontation.
In a letter to Bush on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to underscore the president's role in the stalemate by calling for a "dialogue" to settle budget differences that "have never been so great that we cannot reach agreement on a spending plan that meets the needs of the American people."
They went on: "Key to this dialogue, however, is some willingness on your part to actually find common ground. Thus far, we have seen only a hard line drawn and a demand that we send only legislation that reflects your cuts to critical priorities of the American people."
Pelosi and Reid have a point, and they want Bush to get the blame for a budget impasse. But Bush seems to have decided that if he can't raise his own dismal approval ratings, he will drag the Democrats down with him. So far, that is what's happening.
Yet the budget is just one of the Democrats' problems. Their own partisans are furious that they have not been able to force a change in Bush's Iraq policy. In the Pew survey, 47 percent said the Democrats had not gone "far enough" in challenging Bush on Iraq. Many in the rank and file are also angry that the Democratic-led Senate let through the nomination of Michael Mukasey as attorney general even though he declined to classify waterboarding as a form of torture.
Congressional Democrats are caught between two contradictory desires. One part of the electorate wants them to be practical dealmakers, another wants them to live up to the standard Obama set in the peroration of his Iowa speech when he praised those who "stood up . . . when it was risky, stood up when it was hard, stood up when it wasn't popular." Is there a handbook somewhere on how to be a courageous dealmaker? Pelosi and Reid would love to read it.
’08 clock ticks for Congress (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/08-clock-ticks-for-congress-2007-11-13.html) By Manu Raju | The Hill, November 13, 2007
Anti-War Voters Lash Out at Democrats They Helped Put in Office (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a9lDtrJGGVyg) By Nicholas Johnston | Bloomberg, November 13, 2007
2011 Happy Birthday, Emma
vinito
08-15 02:57 PM
Was just wondering if anyone from MA/NY area with I-140 approved from NSC and I-485 also sent to NSC on July2nd have got their receipts/checks cashed.
Thanks.
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rayudu
07-09 10:52 AM
I am from boston. I will join.
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08-25 07:10 PM
USCIS updated its count of FY2011 cap-subject H-1B petitions and advanced degree cap-exempt petitions receipted. As of 8/20/10, approximately 33,900 H-1B cap-subject petitions were receipted. USCIS has receipted 12,600 H-1B petitions for aliens with advanced degrees. This is a major jump from the last update of August 13, 2010 where only 29,700 filings were reported.
Is this trend likely to continue? We think so, expect visas to run out by the early weeks of December.
More... (http://www.visalawyerblog.com/2010/08/h1b_visa_cap_august_25_2010_up.html)
Is this trend likely to continue? We think so, expect visas to run out by the early weeks of December.
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desigirl
04-26 01:04 PM
Wonder what these people will say, if the native indians proposed laws that said, anybody who is not Indian (:D) need to leave the country; no Caucasians are welcome in this land!!!!!!!!
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delhirocks
06-26 04:19 PM
Please use the search function, this topic has been discussed to death.
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1243&page=4&highlight=birth+certificate
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12-02 10:50 AM
Immigration attorneys are all too aware that U.S. immigration laws are so overly strict our last three Presidents would all be ineligible to even visit our country, much less to qualify for green cards. Think I'm exaggerating? Consider that a person who admits to smoking marijuana a few times, even as a teenager many years ago, is forever banned from entering the U.S. If you were born in the Philippines, before you can qualify for a green card, you must undergo a medical examination at St. Luke's Hospital in Manila to make sure that you do not have a dangerous...
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achandak
12-19 02:35 PM
Hi,
I need some urgent advise. My wife has got a Biometrics appointment notice for 8th Jan. She is in India currently and scheduled to return on 24th Jan. We have already got the appointment rescheduled once (original notice was for 1st Dec). When we got it rescheduled we asked them to give us the next appointment after 1stFeb, but they ignored that part!
I wanted to know can I get it rescheduled again? Will it have any impact on her 485 application? Do I need to enclose any cover letter explaining why i need to reschedule? Any personal experiences with rescheduling the appointment more than once?
Thanks!
I need some urgent advise. My wife has got a Biometrics appointment notice for 8th Jan. She is in India currently and scheduled to return on 24th Jan. We have already got the appointment rescheduled once (original notice was for 1st Dec). When we got it rescheduled we asked them to give us the next appointment after 1stFeb, but they ignored that part!
I wanted to know can I get it rescheduled again? Will it have any impact on her 485 application? Do I need to enclose any cover letter explaining why i need to reschedule? Any personal experiences with rescheduling the appointment more than once?
Thanks!
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deafTunes123
08-22 11:12 AM
Is there any one in this situation?
1. Date is current(because of interfile) and received 2 year EAD
2. USCIS District Office IO cannot find whether the case is EB2 or EB3. Is it true or there any experiences?
3. Does any one know of any pattern of how long it will take to approve the case once its assigned to an Office?
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Thun
EB3 INDIA:
PD: Jan 21, 2004
I-140 approved: July 2005
I-485 ND: 09/04/2007
RD: 07/03/2007
EB2: (Same Employer)
PERM: Jan 21, 2007
I-140 Approved: 07/14/2008 with PD of Jan 21, 2004.
Case Interfiled on 08/06/2008 (Attached the EB2 I-140 to the existing I-485 Application).
Hoping that interfile is success.
1. Date is current(because of interfile) and received 2 year EAD
2. USCIS District Office IO cannot find whether the case is EB2 or EB3. Is it true or there any experiences?
3. Does any one know of any pattern of how long it will take to approve the case once its assigned to an Office?
Any input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Thun
EB3 INDIA:
PD: Jan 21, 2004
I-140 approved: July 2005
I-485 ND: 09/04/2007
RD: 07/03/2007
EB2: (Same Employer)
PERM: Jan 21, 2007
I-140 Approved: 07/14/2008 with PD of Jan 21, 2004.
Case Interfiled on 08/06/2008 (Attached the EB2 I-140 to the existing I-485 Application).
Hoping that interfile is success.
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Almond
07-18 10:01 PM
What am I missing, how would your suggestion be interpreted as being against non indians. I don't agree with it but I am not offended by it (as a non indian). Yet another misunderstood childish argument in the life of the IV forums.:D
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namu01
06-21 10:25 AM
In the form it asks the following questions:
Have you ever before applied for employment authorization from USCIS?
If yes, which USCIS office?
Date for application:
my question: I had applied to Vermont service center and later it was transferred to Texas Service center... So Should i put Vermont or Texas as the applied USCIS office?
Also, The date of application is that the day i signed the application? or the received date that i see on the approved EAD?
Thank You. input would be highly appreciated.
Have you ever before applied for employment authorization from USCIS?
If yes, which USCIS office?
Date for application:
my question: I had applied to Vermont service center and later it was transferred to Texas Service center... So Should i put Vermont or Texas as the applied USCIS office?
Also, The date of application is that the day i signed the application? or the received date that i see on the approved EAD?
Thank You. input would be highly appreciated.
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raysaikat
07-24 08:23 PM
Hi,
My current employer filed my labor and 140 in 2007 under EB3 and are also approved. Now I am planning to move to a different who is willing to start my GC under EB2. Now can i use 2007 as my priority date?
Thank you,
manjith
Yes.
My current employer filed my labor and 140 in 2007 under EB3 and are also approved. Now I am planning to move to a different who is willing to start my GC under EB2. Now can i use 2007 as my priority date?
Thank you,
manjith
Yes.
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seekinggc
06-20 10:23 AM
I asked my lawyer the same..she said copies are sufficient....so, I asked my parents to scan them and send it...
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pcs
01-06 08:40 AM
You can port PD even to a new employer. Pl. read other threads which have more info ?
By the way, during these two off days please tell every friend of yours about IV .............
Thanks
By the way, during these two off days please tell every friend of yours about IV .............
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cs.0
08-23 12:22 PM
Hi,
I am planning to go to India for 3 months. I have EAD and AP, H1B visa stamping valid till 08/30/2010. Now I am on EAD.
From past 3 months, I don’t have project, so I am thinking to go India and come back in the month of Jan 2010 (if US market improves).
My wife is working on EAD and she will be staying in US.
What are the problems I may face at POE, US? (Possible Chicago POE)
Please let me know, what r all docs required and what r all questions will be asked, if I enter on AP or on valid H1B visa stamp.
I am planning to go to India for 3 months. I have EAD and AP, H1B visa stamping valid till 08/30/2010. Now I am on EAD.
From past 3 months, I don’t have project, so I am thinking to go India and come back in the month of Jan 2010 (if US market improves).
My wife is working on EAD and she will be staying in US.
What are the problems I may face at POE, US? (Possible Chicago POE)
Please let me know, what r all docs required and what r all questions will be asked, if I enter on AP or on valid H1B visa stamp.
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maverick_neo
07-20 09:08 PM
Its kinda funny..how a lives of million people are decided in one vote, which is purely on party lines. Look at Nay's and you will see what I am saying.
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anura
04-19 08:10 AM
Agreed.
OED defines Visa as "An endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave or stay for a specified period of time in a country"
By that definition I believe that a visa can be issue anywhere, inside and outside of the country.
OED defines Visa as "An endorsement on a passport indicating that the holder is allowed to enter, leave or stay for a specified period of time in a country"
By that definition I believe that a visa can be issue anywhere, inside and outside of the country.
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seahawks
09-26 01:39 AM
we will discuss on the need to get this chapter active again. We need to come up with a plan on contacting law makers. All inputs are welcome.
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