http://forums.immigration.com/ en Thu, 17 May 2012 05:02:13 GMT vBulletin 1 http://forums.immigration.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.immigration.com/ http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548391-Recent-Citizenship-Revocation-case&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 04:45:31 GMT http://www.slideshare.net/BigJoe5/usa-v-akamo-5th-cir-may-15-2012-denatz http://www.slideshare.net/BigJoe5/us...15-2012-denatz ]]> US Citizenship BigJoe5 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548391-Recent-Citizenship-Revocation-case http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548390-Does-DV-2012-May-winner-affect-DV-2013-winner&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 04:16:23 GMT What do you think? What do you think? ]]> Lottery Visas - DV immgrat http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548390-Does-DV-2012-May-winner-affect-DV-2013-winner http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548389-Again-S-3835-elimiinate-DV&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 04:14:50 GMT I think he can't eliminate DV, what do you think?

http://www.trackitt.com/usa-discussi...passed-at-last

http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/star...rads-from-usa/ ]]> Lottery Visas - DV immgrat http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548389-Again-S-3835-elimiinate-DV http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548388-I-751-Removal-of-Conditions&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 03:45:04 GMT Hi: there is a fantastic do-it-yourself thread for AOS. I used that two years ago, and I owe a lot to this forum. I did not find something like that for ROC. Is there one. If yes, please link. I found this, but it is neither thorough nor recent:... Hi:
there is a fantastic do-it-yourself thread for AOS. I used that two years ago, and I owe a lot to this forum.
I did not find something like that for ROC. Is there one. If yes, please link.
I found this, but it is neither thorough nor recent:
http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1k2v...onditions.html

In particular, I have two questions:
-is an I-751 the ONLY FORM that I have to send, or do I need to send a form for fingerprint, electronic tracking, biographical info, etc.?
-how much evidence do I need to send. like how many photos, etc. and how do people organize a 50-page application?

thank you very much. I hope a thorough answer here could serve generations. ]]> Family Based Green Cards - Through Marriage or a Relative dedonde2 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548388-I-751-Removal-of-Conditions http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548387-f1-and-i-130-status&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 23:41:01 GMT I am US citizen. My daughter is in USA under F-1 visa; I-20 expires in August 2012. She’s 27 years old, unmarried. I’ve applied for I-130 in October 2010; the case is in Initial Review phase. Questions: 1/ what could I do to keep her legally here beyond August 2012? 2/ can she apply to study... I am US citizen. My daughter is in USA under F-1 visa; I-20 expires in August 2012.
She’s 27 years old, unmarried. I’ve applied for I-130 in October 2010; the case is in Initial Review phase.
Questions:
1/ what could I do to keep her legally here beyond August 2012?
2/ can she apply to study at a different university than she is in now? ]]> General F Visa and Related Issues jd857672002 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548387-f1-and-i-130-status http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548385-is-biometrics-required-for-DV-Based-Green-Card&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 21:21:10 GMT Hi

I am a 2012 Dv winner , i got the visa and will travel to US in August for 14 days for the first time
then will return home for urgent family commitment

I plan to apply for plastic green card once i arrive and return home , even if they hadn't send it
with my 14 days stay , it will go to my brother address in US and he will send it to me via express mail

My brother says , i cannot return home before they contact me to do biometrics finger scan

My question is , is it really that biometrics is required step ?? and if yes , can i do it in the time of application


Thanks ]]> Lottery Visas - DV Egypt2011 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548385-is-biometrics-required-for-DV-Based-Green-Card http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548383-AOS-eligibility&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:09:05 GMT what are your chances of getting an i-485 (family based) approved by USCIS if you have been out of status for years. My lawyer claims it is feasible. If i try consular processing my case will be dead on arrival. My other option is to buy a plane ticket with the lawyer fees and application fees and... what are your chances of getting an i-485 (family based) approved by USCIS if you have been out of status for years. My lawyer claims it is feasible. If i try consular processing my case will be dead on arrival. My other option is to buy a plane ticket with the lawyer fees and application fees and save myself the headache. ]]> Family Based Green Cards - Through Marriage or a Relative jah bless http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548383-AOS-eligibility http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548382-Green-card-for-my-girlfriend&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 20:04:17 GMT Hi! I am LPR of the U.S. My girlfriend is here on F-1 visa and they are going to expire next year. We want to be together. Is there any chance I could get her green card too? Hi!

I am LPR of the U.S. My girlfriend is here on F-1 visa and they are going to expire next year. We want to be together. Is there any chance I could get her green card too? ]]> Life After The Green Card octopus http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548382-Green-card-for-my-girlfriend http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548381-Going-for-Interview-in-Ankara-need-advice!&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 18:53:34 GMT Hello brothers and sisters, I am going for CP in Ankara in June. I would very much appreciate if anyone who had done CP in Ankara could share me his/her experience. And I have a few questions too. I am a 4th year engineering student, speak good english and I fulfill all the other... Hello brothers and sisters,

I am going for CP in Ankara in June. I would very much appreciate if anyone who had done CP in Ankara could share me his/her experience.

And I have a few questions too.
I am a 4th year engineering student, speak good english and I fulfill all the other requirements for a DV visa. But I dont have any sponsor nor a job offer in US. And I only have half the amount of poverty guidelines in my account.

My plan is I will go there this summer and stay there for 3 months. May be Ill find a seasonal job or I will just have my vacation. Then I will come back to Ankara at the start of next semester to finish my school. I would like to know what my chances are.
Should I be honest and tell all my plan to the interviewer? Because I heard they dont like if someone has a potential to go back where they come from, which is Ankara in my case. But I will definitely go back to US after finishing my school and I will also be visiting during semester breaks so that my absence from US would not be over a year.

Or should I just say I will settle there and find a job and hope for the best?

Any suggestion would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
leo ]]> Lottery Visas - DV leominn http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548381-Going-for-Interview-in-Ankara-need-advice! http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548380-Might-need-to-reschedule-fingerprinting-Please-advice&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 15:08:20 GMT I am thinking of mailing my wife's N-400 tomorrow. My location is Fairfax, Virginia. However, she will need to leave for India in the mid of June.

Looking at the timelines on the tracker, it does not seem that she will be able to get her fingerprinting done before she leaves. If she gets her notice before she leaves, can I inform USCIS that she is out of the country and ask them to reschedule her fingerprinting. Should I call them or email them? Has anyone of you ever done it before?

Thanks! ]]> US Citizenship shah007 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548380-Might-need-to-reschedule-fingerprinting-Please-advice http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548379-What-Immigration-Documents-for-Oath-Ceremony&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 05:47:12 GMT It mentioned in the letter I need to bring "Any Immigration documents you may have"?
What is this really means? ]]> US Citizenship likuliku http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548379-What-Immigration-Documents-for-Oath-Ceremony http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548378-Help-I-140-(EB1-EA)-approved-with-AOS-but-I-am-not-US-now&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 03:54:21 GMT Hi All, I have filed (self) I-140 in March, 2011 and left US in Aug. 2011 due to personal reasons. Last week my I-140 has been approved (NO REF). I opted for AOS in the application and PDs are current. Now I am in India. I would like proceed with this GC procees, although I may not move to US... Hi All,

I have filed (self) I-140 in March, 2011 and left US in Aug. 2011 due to personal reasons. Last week my I-140 has been approved (NO REF). I opted for AOS in the application and PDs are current. Now I am in India. I would like proceed with this GC procees, although I may not move to US immideately. What are my best options.


1. What is the validity period of approved I-140 under EB1-EA? Can I start processing say after a year or so?

2. I opted for AOS in the application, as I was not prepared to return to India at that time. Now I am in India and how to proceed with this.



thanks in advance.

vamsi ]]> National Interest Waiver and EB1 vamsi23 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548378-Help-I-140-(EB1-EA)-approved-with-AOS-but-I-am-not-US-now http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548377-Careless-mistake-on-N400&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 01:39:31 GMT I took only one trip outside US in last 5 years - a 3 day trip to Mexico. It was in December. And I should have put down the dates as 12/3/2010 - 12/5/2010. Instead, I made a stupid mistake and put the day first and month second as 3/12/2010 - 5/12/2010. My interview is tomorrow. Any suggestion... I took only one trip outside US in last 5 years - a 3 day trip to Mexico. It was in December. And I should have put down the dates as 12/3/2010 - 12/5/2010. Instead, I made a stupid mistake and put the day first and month second as 3/12/2010 - 5/12/2010.

My interview is tomorrow. Any suggestion on how I should handle this? Thanks. ]]> US Citizenship tedS http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548377-Careless-mistake-on-N400 http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548376-Pls-comment-on-the-PERM-newspaper-ad&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 01:33:02 GMT I have Masters in Mild Disabilities, Job's minimum requirement is Bachelors in Mild Dis. Alternate level is the Masters. Alternate field is 'related field in Special Education'. Which newspaper ad for PERM looks better? Anything lacking or wrong?

Version 1
Company X of Tucson, Texas is looking for a special education teacher to provide xxxxx. Minimum acceptable qualification is a Bachelor’s Degree in Mild Disabilities or related field in Special Education. Those with Master’s Degree may also apply. Apply at www.xxxx.com or call Ms. XYZ at xxxx.

Version 2
Company X of Tucson, Texas is looking for a special education teacher to provide xxxxx. Applicant must have a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Mild Disabilities or related field in Special Education. Apply at www.xxxx.com or call Ms. XYZ at xxxx. ]]> PERM gretchen http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548376-Pls-comment-on-the-PERM-newspaper-ad http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548375-Immigrants-find-education-hope-at-East-High-School&goto=newpost Wed, 16 May 2012 01:12:38 GMT Immigrants find education, hope at East High School By JOE ROBERTSON The Kansas City Star Of course it would take monstrous forces to drive families from their homelands. These are some of the things immigrant students in Kansas City’s East High School have seen: A hoodlum’s gun in... Immigrants find education, hope at East High School
By JOE ROBERTSON
The Kansas City Star

Of course it would take monstrous forces to drive families from their homelands.

These are some of the things immigrant students in Kansas City’s East High School have seen:

A hoodlum’s gun in Juarez, Mexico, aimed in the face of 14-year-old Pamela Martinez’s pregnant mother.

Unremitting civil war in Somalia that chased 17-year-old Fardowsa Mursal into a Kenyan refugee camp for the first 14 years of her life.

Suffocating poverty in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that 16-year-old Steeve Henrius’ father was working to escape long before the earthquake that maimed Steeve’s brother.

Assassins’ bullets in Baghdad, Iraq, that missed 20-year-old Omar Mohammed but killed his friend as they ran.

Of the 1,031 students finishing the school year at East, 582 are immigrant students learning English.

They speak 35 languages and come from dozens of countries. A map in the school’s main hall charts their global journeys in streams of colored ribbons converging on Kansas City.

“Some of our students had never been in school,” East Principal Tommy Herrera said. “Some couldn’t read or write in their own language. … We have students who (when they first arrive) would rather sit and squat instead of sit on a chair at a desk.”

The first lesson may be as simple as saying “pencil” and shaping a student’s fingers around it, said language teacher Fatimah Daud.

“I’m amazed at how far they can advance in a few short years,” Daud said. “I don’t think people really understand the population we serve.”

Kansas State University Professor Socorro Herrera, no relation to the principal, has visited schools “from New York to California” in 30 years of work in intercultural education, she said. “And this is the highest number of second-language learners I’ve seen.”

Kansas City has concentrated its language programs within the general high school at East — aiming to give immigrant students more special services with opportunities to blend in with mainstream students.

“Kids are thriving there,” Socorro Herrera said.

Students in Daud’s Level II communication arts class took an impromptu inventory last week — counting their languages:

Spanish, Vietnamese, Swahili, Burmese, Karen, Somali, Mai-Mai, Bantu, Pulaar, Senegal, Grabo, Arabic, Turkish, Kurdish…

About 20 students in all, at least 14 languages. All of the students growing adept and confident in English.

Some are seniors, preparing to graduate on to college. Many of the younger students are ready for mainstream high school classrooms.

“Once they get it, they run with it,” Tommy Herrera said. “They’ll pass up American-born citizens.”

The four students who stepped aside to tell their stories are running full-flight. They’re relishing education that they had long hoped for, and that determined family and international workers made possible.

“America” was a mysterious prayer Fardowsa kept hearing growing up in the refugee camp in Garissa, Kenya. Many were trying to get there, and always anxiously waiting the reports from caseworkers of who had been processed to go.

The idea of someday landing in that unknown country scared her.

“But my mom told me: ‘You’ll get to school. You’ll learn English and then you will help me,’ ” Fardowsa said. “You’ll get your dream.”

She was luckier than many refugees. Her camp had a school with international workers. She remembers “Michael,” who told her about American schools — middle schools and high schools with many rooms and class schedules.

Steeve, in Haiti, had a clearer picture of what was ahead in America. His father, determined to get his family to the U.S., enrolled Steeve in an American school in Port-au-Prince as he was growing up.

That school “is all ashes now” since the Haiti earthquake in 2010, Steeve said. It lies ruined like so much of his neighborhood between the blue ocean and green mountains he misses so much.

“The beautiful country crashed right in front of me,” he said.

An older brother, who is now enrolled in East’s adjoining school for severely disabled students, suffered paralyzing injuries.

His father keeps working in Kansas City in a nursing home, as they work to bring more of their family to Kansas City.

In Iraq, Omar’s father was a doctor and family members were important leaders among Shia Muslims in Baghdad.

After the U.S. launched the Iraq war in 2003, terroristic, religious warring put his family under assassination threats, Omar said.

The men who fired on him and his friend jumped out of a car with Kalashnikov rifles.

He wanted to be a doctor like his father. He wanted to be a Muslim cleric. After his family first took refuge in Syria, he soon understood that whatever path he would be taking, it would be in the United States.

Sheila Velasco’s science class is a bit on the noisy side — and that’s the way they like it at East.

“We want them talking,” Tommy Herrera said, watching the class. “I like to hear them giggling, interacting, using the language. That’s how they learn.”

Pictures of omnivores, herbivores and carnivores accompany the words on the board. Velasco is bringing every student into the conversation.

“I was ESL,” Velasco said after class. She was an “English as second language” immigrant as a teacher, arriving scared from the Philippines 15 years ago.

“I can relate how it feels when you know something and you want to say it but you lack the words,” she said. “You lack the confidence about the words.”

The school’s strategy fills the white boards in the principal’s conference room. Every teacher is a reading and writing teacher — whether teaching science, math, social studies, art or P.E.

The immigrant students at East build their language through academic content. Teachers have to ensure that they are learning, and the proof is in their speaking and writing it.

But this is no “English only” approach.

Native languages are savored here. With a small army of language specialists to help interpret, students express themselves in the best way they know how, and use that to build English.

“The fact that a new student doesn’t speak English doesn’t mean they don’t know anything,” said Alicia Miguel, the director of language services for Kansas City Public Schools. “They are not a blank slate. So how do you tap into that? How do you find out?”

The ringing sound of languages rising with the English not only helps immigrant students find confidence, but it fosters a school-wide embrace of the full range of cultures.

The school’s homecoming dance, Steeve said, becomes a world tour of fashion, food and dance.

“I find it very, very, very interesting,” Steeve said. “You hear it and you say, ‘That’s a cool language,’ and I want to learn what they’re saying. ‘Wow, that’s Swahili? That’s Vietnamese? I want to learn that.’ ”

As another year wound down, the four students measured how far they’ve come.

Fardowsa remembers her first months in Missouri with her mother when they were scared to even walk outside their apartment.

The rough English she had learned sounded nothing like the English she was hearing in America. Her accent was impossible for others to understand.

They had no car, and were afraid to walk because the first intersection in every direction was a swarm of cars and colored street lights they did not understand.

Now, after three years, she feels she’s on her way. She’s a high school junior who knows she can become a doctor.

Pamela, since leaving Juarez just a year ago, has discovered she is an artist. She wants to travel to Japan and immerse herself in the art of graphic novels. She is looking into attending Kansas City’s art school at Paseo Academy next year.

“I want to be an author,” she said. “I want to learn Japanese, and Arabic and Vietnamese.”

Omar is a cleric again, now at a Kansas City mosque. He will be enrolling at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, then going on to the University of Missouri-Kansas City and medical school.

Steeve laughs at the thought of what may come.

“I feel free like an eagle,” he said.

He sees himself working in disaster relief, swooping into desperate communities, helping people, he said, as his father does now in nursing facilities.

“Or I may become a movie producer,” he said. “There are so many things in the United States. I’ve got so many backup plans.”

To reach Joe Robertson, call 816-234-4789 or send email to jrobertson@kcstar.com.

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/03...ation-and.html ]]> Education in USA grape ape http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?548375-Immigrants-find-education-hope-at-East-High-School