Recent content by jat

Consult yourself My suggestion would be to first start working for your company. Once you do that you would have some revenue generated and you would be able to show the ability to pay. Also you can then start actively marketing your friend too. If you sell your consulting services via big temp...

Blue Shield Blue Cross and Golden Rule Depending on your (and your family's) general health, I would suggest that you buy HSA (Health Savings Account) eligible insurance with high deductible $2K, $5K and $10K. $5K deductible is a good choice though I recently bought $10K deductible insurance...

My wife left the US on 3rd March and would be back on the 31st March. While she is out, the USCIS message has changed to say that cards have been mailed. She has stamp in her passport, which is valid till August 2005. Does the immigration officer at POE expect her to produce the green card...

Would the policy cover outlast the job Joe, I certainly would like to be productive. This injury would treatable and might require surgery. The recovery time is not that long either. What I am planning for is leaving current job, incorporating and consulting on my own. When I do that, I might...

After completing six months after the GC is approved, I was considering leaving the job and be on my own as contractor. Then suddenly, I noticed pain in my wrist that seems to be becoming worse by each day. Researched the Webmd and found that it could be due to carpel tunnel syndrome that is...

Unemployment benefits if resigned voluntarily Can I apply for and get the unemployment insurance payments even if I resign voluntarily? I plan on leaving the job and search for contracts, which I believe would take 30-45 days. Since I will be unemployed during that period, I am not sure if I...

Contracting after GC Thanks JoeF. Appreciate your inputs. I was just trying to ask if anyone had similar situation and if there was any eyebrows were raised by INS officer. Hey Joe, one more thing I would like to get words of wisdom since you got into consulting with your own company...

Answer for “Whom do you work for” I am thinking of leaving the job 6 months after the GC approval and start consulting as contractor by incorporating a C-Corp or LLC. I will be owner/employee of this company, which has just one person working for it. I might not have a contract in had at the...

Any good suggestion about insurance JoeF, I agree with you. One has to tread very carefully on errors and omissions and IP liability issues. It was working fine with me till the time I left a job where the employer found difficult to let me go as they were paying too less. They thought that by...

Wait till dependents are approved IANAL. I would not suggest changing the job till the dependents get approved. JoeF has his valued opinion that the dependents have not committed anything to USCIS. However, when I called up 1-800# couple of weeks back, the call was transferred to the IIO who...

Storey on NPR And this one too: They would try to pluck even a legal alien at very first opportunity even on petty unintentional crimes such as someone riding metro w/o ticket. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4173701 That does not seem to be very fair legal system.

Agreed but ..... JoeF, you are right, they are not lawyers. They might also not know the finer points of law but the question is which law. We all agree on one point that there is no law in B & W that requires one to stay in the same job after EB green card is approved. And that is the...

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How is MA? Any city you would suggest? After the GC, I am thinking of moving to coastal areas after living in Wisconsin. I considered CA (San Fran or San Jose), Seattle, Washington DC, and MA (Boston or nearby RI or NH). I am in the software profession with C# / SQL skills CA was completely...

But they are USCIS’s employees JoeF, they are certainly not lawyers especially the first line of customer service agents. They are contractor’s employees at this point of time though USCIS employees would soon man the lines as per a bill passed by the congress. However, I would tend to...