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NIW Nov04, Priority date is based on LC or I-140 receipt date. I don't think it is related to I-485 receipt date. While one may be able to submit I-485 when his/her priority date becomes current, their case cannot be adjudicated unless their priority date is current on a particular date (i.e...

hello wouldliketoknow, The reason it is rare is because applicants from visa retrogressed countries has nothing else to gain in terms of priority date. The requirements for EB1-OR is simpler (as it requires you to satisfy fewer criterias) but requires the petition to be submitted by an...

Perhaps they want to do employment verification which you probably had mentioned in your I-140 petition. Does your proposed job requires people with extraordinary ability or have you had abandoned the job to do something else that has nothing to do with your I-140. This is going to be less...

ixora78, No problem. TSC will forward your petition to NSC. For the time being, applications sent to wrong service center will not be automatically rejected.

EB1-OR cannot be self-petitioned. Your future employer should petition it for you!

Find an employer first! If you meet the qualifications, that employer can petition O-visa for you. If you do not qualify, you can still come on other visas. The employer should know this. O-visa cannot be self-petitioned. If you think you are qualified, try EB1-extraordinary ability green card...

You do not have to specifically state how many independent citations in your cover letter. It is sufficient to say, how many citations are there for your articles. You can then add a sentence stating the number of citations is increasing rapidly as these papers were only published about a year...

There is no harm. However, the content of the "independent" reference letters becomes very critical in this case (i.e., USCIS may not be able to establish your reputation in the filed through the citations alone).

Universities, certain nonproft organizations, etc.. are exempted from numerical cap for H1B purposes. If your H1B is obtained through this exemption, it cannot be directly transferred to a company job. One way around this is to apply for O-visa with the new employer or apply for a green card.

Perhaps the latest message change is sent by mistake. Anyways, you may want to seek your attorney's advice and try Infopass. Infopass allows you to get an appointment with a local immigration officer. They would be able to answer the status of your application/clarify your case. To do this, go...

Did you get a hardcopy of approval notice? Sometimes USCIS mistakenly sends out approval/denial notices. I remember reading about a few such cases a while back. Even recently, USCIS had mistakenly sent out approval notices for a few H1B applications and now sending a new notice correcting...

eb1doc, I think AC21 is not applicable for NIW and EB1-EA. These are usually self-petitions and therefore the beneficiary is not tied to a particular employer. He/she has to just continue in the same/similar field after I-140 approval.

You should be fine. In the letter, you could say that you have made signficant contributions to the understanding of environmental pollution. In your current capacity as a research scientist at ..., you are contributing to... inorganic environment pollutants. The officer who is adjudicating is...

I was simply giving you an example. You typically get an additional LUD after an action is taken. On July 13, you had a LUD and a message change (transfer & interview schedule notice). The next day you got a LUD. This is very common.

madgu_gc2005, As eb1doc had suggested, you need to first determine if the message you received is a standard transfer notice or not. If you have been following recent publications and procedural changes at NSC, you will notice the following: 1. Phase II of bi-specialization took effect on...