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LC Substitute Hi Guru, My company got one LC approval which is BS+4yrs recently. They want to substitute my pending LC (job requirement: MS+4 with RD 03/31/04). Can somebody tell if there is any risk to substitute? If it fails to pass I-140, can I file another I-140 with my original approval...

I guess the right anwser is that if you had non-immigration visa stamped on your passport before, you can reenter US with valid I-94. But if you don't have non-immigration visa stamped, there is no visa to revalidate at all, hence you can't auto-revalidate. The blur issue is, how about visa...

Blar blar How about this guy:) William L. Carlson, Chief, Division of Foreign Labor Certification, Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Room C4318 FP Building, Washington, DC 20210 Phone: 202 693-3989 Fax: 202 693-2760 Email...

EB2 is not DOL term 1. USCIS determines the employment based category (EB2, EB3), not DOL. 2. On paper, pilot program approves concurrent I140/I485 filing in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the new rule is that if you apply new visa in Canada, you are not eligible to visa auto-revalidation. That is, if your visa stamp fails, you can not use your H4 with valid I-94 to come back. Check http://travel.state.gov/exclusionvisa.html

Visa and status is different You mixed up visa with status. I-94 is your status. As long as you have valid I-94 and job, you have good status. Visa is only used when you travel outside US and want to cme back. If it's expired, you need to stamp it in order to come back. If you don't travel...

DOL Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Here are some info of DOL regulatory agenda related to the labour cert. It seems that DOL set the publishing date of PERM final regulation at sometime in July 2004. Semiannual Regulatory Agenda DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL) SUMMARY: This document sets...

Jump to Feb? Are you sure it's 02/28 instead of 01/28? How come it jump forward to Feb? Anyway, Congratulation!

If visa stamp fails, you can not come back with valid I-94 You have to go abroad to take visa stamp. But if visa stamp fails in Canada or Mexico, you can not come back with valid I-94 even in 30 days time frame. This is new rule.

DOL Backlog Reduction Interim Final Rule Imminent DOL Backlog Reduction Interim Final Rule Imminent The OMB had been reviewing the Interim Final Rule of DOL, "Labor Certification for Permanent Employment of Aliens in the United States; Backlog Reduction," since April 19, 2004. Yesterday...

OMB Review Deadline for PERM Final Regulation Review - June 21, 2004 OMB Review Deadline for PERM Final Regulation Review - June 21, 2004 The regulations of the agencies are reviewed by the OIRA (Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs) within the OMB (Office of Management and...

I guess it's still 21 days The oringinal proposal is 21 days cert under PERM. I don't have this info on coming new rule pulblishing. Only info is that OMB has not changed too much. ascii

PERM will come for sure in 2004 Message (reliable source) from the latest annual AILA meeting (06/09~06/13) says the PERM will be published in 30 days. And the date of implementation for PERM will be 120 days after the publication date. The detail new rule is not yet clear. But the basic ad...

Landed Immigrants Without Visas Cannot Be Readmitted on I-94 Card? Can somebody explain this news: Landed Immigrants Without Visas Cannot Be Readmitted on I-94 Card Jeff Gorsky, Chief of Advisory Opinions, Office of Legislations, Regulations and Advisory Assistance, Visa Office...

I bet they had kind of "General Protection Failure" in their system. If not, we're screwed, again! ascii