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By the way I am still in India, struggling with my university's international office. My first resistance come from there! Not from the USCIS!!

My I-140 got approved during the first week of June 2008. So my university applied for 7th year H1 extension consular processing. But I think they did not send all the forms correctly. The CSC became suspicious and have sent a long long RFE asking for all kinds of documents from me and my...

Leave the US on July 8, 2008 or within 10 days of that date. If you stay beyond July 17, 2008 you will become an illegal resident. This will cause a lot of problems for you in the future. USCIS is correct in denying your application for H1 extension. Your PERM should have been applied before...

NCAgony, thanks for your advice. I told my university attorney, that she should have filed an extension before April 11, 2008 to get my 7th year H1 starting from July 15,2008. But she insists that it is service error. She wants to challenge this decision of USCIS. I told her to wait. (I don't...

Hi Folks, Some of you already know me and have given me good advice in the past. Here is my case: My 6 years H1B expired on April 11, 2008. But my labor (PERM) was applied only on July 15, 2007. My I-140 was applied on Nov 2, 2007 and pending. So I had to leave the country on April...

Hi Elpear1, Sorry to hear about your situation. I have also paid a lot of money to my immigration attorney for my green card. She did not do anything correctly. Now I am sitting here in India, waiting for my 7th year H1 to come through. When I return, I plan to go after this attorney. If you...

If you have a good lawyer, who can present the case very well, you should not have any trouble. I have a friend who as a PhD is astrophysics. He is working as a software programmer. His lawyer presented tha case as, all the computer programming knowledge and skills he obtained during his PhD...

I was in your same situation. I did not have any problem. They did not ask me anything. So it depends on the day and time you go. Have all your papers correct. Nothing should be missing. And they just asked routine questions, like how you like your current work, etc. They never asked anything...

Section 221(G) means, you have not been completely rejected. They need some further documents. If you provide them you will get your visa. That is what happened to me, some time back. If you did not get an e-mail. Ask them to send it again, or send a letter by regular mail. The e-mail they...

Thanks guys, I just re-captured some days and extended my stay till April 11, 2008. After which I am going to go off to India on a long vacation! 44 days of this vacation is going to be paid, as I have 44 vacation days accrued. Then I will not have any income till July 15, 2008. After that get...

My name was swapped to, when I got the new passport in Washington DC. But when I applied for visa at the US embassy in Chennai, I put my original un-swapped name under the "Is the applicant known by any other name" They were able to pull my records with my original un-swapped name. So there was...

Dry Heat, what about my Labor and the I-140? Did you take them into consideration. What you had mentioned, applies for people who have not applied for their permanent residency, is it not?

Hi GotPR. I will have to rely on the 365 labor thing. Because that will be earliest. I don't think the I-140 will get approved, as I am from India and they filed me under EB3 skilled labor category. Which means I should leave by mid April and stay in India till June 15, 2008. Since H1 process...

Thank you Manwithnoname and GotPR. I work for an university, so we do not come under the H-1B cap. GotPR - From the document I understand that we can apply for 7th year H-1 extension based on my labor, even though I will be in India. So I will have to go on a long vacation from April 21...

Hi Ravi, What is your situation now? Are you going back to India? When do you think, you will be coming back on a new H1 visa? My lawyer is not saying anything. My current H1-B is expiring on April 11, 2008. I think, I will get ready to go back to India. Very frustrating. Here is my...