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Here's a template if that helps.... --------------------- Dear Senator [senator_name] : I came across this story of a legal US resident and her family who were detained by the Customs and Border Protection Agency because the agents did not know the law well enough...

I just came across this story at .... http://shusterman.com/cgi/ex-link.pl?shusterman.typepad.com/nation-of-immigrants/2010/01/chaos-at-the-border.html Simply outrageous! The individual in this case subsidized the lack of knowledge on CBP agents' part with her unbelievable patience. I...

Note that she'll no longer be able to use her F-1 status if she reenters with an AP. Use for what, you might ask. A specific case could be that she was on F1-OPT based EAD before she left the US and re-entered with AP. Upon re-entering she cannot work with her F1-OPT based EAD. To work...

entering on AP but retaining H1B status I specifically asked my lawyer about this question last week (entering on AP but retaining H1B status) and his reply was that, yes, it is possible, and that the USCIS had been clear that you could retain H1B status despite having entered the country on...

Do you really want to go get an H1B stamp? Although a pending 485 doesnt impact your ability to get an H1B stamp, my suggestion is that you get the AP document before traveling out of the country and forget about the H1-B stamping unless you like the experience of going to a US consulate...

I've seen discussions here and there about this topic. Specifically, a discussion at http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=163965&highlight=gc+tax+deductibl%20e which I thought was hopelessly irrelevant to the thread title. So I decided to start a new one. As it turns out my...

Q1: You dont have to leave the country. You can get your H4 to F1 transfer processed within the country, stay on F1 status, file for OPT, work (or not) on OPT, file for H1B, and transfer to H1B ... all without leaving the country, provided you dont have gaps in legal status. This is probably the...

I wont say this again... Guys... whatever catdog's motivations are... obviously he doesnt add much value to this or any other thread. So, please, ignore him and I promise you his posts will dwindle down to a trickle.

Short answer: Nurses will have little or no effect. Only those nurses with PDs before their regular EB3 cut-off will eat into the regular EB3 quota. Others will eat into their 50k pool allocated by congress earlier this year.

Nope... I was correct :-) I was referring to EB3 becoming unavailable worldwide starting July 1 2005. Nobody in EB3 (regardless of their country of birth) could have filed 485 between 1-Jul-2005 and 1-Oct-2005.

Correction It says non-employment, not non-immigrant. It gets 120K extra by reallocating "certain" non-employment-based immigrant visas to the employment-based pool.

Not sure it's positive I dont see 120k anywhere in that news report. I see only negatives... I see "reduction" in visa numbers, I see a moratorium on immigrant visas to Mexicans citizens (may god have mercy on them) and I see some draconian provisions to deny automatic american citizenship to...

1. EB3 cut-offs never went to Aug 2002, they stopped at June 2002. 2. Nobody in EB3 could have filed 485 between 1-Jul-05 and 1-Oct-05. 3. EB3 cut-offs in the Oct 05 bulletin, in my best estimate, is based off of pending EB3 applications on 1-Jul-05. 4. DoS goofed up in setting up cut-offs...

It could simply mean that the Jan 98 guy sat on his behind for a long long time and one fine day in June 2005 applied for 485.... right around the time when DoS realized it was running out of EB3 numbers. tushar, I think LCsub does not get you the old PD.... can you check on that? As for...

How DoS actually implements cut-off dates Interesting stuff in the visa bulletin for July 2000. http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/visa_bulletin/2000-07bulletin.html ==================================== E. THE OPERATION OF THE IMMIGRANT NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEM The Department of State is...