Recent content by taugusti

Thanks Jackolantern. Do you know anyone who has submitted an I-407 at the port of entry ? I have asked the consulate and they gave a reply with a URL answering "How to surrender your abandoned green card ?"

My mother was recently granted a B2 visit visa valid for 10 years at the Chennai consulate. She previously had a US permanent residency. However it is currently in abandoned state as she hasn't been to US since 2008. She doesn't plan to regain permanent residency. However when they sent the...

My mother was recently granted a B2 visit visa valid for 10 years at the Chennai consulate. She previously had a US permanent residency. However it is currently in abandoned state as she hasn't been to US since 2008. She doesn't plan to regain permanent residency. However when they sent the...

Hello My brother in law is in a strange situtation. He works as an IT professional in B'lore. His company had applied for his H1 and is currently approved. However he has got an interview date only for end of Feb 2006 for visa stamping. Becuase of such long delay his company wants to send him...

I have been on H1B for the past six years. My six year quota is expiring in the end of July. The company I’m currently working for the past one year had applied for my labor certificate in the August 2004(slightly less than one year). For this one the state labor was cleared six months before...

My parents are scheduled to appear for their immigrant visa (GREEN CARD) interview at Chennai consulate in the second week of July. They are being sponsored by my sister (their daughter) who is a US citizen. Seven years ago, my parents had visited US on a tourist (B) visa. While they were...

My parents are attending their immigrant visa interview at chennai in the second week of July. They are being sponsored in the family category by my sister who is a US citizen. I was wondering if there is anyone to share their or somebody whom they know's interview experiance. I would like...

My parents are attending their immigrant visa interview at chennai in the second week of July. They are being sponsored in the family category by my sister who is a US citizen. They have been instructed to submit all the ORIGINALS of the documents. My question is will they return the originals...

Thanks. I got my gc about 1.5 yrs ago. Does it make any difference?

My middle initial/name is missing in the GC. How can I add that in the GC? All my other documents contain my middle initial/name. Only the GC is missing it. I don't know why they missed it. Recently when I applied for a different state Driver's license, the DMV didn't accept my gc because my...

I have made an appointment in Chennai consulate for my sister and brother in law who are in India for visit visa for April 20th 2005. I made the appointment in early Jan. At that time they had an expired passport and I made the appointment with the old passport number and a random expiry date...

My sister is a US citizen(lives in NY) and she has applied GC for my parents who are in India. She submitted the I-130 application in the first week of Oct 2004. It was approved by the vermont center in a months time and we got a letter saying the case was transferred to some local office in New...

My friend had sent I-485 and I-140 application along with AP and EAD application. His appliaction is little complicated as his company is using a labor approval they obtained for some other guy for their organization. Does this dealy the issue of recipt notice ? Do we get 485 receipt only...

BALKONA I have the same issue . I send an e-mail to Canadian embassy in Washington DC and they replied saying if we have an I-551 stamping with a valida date on our passport they Consider us as permanent residents of US and allow to eneter Canada wihtout a visa

With INS there are no hard and fast rules. My I-485 was approved in less than 6months from the notification date. But that was way back in 2001.My approval date and my wife's application's recceipt date had only a few weeks gap. We were lucky that it all happend in a perfect way. My advice to...