2 J1 Waiver Jobs and Green card question

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arnaar

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I have applied for J1 Waiver in a Health Shortage area and in the meantime also recieved a Job Offer thru the VA system.
My questions are
1 If the waiver process does get approved through the state can I still not take the job and take the VA job and not spoil my chances of getting the waiver through the VA system?
2 Does the Green card come more quickly through the VA system?
thanks in advance for the replies
 
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arnaar said:
I have applied for J1 Waiver in a Health Shortage area and in the meantime also recieved a Job Offer thru the VA system.
My questions are
1 If the waiver process does get approved through the state can I still not take the job and take the VA job and not spoil my chances of getting the waiver through the VA system?
2 Does the Green card come more quickly through the VA system?
thanks in advance for the replies
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1. i believe you can have only 1 waiver application submitted. you may have many jobs in hand but you may submit paperwork for only 1 waiver job. you have to decide in the beginning where to start your paperwork.
2. once your 1st waiver is approved, you may take a 2nd H1b job (part time only, as your primary waiver job has to be full time) in the VA.
arnaar said:
... Does the Green card come more quickly through the VA system?
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No.

**** this is where every visa holder (be it H1 or J1) has been crushed from 10/1/05
with the retrogrossion (for India, China) of 6 years for EB2 category of Physicians, chances of getting a GC (in 3 years + 1 day of waiver job or within 2 years of H1 job for people who were always H1 and never on J1) are gone. For people from other countries, there is still hope as they aren't backlogged.

**** if this retrogression continues ..... and you are a visa holder (J1 or H1) with hope of getting GC via employment based category (EB2 or EB1), then ..

- for a J1 to waiver H1 person ... if you are from india/china ... you will have to serve out your full 5 years of NIW waiver job.
- for an H1 residency to H1 job person, the GC via employment will also take about 5 years.

ofcourse, if congress passes a law to recapture previously unused visa numbers for other countries OR there is increase in quota for yearly visa number for countries, the situation will improve.

otherwise prepare yourself for a looooooong wait in your job for GC.
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VA is a better system for waiver, no harrasment from the employer, no worry of salary, USCIS does not create too much hassle once five years are over, documentation is easier.
 
> VA is a better system for waiver,

I wouldn't subscribe to this blanket statement. This choice depends on your specialty, the part of the country you are looking for and the type of employers you have to choose from for a non-VA job.

> no harrasment from the employer,

I know someone who got screwed by their local VA director. Waiver paperwork was dragged out while the doc was on O1 (just to extend the time they could squeeze out of him). When the 3 years were up, he decided to leave for a PP job (which gave him a GC up front), the VA tried to retribute by sending paperwork to USCIS indicating that the doc didn't fulfill his requirements and other nonsense. Everything turned out well, but for a while the scenes seemed to come from a bad sweat-shop movie.

> no worry of salary,

Right, you don't have to worry, your salary WILL be low.

> USCIS does not create too much hassle once five years are
> over, documentation is easier

This is what I heard. Once the VA buerocrat gives the letter, there is no checking of time-records or W2s.
 
It all depends

VA is a better system for waiver,

It all dependes. VA has alot of headaches with it also. One should look at all options and weigh the pros/cons.

> no harrasment from the employer,

Not correct. The employer may be okay, however the fellow employees may be difficult to work with. One may not have all the equipment and supplies to work with. Some of the VA bosses can be difficult to deal with.

> no worry of salary,

For PCP the salary may be same as PP. However there is big diff for specialisits. You may earn about 2 x as much if you are in PP (if your employer is fair to you !)

OVERALL, I will say one has to look at job carefully. Not all the VAs are the same. I had good Chief of Staff but the Human resources folks were not easy to deal with. Pay was/is much lower than in PP, etc
 
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