AC21 - Contract - Hire

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mnl_gcquest

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Hi All Gurus,
Please help., I have received an excellent offer which is contract to Hire with a company. I have file for I-485 in June 2003. The contract is with a staffing company A on a W2 with no benefits and they are placing me at another company B. The contract time frame is about 1-2 months. Company A and Company B both are willing to provide me with AC21 letter. My understanding is I can only do permanent work. Is it possible to do contract to Hire.

Please respond urgently..
Thanks
 
mnl_gcquest said:
Hi All Gurus,
Please help., I have received an excellent offer which is contract to Hire with a company. I have file for I-485 in June 2003. The contract is with a staffing company A on a W2 with no benefits and they are placing me at another company B. The contract time frame is about 1-2 months. Company A and Company B both are willing to provide me with AC21 letter. My understanding is I can only do permanent work. Is it possible to do contract to Hire.

Please respond urgently..
Thanks
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here is what I would do in ur situation....

join as W2 employee of company A[ i guess a contracting company] for 1-2 months and get a AC-21 letter from them stating that same/similar job duties. Submit this AC-21 letter pro-actively to USCIS and then job company B as employee. Get another
AC-21 letter from company B[just in case USCIS asks again]. This second AC-21 letter can state that company B intends to keep you as perm employee even after 485 is approved.
 
folks, anyone with experience in using EAD to join contract to perm, invoking AC-21 please share your experiences here, did you get any RFEs, trouble from previous employer, whether you sent AC-21 docs while on contract or after going perm??

any info help is greatly appreciated....

trying to revive this thread....

thanks
 
michael_holding said:
folks, anyone with experience in using EAD to join contract to perm, invoking AC-21 please share your experiences here, did you get any RFEs, trouble from previous employer, whether you sent AC-21 docs while on contract or after going perm??

any info help is greatly appreciated....

trying to revive this thread....

thanks
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1. ac21 should applied after joining perm, not while you are in contract.
2. Get clearifications from your future employer about your salary, title and duties after becoming perm.
3. Make sure that the future employer can take you with ac21(EAD) but not only after getting a GC.
4. just make sure that hiring after the contract time is not a problem to your current employer. Know the hiring contract details between the current employer and the future employer.

Find a good ac21 immigration lawyer when you are in the contract and you are all set.
 
indian_gc_ocean said:
1. ac21 should applied after joining perm, not while you are in contract.

------------- AC21 only if employer gives permanent job offer letter with same/similar job duties
2. Get clearifications from your future employer about your salary, title and duties after becoming perm.
-------------- new employer need to give permanent job offer letter with same/similar job duties. one needs the offer of permanent job at the time I-485 is approved.
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thanks for the replies, while i do understand the process behind AC-21 as i have been frequenting these forums for more than an year now (same or similar...etc etc) i was looking for personal experiences, where people have used AC-21 via the contract to perm route. i guess my question is a bit more specific than the run of the mill "how to invoke AC-21".

indian_gc...i think you misunderstood my question, i am not going to become permanent from my current contract.(in which case its pretty straight forward). my question was about leaving the current employer and going to through a recruiting company on a contract to perm type of an offer...did you have personal experience using AC21??
 
no, I did not do AC21 contract-hire before.

This is what I can say. To me, in this kind of situation, AC21 appears like this -- will my employer let me go or will create problems.

If the employer lets me go then probably I can do contract-hire and then file AC21 with required docs if a RFE is issued. I can show my contracting vendor or the client as my fulltime employer depending on my situation. Proactively, I can also do AC21 twice once with new vendor and again with the client as long as the two offers meet the ac21 requirements.

If I think my employer will create headaches by revoking I-140 then better work this contract-hire also throgh him if there is a possibilty. Without his support it would be risky to hang on at the new vendor not doing ac21 until the client gives a fulltime offer.
 
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