Hi folks,
Nothing earth-shattering here, just thought I'd share what my lawyer told me today.
Briefly: I have a pending I-485 (ND of April 2002), and my position at the sponsoring company was re-organised out of existence.
I've managed to get a new job, with the same duties - certainly it matches my approved LC filing, even if the job title is slightly different.
Anyway, we discussed whether or not I could use AC21 ( Lawyer said yes ) and what further steps, if any, we needed to take.
It was my lawyer's opinion that, in my case, we did NOT need to inform INS / BCIS of my change of job. We would deal with it only if BCIS issued an RFE. I assume that it was my lawyer's opinion that, since my new job is virtually identical to my old, and given the requirements of AC21, that there was no need to confuse BCIS by providing them with un-asked for information.
I should add that when we initially filed our I-485 it included a great deal of secondary evidence (pay stubs, HR letter of intent to employ, etc) that usually gets asked for in RFE. So it's entirely likely INS will just approve my I-485 based purely on the evidence presented to them in our finitial I-485 filing. That's my hope, anyway.
Nothing earth-shattering here, just thought I'd share what my lawyer told me today.
Briefly: I have a pending I-485 (ND of April 2002), and my position at the sponsoring company was re-organised out of existence.
I've managed to get a new job, with the same duties - certainly it matches my approved LC filing, even if the job title is slightly different.Anyway, we discussed whether or not I could use AC21 ( Lawyer said yes ) and what further steps, if any, we needed to take.
It was my lawyer's opinion that, in my case, we did NOT need to inform INS / BCIS of my change of job. We would deal with it only if BCIS issued an RFE. I assume that it was my lawyer's opinion that, since my new job is virtually identical to my old, and given the requirements of AC21, that there was no need to confuse BCIS by providing them with un-asked for information.
I should add that when we initially filed our I-485 it included a great deal of secondary evidence (pay stubs, HR letter of intent to employ, etc) that usually gets asked for in RFE. So it's entirely likely INS will just approve my I-485 based purely on the evidence presented to them in our finitial I-485 filing. That's my hope, anyway.