Approved at last (I-140 redo)

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Govinda Vinod

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EAC-99-250-XXXXX
PD: Oct 01, 1996 (EB3, India)
RD: Aug 05, 1999 (I-485)
ND: Aug 25, 1999 (I-485)
RFE Issued: Sep 28, 2000 (for emp. ver. letter, pay-stubs, etc.)
Applied for I-140 redo since company had been sold & acquired.
RD: Oct 29, 2000 (amended I-140)
ND: Nov 14, 2000 (amended I-140)
AD: Dec 21, 2000 (amended I-140)
(amended I-140) Approval Notice received on Jan 04, 2001.
Second RFE for an updated Emp. Ver. Letter & last 3 pay-stubs on Jan 22 2001.
Replied on Jan 26, 2001.
Reply received by INS Vermont on Jan 27th and acknowledged by them on Jan 31, 2001.

By end of March, I was totally frustrated, after contacting each Pennsylvania Senator separately and receiving the same reply that I get from the INS from them too. Both offices told me that my petition was on hold due to company name change - they did not have any explanation as to why even after I-140 redo was approved, my petition was being held up. They gave their standard answer, wait for another "60 days". They did not give any credence to my explanations of other (similar) petitions being approved routinely....
So, I decided to contact the local Congressman\'s office. The lady there also got back to me in a week (1st week of April) and gave me the same answer, but she gave me a patient ear and found my story & explanations interesting. She told me that she will try to find out more details about my case & do whatever she could do and asked me to call her back in 3 weeks.
I called her on Tuesday and told her that my petition was still pending. She said that INS Vermont computers were down (a lot of us on this board know that too...) and that she will talk to somebody as soon as the computers came back up and asked me to call back the next day. When I called her, she simply told me that my petition has been approved, as of Tuesday, the 24th. I found out yesterday that the automated message also said the same thing. My wife\'s petition has been approved too on the same day and we are now waiting for the approval notices.
What a relief!!!!!
I would like to thank Mr. Rajiv Khanna who provides the infrastructure for this forum and all people who take the time & effort to post their details so that we as a community is more informed and up-to-date.
I will be around to answer any questions and shall also post our stamping experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
 
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Congratulations Govind. Good to hear that a longtime waiter kije you have got your approval. Have Fun !!
 
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Congratulations buddy...you are one of the old timer left on this board. We will miss you...Have a great time.
 
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Congratulations and Enjoy the freedom, Please post your passport stamping experience after you have done it.
 
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Oh my god I feel so good that your case got approved I used to see you on this board for a long long time, first you were active pariticpant then you slowed down and slowed down probably becuse you got angry and finally you are out. Congradualtions buddy!!! I saw your pain in your postings and I admire your endurance you survived.
 
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Yes, my friend, exactly!!!! I just kept seeing approvals of people who had filed weeks after me, and also people who had gone through the same I-140 redo pain, and I just did not see any incentive to follow any discussion, as all said & done, the fact remained that if your case/file has gone out of the regular channel, it is very difficult to bring it back in. I know that there are still a lot of I-140 (redo) related people waiting out there for their approvals. I just don\'t know what to say, but the Congressman/Senator route is probably the only way out....
 
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I have got a reply from the IGate\'s LD that once the amended I140 \'s notice has been received it is out of IGate\'s hands ...I485 is not an EMPLOYER\'S APPLICATION - they claim ....that means we must decide what to do with the I140\'s ammended notice numbers ....we should call VSC and check the status and tell about the new number to update the records ...Anyone in Amended I140 lists of Igate please NOTE !!!
I posted this as a response to another reply ...thought it is better to post here too.

It looks like we should hold the tail of the donkey ( VSC ?) and grab it tight and go after it however it JUMPS until we get what we want from it ....as per this case ..

Anyhow Congrats on the Herculean efforts.....
 
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Well, what IGATE\'s LD is true to a large extent, even though IGATE is still responsible till the (amended) I-140 gets approved. But it is ACTUALLY TRUE that the I-485 is not the employer\'s petition and that the employee will have to take the matter into his/her own hands and deal accordingly....
 
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