Atlanta Regional DOL Tracker - Old (Archived on 09/24/2004)

Status
Not open for further replies.
:( Too bad for me, a non-GA filer. Now I can only hope some DOl people get tired of endless vacations, and take a break to pick up non-GA cases.
 
All experts, My employer is from Atlanta. I have a question of Labor certification. My employer makes employees pay for their Green cards. Recently I saw that a guy 'A' got his labor approved though my employer.
The employer saw an opportunity for a project and found a suitable candidate 'B' whom he hired with a promise of fast green card processing. With 'B' he is getting lot more money in comission compared to 'A'. Educational qualifications for both 'A' and 'B' are similar. Looking at labor delays 'B' wanted to leave unless employer arranged for preapproved labor and did substitution. Now my employer played a game and fired 'A' while he was still on project and used his approved labor for 'B'. I want to help 'A', since he paid almost $3,000 towards lawyer fees and application fees, waited for four years and now has to leave without anything. Is there a provision where he can get the approved labor application ported alongwith him or cancel it and not let the employer misuse it?
 
NII,
Do your attorneys think the DOL is going to go to the trouble of contacting your previous employers overseas to verify your work experience?
 
srajuco

You can't do anything about the scenario presented in your post. LC is employer property and he/she can do anything with that as they want to.

If there are any other violations from employer then you might be able to do something.

Originally posted by srajuco
All experts, My employer is from Atlanta. I have a question of Labor certification. My employer makes employees pay for their Green cards. Recently I saw that a guy 'A' got his labor approved though my employer.
The employer saw an opportunity for a project and found a suitable candidate 'B' whom he hired with a promise of fast green card processing. With 'B' he is getting lot more money in comission compared to 'A'. Educational qualifications for both 'A' and 'B' are similar. Looking at labor delays 'B' wanted to leave unless employer arranged for preapproved labor and did substitution. Now my employer played a game and fired 'A' while he was still on project and used his approved labor for 'B'. I want to help 'A', since he paid almost $3,000 towards lawyer fees and application fees, waited for four years and now has to leave without anything. Is there a provision where he can get the approved labor application ported alongwith him or cancel it and not let the employer misuse it?
Click to expand...
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Originally posted by Mickey_32
NII,
Do your attorneys think the DOL is going to go to the trouble of contacting your previous employers overseas to verify your work experience?
Click to expand...

Mickey_32,

Funny you should ask, but my attorney and my employer received another letter Remand No.2 from DOL today requesting the same stuff word for word. However, DOL did not clarify in their letter what they actually wanted. My attorney decided to call them to clarify what exactly they needed. In my case, my previous employer was in the business of providing professional expertise to other organizations, in which I was "on loan" to other organizations. (My previous employer is a non-profit which provides design and planning expertise and assistance to other grass-root initiatives such as community development and neighborhood organizations). It was this concept that they did not understand and wanted verification that while I was "on loan", I was providing the same expertise that was required of me, in line with the profession that I am pursuing with my LCA. DOL will not get in touch with your previous employers, instead will put the ball at your feet for clarification. I am not getting in touch with my previous employers back home as it seems rather ridculous and far-fetched. Putting all my years of experience altogether, I have more than the two years that was required.

However, it is easier trying to explain that to a brick wall. I am leaving it to my attorney to response. We shall see how this thing proceeds. Wish me luck. Whatever will be will be.
 
About Case #

My case was forwared to Atlanta DOL in September 2003, however I still have not get a case # yet. My attoney said Atlanta DOL is working on Jan 2003 case, and therefore there is no case #. Is that true? I heard DOL usually assigns a case number 2-3 months after receipt of application, I don't know whether it is still the case? Anyone here whose case was forwarded to Atlanta DOL around Sep 2003 timeframe? Thank you for your advice.
 
BigPeach

Is your SESA from GA or FL or AL or ....???? There are guys from this forum havent got case # for Sep 2003...but iam from FL got case # after 4 months wait...

Good luck :cool:
 
Any updates for Jan cases... What about Veeranj, only one Dec case is still pending.
Updating the statuslist.
 
Updates ???

Pl. update forum ...if you have any updates ???

veeranj Dec 26 2002
only1left Jan 06 2003
ognep Jan 13 2003
atl-la-bore Jan 29 2003
PainCard Jan 30 2003
 
Still Pending

No updates from my side....

It is surprising that we have veeranj Dec 26 2002 still pending.

He/she may be approved and not updating the forum.
 
I think you are right, We should remove the Veeranj case from the status list, if he is not approved yet and replies then I am going to put his name in the status list back.
 
CP/Concurrent - Which is better?

Can anyone confirm this:

If you file I-140 and I-485 concurrently and have received EAD, in the event of any job problem, can you change the job (while 140 still pending)? Or you have to wait till your 140 is approved?

My case was received by ATL DOL on 03/10/2003 and is still pending. I am debating with myself, whether I should go for CP or concurrent filing?

Any suggestions? Anybody?

Thanks
 
OGNEP

Did your lawyer call DOL and find out about your status. Any RFE's ???

****************************************************
ognep

Waiting...
Still waiting... no news from automated phone system or website.
My lawyer is planning to call DOL sometime this week. Will update forum after I hear from him.

Other Good News:
Another case from my company - IT related and about 200 case numbers behind mine but with the same ATL DOL receipt date of 01/13/2003 - was certified on Feb 6 2004. Since it is not my case, I will not be able to provide more information on the same.

So I hope that my case has also come up for consideration and that I should hear something in the next few days.
 
Re: CP/Concurrent - Which is better?

Originally posted by mhsoor
Can anyone confirm this:

If you file I-140 and I-485 concurrently and have received EAD, in the event of any job problem, can you change the job (while 140 still pending)? Or you have to wait till your 140 is approved?

My case was received by ATL DOL on 03/10/2003 and is still pending. I am debating with myself, whether I should go for CP or concurrent filing?

Any suggestions? Anybody?

Thanks
Click to expand...

You can not change the job until your 140 is approved.
 
UPDATED LIST

I updated list with my RFE last week. But today someone is updated list again from previous without my updates. Friends, please make sure you update your info from latest update list so we can keep this list accurate.

Thanks,
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top