Attention to Amal

[OCT2000]

Amal,

Could you tell me what are the procedures to file I-485 before I-140 approval. This would help one of my friend he is running out of His 6 year term in soon. Any of your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Amal]

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Hi
Sorry for the delay in answering. Last year some one won a class action law suit. As part of these law suit, court gave judgement.
Judgement was that any body whoes priority date is current
and who have filed under BS+5 years or MS+2 years in E-2 category and whose I-140 is still pending or rejected or got a notice from INS should be able to file their I-485 directly. It was passed in last year may/june.
The catch was that this judgement was valid only for
6 month from the date it was passed. When I applied for I-485 but
still was waiting for I-140 to get approved, it was less than 6 month
and so I could apply. But thats over now. Sorry for the bad news but
please do check with your lawyer. Who knows what happend since then.
To do this, nothing different than regular I-485.
Except my lawyer mentioned in the cover letter that it was part of class action law suit
and also check marked on the first page of I-485 application at
the appropriate place. One thing, is that on the top
of his cover letter and other papers, he added an extra page with big
bold letter: Attention : Class action law suit. Please do not open
in mailroom. Take it to Director\'s room directly.

 

[OCT2000]

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Thanks a buch for the valuable information. I will ask him to check with his laywer if that class action law suit still helps in this kind of jobs.

Once again thank you vety much for your time and details.