Hi Folks,
It is like another GRADUATION day when (many of us) felt so humble, in contrast to the feeling of having conquered the world upon entry!
Very glad to say that I\'ve almost but finished the race. If anything is stopping me from celebrating it wild; streaking was the most popular norm for my teen generation, alas, now I am too old for that !; is the fact that many in our community are still waiting for that moment of truth, including my spouse.
The AVM says, “ This case has been approved on 7/6/01, an approval letter is mailed…bula bula”. I guess I can take it as true, as my daughter also got approved. My spouse\'s AVM still parrots the same old message.
Mile stones of my case:
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I-485 Approval: As per AVM 7/6/01
I-485 RD 6/15/00 & ND 6/28/00 - LIN-00-198-52xxx
FP: 4/10/01, NSC, EB2, India. NSC Tracker is updated!
I-140 approved 5/16/00, Labor cleared 11/99, SESA regular labor cleared 12/98
PD 12/97
Attempted GC in 95 and given up, but never regreted it, as I was asked to execute contract to work for employer one year post GC! GC norm was 1.5 to 2 years those days, literally a 3 year contract! Later I was given the free hand. May be they felt I am too good to pass up.
Search for the riches or knowledge,or the powerful flow of TIME ( or Manmohan singh?) lifted me off the shores of my mother land a decade back. After, of course, 10 long years of successful carrer in India.
Next Goal: RETIREMENT! Few months back a long time friend and college/class mate from microsoft called me and said they are going home (became citizens about an year back) for good. I couldn\'t help envy!
Loud thoughts: Give respect. Play fare. If anybody violates that (inluding INS and employer) don\'t take it lying down.
Myladoor
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my planet awake.
Gitanjali, Tagore
Journey Home
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The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage
through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself,
and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own,
and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!\'
The question and the cry `Oh, where?\' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!\'
Gitanjali, Tagore
It is like another GRADUATION day when (many of us) felt so humble, in contrast to the feeling of having conquered the world upon entry!
Very glad to say that I\'ve almost but finished the race. If anything is stopping me from celebrating it wild; streaking was the most popular norm for my teen generation, alas, now I am too old for that !; is the fact that many in our community are still waiting for that moment of truth, including my spouse.
The AVM says, “ This case has been approved on 7/6/01, an approval letter is mailed…bula bula”. I guess I can take it as true, as my daughter also got approved. My spouse\'s AVM still parrots the same old message.
Mile stones of my case:
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I-485 Approval: As per AVM 7/6/01
I-485 RD 6/15/00 & ND 6/28/00 - LIN-00-198-52xxx
FP: 4/10/01, NSC, EB2, India. NSC Tracker is updated!
I-140 approved 5/16/00, Labor cleared 11/99, SESA regular labor cleared 12/98
PD 12/97
Attempted GC in 95 and given up, but never regreted it, as I was asked to execute contract to work for employer one year post GC! GC norm was 1.5 to 2 years those days, literally a 3 year contract! Later I was given the free hand. May be they felt I am too good to pass up.
Search for the riches or knowledge,or the powerful flow of TIME ( or Manmohan singh?) lifted me off the shores of my mother land a decade back. After, of course, 10 long years of successful carrer in India.
Next Goal: RETIREMENT! Few months back a long time friend and college/class mate from microsoft called me and said they are going home (became citizens about an year back) for good. I couldn\'t help envy!
Loud thoughts: Give respect. Play fare. If anybody violates that (inluding INS and employer) don\'t take it lying down.
Myladoor
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my planet awake.
Gitanjali, Tagore
Journey Home
-------------
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage
through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself,
and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own,
and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!\'
The question and the cry `Oh, where?\' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!\'
Gitanjali, Tagore