srinireddydgl said:
LIKE AC-21 , CHANGE OF JOBS IN PERMISSIBLE
CITIZENSHIP COMES AFTER 5 YEARS, YOU CAN EXPLAIN IF THERE IS A PROBLEM
IF YOU ARE PAYING TAXES DULY, GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOING TO TELL YOU TO STAY ON GC FOR REST OF YOUR LIFE
I very much agree.
There is a lot of unnecessary fear about changing the job.
If you changed job because there was a valid reason to change (employee situation changes, company environment is stressful, you want to move to a new location for whatever reasons (e.g., health reasons - suffering mold, mildew, alergy etc.)), it is fine to change job any time. Cititizenship guys aren't dumb to see the difference between genuine reasons to change the job in the dynamic US economy, and somebody being fradulenetly on the payroll of a sponsoring company just to get the green card.
I think the more worthy criteria is that you should work in the same general field for next 6-12 months. So, if you get your green card in software engineering, you should not run a grocery store immediately after your green card. Think of it as a job change under AC21 rules, but without need to notify any one but yourself. If you think logically, if you can change to a similar job before 485 approval under AC21, you should have more freedom to change to similar jobs not less after being a PR.
It is only people who have taken some sort of dubious route to get green card that are scared of all these issues. It is for these paranoid people those rules apply for sticking with the employer for six months to a year since it automatically establishes continuation of the profession for which labor was approved. So, lawyers, being practical people who have seen it all, aren't wrong either because they assume that their client is the worst kind of person with a lot of hidden items. How many times they see that a driver, caught for not stopping on a stop sign, does not tell them any thing about his past DUI records, or the record for being jailed for driving without a license or his being charged for shop lifting three years ago?
The key issue to remember is if there was any "intention" to work for the sponsor when they filed your 140/ (and you filed your 485)? And, proving or disapparoving such an intention in legal terms is like proving or diappproving your intention to marry a beautiful film star "xyz", five years after being married to an ordinary "jane". Me too had the same intentions.
In short, if you are very paranoid - and you have got 485 approved either change job within a few weeks of approval (means you had planned to exercise AC21, and send your AC21 papers any way just for filing to be on safe side, and keep a copy of registry receipt), and if that is not possible then stay for a few months (the lawyers want about 6 months or so).
I am not a lawyer - so check with a good lawyer that you trust.