Concurrent Filers (140/485) CSC-TSC: Waiting for 140 Approval

maith said:
20006gc,
Irrespective of concurrent/non-concurrent its only fair that the people who filed first get their application processed first. THere's no question of consideration etc since there are many scenarios that could affect anyone that hasn't got 140...

Its ridiculous how this entire GC procedure has become a gamble!!!!!
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Hi All,

I agree the process should be fair and should follow FIFO (First in First Out). The whole system is wrong. What about those days prior to PERM? All we waited years and years to just clear the labor certificate. Two/Three years back, all the LCs used to clear in 6 months from various DOLs, but all we know how long SF DOL took to clear the Labor certifactes.

CA 2002 labors got cleared in middle of 2005 from Dallas BEC. Just take my instance, my labor got cleared from Dallas BEC in Oct 05. Just I missed the I-485 filing with five days. Same from Dallas BEC, lot people with PDs beyond to me got cleared their labors atleast four months prior to my approval and all they are filed I-485 before to EB2 Oct 05 retrogression.

It's true that still lot of people with PDs 2002 ( Earlier to my PD) and 2003 are waiting at Philadelphia BEC and Dallas BEC to clear their labors.
What about them?

There is no FIFO, the whole process is just random and Semi FIFO.

20006gc made the good point in his/her posting. We are blaming the wrong center. All our I-140 applications are pending at CSC since Sep 05, and same time TX and NSC are clearing the I-140 in a month or two months time frame.
CA dumped their pending labors at BEC and pending I-140s at TX.

If something we want to do, not with just I-140 or just TX center. We need to address all the issues in delays on every stage of this process at various centers.

The truth is, as a foreigners, demanding the permanent residency in this country is not our right. It's courtesy privilege that this country is providing to us. I am not sure law suit will do something on this or not? But AILA may be help to take these issues to USCIS.

It's my opinion, I hope atleast some in this forum with my opinions.

Thanks
 
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Looks like the momentum will be onto Concur cases now...

Atleast they approved 2 to 3 cases this week. Lets hope there will be some more next week... :rolleyes:
 
Hi CAPD02,

I agree with some of your points however I disagree on some.

1. Just because CA Labor filers have endured years of wait to get the labors cleared does'nt mean we will keep up with this continued nonsense with a shut mouth. Raise awareness about the injustice through forums, discussions with friends, petitions to AILA & other organisations...

Each drop helps. Maybe it will percolate down to the right ears at USCIS in one form or the other. Just sitting back and saying that GC is inherently an unfair process does not help anyone except the brainless morons sitting in the hallowed corridors of decision making at USCIS. In fact the massive changes that we have seen in the last year at DOL & USCIS are a direct result of their utter incompetency having come to the light at last in front of the powers in Washington.


2. "demanding the permanent residency in this country is not our right".
No one is forcibly demanding a PR. ( unlike the millions upon of millions of people who come here through illegal immigration, sham marriages, long lost relatives etc...). I don't have endless time on planet earth to wait and rot in this process. All I am asking is a process by which the applications are reviewed in a fair and consistent manner and a Yes/No decision taken.


3. "If something we want to do, not with just I-140 or just TX center."
Let's take it one step at a time shall we. Let's focus on the part that's hurting us the most now.


4. "We are blaming the wrong center."
1) Enough of the CSC -> TSC -> NSC -> VSC -> CSC crap...

2) TSC is approving March 2006 transferred cases from CSC so this argument about the wrong Service Center does't hold. Right? They seem to be targeting the CSC concurrent filers for their 'extra love'.


In addition apart from the overall GC process a lot of people in this group are desparately desparate for the I-140 approval due to H1 extension filing, AC-21 switching, company closing down, project getting over etc.
Hence the anger and frustration at this massive delay.


CAPD02 said:
Hi All,

I agree the process should be fair and should follow FIFO (First in First Out). The whole system is wrong. What about those days prior to PERM? All we waited years and years to just clear the labor certificate. Two/Three years back, all the LCs used to clear in 6 months from various DOLs, but all we know how long SF DOL took to clear the Labor certifactes.............
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ooooo said:
This receipt WAC060035XXXX

NIW concurrent filed on 09/28/05 to CSC , Transfer to TSC on 03/23/06 and got both I-140 and I-485 approved today at pacific time 4:30 ( email notification )

Original from a chinese bbs site :

http://mitbbs.com/mitbbs_article_t.php?board=Immigration&gid=5773307&ftype=0

It seems they are processing the concurrent filing now .
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ooooo, *Unless there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or I didnt run the scanner properly*, I think your guy is a hoax. I have been scanning that group of WAC numbers and I havnt seen any 140 approval yesterday. There were a bunch of approvals on April 27th but none on April 28th.
 
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Endeavour2003 said:
Hi CAPD02,

I agree with some of your points however I disagree on some.

1. Just because CA Labor filers have endured years of wait to get the labors cleared does'nt mean we will keep up with this continued nonsense with a shut mouth...................

CAPD02 said:
Hi All,

I agree the process should be fair and should follow FIFO (First in First Out). The whole system is wrong. What about those days prior to PERM? All we waited years and years to just clear the labor certificate. Two/Three years back, all the LCs used to clear in 6 months from various DOLs, but all we know how long SF DOL took to clear the Labor certifactes.............
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I agree with Endeavour2003. This is a nerve-wrecking experience. In last one week, approvals were mailed on just one out of five days for first week of October cases. While I saw approval mails for all other dates all throughout the week. Why isnt a FIFO followed?

Is there an AILA contact person that we can talk to, regarding this issue? Does anyone know if AILA provides a service like this - maybe some kind of AILA designated consular... we could also try posting queries to some lawyers - like here: http://www.immigration-law.com/Advanced Q&A.html - just to get a better understanding of our options...
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Another concurrent approval

I just saw it on TSC forum.

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Originally Posted by partagas
Creative10, my wife's 140 has been approved as of today. Good luck to you all!

TSC-EB2-Concurrent-RD 2/13/06-AD 4/28/06
 
This is for new cases only, which are filed around April-1st weeks time frame.
Here is what it says "heavy filing of I-140 and I-129 bi-specialization cases in
the first week of April 2006,"

-- The bigger questions is: where are the cases, that have been filed long
long time ago? Whats the plan of completion date for those backlogged
cases?

I think those backlogs are as old as September 2005 and many of them or
all of them are Concurrent cases. And many of those concurrent filers are
on this thread waiting with fingers crossed.

-- USCIS is not clear of their plan going forward with their "Bi-Specialization"
scheme. And they have not published their azenda of how and when are
they going to complete the processing of those backlogged cases. DOL is
far better than USCIS. Atleast DOL gave some sort of indication when they
come up with PERM process. Now see, we don't know when USCIS is going
to touch our applications...its all like wait & see game. Thats the most
ridiculous thing!!!!


ahaly said:
http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/statements/receipt_delay_42706.pdf

I wonder if this is for new cases or transfered cases also...
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perm_faq said:
This is for new cases only, which are filed around April-1st weeks time frame.
Here is what it says "heavy filing of I-140 and I-129 bi-specialization cases in
the first week of April 2006,"

-- The bigger questions is: where are the cases, that have been filed long
long time ago? Whats the plan of completion date for those backlogged
cases?

I think those backlogs are as old as September 2005 and many of them or
all of them are Concurrent cases. And many of those concurrent filers are
on this thread waiting with fingers crossed.

-- USCIS is not clear of their plan going forward with their "Bi-Specialization"
scheme. And they have not published their azenda of how and when are
they going to complete the processing of those backlogged cases. DOL is
far better than USCIS. Atleast DOL gave some sort of indication when they
come up with PERM process. Now see, we don't know when USCIS is going
to touch our applications...its all like wait & see game. Thats the most
ridiculous thing!!!!
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There should be a public announcement about the backlogged cases also. USCIS should specify what the plans does it have for clearing that. The above announcement was made by USCIS Public Affairs. Maybe we can contact that office requesting a public statement in this regard. The above statement was released probably when someone started making noice about not receiving notices for I140 and I129.
 
How to run scanner ?

By the way, Iam not sure if the scanner can run VSC cases. I thought it will take only WAC cases. You may want to try it out first. Also, Did you downloaded script? Below are the steps involved in this process, which are explained further down:

1. Creating database
2. Running (-refresh) database for up-to-date status
3. Help

Creating database
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1. Finding proxies
Try search google or some other search engine to find proxies. Thats the best way to get the list of proxies. Most sites update proxy servers twice in a day. So make sure have latest proxies.

2. Creating database
> java -jar scanner.jar -database <database.db> -proxies <proxy.list> -search -type 140 -start WAC0123456789 -end WAC1234567890

This command will generate I140 database.db with case numbers from Start WAC number to End WAC number. You can specify 485 in the above command to generate database and filter it out for 485s. Probably, this will take about 1 to 2 days. Another bottle neck is... some times proxies fail querrying for various reasons. You may have to restart from where it left off very carefully. That way, you will not querry same case multiple times. So watch out whether scanner successfully querried all of the cases from the start WAC number to end WAC number. If not, then run only the remaining ones.

Prepare the list of proxy servers. Because, USCIS allows 200 querries per IP address. So at the most you can querry 200 cases using your internet connection.

Refresh database
=============
Once you have created database (lets say database for a particular working day like database_ABC.db, where ABC = USCIS working day as in WAC06ABC51234), all you need to do .... is just refresh it every now and then to track the progress. Below is the command to do "-refresh":

> java -jar scanner.jar -database <database.db> -proxies <proxy.list> -refresh -type 140

Command Help
===========
Run the following command for any help with various options like -suck, -report, -nolocal etc etc.

> java -jar scanner.jar -help

Thats it... you all set. Iam also copying this info to the main thread, for others.


2006gc said:
Sure. Thank perm_faq.

perm_faq said:
I will send you step by step approach, perhaps this weekend, if you are Okay?
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Lost my job before I-140 approved. Now what can I do?

Lost my job unexpected with I-140 pending at TCS (transferred from CSC). My PD is 10/05/2005.

Now what can I do?

Will the company "bother" to withdraw it?

Will I-140 get approved? If so, can I still use AC21, I think not, but any input is welcomed.

Thanks.
 
I doubt this is true. The visa bulletin for Chinese EB2 (NIW) is Jan 2004. How could he get I485 approved? If he is trully NIW, the pritority date is his 140 filing date which is 9/28/05.

ooooo said:
This receipt WAC060035XXXX

NIW concurrent filed on 09/28/05 to CSC , Transfer to TSC on 03/23/06 and got both I-140 and I-485 approved today at pacific time 4:30 ( email notification )

Original from a chinese bbs site :

http://mitbbs.com/mitbbs_article_t.php?board=Immigration&gid=5773307&ftype=0

It seems they are processing the concurrent filing now .
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jbxieperm2005 said:
I doubt this is true. The visa bulletin for Chinese EB2 (NIW) is Jan 2004. How could he get I485 approved? If he is trully NIW, the pritority date is his 140 filing date which is 9/28/05.
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He could be from Taiwan, not from mainland China. That might explain how his priority date could be current.

Jokes apart, I seriously feel we should be sending in a petition. My case details are below. My case was transferred on 03/22 (140) & 03/23 (485), no LUDs since then.
 
I read the original post on the Chinese website. It looks not like a hoax. She did mention she even felt strange that the 485 was approved because she know there is retrogression. She received the approval email 4/29 4:30 pm. Can anyone scan the status again? Hope this is true.

ahaly said:
ooooo, *Unless there is a misunderstanding or miscommunication or I didnt run the scanner properly*, I think your guy is a hoax. I have been scanning that group of WAC numbers and I havnt seen any 140 approval yesterday. There were a bunch of approvals on April 27th but none on April 28th.
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That website is for Chinese mainland students. As I said, she mentioned she belong to retrogression country.

dabuk said:
He could be from Taiwan, not from mainland China. That might explain how his priority date could be current.

Jokes apart, I seriously feel we should be sending in a petition. My case details are below. My case was transferred on 03/22 (140) & 03/23 (485), no LUDs since then.
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I read her post again. She received the approval email on 4/28 4:30 pm Pacific time.

jbxieperm2005 said:
I read the original post on the Chinese website. It looks not like a hoax. She did mention she even felt strange that the 485 was approved because she know there is retrogression. She received the approval email 4/29 4:30 pm. Can anyone scan the status again? Hope this is true.
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Another possibility: USCIS know June visa bulletin will jump ahead significantly or become current for Chinese EB2.

jbxieperm2005 said:
I read the original post on the Chinese website. It looks not like a hoax. She did mention she even felt strange that the 485 was approved because she know there is retrogression. She received the approval email 4/29 4:30 pm. Can anyone scan the status again? Hope this is true.
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Its very interesting that none of the concur cases that are listed on this thread (see 1st message for master.xls) are getting adjudicated though they have been pending for more than 8-months, but some one else is getting approvals. Looks like we are missing some kind of magic...

jbxieperm2005 said:
I read her post again. She received the approval email on 4/28 4:30 pm Pacific time.
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