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Labor Cert Approved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all - if I can make it, anyone can. Last night I went home to watch G.W. BUSH's speil - hopeing that congress will do SOMTHING; ANYTHING, but I pray GOD; do not do NOTHING. Just before, I opened the mail.............. FINAL DETERMINATION - Labor Cert Approved.

Didn't know if I should jump for joy or cry - all reading this will understand soon. Your Labor Cert is coming soon - hang in there. It has been a VERY LONG HAUL for me. I came to the US in march 2001 - even though my PD is 03/2004.

THANK YOU ALL, THANK YOU ALL, THANK YOU ALL

You have always giving me hope in the middle of this miserable eternal wait.

GURUS - we all know who you are. Thank You - your the best and will help make this country great! Continue to be great leaders!!!!!!



Here is a new theory (Although the best one is "no one knows what is going on inside BEC - even the employees there do not know what is happening" - if they did, they would tell us)....... anyway back to my theory........ I am guessing that when the files are entered into the data base for the 45 day letter, that the clean cases are actually getting "preapproval" at that time. When the response comes back - it needs no futher review, just approval processing. Unfortunately, this theory means that cases entered before and have a 45 day letter received, are not in this boat.... does this theory match what we are seeing??????????????????

Anyway - I know these approvals are coming, and as happy as I am to reach the first stage - "I AIN'T GO'IN ANYWHERE" - just in the next lineup.

Thank you God for delivering me from the Back-Log nightmare. Please lord, deliver others soon, especially those that deserved to go before me.
Amen.

Approval letter dated may 9, 2006.
Received May 15, 2006.
Attorney has not received yet.


Here is my attorney's response - she is great:

Congratulations Matthew! I'm extremely happy about the approval. We
can file the I-140 petition now. It is only taking a few months to get
the approval. Then we wait for the priority date to become current in
the EB-3 category so that you and your family can file your permanent
residency applications. I will prepare and forward the I-140 to your
employer later this week. Hopefully we will see movement in the EB-3
category soon.

Fazila

Fazila Vaid
Attorney at Law
Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd.
Three First National Plaza
70 W. Madison St., Suite 4000
Chicago, IL 60602

Tel: 312-604-2652
Fax: 312-604-2653
Email: fvaid@hsplegal.com
Website: www.hsplegal.com





cacanuk said:
Just my thoughts guys.... I think EVERYONE will be put into the computer (for real) and ALL 45 day letters will be sent within 3 months (allows a little time for delay for some). There will be some oversights for unknown reasons - but I think this will be very few.

After that - I think we will see FIFO (or very very close to this) - as the files should be able to be pulled up in the computer appropriately.

Starting in July (we will know by mid Aug -- hopefully) we should see very fast processing - hopefully many many approvals.
Again - as I have siad before -even if we get an approval - "we ain't go'n anywhere". But, we all do what to desperately get in the next line.

Thoughts anyone?????????????????
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guys .. when you say you received final determination from DBEC. does BEC send the labor approval direclty to us .. where do they get our address from?
 
Dude(tte) - your on file as an ailien

mahi_nikki said:
guys .. when you say you received final determination from DBEC. does BEC send the labor approval direclty to us .. where do they get our address from?
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The government knows exactly where you are. If you move (or have) you gotta tell them.

It was part of the appication your attorney filled out.

A copy will be sent to you without the attachments -- they go directly to the attorney.
 
Congratulations Pipiline:

Was yours traditional/regular or RIR?
Was it at the state level or Regional level?

Mine is also from CO, regular, state level, June 2003 PD. Just trying to analyze my case processing time with yours.

Thanks


pipeline said:
Colorado, PD Sept 03, 45 day letter received and answered 4/18/06.
Certified 5/5/06, received today 5/15/06
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Congratulations Cacanuk! You deserved it. And thanks for the kind wishes to the rest of us.

Yesterday I was listening to the networked radio and one immigrant said during his naturalization ceremony that legal immigrants have been suffering too much and should be given top priority but obviously not. Just like you, these are the type of people that deserve the best, because they don't forget the ones behind and are still helping them.

Also don't feel unfortunate for getting LC after 5 five years. I personally have been here since 1997, with a failed LC app in the middle due to company shut down. And many people have been here longer than me. So a victory is still a victory simply for surviving the BEC mess. Got to take it one step at a time.

Congratulations again :)

cacanuk said:
Hi all - if I can make it, anyone can. Last night I went home to watch G.W. BUSH's speil - hopeing that congress will do SOMTHING; ANYTHING, but I pray GOD; do not do NOTHING. Just before, I opened the mail.............. FINAL DETERMINATION - Labor Cert Approved.

Didn't know if I should jump for joy or cry - all reading this will understand soon. Your Labor Cert is coming soon - hang in there. It has been a VERY LONG HAUL for me. I came to the US in march 2001 - even though my PD is 03/2004.
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45dl / approvals..

TiredDesi said:
Congratulations Pipiline:

Was yours traditional/regular or RIR?
Was it at the state level or Regional level?

Mine is also from CO, regular, state level, June 2003 PD. Just trying to analyze my case processing time with yours.

Thanks
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april and specially 4/18/06 seem to have been good months/days for 45DL and quick subsequent approval.. just my simplistic observation.. could be more to it though
 
Atlast it's approved

Happy to inform this valuable thread that my RIR for EB3 from Dallas backlog center has been approved. I recieved mail from my employer Yesterday and not sure when was it actually got approved. My employer says he recieved courtosy letter yesterday only and my laywer is yet to recieve hard copy of same.

My Info is:

Applied EB3 RIR case from Wisconsin in June 2004.
Not yeard anything from my lawyer or employer of any 45-day letter's. So I think no letter was ever recieved.
Got courtosy letetr of approval yesterday.

Thanks all for your valuable information. Good luck to all eagerly waiting for approvals.
 
45 day latter

Can any one give me projected date , when can I get 45 day latter ?


Case # D- 05199-XXXX
SWA: Chicago
Category : EB2-RIR
SWA Receipt Date : 10/01/2004
Date Received at Regional Office:N/A
45 Day latter : never received
 
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An open letter to President (version)

Dear immigrants:

I have re-written the letter after I gather some ideas from this forum and listened to the President’s speech last night. Since a lot of people are paying high attention to illegal immigration issue and media concern this issue a lot too. So I still put a few suggestions for illegal immigration issue, which may have more people to read this letter.

I appreciate many people contribute opinions. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t leave information. Please note that every individual case information is very important part of this letter. If there are only 5 people, the powerful people or media may not pay attention to this letter. Don’t wait or keep silent. Please contact more legal immigrants and put the case information in the bottom of this letter soon. We need to send this letter out as soon as possible.

Bluesky




President George W. Bush
The President of the United States
U.S. White House
Washington, D.C. 20001

An open letter to President George W. Bush

Dear Mr. President:

We write to endorse your admirable commitment to immigration issues. Recently, more and more illegal immigrant issues are in the newspaper and on television. How about the problem with legal immigration system? Is America a real welcoming country? We, as skilled legal immigrants, have been facing the tremendous delays and problems in our green card process.

1. Backlog labor certificates
Some of us have been waiting for labor certificates several years and still waiting without knowing anything, when and whether we can get approval or not. We cannot change our job when another position is more fitting to us and the employer cannot find this kind of skilled person during our endless waiting.

2. 45 day letter:
After backlog case is entered into system, 45 day letter will be sent to the employers / attorney who must reply to this letter within 45 days, otherwise the case will be closed. But the backlog centers send 45 day letters are random. We are unable to trace our case status and don’t know the process time schedule. In case 45 day letter mail is missing, miss delivery or employer has replied to the letter, but backlog center hasn’t received it, all of those things happened are resulting in our case being closed, but we are still waiting until we receive a cased closed notice. Some cases are closed by error. Some people who submitted application in 2001 haven’t got a 45 day letter yet.

3. “First in, first out” rule:
As a matter of fact, many labor certificate approvals come out without an order. Some people have been waiting more than four years and are still waiting, but some people who submitted their applications in 2003 and even in 2004 have got labor certificate approval!

4. Immigration processing retrogresses:
Even if we get labor certificate approval finally, we need to file 140 Form which may take several months to years. After #140 approval, because of retrogress ((#485 cut off date is May 1, 2001 for EB3, it's more than 5 years behind now. it moved only 4 months in the past more than two years!), we may still have to wait several years before we can file #485 and apply for advance parole which allow us to travel. Our work visa has to be extended again and again while waiting. Our spouse with H4 visa can’t go to work. We can’t make long term plans for ourselves and our family’s future. We heard that there are about 145K unused EB3 quotas during 2001-2004 due to the serious delay in green card process. Some people are planning to go back to their motherland country or other countries where skilled people are welcomed. Some of our friends who are in foreign countries have no intention of moving to USA after they hear our stories. The USA may lose some highly educated and skilled people.

All of the above are based on facts and our experiences. We earnestly request you, Mr. President, to pay high attention to legal immigrant issues. We have below petitions:

1. “First in, first out” rule, every stage of green card process must follow this rule. There are too many backlog cases which may be messed up; it’s hard for the backlog center to get every single case done orderly, so the priority date should go through all processes no matter when the approval of Labor Certificate and #140 is issued.
2. The Labor of Department makes public the process time schedule at least once a month. Applicants can trace their case status from internet.
3. To speed up the green card process.
4. Someone who has been staying in the USA more than five years or working in the USA more than three years should be free to get a travel visa to travel especially to their motherland no matter in what the stage of his/her green card.
5. Someone who has been working in the USA more than five years, his/her spouse should be allowed to get work permission.

Mr. President, we know you are worrying about this homeland’s security and illegal immigrant issues. We also concern about these issues and read your proposal about illegal immigrant issue. We have below suggestions for your reference.

1. Illegal immigrants in the United State:
Set up fast and simple channel for the qualified illegal immigrants to get temporary work visa but not allow them becoming US citizen unless they re-enter to USA with legal documents then go through the same path to citizenship as legal immigrant. They will bring positive information to the people who want to come to USA that the United State is a nation of laws and there is no any hope to become citizenship if anyone enters this country illegally.
2. New illegal immigrants
Leave digital fingerprint and deport them immediately. If they are caught again, they will be denied to enter USA forever. Give all new illegal immigrants this information and US new immigration law before deport them.
3. Open the legal channel widely for the people who are qualified to come to USA and make illegal immigrant very tough to survive here. This is the key to prevent illegal immigrants.

We have more detail thoughts for above suggestions. If you are interested in more details, we will write you another letter.

Dear President, all of us are skilled people and paying taxes. We would like to contribute our intelligence and skills to this country’s economic and advance technology development, but we have endless worry and pain waiting for a green card! We are suffering!

For most of us who go through the labor certificate process, it seems that we may have to spend a decade to go through the entire employment-based green card process if we are lucky enough to get it. If we fail to get approval in any stage, we may have to leave this country soon. It is a very long green card journey. The journey is in the darkness. Many of us haven’t visited our family members and friends in our motherland country for many years because of green card problem. Also, it is hard for our family members to get US visas to visit us. We are very homesick; we miss our family members and friends so much. We can’t stand being apart from our family especially when our parents are very sick, but we are unable to take care of them. Some people even missed seeing their parents one last time before they passed away. Dear President, you have a family, therefore you can imagine how tough it is for us. We have lost our freedom in some way!

Mr. President, we are looking forward to your solving both legal and illegal immigrant problems successfully during you are in office.

Sincerely,
Legal Immigrants’ Ally

Number State/Category PD 45 day letter Stage E-mail
No.1 NJ/EB3/RIR Aug. 2002 Sep. 2005 LC Bluesky133@hotmail.
2.TN/EB3 Apr. 2001 I-485
3. CSC/EB3 Mar. 2002 I-140
4.TN/EB3/RIR Mar. 2004 May 2005 LC
5. CA/EB2/RIR Dec.2002 Feb. 2005 LC
 
Finally have recd 45 Day Letter

All, Finally have recd 45 day letter, not sure how long do we have to wait from now on to see Labour Approval.
 
It looks like Iowa cases are following FIFO. My priority date is 08/04. Hope I can get 45 Day Letter next month.
 
I filed tradition labor on 11/15/02 in Chicago, and no 45 letter yet

GCH1B7 said:
Can any one give me projected date , when can I get 45 day latter ?


Case # D- 05199-XXXX
SWA: Chicago
SWA Receipt Date : 10/01/2004
Date Received at Regional Office:N/A
45 Day latter : never received
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45 day letters by June 30 for everyone

GCH1B7 said:
Can any one give me projected date , when can I get 45 day latter ?


Case # D- 05199-XXXX
SWA: Chicago
SWA Receipt Date : 10/01/2004
Date Received at Regional Office:N/A
45 Day latter : never received
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Should be within 45 days - although my prediction is really not that insiteful. DOL said they would get them all out by June 30.

Hopefully, if your case is "clean" - approval should follow with 30 - 45 days after like mine did....... but there are no guarantees.
 
bluesky133 said:
An open letter to President (version)

Dear immigrants:

I have re-written the letter...

Note: I am not a member of IV - this is just my imput.

If you are unaware.... immigrationvoice.com has been doing a lot (and I mean a lot) of work for us. They have done much "behind the senes" work in DC and have many of our "needs" getting legislation "attached" to the illegal immigration bunch. I think they are kinda "slipping through" - that is how many laws are passed in the US - they are "attached" to a bigger issue and get through.
So, the best thing for us is for ANY ILLEGAL LAW to pass, along with our needs - increased visa #s, spouses and kids not included in visa allocation, ...

The worst thing that can happen is the DC can not come to any compromise, and therefore NOTHING gets done and we have the status quo.
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HI Cacanuk,

Could you please provide a few details of your case,

While filing your case for Labor Certification did your attorney sent the resumes collected during the Advertisemnts.

Thanks in Advance,



cacanuk said:
Should be within 45 days - although my prediction is really not that insiteful. DOL said they would get them all out by June 30.

Hopefully, if your case is "clean" - approval should follow with 30 - 45 days after like mine did....... but there are no guarantees.
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No 45-Day Letter

Hi all,
I have been following this thread for a while and lately I saw a lot of people receiving their 45 day letter, which seem to arrive on a fifo base now, but still nothing in my case , so I am wondering if there is something wrong with it.

My question is are there any people from CA with a PD of 02/2004 or before who have not received their 45 days letter yet?

Here is my info,

ETA Case Number: D-05195-XXXXX
State : CA
Processing Type : RIR/EB2
Priority Date : 02/04/2004
Case Source : State
No 45-Day Letter yet.
 
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