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Employment based immigration backlog petition
- Thread starter Edison
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FP
According to this from "immigration-law.com", it is still 15 months with mistakes made by BCIS.
07/17/2003: Notice of Cancellation of Re-Fingerprinting Appointments - Any Good News?
The fingerprint is valid for 15 months, but beginning sometime back, the Service Centers started sending out re-fingerprint notices to the I-485 waiters even if they took the print only a few months
back. A large number of people complied with the refingerprint notices and took another fingerprint, because people assumed that it was not errors but probably related to security clearance needs.
Now, all of sudden, people start receiving one or two sentence notice from the BCIS that the fingerprint was taken in their cases less than 13 months and BCIS was cancelling the refingerprint
notices. Until the motive of such change of practice is made available, one can only guess its implication. One implication can be that the BCIS may adjudicate such 485 cases before the fingerprint
expires in 15 months. Readers, this is just a wild guess of this reporter with no reliable sources of information. Let's cross our fingers, and wait and see!
Originally posted by dengdeng
Anyone notice the fingerprint expiration part? Why Rajiv said BCIS new memo instructed not to send out 2nd fp notice, and it no longer expires after 15 months?
According to this from "immigration-law.com", it is still 15 months with mistakes made by BCIS.
07/17/2003: Notice of Cancellation of Re-Fingerprinting Appointments - Any Good News?
The fingerprint is valid for 15 months, but beginning sometime back, the Service Centers started sending out re-fingerprint notices to the I-485 waiters even if they took the print only a few months
back. A large number of people complied with the refingerprint notices and took another fingerprint, because people assumed that it was not errors but probably related to security clearance needs.
Now, all of sudden, people start receiving one or two sentence notice from the BCIS that the fingerprint was taken in their cases less than 13 months and BCIS was cancelling the refingerprint
notices. Until the motive of such change of practice is made available, one can only guess its implication. One implication can be that the BCIS may adjudicate such 485 cases before the fingerprint
expires in 15 months. Readers, this is just a wild guess of this reporter with no reliable sources of information. Let's cross our fingers, and wait and see!
Originally posted by dengdeng
maybe BCIS issued same kind of memo for Fingerprint too?
Rajiv, can you clarify
dengdeng,
The FP issue is very important as it constitutes the cornerstone of their security measures along with the name check. These measures take about 10 million dollars a MONTH! So the money goes for the security not for adjudication.
in effect only until Jan 2004?
It said so in the memo. Does this mean BCIS wanted to reduce the backlog to less than year after Jan 2004? Certainly hope so.
It said so in the memo. Does this mean BCIS wanted to reduce the backlog to less than year after Jan 2004? Certainly hope so.
dengdeng, edison, cinta, yjay, mogli, kash777, lz25888, kashmir etc...
What's our next step? Let's keep the current draft (with those spelling corrections). Should we start collecting signatures on www.immigration.com ? Any thoughts ? Let's move.
What's our next step? Let's keep the current draft (with those spelling corrections). Should we start collecting signatures on www.immigration.com ? Any thoughts ? Let's move.
Originally posted by dsatish
dengdeng, edison, cinta, yjay, mogli, kash777, lz25888, kashmir etc...
What's our next step? Let's keep the current draft (with those spelling corrections). Should we start collecting signatures on www.immigration.com ? Any thoughts ? Let's move.
Let's start collecting signature here.
Also later this week or early next week, we should plan for signature drives (chain mails, ads on other sites, message boards, mailing lists,.............)
Yes, get the ball rolling
Edison and dsatish,
Can you please ask Rajiv to post the petition for signatures? (and remind him the several typos people have identified here)
Thanks.
Edison and dsatish,
Can you please ask Rajiv to post the petition for signatures? (and remind him the several typos people have identified here)
Thanks.
Originally posted by Edison
Let's start collecting signature here.
Also later this week or early next week, we should plan for signature drives (chain mails, ads on other sites, message boards, mailing lists,.............)
Originally posted by Edison
Let's start collecting signature here.
Also later this week or early next week, we should plan for signature drives (chain mails, ads on other sites, message boards, mailing lists,.............)
Edison,
why don't you put it somewhere on this web page for all service centers and we can start collecting signatures..in the meantime the spelling mistakes should be corrected.
Let us also send e-mail to our lawyers and discuss the backlog and AILA attitude for help. See my thread for a sample.
I also sent an e-mail to Nadine Wettstein from AILF, to start a dialogue and see if they are aware of the problem and what the attitude is. I got an auto-reply (out of office). The e-mail addresses are available in 'www.ailf.org'. I will wait another day.
Cheers
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Our immediate goal is to contact Rajiv and request him to post this petition on the main page.
Before that shall we ask him to add more content (2 or 3 more lines) to "our hardships" section ? I thought this is the most important section and i feel that it is too short. This is my only comment. Otherwise it looks great. If others also feel the same way, then we will ask Rajiv to take a look into that. If you all feel that there is no need for any changes to the "hardships" section, then we can simply ask Rajiv to host the petition immediately.
What do you all say ?
Before that shall we ask him to add more content (2 or 3 more lines) to "our hardships" section ? I thought this is the most important section and i feel that it is too short. This is my only comment. Otherwise it looks great. If others also feel the same way, then we will ask Rajiv to take a look into that. If you all feel that there is no need for any changes to the "hardships" section, then we can simply ask Rajiv to host the petition immediately.
What do you all say ?
Originally posted by cinta
Edison,
why don't you put it somewhere on this web page for all service centers and we can start collecting signatures..in the meantime the spelling mistakes should be corrected.
Let us also send e-mail to our lawyers and discuss the backlog and AILA attitude for help. See my thread for a sample.
I also sent an e-mail to Nadine Wettstein from AILF, to start a dialogue and see if they are aware of the problem and what the attitude is. I got an auto-reply (out of office). The e-mail addresses are available in 'www.ailf.org'. I will wait another day.
Cheers
Hi Cinta,
I don't think we have any tools on this page (or other I485 pages) to collect signatures. So let's wait till Rajiv posts this petition on the Main Page and then we can inform all the four forums (I485 forums) that petition is ready and start signing.
Originally posted by dsatish
Our immediate goal is to contact Rajiv and request him to post this petition on the main page.
Before that shall we ask him to add more content (2 or 3 more lines) to "our hardships" section ? I thought this is the most important section and i feel that it is too short. This is my only comment. Otherwise it looks great. If others also feel the same way, then we will ask Rajiv to take a look into that. If you all feel that there is no need for any changes to the "hardships" section, then we can simply ask Rajiv to host the petition immediately.
What do you all say ?
Let's not revise the petition. Let's move forward ASAP.