Got Laid off right after applying for I-485

Can someone post the (links to) Approved cases who got their GCs after they quit the GC-sponsoring employers? I want to see the rejection rate of those in this situation.
 
obajaj said:
Hi immigrateful,

When was your I-485 approved? Was it during the time you were unemployed during those 6 months? Can you post your timeline, so we get a better idea? Sorry, I don't mean to snoop, just to collect more information on the situation so it may help us all.

Thanks.
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Check this thread: http://immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=258297

I will be glad to collaborate and provide all information I can.

Send me private e-mail if you are looking for very specific details of my case. Upon looking closely at my documents, I have now realized that my case is very similar to yours, if not identical.
 
obajaj said:
Hi immigrateful,

I agree with some earlier poster's view that at the time when most of us used AC21 to keep our Green Cards (late 2001, early 2002), there were no AC21 memos (or even any specific guidelines) that indicated that a person needed to be employed "on the day the I485 is adjudicated". The memos only came out much later (Post 2002 I think) that added in this clause.
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I think you are talking about Boatbod's post. Scroll up this thread and check my response to Boatbod's post. I've been told by 2 very well know immigration attorneys that USCIS will only say AC21 came out in October 2000 and you should have sent letters to them explaining the situation. If you didn't do that your permanent residency is not lawful.

Incidentally, one of these attorneys is very conservative and the other one not so.
 
immigrateful said:
I've been told by 2 very well know immigration attorneys that USCIS will only say AC21 came out in October 2000 and you should have sent letters to them explaining the situation. If you didn't do that your permanent residency is not lawful.
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Then I guess USCIS is looking at a ton of lawsuits given the kind of guidance they gave out back in 2000 regarding AC-21. I believe it was one of the worst phrased ambiguous pieces in history of INS. And going by your logic, there are 10s of thousands, if not 100s, illegal GC holders in this country.

BTW, there are little less known lawyers who can argue the other way very effectively.
 
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