How will you celebrate getting your GC?

This is a great topic, definitely worth thinking about. Makes us think of pleasant things instead of the routine hum drum of INS life.

Speaking for myself, I will drive to Canada (Toronto), and walk across the bridge at Niagra falls a couple of times between the US and Canadian border. :) WITHOUT A VISA to either place! Man that will be cool.

On a side note:
1. No wonder our oceans are getting polluted, SillyMan is probably practicing for the big day.

2. LindaMac, I too would like to know what you think of your boss! :)
 
WOW thats a intersting question with plenty of intersting answers. So could't resist my self posting my view.

Will take 4 weeks off and go on US road trip with my family and will like to set up a grill one day and make chicken/paneer tikkas with plenty of beer and invite all of u guys .
 
ghost-rider,

I wish you all the best, and hope you get your GC asap. By the way do you live in BayArea by any chance?

As per data I collected you are from China, but how come you are talking about Chicken paneer tikkas? Are you from India?

Will be looking forward to that party...

PCee :)
 
I had this experience and really if you ask me , you will not feel much difference since you already had so much frustration and paid in terms of peace , $$s , time of you life and etc. so the moment you will get approval it will be just an end of another chapter of you life that's it. Yeah if you get approval without any delays and at the right time when you needed most than it will make difference. Probably you will running nude at beach , crossing the bridge at Niagra falls, telling boss about your feeling.

How many times you were disappointed due to empty mail-box, same old AVM, same old bull shit from IIOs and at last when you hear some thing different and you come to know your case has been transferred to local INS for interview, of RFE or 2nd FP etc so you get immune to these things and you accept the reality that you will get GC 100% sure someday but not today.

Daily I check my online message or AVM even though I know that it will be same old bullshit but still.

Ghost-rider,

Don't forget to invite me.
 
Originally posted by PCee
ghost-rider,

I wish you all the best, and hope you get your GC asap. By the way do you live in BayArea by any chance?

As per data I collected you are from China, but how come you are talking about Chicken paneer tikkas? Are you from India?

Will be looking forward to that party...

PCee :)

PCee, when I get approved, and if u don't show up for my party .. I'll be VERY mad at you.
 
Some one had put my wrong data on that site . 100% desi from delhi with lot of cravings for tikkas and tandori chickens. I am from orange county very close to building where all are hopes are burried. Wish can do something to dig them up thats why i was asking othe day if one can go in peson and submit the EAD app. Kai bar dil karta hai andar ja kar sab ka collor pakad kar poocho, gadhoo itni sari applications par ande de rhe ho .

And sure it will be open invitation to all of you including you Vipsha and other bay area persons if they are willing to make a trip down south.
 
Vipsha
second i am kinda person who belive a person will get something in life when the time comes. Regarding this process this is some thing intersting for me , i hv been out of india for long since 95 in different countries and finally landed here in 99 . never applied for GC but by luck got a approved labor and 140 applied in oct 2001 got approved in 5 months without rfe on labour substutation and applied for 485. Now after yr and got laid off which i was aware gonna happen soon when i filed 485 . And then had a second job lined up right on nextday of layoff with my EAD. So i guess i am not that frustrated , guess after seeing your posts and stories and ordeal feel bit lucky and thank God for my stars. And definately GC will start a new chapter but sure will like to start it on happy note with all you guys since i know very few ppl in this country.

SO THE PARTY IS DEFANETLY ON AND YOU ALL WILL INVITED.

aur haan 4 galis to INS again for being slow. INS ke maa ke .....
 
SPAM

ghost-rider,

Feel free to come down to the bay area and hang with us! :)

You get great chicken tikka around here! :)

We should probably all hook up and meet! Put some faces to those names! Maybe then people will stop flaming so much! :)
 
Interesting topic

Guys, This is an interesting topic....
Made me think for a while what I really want to do..
I feel that with this wait and stuff, it will be just another day when we get approved except that wee will be little releived and will threw a party but, the same life starts from the very next day except that we will be carrying a new shiny card in our wallets just to show what we achieved....

"NEIGHBOURS ENVY, OWNERS PRIDE" I hope all desis still remember that..:)

Personally speaking, the very next day, I will go right to my boss and CEO and will tell what all BS the company and people are. I graduated 3 years ago with 2 Master degrees and still working in this shit hole with the same salary from day 1. While I see lot of desi guys with BSc, Msc degrees (friends and relatives of some shitty desi fu*k heads in our company who cant even speak and spell out proper english) making good money who doesnt even tell the differece between Win 2000 and NT. Whenever we ask for raise, they will say economy not good. Whenever there is a layoff, we have to watch our backs with our superiors giving offers to India ODCs. Either you take that offer or get the hell outta here. All those out of school aspirations to achieve something is long gone. We are still 26 years young heads by age but went through lot of mental ordeal......The only thing I achieved in the past 3 years is this Ongoing GC process. I hate my job. I really do. My boss who makes 2X compared to me, is always wary about giving work to me as he is well aware that I am a potential threat to him.
Man, I really hope that those 2000 yr days will come back so that we can catch the rally and head off whereever we want and just show our middle finger to our bosses when something comeup.....After reading all the posts here, I feel that more or less, most of us are in the same boat one way or other...
I hope one fine morning, we all will see our online status as Approved(:p ) and will show middle finger to everyone who made us went through this ordeal.....
I hope that CHIMP Republican will pump some meoney to hire more manpower to BCIS atleast for Non-American votes here in CA. (That chimp is here is CA today)
Good luck to all of us.....
 
kingno1,

You took the words out of my mind! CHIMP is exactly what I call him. :) Apparently he is here to fly to the carrier returning home from B***ing B'dad and give a speach to the nation.

Don't know who the bigger moron is, him or the people who voted for him! Read this interesting article on how Bush's tax cut has cost America 1.8 million jobs.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082321/

Go figure!
 
Originally posted by kingno1
While I see lot of desi guys with BSc, Msc degrees (friends and relatives of some shitty desi fu*k heads in our company who cant even speak and spell out proper english)

What degree do you have from which varsity? Don't take it otherwise, just curious.

Also, I did'nt very well get how u are going to celebrate GC approval ?
 
Originally posted by 140_takes_4ever
kingno1,

You took the words out of my mind! CHIMP is exactly what I call him. :) Apparently he is here to fly to the carrier returning home from B***ing B'dad and give a speach to the nation.

Don't know who the bigger moron is, him or the people who voted for him! Read this interesting article on how Bush's tax cut has cost America 1.8 million jobs.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082321/

Go figure!
Hehe:D, did you ever watch that chimp show on TBS superstation...
I dont really understand his tax cut funda...
Does 300$ extra money from tax savings let you spend more money to boost the economy? It doesnt really make any difference in our lives.
 
Originally posted by life_on_hold
What degree do you have from which varsity? Don't take it otherwise, just curious.

Also, I did'nt very well get how u are going to celebrate GC approval ?
I am not generalizing here. I am talking abt ppl in our company explaining how it makes me frustrated....I got masters in computer science from Purdue...

By showing middle finger..:D
 
SPAM!

Originally posted by kingno1
Hehe:D, did you ever watch that chimp show on TBS superstation...
I dont really understand his tax cut funda...
Does 300$ extra money from tax savings let you spend more money to boost the economy? It doesnt really make any difference in our lives.

Actually I have a DVD called Jane Goodall and the wild chimps, documentary shot in iMAX! If you see that documentary you will agree with me in thinking that Bush has run away from Gombi National park! If Jane catches him, she will take him back. :)

The Tax cut is a joke, it puts back a couple of million dollars in Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and the rest of Bush's republican buddies. The common man gets nothing. I would rather the government keep that money and spend it on inner city kids or pollution control or something. Everything about this administration is terrible. Pulling out of Kyoto, drilling in Alaska, war, take a look at the current handling of projects in Iraq, the best pieces of the pie go to Cheney's friends! :) Like kids they are going punish France for not agreeing with them. GAWD!

This is totally off topic. I appologize. If anyone has objections, I will delete this post. :)
 
Tax Cuts

The logic behind tax cuts is this,

Tax cuts are not just personal, but also corporate. It is true that the richer america will benefit more from tax cuts than the common man will, but the hope is that once bill gates gets a 100 million dollar check, he will invest that 100 million to create more jobs. Also, the same holds true for increasing sales tax in california, that the individual business owner gets an extra 1000$ till the end of the year when he finally files tax.

The downside is, to cover this up you get a budget deficit, which leads to inflation without salary rise, hence lowering of living standard of the average man.

The real world is that mostly all that 100 million dollars that bill gates will get, will be pocketed by him. I read an article recently that while jobs have been lost in the past 3 years, CEO salaries have actually gone up by 13% at an average. And it is true, in 1960's a plane ticket used to include real food with real silverware. Today it includes a small bag of nuts if you are lucky that is. The average life style of an average citizen has gone down even though America as a whole has gotten richer. The money is getting locked with a few rich people, and these tax cuts only fuel that.

I donot think anything Bush has done has helped America. In fact, he has done a lot to harm America. Ruined this beautiful country.

In my next message I will post the official resume of GW Bush, so you can see what I mean :)
 
Official Resume GW Bush

Past work experience:

* Ran for congress and lost.
* Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
* Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
* Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
* With fathers help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.

Accomplishments:

* Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and
made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
* Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America.
* Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
* Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
* Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000
votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court.

Accomplishments as president:

* Attacked and took over two countries.
* Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
* Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
* Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
* First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
* First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
* First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
* Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any
other president in US history.
* In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
* Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
* Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions
than any president in US history.
* Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
* Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
* Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
* My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.
* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
* First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
* Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
* First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
* Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
* Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
* Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
* Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
* Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
* Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
* First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
* All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
* My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
* Spent more money on polls & focus groups than any president in US history
* First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign
nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
* First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
* First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
* Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
* With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
* First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe(71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
* First US president in history to have the people of South Korea
more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
* Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
* Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
* Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
* Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the
leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
* In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
* In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in
less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

Records and References:

* At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
* AWOL from National Guard and Deserted the military during a time of war.
* Refused to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers library, sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public view.
* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and un-available for public review.

* For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
 
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Hmmm

If I get my green card, i will apply for a job with the INS or whatever they call themselves. I will then explain the problems that we face and make sure those bums realize what we undergo and get back to work rightaway so that the others who are still waiting for their GC can have a peaceful night's sleep soon. I promise i will not become a part of them for sure!

I hope they can pay me a decent salary or else i am sorry friends!!
 
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