Finally I got magic emails on last Friday.
I have been silent member of the forum and learned a lot from this . I would like to thank one and all. This is an excellent forum and you guys are brilliant and helpful.
I want to share a story behind this approval and may help someone who are in the same boat like me.
My previous employer applied for labor in Oregon on 12/4/2000 and I-140 was approved. But I got laid off in May 2001 before applying I-485.
My present employer applied labor again in Oregon in Dec 2001. But it was still pending.
Then my employer moved me to their head quarters in North Carolina in October 2003 and applied labor again in NC. My labor was cleared and my I-140 and I-485 was applied subsequently based on this PD(Please see my signature for details). But my case got struck in the regression.
Early this year, I saw an article in Murthy.com that we can retain the priority date if our I-140 was previously approved. Please see the article at http://www.murthy.com/news/UDinsigs.html).
Then I contacted my lawyer with the information in this article and sent the copy of previous I-140(containing PD 12/2000) to TSC on 6/10/06 and my case was approved on 8/4/06. I and my daughter received cards yesterday. We are still waiting for my wife’s card.
Interestingly my present attorney and previous attorneys were not aware of this provision. All of them told me that once I was laid off that labor and I-140 was dead and we have to start the process all over again. If they had known this, I would have got the GC two years ago itself. I am grateful to murthy.com.
Anyway, I am glad that finally painful journey is over.
I have been silent member of the forum and learned a lot from this . I would like to thank one and all. This is an excellent forum and you guys are brilliant and helpful.
I want to share a story behind this approval and may help someone who are in the same boat like me.
My previous employer applied for labor in Oregon on 12/4/2000 and I-140 was approved. But I got laid off in May 2001 before applying I-485.
My present employer applied labor again in Oregon in Dec 2001. But it was still pending.
Then my employer moved me to their head quarters in North Carolina in October 2003 and applied labor again in NC. My labor was cleared and my I-140 and I-485 was applied subsequently based on this PD(Please see my signature for details). But my case got struck in the regression.
Early this year, I saw an article in Murthy.com that we can retain the priority date if our I-140 was previously approved. Please see the article at http://www.murthy.com/news/UDinsigs.html).
Then I contacted my lawyer with the information in this article and sent the copy of previous I-140(containing PD 12/2000) to TSC on 6/10/06 and my case was approved on 8/4/06. I and my daughter received cards yesterday. We are still waiting for my wife’s card.
Interestingly my present attorney and previous attorneys were not aware of this provision. All of them told me that once I was laid off that labor and I-140 was dead and we have to start the process all over again. If they had known this, I would have got the GC two years ago itself. I am grateful to murthy.com.
Anyway, I am glad that finally painful journey is over.
