Letters of experience and I-140

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My LCA is through and am ready to file for the I-140(concurrent filing of I-140 and 485).I have to now submit some letters of experience.I could not get experince letters from all my previous employers in India.Is it essential that I file for all the experience I have listed? My application was in the RIR category and required 1 year of programming experience.I can substantiate letters for at least that time.My US experience is largely with my current company which I joined after my MS degree.Please help.
 
Hi,
As far as i know, you can also get letters from your co-workers and submit it to INS,that should work.

any correction guys?
 
Thanks Manoj for the quick reply.Would the co-workers be expected to submit their experience letters, if needed? Alternatively, if the format of the letters is adhered to, is it likely that these letters are subjected to more scrutiny? I ask this because of my situation:
In case of the sole experience letter I could get, the company has changed its name since and the letter has been issued in the new company's name.
In case of the experience letter i was unable to get, I have not been able to locate a co-worker in the US.Would a co-worker in India be good enough if the letter is notarized here?


Please advice.
 
Your attorney should be able to get you a format that your ex-colleagues/employers can fill out (ideally, you prepare the letter detailing your responsibilities, etc, and they just sign it). A company's name change should be okay, esp if you get them to acknowledge that within the letter (they can state their name, along with 'formerly XYZ, Inc').

As to your second question, I'm not sure you can get an affidavit drawn up in India, notarized here - the whole point of notarization is that the notary certifies that the person drawing up the affidavit has signed it willingly, without any pressure, in front of him/her (the notary). It would have to be notarized in India, and I think the BCIS does accept that.

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You can get an affidavit of experience from one of your co-workers.

The experience letters don't necessarily have to be from your former bosses. Even your colleagues who know about your experience can write those letters. If your colleagues have moved to different jobs at present, they can use the business stationary of their current employer.

If not they can be on a plain paper. But you need to get the letter notarized.
 
Thanks guys for all the replies.Now to be more specific;
a) In the above context if Im unable to contact any of my co-workers..?

b) My job requires me to show a year of experience/expertize in a particular domain.I have valid letters of experience to that effect.However, some additional experience apart from that which figures on my resume- that is what item a is about.

Do I have to show letters for every item on the resume even if I have letters for part of the experience which more than accounts for the job requirement for which the GC has been filed?

c) My application has been filed under the RIR category.Some person told me that about 4 years of experience is required there.I know its a broad statement; is there any truth to it?

The reason I ask all these questions here is because our company lawyer is not too well-informed.
 
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