I believe what happened is that the strategy company was trying was being rebuked by affected people, quoting some of my postings or conversations people had with me.
it was critized sharply because N has a history of scams and cheating..
Most of the discussion was him telling me his side of things or what they were trying to do to help. I think he understood that whatever he tells people, they are either going to post it asking for opinions or contact me or other members for advice or thoughts on what management was saying and whether it would work.
Whatever he told was never logical so people will always challenge
He figured that I should hear first hand what they were trying to do.
After all the denials came in?
I actually feel sorry for the whole situation. I think company was using gray areas of the law to their advantage with USCIS. However, everything went over board and now everyone is in a bind.
thats the difference between a smart and stupid business man?
The saracastic side of me was thinking that in the conversation he was trying to learn about me, etc. to somehow show his employees that I had a vested interest in seeing the business crumble. However, as the conversation went on, I think he got the sense that this is not what I am about and I just happen to know immigration and posting my experiences.
3yrs of constant posting and advicing is enough that your interest was
to help people genuinely... N shud have sensed that long ago..
what he shud sense is what a blunder he has made and ppl have
become homeless because of him.. if ppl have a heart .. they wud know
when to stop
I did give him some pointers on how to get people back on h-1, etc. and showed him the posting from immigration-law.com of how one can get back on h-1 even if they are not currently on it and six years has expired.
???? u still wanna give him info so he can screw ppl further by bringing them back.. advice him to peacefully let ppl take shelter else where..
2.> did u advice him to have some ethics and morals
Transparency; I'm a big believer in this. However, company position is really no different then other companies. Due to legal reasons, etc. no company wants to share information with their employees.
Yes.. but no company hides RFE,h1 approvals,checks bouncing,pay issues,lying,cheating,delay practices
One thing about Desi consulting companies is that they are actually more transparent then American companies. American companies won't give you an inch of information and they would chastise one for even asking.
But in general american companies wont resort to malpractices
The maximum way of getting his labors approved would have been to change his financial information in 2004. Although they had some mergers and got people on payrol in 2005 it didn't do anything to address 2004 which is where the prioirity dates are.
I don't know what the reason for the denials are, one could speculate; one labor for one person, ability to pay, etc.
If management tried using larger company for ability to pay in 2004 (ie., the one they merged with in 2005), USCIS position would be that previous company has to show ability to pay until merger date and then new combined entity from that date forward.
There is only one way that they could show the finances of the merged company back to 2004 from an accounting/legal point of view;
Whenever there is a merger between two companies, the accounting for it is either on the "purchase method" or "pooling of interests". Under the purchase method, you only take on the revenue, assets, liabilities after the purchase.
However, under the "pooling of interest" method, you combine the financials of the two entities as if the merger happened retroactively. Therefore, if they had set up the acquisition as a "pooling of interest" then they could have prepared audited financial statements in 2004 with the combined entity with revenues of $20 million or whatever it would have been. This would have gotten a lot more people approved.
However, time was short and I'm pretty sure company doesn't surround themselves with people who know how to marry immigration/accounting. Note: this isn't as easy as it sounds, there is many things involved to pull this thing off. Also, I'm a little rusty on whether they changed the accounting rules for "pooling". If there is any other CPA on the boards who wants to share their experience on this, it would be welcome.
From watching the postings over the last couple of months, it seems that the employees were really novices when it came to immigration matters and didn't know a whole lot. Even now, when people talk about getting their money back, etc. it just isn't that easy as it sounds.
Yes.. agree abt the money..its not easy. but they have been cheated
So many of the companies are in similar situations, although not on as big a scale. There has been many denials (nebraska is being very diligent in adding up people together to show ability to pay recently), the employees in those companies could have a similar type of argument as people here.
My advice is to get back in status, you will get the greencard eventually. There is enough postings of how people can get back onto h-1. This should be #1 priority.
The other company we discuss on these boards where employees are trying to hold accountable; they have started the process back in May/June and they were much more united. They managed to get passed around from one law firm to another, and the current law firm wants $3K/candidate plus a % of any settlement. I think those candidates are now losing steam.
For those candidates who have been making a lot of noise from this company, the management has actually sued them for the liquidated damages.
Although people are being emotional (understandably and rightfully so), you need to consider the whole situation. I'm going to post in the next thread an excerpt from H-1b, liquidated damages in the next thread that another poster had sent me.