US&Canada said:From http://www.immigration-law.com:
10/13/2005: IMPORTANT NEWS: We Need Your Help!!
AILA has reported that the Senate Judiciary Committe is markedup a very important legislative bill on October 20, 2005, coming Thursday, to discuss the Budget Reconciliation and Immigration proposal that can give some relief to the current H-1B blackout and EB immigrant visa number retrogression. According to the AILA, the proposal includes the following:
Recapture of 300,000 unused H-1B numbers
Recpature of 90,000 unused EB immigrant visa numbers
Exempting spouses and minor children of EB principal aliens from the annual EB quota limit
Permit filing of I-485 even during the visa number retrogression.
AILA states that it is vitally important that the people in business community and scientific and research organizations reach out tothe following members of the Senate Judiciary Committee as urgently as possible:
Arlen Specter (R-PA) Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Ranking
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Charles Grassley (R-IA) Joseph Biden (D-DE)
Mike DeWine (R-OH) Herbert Kohl (D-WI)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Russ Feingold (D-WI)
John Cornyn (R-TX) Charles Schumer (D-NY)
Sam Brownback (R-KS) Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Please call (202)224-3121 Congressional switchboard and obtain their email addresses or through their websites as quickly as possible: It is "extremely" important that everyone participates in this last minute campaign. For the talking points, please click here: http://www.immigration-law.com/Temporary File.html
maliklongwait said:My employer informed me today and they received 45 day letter for my case. My PD is 04/12/2002. State: NY
ahalem said:The Financial Times article about us :
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1cf7fe6-3b84-11da-b7bc-00000e2511c8.html
Hello Just watching i truely pray for you particularlly as you have been a great help for all of us and a real thank to you for giving us a good guess about our case status but will like to inform you that i got my labor approved on 29th sep 2005JustWatching said:No it will not be a problem.
saburi said:If any information i can share would help to estimate other s cases please please let me know.
Best Regards
saburi said:Hello Just watching i truely pray for you particularlly as you have been a great help for all of us and a real thank to you for giving us a good guess about our case status but will like to inform you that i got my labor approved on 29th sep 2005
My info is as follows
PD Dec 6th 2001
RIR NY
Recd 45 Day Letter on 8th Sep 2005
If any information i can share would help to estimate other s cases please please let me know.
Best Regards
saburi said:Hello Just watching i truely pray for you particularlly as you have been a great help for all of us and a real thank to you for giving us a good guess about our case status but will like to inform you that i got my labor approved on 29th sep 2005
My info is as follows
PD Dec 6th 2001
RIR NY
Recd 45 Day Letter on 8th Sep 2005
If any information i can share would help to estimate other s cases please please let me know.
Best Regards
JustWatching said:Congratulations saburi! Best of luck in the next phases of the GC.
Thank you for your prayers. If something good has come from this long wait it is the many friends I have made - even though I have not met many of you in person.
Hang in there everyone - although I have stopped trying to predict, I am still hopeful, and I hope that in the next few weeks we will start seeing approval after approval from the NY crowd.
zgubi said:JustWatching, apropos Saburi's approval, do you think they will really process 2001 shortly upon receipt of 45-day letter reply? And does this mean FIFO will be in place again?
quickmouse said:NY regional DOL is closing down. We have a bunch of guys whose case stuck there for almost one year without assinging to any officer. Those cases will be forwarded to Phil BEC.
I have a question here -- how long did Phil BEC take to enter cases into their system? And what month are they processing now? Do they process cases based on Priority Date or on the date into BEC system? Thanks a lot
JustWatching said:quickmouse,
Phil BPC is still doing data entry.
Order of data entry? Random, you could be first you could be last.
Philly BPC has been very erratic. Hard to say when your case would get processed.
Do you know how many cases are left at NY DOL? I thought at the beginning of the year there were only 3,000-4,000 cases?
vinbin1 said:Just received the message from my attorney that my labor was approved. My filing date was October 3rd 2001 NY.
mvinays said:vinbin1,
Congrats!!!
Could you please post more details? Did your case make it to the Regional DOL or is it a SWA case? Is it approved by PBEC? RIR or Regular? EB2 or EB3? We will add ur case details to the BEC tracker spreadsheet.
See my signature for an example.
Thanks and congrats again!!!