NIW approval after 13 days!

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wyn

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Dear friends: I cannot belive this is real! My NIW 140 was approved 13 days after receipt! What a record! Good luck to everyone here!
My case:
center: vermont center
category: NIW140 (employer as the petitioner)+485 concurrent (receipt notice date: 4/15/2005. Pending for both)
NIW140 (self-petitioned) (receipt notice date: 5/5/2005; approval notice date: 5/18/2005)
Background: 2003 PhD, working as a federal employee now, 2 first author papers and 1 second author paper, 1 second author book chapter, 10 recommendation letters, some awards and membership.

I have one question. How can I link my pending 485 (concurently filed with the first pending 140) to this approved 140? I tried to find some info on this forum and only found that someone was talking about writing a letter to CIS. Is this the formal process? Where should I send this letter?
Thanks a lot.
 
Federal job for non US-citizens?

Congratulations!!!!

I thought one has to be a US Citizen to be a federal employee. One govt agency wanted to hire me for a regular position, but I was told that I can not be hired as I am not a US citizen (this is no security or defense related position). So, they hired me thorough anothe agency as post-doc (means no benefits, health insurance etc.)

Could you please shed some light on this issue?




wyn said:
Dear friends: I cannot belive this is real! My NIW 140 was approved 13 days after receipt! What a record! Good luck to everyone here!
My case:
center: vermont center
category: NIW140 (employer as the petitioner)+485 concurrent (receipt notice date: 4/15/2005. Pending for both)
NIW140 (self-petitioned) (receipt notice date: 5/5/2005; approval notice date: 5/18/2005)
Background: 2003 PhD, working as a federal employee now, 2 first author papers and 1 second author paper, 1 second author book chapter, 10 recommendation letters, some awards and membership.

I have one question. How can I link my pending 485 (concurently filed with the first pending 140) to this approved 140? I tried to find some info on this forum and only found that someone was talking about writing a letter to CIS. Is this the formal process? Where should I send this letter?
Thanks a lot.
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Normally, what you said is correct. But in my area, non-citizen can also be hired. In fact, within the same federal goverment agency, other disciplines only hire us citizens.
 
wyn said:
Dear friends: I cannot belive this is real! My NIW 140 was approved 13 days after receipt! What a record! Good luck to everyone here!
My case:
center: vermont center
category: NIW140 (employer as the petitioner)+485 concurrent (receipt notice date: 4/15/2005. Pending for both)
NIW140 (self-petitioned) (receipt notice date: 5/5/2005; approval notice date: 5/18/2005)
Background: 2003 PhD, working as a federal employee now, 2 first author papers and 1 second author paper, 1 second author book chapter, 10 recommendation letters, some awards and membership.

I have one question. How can I link my pending 485 (concurently filed with the first pending 140) to this approved 140? I tried to find some info on this forum and only found that someone was talking about writing a letter to CIS. Is this the formal process? Where should I send this letter?
Thanks a lot.
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Congratulations! Are you from a Biology background?
 
Found some useful info. Thanks to Jharkhandi!
1. Copy of receipt of 140.(approved one)
2. Copy of approval notice of 140.
3. Copy of 485 receipt.
4. Application stating that you would like to get your 140 substituted.
5. Copy of Pearson memo(dated May 09,2000), which allows you to substitute 140.
6. Write on top of envelope Interfiling/Substitution of I-140 of pending 485 case..
7. Send all the above mentioned documents to your service center.

Wait 2-4 weeks. Call service center to find out if they have recd it or not!

Pearson memo: http://www.ilw.com/lawyers/seminars/august2002_citation2c.pdf
Discussion about Pearson memo: http://www.murthy.com/news/UDinsigs.html

All the best!
 
It is getting confusing. Based on the information from sevel lawyers' webpage, this kind of transfer is definitely possible. But I called CIS and they told me that I had to file 485 again. I talked to two CIS people (I called twice to talk to different people to confirm) and these people are supposed to know better because i was transferred to them by some reprentatives. But still I feel they don't know the details because one of them said "I am not a legal expert. Otherwise I won't be here answering phonecalls". This guy talked to his "resource" before he gave me his answer. It seems to me that we really cannot get something useful for this kind of question by calling those 1-800 numbers. Did anyone succesfully transfer a case?
 
So you did two NIW I-140 the same time?

I heard it was not allowed before. experts please clarify this. thanks a lot.



wyn said:
Dear friends: I cannot belive this is real! My NIW 140 was approved 13 days after receipt! What a record! Good luck to everyone here!
My case:
center: vermont center
category: NIW140 (employer as the petitioner)+485 concurrent (receipt notice date: 4/15/2005. Pending for both)
NIW140 (self-petitioned) (receipt notice date: 5/5/2005; approval notice date: 5/18/2005)
Background: 2003 PhD, working as a federal employee now, 2 first author papers and 1 second author paper, 1 second author book chapter, 10 recommendation letters, some awards and membership.

I have one question. How can I link my pending 485 (concurently filed with the first pending 140) to this approved 140? I tried to find some info on this forum and only found that someone was talking about writing a letter to CIS. Is this the formal process? Where should I send this letter?
Thanks a lot.
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I don't know where you heard this. My colleague did the same thing in 2002 (one NIW by self-petion and another NIW by employer-petition). Both of them got approved. I sent my questioin to several lawyers. None of them mentioned that this is not allowed. I don't see any reason why you cannot do this. CIS is getting more application fee if you file multiple times.

niwsam said:
I heard it was not allowed before. experts please clarify this. thanks a lot.
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NIW self-petitioning

Hello Wyn,
Congratulations first of all. This is fantastic.
I'm working on my NIW too.
I have almost everything ready to submit but I have been strugling with the cover letter.
Although I have very good examples from approved cases, all of them have been written by lawers.
I'm not sure how to make it sound good without sounding arrogant since I have to say great things about my self.
Did you write your cover letter your self? If so, would you mind sharing it with me so I could use it as a guide?
Thanks and good luck with your I-485.

Federico
 
I also used a template written by a lawyer even though I prepared everything by myself. Don't worry about "sounding arrogant". I believe USCIS officers are used to those words. If you don't use them, they may think you are inferior to those who use them. After all, they may focus more on the real stuff, not just some big "arrogant" words.

argento465 said:
Hello Wyn,
Congratulations first of all. This is fantastic.
I'm working on my NIW too.
I have almost everything ready to submit but I have been strugling with the cover letter.
Although I have very good examples from approved cases, all of them have been written by lawers.
I'm not sure how to make it sound good without sounding arrogant since I have to say great things about my self.
Did you write your cover letter your self? If so, would you mind sharing it with me so I could use it as a guide?
Thanks and good luck with your I-485.

Federico
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