Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center Tracking

Rajel said:
This friday's off-topic question is brought to you by.... Rajel !
My PD is Oct 2001 and my 6-year limit is set to expire in december. I've already started the 7th-year extension but let's assume for a second that I want to leave the US once and for all (to pursue an opportunity elsewhere).
1- Would I be entitled to receive back all my social security contribution (accumulated over the last 6 years) ?
2- Would I be subject to the 10% penalty on my 401k if I decide to withdraw the money ?
3- Is there any other "perk" (hum..) I'm eligible for ?
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I think such off-topcis (of general interest and which is not discussed thousand times) actually helps. You never know the way DOL is acting, we might be in the same boat as your in coming years. You raised a very good point.

1) I heard that US-India has some treaty where you can withdraw SS tax (even without completing some points). I doubt it.
2) As someone said, withdraw in the year you are leaving the country, or even after you already left, at that time your US income would be 0, so you would only be hit by tax backet on your 401k income and 10% penalty.
3) I heard theoritically H1-B can get unemployment benefit. But the idea seems contradictory. One more superb example of how DOL, USCIS... are here to screw us.
 
Good point!

We are not begging, we deserve a decent and humane service for the tax dollar we paid from the DOL. By the way, William Carlson will rot in hell for the poor leadership he has continously demonstrated in the past 4 years, and for the happy life he has ruined in the past 4 years. Let's wish for a better leadership at DOL. The Hispanic leader at INS (now USCIS) has done a terrific job in promoting efficiency there, that's you see they are closing in the 6 months goal. Shame on DOL!!!

ScorpioB said:
Hi Guys,

I want to make a point: in all my letters to the politicians, I've emphasized that I have been a regular, dutiful taxpayer for 6 years, from a relatively high income. Part of my letter says "In fact, my tax dollars are paying for the lamentable work going on at the DOL". We are not asking for any favors: as taxpayers, we have a right to a government service (DOL). We do not have a right to a GC, but we do have a right for our petition to be looked at in a timely and professional manner, and a decision rendered on the merit. We are paying for the service. We are not refugees, we are not illegals. If our tax money is good enough for Uncle Sam, give us the service!I urge you to stress that point in your correspondance to elected officials.

Thanks for your patience.
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Philly BEC sufferers,
Just for your info....
Icarus has returned back in the Dallas BEC thread.

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Here is s usmmary of Icarus's reports:

He reports Dallas BEC is currently processing RIR cases with PD of Jan 2003 (only the cases that made it to the Regional DOL level).

He also reports that there are 3 COs finally approving the work done by 30+ processing analysts.

Also, if your screen shot says "Certified", then your case has already been approved by the CO and it is awaiting to be mailed out. There is exactly one person in Dallas BEc mailing out certifications.

So folks, this gives an idea of how Dallas BEC is operating.

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Here is what I think about what is going on in Philly BEC:

It seems like it is quite clear that Philly BEC's processing resources are being devoted to NON-RIR cases that made it to the Philly Regional DOL (after completion of supervised recruitment at the SWA level). The FIFO for these Non-RIR cases appears to be based on Regional DOL receipt date.

Also, Philly is far ahead in data entry than Dallas BEC. (July 2004 PD for data ebtry). Philly is completeing temporary data entry for the remaining bulk of cases and expects to finish temporary data entry for all remaining cases by the end of Sept 30, 2005.

Folks who have not received 45-day letters form Philly BEc should not expect them to be mailed out until Philly completes full data entry.

Spreadsheet maintained by JustWatching indicates that hardly any 45-day letters have gone outi n Jun / July 2005. This is probbaly becaus ethey are very focused on incomplete data entry of all remaining cases to be fed into their system (PBLS - Permanent Backlog System).

In a month or two, I expect Philly will shift processing resources to RIR cases that made it to the Regional level. DOLhad always been saying many months ago that they will process Regional cases first (iin FIFO) and then process the remaining SWa cases taht never made it to the regional level.

All the above statements are my guesses only. I don't have any inside information like all of you. Please post your comments on what you think.
 
another PBEC approval

This is from another thread (Philadephia regional DOL tracker).

GC_seeker2001 said:
After waiting for 3 years and 9 months finally heard that the labor application got approved.

State applied on Oct, 2001.
Regional received on Dec, 2003
45 day letter replied on March,2005
Approved on July, 2005

Good luck to all of you!

GC Seeker 2001
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It does not mention state and category(RIR/TR).
 
Philly SUCKS!!!

PHILLY SUCKS BIG WAY.

mvinays said:
Philly BEC sufferers,
Just for your info....
Icarus has returned back in the Dallas BEC thread.

--------------------------
Here is s usmmary of Icarus's reports:

He reports Dallas BEC is currently processing RIR cases with PD of Jan 2003 (only the cases that made it to the Regional DOL level).

He also reports that there are 3 COs finally approving the work done by 30+ processing analysts.

Also, if your screen shot says "Certified", then your case has already been approved by the CO and it is awaiting to be mailed out. There is exactly one person in Dallas BEc mailing out certifications.

So folks, this gives an idea of how Dallas BEC is operating.

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Here is what I think about what is going on in Philly BEC:

It seems like it is quite clear that Philly BEC's processing resources are being devoted to NON-RIR cases that made it to the Philly Regional DOL (after completion of supervised recruitment at the SWA level). The FIFO for these Non-RIR cases appears to be based on Regional DOL receipt date.

Also, Philly is far ahead in data entry than Dallas BEC. (July 2004 PD for data ebtry). Philly is completeing temporary data entry for the remaining bulk of cases and expects to finish temporary data entry for all remaining cases by the end of Sept 30, 2005.

Folks who have not received 45-day letters form Philly BEc should not expect them to be mailed out until Philly completes full data entry.

Spreadsheet maintained by JustWatching indicates that hardly any 45-day letters have gone outi n Jun / July 2005. This is probbaly becaus ethey are very focused on incomplete data entry of all remaining cases to be fed into their system (PBLS - Permanent Backlog System).

In a month or two, I expect Philly will shift processing resources to RIR cases that made it to the Regional level. DOLhad always been saying many months ago that they will process Regional cases first (iin FIFO) and then process the remaining SWa cases taht never made it to the regional level.

All the above statements are my guesses only. I don't have any inside information like all of you. Please post your comments on what you think.
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Guys:

My application was filed in CA (RIR), according to BEC plans it should have gone to Dallas but my application has went to Philly, anyone from CA like my application? it there something wrong? :(
 
What about EB2 RIR progress ?

rupa_gc said:
PD - july 2003 - EB3 non rir
cleared state labor transferred to federal labor
received philly federal -oct 2003
transferred to BEC, received 45 day letter - march 2003
company received approved letter today..
i do not have any case numbers (company policy)
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Hi Rupa

Do you have any idea about the EB2 RIR cases which have been transferred from CA to Philly backlog center ?

PD - 5/13/03
regional - 4/29/04
45 day letter - 2/8/05
replied - 2/16/05

Thanks
GCcomesoon
 
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this is definitely gud news

mvinays said:
One more approval from Philly BEC...

This is probably the first RIR case reported to be approved by Philly BEC in this forum. This approval is for a case from Maryland SWA, EB3, RIR case.

GC_seeker2001
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1212242&postcount=2554
http://www.immigrationportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1933
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=531354&postcount=710
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This is definitely good news. Hopefully finally some sense is restored to PBEC.
mvinyas....how can I add my details in MD tracker.
 
atyagi73 said:
This is definitely good news. Hopefully finally some sense is restored to PBEC.
mvinyas....how can I add my details in MD tracker.
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atyagi73,
Please update your info in the BEC Priority Date Tracker (Spreadhseet is maintained by JustWatching). The link for the above mentioned tracker is below for your convenience.

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?p=1212837#post1212837

Please post as many details as possible about your case so that we can add it to the tracker. See my signature for an example.

Thanks!
 
mvinays said:
One more approval from Philly BEC...

This is probably the first RIR case reported to be approved by Philly BEC in this forum. This approval is for a case from Maryland SWA, EB3, RIR case.

GC_seeker2001
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1212242&postcount=2554
http://www.immigrationportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1933
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=531354&postcount=710
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Thanks for sharing the info. Why don't you mention it was "REGIONAL" case. 80% of cases at BEC are SWA cases. So this data is irrelevant for most of us here. I am writing this just to stress very important fact that newcomers might not know: BEC is handling regional and SWA completely differently.
 
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Thanks for the info mvinays

Thanks for the info mvinays. That is some good news for people whose cases have been transferred to Regional and are stuck there.

mvinays said:
One more approval from Philly BEC...

This is probably the first RIR case reported to be approved by Philly BEC in this forum. This approval is for a case from Maryland SWA, EB3, RIR case.

GC_seeker2001
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=1212242&postcount=2554
http://www.immigrationportal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1933
http://www.immigrationportal.com/showpost.php?p=531354&postcount=710
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USCISisMockery said:
Thanks for sharing the info. Why don't you mention it was "REGIONAL" case. 80% of cases at BEC are SWA cases. So this data is irrelevant.
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why is it irrelevant? it's VERY relevant to those of us waiting since 2001 that have already made it regional!!!!
even if you have not made it to regional, it is still relevant as it's an indication that philly is doing some kind of processing for IR...any processing is better than none...
 
yours_sincerely said:
Thanks for the info mvinays. That is some good news for people whose cases have been transferred to Regional and are stuck there.
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Well.. BEC is only processing Regional cases. So, this is good news over all the good news for the Regional guys. **Regional cases are NOT stuck**They are in queue being processed. **SWA cases are stuck**
 
for foret1

foret1 said:
why is it irrelevant? it's VERY relevant to those of us waiting since 2001 that have already made it regional!!!!
even if you have not made it to regional, it is still relevant as it's an indication that philly is doing some kind of processing for IR...any processing is better than none...
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foret1...did u ask your lawyer to find out from PBEC. Your case should be approved. If thats not the case then there is no hope for me by Oct'05. I was hoping to file for next stage when EB# is available again.
 
hi , my case RIR went from FL to ATL DOL in aug 2004 ,i never got any confirmation for that from ATL and now supposedly it is tranferred to philly BEC( three months ago when my lawyer checked ,he could not confirm its existence as it has not been entered)
1. so should i assume my case is regional and not SWA( as it was already approved by FL SWA)
2. should i check the status again as its been more then three months
feedback appreciated
3. so is it true that people are saying is that these regional cases should get approved quickly
 
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