Philadelphia Backlog Elimination Center Tracking
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always_missing
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Is it from PBEC
Your signature says from DBEC. We are confused to 11/2002 approvals from PBEC.
Your signature says from DBEC. We are confused to 11/2002 approvals from PBEC.
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va_aug_2002
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Channel c-Span2 on cox?
Anybody aware of channel 43, C-SPAN2 on cox? It is showing Sen. Jeff Sessions talking in U.S. Senate about immigration bill for both legal and illegal.
Is this a new channel and do US Senate work so late as it is showing Live at 8 PM EST....
Anybody aware of channel 43, C-SPAN2 on cox? It is showing Sen. Jeff Sessions talking in U.S. Senate about immigration bill for both legal and illegal.
Is this a new channel and do US Senate work so late as it is showing Live at 8 PM EST....
narayana_pan
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Hi saknia / Senior Members
MY GC filed on 2002 and it went to RD 2003 it is still in PBEC but one of my friend Applied his LC through my company under DBEC in 2004 EB3 his LC approved but that Person joined in another company for already approved labor and he filed also 485. My company offering that LC for me
, That LC matching for me but this is in EB3 and My won applied in EB2 should I go with the EB3 or wait for MY EB2? Can any one suggest for me
In Advance Thank You very much for suggestions..
Hi saknia / Senior Members
MY GC filed on 2002 and it went to RD 2003 it is still in PBEC but one of my friend Applied his LC through my company under DBEC in 2004 EB3 his LC approved but that Person joined in another company for already approved labor and he filed also 485. My company offering that LC for me
, That LC matching for me but this is in EB3 and My won applied in EB2 should I go with the EB3 or wait for MY EB2? Can any one suggest for me In Advance Thank You very much for suggestions..
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lavendersummer
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cantstandit said:
va_aug_2002
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Yes, It has to be politics. If they make everybody legal and have to pay them minimum wages, I wonder what will happen to the employer who were surviving on cheap labors (agriculture and others).chinglun said:
But I liked the channel as I can put face to all the senators (Frist, Mccain) and see them in action and that too so late. It is also giving first hand news. Looks like they hurried in a press conference saying they have a compromise and now they are back to square one and working late to come to some common points. We Will know about it in news tomorrow anyways.
USCISisMockery
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fastergcwanted said:
This is unbelievable, everybody is going gaga over illegals but nobody cares about legals. This is sheer stupidity and there is no way this is goign to work.
They can't even verify legit applications (our labor application) in 4 years, how in the fuking world they will verify Documents of 10 millions undocumented. Its just beyond me how these people are elected by most advanced country in the world.
Its encouraging to see lot of new people are rising and raising awareness about the backlog.
You guys are faxing the letters anonymously or under false name ? I am sure lot of people are not coming forward because of this limitation. Why can't we call all these suckers, and gripe and whine about PBEC delay. Just imagine big officials geting 100 phone calls everyday about PBEC. Also its better way to vent out our anger.
chinglun said:
With all the confusion, this is what i am reading:
The compromise amendment by Republican senators Chuck Hagel and Mel Martinez would allow undocumented residents to obtain legal status if they meet the following eight requirements:
Pass national security and criminal background checks
Have resided in the United States for at least five years
Have been employed in the United States for at least three of the previous five years
Have paid all federal and state taxes
Register for military selective service
Show sufficient knowledge of the English language and US history and civics
Pay a $2,000 fine, in addition to required application fees
Work for an additional six years after enactment
Undocumented residents living in the United States for less than five years but more than two years could obtain a temporary work visa under the legislation, but first they must:
Submit to visa requirements under current law, including background checks, fees and payment of taxes Exit the country and be fingerprinted and processed at a land port of entry. They would be given priority in applying for "green cards" over future immigrants entering as temporary workers.
Undocumented immigrants living in the United States for less than two years would receive no benefits under the legislation and would be required to leave the country.
They would, however, be allowed to apply for a temporary worker visa once back in their country of origin.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9F9BEECB-213D-47C3-9547-4358630AD356.htm
cantstandit said:
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I'm confused where this illegal immigration issue would cross our road. This is from CNN.com. Don't see any obvious that would eat from others plate:
Officials described a complex series of provisions:
• Illegal immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years could receive legal status after meeting several conditions, including payment of a $2,000 fines and any back taxes, clearing a background check and learning English. After six more years, they could apply for citizenship without having to leave the United States.
• Illegal immigrants in the country for between two and five years could obtain a temporary work visa after reporting to a border point of entry. Aides referred to this as "touch base and return," since people covered would know in advance they would be readmitted to the United States.
• Officials said it could take as long as 13 to 14 years for some illegal immigrants to gain citizenship. It part, that stems from an annual limit of 450,000 on green cards, which confer legal permanent residency and are a precursor to citizenship status.
• Illegal immigrants in the United States for less than two years would be required to leave the country and apply for re-entry alongside anyone else seeking to emigrate.
Separately, the legislation provides a new program for 1.5 million temporary agriculture industry workers over five years.
It also includes provisions for employers to verify the legal status of workers they hire, but it was not clear what sanctions, if any, would apply to violators.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/immigration.ap/index.html
cantstandit
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I'm really puzzled by the numbers the DOL released:
Backlog Cases:
Total Received: 363,000+
Total Completed: 108,000+
Total Certified: 50,000
Balance: 255,000
I refuse to believe that completed means "data entered", because it would make no sense at all. From our tracker it's clear that more than 70% got their letters.
that leaves us with: completed = certified + closed + withdrawn
so we'd have closed + withdrawn = 58,000 ... it does look like very high. I don't think that many people would have withdrawn, so it could only be that they are doing mass closings of cases after not receiving the reply to the 45-day letter.
One possibility is that a lot of people who had 245i cases from April/2001 simply gave up, moved away, etc, so their lawyers/employers never replied to the 45-day letter.
hey, btw, whatever happened to their banner "18 months and counting" on their website ? still there ?
Backlog Cases:
Total Received: 363,000+
Total Completed: 108,000+
Total Certified: 50,000
Balance: 255,000
I refuse to believe that completed means "data entered", because it would make no sense at all. From our tracker it's clear that more than 70% got their letters.
that leaves us with: completed = certified + closed + withdrawn
so we'd have closed + withdrawn = 58,000 ... it does look like very high. I don't think that many people would have withdrawn, so it could only be that they are doing mass closings of cases after not receiving the reply to the 45-day letter.
One possibility is that a lot of people who had 245i cases from April/2001 simply gave up, moved away, etc, so their lawyers/employers never replied to the 45-day letter.
hey, btw, whatever happened to their banner "18 months and counting" on their website ? still there ?
cantstandit
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GREENWAYS said:
that's exactly my point ... this provision does NOT cross our road, it will be a completely new category, meaning we will still be here trying to get a meaningless piece of paper from the DOL, because we belong to another category (EB).
Actually, maybe we should lobby for them to add H1B holders to the provision so we could file for adjustment without labor, just like the illegals with 5+ years.
Oh, come to think of it, there is one way this crosses our road ... by opening the doors to millions of new applicants, a huge backlog (really HUGE) will be created during the 485 step, so for example, an EAD or AP might take years to be approved, let alone the GC. Citizenship ??? forget it.
At this point, we REALLY need to get our labors approved BEFORE the deluge of applications hit the USCIS, that's all we can hope for.
narayana_pan
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Hi saknia / Senior Members
MY GC filed on 2002 and it went to RD 2003 it is still in PBEC but one of my friend Applied his LC through my company under DBEC in 2004 EB3 his LC approved but that Person joined in another company for already approved labor and he filed also 485. My company offering that LC for me , That LC matching for me but this is in EB3 and My won applied in EB2 should I go with the EB3 or wait for MY EB2? Can any one suggest for me
In Advance Thank You very much for suggestions..
Hi saknia / Senior Members
MY GC filed on 2002 and it went to RD 2003 it is still in PBEC but one of my friend Applied his LC through my company under DBEC in 2004 EB3 his LC approved but that Person joined in another company for already approved labor and he filed also 485. My company offering that LC for me , That LC matching for me but this is in EB3 and My won applied in EB2 should I go with the EB3 or wait for MY EB2? Can any one suggest for me
In Advance Thank You very much for suggestions..
cantstandit said:
Officials said it could take as long as 13 to 14 years for some illegal immigrants to gain citizenship. It part, that stems from an annual limit of 450,000 on green cards, which confer legal permanent residency and are a precursor to citizenship status.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/06/immigration.ap/index.html
If this happens most of us would have to go to their countries. I already was penalized badly by the amnesty to illegal immigrants in 2001 and it looks like this is going to be much more severe now.
If the adminitstration managed to process only a fracture of 300,000 cases in 5 years imagine how long it would take to process 14 milions !
And from my previous experience it easioly can happen that we fall at the end of the line,
StressTestInUSA
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This bill happening right now is primarily for the illegals and illegals only. If guys like us for employment based stuff needs to be slipped in during this time we need big time lobbying....This was the arguments we had a couple of months ago wether to support or not to support IV team. All this work with lobbying and lobbyist talking as our mouth involves big $$. Until now there is not a single line mentioned for legal immigrants like us.
What these guys say is right..the illegals who are in millions are doing menial jobs where the Americans r not ready to do that job, but we are a threat to the American jobs. We have to justify that.
We are gambling our lives,our kids lives here bigtime...!! Already feeling like we are in a sinking ship.
What these guys say is right..the illegals who are in millions are doing menial jobs where the Americans r not ready to do that job, but we are a threat to the American jobs. We have to justify that.
We are gambling our lives,our kids lives here bigtime...!! Already feeling like we are in a sinking ship.
narayana_pan said:
Hi saknia / Senior Members
MY GC filed on 2002 and it went to RD 2003 it is still in PBEC but one of my friend Applied his LC through my company under DBEC in 2004 EB3 his LC approved but that Person joined in another company for already approved labor and he filed also 485. My company offering that LC for me , That LC matching for me but this is in EB3 and My won applied in EB2 should I go with the EB3 or wait for MY EB2? Can any one suggest for me
In Advance Thank You very much for suggestions..
Since PBEC is approving 2002 and yours is EB2 it is better to wait for that . Maximum another 2 months and all 2002 has to be cleared in 2002. But the Gap for 2002 to2004 in EB3 will be big. Only advantage is you will get 140 approved for 2004 and PD is yours.In current situations that 2004 PD is not a Big Deal with EB3 ( Imagine 11.0 M comeing in to EB3 sooner or later and you don't know when you will reach 2004 in Eb3) . Instead you can file PERM EB2 in 2006
I don't know whether ou are in 7th Year or about your relationship with your employer etc. That might make difference on which to consider as well