Project Ocean started originally at I-485 CSC forum in October 2003, about two years ago as follows:
Now, Project Ocean is targetting its final goal to amend the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) Section 316 for requirement of Naturalization, tying up with Project Belbin, and some attorneys.
Project Ocean is one of the most successful grass-root lobbying activities for employment based immigration community. Around 2003, EB (Employment Based) I-485 adjudication process had been almost freezed at all USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, formerly known as INS) service centers including CSC (California Service Center), and it took more than two years just to get I-485 approved even after I-140 being approved. We know many people who had to leave this country just because of INS' processing delay. However, as the result of Project Ocean and Rajiv's leading litigation, USCIS had significantly improved EB I-485 prcoess in 2004, and CSC is approving I-485 concurrently filed together with I-140 only in four to six months nowadays.kashmir said:A Guide to Naturalization (M-476)
Let's become a U.S. Citizen by 2008 and vote at 2008 Election !!
But, we have to solve the following problem.
General Naturalization Requirements
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Residence and Physical Presence
An applicant is eligible to file if, immediately preceding the filing of the application, he or she:
- has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (see preceding section);
- has resided continuously as a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. for at least 5 years prior to filing with no single absence from the United States of more than one year;
- has been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months out of the previous five years (absences of more than six months but less than one year shall disrupt the applicant's continuity of residence unless the applicant can establish that he or she did not abandon his or her residence during such period)
- has resided within a state or district for at least three months
We have to wait for another five years after we get AOS approved.
However, we have(had) been already waiting only AOS approval for a long time due to EB I485 processing delay at the USCIS service centers.
It is extremely unfair to us.
So, INA(Immigration and Nationality Act) Sec. 316 must be amended.
Sec. 316. [8 U.S.C. 1427]
(a) No person, except as otherwise provided in this title, shall be naturalized, unless such applicant, (1) immediately preceding the date of filing his application for naturalization has resided continuously, after being lawfully admitted for permanent residence, within the United States for at least five years and during the five years immediately preceding the date of filing his application has been physically present therein for periods totaling at least half of that time, and who has resided within the State or within the district of the Service in the United States in which the applicant filed the application for at least three months, (2) has resided continuously within the United States from the date of the application up to the time of admission to citizenship, (3) during all the periods referred to in this subsection has been and still is a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States.
Now, Project Ocean is targetting its final goal to amend the INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) Section 316 for requirement of Naturalization, tying up with Project Belbin, and some attorneys.