Retain Priority Date!!

[endretro]

Needed some advice please...

I have an approved EB-3 I-140 from Nebraska SC with a PD of Jan 2002 from my old employer and I just got I-140 from my current employer approved in EB-2 with a PD of June 2005 from Vermont.

I have read about the rule which I could use to retain my older priority date. The I-140 from my previous employer has not been revoked.

Could someone please help me with these?

1. Any one has the exact verbiage/link to the rule which allows retention of the earlier PD?
2. Any format of the letter that they has been sent to the Service Centers for the retention of the PD based on an earlier I-140?
3. What address should I sent the letter to in Vermont DC?

Any help is greatly appreciated. (My attorney is an **** and no help can be expected from him).

Thanks
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[nobigdeal]

8 CFR 204.5 (e)
http://uscis.gov/lpbin/lpext.dll/in...mplates&fn=document-frame.htm#slb-8cfrsec2045

(e) Retention of section 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) priority date. -- A petition approved on behalf of an alien under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act accords the alien the priority date of the approved petition for any subsequently filed petition for any classification under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act for which the alien may qualify. In the event that the alien is the beneficiary of multiple petitions under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act, the alien shall be entitled to the earliest priority date. A petition revoked under sections 204(e) or 205 of the Act will not confer a priority date, nor will any priority date be established as a result of a denied petition. A priority date is not transferable to another alien.