Dear Friends.
It seems that I am in a horrible situation with my whole GC process. I have been working for the same company at a fairly senior position for more than 6 years and all this time I am waiting for the outcome of the labor certification.
It appeared that the lawyer that handles my case is absolutely clueless at the very best. My labor application was filed back in 2000. However despite that my experience perfectly corresponded to my position the application contained very obvious and strange mistakes and thus was denied. In fact the company never told me that the application was denied until I learned it just by accident.
The lawyer promised to fix everything in one year and filed a new application.
And guess what!
After that I managed to get a copy of this second application and was very surprised to find out that the offered wage on the application is almost two times lower than the prevailing wage. This is despite the fact that the actual salary is higher than the prevailing wage. I admit because of the wage issue the application was put in the backburner at BEC.
At work I have no right to speak to the attorney and the company warned me against even attempting to contact him. Of course I even cannot dream about changing the lawyer as he is the company’s choice. The HR does not give any information about my case even the location of the application, whether it is in the Philadelphia or Dallas. Basically the only answer I can get from them is “wait”. They also do not agree to file another application via PERM. You guys are very lucky to know at least the case number so that you can check the status online.
I exceeded my 6 year limit on H-1 many years ago and now I cannot leave the employer who definitely deserves that.
I almost gave up on the Green Card and probably will be leaving the country where I have lived for 9 years and where my children grew up.
All these years I was very concerned about quality of my own work and my own performance. Now the company almost solely survive on the product to which I contributed the most. And it seems I have been penalized for that.
Does any of you know if there is any way to restore fairness and justice? I could not find any official body that has a record of handling such issues.
It seems that I am in a horrible situation with my whole GC process. I have been working for the same company at a fairly senior position for more than 6 years and all this time I am waiting for the outcome of the labor certification.
It appeared that the lawyer that handles my case is absolutely clueless at the very best. My labor application was filed back in 2000. However despite that my experience perfectly corresponded to my position the application contained very obvious and strange mistakes and thus was denied. In fact the company never told me that the application was denied until I learned it just by accident.
The lawyer promised to fix everything in one year and filed a new application.
And guess what!
After that I managed to get a copy of this second application and was very surprised to find out that the offered wage on the application is almost two times lower than the prevailing wage. This is despite the fact that the actual salary is higher than the prevailing wage. I admit because of the wage issue the application was put in the backburner at BEC.
At work I have no right to speak to the attorney and the company warned me against even attempting to contact him. Of course I even cannot dream about changing the lawyer as he is the company’s choice. The HR does not give any information about my case even the location of the application, whether it is in the Philadelphia or Dallas. Basically the only answer I can get from them is “wait”. They also do not agree to file another application via PERM. You guys are very lucky to know at least the case number so that you can check the status online.
I exceeded my 6 year limit on H-1 many years ago and now I cannot leave the employer who definitely deserves that.
I almost gave up on the Green Card and probably will be leaving the country where I have lived for 9 years and where my children grew up.
All these years I was very concerned about quality of my own work and my own performance. Now the company almost solely survive on the product to which I contributed the most. And it seems I have been penalized for that.
Does any of you know if there is any way to restore fairness and justice? I could not find any official body that has a record of handling such issues.