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This is a request for October'2002 and beyond cases who already got the GC. My RD is Oct'2002. I am getting frustrated by the delay in my GC case. I am losing all the wonderful opportunities that are coming by. I am also losing big time in monetory terms. When i approached my congress men, they are getting back to me saying that Vermont is now processing Feb'2002 cases and my chance will come after about 10 months. When i tell them (congress men's assistant) that Vermont is actually processing all cases received in 2002, they are not believing me. Those people don't visit our web sites and they simply believe what VSC says. One of the I485 forum members also faced same situation and he then asked one of his friends (who has got approved) to give his Receipt number so that he can give that number to congress man and prove that VSC is approving Dec'2002 cases also. Because of this, he got approved immediately after his FP2. I did my FP one day after him, and i am still waiting.
Now i am thinking if some one who is already approved, is going to help me by giving his I485 receipt number . I do not know if there are any complications involved in that. But if any of you feel that there are no problems involved, then can you please pass your receipt number to me by private message ? Please pass it only if you feel absolutely comfortable. I understand that it's not an easy thing.
 
Be patient dude !!

Hey man,

Be patient first of all, everybody is in the same boat as you are OR may be in a worse situation. Some people are waiting for more than 28-29 months, you still are not even 24 months old with your 485. Indeed VSC is approving cases for 2002 later months, but,they are sporadic and independent.

Even if you get the receipt #, am sure the congress man is not going to help you much, they CANNOT expediate case. And looking at your example, looks like everyone is approaching the senator/congress man even thought their cases are not in the processing time. This is really hampering individuals who are genuniely late like Jan-Mar 02 cases. I have few examples of friends who were told by the senators that they are tired with these kind of requests and hence they are giving standard answers these days of waiting till 3 months or something like that.

I know how frustrated you are, but everybody is here with their case and lets be patient. If you get approved then its your luck and you can then take the offers. But I don't think the approval should stop you in any situation since you seem to be already have cleared the requirement of using the AC-21.

I hope you didn't mind my suggestion, I had to reply to you as it really seemed you wanted your GC when you are so far in the queue than the others.
 
Why not run the scan and submit all the numbers for the October, November and December. Senator needs the EAC numbers not names.
 
new1975 said:
Hey man,

Be patient first of all, everybody is in the same boat as you are OR may be in a worse situation. Some people are waiting for more than 28-29 months, you still are not even 24 months old with your 485. Indeed VSC is approving cases for 2002 later months, but,they are sporadic and independent.

Even if you get the receipt #, am sure the congress man is not going to help you much, they CANNOT expediate case. And looking at your example, looks like everyone is approaching the senator/congress man even thought their cases are not in the processing time. This is really hampering individuals who are genuniely late like Jan-Mar 02 cases. I have few examples of friends who were told by the senators that they are tired with these kind of requests and hence they are giving standard answers these days of waiting till 3 months or something like that.

I know how frustrated you are, but everybody is here with their case and lets be patient. If you get approved then its your luck and you can then take the offers. But I don't think the approval should stop you in any situation since you seem to be already have cleared the requirement of using the AC-21.

I hope you didn't mind my suggestion, I had to reply to you as it really seemed you wanted your GC when you are so far in the queue than the others.
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Sorry, i don't agree with you that because every one else is suffering (and some of them suffering more), i should also suffer without making an effort. I waited patiently for the first 18 months because that's what the BCIS has mentioned as the processing time in the I485 receipt. Once that time is crossed i have every reason to approach the congress men for help. I would be too happy if INS processes the applications in an orderly fashion. Then probably i will not have a reason to ask about my case. I hate being unresonable and asking for out of turn favors. But what is actually happening is completely random and chaotic processing with the approvals ranging from October'2001 to June'2004 on any given day. In this scenario, every one who has waited for more than 18 months (or what ever he believes as the reasonable wait time) has a just cause to be agitated about.
My main idea behind this effort is to prove to my congress man that INS is lying. I simply can't scan some numbers and submit them as proof becuase i don't consider that as legal (accessing some body else's case information without his consent).
As for using AC21 , i don't think big companies give the job offer with what ever wordings i ask for. I just don't want to give any chance to the adjudicator saying that new job is not exactly same as the old job. If i used AC21, probably i will not care about getting GC soon.
Finally, i request people not to create any discussion in this thread. I think i know enough about I485 issues. If some one wants to help me, he can send me a PM with Receipt number. Others can just ignore this thread.
 
tammy2 said:
Why not run the scan and submit all the numbers for the October, November and December. Senator needs the EAC numbers not names.
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I simply can't scan some numbers and submit them as proof becuase i don't consider that as legal (accessing some body else's case information without his consent).
 
dsatish said:
I simply can't scan some numbers and submit them as proof becuase i don't consider that as legal (accessing some body else's case information without his consent).
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I do not think so. It is a public information. You are quoating from where you are getting it. You can get confirmed with Rajeev or some one else
 
Mr dsatish

You sounded very rude and annoyed with someone's idea. You are saying you know enough of I-485 issues ?? What does that speak ? Everyone knows lot about 485 issues boss. You don't want anyone to talk about it in this thread ??. I didn't expect this from you.

All I said is that you are asking things very impatiently. Agreed INS says 18 months and we all know thats not true and agreed that there have some random approvals from the postings in this forum, but look at rupnet and you would find some sense, the random approvals are less in proportion. Also, all the data here and in rupnet is based in few people's inputs and not a general idea. After couple of months people from 2003 will ask the senators to approve their cases based on your argument of 18 months when the offical time frame would March 2002, right ?. All I said is that you can use AC 21 and you need to be more patient, just coz one dec 2002 approved after showing the senator the receipt # of some random approval doesnt mean you will get it too. Also, your ideas about not using AC21 doesn't sound to be too convincing, there have been so many people using AC21 and joining the top 5 and avoiding the monetary loss like you are !!!!

I don't want to argue as you are beyond argument. Get your GC and get the whole world !!. It sounds from your statement like that GC is the whole world !!. Don't write anymore as I know it would just go on and on and you won't agree.

chow
 
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Some sporadic cases even of May'03 have got approved- that is stupid/crazy and whatever- that is the way BCIS unforunately works- random/arbitary. But does not make a case that specific case(s) must be expedited. As we also know lots of '01 cases are still pending.
Lots of us think (quite rightly)- that our case is a simple straight forward case and should be approved without any hassle delay. And when somebody else's case get approved we tend to think- what could be special about that case over mine. The answer is simply the BCIS randomness nothing else. Once we reconcile with that fact - we all would be more at peace.
Value of GC- a big headache over. But nothing more than that.
So the bottom line is patience.
As others have suggested AC21 is way a easy way to change jobs- if that is what you want to do- I have already done it twice.
 
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Hi guys,
I agree with all your arguments but every individual has his own way of thinking and has his own goals. For some AC21 may work out well but you cannot say/suggest to use AC21. For example I may be an oracle developer at the time my Labor was filed and now I may be working as an Database Administrator. What should I do if I get a better offer as a DBA in a good company and they are not willing to give the employment letter with the same job description as in the labor?

I guess dsatish may be talking of these kind of situations. I completely agree that USCIS should get rid of random processing and they should process FIFO. We need to fight for this and Mr. Satish took an initiative. Please try to appreciate his effort. He is not demanding any one to give their EAC number, he is just requesting. If you guys are approved and like to help him please do so, other wise it is better not to discuss this any further.

Atleast if he can show some kind of evidence to congress man, hopefully they may fight on behalf of us.
 
new1975 said:
Mr dsatish
I don't want to argue as you are beyond argument. Get your GC and get the whole world !!. It sounds from your statement like that GC is the whole world !!. Don't write anymore as I know it would just go on and on and you won't agree.

chow
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I too don't like arguing. This thread was supposed to be for people who got their GC approved . I made a humble request to them to see if any one can help me. There is no point for arguments and other comments here. If you got annoyed and called me rude just because i asked people not to give me unnecessary suggestions, then think about how annoyed i must be because of your comments in your first post. Any way, take it easy. This GC journey has taken patience from a lot of us. We all get annoyed too easily. I will be too glad to see every 2001 and 2002 case approved by FY2004 (Sept'30/2004). Let's pray for that.
PS: You got it perfectly right. GC means everything to me. You don't know how much i have suffered due to this GC delays. It's just mind boggling.
 
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kmnalluri said:
Atleast if he can show some kind of evidence to congress man, hopefully they may fight on behalf of us.
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Exactly. I can take the delay in the name of FIFO but not in the name of lies passed by USCIS to the congress men. That is what i want to fight against. How many people here believe that Feb'2002 is the correct processing time at VSC ? Unfortunately the congress men believe VSC because we don't show them any proof.
 
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No way out but patience

dsatish said:
This is a request for October'2002 and beyond cases who already got the GC. My RD is Oct'2002. I am getting frustrated by the delay in my GC case. I am losing all the wonderful opportunities that are coming by. I am also losing big time in monetory terms. When i approached my congress men, they are getting back to me saying that Vermont is now processing Feb'2002 cases and my chance will come after about 10 months. When i tell them (congress men's assistant) that Vermont is actually processing all cases received in 2002, they are not believing me. Those people don't visit our web sites and they simply believe what VSC says. One of the I485 forum members also faced same situation and he then asked one of his friends (who has got approved) to give his Receipt number so that he can give that number to congress man and prove that VSC is approving Dec'2002 cases also. Because of this, he got approved immediately after his FP2. I did my FP one day after him, and i am still waiting.
Now i am thinking if some one who is already approved, is going to help me by giving his I485 receipt number . I do not know if there are any complications involved in that. But if any of you feel that there are no problems involved, then can you please pass your receipt number to me by private message ? Please pass it only if you feel absolutely comfortable. I understand that it's not an easy thing.
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Dsatish, I fully understand your feelings. All of us went through the same frustrating experience. I think the reality is there is nothing much one can do at this stage. Mr.Rajiv is doing his best but I feel thing are not going to change soon. On the contrary you can complicate issues if you approach senators too many times. Look at what Mavishka had to go through... It may be true that the hardship he had face is due to something else but still why take risk... I feel you are 1-3 months shy of your approval and there is really no point to screw that up at this stage (since you also completed your FP2 recently). Of course you can vent in your feelings here but my sincere advice would be not to take any action as you are very close to approval now...
 
Dsatish,
Unfortunately I can't help - my GC isn't approved yet - but I would encourage anyone whose GC has to help you. If you go to your senator and win you can create a precedent that everyone will benefit from.
I am very ontersted in it myself and my RD dat is in Feb 2002 and I won't have any problem getting names and EAC numbers that have been approved before me. What do you plan to do?
There is definitely no need to suffer for someone who doesn't have to.
I am deeply surprised that your RD is Oct, 2002 - I've seen a lot of very intelligent posts from you and assumed that you've been waiting on this forum for longer than the rest.
Regards.
 
I think instead of applying individual pressure, we should collectively apply pressure on CIS through our Congressman or Senator’s about the irregular processing method.

In my company, Four of my friends have applied I485 in the same time frame of one or two weeks along with me and all Four of them including their family members got their FP1 done and now they are in line for FP2, RFE’s or Approvals, but I am still waiting for my First FP as CIS has screwed my RD and ND application dates as you can see below my case history.

I have applied I140/I485 Concurrently for me and my spouse on Dec 20th 2002 and USCIS has received it on Dec 23 2002. Since I have paid for our GC process, I gave my personal checks for all USCIS fees and USCIS have enchased all checks on 01/27/03 and sent my I140 receipt along with my spouse's I485 receipts and they did not send my I485 receipt. And within couple of weeks my spouse got her First Finger Printing Notice and again USCIS did not send me First FP notice.

On the advice of my lawyer, I got copies of all checks paid to USCIS from the bank and on back of my I485 check enchased on 01/27/03, I got my EAC number and I checked it on USCIS Case Status Online System and I was shocked to see a message saying that there is a problem in my case and USCIS has sent my case back to my lawyer and I will have to re-file the case after doing the necessary corrections.

I then called Vermont Service Centre and IIO told me that everything is fine with my case and he sent me a duplicate copy of my I485 receipt and when I received it, I found that My RD and ND are different then my wife's RD and ND. And when I created my profile on the CIS website, I found that my last updated date is 1/27/03 and my spouse's LUD has changed thrice from 3/14/03, 6/14/2004 and 6/23/2004.

I am still waiting for my First FP and the online message still says that case is not found and I will have to call NCSC which I did four times till now and still it has not been rectified. I am seriously thinking of calling my Congressman if I don’t hear anything soon as this is really causing me lot of mental agony.
 
ramss,
I also feel that i am quite close to getting approval :) , only thing is i simply don't want to trust my feelings :D . In February / March this year, i had a great gut feeling that my expiring FP will trigger my approval. They approved a lot of cases like that at that time. But then my hopes were belied. Similarly though some people who had their FP2 in June are getting approval, there are still more people who have done their FP2 much before and still languishing here hopelessly.
I don't believe that any body's case will be affected negatively because of approaching congress man. Either there will be a positive impact or there will be zero impact. I am an indomitable optimist and that's why i tend to believe in making an effort where ever if see a slightest chance. I want to put an effort now, not to get my GC tomorrow, but to get it atleast next month.
BTW, i am putting a big effort (in the name of immigrationportal.org) to send out a strong letter to the congress men to highlight the wrong procedures of CIS. The letter is good to go this week.
 
new1975 said:
Hey man,

Be patient first of all, everybody is in the same boat as you are OR may be in a worse situation. Some people are waiting for more than 28-29 months, you still are not even 24 months old with your 485. Indeed VSC is approving cases for 2002 later months, but,they are sporadic and independent.

Even
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Even: DO you think it is hard to be approved for OR-based case? Thanks for explanation in advance. IC
 
This is what i felt

dsatish,

After reading the whole thread, this is what i felt (not once but after reading it atleast 4 times)

I think u r upset with the fact that your case is still not approved and others after you are.

I think you are getting upset with your brothers and sisters for nothing.

Remember, to be happy, always look at someone under you (and you would know how fortunate you are).

From what i understand, u r upset why someone after you got approved. Why dont u say that "its ok, there are plenty before me who are not yet approved".

I would just say this - Chill
 
i think dsatish's effort to fight the backlog and unfairness is excelent

there are some progress on I485 backlog reduction in the recent two months, i think that because people like dsatish and others have done their best to let the INS and congress to have a chance to hear our voice (though our voice is weak).

FIFO is the basic to fight backlog. With current way to process I485, only few lucky guys (with all the best wishes to them) can get approved in a relatively short time, the majority have to suffer the uncertainty facing us.
 
casper1972 said:
dsatish,

After reading the whole thread, this is what i felt (not once but after reading it atleast 4 times)

I think u r upset with the fact that your case is still not approved and others after you are.

I think you are getting upset with your brothers and sisters for nothing.

Remember, to be happy, always look at someone under you (and you would know how fortunate you are).

From what i understand, u r upset why someone after you got approved. Why dont u say that "its ok, there are plenty before me who are not yet approved".

I would just say this - Chill
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Where did i mention or indicate that i am upset about people who filed later are getting approved ? Is it not very clear that i am upset about the delay in my case in its individual merit? Don't you think that 21 months of waiting is painful enough ? Is it wise for some one to tell me to keep quite because a lot of others are also suffering. If we are all suffering, then we should all fight, both together and and also individually. I am doing both of that.
Hey, hang on in the forum for a while, you will learn to be more cautious before making comments on others.
 
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