Yep great idea, i completely agree with other points except point#4. we should utilize facebook.com, myspace.com, change.gov to bring more awareness.

good luck for all

Massive IV campaign for Administrative fixes


Dear Members,

Immigration Voice is starting a massive campaign to get administrative relief for our community. We have had several fruitful meeting with the administration in 2007, some of these meetings were scheduled in September, November and then in December. In these meetings, we were able to convince the administration about the implication and hardship due to current broken system. Since Congress has not been able to address our issues in 2006-07, we were successful in creating a case for administrative fixes that would give much needed interim relief to EB community. These meetings helped us start a conversation on possible administrative fixes like 3 year EAD-AP, clearly defining “same or similar” if AC-21 is invoked, and we are hearing favorable feedback.

Due to lack of action on legislative front our community’s patience is running out and we want some relief urgently to get out of probationary status. We are thus starting this nationwide campaign that will help our advocacy efforts and get administration to act quickly. There are several components to this campaign.

1) Support from lawmaker offices: We urge all our members to meet their lawmaker offices and get them to write to The President in support of administrative fixes and urging for an immediate administrative relief. The template of the letter is attached. Letters from lawmaker offices to administration get far more attention as compared to anybody else writing the same letter. The template of the letter is posted below. Please request lawmakers to give you a copy of the letter or lawmakers could copy IV on their letter to The President. Here is a template to write to your local congressman and senator: http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212511&postcount=6 (http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212511&postcount=6)

2) Support from employers: We urge all members to approach their employer and have them send a letter to The President expressing support for our administrative fixes and appealing for an immediate relief. The template of the letter is attached below. Please request your employer to give you copy of the letter so that you could provide IV with the copy of the letter.

3) Plea from our community: We urge all our members to write personalized letters to The President directly and convey their plight. If you would like to write your own personalized letter, please do so with your own story. Make sure to stick to the administrative fixes we have listed in the letter template and how these fixes could help you and your family. Please put your name and address in your letter. Anonymous letters will not be delivered and will be discarded. We request that you create 2 copies of your letter. One copy should be posted to The President and the second copy should be sent to Immigration Voice mailbox address at –

Immigration Voice
P O Box 1372
Arcadia, CA 91077-1372

You can write your own letter or use one of the LETTER TEMPLATES below. Be sure it includes the key points.
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212486&postcount=5
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212483&postcount=2
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212484&postcount=3
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212485&postcount=4
http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212512&postcount=7


The deadline for receiving all the letters is 1st March 2008. Our plan is to collect thousands of letters that we will also receive in IV mailbox and deliver them, along with the letters from employers and lawmakers across the country, during our meeting with the administration. We believe that this will make a necessary impact to strengthen our case and gather the necessary political will required for administrative fixes. We will also try to get media coverage for this campaign and draw national attention.

Please inform all your friends stuck in greencard retrogression and have them participate in this effort. Please post information about this campaign and link to this thread to as many sites, blogs you can so that we can get extraordinary scale of participation. The success of this effort will depend on the collective sincerity of the entire EB community to get letters from lawmakers, employers and members of the community. Immigration voice is counting on each and every member and it is in up to each member to make this campaign a success and help us to improve our and our families’ lives.
Reminder: Pls mail 2 letters

1) (copy 1)please send a separate letter to the President.
2) (copy 2)Send a copy of that letter to IV. After the letters are sent to the President, IV will have a meeting with senior administration officials. In that meeting we will carry the copies of the letters and deliver to them.

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Pls feel free to change the text of the letter and personalize it if you wish. If you wish to include your story and attach a photo copy of your degrees, patents, awards, please do so. Just make sure to include the information on provisions we are trying to push.

If you are handwriting the letter, your writing should be legible. If nobody can read your writing, then it will defeat the purpose. Write the letter in such a way that the key points are easy to read. If you would like to use rules, bold text, highlighters etc... go ahead and do it.

We all need to be as creative as possible to make this campaign a success.

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Everyone that took part in the IV lobby day in September 2007 should get in touch with the lawmaker offices now and request them for letters. If you have met your local lawmaker offices through state chapters or on your own, it is time to visit them again for this request.

100% agree with 'whitecollarslave'. The case is not about h1b worker, but an AOS pending status worker, I would think this status is very similar/same as asylees, and refugees.

I think taking h1b out of equation would help 'OSC' see through.

Questions:
1. On application form I-765, Question No 11.Have you ever file for EAD?

I have mentioned it as "Yes" (I have applied for my OPT)

2. On application form I-765, Question No 11. Date(s)? Which dates to be used, please specify ?

(EAD notice)

3. On application form I-485, page2, part 3, What is Nonimmigrant visa number? Is it the RED number (8 digit) on visa or the control number(14 digit)

4. On application form G-325A, Biographical information. Applicatan's residence last five years. List present address first. I have specified address for three years and six lines are filled and I could not show the last five years, so how should I show last five years of my residence on the form (should I attach a paper with the remaining address, please specify)

5. On application form G-325A, Biographical information. Applicant: Be sure to put your name and Alien Registration Number in the box outlined by heavy border below.

Should I write in English or in my native language and what should I write for Alien Registration Number.

Any suggestions and inputs on the above questions should help.

Thanks

To,
The Director
USCIS - Nebraska Service Center
Linclon, NE
Fax# 402-219-6171

Sub: Inquiry for I-485 AOS application sent to Nebraska Service Center on July 2nd 2007 [USPS Tracking No. XXXXXX]

Dear Director,

My Adjustment Application [type, e.g. I-485] was delivered to INS Express, Nebraska Service Center, Lincoln, NE on July 2nd 2007 @ 11:11 AM. It’s more than 90 days but I didn’t even get the Receipt Notice for said application. How I can get the EAD in 90 days per law when i didn't even get the Receipt Number from USCIS?

USCIS website update says NSC are working with August 13th 2007 received AOS applications. USCIS is not following the First in First out (FIFO) process for sure. Why August received application are getting Receipt Notice and subsequent benefits (EAD, AP, etc) at the expense of July 2nd filed application? It’s unfair to applicant like me.

I need help of your good office to track my AOS application delivered to NSC on July 2nd 2007. Please feel free to contact me for additional information.

Details as provided below:
Name of Applicant:
“A” Number of Applicant:
USPS Tracking No:

Sincerely yours,


Enclosure:
1) Copy of USPS Express delivery receipt for I-485 application(Tracking No. XXXXXX)

We filed 485/765 on July 3rd. No RN till today. Checks not cashed. What can be done???

Change the order now to send them on Wednesday instead :-)

I dont understand why DOS/DHS/USCIS will not do anything RIGHT NOW and wait till July 2nd or 3rd??

I shopped around yesterday for lawyers coz I wanted to fire my lawyer (my company's lawyer) and get my own.

Turns out, they are all very very busy and some of them are refusing to take on new cases. The ones that do accept new cases are asking for something like $3,000 just to file 485/EAD/AP for primary appliant and spouse.

Although its hard to get confidence in doing this on your own, its also hard to shell out $3,000 just to fill out forms and have a pair of eyes look over it. And after $3000, there is no guarantee that the lawyer's work would be perfect either coz they too, make mistakes as the paperwork (which 90% of immigration work) is really done by paralegals who dont care as much as they should.

There are lot of people on portal who have filed 485 and EAD/AP on their own. I will link some threads here as I find them. And most people renew their EAD and AP on their own coz they would have left their sponsoring employer and they would be pretty much in charge of everything. So if people can file EAD./AP on their own, then the intial 485 is only one more form.

Very true. If people can file for EAD & AP, Why not 485? Its no rocket science. All that we need is a correct list of documents and letter(s) needed from our employer. Here is what I found so far reading 485 form

1) If we have an approved 140 petition, we do not need to provide a copy of the labor certificate.

2) We need to submit the labor cert if we have an I 140 pending.

3) We need an employment letter from our employer stating that the job is still available and the salary to be paid.

4) No need for G-28 for any form that is being filed by yourself. If some one else is representing you, then they will file a form G-28

Please add more info as you find.

Hi,

just for information i am mentioning here. for this only i registered newly.

one of our friend got GC approval today. both wife and husband got. priority date is 2003 august eb2. mine is 2005 ending eb3. we can consider that as 2006 starting eb3. but when we get dont know. really frustating thing this like many especially who are in eb3. praying for changing the rules to be good for all.

God is with all of us. we too will get soon that good news.

Thank you.

Wife called all of them I am starting to call now

Called all of them....... will call again tommorow

I have just upgraded my existing Vonage plan from Premium to World plan without any cost. As few guys said earlier, I remember paying $0.89 per min for India call a decade back when I was a student here - really great to experience fruits of VoIP innovation :-)

For someone who has Vonage account and want to upgrade, they can login into vonage web account, goto Billing section and click on change current plan.

I created a SR and got a reply that my case went for additional review and to call back after 6 months .IS this a STANDARD reply else something bigger coming up next?:confused:

Hello,
Called most of them, will call the remaining in next break. Responses were good from most of them. Couple of them asked for full address and some were just interested in name, (and or phone number) and zip code.

Will continue calling.

Regards,
GCCovet

I didn't get the phone# for USCIS compaint dept. But some one(may be ashres11) posted one phone#18003238603 for DHS. I called that number and it turned out Inspector General office. As i reported earlier. He told me to call regular USCIS 800. I said it's useless. He took some note and asked to call this new number 877-246-8253.

E-mail :
cisombudsman.trends@dhs.gov
joint.intake@dhs.gov

Fax :
202-344-3390

I got the LIN# I-765 from congresswoman office per USCIS reply.

who is cisombudsman.trends@dhs.gov? Is this a name of some person or some department name?

I noticed a soft LUD today on my wife's case but no update on mine. Does this mean anything...
PD - Oct 2005 - still waitin.........

That may be good news..not sure though..

3 questions..
Who is the primary applicant ?
Did you create an SR ?
Did you have an Infopass ?

Hi,

My wife and kid are outside india. Can i file for 485 and include them...Do they have to be in india for that. Also can i file for my wife's ead


NO They have to be in the US for AOS filing.

My attorney is asking for my I 94 to file for my h1 extension that is expiring in June 2007. Which I 94 should I give him the one that I currently have which says Parole till 01/26/2007 or the one thay I got with my h1 approval notice earlier that says H1 valid till 06/2007??

Aright: I spoke with a person at NJ Senator Robert Menendez's office. She mentioned about lots of Calls/Mails and Faxes about Green Card Backlogs have been received.

I've faxed them regarding the same and hoping to get response, if not then next week will do a follow-up call.

Also mailed the letter to DOS and NJ Representatives from congress.org.

If possible will definitely meet Senator Robert Menendez.

Its been over 3 hours now that I informed CapitalOne that the discrimination is illegal. And as expected, no reply received yet.

really good news that they are paying attention to this issue..

http://www.encounter.co.za/article/112.html

I especially liked this:

Several years later, just before his seventieth birthday in 1939, Gandhi was interviewed by a missionary, Dr. John R. Mott. Mott asked Gandhi to single out the most creative experience of his life. This was Gandhi�s reply:

"I recall particularly one experience that change the course of my life. Seven days after I had arrived in South Africa the client who had taken me there asked me to go to Pretoria from Durban. It was not an easy journey. On the train I had a first-class ticket, but not a bed ticket. At Maritzburg, when the beds were issued, the guard came and turned me out. The train steamed away leaving me shivering in cold. Now the creative experience comes there. I was afraid for my very life. I entered the dark waiting room. There was a white man in the room. I was afraid of him. What was my duty; I asked my self. Should I go back to India, or should I go forward, with God as my helper and face whatever was in store for me? I decided to stay and suffer. My active non-violence began from that day."
That wintery night in the waiting room on a railway platform, Gandhi made the fateful decision which changed the lives of thousands of South Africans and still inspires us today.