Forum: Immigration Policy

Here is the link http://www.trackitt.com/usa-discussion-forums/i485-eb/397899901/good-new-for-people-waiting-to-file-i-485 Ron: Kindly share with us if you have any update.

Looking at the slow pace of CIR, I feel the only/fastest way to get Green card is to buy a lottery and hope to win $500,000. I read somewhere that if you invest $500,000 in low income area then you get the GC instantly. The only way to get that kind of money is to buy a lottery. What do you...

Last week, the Tea Party held a convention. One of their featured speakers was former Congressman Tom Tancredo. Mr. Tancredo is a well known chicken hawk. That is, even though he actively worked to avoid military service during wartime, and was subject to the draft that he successfully evaded, he...

Hi Ron, My current visa status is H4. As I cannot work on this visa, I would like to do an unpaid internship for future opportunities. Please clarify whether I can do so or not. I am trying to secure an unpaid internship with a non profit organisation. Would they fall into any special...

A number of people argue that aliens are taking jobs that many Americans won't do. I've come to realize that they are right. There is one job that many aliens take that certain Americans (Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck) refuse to do: Serve in the US military.

Hi Ron - I recently started following your forum religiously and it has been very helpful to provide insides on the immigration stuff. Great A + work. Question: I am in EB-3 with PD of October 2007. I have an approved I-140 and my attorney has not yet filled the I-485. In reading your latest...

Hello all, I am curious about Canadian immigration but have an interesting set of circumstances. I visited Canada about 4+ years ago to see my then girlfriend, who during that visit became my wife and we had a daughter. I returned to the USA to work in order to get money to begin the immigration...

Ron, I would be grateful for your input regarding the confusing unlawful presence memo. I think this impacts a lot of us who are on EAD status. I have been on EAD status (on the basis of derivative AOS benefit of my husband's pending EB-2 I-485) since 2008 after paroling into the country. I was...

Ron, I gather that EB dependents should actually fall under FB quota not EB. In I485 application "Part 2: App Type" Option b (derivative status for spouses and children) is related to quota listed in INA Sec. 203. a - 2. (family quota) and not to INA Sec. 203. b - * (employment quota)....

We have seen so much of visa retrogression all along.....I was thinking of the July fiasco...after effects....Just when i was thinking of How DOS advances the dates. It is really erratic...since they have no clue on the number of pending applications. While they want to advance the dates faster...

Hello Ron, I want to ask some questions..... As i came to USA on H1B before 6 months and still i am not on payroll by my employer. I have worked for one client for 3 weeks and my employer didn't paid me for that. And when i have asked him to give me a payment then he told me that he will...

There is a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center titled "The Nativist Lobby, Three Faces of Intolerance." This report deals with the racist and nativist organizations that are in the forefront of the opposition to immigration reform. You can access the report by going to...

I have received the I-797C, I have already obtained working papers, and SS #, and a drivers license. I have an appointment in Feb. 2009 with INS. I have not received a green card as of yet. I am here under political asylum from a country in S. America. My question is..am I restricted from...

DEAR ALL, I PERSONALLY FEEL THAT EVERY IMMIGRATION EXPERT SHOULD HAVE THE CONSOLIDATED SLAs / TIMELINES DETAILS TAKEN FOR PROCESSING OF THE ALL KINDS OF VISAs LET IT BE WORK PERMITS OR BUSINESS VISAs OR TOURIST VISAs AND ALSO SLAs BY EACH EMBASSY OR CONSULATE FOR PROCESSING THE VISAs. I AM...

Ron and others, Do you know of any good sources of immigration/applications statistics? I've already looked at the Reports and Studies section of the USCIS website. I am interested in questions like: - no. of GC applications filed worldwide in recent years - no. of AOS applications filed...

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DAKAR, July 9 (Reuters) - Senior African officials criticised new European Union rules against illegal immigration on Wednesday, accusing the wealthy bloc of failing to treat migrants with dignity and of breaking pledges to cooperate. EU ministers backed French proposals on Monday for a...

The Wall Street Journal has prepared a summary of the positions of the two presidential candidates. To view it, go to: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-STAKES08.html