[suzanne4]

Originally Posted by InUS05

Suzanne,

I am in H4 visa. PD is Aug 04. Sent Packet 3 in '06 and again in '07. My agent is telling now that since I don't havemuch experience agent was not able to find job. So agent wants the contract money 20k once GC is approved. So agent want me to resign a new contract stating 20k will be given once GC is approved. If not agent plans to call NVC to cancel. I want agent to cancel in proper way. How to check whether it is done or not. I have all the email she sent officially from her company address (will that be legal proof). I don't want to make same mistake choosing this agent. How to end the contract as I don't care about GC any more.

You need to report this lovely person the US government, they hired you and expected to be able to place you. That was something that they decided to do and it is not your problem that they have not found work for you.

If she does not have work for you, then the visa is not going to be approved. She has to show that there is work and provide documentation to the US government that she has it, and if she provides false information to the government to try to be able to get this money from you, then she is lying to the US government and can be sued and even go to jail for it.

Do not sign the new contract as the green card cannot get approved if there is no work for you. I would contact the US Embassy in your country about this as well.

And unfortunately for you, even if the agency was not sleazy like this one, if they cannot verify that you will have work as well as what the salary is going to be, then the government here will not issue the green card, and this is what I keep warning people about over and over again.

But this person is just a terrible person and belongs in the Hall of Shame here for what they are trying to do.

If no work, then there is not going to be any green card, and she needs to be put out of business. Please follow up on this and do not trust her at all.

Best of luck to you.

[suzanne4]

Originally Posted by toefie

I don't know why it never was an option before with my lawyer. I don't want to cry over spilt milk. I know a lot of opportunities had passed. Now, I am thinking of a more sensible way as to how I am going to pursue my American dream.

It was not even a point of being an option, automatically all petitions for the RN role have been filed under the Schedule A which was sub-category of the EB-3. It would not have affected anything with the filing at all, everything is done the same.

EB-3 is just a category for those that have at least the BSN from your country. And Schedule A is under that. No way to submit you for anything else or without it when you were submitted. Nurses were fast-tracked under this category when there were visas.

If you did not get one, it means that there were other issues with your file.
But nothing dealing with whether or not under the Schedule A.

Also be aware that the H1-B visas are being reevaluated by the US government at this time as one of the requirements is that the person is a specialist in their area. A new grad or someone that has minimal experience is not a specialist as well as the training programs that we are seeing for certain areas does not meet the requirements of specialist either in my eyes as they are just the initial training program. Definitely no experience in that area for the RN.

So expect to see some changes to this program as there are only 11% of the H1-B holders that actually meet the requirements for the visa per the US government.

[neneng06]

Lei23,Aga_ph, bottomless appetite,pretty neirelle,mdlr24

Hi guys..... any update from your case? Thanks!

pd feb 06
case completed may 28

[mdlr2004]

hi neneng 06 ..still no good news.I checked with the automated response and it is still giving me the same message...wait for 8 weeks blah..blah.

Feb2006
case completed June 2 2008

[bottomless_appetite]

Originally Posted by neneng06

Lei23,Aga_ph, bottomless appetite,pretty neirelle,mdlr24

Hi guys..... any update from your case? Thanks!

pd feb 06
case completed may 28

No update
PD Feb 2006
Case Complete May 29, 2008

[Silverdragon102]

To be honest I doubt anything will happen now until Oct although may see some movement when the bulletin comes out middle of September

[suzanne4]

Anna is quite correct, it has already been posted in the Visa Bulletins that everything is on hold until the new fiscal year starts, which is October 1. The Visa Bulletin will be out in mid-September, so do not expect anything until then as there are no visas available at this time.

Just because a file is complete, if there is no visa, then nothing is going to be done.

[dotPH!]

August 2008 VB

"Demand for numbers will result in the Employment Third preference Other Worker category reaching the annual FY-2008 numerical limit. As a result, this category will become “unavailable” beginning in August and will remain so for the remainder of FY-2008. Such action will only be temporary, however, and the Employment Third preference Other Worker cut-off date will return to 01JAN03 in October, the first month of the new fiscal year."

- Just like what im expecting, the cut-off date is more likely unavailable unless we have here who's is PD is in 2002...

[suzanne4]

It does not matter even if the date is 2002, the issue is that there are no more visas left for the remainder of this fiscal year, and the new one does not start until October 1.

You will not see anything being done before then. No changes are going to be made, nor any interviews being scheduled in most cases.

[tabaching_dj]

dotPH,
it says OTHER WORKER not EB3. other worker is different from EB3