I am starting a new thread to track cases from NVC - embassy to GC.
The best news for RN in China, Phillippines and India has been great and informative thread, but I think it is more appropriate and convenient if we start a new thread.
Also with the rapid scheduling of interviews for most of us, I am looking beyond the CP and anticipating the GC!
The August interview schedules are out already in India, and recently in the Philippines and hopefully in China.
Here is my case details
Category : EX Schedule A
USCIS receipt : April 2004
Processing Center : Vermont
I-140 approved : October 2004
NVC case number : MNL2004813XXX
NVC forwarded packet 3 : April 5, 2005
Packet 3 sent back to NVC : May 3, 2005
NVC case completed : May 16, 2005
Consular Interview : August 29, 2005
Visa received : ???
Date of entry in the US :???
GC receive : ????
I hope you can also post here your details interview experience.
"demand for numbers, primarily by uscis for adjustment of status cases, will bring the entire employment third preference category to the annual numerical limit by the end of june. as a result, this category will become “unavailable” beginning in july and will remain so for the remainder of fy-2008. such action will only be temporary, however, and employment third preference availability will return to the cut-off dates established for june in october, the first month of the new fiscal year."
does it mean that cut-off dates in oct will retrogress back worse than than june 2008 vb? and those current in june will have to wait for the next cycle(2nd fy)?
New fiscal year starts in October, that is the fiscal year for 2009. It says that whatever was your place with the PD date in June, that will be where you will be in October; when the new fiscal year starts.
The Visa Bulletin will be out in mid-September.
Nothing is any different than what you had anticipated. The US government does things by fiscal years, not calendar year.
Hi guys, I just need your advice. My case was completed last 5/18 with PD 12/04. I am one of those people waiting for the interview hopefully this coming OCtober. A friend in the US has an employer and is actually offering me a job under h1b. Would it be wiser to decline the h1b offer and rather just wait til i get the EB3 interview?
Hi guys, I just need your advice. My case was completed last 5/18 with PD 12/04. I am one of those people waiting for the interview hopefully this coming OCtober. A friend in the US has an employer and is actually offering me a job under h1b. Would it be wiser to decline the h1b offer and rather just wait til i get the EB3 interview?
Please take the time to do some reading here, the H1-B visas are actually being investigated at this time for a start.
And if you sign with another employer and they pay thousands of dollars for your visa, then what you are going to tell them when and if you can get the green card? You are going to owe someone alot of money, that is for sure and definitely not worth it at any expense.
H1-B visas are not issued instantly either.
But if your PD date is back from 2004, then there were many issues with your petition/documents to begin with; or you would have been in the US long ago.
Unless you can afford to pay the one of these employers more than $20,000 US, do not even consider thinking what you are. You have signed a legally binding contract with the first employer, and if you are not available to them when the visas are available, then they have the right to cancel out everything. And they usually do.
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.
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
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.
Not sure why agency wants money when they are not fulfilling their side of things. Issues I see if in the US and PD is 04 there has to have been issues with your application, big issues
Hi Suzanne, thanks for the advice. The lawyer didn't file me under the Scheduled A category. So i needed to wait til my PD becomes current. Perhaps, my lawyer isn't that competent, he isn't aggressive on making updates. Anyway, I am a PT and there are H1b offers given to me. Many times, I declined the h1b believing that I maybe granted an immigrant visa. But its frustrating this time as I turned down a non cap H1b offer to me last february since my PD was about to be current last March. My file was completed last May 18. Would it be sensible to wait til October or choose the option of applying h1b?
Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.
Hi Suzanne, thanks for the advice. The lawyer didn't file me under the Scheduled A category. So i needed to wait til my PD becomes current. Perhaps, my lawyer isn't that competent, he isn't aggressive on making updates. Anyway, I am a PT and there are H1b offers given to me. Many times, I declined the h1b believing that I maybe granted an immigrant visa. But its frustrating this time as I turned down a non cap H1b offer to me last february since my PD was about to be current last March. My file was completed last May 18. Would it be sensible to wait til October or choose the option of applying h1b?
Up until 2006 as far as I was aware nurses automatically went under schedule A when filed so not sure what your lawyer is telling you is correct. Schedule A existed until about Feb 07 so more than plenty opportunities to file
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.
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.:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire:angryfire
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.
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.
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"demand for numbers, primarily by uscis for adjustment of status cases, will bring the entire employment third preference category to the annual numerical limit by the end of june. as a result, this category will become “unavailable” beginning in july and will remain so for the remainder of fy-2008. such action will only be temporary, however, and employment third preference availability will return to the cut-off dates established for june in october, the first month of the new fiscal year."
does it mean that cut-off dates in oct will retrogress back worse than than june 2008 vb? and those current in june will have to wait for the next cycle(2nd fy)?
thanks.