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If your friend have applied for AOS I- 485 petiton and has past 180 days, she can invoke some thing called as AC21 Portability where she can change the employer with out affecting pending I- 485 application. But its very important to make sure that I- 140 is approved before she do this. She can get an EAD and start working for new employer. This is a bit complicated matter and your friend needs a very experienced and good immigration attorney.

Dear Suzanne, Thank you for your response. I always have high regard for your comments. I wish to clarify my intention to call for unlimited number of visas for all Schedule A applicants that include nurses and physical therapists. To the point, I was talking about Schedule A occupationts which faces severe shortage in US labour market. US healthcare employers are unable to find required proffessionals to fill up the vaccancies. And as a result US health care system is strangulated to give quality services to the US population. Remember, US healthcare is considered as the best available in the planet. Do you want your loved ones suffer from inadequate medical care due to this shortage. Do you really want somebody to lose his life or suffer for the life time because of broken healthcare system due to shortages. Do you really want your fellow nurses and other health care proffesionals like physical therapists to be over burdened and exhausted with duties and extra working hours. Department of Labour during their several testimonies before Senate and House Immigration subcommities have clearly indicated that Schedule A immigration does not affect US labour market in any way since these are shortage occupations where there is not enough US workers. Schedule A immigrants will never affect the jobs or wages of present US nurses. Another important point to emphasis is that when there is enough qualified nurses availbale in US, nursing occupation will be no more classified as Schedule A occupations and foregin nurses will not have any immigration benefits they enjoyed till retrogression. Thus US nursing labour market is always protected from the burden of overseas nurses. But the fact is that US hospitals Association predicts nursing and physical therapists shortage to become worse in the comming years. STRIVE ACT OF 2007 which is Hourse version of present CIR and last year Senate passed CIR(2006 CIR) have provisons for excluding Schedule A occupations from numerical limit till 2017 or till occupations are deemed to be Schedule A occupations by Department of Labour. Even SKILL bill which was introduced to Senate last April had same provisions. But unfortunately the present Senate CIR which is an amended version of last years CIR stripped off the provisions for Schedule A catagory along with all other employement EB catagory replacing it with point based merit system. The full text of the present CIR is availabe in www. thomas. gov as well as in http://www.aila.org. As I mentioned in my other post the worst news for the overseas nurses is that there is an amenment presented to the Present CIR by Senator Cantwell which reverses the point based system to current employement EB catogaries with skilled worker catagory not included in it. This is going to affect the over seas nurses heavily because nurses immigration 140 petition falls in EB3 Skilled worker catagory. . I am aware that present CIR is open for further amemdments and challenge of passing in Senate, I simply wish to remind the retrogression suffers that there is no special status for Schedule A applicant and no provisions to relieve retrogression in the current Senate CIR bill. I believe I have posted the thread in the right forum because my thread is directed to retrogression suffers and overseas nurses who wish to come to US. This group can ask their friends, family memebers, relatives and employers to contact the respective senators of their area without any delay to address the severe shortage of Schedule A occupations by bringing great amendments on senate floor. The senate rejoins on Monday to continue the debate on immigration and this is the perfect time to address the concerns. And about immigration fees, 90 percent of USCIS funding comes from fees collected from the prospective immigrants and non immigrants. Government funding of USCIS is only 10 percent. So it is incorrect to say that immigration fees is a burden on US tax payers. I have no comments on the illegal immigration part of current CIR. Lets pray and hope that Schedule A issue will be addressed in the current senate CIR. Once again I humbly request every possible efforts by everybody in this forum to bring Schedule A issues into the notice of Senators.

Sen. Cantwell (D – WA) has submitted an amendment to the Senate’s CIR. The amendment is co-sponsored by several “name” Senators – Leahy, Cornyn, and Hatch................... It only allows sponsorship for “professional” EB3 workers, and eliminates the “skilled worker” provision of the current system. The significance of the change is that the line between “professional” and “skilled worker” is usually drawn between nurses and physical therapists. A professional occupation is one which requires a Bachelors degree for employment; a skilled worker is one which does not........................ Sen. Cantwell surely did not intend to strike nurses from this amendment. Rather she assumed that skilled workers could take advantage of the permanent residency opportunities offered in the merit-based system SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK FOR FURTHER NEWS. http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/ PLEASE REMEMBER THAT I- 140 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR NURSES COMES UNDER EB3 SKILLED WORKER CATAGORY. ALSO SEE MY OTHER POST https://allnurses.com/forums/f75/solve-retrogression-now-never-act-now-let-retrogression-continue-ever-228097.html Solve the retrogression NOW or NEVER. ACT NOW or let retrogression continue for ever. To all nurses especially US nurses, Please call your senators for an amemndment favoring unlimited Schedule A visas. This is extremely important because CIR debate in Senate will continue only for few more days. Out of 108 amendments on the senate floor there is not even a single one favoring Shedule A applicants. Schedule A immigration does not affect US labour market in any way since these are shortage occupations. Meet, call, fax. webfax the senators/senators office immediately. Let your friends and relatives also follow the same. Please visit the following websites for further information. Talking points and how to contact the senators are all included in the links. Its the time to DO or DIE. Otherwise the retrogression will last for ever.Please keep this post on the top always. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/6/emw530089.htm http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/ http://immigrationvoice.org/ http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4817 http://aila.org/RecentPosting/RecentPostingList.aspx

To all nurses especially US nurses, Please call your senators for an amemndment favoring unlimited Schedule A visas. This is extremely important because CIR debate in Senate will continue only for few more days. Out of 108 amendments on the senate floor there is not even a single one favoring Shedule A applicants. Schedule A immigration does not affect US labour market in any way since these are shortage occupations. Meet, call, fax. webfax the senators/senators office immediately. Let your friends and relatives also follow the same. Please visit the following websites for further information. Talking points and how to contact the senators are all included in the links. Its the time to DO or DIE. Otherwise the retrogression will last for ever.Please keep this post on the top always. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/6/emw530089.htm http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/ http://immigrationvoice.org/ http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4817 http://aila.org/RecentPosting/RecentPostingList.aspx

http://hammondlawgroup.blogspot.com/ Friday, February 09, 2007 ADVOCACY ALERT: RETROGRESSION: WE'RE GETTING CLOSE HLG has confirmed that the Senate leadership is comfortable with a proposal to solve retrogression for Schedule A occupation -- registered nurses and physical therapists. It was through grassroots advocacy that we were able to explain to the Senate leadership just how important this issue is. Thank you to everyone who made an effort.

I am really thankful to the great suzanne for giving me your wonderful piece of informations. Now all my doubts are solved and thank you all once again

Thank you very much madwife. I really appreciate your prompt reply.

hi [color=#330000]suzanne4 , thank you very much for your kind reply. would you please comment on multiple filing of i-140 with different employers. would i face any problems with uscis. i am ready to face the consequences from the employer's side and i just wanna know whether there is any problem from uscis. i need your expert opinion badly.

Hello friends, My petition date is December 2nd at Nebraska centre (consular processing). Two days back my petition was denied because of carelessness from the part of employer.I contacted the employer today and he agreed to go for an appeal on my denied case. Initially he did not oblige but since I do not want to lose the priority date and I forced him to go for an appeal. Now I do not want to take any risk. I want to file two I-140 petitions with other employers and I will move on with the fastest approved petition. My other two employers are small inpatient facility and as per the contract I only have to pay them the filing charges to break the contract. So I am only concerned about USCIS. If I file multiple I-140 petitions with different employers will I face any trouble (like RFE, delay or denial) with USCIS? I also wanna know whether filing two I-140 petition(consular processing) with USCIS by a different employer, any way ADVERSELY AFFECT my first filed petition or second filed petition. Kindly clarify this. I have seen that there is a column in I-140 immigrant petition for alien worker, which asks whether any immigrant visa petitions ever been filed for this alien worker and the employer will be answering NO to this because of my concealing of information about other filings. I want to do this because I suffered delay and denial of my I-140 petition because of careless employer and I do not want to risk and delay my approval with a single employer since retrogression is at the doorsteps for Schedule A nurses since the passing of CIR (which contains provision of unlimited cap for Schedule A) have least chance of passing in House. Thank you very much in advance

I contacted the employer today and he agreed to go for an appeal on my denied case. Initially he did not oblige but since I do not want to lose the priority date and I forced him to go for an appeal. He also said he has payed his tax and now he have all the necessary papers. Now I do not want to take any risk. I want to file two I-140 petitions with other employers and I will move on with the fastest approved petition. My other two employers are small inpatient facility and as per the contract I only have to pay them the filing charges to break the contract. So I am only concerned about USCIS. If I file multiple I-140 petitions with different employers will I face any trouble (like RFE, delay or denial) with USCIS? I also wanna know whether filing two I-140 petition(consular processing) with USCIS by a different employer, any way ADVERSELY AFFECT my first filed petition or second filed petition. Kindly clarify this. I have seen that there is a column in I-140 immigrant petition for alien worker, which asks whether any immigrant visa petitions ever been filed for this alien worker and the employer will be answering NO to this because of my concealing of information about other filings. I want to do this because I suffered delay and denial of my I-140 petition because of careless employer and I do not want to risk and delay my approval with a single employer since retrogression is at the doorsteps for Schedule A nurses. Thank you very much in advance.

my agency is Indiana staffing solutions, Indiana.

Hello Suzanne and madwife, thank u very much for the reply. Yesterday my attorney told me that my case was denied. There was an RFE on my case for tax papers of employer and they submitted old tax papers and the case got denied. Right now I am immersed in the sea of sorrow. I shall post later.

some body please help.

Hello friends, My petition date is December 2nd at Nebraska centre (consular processing). Till now there is no news or approval. Is there any one else in same situation. My employer and attorney asked me to wait patiently till the approval comes. But I am really sad and heartbroken. I think this is too much time. Any one else who filed in Nebraska centre in December or later got their approvals. I also heard the news about upcoming retrogression for Schedule A. What will happen to my case? Kindly respond.