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  • gapala
    04-24 03:57 PM
    But are n't they proposing 50 % rule.. how can a small desi company afford 50 % US citizen staff ? That is why may be people think consulting companies will not work.

    but what I think is it will make them less profitable. Very small body shoppers will go out of business. Med to large indian owner based consulting companies will be less profitable.

    Guys with stock investment in indian IT compnies Heads UP !

    50% rule - Does this cover only US Citizens or includes GC as well? not clear... may be senators didn;t think about GC folks in this bill... A lot of the companies, I believe will have 50% with GC holders/citizens/T1/OPT/Add any other visa category who can work.. Since the bill restricts only H1B/L1.

    There are some assumptions, I guess on above post, that americans are paid more etc... which is totally wrong... A lot of the folks in this community, I believe, based on my own experience are paid more or at par with american counterparts. (I guess, about the profitability, if you mean it in terms of less productivity, I agree with that.)

    I guess the genuine companies will move the H1/L1 staff abroad along with positions to meet this requirements if at all this becomes law. What that means is more job loss in US. (Whether US has 50% of total "high skilled" work force necessary to run the operations of all the companies is another important question... I do not think so, may be the senators are considering highschool dropouts to handle the "high skilled" jobs :), I read somewhere about a recent survey and only 27% of 25-45 age group of population has a college degree in all discipline. I will try to find the link)

    Over all, I see this move by senators as short sited and will prove disastrus to America in long run given the fact that no other country in the world is as dependent on technology / research and development as US.





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  • gcnotfiledyet
    08-28 11:12 PM
    My point is not everyone wud then leave Vonage and move to another service , thats how Vonage wud gain, again are u sure u read the complete fine print :P

    Are you realistically gonna talk more than 3hrs on phone everyday sitting at home? Do you have a job?





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  • Hassan11
    05-25 08:14 AM
    Can somebody please answer my question?? does anybody have experience filing the I-485 themselves instead of using a lawyer???

    also, what is advance parole?? and why it is needed?? Thanks

    Do I have to file I-485 though a lawyer or can I do it myself. I have an old I-485 form that my lawyer filled out and he sent me a copy of but he never filed it to immigration. Can I update that old form he gave me and file an updated I-485 myself without a lawyer??





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  • rose2652
    02-20 01:53 PM
    I have a couple of very urgent questions that I want to check with you folks:

    I am currently in the US on L1 Individual visa - my current visa is expiring on the 10th of March. My employer filed for a fresh L1 Blanket Visa instead of doing an extension because I have to be in India for a few days in March anyway. My visa interview is on the 11th of March.

    My first question is: Is this alright? Am I going to have any problems because I did not extend my visa and applied for a fresh one instead? I have just been in the US for 5 months in my current visa.

    Second question is related to PIMS:
    I have had 3 L1 visas till date - first one was stamped in 2003. Second in 2005 and my current one in 2006. I have never overstayed and I was out of the US for 13 months before I came on my current visa in Oct 2007.
    Will I face any delays due to PIMS when I go for stamping on Mar 11? I plan to be back and rejoin work on the 18th of March.

    Is PIMS delaying folks only in case of L1/H1 extensions? Looking forward to your help and guidance. Thanks a lot.

    --Rose



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  • ras
    10-25 11:15 AM
    I signed for the Vonage initially was their customer for about a month on world phone. However, Lingo's attractive feature of calling form my mobile to any phone in India lured me to switch over to Lingo. i requested for phone no portability and am expecting the device shortly. I remember initially on this forum it is being mentioned that Calling from a mobile attached to a lingo phone was free only to call landline numbers in India. Couple of days back when I enquired I was told that it is no more restricted to landline but is to landline and mobile phones in India.

    Just want to reconfirm with members in the community if some one has concrete information about this feature. Once again the feature am talking about is Calling from your mobile through Lingo to any mobile or landline number.

    May be those who are already lingo customers can chip in their thoughts.





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  • ajay
    01-18 11:30 AM
    I voted for Citizenship if you have lived legally in this Country for 10 years continuously, although I will be completing my 10 years next year only. Good luck to all those aspiring this.



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  • bigboy007
    09-25 07:22 PM
    how to send an email to Lofgren her website only talks about CA certain areas. Any idea please guys do u have her direct email id , i am sending email , fax along with my area congressmen. Trying something to think out of blue.





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  • AreWeThereYet
    09-10 03:42 PM
    I think it is the part of their process. I went an infopass the other morning and the IO gave me the same response. She said every thing was fine with my application. It was pre-adjudicated and now waiting for a review now that my priority date is current. She asked me to wait for 60-90 days. But I got the approval same afternoon :)

    Today I and my wife had an infopass appointment and were told that our I485 case is in Adjudication review and should expect an interview soon. I asked the officer is there anything wrong and he replied back that everything is fine. I am not sure what adjudication review is and why there is an interview if everything is fine :confused:

    We also opened SR on 9/1/2010 and I got the response today for the SR request and it has the following details

    "Your case is currently under review. You should receive a decision or notice of other action within 60 days of the date of this letter." Does this mean that we will not get the GC atleast in the next 60 days?

    Did anyone had an interview before or anyone know what should we expect in the interview.

    Thanks in advance.



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  • chanduv23
    09-13 09:49 PM
    Sept 11 was saturday. How did it change to 'decision'? :confused:

    Anyway, Good luck! Hope you will get card by this weekend.

    Looked like a batch update.





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  • Canadian_Dream
    06-29 05:31 PM
    For USCIS isn't the date received that matters not the date postmarked ? Never heard them honoring postmarked date. I could be wrong though !!!

    If its mailed out today, then you are ok. Its the POSTMARKED date that is seen. So even if it reaches there in July, as long as it went OUT today, they will have to accept it under June's batch of applications coz it is postmarked in June (june 29).



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  • sandy_anand
    04-07 11:45 AM
    When one should feel to donate, they can donate. Doesn't mean that you donated, means everyone should donate.
    It is about donation, not Haptaa-vasooli.....

    So, before taunting anyone you should understand the meaning of "Donation".

    Why are you getting defensive, my friend? The member was just pointing out the difficulty of getting donations for hire an octopus. Relax :)





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  • cse_us
    03-25 04:53 PM
    !!!!!
    I knew friends in Kaiser who were hired on H1 and got GC through Kaiser..
    How the hell can they justify filing new GCs, but not accepting EAD!?

    Kaiser stopped hiring on H1 since 2003. They used to hire on EADs until last week.



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  • dealsnet
    10-05 10:50 AM
    I don't want to start a thread to post this.

    This is not about calling India unlimited.

    But calling USA unlimited. Only $100 for life. No annual fee.

    No PC required. Not like Majic Jack.

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  • akhilmahajan
    05-16 02:36 PM
    Yes there is a clause. So i think that covers us consultants.

    Thanks.



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  • Prashant
    09-10 12:04 PM
    Thanks bud!, it changed me from red to green :)


    Let me give you a green buddy and see if it changes something for you.

    Folks please call it all counts.

    .................................................. .
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    Go IV Go.....





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  • gc_chahiye
    01-25 04:46 PM
    I have flown lot of airlines ..I was in merchant navy before.

    are'nt you supposed to go in boats and ships when you are in the navy? :D



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  • BharatPremi
    09-24 01:37 PM
    This maths makes good sense. Thanks for your time for preparing this and posting it.

    Thanks.





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  • Macaca
    12-05 05:23 PM
    JUAN GONZALEZ: No, exactly. And I have a different perspective on that�

    LOU DOBBS: Sure.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: So you�ll indulge me.

    LOU DOBBS: Sure.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: But the fact is that immigration policy in this country has always been a means of rallying anger among the public.

    LOU DOBBS: Oh, nonsense.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, it has.

    LOU DOBBS: Nonsense.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: Lou, let me finish.

    LOU DOBBS: First of all�

    JUAN GONZALEZ: Let me finish, Lou, please.

    LOU DOBBS: Ridiculous. But, alright, go ahead.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: The Chinese�in 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act�what was the claim against the Chinese, small population of Chinese immigrants? The claim was that they were involved in drugs, that they were bringing crime, that they were a danger to the country, and the country passed in 1882 a Chinese Exclusion Act. The same thing in the 1920s.

    LOU DOBBS: Are you holding me responsible? Or are�

    JUAN GONZALEZ: No, no.

    LOU DOBBS: Because I can�t find germane or relevant point there.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: What I�m telling you is that this has been done over and over again. This has been done over and over again. And precisely�

    LOU DOBBS: Juan, according to you�

    JUAN GONZALEZ: Let me finish, Lou. Precisely because�because the country is an immigrant nation, it�s easy to divide the people along ethnic and racial lines over the issue of immigration.

    LOU DOBBS: You�re the only one doing it.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: Over the issue of immigration.

    LOU DOBBS: You�re the only one doing it.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: No, I�m not. No, I�m not.

    LOU DOBBS: You�re socio-ethnocentric to the point of absurdity.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: You know very well that 75% of the undocumented immigrant population in this country comes from Latin America. And not only that, 65% comes from one country: Mexico.

    LOU DOBBS: That is right.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: So the crux of the illegal immigration problem in the United States is the question of Mexico and the United States�

    LOU DOBBS: Correct.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: �and the relationships between Mexico and the United States. Mexicans are the larger source of immigration to this country from any nationality.

    LOU DOBBS: What is your point?

    JUAN GONZALEZ: So that the question is that there is a huge disparity between the economic levels in Mexico and the economic levels in the United States. And you have properly said many times on your show that American companies are creating the problems, rather than helping to alleviate the problems. All that would be needed to do is to raise the economic level in Mexico and the entire illegal immigration population problems would decline in this country. And not only that, but the country, if it had a higher immigration quota in connection with�

    LOU DOBBS: Are you giving me instruction, or are you telling me what we agree upon?

    JUAN GONZALEZ: No, we don�t agree. We don�t agree, because you are demonizing illegal immigration as a separate issue, rather than dealing with the realities that Mexico and the United States must find a way to build better closer economic ties and raise the levels for both countries.

    LOU DOBBS: Your view is�as I take it, you and Amy believe that if we just had more illegal immigration, the crime rate would drop and the economy would boom in this country.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: No.

    LOU DOBBS: That�s, on its face, absurd.

    JUAN GONZALEZ: No.

    LOU DOBBS: Secondly, I have, over the�over five years in reporting on this issue, repeatedly pointed out that the investment in Mexico by the United States has been paltry and absurd and diverted to China, instead of to this hemisphere, and particularly Mexico. The results could have been quite different. So when you talked about these issues, you�re preaching to the choir, and you know that. The fact that you would focus on a couple of reports on tuberculosis, leprosy, the issue of the CCC in a flash�what amounts to a flash frame, folks�

    AMY GOODMAN: And all the guests connected to it since.

    LOU DOBBS: And all of those guests. How many would you say? Five?

    AMY GOODMAN: Oh, I can keep going. I just thought�

    LOU DOBBS: I would like�

    AMY GOODMAN: �I should give someone else a chance here to have�

    LOU DOBBS: No, really, I think you should keep going, because the reality is, illegal immigration in this country is not going to be overwhelmed by this nonsense. The reality is, the Southern Poverty Law Center is an advocacy group right now. The ADL is an advocacy group right now. Pro-illegal immigration, pro-open borders, both of you, ideologically�I understand that, and I can deal with that.

    But the reality is, there is such a thing as the national interest. There is such a thing as the common good. And it�s not ethnocentric. It�s not group and identity politics. It�s all about this country, because this political system makes this economy possible. And the fact that people are starving in Mexico�and my heart goes out to them�the reality is there are five-and-a-half billion people in the world who are more impoverished than those folks in Mexico. And that land bridge does not give Felipe Calderon or Vicente Fox or any other group of activists the right to dictate the US immigration policy. That�s the reality.





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  • sobers
    02-21 11:29 AM
    Looks good....just take out the part of H1B....that is not our cause!





    niklshah
    08-23 12:40 AM
    every one is saying we should do that we should do this but how many are doing it actually........it looks like convention of smart people just planning but no implementation...





    rose2652
    02-20 01:53 PM
    I have a couple of very urgent questions that I want to check with you folks:

    I am currently in the US on L1 Individual visa - my current visa is expiring on the 10th of March. My employer filed for a fresh L1 Blanket Visa instead of doing an extension because I have to be in India for a few days in March anyway. My visa interview is on the 11th of March.

    My first question is: Is this alright? Am I going to have any problems because I did not extend my visa and applied for a fresh one instead? I have just been in the US for 5 months in my current visa.

    Second question is related to PIMS:
    I have had 3 L1 visas till date - first one was stamped in 2003. Second in 2005 and my current one in 2006. I have never overstayed and I was out of the US for 13 months before I came on my current visa in Oct 2007.
    Will I face any delays due to PIMS when I go for stamping on Mar 11? I plan to be back and rejoin work on the 18th of March.

    Is PIMS delaying folks only in case of L1/H1 extensions? Looking forward to your help and guidance. Thanks a lot.

    --Rose



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