Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 4)

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Congrats on the upcoming interviews!!!

September 27th will be our 2 year anniversary

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Prayers to all in JA with this hurricane approaching. Andre's families house still has damage from the last hurricane Hopefully Dean won't make a direct hit!

Rhonda, even if you could get there are you sure you want to?

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Can anyone tell me what they know about work visas? A friend of Andre's is here in Michigan now on a work visa and is now talking of marrying. Does he have to go back to do so? What do you think would be the best visa for him at this point?

He wants to do it all from here cause he is afraid he won't be able to return if he goes back to Jamaica.

Any advice?

He should be fine as long as he doesn't leave michigan..or try to switch jobs. Just don't violate is visa in any way..hope it helps a little

What I am getting is that he can marry and then file I-130 and 485. And, not leave until he gets green card or AP. He did not meet her before he came to Michigan, so he's good on the intent thing as far as the work visa goes. If he goes back and then comes on another work visa, he's screwed, right? Because of the intet thing. And, if he goes back and tries to file for K-1 or K-3 or something like that, he has to wait, what? a year?

Also, when you say don't leave Michigan.....that job is actually moving to Virginia when the weather gets cold. He's okay there, right? Since, it's the same job on the same visa.

Sorry for all the questions. I'm expert on the K-1. The others confuse me.

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**OFF TOPIC**

Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to share in our excitement here at our place.....

My son (who is going into his freshman year) made the JV Soccer team (just found out today...after 3 days of 7:30am try-outs)!! He'll be playing for the high school team and still with his club U14 soccer team (that he's been on for 3 yrs) which means 7 days of soccer.....ugh.....

I'm soooooooooooo darn excited for him and it was ALOT of hard work !!!! Paid off for my boy!

TGIF !! and my prayers are with everyone's family in Jamaica.

That's great Kel. How exciting!!!!

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Jomo - What type of work visa does he have?

Kelly - Congrats to your son!!! What an accomplishment! I bet you can't wait til he can drive himself all over the place

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Can anyone tell me what they know about work visas? A friend of Andre's is here in Michigan now on a work visa and is now talking of marrying. Does he have to go back to do so? What do you think would be the best visa for him at this point?

He wants to do it all from here cause he is afraid he won't be able to return if he goes back to Jamaica.

Any advice?

He should be fine as long as he doesn't leave michigan..or try to switch jobs. Just don't violate is visa in any way..hope it helps a little

What I am getting is that he can marry and then file I-130 and 485. And, not leave until he gets green card or AP. He did not meet her before he came to Michigan, so he's good on the intent thing as far as the work visa goes. If he goes back and then comes on another work visa, he's screwed, right? Because of the intet thing. And, if he goes back and tries to file for K-1 or K-3 or something like that, he has to wait, what? a year?

Also, when you say don't leave Michigan.....that job is actually moving to Virginia when the weather gets cold. He's okay there, right? Since, it's the same job on the same visa.

Sorry for all the questions. I'm expert on the K-1. The others confuse me.

Yes he would be screwed b/c they're gonna say he seeked her out. As long as when he got the visa the job was spcific saying that it moved depending on the weather or something of that sort. He probably won't be given another work visa, cause I don't think there is any available. Yeah if he goes back and start the k1 or 3 he will wait the most a yr...

no problem..u have helped me a ton

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Jomo - What type of work visa does he have?

Kelly - Congrats to your son!!! What an accomplishment! I bet you can't wait til he can drive himself all over the place

I'm not sure what that means? Is that job specific or what? Like I said, I'm not good on other visas.

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Kelly - Congrats to your son!!! What an accomplishment! I bet you can't wait til he can drive himself all over the place

THANKS, "I" am still on a high. My son is soooo darn laid back, he's low key excited, but not bouncing off of the walls. It hasn't really hit him that he "made it"....out of 27 boys-they are only keeping 16 of them !!! But.........I would LOVE for him to have his license for these early practices, like tomorrow at flippin 8am !! That won't happen for another 3 years ...argh

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How do you make someone your "friend" ????

How do you make someone your "friend" ????

On this thing.........not in general

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I had to share this with my VJ Yardie family. Finally got our interview date: September 21st @ 1:30 p.m.

Tam not to bear any bad news but are you sure you're interview is on 9/21? I haven't seen Kingston do any interviews on Friday in a long time. It's normally Tues or Thurs. Maybe you should double check that.

Anna

Hey Anna,

That's a valid point and in the back of my mind I have been wondering if we will hear later that our date has been rescheduled. My husband is going to call the embassy to verify and I have also sent them an email. I went on the embassy website and they are no longer specifically listing the days that they conduct immigrant visa interviews. It just says by appointment. As soon as we have it verified, I will let you know.

Good looking out

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Jomo - What type of work visa does he have?

Kelly - Congrats to your son!!! What an accomplishment! I bet you can't wait til he can drive himself all over the place

I'm not sure what that means? Is that job specific or what? Like I said, I'm not good on other visas.

Types of US work Visas:

H-1B classification applies to persons in a specialty occupation which requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring completion of a specific course of higher education. This classification requires a labor attestation issued by the Secretary of Labor (65,000). This classification also applies to Government-to-Government research and development, or co-production projects administered by the Department of Defense (100);

H-2A classification applies to temporary or seasonal agricultural workers;

H-2B classification applies to temporary or seasonal nonagricultural workers. This classification requires a temporary labor certification issued by the Secretary of Labor (66,000);

H-3 classification applies to trainees other than medical or academic. This classification also applies to practical training in the education of handicapped children (50);

L classification applies to intracompany transferees who, within the three preceding years, have been employed abroad continuously for one year, and who will be employed by a branch, parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of that same employer in the U.S. in a managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge capacity;

O-1 classification applies to persons who have extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievements in the motion picture and television field;

O-2 classification applies to persons accompanying an O-1 alien to assist in an artistic or athletic performance for a specific event or performance;

P-1 classification applies to individual or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group that are internationally recognized (25,000);

P-2 classification applies to artists or entertainers who will perform under a reciprocal exchange program;

P-3 classification applies to artists or entertainers who perform under a program that is culturally unique (same as P-1); and

Q-1 classification applies to participants in an international cultural exchange program for the purpose of providing practical training, employment, and the sharing of the history, culture, and traditions of the alien's home country.

The most common ones are the H Visas. I would assume he has an H-1B. I really don't know but if he marries while here and adjusts status...as long as his visa didn't forbid that (some J/L visas do - the nanny/aupair/student) I don't see why he couldn't. I don't really know though to be honest.

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Especially if he came here to the US without knowing her. That way there wouldn't be an question of intent. If he were to leave and come back and get married I would be worried they would question the intent.

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VJ Guide

Seems like it would be ok to get married and adjust.

Oh the power of google and the internet

Edited August 17, 2007 by Jme3584

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FYI:

Hurricane Dean strengthens to Category 3 By GUY ELLIS, Associated Press Writer

33 minutes ago

CASTRIES, St. Lucia - Hurricane Dean strengthened into a Category 3 storm and tore through the eastern Caribbean on Friday, ripping the roofs from a hospital and homes, and flooding buildings with rain and seawater. A 62-year-old man drowned — the storm's first death.

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With 125 mph winds, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season was expected to gain power over the warm waters of the Caribbean, hit Jamaica on Sunday and climb to Category 4 status before clipping Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It was projected to steer into the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday, threatening the U.S.-Mexico border area.

Residents on the French island of Martinique reported landslides and said scores of people were left homeless.

"The sea swelled, crossed the road and invaded homes," said a woman in southern Martinique who identified herself as Lucie in a call to local radio.

On St. Lucia, a former British colony just south of Martinique, Dean blew the corrugated metal roof off the pediatric ward at Victoria Hospital in Castries, the capital, but patients already were evacuated and no injuries were reported, said acting hospital director Hubert Emmanuel.

Buildings across this eastern Caribbean island lost their roofs, often made of corrugated metal. With utility poles down, the power company turned off electricity on the island to prevent electrocutions.

"We don't have a roof...everything is exposed. We tried to save what we could," said Josephine Marcelus in Morne Rouge, a town in northern Martinique. "We sealed ourselves in one room, praying that the hurricane stops blowing over Martinique."

St. Lucia state radio reported the capital was flooded and cluttered with wind-blown debris. Boulders from a sea wall were shoved onto roads by the force of storm surges. A boat sat in the road, lifted from the sea by the storm.

A 62-year-old man was swept away in a rain-swollen river while attempting to retrieve a cow, in the storm's first death, police said.

The eye of Dean passed between St. Lucia and the French island of Martinique, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

At 1:45 p.m. EDT, Dean was centered about 175 miles west of Martinique and was moving west at about 22 mph.

Dominica, which lies north of Martinique, had minor flooding, a few downed fences and trees and battered banana crops — one of the island's main exports — but it appeared Dean had not caused much damage.

"I did not sleep at all last night and was a little worried that the roof of my house would be blown off with all that wind," one Roseau resident, Gwenie Moses, said as she checked her small tin-roofed house for damage. "Thank God it did not."

At Ross University School of Medicine on Dominica, about 80 medical students, mostly from the U.S., and 20 staff and faculty members spent the night watching movies, playing games or sleeping on the floor between desks in a concrete building that was converted into a shelter.

The night before, the university and the U.S. Embassy worked with American Airlines to evacuate students. Some flew out on private charter flights when space ran out. But it turned out an evacuation was unnecessary: Dean caused no damage to the campus.

In Martinique's Epinay district, emergency officials cleared debris off roads to try to get to a family whose roof blew off. Some roads were impassible due to blown-over billboards and other debris.

"I saw the roof of a municipal building fly off. This is a very hard thing to experience right now. The wind is something impressive," said Louis Joseph Manscour, deputy mayor of Trinite, Martinique.

In Washington, the State Department was preparing to announce it would allow some U.S. diplomats in Jamaica to leave the island to avoid the storm. The so-called "authorized departure" program would allow non-essential staff at the Kingston embassy and Montego Bay consulate to leave at government expense if they wish, officials said.

It was too early to tell if the storm would hit the United States. Texas was already dealing with the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin, which dropped up to 7 inches of rain in parts of San Antonio and Houston. Officials throughout central and southern Texas braced for 10 inches to 15 inches by Friday morning.

At least four people died Thursday in Erin's thunderstorms.

"It's so far out, but it's not too early to start preparing," said Katherine Cesinger, a spokeswoman for Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Forecasters said it appeared Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands would be spared.

Dean could get closer to the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which share the island of Hispaniola. As it approaches Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Central America on Tuesday it could be an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane, the hurricane center said. But forecasters always warn that their intensity predictions can be inaccurate that far in advance.

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Jomo - What type of work visa does he have?

Kelly - Congrats to your son!!! What an accomplishment! I bet you can't wait til he can drive himself all over the place

I'm not sure what that means? Is that job specific or what? Like I said, I'm not good on other visas.

Types of US work Visas:

H-1B classification applies to persons in a specialty occupation which requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge requiring completion of a specific course of higher education. This classification requires a labor attestation issued by the Secretary of Labor (65,000). This classification also applies to Government-to-Government research and development, or co-production projects administered by the Department of Defense (100);

H-2A classification applies to temporary or seasonal agricultural workers;

H-2B classification applies to temporary or seasonal nonagricultural workers. This classification requires a temporary labor certification issued by the Secretary of Labor (66,000);

H-3 classification applies to trainees other than medical or academic. This classification also applies to practical training in the education of handicapped children (50);

L classification applies to intracompany transferees who, within the three preceding years, have been employed abroad continuously for one year, and who will be employed by a branch, parent, affiliate, or subsidiary of that same employer in the U.S. in a managerial, executive, or specialized knowledge capacity;

O-1 classification applies to persons who have extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievements in the motion picture and television field;

O-2 classification applies to persons accompanying an O-1 alien to assist in an artistic or athletic performance for a specific event or performance;

P-1 classification applies to individual or team athletes, or members of an entertainment group that are internationally recognized (25,000);

P-2 classification applies to artists or entertainers who will perform under a reciprocal exchange program;

P-3 classification applies to artists or entertainers who perform under a program that is culturally unique (same as P-1); and

Q-1 classification applies to participants in an international cultural exchange program for the purpose of providing practical training, employment, and the sharing of the history, culture, and traditions of the alien's home country.

The most common ones are the H Visas. I would assume he has an H-1B. I really don't know but if he marries while here and adjusts status...as long as his visa didn't forbid that (some J/L visas do - the nanny/aupair/student) I don't see why he couldn't. I don't really know though to be honest.

Wow! and I thought the K visas gave me a headache. Too much information.

I'd say he is a H-2B. He's doing electrical work....sort of an apprenticeship. He has not training except for practical in high school.

Thanks, guys. You are pretty much confirming what I thought.