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[pink_niru 41]

Great...

@pink_niru... nvc say that your visa number come avillble.means 3 week movement conform.

[Jhamira 3]

I just called NVC MY PRI DATE is 14feb 2002 they said we r working till 22 jan and we have no idea when ur case become current

[sachin1 42]

I don't understand on 30 thread about just estimating what will be new date. It is not going to move up/down by us on estimating.

But hey then everyone is different and person waiting for years will be checking 10 times a day.

[ikabirul 11]

No interview letter till today . Then we have to wait for next Monday ...

[ikabirul 11]

Any news on IL !!!

[jolly786 96]

What could the Obama administration do to expand legal immigration?

In June, President Obama emphasized that he wanted his administration to look at ways to improve the whole immigration system through executive action — not just addressing unauthorized immigrants. The White House has been meeting with business groups over the summer, to look at possible changes to the legal immigration system as well.

Changing the way green cards are counted. One proposal that's being discussed is changing the way that the government counts green cards when it hands them out each year. Right now, the government allocates, for example, 140,000 green cards for workers. But if an immigrant worker has a family in the US, each member of the family counts as a separate green card — so far fewer than 140,000 workers actually get green cards. Business groups are proposing that the government should start counting green cards by family, not by individual, so that it could guarantee that 140,000 workers got green cards each year.

If the government changes the counting method for green cards for workers, it could increase the number of immigrants each year by tens of thousands. If it changes the counting method for both work and family-based green cards, it could increase legal immigration by millions — and sharply reduce the backlog of people who qualify for family-based green cards but are still waiting for spots to become available.

Is it legal? Some business groups think this would be a "marked departure"from the way the law has traditionally been interpreted. And administration officials appear to be a little wary, too.

"Recapturing" unused visas. These days, most worker visas — especially for high-skilled workers — run out as soon as they're made available each year. But there are some categories where extra visas are left unclaimed at the end of the year. Even for high-skilled workers, there were some leftover visas from a decade ago that never got used. So the administration could recapture unused visas, and reallocate them to visa categories that have already run out for the year.

The Washington Post says that this would end up giving about 200,000 more visas to high-skilled workers, though it's not clear where that number comes from.

Is it legal? The government already reallocates some visas when they don't get used — for example, if fewer children of US citizens apply than there are visas available, the rest of the visas will go to close relatives of green-card holders. But some experts maintain there's no provision in the law to take unused employment visas in the past, and reallocate them to the future instead. The last time that high-skilled visas and green cards from previous years were recaptured and used in a different year (in 2005), it went through Congress — not the executive branch.

[jolly786 96]

A question was raised by a member of the audience to Mr. Oppenheim –

Question: If an applicant was able to establish a priority date as of today, Wednesday, October 1, 2014, approximately how long would the wait be for a green card?

i. For the family based 4th preference (Brother/Sister of US Citizen)?

ii. For the employment based 2nd preference (India)?

iii. For the employment based 3rd preference (India)?

Answer: Based upon existing numbers and current demand:

i. 12+ years for all categories except Mexico and Philippines; Mexico/Philippines – 25+ years
- Mr. Oppenheim stated that he already has at least 2.3 million applicants waiting in this category for a Green Card, competing for 65,000 immigrant visas issued annually

ii. Extended wait – approximately 10+ years (only 2,800 visas may be allocated annually for India EB2)

iii. Extended wait – approximately 50-70 year wait (only 2,800 visas may be allocated annually for India EB3)
- Furthermore, Mr. Oppenheim stated that he already has a list of approximately 25,000 – 30,000 cases with priority dates earlier than 2007 for this category

http://www.h1bvisalawyerblog.com/visa_bulletin/

[Karan93 0]

Any news IL ?

[manna 14]

A question was raised by a member of the audience to Mr. Oppenheim –

Question: If an applicant was able to establish a priority date as of today, Wednesday, October 1, 2014, approximately how long would the wait be for a green card?

i. For the family based 4th preference (Brother/Sister of US Citizen)?

ii. For the employment based 2nd preference (India)?

iii. For the employment based 3rd preference (India)?

Answer: Based upon existing numbers and current demand:

i. 12+ years for all categories except Mexico and Philippines; Mexico/Philippines – 25+ years

- Mr. Oppenheim stated that he already has at least 2.3 million applicants waiting in this category for a Green Card, competing for 65,000 immigrant visas issued annually

ii. Extended wait – approximately 10+ years (only 2,800 visas may be allocated annually for India EB2)

iii. Extended wait – approximately 50-70 year wait (only 2,800 visas may be allocated annually for India EB3)

- Furthermore, Mr. Oppenheim stated that he already has a list of approximately 25,000 – 30,000 cases with priority dates earlier than 2007 for this category

http://www.h1bvisalawyerblog.com/visa_bulletin/

Valuable info. jolly Bhai , But about Nov. , why there is so much silence in terms of I/Ls??

[jolly786 96]

Valuable info. jolly Bhai , But about Nov. , why there is so much silence in terms of I/Ls??

it means that pd 2002 will cover in 2015..........

[ikabirul 11]

Hi I just call to NVC my interview is scheduled in 25 Nov @ 9:00 . My PD is 07 February 2002

[jolly786 96]

Hi I just call to NVC my interview is scheduled in 25 Nov @ 9:00 . My PD is 07 February 2002

congs...........

[manna 14]

Congs!! 3 weeks for sure

[pink_niru 41]

2 or 3 week?

Congs!! 3 weeks for sure

[manna 14]

2 or 3 week?

3 if you count days from 22jan to 7 feb. its 17days movement already.