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  • h4hopeful
    05-30 06:51 PM
    the reason she was denied is because she is young

    SHe is young and already has a family of her own? Are you sure that was the reason for denial? How many members besides her and her husband did you try to sponsor?





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  • sandiboy
    08-28 06:10 PM
    FP Completed today for self/spouse. LUD on 485 applications.





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  • GodHelpUs
    03-21 10:48 AM
    I am really shocked on looking at this article.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/nyregion/21immigrant.html?hp

    An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex

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    Published: March 21, 2008

    No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December. After he stapled one of their wedding photos to her application for legal permanent residency, he had just one more question: What was her cellphone number?
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    Isaac R. Baichu, 46, an adjudicator for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, was arrested after he met with a green card applicant at the Flagship Restaurant, a diner in Queens. He is charged with coercing oral sex from her.
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    The Flagship Restaurant, where Mr. Baichu met with a green card applicant.

    The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before her marriage. He summoned her to a private meeting. And at noon on Dec. 21, in a parked car on Queens Boulevard, he named his price � not realizing that she was recording everything on the cellphone in her purse.

    �I want sex,� he said on the recording. �One or two times. That�s all. You get your green card. You won�t have to see me anymore.�

    She reluctantly agreed to a future meeting. But when she tried to leave his car, he demanded oral sex �now,� to �know that you�re serious.� And despite her protests, she said, he got his way.

    The 16-minute recording, which the woman first took to The New York Times and then to the Queens district attorney, suggests the vast power of low-level immigration law enforcers, and a growing desperation on the part of immigrants seeking legal status. The aftermath, which included the arrest of an immigration agent last week, underscores the difficulty and danger of making a complaint, even in the rare case when abuse of power may have been caught on tape.

    No one knows how widespread sexual blackmail is, but the case echoes other instances of sexual coercion that have surfaced in recent years, including agents criminally charged in Atlanta, Miami and Santa Ana, Calif. And it raises broader questions about the system�s vulnerability to corruption at a time when millions of noncitizens live in a kind of legal no-man�s land, increasingly fearful of seeking the law�s protection.

    The agent arrested last week, Isaac R. Baichu, 46, himself an immigrant from Guyana, handled some 8,000 green card applications during his three years as an adjudicator in the Garden City, N.Y., office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the federal Department of Homeland Security. He pleaded not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges of coercing the young woman to perform oral sex, and of promising to help her secure immigration papers in exchange for further sexual favors. If convicted, he will face up to seven years in prison.

    His agency has suspended him with pay, and the inspector general of Homeland Security is reviewing his other cases, a spokesman said Wednesday. Prosecutors, who say they recorded a meeting between Mr. Baichu and the woman on March 11 at which he made similar demands for sex, urge any other victims to come forward.

    Money, not sex, is the more common currency of corruption in immigration, but according to Congressional testimony in 2006 by Michael Maxwell, former director of the agency�s internal investigations, more than 3,000 backlogged complaints of employee misconduct had gone uninvestigated for lack of staff, including 528 involving criminal allegations.

    The agency says it has tripled its investigative staff since then, and counts only 165 serious complaints pending. But it stopped posting an e-mail address and phone number for such complaints last year, said Jan Lane, chief of security and integrity, because it lacks the staff to cull the thousands of mostly irrelevant messages that resulted. Immigrants, she advised, should report wrongdoing to any law enforcement agency they trust.

    The young woman in Queens, whose name is being withheld because the authorities consider her the victim of a sex crime, did not even tell her husband what had happened. Two weeks after the meeting in the car, finding no way to make a confidential complaint to the immigration agency and afraid to go to the police, she and two older female relatives took the recording to The Times.

    Reasons to Worry

    A slim, shy woman who looks like a teenager, she said she had spent recent months baby-sitting for relatives in Queens, crying over the deaths of her two brothers back in Cali, Colombia, and longing for the right stamp in her passport � one that would let her return to the United States if she visited her family.

    She came to the United States on a tourist visa in 2004 and overstayed. When she married an American citizen a year ago, the law allowed her to apply to �adjust� her illegal status. But unless her green card application was approved, she could not visit her parents or her brothers� graves and then legally re-enter the United States. And if her application was denied, she would face deportation.

    She had another reason to be fearful, and not only for herself. About 15 months ago, she said, an acquaintance hired her and two female relatives in New York to carry $12,000 in cash to the bank. The three women, all living in the country illegally, were arrested on the street by customs officers apparently acting on a tip in a money-laundering investigation. After determining that the women had no useful information, the officers released them.

    But the closed investigation file had showed up in the computer when she applied for a green card, Mr. Baichu told her in December; until he obtained the file and dealt with it, her application would not be approved. If she defied him, she feared, he could summon immigration enforcement agents to take her relatives to detention.

    So instead of calling the police, she turned on the video recorder in her cellphone, put the phone in her purse and walked to meet the agent. Two family members said they watched anxiously from their parked car as she disappeared behind the tinted windows of his red Lexus.

    �We were worried that the guy would take off, take her away and do something to her,� the woman�s widowed sister-in-law said in Spanish.

    As the recorder captured the agent�s words and a lilting Guyanese accent, he laid out his terms in an easy, almost paternal style. He would not ask too much, he said: sex �once or twice,� visits to his home in the Bronx, perhaps a link to other Colombians who needed his help with their immigration problems.

    In shaky English, the woman expressed reluctance, and questioned how she could be sure he would keep his word.

    �If I do it, it�s like very hard for me, because I have my husband, and I really fall in love with him,� she said.

    The agent insisted that she had to trust him. �I wouldn�t ask you to do something for me if I can�t do something for you, right?� he said, and reasoned, �Nobody going to help you for nothing,� noting that she had no money.

    He described himself as the single father of a 10-year-old daughter, telling her, �I need love, too,� and predicting, �You will get to like me because I�m a nice guy.�

    Repeatedly, she responded �O.K.,� without conviction. At one point he thanked her for showing up, saying, �I know you feel very scared.�

    Finally, she tried to leave. �Let me go because I tell my husband I come home,� she said.

    His reply, the recording shows, was a blunt demand for oral sex.

    �Right now? No!� she protested. �No, no, right now I can�t.�

    He insisted, cajoled, even empathized. �I came from a different country, too,� he said. �I got my green card just like you.�

    Then, she said, he grabbed her. During the speechless minute that follows on the recording, she said she yielded to his demand out of fear that he would use his authority against her.

    How Much Corruption?

    The charges against Mr. Baichu, who became a United States citizen in 1991 and earns roughly $50,000 a year, appear to be part of a larger pattern, according to government records and interviews.

    Mr. Maxwell, the immigration agency�s former chief investigator, told Congress in 2006 that internal corruption was �rampant,� and that employees faced constant temptations to commit crime.

    �It is only a small step from granting a discretionary waiver of an eligibility rule to asking for a favor or taking a bribe in exchange for granting that waiver,� he contended. �Once an employee learns he can get away with low-level corruption and still advance up the ranks, he or she becomes more brazen.�

    �Despite our best efforts there are always people ready to use their position for personal gain or personal pleasure,� said Chris Bentley, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Services. �Our responsibility is to ferret them out.�

    When the Queens woman came to The Times with her recording on Jan. 3, she was afraid of retaliation from the agent, and uncertain about making a criminal complaint, though she had an appointment the next day at the Queens district attorney�s office.



    Mr. Baichu was arrested as he emerged from the diner and headed to his car, wearing much gold and diamond jewelry, prosecutors said. Later released on $15,000 bail, Mr. Baichu referred calls for comment to his lawyer, Sally Attia, who said he did not have authority to grant or deny green card petitions without his supervisor�s approval.





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  • sobers
    07-26 12:07 PM
    I hope the powers-to-be realize there is little floor time left before November and consider attaching relief to existing legislative vehicles...

    http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/072606/news1.html


    As the number of legislative days before the November election slip away, GOP lawmakers in competitive seats are trying to make their legislative mark.

    The schedule is even tighter for the many members seeking consideration of their bills on the floor before members leave for the August recess. Boehner himself expressed frustration yesterday about members who have pleaded with him to bring their bills to the floor this week.

    �Everybody wants their bill up this week,� the majority leader said during his weekly off-camera press briefing yesterday. �It is as if we were never coming back. There are only so many hours in a day and only a few days in this week to consider all of these.�



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  • belmontboy
    05-26 08:03 PM
    just now finished taking an appointment to chennai consulate. while it was painful, i didnot get any errors like you mention.

    you need to save and submit the application.
    it then takes you to a page where in you need to confirm how you want to receive the passport
    once you select that you need to click on "continue" which will then take you to calendar where you can choose your specific dates.

    i used IE

    btw, make sure you type all addresses in one liner. if you try to indent [splitting in multiple lines] it doesnot showup in pdf form [shows only first two lines]





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  • go_guy123
    08-23 06:02 PM
    I lost the hope of GC after working 10 years in US because my GC is not approving.

    Is it possible to file case against my employer and ask to return money that they deduct from me for GC and the % that they earned from me in last 8 years. I joined my employer for smooth GC process but even my I140 is not approved. My labor went to backlog. Once labor approved than I140 is pending for last 30 months. USCIS is trying to find out that my company is legitimate or not.
    Do not argue how I know that I140 is pending because of company. Please let what is process to inform USCIS about my employer. My company files GC so that no one should leave the company. Employer gives hope about GC but I140 never approves. What all evidence I have to collect so that I can prove against my employer. Please suggest.

    One needs to have a realistic dream. One needs to verify with facts. Companies often lie
    of golden opportunities of GC sponsorship etc to get people at low rates. Even lawyers
    promise sun and the moon to sign you up but they hide the reality.

    I know companies even lie that project is 6 months and renewable but once you join
    and shift to the new place and then after 2 months they say the project is over. They
    knew all along that the project is for 2 months but they wanted people, so they lie
    that the project is long.

    I know right in 2007, one friend of mine was negotiating a lower salary in return of GC sponsorship. But by 2007, the retrogression was far too apparent. Clearly he was totally ignorant. Even then he joined. Few months back another friend of mine was filing for
    EB3 - India. I informed him about the reality and thankfully he didnt apply and lose
    another 10K.



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  • conchshell
    07-16 11:11 AM
    It means ALL the cases filed before 7/17/07 have been processed, doesn't mean they are not working on cases beyond july 17th.

    Please note, it means that USCIS has touched a case till the mentioned date. It does not mean that they have processed all cases before this date.





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  • vxg
    08-31 02:03 PM
    Best thing is to apply AP online. I did the same and got the FP notice 2nd time. Planning to do it again this year end.

    kanaka

    The FP done for AP does not apply to I-485, the two are separate.



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  • ganguteli
    04-23 12:55 PM
    Raj,

    Try to help if you can, if not just shut the **** up, only the person on the wrong side can feel the pain. He'll consult attorney anyways.

    Fake profile alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    How did you get your mailing, I140 reciept, approval and RFE date on the same day :D:D:D

    About krithi

    Will you consider attending the advocacy day or rally in DC in 2009.
    No
    Would you like to be a Immigration Voice Volunteer
    No

    Current GC Processing Stage
    I-485
    Priority Date
    Nov-05
    Green Card Category
    EB2
    Nationality
    India
    Country of Chargeability
    India
    Service Center
    Texas
    Labor Type
    Perm
    Perm Center
    Chicago
    Labor Approval Date
    11/05/2005
    I140-I485 Concurrent Filing
    No
    I140 Mailed Date
    04/06/2006
    I140 Filing Type
    Regular
    I140 USCIS Rcvd Date
    04/06/2006
    I140 Rcpt Notice Date
    04/06/2006
    I140 RFE Date
    04/06/2006
    I140 Approval Date
    04/06/2006
    July 2007 Filer
    Yes
    Adjustment of Status Application Type
    Adjustment of Status (I-485)
    I485 Mailed Date
    07/02/2007
    I485 USCIS Rcvd Date
    07/02/2007
    I485 Rcpt Notice Date
    08/27/2007
    Finger Print Notice Date
    09/27/2007
    Application Status
    Pending
    EAD Mailed Date
    08/27/2007
    EAD Approval Date
    08/27/2007
    AP Mailed Date
    08/27/2007
    AP Approval Date
    08/27/2007





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  • san3297
    09-02 09:17 AM
    I went to border and security deffered inspection site at Raliegh NC from this url

    http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/toolbox/contacts/deferred_inspection/deferred_inspection_sites.ctt/deferred_inspection_sites.pdf.

    The Immigration Officer said to me I 94 can be given only till visa date.He said that you can stay as long as you want in US as you have 797 valid after your H1 stamp date.He said everything is fine not to worry.What shall i do now? I am confused.Can some one point me to site or link on USCIS which states this law.Can some attorneys point this link.



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  • gcdreamer05
    11-20 11:11 AM
    This is good for texas but how abt nebraska ...... are they planning to do anything better now ? my app was sent to nebraska....... to the desert i guess ...... :rolleyes:





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  • goel_ar
    12-19 11:05 AM
    My h1 got approved in june 2008. I did travel to China in September & entered back on Sep 10 using H4. Is it possible that my entry changed my latest status to H4?

    Thanks,
    LG.



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  • shivaniraina
    07-26 08:13 AM
    As you are exempt from the cap, you can start working as soon as you get new petition approval.

    Also, I do not think stamping should make a difference in your suitation as HIB visa count is against the petition and not stamping. However, I would highly recommend that you speak to a lawyer.





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  • villamonte6100
    11-02 08:50 AM
    cjain...

    Everybody has a right to express their opinions...immuser has the freedom to share information..I have the freedom to express my opinion....Hope you learn something from posts from alterego..He shared a different view which was very informative....I admit I had'nt thought about it that way...showed me a different perspective...

    I guess it's time you grow up....by making sarcastic comments you help no one....If you have nothing to say....there is no rule in the forumn that you have to.....Ever tried keeping your mouth Shut...

    Its better to keep your mouth Shut and let others think you are a fool, rather than opening your mouth and confirming all doubts ...

    I totally agree with your earlier comment. This is an immigration forum for people like us in the US. If we can just post anything here, then I'd like to post my problems with my neighbor as well.

    Once again, Good on you mate!!!!



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  • sanju
    06-30 02:36 PM
    Thanks babloo!!

    I BELIEVE that we will all be fine. Just hang-in there, and do the best that we all can and must.


    Guys and Gals,

    It's all speculation... Wait and see... we will all be fine... if you have your papers ready then file it.......

    I'am staying positive..... Want y'all to do it too....

    All the best....





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  • InTheMoment
    06-09 12:52 PM
    I would love to believe that - some predictabilty in the assignment of files to AIO's - but that is certainly not true atleast from what we see from data !


    Even though your pd is current, It is quite possible that they have not assigned a visa number yet to your case. So they are probably assigning by order of PD's
    Example: Sept 2003, before Oct 2003,....So on..so they are assigning earlier PDs Visa numbers first.
    Second possibility is that there could be too many eligible before your date or exactly your date and in which case they will go with RD..which in your case is July 2nd, 2007. There could be people with 485 RD's in 2005 when the dates were current.
    This is pure guess work and speculation, I really do not know how they do this. But if they really have enough visas for EB2, yours will still be current next month.

    -------------------------------------------
    India EB3- PD: June 2003
    Contributed $480 + Monthly Recurring contributor.



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  • Almond
    01-27 12:54 AM
    Ah, thank you for posting this, I have been checking that link desperately forever and it hadn't changed. Question to those who know better, if my Notice Date is May 15, and the "processing time frame" for I-485's is July 19, what does that mean for me? Am I stuck in some kind of check or something? Thanks in advance.





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  • GCard_Dream
    04-06 01:38 PM
    Thanks god_bless_you for you response. So it appears that I either have to have a valid H1 or EAD on hand in order to work.

    If you are extending the H1B, however, there is a grace period of 200 some day where you can work without a valid H1B while the H1B extension is pending. Isn't there a grace period if you are changing from H1B to EAD? From what you are saying, there isn't.





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  • maresco10
    04-17 12:24 PM
    Your story does not look credible to me.

    Why are you working for an illegal. How did you get your I140 approved working for such an employer? Are you an anti immigrant trying to get members tell you some illegal ways.

    You cannot get your Labor or I140 approved via a phoney employer. All these are legal processes and lot of checks happen. I find something wrong in your story.

    If you still feel it is credible, then with such problems, you need a legal advice not a forum advice.


    Maybe there is a confusion, what I think it is illegal is the contract, the employer is legal, that is way I obtained the visa and the I140.





    yjprakash
    10-24 04:58 PM
    finally status for EAD and AP changed to " documents mailed".

    But yesterday i received a letter from USCIS related to the fax I did before.
    and as per that letter, my request to expedite my EAD and AP is not valid(?????????????) so they sent my fax back (print out). I really dont understand this!!!!!!!!!!

    waiting for EAD & AP hopefully I will get it tomorrow.





    calaway42
    10-04 01:06 AM
    but the thing is.. i dont have another strip of rentangle on either side... according to the tutes.. im suppose to have one



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