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Hence they will say enforcement first but then once that is done you will hear all the restrictionist agenda. In fact there has been some stepped up security at the border recently.<br /> The policy of all these anti immigration groups is quite clear, divide and rule. They have only tepid and restrictionist at best arguments against Skilled Immigration , and for those of you in the IT field I want to remind you that skilled immigration does not mean just IT. Restrictionist groups are aware that most of america will not stand for their agenda and corporate america will steamrolll their lobbying might. Hence the play all these tricks. YOu should have seen the pathetec defence of the loss of some hardliners in the recent election that Bay Buchanan(Pats wife) gave on Lou Dobbs last night. 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They serve to highlight your issues more than mine. I am content with the EB2 folks who have already PM-ed me and we will, for sure, take this forward.<br /> <br /> Rolling Flood,<br /> <br /> Clearly, you are a NumberUSA person trying to provoke deep rifts amongst a highly skilled workforce that succeeded in getting HR 5882 out there. Your game is up. Look, no one is claiming porting / interfiling is due to 'length of time'. Each application, under each category, is for a DIFFERENT job. Now, obviously, when you gain experience in one job, you become MORE ELIGIBLE for another job, typically at a more senior level. With that, comes a higher income and higher TAXES back to the USA. <br /> <br /> Your perverted logic that people are using interfiling on the premise of 'waiting time in EB3 queues' is a fallacy without legal merit. 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Businesses that hire undocumented immigrants should face fines or sanctions, as called for under current federal law (although many would disagree with the court's conclusion that states may impose such penalties). The problem is that the law relies on E-Verify, which isn't ready for prime time.<br /> <br /> Until now, E-Verify has generally been used on a voluntary basis by employers because of concerns about its accuracy. Conservative estimates put the program's error rate at just under 1% � meaning that one out of every 100 legal job applicants could be found ineligible to work. Nearly half of those will not be able to fix the problem even though they are citizens or legal workers, according to the National Immigration Law Center. The reality is that the error rate may be much higher. Consider that in 2008, Intel Corp. reported that just over 12% of its workers were wrongly tagged as ineligible, according to the Migration Policy Center in Washington. 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I'm glad to have a decent exchange of thoughts with you. I agree with you partly that 'non-state' actors are responsible and not Zardari Govt.. But Who created the non-state actors in the first place? Instead of paying unemployment benefits, who offered them job portability to Kashmir? Their H1B shouldnt have been renewed at all after they came on bench. How can a parent not be responsible for the errant child? The world wants to neutralize the errant child....but for the parent a child is a child after all and that too the one that served its interests once. If this child is abandoned, can future child ( with same objective) be created with the same ease? <br /> <br /> Those are the questions that are haunting many Indians on the forums.<br /> <br /> But I salute you and other folks for keeping this conversation civil. <br /> <br /> Kudos,<br /> GCisaDawg<br /> <br /> Nice job and you and Alisa started a good thoughtful conversation.<br /> <br /> I agree that war is not the best option but should not be discounted outright.<br /> We are thinking too much of Pakistani nuclear weapons (and to some extent India's nuclear weapons as well). When Pakistan and India last tested these (1998), many experts thought these were fizzles. I could dig up one article that hints that 1998 tests are a possible fizzles. <br /> 1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/6037992.stm<br /> <br /> 2. N. Korea tested nukes in 2006 and are definitely fizzles and these are built using the same techniques used by pakistan (AQ Khan actively involved). <br /> <br /> 3. The other important aspect of nukes is the delivery. Pakistan's capability is suspect here as well. It is not sufficient just to have warheads and missiles (made in China), they should be tied together with proper trigger mechanism and it is uncertain if China delivered this technology to Pakistan or not.<br /> <br /> With points 1, 2 and 3, it is reasonable to assume Pakistan can not take out India even with first strike and with nuclear weapons. I definitely think India's nukes are more potent. Assuming Indian nukes are just as bad as Pakistani nukes, finally it boils down to conventional war, and Pakistan can never beat India in a long drawn out war. 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( proabably $300 per month)<br /> - Bigger house<br /> <br /> Bad Side:<br /> Maintenance<br /> IF i have to sell now then will be loss for me for sure so key is location and how long u stay.<br /> <br /> Why is tax benefits such an issue:confused:. It is after all tax on interest, not on the principle. It declines every year and probably worth nothing in 10 years? For every 100K you borrow you are charged an interest of 100K for a typical loan. Rents are cheap compared to the owning a home. This is why home prices are falling. Until they reach equilibrium, housing will continue to fall. Assuming the difference is 1000$, if you rent for 7 years you will be saving 80K(approximately)- which means you pay a bigger downpayment and hence saving 80K in interest.<br /> All these calculations are done assuming that the home price stays flat. If it falls, you gain additionally by how much if falls. 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You would do it too if it meant getting yourself away from filing bankruptcy.<br /> <br /> <br /> Many/most of us here have worked like crazy dogs most of lives, followed the rules, and played by the book. "Everyone" does not have your cavalier attitude towards truth. <br /> <br /> My problem is not with consultants or nurses or doctors or magicians or whoever else is in line. My problem is with those who claim to be legal aliens but who routinely break the rules (by indulging in kickback schemes like splitting their salary with their employer). <br /> <br /> IV is a community of/for legal aliens wanting to become legal immigrants. 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Please read this on wikipedia...Thankfully not whole world thinks like you do.<br /> <br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_in_the_Indian_subcontinent<br /> <br /> An estimate of the number of people killed, based on the Muslim chronicles and demographic calculations, was done by K.S. Lal in his book Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, who claimed that between 1000 CE and 1500 CE, the population of Hindus decreased by 80 million. His work has come under criticism by historians such as Simon Digby (School of Oriental and African Studies) and the Marxist historian Irfan Habib for its agenda and lack of accurate data in pre-census times. Lal has responded to these criticisms in later works. Historians such as Will Durant contend that Islam spread through violence.[5][6] Sir Jadunath Sarkar contends that that several Muslim invaders were waging a systematic jihad against Hindus in India to the effect that "Every device short of massacre in cold blood was resorted to in order to convert heathen subjects."[7] In particular the records kept by al-Utbi, Mahmud al-Ghazni's secretary, in the Tarikh-i-Yamini document several episodes of bloody military campaigns.[citation needed] Hindus who converted to Islam however were not completely immune to persecution due to the Caste system among South Asian Muslims in India established by Ziauddin al-Barani in the Fatawa-i Jahandari.[8], where they were regarded as an "Ajlaf" caste and subjected to discrimination by the "Ashraf" castes[9].</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper Randy Jackson journey band <img src="http://www.journey-zone.com/images/Journey/Photos/jrny01.jpg" alt="journey band randy jackson. randy jackson journey bass" title="randy jackson journey bass" width="470" <br><li>randy jackson journey bass</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sledge_hammer</div><div class="date">06-05 02:14 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">It would be the most foolish thing to do to pay cash for your home, no matter how small your starter home is. If you make let's say 20% down, then you leverage is 80%, and so you are building equity on 100% of your home by only putting down 20%. The interest you pay on it now is 5%. What other investment can you leverage 1:4, get tax deductions on your interest, AND build equity?<br /> <br /> You may argue that margin buying is the same. But is that's not tax deductible!<br /> <br /> >> First off, a house is really both an investment and a home.<br /> <br /> If you look at the historical rate of appreciation vs. the risks involved - I think you will come to the same conclusion as I did - that it is a lousy investment in mature markets like US.<br /> <br /> The scenario is different in India. I believe (based on my assumptions and calculations) that the risk/reward ratio is much more favourable there.<br /> <br /> The intangible value of a "home" is the only reason I will ever "buy" a house here - because it is a lousy investment. 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That fits into his determined strategy to reduce America's overseas military commitments amid the country's ongoing fiscal distress. Obama foresees a smaller, increasingly background role for U.S. security in the world, and these selections feed that pattern.<br /> <br /> First, there is Leon Panetta's move from director of the Central Intelligence Agency to secretary of defense. When you're looking for $400 billion in future military cuts, Panetta's credentials apply nicely: former White House chief of staff and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton, and 9-term congressman from defense-heavy California. But, truth be told, Panetta wasn't the president's first choice -- or his second, third, fourth or fifth.<br /> <br /> According to my Pentagon sources, the job was initially offered to Hillary Clinton, who would have been a compelling candidate for the real task at hand: working to get more help from our European allies for today's potpourri of security hotspots, while reaching out to the logical partners of tomorrow -- like rising China, India, Turkey, South Africa and Brazil, among others. She would have brought an international star power and bevy of personal connections to those delicate efforts that Panetta will never muster. But Clinton has had enough of nonstop globe-hopping and will be gone at the end of Obama's first term.<br /> <br /> Colin Powell, next offered the job, would have been another high-wattage selection, commanding respect in capitals around the world. But Powell demanded that his perennial wingman, Richard Armitage, be named deputy secretary, and that was apparently a no-go from the White House, most likely for fear that the general was set on creating his own little empire in the Pentagon. Again, too bad: Powell would have brought a deep concern for the future of U.S. national security that Panetta -- with the "green eye shades" mentality of a budget-crunching guy -- lacks.<br /> <br /> Three others were then offered the job: Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed; former deputy secretary of defense and current Center for Strategic and International Studies boss John Hamre; and former Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, who was long rumored to be Obama's preferred brainiac to ultimately replace Gates. But Reed feared exchanging his Senate seat for a short stint in the Pentagon if Obama loses; Hamre had made too many commitments to CSIS as part of a recent fund-raising drive; and Danzig couldn't manage the timing on the current appointment for personal reasons.<br /> <br /> All of this is to suggest the following: Panetta has been picked to do the dirty work of budget cuts through the remainder of the first term and nothing more. If Obama wins a second term, we may still see a technocrat of Danzig's caliber, such as current Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Flournoy, or a major-league star of the Clinton/Powell variety. But for now, the SECDEF's job is not to build diplomatic bridges, but to quietly dismantle acquisition programs. And yes, the world will pick up on that "declinist" vibe.<br /> <br /> Moving Gen. David Petraeus from commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan to director of the CIA has puzzled many observers, and more than a few have worried that this represents a renewed militarization of the agency. But here the truth is more prosaic: Obama simply doesn't want Petraeus as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, something conservatives have been pulling for. By shifting him to CIA, the White House neatly dead-ends his illustrious career. <br /> <br /> As Joint Chiefs chairman, Petraeus could have become an obstacle to Obama's plans to get us out of Afghanistan on schedule, wielding an effective political veto. He also would have presented more of a general political threat in the 2012 election, with the most plausible scenario being the vice-presidential slot for a GOP nominee looking to burnish his national security credentials. As far as candidate Obama is concerned, the Petraeus factor is much more easily managed now.<br /> <br /> Once the SECDEF selection process dropped down to Panetta, the White House saw a chance to kill two birds with one stone. Plus, Petraeus, with the Iraq and Afghanistan surges under his belt, is an unassailable choice for an administration that has deftly "symmetricized" Bush-Cheney's "war on terror," by fielding our special operations forces and CIA drones versus al-Qaida and its associated networks. If major military interventions are out and covert operations are in, then moving "King David" from ISAF to CIA ties off that pivot quite nicely.<br /> <br /> The other two major moves announced by the White House fit this general pattern of backburner-ing Afghanistan and prioritizing budget cuts. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who partnered with Petraeus in Iraq during the surge, now takes over the same post in Afghanistan. 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'Coz I believe there is a God above, who watches and at the appointed time the punishment will come.<br /> <br /> But the bible also says that God is forgiving. The Bible says the following: <br /> "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John; chap 1 verse 9)<br /> <br /> Also it says in the book of John (chapter 3 verse 16):<br /> "For God so loved the world (mankind) that he gave his son Jesus Christ to die as a sacrifice (for the sins of mankind), that whoever believes in Him (and repent), shall not perish but have eternal life".<br /> <br /> <br /> Look, your intensions may be good and I respect that, but one cannot solve one problem by creating another problem of equal magnitude.<br /> <br /> Isn't "religion" the reason why folks are fighting? I do not mean to offend anyone, but I think all religious books have been doctored by the kings who were in power during the last two centuries. Bible, Geeta, Quran, or for that matter any religious book of any organized religion - they are all doctored from its original version. Why? Because the purpose of these books is? Guess what? To oragnize the religion. Their primary purpose is not spirituality. Because if the sole purpose was spirituality, no one will have fought each other in the name of religion for thousands of years.<br /> <br /> I guess the question I would ask is - WWJD ie. What Would Jesus Do? If you asked Jesus that are you the only son of god, WWJD? I can tell you with 100% surety that he will say - we are all sons and daughters of God. But con artists have doctored the holy book to suit their meaning and interpretation. Anyways, I do not mean to have a philisophical debate here with you being the "protector" of Jesus, why? Because Jesus or Allah or for that matter any great soul doesn't need any protection from anyone. 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From the IRS perspective, it doesn't matter if that income is paid in the US or elsewhere. If an H-1B worker is given a living allowance, it is treated the same by the IRS as any other US resident. In some cases, H-1B workers pay higher taxes than a US citizen because they are not entitled to certain deductions (eg. head of household deduction amongst many others). Some H-1B workers are not eligible to receive any Social Security or Medicare benefits unless they are able to adjust status to that of permanent resident.[3] However, if their country of citizenship has a tax agreement with the United States, they are able to collect the Social Security they've earned even if they don't gain permanent residency there. Such agreements are negotiated between the United States and other countries, typically those which have comparable standards of living and public retirement systems<br /> Lou knows it all; he knows it is the L-1 visa holders and not the H1B visa holders. 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At least you knew you had an error, without bogging the thing down in all that 'throw' 'catch' 'try' stuff.<br /> <br /> Interviewer: But, surely, inheritance does save a lot of time?<br /> <br /> Stroustrup: Does it? Have you ever noticed the difference between a 'C' project plan, and a C++ project plan? The planning stage for a C++ project is three times as long. Precisely to make sure that everything which should be inherited is, and what shouldn't isn't. Then, they still get it wrong. Whoever heard of memory leaks in a 'C' program? Now finding them is a major industry. Most companies give up, and send the product out, knowing it leaks like a sieve, simply to avoid the expense of tracking them all down.<br /> <br /> Interviewer: There are tools...<br /> <br /> Stroustrup: Most of which were written in C++.<br /> <br /> Interviewer: If we publish this, you'll probably get lynched, you do realise that?<br /> <br /> Stroustrup: I doubt it. 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If one starts using EAD and employer revokes 140 then you will be in big problems.<br /> <br /> Yes; I do know people who got greencard based on future base employment. Before Jan., 2005 it was an automatic interview if a person wasn't working with the petitioning employer when they filed the 485. However; now it doesn't cause an automatic interview.<br /> <br /> When USCIS asks for tax returns/w2's in their RFE; they are checking whether you maintained status and also whether it is reasonable that you will be taking the job. 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The rim was bent; the tits were gone; and you can f--k yourself with a cream cheese dildo if you entertain for one moment the delusion that I intend to pay the twelve dollars.<br /> <br /> Sincerely yours,<br /> <br /> /s/ T.B.T.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">a_yaja</div><div class="date">05-17 07:20 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">You have no arguments that make sense. You are arguing that doing something illegal is a great thing to do. Not so. And yes, I do support the bill as it will weed out some fraudsters from amongst us, who give the H-1B program a very bad rep.<br /> You still have not told me why you are support the Durbin-Grassley bill and you are OK with consulting on a "full-time" basis. The Durbin-Grassley bill bans this.<br /> The present laws are more then enough to go after offenders. The law is not being enforced. 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WILL Smith cries whenever he" title="WILL Smith cries whenever he" width="470" <br><li>WILL Smith cries whenever he</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">smuggymba</div><div class="date">07-28 02:57 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">what did that dumb O bama do with 60 senators and 260 congress democrats in the house-------GHANTA.......he is the most useless guy on earth....<br /> <br /> Indians always seem to think Democrats will help them but they are like our Indian politicians only, all promises no action<br /> <br /> Atleast republicans listen to Microsoft, Google etc and gives some visa etc...AllObama does is warn about Indians and Chinese growth</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper WILL Smith cries whenever he <img src="http://www.indiatvnews.com/upload/news/neweditor/Image/entertainmenthollywood/april11/6th/Will_Smith.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. hairstyles Will Smith Jada" title="hairstyles Will Smith Jada" width="470" <br><li>hairstyles Will Smith Jada</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ramba</div><div class="date">08-05 03:25 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Please stop with this. this is truly offensive. Many of us happen to be truly qualified beyond your clarly limited imagination. Not all of us are in IT, not all of us work in body shops and NOT all of us deal with fraud in our lives. If a few do, then go chase the, and stop tarring us all with the same brush. This is really akin to my saying (and I'm not saying it) that all EB3 folks are just IT diploma holders working for body shops and the whole category is just a fruad. How does the tarring feel now?<br /> <br /> <br /> I said most of the case. Not all. Ofcouse, most of the bodyshoppers does this abuse. Like labor subsitution, creating a duplicate job just to file EB2 etc.. I am not blaming good US employers and employees. There are tons on non-IT genuine EB2 cases are there..</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://k104fm.com/includes/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/will-smith-jada-pinkett-smith.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. 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God has always been with Israel.<br /> <br /> Intrestingly the artical also says...<br /> <br /> The Muslim faith envisioned by the Prophet in the Koran and recorded by his contemporaries in the Hadith is a religion that practices tolerance towards all races and religions, stresses the extreme importance of literacy and education, and elevates the status of women to unprecedented levels in many societies. This is the gentle, peaceful Muslim faith practiced everywhere in the world, except in Saudi Arabia and the Taliban provinces of Afghanistan and Pakistan</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 hairstyles Will Smith Jada <img src="http://lifeandgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/will-jada-aug.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. 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The Smiths claim" title="The Smiths claim" width="470" <br><li>The Smiths claim</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">satishku_2000</div><div class="date">05-16 06:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">It is very simple -- the 'consulting on the bench' business is ILLEGAL. You can have any opinion on it you wan't, but the bottom line is it is against the law. If you can't meet the legal requirements, you shouldn't be here in the first place.<br /> <br /> And what do you think about the skilled and HONEST people in this world, finding a job and having an H-1B petition submitted on their behalf, only to see all the H-1Bs go in a single day due to the consultants? My sympathy goes to these people instead of any 'consultant'.<br /> <br /> It is amazing that people don't seem to grasp the concept of something being ILLEGAL, and instead seem to rely on some self-perceived logic as to what they can and can't do. Let us focus on the illegal clogging of the system and restore it to the otherwise great visa program it was meant to be.<br /> <br /> <br /> Title explains it all ... its not illegal to work parttime on H1b...If some employer does not pay on bench , employee can always goto DOL...</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.johnnyikon.com/data/articles/2008/12/583/willsmith.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. Will Smith" title="Will Smith" width="470" <br><li>Will Smith</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-25 02:53 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">UN,<br /> Any stories of AOS applicants porting to self employment under AC21, that you could share with us?<br /> <br /> Given your explanation on risks involved with porting to a small company, I wonder how self employment plays out in an AC21 scenario.<br /> <br /> Thanks very much, as always.<br /> <br /> I know many people think about it but they don't have the kahunas to actually execute it. I am not aware of anyone who has tried it and was open about it with uscis.<br /> <br /> In my case when my 485 was pending I went self employment route. I had to give updated g-325a to show employmnet history and I put it right there for officer to see at local office interview. He actually made an astonishing face and I told him that it was allowed and 485 was pending and I can do what I wish during this time. I also told him that I was not my ac21 employer I was just doing this while 485 was pending and I was porting to another job after my 485 was approved. I gave him offer letter and company tax returns from the ac21 employer that I hadn't joined yet.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/shapefile/category/Geomancy">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NdjizHAuf6Q/SwVu8CaWLJI/AAAAAAAADdA/Zlb49VgYc7k/s1600/Will%2525252BSmith%2525252Band%2525252Bhis%2525252Bwife%2525252BJada%2525252BPinket-Smith%2525252Bshare%2525252Ba%2525252Bkiss.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. will smith wife jada. will" title="will smith wife jada. will" width="470" <br><li>will smith wife jada. will</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-27 07:32 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">But they got no answers out of me�a total failure. Officer Xu, while asking me questions, kept kicking my legs. I said, "Be a little more civilized!"<br /> <br /> Then he said, "So what if I act like this, what can you do! In other matters I will actually still be afraid that someone might complain. But you here, you are an enemy. We can beat you and swear at you and if you complain, it will be useless even if you complain to the Ministry of Public Security!" I thought, this little police officer is younger than 30, how is he so well versed in the Maoist doctrine of the "contradiction between the enemy and us"?<br /> <br /> A tall plainclothes officer was getting impatient and said loudly to Officer Xu: "Why waste words on this sort of person? Let's beat him to death and dig a hole to bury him in and be done with it. How lucky we've got a place to put him away here." Turning to me, he said, "Think your family can find you if you're disappeared? Tell me, what difference would it make if you vanished from Beijing?" Later he whispered to Officer Xu, "Put him away in the hotel!" I could not hear clear what hotel he meant, but from the context I assumed he was referring to that "place to bury you."<br /> <br /> I knew they were not just joking, and I felt like a small ant that could be annihilated any moment without a trace. And yet I was not that scared. For one thing, I had already sent out a message on the Internet, and for another, they had by that time also taken my ID card out of my bag and realized that I was a teacher at the China University of Politics and Law.<br /> <br /> This special status was the reason why I was not beaten more severely, and why they did not "dig a hole to bury me." And it is true: I had disclosed this information to the police officers, albeit half-consciously, to avoid being beaten more severely. If it had not been for my status as a teacher at CUPL, a doctor with a degree from Peking University, a famous human rights lawyer, a visiting scholar at Yale, could I still have shown as much courage? I very much doubt it.<br /> <br /> I felt ashamed of my status and the differential treatment I was enjoying on account of them. I even felt that if the police didn't succeed in burying me they would vent their rage against some other disobedient person. Any pain that I was being spared was sure to be inflicted on another, more helpless victim at some point.<br /> <br /> How much terror, humiliation and despair do ordinary people suffer who get locked up in police stations, re-education through labour camps, investigation detention cells, custody and repatriation cells, and black jails in the face of a bunch of police officers who regard a person's life like a blade of grass and treat ordinary people as foes? Police officers across the country threatening to "beat you to death and dig a hole to bury you," how many people do they actually beat to death or beat until they are disabled?<br /> <br /> It was almost midnight when the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau sent round some officers who said they wanted to take me away. They returned my glasses, mobile phone and other things. I told them that I would only leave together with the friend who had been detained with me.<br /> <br /> After some more argument, they led me and Mr. Zhang to a car. Someone called my name, and I immediately recognized some netizens. I could not get out of the car but I shook hands with them through the window. Later I learned that many others had also rushed to the scene. An unknown number of netizen friends had expressed support on the Internet and passed on the news. Maybe that is the main reason why we were so quickly released.<br /> <br /> On the way back home, a Beijing state security officer complained to me, "If everybody fought with them using your methods, the police would have no way of continuing their work! How many fewer common thieves they'd be able to catch!"<br /> <br /> I replied, "If the law-enforcers don't act in accordance with the law, what use are they really to citizens? Police should catch thieves, but can those who 'beat you to death and dig a hole for you' still be called 'police'? If people are fighting each other using my methods, maybe fewer common thieves will be caught, but fewer citizens will be beaten to death in police stations. In which of these two situations are society's losses greater?"<br /> <br /> Mr. Teng is a professor of law at China University of Politics and Law<br /> <br /> <br /> The Challenges China Faces (http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2892&Itemid=422) By John Berthelsen | Asia Sentinel<br /> China�s Attitude toward Hard Power and Soft Power (http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/12_china_soft_power_jia.aspx) By Qingguo Jia | Peking University<br /> Computing set to bolster China's industrial prowess (http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20101227a1.html) Sentaku Magazine</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Will Smith#39;s Relationship <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/19/article-1287984-0A1B7700000005DC-866_468x481.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. 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He pours the sample into the slot and waits. <br /> <br /> Ten seconds later, the computer ejects a printout:<br /> "You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water and avoid heavy activity. It will improve in two weeks. Thank you for shopping @ Wal-Mart." That evening, while thinking how amazing this new technology was, Joe began wondering if the computer could be fooled. <br /> <br /> He mixed some tap water, a stool sample from his dog, urine samples from his wife and daughter, and a sperm sample for good measure. <br /> <br /> Joe hurries back to Wal-Mart, eager to check the results. He deposits ten dollars, pours in his concoction, and awaits the results.<br /> <br /> The computer prints the following: <br /> <br /> 1. Your tap water is too hard. Get a water softener. (Aisle 9) <br /> 2. Your dog has ringworm. Bathe him with anti-fungal shampoo. (Aisle 7)<br /> 3. Your daughter has a cocaine habit. Get her into rehab.<br /> 4. Your wife is pregnant. Twins. They aren't yours. Get a lawyer. <br /> 5. If you don't stop playing with yourself, your elbow will never get better! <br /> :D</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://barshibuya.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.mediastorehouse.com/image/will_smith_and_wife_jada_pinkett_4858856.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. WILL SMITH AND WIFE JADA" title="WILL SMITH AND WIFE JADA" width="470" <br><li>WILL SMITH AND WIFE JADA</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">qasleuth</div><div class="date">03-31 10:29 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">did u mean to say 2007 or 2009 on your receipt and notice dates?<br /> <br /> <br /> sorry...:eek: 2007</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Will Smith and his wife Jada <img src="http://clearlyfabulous.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/will-smith.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. house house will smith wife" title="house house will smith wife" width="470" <br><li>house house will smith wife</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">04-13 01:57 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">There is a gray area here. You can believe it is legal because it is nowhere mentioned that it is illegal. The certifying officer may believe that it is illegal because it is nowhere mentioned that it is legal.<br /> <br /> This is interesting actually. Does LCA petition have a column saying it is Salary or percentage?<br /> <br /> The way job offers go out is after companies do a math on the value you add to the company. Every h1b LCA petition has a salary mentioned that can be a range also ie $55 per hour and above etc....<br /> <br /> Percentages or kickbacks are something that is between employer and employee and has nothing to do with Certifying officer - maybe I am missing something here</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://vanillatemplates.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://cdn02.okcdn.okmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Will_Smith_May12.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. Will Smith and wife Jada will" title="Will Smith and wife Jada will" width="470" <br><li>Will Smith and wife Jada will</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">immique</div><div class="date">07-14 01:48 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">well said. people should realize that EB visa system is based on principles that are thought to benefit US. retrogressed EB2 categories cannot whine about EB1 saying that EB2 should be current also. personally I know many Physicians who have applied in EB2 and have been waiting for years even though many of them qualify for EB1. In the same manner EB3 cannot complain about EB2 saying that spill over should go to EB3 when EB2 is itself retrogressed. remember that the directive for the correct interpretation of the law came from Congress itself. This has actually revealed that EB2 was unfairly disadvantaged last year when all the spillovers got passed to EB3 while EB2 was unavailable. They may even consider to compensate retrogressed categories in EB2 with all those Visa numbers that were improperly given to EB3 ROW by giving EB3 ROW visas to EB2 retrogressed categories from this years and next years quota. I totally understand the plight of EB3 I and agree that there needs to be a solution for this. But complaining to State Department or USCIS will not change a thing as they are only there to follow the laws and not make any changes to the existing laws. campaign from the whole EB community has not produced much result this year to eliminate retrogression. I don't think campaign by one category (EB3) from just one country (India) is going to achieve the result by this letter campaign. rather, the efforts should be concentrated in ending retrogression for all the categories through effective legislation and can only be achieved by cooperation between all the categories. <br /> <br /> Disclaimer: I am an EB3-Indian with a PD of Oct 2003.<br /> <br /> Delax: I agree entirely with what you are saying. Your arguments are 100% valid. The part that I don't get is why are you trying so desperately hard to convince EB3-Indians that their letter campaign lacks merit?<br /> <br /> Remember, a drowning man will clutch on to a straw for hope. You are like a sailor in a boat trying to tell the drowning man that a straw is no good. So, if you cannot get Eb3-Indians to see your point-of-view, just lay off this thread. Do you really expect all EB3-Indians to say "Thanks to delax, we now see the folly of our arguments. Let's stop this irrational effort, and instead just do nothing!"<br /> <br /> I can assure you that despite being an EB3-Indian, I am not participating in this campaign. Because I know that it is a ridiculous argument to expect PD to take preference over skills. And honestly, I cannot come up with a single rational reason to demand a GC for me over any EB1 or EB2 applicant.<br /> <br /> To all you EB3-Indians, chisel this into your brain: The US immigration system wants EB1 first, then EB2 and then EB3. It doesn't matter what your qualifications are or what the profession is...what matters is in which employment-based category was your LC filed. If you think, you are skilled enough, then stop wasting time in arguing with EB2 folks. Use your skills to apply for EB1 (which is current) or EB2 and get your GC fast. Otherwise, get this chiselled into your head as well: You are less skilled than EB2 and EB1 (purely on the basis of the LC category), so it makes 100% sense that US will give you the lowest priority. Period.<br /> <br /> As I wrote earlier, I'm an EB3-Indian as well. Only differences being, I have still maintained my sanity, and I have the patience to wait for IV to deliver the official guidance on proceeding further.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot The Smiths claim <img src="http://www.redbookmag.com/cm/redbook/images/kh/rbk-will-smith-de.jpg" alt="will smith wife jada. Will Smith, wife Jada" title="Will Smith, wife Jada" width="470" <br><li>Will Smith, wife Jada</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">01-10 11:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">First of all, thanks for converting my argument about Europeans and native peoples into Muslims and non-Muslims. Shows us where our respective prejudices and biases lie. I am very happy when my comments on any situation are turned into a broad 'us vs them' thing. It just shows us that our primitive and primal instincts from the time when we split from the apes are still alive and kicking in some people. Its pretty fascinating for me. <br /> <br /> Secondly there is a difference between military strikes (retaliatory or otherwise), and acts of massacres. Pretty much the same as there is a difference between military confrontation and ethnic cleansing. If you condone and defend the latter, then you are pretty much defending ethnic cleansing. Striking Hamas targets are military strikes. Holing up a hundred members of an extended family into a house, and then destroying the house is an act of massacre. When we defend acts like the latter one, we defend ethnic cleansing.<br /> <br /> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/massacre-of-a-family-seeking-sanctuary-1297577.html<br /> <br /> The world feels Israeli attacks is disproportionate. The recent Gaza attacks and the Lebanese attacks are deemed disproportionate. But that's the only answer to rockets being launched into Israel and the bombing of commercial establishments in Tel Aviv. <br /> <br /> India does not attack Pakistan's terrorist camps at all. <br /> Its another example of grossly disproportionate response!!:mad:.<br /> Islamic fanatics come and violate my motherland at will makes my blood boil in useless rage. I'm even more appalled when Indians themselves remain insensitive of this fact and want to preach peace.<br /> <br /> India is not Israel and Israel is not India. Israel not only attacks the terrorists but also exports weapons to India. Such a tiny nation, one of the most advanced nations in South-West Asia and takes the bull by its horns!. India imports weapons from Israel, has growing defence budget of tens of billion dollars and does nothing to stop terrorism. 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He did not want the uncertainty of not know what to call home even after 5 or 8 or 10 years. He called it "settling down".<br /> <br /> When we were graduating from engineering college, there was peer pressure to come to the US and pursue higher education and the "American Dream". 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She cried, then answered. A ring was worn. And, in less time than it takes to mow a lawn, we had rewritten our fates � our fate � forever. Done deal.<br /> <br /> Or so we thought.<br /> <br /> In the coming days, we were reminded of what it means to belong to a tribe of people that straddles multiple cultures and multiple degrees of technological involvement � and, as a consequence, holds a rich variety of opinions about an engagement. We received an education in the nuances of doing a very old thing in these new globalized, digitized times.<br /> <br /> The first hint of engagement Babel came in a phone call to Priya�s grandparents in New Delhi, minutes after the proposal. Joy filled their voices when they heard our news; blessings poured forth, punctuated by the colonial remnant �all the best, all the best.�<br /> <br /> Her Nana, though, could not let the conversation end without asking a question:<br /> <br /> �But, Priya, how exactly does one get engaged?�<br /> <br /> The bride-to-be said something about a question being asked and a ring being given, and that was that. What we didn�t appreciate then was that, in India, it doesn�t count as an engagement when two impressionable young people make a decision all by themselves.<br /> <br /> Calling India to say that you have gotten engaged, but without any family present, without any rites having occurred, is like claiming to have clapped with one hand.<br /> <br /> Thanksgiving time soon came, and the two of us went to Washington, where our six parents live. Two celebrations of our engagement were planned: a dinner at Priya�s mother and stepfather�s home, the other a tea at my parents� place.<br /> <br /> Our new family traces its roots to cow worshipers in Benares and cow slaughterers in South Dakota, to Chennai in south India, to a piece of the Punjab that is now in Pakistan, to Iowa, to New Jersey and to a hamlet called Blaxall in Britain. We count among us those who worship the multitudinous Hindu deities, the lone Christian one and no divinity at all. We are speakers of English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, French and Spanish. Many of us bear the passport of a country in which we were not born.<br /> <br /> All of which is wonderful until you have to choose an engagement ritual.<br /> <br /> After some debate and soul-searching, we decided to invent our own rites. We lit candles. We held hands. We told stories. We traded gifts. We laughed. We ate.<br /> <br /> But, back in India, there was still some confusion. Priya�s grandparents, 10 and a half time zones ahead of us, were aching to hear our voices on the night of that first Washington celebration. My grandparents phoned several times during the tea at my parents� home four days later. The way they saw it, this was the engagement � this coming together of families at the home of a certified adult. The earlier thing, as they saw it, was more like a sweet gesture.<br /> <br /> So, two weeks after we got engaged by our own definition, my grandparents congratulated me for getting engaged. Priya�s Indian cousins BlackBerry-messaged her they were delighted to be able, at long last, to congratulate her � now that it was �official.� Other relatives wrote seeking pictures of our �engagement ceremony.� We tried to explain that we hadn�t had one. But in this definitional spat, we were clearly outnumbered.<br /> <br /> When, today, is an engagement valid in the eyes of the world? Is it, according to the Western contractual idea, when two people declare their commitment to each other in private? Or when love mingles with economics in the giving of a ring, the first step in a gradual entangling of fortunes? Is it when two families gather and drink and toast? Or when a certain traditional ritual is done � or, in our case, a new ritual?<br /> <br /> Or is it when you change your Facebook relationship status?<br /> <br /> We had been so consumed with family, and with the intricacies of the Indian and American rules of engagement, that we ignored our virtual tribe. We had called some friends on the phone immediately after it happened, and e-mailed some others. But then the celebrations of the nonvirtual world took off, and we were absorbed into that love and tumult, and our engagement went unrecorded by the digital sphere.<br /> <br /> Just when we thought we had satisfied every possible definition of engagement, marking it in ways suitable to ourselves, our parents and our extended clans, Priya�s stepsister brought up Facebook. Why hadn�t we updated our relationship status to proclaim the engagement? It was peculiar, this omission: The absence of a Facebook update could be read as the presence of something amiss. What were we trying to hide?<br /> <br /> Relationship statuses, like ideas, have derived their authority from different sources over the millenniums: A relationship could be valid if properly certified by the ancient rituals; or valid if faithful to the words of the holy texts; or valid if codified in a contract recognized by the correct governmental agency; and now, in 2010, valid if etched into one�s �Info� tab on Facebook.<br /> <br /> We promptly made things right. As it turns out, we were Facebook-engaged around the time that the site�s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, was named Time magazine�s Person of the Year. We made it �official� for the third time, our union ordained by this new minister of the universe.<br /> <br /> At last, the engagement is properly established before our American, Indian and virtual tribes � and, now, before the readers of this newspaper. 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It seems quite convincing reading your comments that a particular segmant of hindu group carries very deep hatred of muslims in them and propagate it by lies, murder and debauchary... wonder who you god(s) are, or is godse your god!<br /> <br /> Shuyaib bhai,<br /> <br /> Salaam,<br /> <br /> Dude, don't get upset! There are terrorists from other faiths as you mentioned. Lets take last ten years. Put your hand on the heart, look around and when you hear/read about all those terrorist actions what do you think? Isn't it done in the name of Islam? If not 99%, a majority of terrorist acts are committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. It is easily above 51%, a technical majority. Is mentioning that Propaganda?<br /> <br /> Why did Mumbai happen? Why did Parliament happen? Why did Ashkardam happen? In all these cases the attack happened openly and security forces battled the terrorists. 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I have heard a lot of success stories, plus duplex is like 2 single family homes with yards/decks etc. 2 friends buy the property togather, you also get usual tax deduction and NO HOA like town homes... (if you pay 300/mo HOA you end up paying 108000 in 30 years). I think owning a multiplex for about 5 years then renting it out and getting a single family home makes a lot of sense for long term...what say!<br /> <br /> People who have bought houses are advocating buying one and who are renting are defending their decisions to rent... I think buying a multiplex i.e. 2 single family homes 3/1.5 bath in 450K each in California (sunnyvale/cupertino) makes a lot of sense...don't you think!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">485Mbe4001</div><div class="date">08-06 04:18 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Thanks for posting rolling_floods first post. It is the reason i talked about the holier-than-thou attitude with this guy. He/she was at pains to remind me to read the OP, but the truth comes out in the end...<br /> <br /> <br /> Here is his very first post by Rolling_Flood in IV forums. Not only he is using foul language, he is totally arrogant. Lines like "How dare you f***@#n compare yourselves to EB-2?" and "i will slap a lawsuit against any organization ...".<br /> <br /> It seems that he is always ready to file lawsuit.<br /> <br /> For me, its a good read to get a good laugh. :D</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">12-26 01:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">India is already at war with the terrorist state of Pakistan! Just that we never realize it and try to talk about peace all the time...you can see what Pakis have done to curb terrorism! Are the peace talks working? Did they ever work?<br /> <br /> Mark my words, there are going to many more attacks in the future, disrupting Indian business and economy...killing innocent civilians...is that anything short of a war?<br /> <br /> If India leaders don't take any concrete steps to put a lid on this, they are the greatest fools on this planet.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-46997790096457101322011-07-12T12:10:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.144-07:00charlotte observerimages The Charlotte Observer asked <img src="http://media2.newsobserver.com/smedia/2011/05/27/10/712-I5113PIM_lighthouse2.JPG_2_2.embedded.prod_affiliate.156.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. tattoo charlotteobserver" title="tattoo charlotteobserver" width="470" <br><li>tattoo charlotteobserver</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gcgonewild</div><div class="date">07-28 01:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Come the November Elections, Dems could lose 10 in Senate..<br /> <br /> And we are back to square one. <br /> <br /> Dejavu 2007/2008 ; <br /> <br /> If this happens, no bill will pass, leave alone Immigration Reform. <br /> <br /> Republicans will keep sending bills and Obama will Veto 'em.<br /> <br /> I regret the day when Obama became the president, he is just another politician who does not give a damn about EB2,EB3....he is just worried about "re-uniting families" (aka supporter of illegal immigration)</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper tattoo charlotteobserver <img src="http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2011/07/06/22/07/angZh.Em.138.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. jsiner@charlotteobserver." title="jsiner@charlotteobserver." width="470" <br><li>jsiner@charlotteobserver.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gapala</div><div class="date">12-18 01:00 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">be it Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan Somalia,Darfur,Chechnya, Kashmir, Gujarat... everywhere muslims are killed for being muslims...noone goes to cuba,srilanka,north korea,zimbawe or whereever for watever reason...just imagine God forbid someone comes into your house, occupies it, kills your family, your brothers and sisters in front of you and kicks you out of your home and you are seeing no hope of justice... you wont stand outside your home sending flowers like munna bhai's gandhigiri.. trust me you will become a terrorist.<br /> <br /> How is that they are justified killing innocent public who is not even aware or connected to any of the problems that you have mentioned in your post?<br /> <br /> This is that age old argument and justification for terrorism... Oppressed/suppressed etc... we heard it enough. There is no place on planet earth where muslims enjoy freedom like in India. Reservation in premier education institutions/jobs. subsidized loans for housing etc. They are the only group who even have government (tax payers) funded flights to Macca every year. Still they resort to killing innocent public who are no way connected to the problems that you mentioned in the post. They are not even aware of these problems. (Wrong but easy targets).<br /> <br /> How could you justify these crazy folks? <br /> <br /> They intimidate people everywhere Asia/Europe and revolt against the civic society and institutions, reject the constitution demanding to allow them to follow Sharia and not the constitution. They forget that they are in that country by their own free CHOICE. They are not forced to stay there right?. They were from places where sharia is followed, they moved, due to what ever reason to civic societies and now they would NOT follow the constitution, where is the oppression here? Its their choice. They just create mental barrier for themself in the name of perverted belief system and reject civic society to look different. Its rediculous.<br /> <br /> Again not all the folks in that group support them, but the irony is that folks who are in at the peak of that group have this perverted belief and straight forward folks / good folks keeps mum. 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Pakistan is unable to shut down the terrorist camps, we have to do it or else we will keep on bleeding..<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> India needs to look inwards for answers. <br /> <br /> We elect (those of us who actually vote) brigands, murderers and looters and expect leadership. They loot us, abuse our martyrs (re: the Kerala CM), and in turn, expect our mute subservience. Where is the interest in protecting the tax-paying citizen? Who cares? Look at how these vultures behave - Narayana Rane, Vilasrao Deshmukh, that ass-clown in Kerala. What a disgrace!<br /> <br /> Corruption has taken root in the administration and even some parts of our military services. Nothing gets done without someone's palms being greased first - openly and without shame. My friends in the IAS live like kings. When they visit New York, they live in the Waldorf Astoria! Meanwhile, our brave soldiers are called upon to give all they have in avoidable debacles like what we witnessed in Mumbai. <br /> <br /> One thinks twice before reporting a crime to the Police for fear of persecution. Journalists who catch Politicians accepting bribes on video camera are chastized. Many parts of India remain as backward and undeveloped as the day we kicked the British Raj out. Some might say they've regressed even further. I sometimes wonder if Churchill was right when he said that we'd only mess things up if they gave us Independence.<br /> <br /> Yet, since 50 milliion Indians are enjoying relative economic well-being, we believe that India is shining. <br /> <br /> Will attacking Pakistan really make India safer? Really? I have yet to see a single instance when violence was not met with more violence. Look at the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Iraq, Colombia, Peru - the list goes on and on and on.<br /> <br /> The fix is internal. Our freedom fighters came up against what was then thought to be an unmovable object and somehow moved it. There must be a way to leverage the tools they used with today's technology to help us bring change and conduct our affairs with dignity and courage. Attacking Pakistan will only bring to India the problems that overran them. They are pitiful.<br /> <br /> Peace to all.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 jsiner@charlotteobserver. <img src="http://img.androidsoftware.us/apk/img3/20110602102847254.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. Charlotte Observer SCREENSHOTS" title="Charlotte Observer SCREENSHOTS" width="470" <br><li>Charlotte Observer SCREENSHOTS</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-28 07:12 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Blending the Rules as We Go Along (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/world/asia/28iht-currents28.html) By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS | New York Times<br /> <br /> I wanted it to be right after breakfast when I asked Priya to marry me. The other elements were still forming, but that one felt important: a proposal to know together a thousand moments as simple and whole as this moment on a quiet Sunday morning.<br /> <br /> I gave a prologue, then asked. She cried, then answered. A ring was worn. And, in less time than it takes to mow a lawn, we had rewritten our fates � our fate � forever. Done deal.<br /> <br /> Or so we thought.<br /> <br /> In the coming days, we were reminded of what it means to belong to a tribe of people that straddles multiple cultures and multiple degrees of technological involvement � and, as a consequence, holds a rich variety of opinions about an engagement. We received an education in the nuances of doing a very old thing in these new globalized, digitized times.<br /> <br /> The first hint of engagement Babel came in a phone call to Priya�s grandparents in New Delhi, minutes after the proposal. Joy filled their voices when they heard our news; blessings poured forth, punctuated by the colonial remnant �all the best, all the best.�<br /> <br /> Her Nana, though, could not let the conversation end without asking a question:<br /> <br /> �But, Priya, how exactly does one get engaged?�<br /> <br /> The bride-to-be said something about a question being asked and a ring being given, and that was that. What we didn�t appreciate then was that, in India, it doesn�t count as an engagement when two impressionable young people make a decision all by themselves.<br /> <br /> Calling India to say that you have gotten engaged, but without any family present, without any rites having occurred, is like claiming to have clapped with one hand.<br /> <br /> Thanksgiving time soon came, and the two of us went to Washington, where our six parents live. Two celebrations of our engagement were planned: a dinner at Priya�s mother and stepfather�s home, the other a tea at my parents� place.<br /> <br /> Our new family traces its roots to cow worshipers in Benares and cow slaughterers in South Dakota, to Chennai in south India, to a piece of the Punjab that is now in Pakistan, to Iowa, to New Jersey and to a hamlet called Blaxall in Britain. We count among us those who worship the multitudinous Hindu deities, the lone Christian one and no divinity at all. We are speakers of English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, French and Spanish. Many of us bear the passport of a country in which we were not born.<br /> <br /> All of which is wonderful until you have to choose an engagement ritual.<br /> <br /> After some debate and soul-searching, we decided to invent our own rites. We lit candles. We held hands. We told stories. We traded gifts. We laughed. We ate.<br /> <br /> But, back in India, there was still some confusion. Priya�s grandparents, 10 and a half time zones ahead of us, were aching to hear our voices on the night of that first Washington celebration. My grandparents phoned several times during the tea at my parents� home four days later. The way they saw it, this was the engagement � this coming together of families at the home of a certified adult. The earlier thing, as they saw it, was more like a sweet gesture.<br /> <br /> So, two weeks after we got engaged by our own definition, my grandparents congratulated me for getting engaged. Priya�s Indian cousins BlackBerry-messaged her they were delighted to be able, at long last, to congratulate her � now that it was �official.� Other relatives wrote seeking pictures of our �engagement ceremony.� We tried to explain that we hadn�t had one. But in this definitional spat, we were clearly outnumbered.<br /> <br /> When, today, is an engagement valid in the eyes of the world? Is it, according to the Western contractual idea, when two people declare their commitment to each other in private? Or when love mingles with economics in the giving of a ring, the first step in a gradual entangling of fortunes? Is it when two families gather and drink and toast? Or when a certain traditional ritual is done � or, in our case, a new ritual?<br /> <br /> Or is it when you change your Facebook relationship status?<br /> <br /> We had been so consumed with family, and with the intricacies of the Indian and American rules of engagement, that we ignored our virtual tribe. We had called some friends on the phone immediately after it happened, and e-mailed some others. But then the celebrations of the nonvirtual world took off, and we were absorbed into that love and tumult, and our engagement went unrecorded by the digital sphere.<br /> <br /> Just when we thought we had satisfied every possible definition of engagement, marking it in ways suitable to ourselves, our parents and our extended clans, Priya�s stepsister brought up Facebook. Why hadn�t we updated our relationship status to proclaim the engagement? It was peculiar, this omission: The absence of a Facebook update could be read as the presence of something amiss. What were we trying to hide?<br /> <br /> Relationship statuses, like ideas, have derived their authority from different sources over the millenniums: A relationship could be valid if properly certified by the ancient rituals; or valid if faithful to the words of the holy texts; or valid if codified in a contract recognized by the correct governmental agency; and now, in 2010, valid if etched into one�s �Info� tab on Facebook.<br /> <br /> We promptly made things right. As it turns out, we were Facebook-engaged around the time that the site�s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, was named Time magazine�s Person of the Year. We made it �official� for the third time, our union ordained by this new minister of the universe.<br /> <br /> At last, the engagement is properly established before our American, Indian and virtual tribes � and, now, before the readers of this newspaper. 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The whole monopolization of visas was used to prevent this type of behaviour.<br /> <br /> .................................................. .................................................. ....<br /> .................................................. .................................................. ..<br /> <br /> <br /> UN,<br /> <br /> I don't think your view of Indian monopoly in IT is correct. It is a natural flow of human resources from countries which had plenty of it to USA which needed it.<br /> <br /> The reason for Indians/Chinese taking up majority of H1B visas is that there are lot of educated candidates to pick from highly populous countries like India and China.<br /> <br /> US never gave any preference to Indians or Chinese in H1B visas. The fact is India and China produced lot of graduates who were capable of doing IT work. So US had the necessity for skilled people, India and China had the supply of these people, naturally staffing companies came up to bank on this opportunity. It was a natural evolution, there was no bias towards Indians/Chinese. If you take any small country in the region, they didn't have enough qualified people so staffing companies didn't flourish in those countries.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://programuotojai.puslapiai.lt/lt/index.php?do=lostpassword">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://37days.typepad.com/37days/images/2007/04/09/newspapers_2.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. hot the charlotte observer" title="hot the charlotte observer" width="470" <br><li>hot the charlotte observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dealsnet</div><div class="date">09-29 12:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">It will be disaster for the country, if a man with only four year of national experience, out of which two year spend on primary campaign to run the country. Immigrant people only can talk loud. But he sensible american people will vote McCain to power. This openion poll is non sense. Demoratic party is like congress party in India. Trying to be socialist, not socialist, support everything all evils to get vote and support. Pleople planning to spend money for Obama is waste. Instead support IMMIGRATION VOICE.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 charlotte observer newspaper. <img src="http://deskofbrian.com/wp-content/uploads/Martin-Luther-King-Jr.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. The Charlotte Observer asked" title="The Charlotte Observer asked" width="470" <br><li>The Charlotte Observer asked</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">validIV</div><div class="date">06-05 05:24 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">My properties are in Woodside and Kew Gardens both in Queens, NYC. I have been fortunate as NYC is one of the best areas that kept its home value. I am certain this is not the case in 90% of the country but so far in NYC, the housing and renting market have only dropped slightly or remained stagnant in most areas here. In fact, some places are picking up again.<br /> <br /> I will admit that one unit (3 bedroom) that I was formerly renting out for 1900 had to be dropped to 1700 to compensate for the recession. But the house that the unit was located in (2 family house) appreciated in equity by 30,000 in 1.5 years (also in February 2009) amidst the economic downturn.<br /> <br /> As for generalizing, yes I understand that buying and owning is not for everyone, especially if your situation is temporary and you have no plans to stay in that area for long. But you are in America for God's sake. Take advantage of the system and don't be afraid of it. Why are you applying for your green card here if you dont plan to make it your home or long term? That just doesn't make sense to me. I know in the Philippines we cannot leverage as well as we can here with this system. I'm sure its the same in India? Correct me if I'm wrong.<br /> <br /> As for the housing bubble, it was bound to happen because banks were lending to people living beyond their means. That doesnt apply to us. Most immigrants are smart and don't buy a house unless they've done the math—even if the bank says we can afford it when we know we cannot. <br /> <br /> Renting, in my opinion, is a stepping stone. You rent only when you are saving to buy a home. You CANNOT rent your whole life, that is just a waste and like I said before, not smart. But smart people stop renting early and pay off their homes by their late 40s. At least that is what I am aiming for. Renting out my properties allow me to do that.<br /> <br /> With those rent/price ratio - it makes no sense indeed to rent. <br /> <br /> If I may ask you for a huge favor - could you please PM me more details about where specifically in Queens you have those kind of rent/price ratios?<br /> <br /> Since the market prices got so inflated - my experience is that the rent/price ratios are still wayy off historical trends. My impression (based on a few examples I have seen) is that in most of the situations - the rent would not cover the interest + property tax + maintenance, which would mean throwing away money if you buy. <br /> <br /> If indeed there are rent to buy ratios like the ones you have mentioned - then renting would be foolishness.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://sarathebest.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/logo_til_bruk_paa_facebook_etc_2.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. 2010 of the Charlotte Observer" title="2010 of the Charlotte Observer" width="470" <br><li>2010 of the Charlotte Observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nojoke</div><div class="date">09-26 07:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">though its very tempting to support obama with all his elequent talk, I think action speaks louder than words. he has absolutely no history of doing anything in the senate, and has not worked in a bi-partisan way with the republicans to pass any thing. do you think all of a sudden as prez he's going to get things done. further his stance on matters changes as the wind blows. meanwhile mccain has a history of making things happen, even sometimes going against his party. Dem will be more interested in helping the illegals become permanent, and not the legals 'coz their sights are on the vote banks. reps in general are more pro-business, and will favor the legal as opposed to illegals. of course there are some who are against.<br /> someone pointed out the days were better in the 90's...i do agree that was a period of boom in the us economy with the rise of the dot com companies. but towards the end of the 90's, the dot com going bust, the us economy was heading in recession. and adding to that the rise of other economic powers like china, india, russia, the competition grew intense, and started to hurt the US economy much. However to the credit of the repub prez the SU economy came out from the inital recession, and the overall unemployment % was only ~5.4%, the lower in several decades incl the 90's. I think it was only through the right economic and pro-business policies of this admin that helped in this. of course the wars and the housing bubble has brought us to this new economic situations. It would require the next admin to frame policies that would keep US out of next recession.<br /> but with dems policies of higher taxes on business (of course higher taxes on you and me), and more govt spending using mine and your tax dollars (of course our ss which we might never see) to hand it out to the lazy, and good for nothing people, you'll def see the US economy going into deeper recession. on top of that the universal health care would see us going the way of CA and europe with health care rationing, and long lines.<br /> I could go on adding the benefits e.g. favorable deals with india the repubs would bring, but I thinks this is good for now.<br /> so I would suggest stop going with the age old mentality and blindly believing that the dems are best. Start to think rationally.<br /> <br /> How is giving tax break to the business helping us in the time of recession? If your company is not selling products, it will hire more to do what? The tax cut will simply go to executives and there will be layoffs. Trickle down economy is a scam.<br /> Did you compare Obama's tax plan with McCain's. Go to CNN and you will that you will get more from Obama than from McCain's tax cut. How is universal health care bad? There are 50million without healthcare here. Soon your company will say that it cannot pay your healthcare plans because it is getting costly. The middle men(insurance companies) maybe eating more of your money than the actual health care costs. The long lines are due to less available doctors, not because of universal healthcare. <br /> "A Commonwealth Fund study of six highly industrialized countries, the U.S., and five nations with national health systems, Britain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, found waiting times were worse in the U.S. than in all the other countries except Canada. And, most of the Canadian data so widely reported by the U.S. media is out of date, and misleading, according to PNHP and CNA/NNOC."</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Charlotte Observer SCREENSHOTS <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyCVsi0keZM4XRKHTdfz_WzPpsj4jEtn1f9hsHYmFuefSnyaFDOAA2zqmjNH6-0czuGkXXwfjWOYRW7fCbsUox0oVGyvAvp3RDC4C0L3hHnDemSoLTsKzMfLnWC1xKHhn2E9LLRvjmCNL/s1600/bj-welborn.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. hair the charlotte observer" title="hair the charlotte observer" width="470" <br><li>hair the charlotte observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alisa</div><div class="date">01-10 11:22 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Israel is not invading Gaza for no reason. Why do coward Palestinians need to fire rockets and send those suicide bombers to blow themselves? Muslims need to stop violence in the name of their religion. Why don't you stop killing people, so you would get 72 virgins in some loser world! Israel is doing the right thing and I will support its action. Yes, innocent people get killed, but Hamas need to fight in the open field instead of launching rockets from schools and hospitals.<br /> <br /> Exactly!! Just like the Europeans had a right to defend themselves against the Native Americans.<br /> <br /> Fortunately for them, they did their ethnic cleansing before the mass media and enlightenment. God bless them for it. Now we can come from far and distant places to get permanent residency into this land. <br /> <br /> Unfortunately for the Israelis, like Benny Morris recently said, they couldn't kill all their Barbarians (the Arabs/Palestinians) in the 1940s. Had they completely ethnically cleansed Israel/Palestine of the Arabs back then, we wouldn't have this Israel/Arab problem today.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://premiougoarcuri.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2011/03/03/02/103892031DP011_Charlotte_Bo.embedded.prod_affiliate.138.JPG" alt="charlotte observer. shot against the Charlotte" title="shot against the Charlotte" width="470" <br><li>shot against the Charlotte</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">12-25 03:41 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Why worry so much about some random terrorist acts in India when billions of people are dying of disease and hunger all over the globe?<br /> <br /> Like somebody once said - let's worry about the enlightened self interests tomorrow, let's be concerned with the self-interests today. Before we even think about becoming Charitable Mr. Gates, let's first come close to being Mr. Gates first! <br /> <br /> You will find your ties to India very difficult to break. You and I are part of the international business community and India plays a significant role in this global economy! Terrorism, anywhere in this economic zone not just India, will impact either you or your employer directly.<br /> <br /> India has a dark chapter in history of repeated Islamic infiltrations, invasions, barbarism and terrorism - all of which goes back to 11th and 12th centuries and more significantly of caving in to them. We see only history repeating itself and all of us must be aware of this fact. Pakistani terrorists attack India with impunity, while the rest of the world dismisses it as an outcome of Kashmir conflict, Hindu-Muslim religious divide and so on. Not realizing that there are deep economic ramifications.<br /> I'll do my best to educate/remind everyone of this fact, even if it means being branded on immigration forums as a hate-monger. <br /> I believe that the world opinion has long reaching influence - it may be a slow-acting antidote but its curative effects will be long lasting.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot dresses the charlotte observer <img src="http://media2.newsobserver.com/smedia/2011/06/27/08/56/578-zN7IT.Em.138.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.com" title="dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.com" width="470" <br><li>dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.com</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">hiralal</div><div class="date">06-24 08:13 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">one of the main reason that I stopped looking for a home is GC. the reason I was hunting around was to get advantage of tax credit ..but when I read articles like this ..I feel waiting for some more time has advantages too !! (so even if you take best case scenario of 10% drop in your area ..a house which costs 250K will drop by 25K ??? which is 3 times the tax credit).<br /> -------------------------<br /> Searching for a bottom in the housing market<br /> Sales look like they could rebound soon, but you can't say the same for prices.<br /> <br /> See all CNNMoney.com RSS FEEDS (close)<br /> By Janet Morrissey, contributor<br /> June 19, 2009: 4:23 AM ET<br /> <br /> FORTUNE 500<br /> Current Issue<br /> Subscribe to Fortune<br /> <br /> NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Sales in the decimated housing market may finally be bottoming, but don't expect home prices to stop dropping before mid-2010 at the earliest, analysts and economists say.<br /> <br /> Indeed, prices in the battered housing market could get a lot worse before they get better as an avalanche of specialized adjustable rate mortgages, known as option ARMs and Alt-A mortgages, are slated to reset over the next 18 to 24 months, and rising unemployment causes a surge in the number of prime mortgages going into default. All of this is expected to trigger another round of foreclosures and cause home prices to tumble at least another 20% before the market rebounds, according to market analysts and economists.<br /> <br /> Market bulls believe home prices could bottom in the second half of 2010, but the bears warn it could be 2013 before they finally trough. And once prices do reach a low, it could be years before they significantly rebound.<br /> 0:00 /4:19Housing market's false hope<br /> <br /> "This is clearly the worst housing crisis since the Depression," says John Burns, president of John Burns Real Estate Consulting. Losses from the housing meltdown totaled $3.6 trillion at the end of 2008, and will likely approach $5 trillion by the time the crisis ends, predicts Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors.<br /> <br /> Bob Curran, managing director at Fitch Ratings, is a lot more cautious, noting that one month of gains doesn't make a trend -- existing home sales are still off 3.5% from a year ago. "You'd want to see a string of months -- ideally three months -- to say with confidence that a bottom has been reached," he says.<br /> <br /> "We're about two-thirds of the way through the pricing correction on a percentage basis," says Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist with MFR Inc., an economic consulting and analysis firm. He expects prices to slide at least another 20% over the next 18 months.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://anfetamina.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house in the Charlotte Observer <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirebAYCvW4epeFBcdSd-GWUePV3upZmgn2-ZbJjeiidFHnZbGq1WDd6H2p1h6RPEGKO8XsT-RSX-zZ5moLxNTsABB-ZJaAsa1fzEUgtR_SmCNKBkf-JecMePiWw85uwsAWJJbrF8GeeI-t/s1600/teh_dharbin.png" alt="charlotte observer. images The Charlotte Observer." title="images The Charlotte Observer." width="470" <br><li>images The Charlotte Observer.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">anilsal</div><div class="date">11-12 11:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Now i remember about my Indian friend who passed through the "H1B turned GC holder" route bad mouthing about US h1 policy ( that time there was an attempt to hike the quota by some 20000 and he was deeply upset by that ).<br /> <br /> It is not about your Indian friend alone. There are a large number of people who have got GC/Citizenship via some form of immigration (mostly family) and are bad mouthing H1B holders/quota etc. In addition, since some of them run businesses, guess which party they love. ;)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo 2011 the charlotte observer <img src="http://images.www.news-record.com/files/imagecache/nrcom09_image_view/Images/Charlotte%252520NASCAR%252520largest%252520screen.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. The Charlotte Observer." title="The Charlotte Observer." width="470" <br><li>The Charlotte Observer.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nogc_noproblem</div><div class="date">08-25 04:43 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">What men say and what they actually mean . . . <br /> <br /> � "I'M GOING FISHING" Means: "I'm going to drink myself dangerously stupid, and stand by a stream with a stick in my hand, while the fish swim by in complete safety." <br /> � "YES, DEAR..." Means: Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response. <br /> � "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN" Means: "I have no idea how it works." <br /> � "TAKE A BREAK HONEY, YOU'RE WORKING TOO HARD". Means: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." <br /> � "THAT'S INTERESTING, DEAR." Means: "Are you still talking?" <br /> � "I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU, AND GOT YOU THESE ROSES". Means: "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe." <br /> � "WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?" Means: "What did you catch me at?" <br /> � "I HEARD YOU." Means: "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next 3 days yelling at me." <br /> � "YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE." Means: "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse." <br /> � "YOU LOOK TERRIFIC." Means: "Please don't try on one more outfit, I'm starving." <br /> � "WE SHARE THE HOUSEWORK." Means: "I make the messes, she cleans them up."</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.amitnimade.com/infusions/referer_panel/all_referer.php">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures hot the charlotte observer <img src="http://www.charlotteburgerblog.com/images/cometgrill_17.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. pictures Charlotte Observer" title="pictures Charlotte Observer" width="470" <br><li>pictures Charlotte Observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">new_horizon</div><div class="date">01-06 02:49 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Israel is fully justified in responding to the rocket attacks from Gaza. How long can they show restraint by not responding to the unprovoked attacks. Do you think US will remain silent, if Canada were to lob rockets into US. Asbolutely not. Every country has the right to protect itself.<br /> Hamas is such a coward orgn that they hide behind school, mosque, hospitals to shoot their rockets, so they really are luring israel to bomb those areas. Unfortunately innocents die...the blame should be on hamas. In fact, before bombing Israel even goes to the extent of calling and texting people in the target area to warn them before bombing. which country at war you know does that. Inspite of all these the biased media portrays Israel as the evil one. time to think. if only india shows some courage like that.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.com <img src="http://photos.igougo.com/images/p373154-Charlotte-Lynx_Light_Rail_Line.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. from the Charlotte Observer:" title="from the Charlotte Observer:" width="470" <br><li>from the Charlotte Observer:</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ZeroComplexity</div><div class="date">08-05 03:07 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Nothing great ever happens by trying to undermine each other. Laws are laws, some fair and some unfair, just deal with it and focus on remedying the whole broken system.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://chiaraf.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup 2010 of the Charlotte Observer <img src="http://www.cmhpf.org/wachoviaskyline.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. in the Charlotte Observer" title="in the Charlotte Observer" width="470" <br><li>in the Charlotte Observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-26 08:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">With regards to h-1b processing; if you file an h-1b and you are silent as to the work location on the i-129 and you get an lca for your h-1b office location and then USCIS gives you an rfe for a client letter.<br /> <br /> You get a client letter in a different location and did not have an lca for that location prior to the receipt date of the h-1b filing then USCIS will deny the h-1b saying that it wasn't approvable when filed. Therefore, because of this USCIS is essentially saying that you are only getting h-1b approval for the work location specified in the petition when it was filed. It does not include a blanket approval to work at multiple locations.<br /> <br /> Therefore; one should always amend the h-1b for different work location. Everytime you amend; you have to pay uscis/lawyer fees and are at risk of getting rfe everytime.<br /> <br /> With regards to greencard. You don't have to work at the location required in the labor until the greencard gets approved. Most labors state job location is "various unanticipated locations across usa". If it has this statement then you are covered and don't have to locate to the office of the company; you can work in any location.<br /> <br /> If there is not such an annotation in the labor then to make it 100% legal you should go and work in the location covered by the labor. However, as the baltimore decision stated; you can use ac21 for a different locaiton with same employer. Therefore, if 485 is pending more then six months and greencard gets approved; you have essentially used ac21 without even knowing it.<br /> <br /> I do know a few cases where attorney did labor in location of where persons client was located. However, if person has shifted to another location then it would be impossible to justify it legally that you will go back there when greencard gets approved because that job would no longer exist.<br /> <br /> There are a lot of complexities involved in this. It just goes to show that on a whim; uscis can do a lot of things to make peoples lives miserable.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend The Charlotte Observer. <img src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/7166/7166,1131975612,3/stock-photo-parke-apos-s-castle-leitrim-a-restored-plantation-castle-of-the-early-th-century-picturesquely-723634.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. the charlotte observer" title="the charlotte observer" width="470" <br><li>the charlotte observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-25 02:56 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I heard from the grapevine that UNITEDNATIONS will be the next USCIS chief - so folks better behave with him or he wil report ya all :D :D :D :D<br /> <br /> <br /> I know you are kidding; however, you only get selected for such positions as long as your idealogy is in line with what they want.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles shot against the Charlotte <img src="http://imagethumbnails.milo.com/004/777/651/trimmed/4777055_7925651_trimmed.jpg" alt="charlotte observer. 2011 recent Charlotte Observer" title="2011 recent Charlotte Observer" width="470" <br><li>2011 recent Charlotte Observer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">satishku_2000</div><div class="date">05-16 11:28 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">The greater danger in life is not that we set our aims too high and fail, but we set them too low and still do � Michelangelo<br /> <br /> Your aim is to not get fired. You want to buy an insurance policy to a secure job as if you are the only one entitled to have a job. This is a lower aim so you are bound to fail i.e. lose your job.<br /> <br /> And how do you define �replacing some American workers�. There is a plant in Yuma, AZ manufacturing aircrafts for Kingfisher airlines in India. Doesn�t this mean that someone in India is being replaced by American worker???? Maybe we should stop all trade and we should have all needs of one country fill within its borders. Maybe we should say � from now on no one is going to do any business, collaboration, partnership and place orders to companies outside of the borders of the country where you live. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The best argument of restrictionist is either talk about no H-1B or green cards or talk about unlimited H-1Bs and green cards as if the extremes make the only reality in this world. Have you ever seen numbers like 290,000 or maybe 450,000. These are called whole numbers in mathematics and reside somewhere between ZERO and INFINITY/UNLIMITED.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Stop bickering in the name of American people. More than 99% Americans don�t even know what is H-1B visa or employment based green card. And one more thing, people�s opinion is the most foolish thing to look at when making a decision. Do you remember the % of people in favor of Iraq war in 2002? - More than 70%<br /> Do you know how many people are in favor of pulling out of Iraq now, putting all the blame on the Administration? � around 70%<br /> Do you know the % of �American people� saying that they screwed up by supporting the war in 2002? � 0% <br /> No one would come out to say the nations and millions of people got screwed up due to "MY" twisted ideology in 2002. So let�s keep this argument of �American People� out of this debate.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> In free market and capitalist economy, the measure of productivity doesn�t come from some lawmaker who is out of sink with reality or from the ideology of orgs like IEEE-USA or from posters like you. The measure of productivity comes from the employers and the companies. And if that is how it works best for the economy, society and the nation, then so be it. That is the reason why this society is more advanced. You may be afraid of such a situation but I am not scared of a scenario where someone who can perform a better job, either a citizen or on H-1B, takes my job. But that is ok, your way of thinking is all based on the premises that every one out there is after you and some how you have to eliminate this competition at the soonest.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> You have used the argument of abuse, productivity, economy, outsourcing, country of origin and the color of Dick Morris� underwear - to argue against H-1B and to come extent green card number increase. Time and again I have said that this is not about H-1B. We, the people on this forum, want to discuss about GREEN CARD BACKLOGS. But you want to keep the discussion away from green card backlog and want the discussion be in the arena of H-1B. I must share with you that I have received atleast 7 different private messages telling me to �not waste my time with idiot like yourself�.<br /> Like you ass, you keep your views and your opinions with yourself. Don�t poke your ass and your views into a place where they don�t belong. And please stop worrying about being displaced by someone else on H-1B. You have not even gotten green card and you have already turned into a restrictionist. Please wait for sometime and there will be enough time and opportunity for you to join the ranks of IEEE-USA. This makes me to think that there are 2 possibilities:<br /> 1.) You have very low self esteem and you think very lowly about yourself. Thus you are scared of the competition<br /> 2.) You are not capable enough or technically sound to compete with other around you. And just like IEEE-USA you are looking for ways to eliminate your future probable competition using words/phrases like �displacement of US workers�.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I tried to explain this guy Senthil that I already proved in form of permanent labor certificate and I 140 petition that I am not displacing any american worker and why I have to prove the same fact for every renewal and he comes with a logic that GC is for future job and H1b is for current job. But you know what my GC application was filed very well in the past ...:) , I mean more than 3 years ago ...<br /> <br /> Somehow some people think they are better than every one else in the crowd and things dont go wrong for them because they have either a particular degree or work in a so called permanent Job . <br /> <br /> These guys are in more alignment with view of ALIPAC and Numbers USA where people think some elses loss is my gain. Having said that reasonable people disagree these guys are totally unreasonable or they are totally out of touch with reality . <br /> <br /> These guys love Mr Durbin so much who dont see any problem with illegal immigration at all ....I would call this height of hypocrosy.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">08-02 06:06 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">UN, you are God, thanks for the clear answers. I have one more, what are the reasons for I-140 denials, i.e what are the pitfalls to watch out for? Its been almost a year since I filed my I-140 in NSC and no response yet with a LUD of 10/6/2006, its troubling because my 7th yr H1 is expiring in a month and my lawyer wants to wait and see if the I-140 gets approved before then to file a 3 yr extension (we already applied the I-485). I am worried because of the potential of serious problems resulting from an unfavorable adjudication of my I-140.<br /> <br /> <br /> There is mainly two things for denial: ability to pay and person not meeting the education and experience requirement.<br /> <br /> Now; some of the things that USCiS goes after: close relative owning the compay; no registered office or just a virtual office in a particular fast processing state; too many 140's (ability to pay); in merger situations;not substantially all assets and liabilities were acquired by the successor entity (greencard labor rules in successor are different then h-1b situation).</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">funny</div><div class="date">09-30 01:52 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I love to see Obama in White House too. My only concern is who drives his Immigration Policy. Sen. Durbin? The provisions in CIR 2007 were scary.<br /> <br /> I am here legally in this country from Sept 2000. <br /> Applied for GC in March 2006 (EB3 I), filed 485 in July 07, used AC 21 in April 08 and now working on EAD. <br /> <br /> I already had backup plan for Canada. If I wanted to keep my Canadian PR current I had to fulfill the 2 yrs out of first 5 requirement and was required to relocate to Canada in Aug 07. After July 07 fiasco and getting EAD, I thought of giving up on that back-up plan. It was not an easy decision, but we decided to bite the bullet and were thinking that AC-21 memo and EAD are good enough safe-guards for any denial if and when it comes. Also other thing I thought as it is it's going to take ages for my date to become current by that time at least my child's education will be done (he is in high school) and he doesn't have to go through relocation pains as far as school is concerned. He has already done that 4 times in last 8 years. So all in all we were satisfied with the decision to abandon Canadian PR and using AC 21. But now all of a sudden I see there are so many denials for straight forward AC21 cases and moreover if Obama wins then immigration policy are driven by Durbin. AC-21 is the thread that I am hanging on to, if that goes away then what....just don't want to think about it.<br /> <br /> <br /> Correct me if i am wrong, But, The general feeling that i am getting from this whole discussion is that, If Obama becomes the next President and if his Buddy Se. Durbin is driving the immigration issues then , Are they going to scrap all the pending Employment Based GCs, and, all the People who have already used AC21 will be in trouble, thats like starting the whole thing over again. <br /> <br /> I personally think that this will not be the case and the new laws will be applicable to the new applications, because, when you invoked AC21 you did it according to the law, how come you will be in trouble because of a new law. <br /> <br /> Its like saying , If a crime of theft is going to have a Death panelty starting 2010, then all the convicted people from past will be hanged in 2010." That somehow doesn't sound right...I would like to get opinion from other people.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-33623674007565599022011-07-12T12:02:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.145-07:00newt gingrich affairimages Newt Gingrich came up with <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ek53NBo6f0/TcslrZ49vUI/AAAAAAAAASI/7OuernCFsKM/s1600/newt-gingrich-and-Callista-Gingrich.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. hairstyles Newt Gingrich has" title="hairstyles Newt Gingrich has" width="470" <br><li>hairstyles Newt Gingrich has</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sc3</div><div class="date">07-14 12:18 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Bear this in mind. We are not opposing because EB2 is getting the number, we are opposing because USCIS arbitrarily changed the law -- without any legislative approval. Remember, they changed the OPT rules and they are now facing lawsuit. <br /> <br /> You seem to be saying that we are petty in making our demands, and also suggestion (I have got personal comments) that we are causing a rift among the team. I say NO. We are not causing the rift. You did that, we are just highlighting our plight.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper hairstyles Newt Gingrich has <img src="http://achangeinthewind.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c7b3653ef0154326796ae970c-500wi" alt="newt gingrich affair. hot /newt-gingrich-my-affair-" title="hot /newt-gingrich-my-affair-" width="470" <br><li>hot /newt-gingrich-my-affair-</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gomirage</div><div class="date">06-08 12:47 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">It is very nice discussion.<br /> <br /> I am in process of buying forclosure home in SUWANEE ( Atlanata) area. I based on my survey and research feel that I am getting good deal(175 K price for 2800 sqft, 2004).by th<br /> <br /> <br /> Recently interest rates are gone up. Does any one has any idea that it will come down in a week or two due to possible federal intervention to keep houising going further down? can some one point to the relevant articles?<br /> <br /> Also if you know this area and have any reference for the good lenders?<br /> <br /> Also any points to keep in mind while buying foreclosure? apart from routine home inspection, termite inspection etc. Does survey is required for lot and property?<br /> <br /> Also is it good to put higher down payment or not? How much is better to put, assuming no financial constrain. Is it wise to put 20% down or not? Is it wise to purchase points to get interest rates down?<br /> <br /> Thanks for your continuing suggestions and discussions.<br /> <br /> Interesting questions. What are your plans for buying the house ? Just looking to take advantage of the good deals ? Do you have the conditions and like the area to settle there 5-10 years ?</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://valdoespolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/newt-gingrich-man-in-glass-house.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich: The Man in the" title="Newt Gingrich: The Man in the" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich: The Man in the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">punjabi</div><div class="date">08-08 07:53 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">hey, this happened right in front of eyes!! I can NEVER EVER forget it!!<br /> <br /> My colleague was getting laid off in a month, so she was trying to find a project elsewhere. She was sitting a few yards away from me when she got a call for an interview. And I saw her coming towards me with a total white face (if there is an expression like this).<br /> <br /> I asked her what happened..<br /> <br /> She said "How can they do that?"<br /> "This is not good."<br /> "Don't they know how to talk to a woman?"<br /> <br /> I asked "what happened"<br /> <br /> she said, "might be a prank call, but I'll talk to my employer about it."<br /> <br /> Her next sentence had me rolling over the floor for the next hour.<br /> <br /> She said "After asking some technical questions, they wanted to ask some general ones"<br /> and he asked "why is a manhole round?"<br /> <br /> She LITERALLY had no meaning for manhole (gutter/sewerage can). And you can imagine her embarassement when I told her!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Abe.. lets call it "manhole".<br /> <br /> coz these days the environment is no better than that :D:D:D</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 hot /newt-gingrich-my-affair- <img src="http://media.nola.com/politics/photo/newt-gingrich-stagejpg-efb35f580354b8e4.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich addresses" title="Newt Gingrich addresses" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich addresses</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">funny</div><div class="date">10-01 05:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I was thinking of buying a car but I have decided to hold off on it untill the presidentials elections are over. If obama is elected president I will not buy the car and will basically go into 100% saving mode because you never know when Obama\Durbin might kick us out. Nobody knows what sort of draconian rules are going to be put in place for EB community by Obama and Durbin. I have no confidence in Obama\Durbin to show any compassion\fairness towards Eb community. There might be hundreds of thousands of people holding off on purchasing a house, car or any big ticket item because of Obama\Durbin cir and there hostility towards Eb community. Hope I am proven wrong but I have not heard a single positive thing out of obama regarding EB community. Even when he was specifically asked about the green card delays faced by EB community he gave a evasive reply. He is always boasting about support for legal immigartion i.e family based immigration and not eb. I am not a obama hater nor a mcccain supporter but just a worried EB guy worried about his bleak future with Durbin lead cir.<br /> <br /> <br /> It is not clear what will happen to the existing applications, I don't think it would be simple to throw all the pending EB based GC applications out of the window and have everybody fall in line again in the new point based system....</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://microsoft-programming.com/index.php">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/05/13/t1larg.newt-gingrich-georgia-speech.t1larg.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Predicting a Gingrich" title="Predicting a Gingrich" width="470" <br><li>Predicting a Gingrich</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">03-23 03:50 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">well..you hit nail..yes..I initially worked with that company that started with S**..but I changed them after 1 year after coming to US<br /> <br /> So, keep cool. Talk to an Attorney. use a good Attorney for everything from now. You can forward the email request to the Attorney and go from there.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4d77c7a0ccd1d50429050000-400-300/newt-gingrich-and-the-staffer-23-years-his-junior.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich and the staffer" title="Newt Gingrich and the staffer" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich and the staffer</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alien2006</div><div class="date">05-24 10:05 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">He is just using this to play illegals vs legals. If you watch his lousy program, he is constantly ranting that this CIR bill will increase immigration by 100 million plus in the next few years. Some time back he also said that the CIR is a covert operation to increase H1Bs and legal immigration, not just about illegal immigrants. You can tune out what Lou says, he's doing what he can to improve his ratings.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.camaskent.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://wcscwebs.com/Blogs/FailedDemocrats/images/d0b082be8fdc_A194/video1c8a634be19b.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. newt gingrich affair." title="newt gingrich affair." width="470" <br><li>newt gingrich affair.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Munna Bhai</div><div class="date">07-08 07:47 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Hi, <br /> I applied for GC under schedule A in may06 .My husband filed as derivative.He received a notice of intent to denial last month .Reason being he did not have paystubs for a period of more than 6 months during 2000 and 2001.His employer at that time did not pay him even after he worked for 4 months then he took few more months to change his company(more than 180 days)In 2002 he went to India and came back .and in 2004 filed for a GC as primary petitioner and me as a derivative .last year he withdrew the petition after he received several RFE`S fearing the worst.Even though he no longer has GC filed as primary petitioner he received notice of intent to deny for the petion filed through me saying that his H1 was not legal as could`nt show proof for several months and that when he filed for AOS he used those years as work experience.<br /> and now another problem is I applied for EAD in march and have not received new ead.my old ead expired 10 days ago.and now Iam not working.<br /> We bought a house last year thinking that under schedule A we`ll get GC in no time.Now we know it is a terrible mistake.Now both of us can`t work and had to take my son out of daycare. and we have house payments to make.We put our house for sale weeks ago and so far no offers.I contacted local representative to expedite My EAD and also contacted USCIS to expedite it,<br /> citing financial burden.We are spending sleepless nights and have no clue what to do for my EAD and his AOS.pLEASE HELP.<br /> Did anyone face similar situation .Any suggestions are welcome.<br /> <br /> What made them to ask paystub for during 2000 and 2001?</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Newt Gingrich: The Man in the <img src="http://xe2.xanga.com/8c5e341313437275546987/z219597604.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich came up with" title="Newt Gingrich came up with" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich came up with</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">05-29 08:22 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">The Newest Lobbying Tool: Underwear (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/28/AR2007052801091.html) By Cindy Skrzycki (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/cindy+skrzycki/), Tuesday, May 29, 2007<br /> <br /> It was inevitable. In the Internet age, interest groups seeking influence in Washington are joining presidential candidates in discovering a new electronic tool to press their agenda: YouTube.<br /> <br /> "Send your underwear to the undersecretary'' urges the actress in the Competitive Enterprise Institute's stinging 66-second anti-regulatory video posted on YouTube, a free video-sharing site that is a subsidiary of Google. The video blames a 2001 Energy Department rule for an energy-efficiency standard that it says has made new models of washing machines more expensive while getting laundry less clean.<br /> <br /> The underwear video illustrates what other advocacy groups are finding out: YouTube is a cheap, creative way to get a message to a potentially vast audience. This slow migration is in addition to more traditional lobbying approaches, such as direct mail, Web sites and scripted phone calls to federal officials.<br /> <br /> "This is the next step,'' said Missi Tessier, a principal with the Podesta Group, a Washington lobbying firm. She said her company is working on a YouTube piece pushing for more federal funding for basic research for one client, the Science Coalition, a group of research universities. "We are always trying to find ways to get our message out.''<br /> <br /> Concerned Families for ATV Safety, which wants to keep children off all-terrain vehicles, turned to YouTube to lobby for more federal oversight at the agency and congressional level. One of the parents produced the video and posted it May 18.<br /> <br /> "We decided to put it on to raise awareness about how dangerous the machines are,'' said Carolyn Anderson of Brockton, Mass., who lost a son in an ATV accident and is a co-founder of the group.<br /> <br /> Some of the presidential candidates already have calculated that YouTube postings will reach the same younger audience that regularly visits social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. A few federal agencies have taken the plunge, too.<br /> <br /> Officials at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said it expects its YouTube messages to be ridiculed, laughed at, remade and spoofed. And they are. Its anti-drug message is also reaching the right demographic.<br /> <br /> The Consumer Product Safety Commission realizes that YouTube would be a great way to broadcast product recall and safety messages, though it has not produced a video for it.<br /> <br /> "There are a tremendous amount of people who use that Web site,'' said Scott Wolfson, an agency spokesman. "But we worried about the integrity of the message being changed by users.''<br /> <br /> The YouTube audience hardly seems like a demographic that would be interested in washing-machine efficiency. Still, the Washington-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, which opposes energy-saving fluorescent bulbs and increasing the gas mileage of cars and trucks, has 43 videos on the site. Many of them are snippets of speeches and testimony with few user "hits."<br /> <br /> And then there's the underwear video.<br /> <br /> "We figured we would try a very fast, inexpensive campaign that would go viral," said Sam Kazman, general counsel at the CEI and head of its Death by Regulation project. The video went up May 16 and had 1,306 hits in the first week, a respectable showing, especially considering the subject matter.<br /> <br /> Kazman said the campaign cost virtually nothing. He wrote the script and one employee did the acting and another filmed it.<br /> <br /> The CEI Web site links to the video and to a June Consumer Reports magazine article that rated top- and front-loading washing machines for energy efficiency and performance. The magazine found that since the Energy Department issued an efficiency rule in 2001, the performance of various machines has varied widely.<br /> <br /> "Not so long ago, you could count on most washers to get your clothes very clean," the article says. "Not anymore. Our latest tests found huge performance differences among machines. Some left our stain-soaked swatches nearly as dirty as they were before washing. For best results, you'll have to spend $900 or more.''<br /> <br /> Kazman, who said he owns a 21-year-old Whirlpool washing machine, took this as confirmation that predictions his group made in 2001, that the rule would wreck a "low-priced, dependable home appliance," have come true.<br /> <br /> The manufacturers of home appliances, energy-efficiency groups and regulators who are being mocked in the video disagree.<br /> <br /> Celia Kuperszmid Lehrman, deputy home editor at Consumer Reports, said the underwear campaign takes the ratings out of context. "We support energy standards for washing machines,'' she said. "There are alternatives that will wash as well as older machines. They cost more to buy but not to operate."<br /> <br /> "I think it's obnoxious; I don't think this dog barks,'' said Andrew deLaski, executive director of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project in Boston, a coalition of industry, consumer, environmental and state interests.<br /> <br /> DeLaski, who was involved in the negotiations that led to the 2001 rule, said it was expected at the time that prices would go up but that consumers would save on utility bills.<br /> <br /> "That's a regulation working pretty damn well," he said, adding that consumers can expect to save $80 annually on utility bills with the new models.<br /> <br /> Michael McCabe, a senior engineer at the Energy Department, said that nine out of 10 models Consumer Reports tested are in the price range the department predicted when it issued the rule, an extra $250.<br /> <br /> On the underwear front, Kazman said he sent his own (clean) underwear to the Energy Department. The department said the mailbox of Undersecretary Dennis R. Spurgeon is still empty.<br /> <br /> Kazman blamed the late delivery on another government policy, which subjects packages to irradiation.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://centralperk.style.it/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/275187/thumbs/r-NEWT-GINGRICH-2012-large570.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich 2012" title="Newt Gingrich 2012" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich 2012</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nogc_noproblem</div><div class="date">08-26 07:34 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">You've heard of the Air Force's ultra-high-security, super-secret base in Nevada...<br /> <br /> ..., known simply as "Area 51?" <br /> <br /> Well, late one afternoon, the Air Force folks out at Area 51 were surprised to see a Cessna landing at their "secret" base. They immediately impounded the aircraft and hauled the pilot into an interrogation room. <br /> <br /> The pilot's story was that he took off from Vegas, got lost, and spotted the Base just as he was about to run out of fuel. The Air Force started a full FBI background check on the pilot and held him overnight during the investigation. <br /> <br /> By the next day, they were finally convinced that the pilot really was lost and wasn't a spy. They gassed up his airplane, gave him a terrifying "you-did-not-see-a-base" briefing, complete with threats of spending the rest of his life in prison, told him Vegas was that-a-way on such-and-such a heading, and sent him on his way. <br /> <br /> The next day, to the total disbelief of the Air Force, the same Cessna showed up again. Once again, they surrounded the plane... only this time there were two people in the plane. <br /> <br /> The same pilot jumped out and said, "Do anything you want to me, but my wife is in the plane and you have to tell her where I was last night!"</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Newt Gingrich addresses <img src="http://images.politico.com/global/news/101028_clinton_newt_armey_6.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich are shown" title="Newt Gingrich are shown" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich are shown</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">GCKaMaara</div><div class="date">01-07 10:13 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Looks like Israel goofed up this time:<br /> <br /> http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/07/israel.gaza.school/index.html<br /> <br /> <br /> Oh really? Thats how they bombed the school and killed more than 40 kids?<br /> <br /> ....<br /> <br /> If Israel want to kill terrorist, they have every right to kill those terrorist who kill Isrealis. Instead they are bombing kids. Which is not acceptable by any people or any nation.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://profile.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/opinionzone/files/2011/05/newtmug.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Should we hold Newt Gingrich#39;s" title="Should we hold Newt Gingrich#39;s" width="470" <br><li>Should we hold Newt Gingrich#39;s</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ksr</div><div class="date">08-09 07:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">since u r the primary applicant choose option 1<br /> <br /> Thanks Priti.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot Predicting a Gingrich <img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/10/article-0-017F8A500000044D-443_468x380.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Newt Gingrich the former House" title="Newt Gingrich the former House" width="470" <br><li>Newt Gingrich the former House</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">prioritydate</div><div class="date">01-10 10:18 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">First of all, thanks for converting my argument about Europeans and native peoples into Muslims and non-Muslims. Shows us where our respective prejudices and biases lie. I am very happy when my comments on any situation are turned into a broad 'us vs them' thing. It just shows us that our primitive and primal instincts from the time when we split from the apes are still alive and kicking in some people. Its pretty fascinating for me. <br /> <br /> Secondly there is a difference between military strikes (retaliatory or otherwise), and acts of massacres. Pretty much the same as there is a difference between military confrontation and ethnic cleansing. If you condone and defend the latter, then you are pretty much defending ethnic cleansing. Striking Hamas targets are military strikes. Holing up a hundred members of an extended family into a house, and then destroying the house is an act of massacre. When we defend acts like the latter one, we defend ethnic cleansing.<br /> <br /> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/massacre-of-a-family-seeking-sanctuary-1297577.html<br /> <br /> Why you are not raising hue and cry for Sudan massacre? Oh! muslims killing muslims or muslims killing Xians! May be that is fine with you!</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://musicopazzo.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house Newt Gingrich Really Wants <img src="http://rlv.zcache.com/stop_newt_gingrich_bumper_sticker-p128546977382160757trl0_400.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Stop Newt Gingrich!" title="Stop Newt Gingrich!" width="470" <br><li>Stop Newt Gingrich!</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">08-07 07:38 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Tougher Rules Change Game for Lobbyists (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/washington/07lobby.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK New York Times, August 7, 2007<br /> <br /> WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 � H. Stewart Van Scoyoc, founder of one of the biggest lobbying firms in Washington, spent an anxious morning with his lawyer last week assessing the far-reaching ethics and lobbying rules Congress had passed the day before. <br /> <br /> The first worry was what lobbyists are calling the new �temptation rules.� Not only do they bar lawmakers and aides from accepting any gifts, meals or trips from lobbyists, they also impose penalties up to $200,000 and five years in prison on any lobbyist who provides such freebies. <br /> <br /> And worse still for Mr. Van Scoyoc, under the new law he is required to certify each quarter that none of the 50 lobbyists in his firm bought so much as a burger or cigar for someone on a lawmaker�s staff.<br /> <br /> �You are basically asking people to certify, with big penalties, that nobody has lied on their expense accounts,� Mr. Van Scoyoc said, marveling at the complexity of policing such casual contact between lobbyists and Congressional aides. �These are people who are sharing apartments together, playing on the same softball teams, each other�young people with active social lives.�<br /> <br /> The new law has quickly sent a ripple of fear through K Street. It comes amid signs that federal prosecutors are taking a newly aggressive approach to corruption cases � including treating campaign contributions as potential bribes. <br /> <br /> By requiring them to certify the good behavior of their employees, the law puts lobbyists at new legal risk and could subject them to new pressure from prosecutors. And new centralized disclosures of lobbyists� campaign contributions, fund-raising activities and even their achievements � in the form of Congressional earmarks in spending bills � make it only easier for federal investigators to paint unflattering portraits of lobbyists� influence. <br /> <br /> �It will be easier to connect dots,� said Ted Van Der Meid, a Washington lawyer who was counsel to Representative J. Dennis Hastert when he was House speaker. �Even if there shouldn�t be a connection, you are going to have to explain to them how the way they connected the dots is not what you intended. You are going to have to basically prove your innocence.�<br /> <br /> Stanley Brand, a longtime Washington defense lawyer who usually represents Democrats, said the law was a sea change. �It should send shivers down lobbyists� spines,� Mr. Brand said. �It is a minefield now.�<br /> <br /> These are hardly the first restrictions, of course. Internal rules already barred lawmakers or senior staff members from accepting a gift or a meal worth more than $50 from a lobbyist. But the rules were rarely, if ever, enforced and did not govern lobbyists.<br /> <br /> President Bush has not said whether he would sign the bill, but it is already changing the culture of Capitol Hill in myriad ways, beginning with more Dutch treats and fewer steak dinners. <br /> <br /> Lobbying firms are racing to train employees in the new rules. One firm, fearful that prosecutors might try to use the expanded disclosures to link official actions to campaign contributions, has sent letters to its clients advising them how to respond if a lawmaker brings up fund-raising in a conversation about policy or procurements. �We would love to have this conversation, but it would have to be at another time� is the short answer.<br /> <br /> One lobbyist, who would speak only anonymously to avoid attracting the attention of prosecutors or rivals, said he had started sending himself date-stamped e-mail to create a record of every phone conversation he had with a lawmaker. Then he stopped making campaign contributions.<br /> <br /> Another lobbyist recently scaled back the menu at a breakfast briefing for lawmakers, offering bagels and cream cheese instead of ham and eggs. The rules permit lobbyists to provide refreshment of �only nominal value.� The House ethics committee guidelines suggest �light appetizers and drinks, or soda and cookies,� a standard that is known as �the toothpick test.� <br /> <br /> The firm also advised a client distributing flashlights on Capitol Hill � to promote government openness � to make sure not only that they cost less than $10 each but also that they looked cheap, to avoid the appearance of impropriety.<br /> <br /> And the �staff briefing� � in which a lobbyist enticed Congressional staff members to hear a talk about some dry legislative concern by offering pizza � has become extinct. No one will come without the free food.<br /> <br /> Lobbyists complain that Congress is unfairly punishing them for the misdeeds of its own members, not to mention ruining the social lives of innocent and underpaid staff members.<br /> <br /> �All those people who grew up in the system � who aren�t evil-doers, just good people � used to be able to entertain and have fun,� lamented Jim Ervin, a veteran military industry lobbyist. <br /> <br /> Jan Baran, a longtime Republican lawyer whose clients include lobbyists, said: �There is a great deal of resentment. It�s �the devil made me do it,� and the devil this time happens to be lobbyists. They get tarred with corruption, and the next day they get mail from all the same lawmakers who are blaming lobbyists saying, �I have a fund-raiser next week � don�t forget to contribute!� �<br /> <br /> Many lobbyists say the rules pose dilemmas. Blocking them from buying dinners or trips for lawmakers, lobbyists say, will only force them to spend more time and money at political fund-raisers to get the same access. <br /> <br /> For lawmakers, one of the most contentious elements of the package is the requirement that candidates disclose the names of federally registered lobbyists who solicit and �bundle� contributions. But lobbyists say the recognition may only encourage them to bundle. Ties to lawmakers are calling cards for clients.<br /> <br /> �That is not going to be viewed as the mark of Cain or anything,� Lawrence O�Brien III, a Democratic lobbyist and fund-raiser, said dryly. �It could be perceived as bragging rights.�<br /> <br /> Other lobbyists, though, worry that prosecutors� new tactics could make fund-raising more perilous. In plea agreements involving the lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Representative Randall Cunningham, prosecutors have treated certain campaign contributions as bribes for official favors, something almost never done before.<br /> <br /> For lobbyists � who live at the nexus of contributions and favors � it is an alarming trend. �They might as well just pull up the paddy wagon outside the Capital Grille,� one lobbyist said, referring to a clubby steakhouse near the Capitol that is a well-known K Street hangout.<br /> <br /> Between the ban on buying dinners and the scrutiny of fund-raising, �It is a lose-lose situation,� said James Dyer, a lobbyist at Clark & Weinstock.<br /> <br /> A self-described �earmarks guy� who specializes in spending items, Mr. Dyer said the new rules were an invitation to scandal hunters. For the first time, the law will require disclosure of both the lawmakers who sponsor such items and the campaign contributions of the lobbyists who seek them. <br /> <br /> �It is a road map that says, �Hey, come look at me; I have got my name against an earmark,� � he said.<br /> <br /> Some loopholes exist. At the annual Aerospace Industries Association trade show in Paris last month, for example, military contractors treated a gaggle of senators to luxurious receptions at galleries, parks and hotels � all permitted under an exception for �widely attended events.�<br /> <br /> But John W. Douglass, the group�s president, said the new rules were putting a damper on such events. �Who wants to go to a hot, crowded cocktail party,� Mr. Douglass said, �and have to worry every time the guy brings the hors d�oeuvres tray up, �Should I do this or not?� �<br /> <br /> Still, some lobbyists and lawyers wondered privately how long the new carefulness would last.<br /> <br /> At the Capital Grille the evening after final passage of the new lobbying bill, private wine lockers by the door still bore the names of several prominent lobbyists. Two mounted stag heads were the only sentries policing the dimly lit bar. Shaking a Belvedere Vodka martini for a lone defense contractor, a bartender leaned in to offer his thoughts.<br /> <br /> �What happens at the Capital Grille,� the bartender said, �stays at the Capital Grille.�<br /> <br /> Fundraisers Tap Those Who Can't Say No (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601403.html) 'Bundlers' Look to Associates, Employees for Campaign Cash By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer, August 7, 2007<br /> Draining the 'Swamp' Is Not So Easy (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601298.html) Skeptics Question Bite of Ethics Rules By Elizabeth Williamson Washington Post Staff Writer, August 7, 2007</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo Newt Gingrich and the staffer <img src="http://commentariesonthetimes.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/newt-gingrich-wearing-a-beenie.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. 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Ha ha ha.<br /> <br /> Times Of India Headline: Antulay raises doubts over Karkare's killing</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://cbhelp.ca/home/index.php/site/referrers/">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures newt gingrich affair. <img src="http://www.lipmantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/20863_thumbzoom.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. /newt-gingrich-my-affair-" title="/newt-gingrich-my-affair-" width="470" <br><li>/newt-gingrich-my-affair-</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gcgreen</div><div class="date">08-06 12:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Same as you, I saw your post and couldn't help responding :-)<br /> <br /> For what its worth, I too have a PhD, and one would generally agree my academic credentials are impeccable, etc. etc. (Honest, I am not tooting my own horn)<br /> <br /> But I think Rolling Flood is wrong. Way off base. The reason is simple. Work experience COUNTS. You are a fresh Ph.D. graduate, but believe me even you will feel the difference 5 years down the line (3 years in your case :-). If a person gains experience, the USCIS believes that allows a person to be eligible for a job that falls under EB2 classification. <br /> <br /> Now as a very separate and distinct matter, the law says if a person already has a prior approved I140, then that priority date rules. That is the law. <br /> <br /> Now the logical conclusion of the two separate concepts above is that if a person is the beneficiary for an EB2 job, which by dint of experience, he/she simply is per USCIS and most companies (which is why people get promoted to senior/management positions :-), then that person is allowed by law to port their priority date.<br /> <br /> What RollingFlood and the other so-called (RollingFlood: I am not calling you one, but others have called you something similar ;-) smarter-than-thous are making a mistake on is to conflate two separate issues and making a ego-oriented mess in the process. Make no mistake, RollingFlood is very clear in delineating the skill of a person from the job requirements, which many of the EB3 IVians appear to have missed. But nonetheless, his logic is a bit mixed up on the law. It is incontrovertible (assuming that we have correct citations) that the language of the law is saying that an earlier priority date rules. The only issue is whether 5 years or more of experience required for a job makes that job worthy of an EB2 classification. RollingFlood has not explained why a job that requires 5 years or more experience in addition to a B.S. does not make it eligible for EB2. Without that he is likely going to waste a lot of money on lawyers. <br /> <br /> <br /> I agree with "singhsa". <br /> I was reading through this thread and couldn't help replying.<br /> <br /> Before i voice my opinion, i would like to mention that I have a Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering (2002-2006 from a very reputed univ. in the US). My husband's employer (non-IT) had applied for his GC in EB3 - in 2005 which makes sense since the job required a B.S (Even though he was MS and was working for this company since 2002). We have our 485s filed and are using our APs/EADs. Now, i haven't applied for GC through my employer yet, but if i apply, it would most likely be EB1 or 2, and would love to port my PD of 2005. The reason i haven't done that is because i personally do not think that getting a GC couple of years earlier is going to make my life any different than it currently is.<br /> <br /> Having said that, I completely understand what "rolling flood" is trying to say. And I also agree to what his point of view is. When a person who initially agreed to apply with EB3, changes his mind/company/ or whatever and wants to apply in EB2, he should theoretically start over. Why is it reasonable that he/she cuts in line ahead of a person who was already there. There is a reason why these categories are formed. <br /> <br /> Shady means or non-shady means, EB2 means that u have superior qualifications and you are more desirable in the US. <br /> EB3 means there are a lot like u, so u gotta wait more. Period.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses Newt Gingrich the former House <img src="http://fitsnews.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/newt-gingrich.jpg%3Fw%3D460" alt="newt gingrich affair. 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You won't read such things in CNN or Fox or BBC.<br /> <br /> http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-why-do-they-hate-the-west-so-much-we-will-ask-1230046.html<br /> <br /> Who Robert Fisk is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk. He is one of the very few journalists who speak the truth.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend Newt Gingrich is a <img src="http://www.darkendeavors.com/imbedded_images/03082007cartoon1.gif" alt="newt gingrich affair. hopeful Newt Gingrich." title="hopeful Newt Gingrich." width="470" <br><li>hopeful Newt Gingrich.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Alabaman</div><div class="date">08-13 08:11 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">... nonetheless, we should all contact CNN or even his show to make a point.. I'll try to fill out his form. I can't believe how CNN has degenerated itself to today's standings..<br /> <br /> <br /> better still, we should contact Fox news... they would be glad to talk about this and CNN would then have to respond ;)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles Should we hold Newt Gingrich#39;s <img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/255914/thumbs/r-LAWRENCE-ODONNELL-large570.jpg" alt="newt gingrich affair. Of Newt Gingrich#39;s Affair" title="Of Newt Gingrich#39;s Affair" width="470" <br><li>Of Newt Gingrich#39;s Affair</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">thomachan72</div><div class="date">08-06 04:28 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">THERE IS THIS GOOD OLD BARBER IN SOME CITY IN THE AMERICA....<br /> <br /> ONE DAY A FLORIST GOES TO HIM FOR A HAIRCUT. AFTER THE CUT, HE GOES TO PAY THE BARBER AND THE BARBER REPLIES: "I AM SORRY. I CANNOT ACCEPT MONEY FROM YOU.I AM DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE." THE FLORIST IS HAPPY AND LEAVES THE SHOP.<br /> <br /> THE NEXT MORNING WHEN THE BARBER GOES TO OPEN HIS SHOP, THERE IS A THANK YOU CARD AND A DOZEN ROSES WAITING AT HIS DOOR.<br /> <br /> A POLICEMAN GOES FOR A HAIRCUT AND HE ALSO GOES TO PAY THE BARBER AFTER THE CUT. BUT THE BARBER REPLIES:"I AM SORRY. I CANNOT ACCEPT MONEY FROM YOU. I AM DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE." THE COP IS HAPPY AND LEAVES THE SHOP.<br /> <br /> THE NEXT MORNING THE BARBER GOES TO OPEN HIS SHOP, THERE IS A THANK YOU CARD AND A DOZEN DONUTS WAITING AT HIS DOOR.<br /> <br /> AN INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER GOES FOR A HAIRCUT AND HE ALSO GOES TO PAY THE BARBER AFTER THE CUT. BUT THE BARBER REPLIES: I AM SORRY. I CANNOT ACCEPT MONEY FROM YOU. I AM DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE. THE INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER IS HAPPY AND LEAVES.<br /> <br /> ..Enjoy<br /> <br /> THE NEXT MORNING WHEN THE BARBER GOES TO OPEN HIS SHOP, GUESS WHAT HE <br /> FINDS<br /> THERE...<br /> <br /> CAN YOU GUESS?<br /> <br /> DO YOU KNOW THE ANSWER YET?<br /> <br /> COME ON, THINK LIKE A INDIAN....<br /> <br /> A DOZEN INDIANS WAITING FOR A HAIRCUT........!!!!!<br /> well most of us guessed the answer because as soon as we read about the barber we were thinking of asking whether you knew his address!!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-27 06:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">India chasing a U.N. chimera (http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article995760.ece) By K. S. DAKSHINA MURTHY | The Hindu<br /> <br /> In recent years it has become standard practice for the Indian media to ask visiting foreign dignitaries where they stand on New Delhi's claim to a permanent seat in the UNSC. If the answers are in the affirmative, there are smiles all round and the glow is then transmitted to readers or viewers as the case may be.<br /> <br /> Among the Permanent Five in the Council, the United Kingdom has long affirmed support, so have France and Russia. China has remained non-committal. So the United States' stand was deemed crucial. When President Barack Obama, during his recent visit, backed India for a permanent seat, the joy was palpable. The media went to town as if it were just a matter of time before India joined the select group of the World's almighty. The happiness lasted a few days until the first tranche of WikiLeaks punctured the mood somewhat.<br /> <br /> The revelation of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's classified whisper, describing India as a self-appointed front-runner exposed Washington's innermost thoughts on the subject. Though the embarrassing leak was subsequently sought to be played down, it opened the curtain to a larger truth which is that the U.S. and the other four have never really been interested in real reforms to the Security Council.<br /> <br /> Public pronouncements, positive affirmations and slap-on-the-back relationships don't necessarily translate into action on the ground.<br /> <br /> Reforms<br /> <br /> Jakob Silas Lund of the Centre for U.N. Reform Education states a few individuals within the process believe that some of the Permanent Five countries “are more than happy to see reform moving at near-zero-velocity speed”.<br /> <br /> The reforms are open to interpretation. Broadly, they mean democratisation of the Security Council to make it representative and in tune with the contemporary world. This, for some, means more permanent members. The Group of four — India, Brazil, Japan and Germany — has been the most vocal in demanding it be included.<br /> <br /> What is surprising, especially where India is concerned, is the hope and optimism that it is heading towards a permanent seat. In reality, a committee set up by the United Nations 17 years ago to go into reforms shows little signs of progress.<br /> <br /> The first meeting was held in 1994 of the U.N. group, a mouthful, called the “Open-Ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Related to the Security Council”. Until now, this group has completed four rounds of negotiations, just on preliminaries.<br /> <br /> A brief peek into the past will make it clear that the addition of more veto-wielding permanent members to the Council is a veritable pipe dream. For any amendment to the U.N. charter, two-thirds of the General Assembly needs to acquiesce. This may be possible but the next requirement, that of ratification by the Permanent Five, is the real obstacle.<br /> <br /> Since the formation of the United Nations in 1945, there have been only a handful of meetings of the Security Council to discuss the original charter, and even that, merely to discuss minor amendments. One of some significance came about in 1965 when the membership of temporary, non-veto powered countries in the Council was increased from six to 10 and the number of votes required to pass any decision increased to nine from seven.<br /> <br /> As academic and U.N. commentator Thomas G. Weiss wrote in the Washington Quarterly, “Most governments rhetorically support the mindless call for equity, specifically by increasing membership and eliminating the veto. Yet, no progress has been made on these numerical or procedural changes because absolutely no consensus exists about the exact shape of the Security Council or the elimination of the veto.”<br /> <br /> The argument for a bigger, more representative Council is undoubtedly valid but the issue is who will implement it and how.<br /> <br /> U.S. is the prime mover<br /> <br /> In today's global equation the U.S. is the acknowledged prime mover. It has already had to sweat it out to convince the other four members to go with it on several issues, like the sanctions against Iran. If more countries are allowed to join the Council the difficulties for U.S. interests are obvious, even if those included are vetted for their closeness to Washington.<br /> <br /> Real and effective reforms should have meant democratisation of the Security Council to reflect the aspirations of all its members. Ideally, this should mean removal of permanency and the veto power to be replaced with a rotating membership for all countries, where each one big or small, powerful or weak gets to sit for a fixed term in the hallowed seats of the Council. This is unthinkable within the existing framework of the United Nations. At the heart of the issue is the reluctance of the Permanent Five to give up the prized veto power.<br /> <br /> The situation is paradoxical given that democracy is being touted, pushed and inflicted by the U.S. across the world. But democracy seems to end where the Security Council begins. The rest of the world has no choice but to bow to its decisions. The consequences for defying the Council can be terrifying as was experienced by Saddam Hussein's Iraq through the 1990's. Iran is now on the receiving end for its defiance on the nuclear issue.<br /> <br /> Not just that, the credibility of the Security Council itself took a beating over its inability to prevent the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Having failed to convince France, Russia and China to vote for invading Iraq, the U.S. went alone. The Council was reduced to a bystander. It failed to fulfil its primary task, that of ensuring security — to Iraq.<br /> <br /> What this also implies is that Council or no Council, in today's unipolar world, the U.S. will go with what it decides and no one can stop it. This has been the case particularly since the end of the Cold War. “With a U.S. global presence as great as that of any empire in history, Security Council efforts to control U.S. actions are beginning to resemble the Roman Senate's efforts to control the emperor,” writes Weiss.<br /> <br /> Instead of trying to clamber onto a patently unfair arrangement it would have made more sense if the four self-appointed front-runners along with the rest of the world had demanded a more equitable and representative Council.<br /> <br /> To achieve this, academic and U.N. expert Erik Voeten suggests pressure tactics to counter veto power. One tactic is for countries en bloc to ignore the decisions taken in the Security Council. Another is for Germany and Japan, which are among the largest contributors to the United Nations, to turn off the tap.<br /> <br /> Despite this, if nothing happens, countries may have no choice but to look for, or at least threaten to float, an alternative U.N.-like organisation whose structure would be more in tandem with the contemporary world. Idealistic, perhaps. But this should force the Permanent Five to sit up and take real notice.<br /> <br /> K.S. Dakshina Murthy was formerly Editor of Al Jazeera based in Doha, Qatar</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">akred</div><div class="date">04-08 08:02 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">IBM and Oracle will survive without H1B as they will hire US workers and set back will be temporary for them. So this bill is targeting the Indian bodyshoppers who are running company just by H1b persons. This was expected for long time. If it is not happening now it is going to happen in a few years. We knew that hundreds of US companies went out of business after 2000 as they were not able to compete with Indian consulting companies because of rate.<br /> <br /> If this bill passes as it is, then the impact will be much greater than targetting bodyshoppers. To reiterate, problematic aspects of this bill are -<br /> <br /> 1. Requires a labor certification like process for all H1B applications regardless of whether application is for new employment, transfer to a new job or an extension of a previous job. This will lead to greater job insecurity for the H1B worker as there will be multiple chances provided to prove availability of US workers instead of the single step process today for the formal labor certification for a green card. This process would be similar to the bully who insists on multiple chances to provide the right answer, and the right answer is pre-determined.<br /> <br /> 2. Prohibition of consulting due to prohibition of outplacement. <br /> <br /> 3. No differntiation between the role H1B plays as a market access mechanism for foreign companies and as a bridge to the green card for domestic companies.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-18196867748147621682011-07-12T08:16:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.145-07:00pippa middleton picturesimages Pippa Middleton #39;Is Pippa#39;s <img src="http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/le/holly_branson_220411/pippa-middleton-holly-branson_3305829.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton Picture" title="Pippa Middleton Picture" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton Picture</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">addsf345</div><div class="date">12-18 02:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">:mad:Abdul Rehman Antulay. Current cabinet minister and EX Maharastra CM. The guy who created biggest cement scandal at the time and was exposed by Arun Shourie. <br /> <br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Antulay<br /> <br /> what he did is not surprising.<br /> <br /> Mohd. Azharudding also did it before.<br /> <br /> He was selected captain, after some of the worst historical defeats as a captain - he was still trusted to retain captainship by BCCI.<br /> <br /> However after years of captianship, when he was caught red-handed in match fixing scandal, he did not even wasted a moment to give a statement that he is being harrased in hindu india because he is a minority.:mad::mad:<br /> <br /> similary saif ali khan after having a hindu mother, hindu ex-wife, hindu girlfriend and a stardom and large number of hindu fans, did not wasted a moment but blamed hindus that being a muslim he is not able to buy a flat in mumbai.<br /> <br /> what do you expect from such mentality?</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper Pippa Middleton Picture <img src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/PippaMiddleton_415.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton" title="Pippa Middleton" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mariner5555</div><div class="date">03-24 01:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">True.<br /> <br /> I am sure you were not born in this country and brought up. Think about the enjoyment you had when you were young. Playing with 10 kids of your age everyday, running stairs up and down, cycling around the communities. Don't our kids deserve the same?<br /> They should not end up as "GC" victims.<br /> (my final thoughts ...)<br /> well one point is clear - those who have a house will justify it and those who rent will justify the same. <br /> I don't expect those who bought house to say that they made a mistake ..they have to justify (rightly) their decision even if they paid more. and I agree with them.<br /> both have their valid points but from what I have observed quality of life actually goes down a little when you buy a house at inflated prices or buy a house beyond yr means (as both hus / wife have to work etc etc ..many even end up cooking food once a week - if u know what I mean).<br /> I am from bombay -- and actually we had more fun in the buildings / apartments because you end up spending more time outdoors with friends. now ofcourse people will say they stayed in bungalows in smaller cities and they had fun too ..and I agree. similarly I know few people / friends who bought houses here (in USA) in such isolated / wealthy surroundings that their kid / kids have no friends !! ,<br /> similarly other in a hurry brought a house so far from work / city that they are in a soup !! some of their wives simply cannot drive or will take years to learn or they have only one car ..the net result - husband goes to work from 8 to 7 (including transit time) - kids end up at home (ofcourse they run up and down the stairs - watching TV). whereas in an apt - the chances that you would find someone in similar position is more (i.e. kids of same age who can play together is higher). maybe when they grow and go to school - things will be better -- I guess in the end it is personal.<br /> ...also just because someone buys a house - doesnt necessarily mean higher std of living and simarly those who rent - it doesnt mean that they have lower std of living ...in the end it is personal decision !! but in present scenario --- looking before leaping definitely makes sense. rather than buying a house quickly - just because everyone else is doing the same ..).<br /> BTW there are lots of articles out there which explains why renting is not throwing money away !!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Pippa%2BMiddleton%2BPippa%2BMiddleton%2BKings%2BRoad%2BNaK64DYNgU-l.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. 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EB3s please write this letter, ask your friends, family etc...<br /> <br /> Also send send a copy to congress woman The Honorable Zoe Lofgren (Chairwoman<br /> Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security<br /> and International Law, House Committee on the Judiciary,517 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 Pippa Middleton <img src="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/apr2011/9/7/image-1-for-royal-wedding-pippa-middleton-gallery-761375138.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. 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"<br /> <br /> The jeweler asked how payment would be made and the young man stated, "<br /> by cheque."<br /> <br /> "I know you need to make sure my cheque is good, so I'll write it now<br /> and you can call the bank Monday to verify the funds and I'll pick the<br /> ring up Monday afternoon. "<br /> <br /> Monday morning, a very teed-off jeweler phoned the young man. " There's<br /> no money in that account."<br /> <br /> "I know ", said the young man, "but can you imagine the weekend I had?</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://saturalanx.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i.rickey.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Pippa-Middleton-breaks-up-with-boyfriend.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton breaks up with" title="Pippa Middleton breaks up with" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton breaks up with</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sanju</div><div class="date">05-17 10:08 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">You have no arguments that make sense. You are arguing that doing something illegal is a great thing to do. Not so. And yes, I do support the bill as it will weed out some fraudsters from amongst us, who give the H-1B program a very bad rep.<br /> <br /> The problem is not that it will "weed out some fraudsters from amongst us", the problem is that it will also force deserving people to leave, people waiting in line for 6 or more years in green card line. No one is arguing that "something illegal is a great thing to do" but the argument is, it is justified to implicate and screw-up someone who has done nothing wrong. Durbin-Grassley bill says that it intends to stop abuse and it goes ahead to screw-up everybody. Do you think that everybody here waiting for employment based green card is "illegal"???</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.urbannewsroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/alg_pippa-middleton.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton is considered" title="Pippa Middleton is considered" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton is considered</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">arc</div><div class="date">04-13 04:10 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I don't think it's good time to buy in CA.. Just wait for option ARM reset and market will drop more.<br /> <br /> In California have anyone explored a Duplex/Triplex market where 2 parties buy a multiplex togather they pay less money, get a good location and good school district. I have heard a lot of success stories, plus duplex is like 2 single family homes with yards/decks etc. 2 friends buy the property togather, you also get usual tax deduction and NO HOA like town homes... (if you pay 300/mo HOA you end up paying 108000 in 30 years). I think owning a multiplex for about 5 years then renting it out and getting a single family home makes a lot of sense for long term...what say!</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://icone.goldenweb.it/index_file/l/en/d2/animals/c/insects/default.html">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.theiconconcierge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Pippa-Middleton.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. wallpaper pippa middleton" title="wallpaper pippa middleton" width="470" <br><li>wallpaper pippa middleton</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">paskal</div><div class="date">07-14 05:37 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Thanks. I will look into it further when I get a chance. the number of GC granted in a year is complicated- and for the moment I speak offhand so correct me if needed. Till 2005, the recapture clouded the numbers. After that EB3 benefited from a Schedule A recapture that went almost entirely to EB3, a lot to EB3 Philipenes and a good chunk to EB3 India.<br /> <br /> AFAIK last year though, once that was ll over and vertical spillover was implemented, EB2/EB3 Inid should both have got only the strict country quota mandated GC numbers.<br /> <br /> Anway- offhand as I said...gotto rum.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Paskal,<br /> <br /> Your post made me look again into the text. Alright, I see some things now, doesnt fully explain the lack of EB3 numbers but let me summarize.. <br /> <br /> EB2-ROW-> EB2(general-pool). I have always conceded that this should be the case. (for those who disagree, see my initial posts). <br /> <br /> My point always has been on the spillover of EB1 numbers, that very clearly is to be shared amongst EB2 and EB3 (and if you apply USCIS "new" yard-stick), this will be first-come-first serve, so pretty much will help the most regressed category. However, it is my contention that in making the change of the Veritcal/Horizontal spillover (is there any "memo" on this?), USCIS went a step further than what they should have done. They denied EB1 spillover to EB3.<br /> <br /> <br /> For the rest EB3ers, here is the relevant post that supports EB2-ROW to Eb2->general-pool. But it does not say anything about EB1 numbers<br /> <br /> <br /> "If the total number of visas available under paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 203(b) for a calendar quarter exceeds the number of qualified immigrants who may otherwise be issued such visas, the visas made available under that paragraph shall be issued without regard to the numerical limit ....</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Pippa Middleton Pippa Middleton shows off her athletic physique in a form <img src="http://www.myvisitingcard.com/wp-content/uploads/Pippa-Middleton-Underwear-Pics-Hit-The-Web-For-Week1.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. 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That does not mean EB2 should have ALL spill over numbers. Split it 75-25 if not 50-50. Dec 2001 for a retrogressed country is just unfair. When you issue some EB2 2006 numbers issue some to EB3 2002 people as well. Is it too much?<br /> <br /> Fairness is not what this is about. That is the whole issue. Is it fair that EB2 India has been waiting for years while EB2ROW has been current? Is it fair EB1 is over supplied with visas while EB2 India even EB2NIW was left heavily retrogressed? Worse yet, is it fair that the USCIS interpreted the law wrongly and gave visas to EB3ROW at the expense of EB2I? Was Labor Subs. Fair?<br /> <br /> It is not about fair my friend. I am not unsympathetic to your plea for more EB3I relief. There absolutely should be some, and through a legislative fix. However the executive branch of Gov't has to implement the law as it stands.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Pippa Middleton (Pic:DM) <img src="http://static.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/pippa-middleton-and-prince-harry_528x384.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton and Prince" title="Pippa Middleton and Prince" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton and Prince</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">inspectorfox</div><div class="date">03-23 03:23 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Immigration uncertainties should not be a reason for not buying a house in the US. In my opinion it�s always best to buy a house considering it as a long term investment � You will eventually build equity even though the present US housing market is in doldrums. <br /> <br /> I played the housing game differently to minimize the risks associated with my present immigration scenario (I am on 8th year H1B with I140 pending since Oct 2006)... <br /> 1) I did not buy an expensive place even though I could easily qualify for $500K mortgage.<br /> 2) I put only 3% down payment on my mortgage instead of conventional 20%. It was a difficult decision to make due to PMI but I feel more secure with cash liquidity. <br /> <br /> I am an optimistic person but here is my realistic backup strategy if anything falls apart due to immigration (Worse case scenario) - <br /> <br /> 1) Sell the house and move out of the US (Housing market conditions could be a determining factor)<br /> 2) Rent the house (I don't think this should be a problem... LOCATION is the key)<br /> 3) Go into Foreclosure (Highly unlikely but you are destined to be screwed anyways)<br /> <br /> Does anyone have a better backup plan? Please share here :)</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.xcorp.fr/index.php?mod=stats&aff=referer&int_page=290">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/may2011/4/7/pippa-middleton-without-any-make-up-image-1-82111358.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. Pippa Middleton without any" title="Pippa Middleton without any" width="470" <br><li>Pippa Middleton without any</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">kumar1</div><div class="date">08-06 01:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Dude - If you have issues, then fight for 50,000 Green Cards that USA gives away every year through a lottery. Why Indians are not eligible for that? Do you know that more than 80% of green cards are given based on family relations? They get green card just because their relative is a US citizen? Is it fair? Why an Indian/Chinesse graduate from Stanford should wait 6-10 years where someone is getting green card because his distant uncle (They do not remember when they met last time) is a naturalized US citizen? Even worse, fight against those scams where a non immigrant marries a US citizen for just getting green cards. Flight for those who have seen Backlog Reduction/Elimination days.....<br /> <br /> Out of all these causes, you got EB2/EB3 interfile cause? Shame on you! Please stop saying that you are from IIT. I have done B Tech from IIT and I do not remember that system producing garbage like you!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot Pippa Middleton breaks up with <img src="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/apr2011/8/6/image-3-for-royal-wedding-pictures-of-pippa-middleton-gallery-623720846.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. 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EB2 I will go back, a lot, this is just a temporary flood gate to use the remaining Gc numbers for the year. meanwhile, the plight of EB3I is truly bad. lets please keep working on the recapture/exemption/ country quota bill trio that would incraese available Gc numbers- for ALL our sakes.<br /> <br /> Paskal,<br /> Thanks for your post. But I beg to differ. If calling a spade a spade without any implication built into the language is slander/chest thumping then I stand down. You are free to moderate the forum per the framework laid out.<br /> <br /> However here is some food for thought for the mods and the community at large:<br /> <br /> 1. Is IV officially and specifically endorsing this consideration campaign of giving numbers to EB3 based on the letter.<br /> 2. If not, then the implication in the letter is that IV is doing so based on the logo used.<br /> 3. Lets take a step back and think over what the letter/campaign/posts in this thread are asking the USCIS to do.<br /> 4. There is a request to allocate numbers to EB3 based on length of wait.<br /> 5. These numbers can only come from EB1 or EB2 given that the pie is not going to grow pending new legislation.<br /> 6. If we accept that EB2ROW spill over can go only to EB2-Retro and only after EB2-Retro becomes current can they flow to EB3 (ROW/Retro) then the only source of visa numbers for EB3-Retro becomes EB1 spill over.<br /> 7. We are then saying that some EB1 spill over should go to both EB2 retro and EB3 ROW/retro. Even in this case EB3 ROW has to become current, then satisfy EB2-Retro and only then flow down to EB3-Retro.<br /> 8. If this is the case then one of two things can happen. Either the spill over from EB1 is small enough to satisfy EB3 ROW and EB2-Retro partially leaving EB3-Retro still high and dry or the spill over is so large that it makes EB3ROW current, EB2-Retro current and moves EB3-Retro forward. Given the sheer volume of EB2-Retro petitions that is unlikely to happen even if the spill over is large.<br /> 9. This means that the letter is really asking for EB1 spill over to be such that it makes EB3 ROW current and then splits the remainder between EB2-Retro and EB3-Retro - On what basis - I have no clue. We are sub-ordinating EB2-Retro to EB3ROW and considering it on par with EB3-Retro. Think about that for a moment. The law allows you to ignore the country limit. It does not allow you to ignore the category and country limit unless everything is current.<br /> 10. Even worse, if EB3-Retro is not claiming such a large spill over from EB1 then the only way EB3-Retro can move fwd is if EB2-ROW spill over is split with EB3 making the allocation logic even more egregious - all based on length of stay and compassionate grounds.<br /> <br /> If the IT gurus on this forum care to draw a flow chart based on my points above they'll realize the obvious - the only implication in the language of this letter without directly putting any language to that effect is to shaft EB2-Retro and allocate numbers to EB3-Retro. <br /> <br /> I am only stating what is blatantly obvious. Again if this is chest thumping, I stand down - but as I have said before, I will call it as I see it. You are welcome to differ and I look forward to comments from the community – flattering or otherwise. As to the EB2 dates’ moving back, that is a part and parcel of life. Besides they have been stuck at Apr 2004 for more than a year so another year it is. 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A case in point is the murder of the pwd engineer in UP, which initially was played down by the CM of that state, but after she realized that post 26/11, the entire nation is demanding accountability of every single beaurcrat, she backed off and started the judicial process moving<br /> <br /> Off course she may still try to circumvent the law with all her efforts, but i doubt if she will cause other politicians and administrators like her have now understood that the common man who till now had a chalta hai attitude has now decided to stand up and ensure that the process of cleansing which leads to accountability has started.<br /> <br /> Now it is up to us to make sure that we continue this process improvement, so that no country will dare to do such acts in future<br /> <br /> As i said in my first post...we have to first clean up our act....<br /> <br /> As the great poet Kabir said....'I went out to search for the bad every where outside of me...but after deep introspection...i realized that first I had to improve....and remove the bad from within'<br /> <br /> Lets keep focussed and clean ourselves and our people...automatically we will see improvement.....</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend The Pippa Middleton effect has <img src="http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2011/news/110620/pippa-middleton-440.jpg" alt="pippa middleton pictures. 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Hope you get some help<br /> <br /> 4) Call customer service - 1-800-375-5283 and talk to rep.<br /> <br /> Best of luck</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">devikas81</div><div class="date">12-19 01:38 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">All Pakistanis are not a Terrorist but all Terrorist are Pakistanis..</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gk_2000</div><div class="date">07-30 03:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I emailed Sen Hutchinson from Texas to vote NO for the DREAM Act and I called it "Organized and Controlled" amnesty as illegal kids who will get GCs will be able to sponsor their illegal parents for GC after 4 years.<br /> <br /> All the illegals who have kids in college will get get GC's in 4 yrs after their kids pass college while EB3 has to wait for 20 years. This is a joke. Look at the reply from the Sen below:<br /> <br /> On March 26, 2009, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced S. 729, the DREAM Act, which would allow states to offer in-state tuition rates to long-term resident immigrant students. The bill also would allow certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children to have their immigration or residency status adjusted to conditional permanent resident status or permanent resident status. The DREAM Act has been referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, on which I do not serve. Should S. 729 come before the full Senate, you may be certain I will keep your views in mind.<br /> <br /> Great work..<br /> <br /> Reminds me of my reply from Barbara Boxer:<br /> <br /> Dear Mr. xxxx:<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Thank you for taking the time to write and share your views with me. Your comments will help me continue to represent you and other Californians to the best of my ability. Be assured that I will keep your views in mind as the Senate considers legislation on this or similar issues.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> If you would like additional information about my work in the U.S. Senate, I invite you to visit my website, Official Website of U.S Senator Barbara Boxer: Home (http://boxer.senate.gov). From this site, you can send a message to me about current events or pending legislation, access my statements and press releases, request copies of legislation and government reports, and receive detailed information about the many services that I am privileged to provide for my constituents. You may also wish to visit THOMAS (Library of Congress) (http://thomas.loc.gov) to track current and past federal legislation.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate hearing from you.<br /> <br /> Barbara Boxer<br /> United States Senator</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-78741659238248463132011-07-12T06:33:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.145-07:00billy graham family photosimages tattoo Billy Graham last week, <img src="http://www.rookiepastor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/billygraham-praying1.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. girlfriend Billy Graham Family" title="girlfriend Billy Graham Family" width="470" <br><li>girlfriend Billy Graham Family</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Marphad</div><div class="date">12-17 03:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I respect your post. <br /> <br /> Marphad,<br /> <br /> In the recent past, I expressed my views about the same subject on this forum. I was very angry with what happened in Mumbai. The desire to fix the wrong has not faded, but now that I look back, I regret some of the things I said at that time. My comments did not do any good and some of the coments offend few others on this forum. Those who felt offended by my comments are just as entitled to these forums as I am. I am not trying to be politically correct, just trying to say that it doesn't serves any purpose to discuss this issue on IV fourms.<br /> <br /> Branding all people from a specific faith doesn't help in anyways. For too long men have fought because of religion and each such time was avoidable.<br /> <br /> I do have a suggestion. 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The only way one can legally immigrate with skills is via H1b visa and he is against it.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/193/781/032/billy-graham-hc-hardcover-one-thing-i-do-1954-hc-book-f1bbf.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. 2010 Billy Graham in Montreat," title="2010 Billy Graham in Montreat," width="470" <br><li>2010 Billy Graham in Montreat,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ameryki</div><div class="date">03-23 08:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">go for it mate. i bought a home in my 3rd year of H1 granted now I have Ead etc but immigration was never a factor when investing in a pad...hope this helps</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 hairstyles Billy Graham Quotes <img src="http://blog.newsok.com/religionandvalues/files/2011/05/billygraham2007.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. 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In the end if you are desperate for more space (or if you get a super offer and have permanent status) etc then buy but if you are a person who doesnot want to pay more for an item than it is worth ...then wait. (especially if you are on EAD or H1).<br /> also some feel (And say to others) that they have to rush to buy since many say it is a best time to buy and prices will go high v.soon ..the answer to this is a big No. (prices won't go up any time soon ..instead it will fall some more. and in most locations there will always be plenty of houses for sale).</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://blog.thememorabiliaman.com/index.php?blog=1&cat=3">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.guesshowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Billy-Graham.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. illy graham family photos." title="illy graham family photos." width="470" <br><li>illy graham family photos.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Refugee_New</div><div class="date">01-06 02:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Unfortunately Hamas has been using this school as human shield launching missiles against Israel military. You need to consider all acts before accusing Israel of killing innocents.<br /> <br /> Hamas must stop their methodology of using innocent civilian homes/schools as launch pads for bombings and they must drop their quest of eliminating a Jewish state. Similarly Israel should recognize Palestine as a separate independent country.<br /> <br /> If its true, why media is not showing how Hamas is hiding behind schools and mosques? Its a big lie and this is what they say in order to justify the killing. Also what rockets you are talking about? Those 7000 rockets that killed 4 people? I agree Hamas must stop their mindless and useless rocket attack.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.thesbnn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Billy-Graham.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. 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Give me my marching orders.<br /> This bill could go as a rider to STRIVE, there is less chance of STRIVE being passed as it is. 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They surely don�t know the difference��<br /> <br /> Paul continued:<br /> <br /> See, if you took out an option pay ARM loan in 2005 and bought a few properties like the hotshot 24-year old Southern California real estate mogul � on average you would be able to make 40 months of BELOW interest rate mortgage payments (I use the word payment loosely).<br /> <br /> After about 40 months your 2% b.s. payment would make the loan grow to about 115% of the original amount and then � WHAMMO � your loan would recast to a 27-year fully amortizing mortgage. Your payments would go from $1,000 a month to over $3,000 and you would be walking around wondering, like �What is happening?� A good analogy is the three-year no-payment, no-interest Circuit City TV loan. The catch is that in month 37 you owe ALL back interest � usually about double the original charge.<br /> <br /> The guys talking about resets are trying to confuse the situation. The option arm loan was very popular through 1Q07 - so take 40 months from that date, plus 3 months for them to go 90 days late and then and only will you see foreclosures start to level off.<br /> <br /> To further drive home the point, Paul adds:<br /> <br /> The reason why CFC, WM, WB, DSL and FED are all imploding is because the 2003 - 2004 pay option arm loans are all recasting and then going 90 days late. But all you need to know is pay option arm loans have a teaser payment that will last until the loan goes 110%-125% of original value and then the loan RECASTS to a fully amortizing loan. That is how a payment skyrockets - its simple math. Whereas payments can�t realistically double or triple with a simple ARM reset, most are capped every year - again the math is pretty simple.<br /> <br /> The resets do indeed peak in the middle of this year and then taper off. It�s also true that the Fed cuts mean that the reset leads to no increase in monthly payments for about 20% of borrowers and for less than $100/month for another 20%, based on an article I read in the WSJ a few days ago. But:<br /> <br /> 1) That means for 60% of homeowners, the reset will more more than $100/month � for some, a lot more.<br /> <br /> 2) Mortgages with teaser rates written from Q1 05 - Q2 07 are defaulting at catastrophically high rates before the reset � a whole lotta people can�t even pay the teaser rates!<br /> <br /> 3) Bulls are missing the lag effects. It takes an average of 15 months from the date of the first missed payment to sale of the house, so the fact that resets are tapering off by the end of this year means the wave of foreclosures and home auctions the resets trigger won�t hit until mid to late 2009 into 2010.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://1cinema.org/mediadetails.php?mid=30&&language=german">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://newdoc.us/img/327_reverend-billy-graham-8211-a-man-of-many-wonders.png" alt="billy graham family photos. Reverend Billy Graham – A" title="Reverend Billy Graham – A" width="470" <br><li>Reverend Billy Graham – A</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">abracadabra102</div><div class="date">08-06 05:49 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Dear Friend,<br /> <br /> The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a "honk if you love Jesus" bumper sticker. 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I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love!<br /> <br /> There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a "sunny beach"... I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.<br /> <br /> Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back. My grandson burst out laughing ... he was enjoying this religious experience, too!<br /> <br /> A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, I waved to all my sisters and brothers grinning, and drove on through the intersection. 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That is just priceless. No, H-1B renewal will be impossible IF YOU ARE NOT HERE BASED ON HONEST CIRCUMSTANCES. Anyone with trouble renewing H-1Bs after this bill should get a real job or leave if they are not up to that task.<br /> <br /> It makes me very sad to read this kind of comments. Are we DISHONEST because we work for a consultant company? I see that DISCRIMINATION comes in a GREAT variety of flavors.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://alduccio92.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://goodnewsdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/will-franklin-billy-graham.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. banner of the Billy Graham" title="banner of the Billy Graham" width="470" <br><li>banner of the Billy Graham</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gc28262</div><div class="date">03-24 03:16 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I was one of you and I mainly deal with many of you guys. Unfortunately, people want to come into this country in many different ways and just because we want to; doesn't mean they are going to let us.<br /> <br /> btw; see --------------------------------for my comments.<br /> <br /> UN,<br /> <br /> I can't help asking this.<br /> I have been following your posts for a while. I know you are quite knowledgeable in immigration.<br /> <br /> But many of your posts indicate you have a bias against Indians. You seem to be going hard against H1B and saying Indians are screwing H1Bs. <br /> <br /> I like to believe you are unbiased. 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This just means something has to give up, which is house price.<br /> If you are already not in a house, wait as you might be able to buy at much lower prices. Jump into RE as investment now only if you have enough cash to sustain upto 30% drop in home prices !!<br /> <br /> So what do you advise, is it right time to refinance or wait it out and why?</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.rameniac.com/reviews/referrers/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house tattoo evangelist Billy Graham <img src="http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/FILE%252525252BIn%252525252BProfile%252525252BBilly%252525252BGraham%252525252BTaiwLybyOnBl.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. 2010 illy graham family billy" title="2010 illy graham family billy" width="470" <br><li>2010 illy graham family billy</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">08-14 09:12 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Sorry to post in this thread, but I was wondering if United Nations would be kind enough to answer two questions for me (well, actually one is from my colleague). They are kind of generic so it might help other people too, I hope. I posted this on other threads but I havent gotten any responses for the longest time, so Im posting here. Very sorry to those who are following this thread for the original topic. <br /> <br /> 1) From my colleague: As per his family customs, his mothers FIRST name was also changed after marriage. Before marriage she was Vimla Patil, and now she is Anasuya Deshpande. She uses her married first name and last name on her passport, childrens birth certificate, etc. Only her school leaving has her maiden first name, maiden last name. <br /> <br /> He was wondering how to put this info on his I-485/G-325a form. They ask for Mothers Maiden name in one column, and then first name in the next. If he puts down Patil and then Anasuya - it wont be correct as such a person doesnt exist. What is the best way to represent her name. (remember, the birth cert that he will be submitting for himself will have her name as Anasuya Deshpande)<br /> <br /> Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br /> <br /> 2) My question (and this has been asked before, but no one has a rock solid answer). My husband's labor has been approved, approved I-140, his priority date is Oct 2006. I received a labor sub (please dont scream at me.. I dint have anything to do with the matching... it just came my way:o) , but pending I-140, my priority date (if I-140 is approved) will be Feb 2005. <br /> <br /> I wanted to know if we should only choose one of these two applications to proceed further or file two I-485 applications- One with me as primary and him as beneficiary, and the other with him as primary. There are these rare postings where people have said that USCIS can reject both applications/ drop both or deny one initially itself, or ask you to choose one upfront. No one has talked about successful multiple filings, so we dont have unbiased statistics in this space. What is your thought on this issue? Which way would you recommend we proceed? Frankly, I am nervous about my application until the I-140 clears, (and my I-140 was only applied in July 2007) ... yet my husbands pd is almost 20 months after mine. Please enlighten.<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> <br /> FYI, both of us have been in the U.S since 2000, but for various strokes of timely bad luck we couldnt file until Dec 2006, So I hope there arent too many hard feelings from people who have also waited as long as we have. I know the feeling.<br /> <br /> <br /> Where they ask for her name; then on a separate piece of paper she should explain the different names. Isn't much of a problem.<br /> <br /> <br /> Surprisingly; people in the situation where both spouses have 140's pending/approved have opted to file four 485's. My experience is that just about everyone has chosen this option.<br /> <br /> Only risk is that somehow when you file multiple 485 filings; uscis opens up two different alien numbers for you. Once they figure it out then they have to consolidate your files which may take some additional time. However; this is very rare that this happens because there is enough detail that a person puts on the g-325a that uscis systems would be able to detect that a person has multiple filings and they won't create a second alien number (file).<br /> <br /> Biggest advantage:<br /> <br /> One of the spouses 140 gets denied/revoked and can't use portability.<br /> <br /> One of the spouses gets stuck in name check and other spouse can't get approved until primary gets cleared through name check.<br /> <br /> Divorce/separation is an issue (surprisingly this comes up quite often where in some dispute one of the spouses wants to cancel others greencard....happens more often then people think).<br /> <br /> One of the spouses actually pass away (i know of a situation such as this and the other spouse left the country).<br /> <br /> Other then it costing some more money; I don't see much of a risk.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo Billy Graham/PHOTO-A True <img src="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/files/2011/05/armie-hammer.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. as a Billy Graham bio-pic." title="as a Billy Graham bio-pic." width="470" <br><li>as a Billy Graham bio-pic.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">jthomas</div><div class="date">09-30 01:04 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I am working in US from 2002 in H1B visa. Looking at the scenarios, it does not seem that we would be getting our green card soon. It would be wise if we start looking for some altenate. I have a Canadian Permanent residency and i am thinking sometimes soon i will move to canada. I have learned a lot working in United states and had changed 3 employers during 7 year period. I am seriously thinking about two options, One is to start a business in India with the technology i am woking in and secondly to move to canada and market those products over the globe. I am thinking about patenting some existing design for some application which people have not implemented. Once i file a patent, with broad open areas, i am sure to rule over the technology for next 20 years. <br /> I think we have spend the cream of our lives in this land and followed the rules of the land. If we are not required in this land lets move to some other country where we are welcomed. 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It seems to me like Obama would win the elections and Sen Dublin would give us a hard time.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.jugendraum-suterode.de/infusions/aw_ecal_panel/day.php?date=1999-11-18&y=2011&m=4">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures house Reverend Billy Graham <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11lOORdbxvQk3PKfiS46K0Pt5A8Qb2ZPbNFNuzUZ8ozEsSyOs6_wpHxsNS7ywUoGEI3vUaI_g_ibc8YiNsS0PDj7KDepvPNh6uviGLMP2c66ODSBk5zxrFxmcciVeEjY4497xMTCU0-sk/s1600/Heartbreak%2525252B%2525252528Make%2525252BMe%2525252Ba%2525252BDancer%2525252529.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. dresses Billy Graham as the" title="dresses Billy Graham as the" width="470" <br><li>dresses Billy Graham as the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">aadimanav</div><div class="date">07-14 05:43 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Please participate in this non-controversial (EB1 vs. 2 vs. 3 and Row vs. Non-Row Compatible) campaign.<br /> <br /> http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20190<br /> <br /> Thanks,</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses 2010 at Billy Graham Crusade. <img src="http://www.shopnoahsark.com/uploaded/images/OCT./AAAAA/Billy_dvd_lg.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. hot with the Graham family." title="hot with the Graham family." width="470" <br><li>hot with the Graham family.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">NolaIndian32</div><div class="date">09-28 07:58 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I agree 100% with the quote below; if Durbin gets his way, there will be no light at the end of the tunnel for the EB community.<br /> <br /> I have been in the US, legally for 14+ years. I have stayed within the law, regulations to get my green card, but still after 8 years in this antiquated and dysfunctional process, I am "in queue". Twice I have had to turn down promotions to executive level within my organization because of restrictions of "same to similar" regulation. Even my CEO is frustrated with this situation. If Durbin has his way, I can no longer afford to put my life on hold. I will be forced to sell my house and relocate to Canada. <br /> <br /> McCain supports immigration for legally employed immigrants. I pray that he wins the election this November.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> After 8 yrs of Bush, I sure am ready for Democrats to take over. America needs a change. But Sen. Obama's victory will surely spell doom and gloom for the EB community - of which I am one.<br /> <br /> I have been in the United States for 9 years - LEGALLY. I have bent over backwards to follow the letter of the law, irrespective of how convoluted it is. My kids are American Citizens. I pay taxes and contribute to the American economy. We even bought a house here in the hope that we can settle down in America. Me and my husband hold executive level positions in major multinationals. Here is the absolute kicker - I work in Satellite Telecommunications and my company supports the United States Government (DoD) and its contractors/ sub contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan!! <br /> <br /> We wanted Democrats to win...but guess what - the failed CIR 2007 woke us up to the fact that Sen. Durbin will never make it easy for us EB immigrants. His hostility towards this community forced us to secure the Canadian PR. We have a little bit more time to decide when we want to move there before our PR expires. If things don't take a turn for the better on the Immigration front, we will move to Canada. I just dread having to sell the house here though!! <br /> <br /> Till date, I only see Durbin driving immigration - and it is definitely against teh EB community. My question to Sen.Obama - what do you have to offer to us, the highly skilled immigrants? Would you rather we just liquidate all our assets (home, stocks, bonds, vehicles, etc) here in America and take it with us to another country that is more welcoming???</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://pushingjelly.co.uk/">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup Reverend Billy Graham – A <img src="http://bcnn2.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/bush-jDaly-inv.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. tattoo evangelist Billy Graham" title="tattoo evangelist Billy Graham" width="470" <br><li>tattoo evangelist Billy Graham</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">redcard</div><div class="date">03-24 03:01 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">[QUOTE=ganguteli;329173]Unitednations, <br /> <br /> Ganguteli, it seems you are confusing two things at the same time. <br /> <br /> What USCIS is now doing is going by the strict interpretation of the rule and when they start doing that lots of cases that fall in the gray area and were ignored in the past are now being looked into more closely. I read in one of the forums that an applicant�s 140 was rejected because in an H1 which he applied in early 2000 he had a different job description of an earlier job than the one he had on his 140 Petition. Who would have thought that USCIS would ever go back and pull out a resume from an application that was filled for H1-B in 2000 and compare the resume for 140 you are filling in 2009. In the last few years USCIS has spent a lot of money on technology. They I believe have scanned all the past applications, which can now be linked to all your immigration benefits you are filling for. It�s become a lot easier for an IO to pull out all the past information- like all your H1-B petitions, your 140 petitions today if they wish too when you apply say for an EAD renewal. The sad fact is that USCIS is a blackhole where they can sit on your application for years or decades while you suffer while you cannot do much. Yes you can go to a senator/Congressman or write letters, but if your application is pending with a smart IO who did not like your complaining to the Senator, he can make your life difficult by asking documents after documents before making a decision on your application, while the senator cannot interfere with the process. Welcome to the world of bureaucracy.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend as a Billy Graham bio-pic. <img src="http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-BS849_mccain_20080629131803.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. wallpaper illy graham family" title="wallpaper illy graham family" width="470" <br><li>wallpaper illy graham family</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nixstor</div><div class="date">11-12 08:26 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Amen, brother/sister! Where are these half million people? 500,000 divided by 50 states makes for 10000 in each state (on an average; although I doubt that Alaska and Hawaii have that many, while states like NY, CA, NJ, IL, FL, TX, PA must beat the mean for sure, but still). 6500 ain't enough!<br /> <br /> <br /> Ha haa.. I tell you what.. It could be either of these<br /> <br /> 1) Its not their preference RIGHT NOW, It will become their preference after some time 2 yrs, 3yrs<br /> <br /> 2) They are complacent with what they do RIGHT NOW. H1B worker life style in their native country compared to life style in America. Yeaa.. I am happpy happpy.. 2 or 3 yrs<br /> <br /> 3) They live on a day to day basis. Why bother about tommorow? <br /> <br /> 4) Whatever! some one will do some thing. If some thing were to happen it will happen. <br /> <br /> Its the last one that I hate, c mon folks.. wake up and do something for your self. I feel that most of the people in these forums have already spent enough time (on avg 3.5 yrs??) waiting and the people not on here are the ones who havent spent that considerable wait of 3 to 4 yrs. Most of the people I see every day are in group 4. They consider IV forums as a great resource to get suggestions for their situation, nothing more unfortunately.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles banner of the Billy Graham <img src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0909/anne_graham_lotz_0901.jpg" alt="billy graham family photos. Anne Graham Lotz" title="Anne Graham Lotz" width="470" <br><li>Anne Graham Lotz</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">smisachu</div><div class="date">07-14 11:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">We need to concentrate our efforts in achieving relief for everyone in the EB community whether they are EB1/2/3 India/China or ROW. This infighting or dispersed efforts will not yield any results. <br /> <br /> We should all strive for the passage of the 3 Lofgren Bills. Please contact your state chapter and help IV channel our efforts where it could be effective.<br /> <br /> One observation: I am seeing a lot of individual efforts by many folks. I did not see their participation when we were trying for passage of the 3 bills through letter campaigns and phone campaigns. <br /> Well at least you have woken up now...I will not complain. <br /> <br /> Let us focus our efforts and get permanent fix instead of some temporary move by a screwed up system which at the end of each FY bumps up numbers in a one upmanship between DOS and USCIS. We all are caught in the middle and suffer.<br /> <br /> My request to all the people re energized, we could really use your help in working on the lobbying efforts. Please contact your state lead as the issue cannot be posted on open IV forms.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">SunnySurya</div><div class="date">12-22 11:28 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">A supporter of terrorism left a red dot with this message:<br /> "if u r so concerned about india and attacks on india,,,what are u doing in US? U should be in politics in india if u think so bad about the indian politicians,,,go get ur hand dirty in it first then blaim the politicians"<br /> <br /> My very simple reply to that person.<br /> --- <br /> <br /> I am in every right to express the concerns for my country of origin. Of course not blindly. It takes for ever to hang Afzal Guru and almost no concrete repsonse to the bombings in Delhi, Gujrat, Karnataka, Hyedrabad etc etc, which directly affect my freinds and family over there. If it is not politics then what it is.<br /> <br /> Finally, if Jews can express their concerns for Israel (which I also support full heartedly and unconditionally) so can we, with the same passion.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pointlesswait</div><div class="date">08-06 10:37 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">too bad this discussion is still on!<br /> its all about which side of the fence you are on!<br /> <br /> i dont think anyone is cutting the line...there were already there..well before you ..they just rejoined with the right set of documents..<br /> <br /> if you are willing to stick around for 10 years in the same job.. doing the same thing...hoping for ur GC to come thru...so that u can switch..then good luck to you..<br /> <br /> i am sure WHEN USCIS formulated the law..they would have had this discussion...of how to accomodate "high skilled" workers..who climb the ladder ..and who aquire better qualification...and who have the b***s to change jobs and not be slaves to GC process.. this law is them..<br /> <br /> Go ahead and file the case rolling stone...i will be the first to oppose it...c u in the battelground..;-)<br /> <br /> in this context...i am a Pandu..u are a gandu..(pun intended)<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I agree with "singhsa". <br /> I was reading through this thread and couldn't help replying.<br /> <br /> Before i voice my opinion, i would like to mention that I have a Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering (2002-2006 from a very reputed univ. in the US). My husband's employer (non-IT) had applied for his GC in EB3 - in 2005 which makes sense since the job required a B.S (Even though he was MS and was working for this company since 2002). We have our 485s filed and are using our APs/EADs. Now, i haven't applied for GC through my employer yet, but if i apply, it would most likely be EB1 or 2, and would love to port my PD of 2005. The reason i haven't done that is because i personally do not think that getting a GC couple of years earlier is going to make my life any different than it currently is.<br /> <br /> Having said that, I completely understand what "rolling flood" is trying to say. And I also agree to what his point of view is. When a person who initially agreed to apply with EB3, changes his mind/company/ or whatever and wants to apply in EB2, he should theoretically start over. Why is it reasonable that he/she cuts in line ahead of a person who was already there. There is a reason why these categories are formed. <br /> <br /> Shady means or non-shady means, EB2 means that u have superior qualifications and you are more desirable in the US. <br /> EB3 means there are a lot like u, so u gotta wait more. Period.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-44541093479209615742011-07-12T04:53:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.145-07:00chelsea handler and andre balazsimages Chelsea Handler and new <img src="http://avenueinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Andre-Balazs-Hope-Atherton.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. girlfriend andre balazs" title="girlfriend andre balazs" width="470" <br><li>girlfriend andre balazs</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-26 08:38 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Congressional Quarterly now conducts multiple voting studies and often does not count procedural votes. To get the most politically accurate result, the NRCC monitors only how often the freshmen vote with Pelosi, who as speaker usually votes only on the most important issues. Washingtonpost.com's party unity score is based on all votes.<br /> <br /> Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), who has opposed more than half the journal votes, called his opposition "protest votes against little things I heard during the day" before.<br /> <br /> "I hope the people back home are monitoring all my votes," he said.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper girlfriend andre balazs <img src="http://www.bittenandbound.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Chelsea-Handler-on-Piers-Morgan.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. We must admit Chelsea Handler" title="We must admit Chelsea Handler" width="470" <br><li>We must admit Chelsea Handler</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unseenguy</div><div class="date">06-26 03:02 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">There is a myth with deduction:<br /> <br /> Deduction is not same as TAX credit. When you get a tax credit of $3000 . you save $3000, but when you get $3000 tax deduction, you only save $3000 * .28 or .33 whatever is your highest tax bracket. For most married couples it should be either 28% or 33% of their income. Hence you only save 28% of the interest + taxes. It can help further reduce your tax bracket if you have educational loan or charity contributions etc by bringing your taxable income down. Further reduction in tax bracket can help you qualify for additional deductions. <br /> <br /> However, if I am paying $1000 as interest, then I am only saving $310 or $280 in deudctions, but I am still left to pay $690 as interest.<br /> <br /> ValidIV, is stressing on 30 yrs of home ownership, however, what we are saying is prices may go down 20% further. If that happens, then you are losing your downpayment and it may take years for your home value return to what you paid with interest. <br /> <br /> If you buy a house $550K, over 30 years you end up paying more than 600K in interest only. Forget about taxes or HOA fees. Calculate the tax deductions and let me know how much sense did it make to pay that amount if the value of house further depreciates 20% in next 2 years Vs. waiting for 2 years, having 1-2% rate increase, going in with double down payment and flat house price or 1-2% increase.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.superstyleupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Gisele-Bundchen-Creating-a-New-Design-picture-01.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler debuts Andre" title="Chelsea Handler debuts Andre" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler debuts Andre</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">VivekAhuja</div><div class="date">06-23 12:23 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">If you are buying a house as an investment ONLY, then do NOT buy a house on this planet (not just USA). If you are sensible enough, buy a house to LIVE IN. Buy something you like, not something just to sell and make money.<br /> If you begin to think like this, you will come to a simple conclusion - if my family & I like a particular house in a particular neighbourhood and I can afford it, I will buy it NOW!!<br /> <br /> Everything else you hear in the media and on IV is hogwash - ignore it!!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 We must admit Chelsea Handler <img src="http://crookfromthebrook.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/50-cent.jpeg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. UsMagazine is reporting that rumored couple Chelsea Handler, 35," title="UsMagazine is reporting that rumored couple Chelsea Handler, 35," width="470" <br><li>UsMagazine is reporting that rumored couple Chelsea Handler, 35,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">yrspassby</div><div class="date">08-07 04:46 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">An old man visits his doctor and after thorough examination the doctor tells him: "I have good news and bad news, what would you like to hear first?"<br /> <br /> Patient: "Well, give me the bad news first."<br /> <br /> Doctor: "You have cancer, I estimate that you have about two years left."<br /> <br /> Patient: "Oh no! That's awefull! In two years my life will be over! What kind of good news could you probably tell me, after this??"<br /> <br /> Doctor: "You also have Alzheimer's. In about three months you are going to forget everything I told you."</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://templates.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.hauteliving.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/dori-la-oscars.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Andre Balazs, Chelsea" title="Andre Balazs, Chelsea" width="470" <br><li>Andre Balazs, Chelsea</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">riva2005</div><div class="date">04-06 09:06 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">you need to touch the bottom of barrel to go on another direction, this will be the bottom of the barrel I suppose<br /> <br /> these protectionist will realize as many H1B dependent companies virtual outsource all there jobs <br /> <br /> well in all seriousness I don't think this bill will be passed in senate,<br /> <br /> This bill may not be introduced in its current form anywhere. <br /> <br /> But I am sure they are going to use this bill to pull sections out of it and introduce it as amendments. Both sponsors of this bill are Judiciary committee. That makes it possible for them to put amendments not just on the floor, but also in the committee. If they think whole bill will not pass as a single amendment, they will put small pieces of it so that it can pass the roll-call one piece at a time.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/news/00038096.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. andre balazs chelsea" title="andre balazs chelsea" width="470" <br><li>andre balazs chelsea</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">akred</div><div class="date">04-08 08:02 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">IBM and Oracle will survive without H1B as they will hire US workers and set back will be temporary for them. So this bill is targeting the Indian bodyshoppers who are running company just by H1b persons. This was expected for long time. If it is not happening now it is going to happen in a few years. We knew that hundreds of US companies went out of business after 2000 as they were not able to compete with Indian consulting companies because of rate.<br /> <br /> If this bill passes as it is, then the impact will be much greater than targetting bodyshoppers. To reiterate, problematic aspects of this bill are -<br /> <br /> 1. Requires a labor certification like process for all H1B applications regardless of whether application is for new employment, transfer to a new job or an extension of a previous job. This will lead to greater job insecurity for the H1B worker as there will be multiple chances provided to prove availability of US workers instead of the single step process today for the formal labor certification for a green card. This process would be similar to the bully who insists on multiple chances to provide the right answer, and the right answer is pre-determined.<br /> <br /> 2. Prohibition of consulting due to prohibition of outplacement. <br /> <br /> 3. No differntiation between the role H1B plays as a market access mechanism for foreign companies and as a bridge to the green card for domestic companies.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://egywebhost.com/support/index.php?blog=4&m=269010">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://creoleindc.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c5e0053ef0115706b2155970b-800wi" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. debuts Andre Balazs," title="debuts Andre Balazs," width="470" <br><li>debuts Andre Balazs,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alterego</div><div class="date">07-14 05:19 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I think we all agreed that the letter contents were somewhat pre-baked. The letter campaign was a idea in the right direction.<br /> <br /> And mind you, we are now very active not because EB2 is moving, but because we now have concrete proof that the system was changed this year. I had my doubts, and had been asking about it for a while now, but all of the people said, "no you are wrong, the spill-over is working as it should, and as it always has". We have just recently realized that we were being misled, and there indeed has been a change. That is the reason we are being active. <br /> <br /> <br /> Yes, you agreed that the immigration system needs to be overhauled, but the only relief in sight is for EB2 folks.. There is no legislation that will help EB3 backlogs. Recapture will again help Eb2 folks, and given the new "pecking order" that has been wrongly put by USICS, Eb3 will never truly benefit from any of these bills.<br /> <br /> IV has its goals, as any organization should, and we fully realize that it can't keep everyone happy. However, some of you are stopping voices of others from being heard -- which is fine too. IV is a private organization that can choose to censor or restrict some kind of activities. But when you do that, you can't hope that everyone will support the organization, and believe everything that is being told to them.<br /> <br /> What you have said is completely incorrect. EB3I stands to benefit the most from visa recapture legislation. The last time visas were recaptured was in 2000 through the AC21 legislation and as a result of the 230K or so visas that were added to the pool, the USCIS was able to keep PDs for all EB categories, EB1/2/3, EBI/C/ROW, everything current for nearly 4 yrs until 2005 when those extra numbers ran out and retrogression hit. I should know, I could have filed since 2002 but delayed because my less than knowlegable lawyer advised me when you file does not matter. I did not know didly about PD in those days.<br /> Anyway, when you say visa recapture does not hep EB3I, that is patently FALSE. En Contraire, it is the ONLY thing that can help that category.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Chelsea Handler debuts Andre <img src="http://feratri.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/wpid-alghandlerbalazs.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler and new" title="Chelsea Handler and new" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler and new</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">surabhi</div><div class="date">03-25 10:57 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">That case was decided in 2000 after the h-1b had been filed; denied; appealed; though on layer of court and then finally decided by this court. This is why it is difficult to challenge USCIS; it takes years and years for it to weave though the system.<br /> <br /> USCIS could have used this case many years ago; however, vermont service center didn't apply the principles of this case until 2007. Once; senators/congressmen started putting pressure on them to start getting tough.<br /> <br /> Although they think there may be gaming of the system; they have to find a legal way to teach people a lessson. This case is what they can legally do to deny h-1b's.<br /> <br /> Thanks for the link. Essentially there are 2 issues here<br /> <br /> 1. Proving that Employee - Employer relationship exists between H1 beneficiary and employer. The ability to hire, pay, supervise and fire should be demonstrated.<br /> In cases where it is denying, USCIS is of opinion that the employer is in contract, manpower agency and their variants.<br /> <br /> This is somewhat analogous to similar test done by IRS to establish emploee-employer relationship in case of independent contractors.<br /> <br /> Not sure if it would make much difference, but if the petition letter demonstrates that the employer has control over the employee required matters, provide equipment (laptop etc) and that employer is primarily not in manpower business, it may fly.<br /> <br /> 2. Second issue is about need to bachelors degree and that computer programming is speciality occupation. I think there are clear precedents on this with guidance memos from USCIS agreeing that computer analyst /programmer is indeed a speciality occupation and that bachelors degree is a minimum requirement.<br /> <br /> I am unable to attach actual doc on this message because of size limitations. But here is summary quoting from murthy.com<br /> <br /> "In a December 22, 2000 memorandum from INS Nebraska Service Center (NSC) Director Terry Way to NSC Adjudications Officers, NSC acknowledges the specialized and complex nature of most Computer Programming positions. The memo describes both Computer Programmers and Programmer Analysts as occupations in transition, meaning that the entry requirements have evolved as described in the above paragraph.<br /> <br /> <br /> Therefore, NSC will generally consider the position of Computer Programmer to be a specialty occupation. The memo draws a distinction between a position with actual programming duties (programming and analysis, customized design and/or modification of software, resolution of problems) and one that simply involves entering computer code for a non-computer related business.<br /> <br /> The requirements in the OOH have evolved from bachelor's degrees being generally required but 2-year degrees being acceptable; to the current situation with bachelor's degrees again being required, while those with 2-year degrees can qualify only for some lower level jobs."</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://joe.bayesnet.org/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.showbizspy.com/wp-content/gallery/handler/bbc-005642.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler" title="Chelsea Handler" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">12-24 02:19 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Ghazni's best-kept secret - The Indian Express<br /> S.C. Sharma ()<br /> April 25, 1998<br /> <br /> Title: Ghazni's best-kept secret<br /> Author: S.C. Sharma<br /> Publication: The Indian Express<br /> Date: April 25, 1998<br /> <br /> Provocative Ghauri was the title of an editorial that appeared<br /> on this page earlier this month. Pakistan has named its missiles<br /> Ghauri and Ghaznavi with the specific intention of taunting<br /> India. These worthies' claims to fame and glorification, in the<br /> perception of the Pakistanis, lies in the fact that they were<br /> credited with plundering and devastating north-western India time<br /> and time again in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.<br /> <br /> In their enthusiasm to score brownie points, the Pakistanis have<br /> got mixed up on chronology, they have produced Ghauri before<br /> Ghaznavi. Also, they have perversely sought to commemorate these<br /> Afghan rulers of Turkish descent in utter disregard of the fact<br /> that most of the territories they plundered are their own - the<br /> North West Frontier Province, the Punjab and Sind. The men and<br /> women they tortured, enslaved, ravished and put to the sword were<br /> their own forebears.<br /> <br /> If Pakistanis wish to revel in the inglorious misdeeds of<br /> foreigners perpetrated on their own soil and on their own<br /> ancestors, they are welcome to twirl their moustaches in euphoria<br /> and say: " Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to he wise."<br /> <br /> Indians may look forward to future generations of Pakistani IRBMs<br /> and similar sophisticated weaponry named after the likes of<br /> Changez Khan, Nadir Shah and Ahmad Shah Abdali. Alexander the<br /> Great and Harshavardhan also have strong claims, but they might<br /> be disqualified for obvious reasons.<br /> <br /> In the course of his many abortive forays into India, Mohammad<br /> Ghori is said to have been captured once by the forces of Delhi.<br /> But Prithviraj Chauhan, king of Delhi, magnanimously let him off.<br /> Legend has it - and it is widely believed in India - that when<br /> Ghori eventually succeeded in defeating Prithviraj Chauhan at the<br /> Second Battle of Tarain in 1192, he blinded him and took him in<br /> chains to Afghanistan along with his friend, the poet<br /> Chandravardai.<br /> <br /> Ghori held a grand durbar to celebrate his victory. His prize<br /> catch, the king of Delhi, blind and a prisoner, was paraded and<br /> publicly humiliated. Deeply incensed by the treatment meted out<br /> to his monarch, Chandravardai took refuge to a subterfuge. He<br /> announced that though completely blind, Prithviraj could still<br /> hit a target guided solely by sound, and he asked for permission<br /> for this feat to be performed.<br /> <br /> Prithviraj Chauhan was handed a bow and arrow, and Chandravardai<br /> sang a now-famous verse which told him of the elevation and<br /> distance to Ghori's throne. And thus, guided solely by sound,<br /> Prithviraj shot his arrow through Ghori.<br /> <br /> The legend may not be entirely true, but it would be absolutely<br /> accurate to say that even after eight centuries have elapsed,<br /> Prithviraj is regularly subjected to indignity in the land where<br /> he was taken as a captive. I have seen it at first hand.<br /> <br /> Many years ago, while travelling by jeep from Kandahar to Kabul,<br /> I had to make a night halt en route at Ghazni. At the hotel, I<br /> learned that there was a grand mausoleum over the tomb of Sultan<br /> Mahmud Ghaznavi near the town, and I determined to see it. A few<br /> extra Afghanis (the local currency) helped my driver to<br /> comprehend the necessity of making a small detour the next<br /> morning.<br /> <br /> The mausoleum was indeed grand -judging by local standards - with<br /> a high, arched doorway like the Buland Darwaza. lie tomb proper<br /> was in a cellar about four or five feet be low ground-level. It<br /> intrigued me considerably to note that there were no steps<br /> leading down into the tomb. Instead, a metal chain hung from the<br /> ceiling of the cellar. I was told that I would have to hold the<br /> chain and jump down.<br /> <br /> I asked for the reason for this peculiar method of entry. The<br /> caretaker was evasive at first. But after much persuasion, he<br /> disclosed that there was another tomb at the exact spot where you<br /> jumped down. There, the infidel king of Delhi, Prithviraj<br /> Chauhan, lay buried.<br /> <br /> ================================================== =====================<br /> Might I add, that the very Islam these Pakis seem to be proud of, was forced down upon them. <br /> Most of these are descendents of forced converts to Islam!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair UsMagazine is reporting that rumored couple Chelsea Handler, 35, <img src="http://celebnew.info/wp-content/themes/gossip/myimage.php%3Ftext%3D%250AI%2Balways%2Bget%2BAndre%2BBalazs%2Bconfused%2Bwith%2BArpad%2BBusson.%2B%2BThey%E2%80%99re%2Bboth%2Brich%2BEuropean%2Bdudes%2Bwho%2Bhave%2Bdated%2Bcelebrity%2Bwomen%252C%2Band%2Bthe%2Bonly%2Bcrossover%2B(I%2Bthink)%2Bis%2BUma%2BThurman.%2B%2BArpad%2Bis%2Bthe%2Bdude%2Bthat%2Bknocked%2Bup%2BElle%2BMacpherson%2B-%2Btwice%2B-%2Band%2Bnever%2Bmarried%2Bher.%2B%2BAndre%2Bis%2Bthe%2Bdude%2Bwho%2Bhas%2Bbeen%2Brumored%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bdating%E2%80%A6%2BCourtney%2BLove.%2B%2BSeriously.%2B%2BThat%E2%80%99s%2Ba%2Brumor%2Bthat%E2%80%99s%2Bbeen%2Bgoing%2Baround.%2B%2BAndre%2Band%2BCourtney%2Bare%2Bfriendly%252C%2Band%2Bapparently%2Bshe%2Balways%2Bstays%2Bat%2Bhis%2Bhotels%E2%80%A6%253F%2B%2BSo%2Bif%2Bthis%2Blittle%2Bitem%2Bis%2Btrue%252C%2BI%2Bthink%2BCourtney%2BLove%2Bis%2Bgoing%2Bto%2Btry%2Bto%2Bgive%2Ba%2Bbeat%2Bdown%2Bto%2BChelsea%2BHandler.%2B%2BAnd%2Bthat%2Bis%2Ba%2Bvodka-soaked%2Bbitchfight%2Bthat%2BI%2Bwould%2Blove%2Bto%2Bsee.%2B%2BAnyway%252C%2Byes%2B-%2BPage%2BSix%2Bclaims%2Bthat%2BChelsea%2BHandler%2Bwas%2Bsnuggled%2Bup%2Bwith%2BAndre%2BBalazs%2Bover%2Bthe%2Bweekend.%2B%2BGross.%250AWhile%2Bcomedienne%2BChelsea%2BHandler%2Bwas%2Bexpected%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bside%2Bof%2Brumored%2Bbeau%2B50%2BCent%2Bthis%2Bweekend%2Bat%2Bthe%2BSundance%2BFilm%2BFestival%252C%2Bshe%2Bcuddled%2Bup%2Bto%2Bsuave%2Bhotelier%2BAndre%2BBalazs%2Bon%2BSaturday%2Bnight%2Binstead.%2B%250AHandler%2Band%2BBalazs%2Bwere%2Bspotted%2Bcanoodling%2Bat%2Bthe%2BFlorence%2B%252B%2Bthe%2BMachine%2Bconcert%2Bat%2Bthe%2BBing%2BBar%2Band%2Bperched%2Bon%2Ba%2Bbanquette%2Bhip-to-hip%2Bat%2BTao%2Bat%2Bthe%2BSamsung%2BGalaxy%2BLift.%2BThe%2Btwo%2Bhad%2Btheir%2Bhands%2Ball%2Bover%2Beach%2Bother%2Bfor%2Bhours.%2B%250AThe%2Bcanooding%2Bcontinued%2Bat%2Ban%2Bafter-party%252C%2Band%2Bthen%2Bthe%2Bpair%2Bpopped%2Bup%2Bat%2BTao%252C%2Bwhere%2BHandler%2Balready%2Bstarted%2Bto%2Bgrow%2Bpossessive%2Bover%2BBalazs%252C%2Bgiving%2Bsharp%2Blooks%2Bat%2Bother%2Bwomen%2Bwho%2Bmade%2Bpleasantri","","iT2w1E4Cpk_QpM:","","111","136","\x3cb\x3eCHELSEA HANDLER\x3c/b\x3e IS PROBABLY","","","500 × 611 - 68k","php","celebnew.info","","","http://t0.gstatic.com/images","0",[],"",1,"#",[],"http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q\x3dtbn:ANd9GcTCC24mW28m6XvyJ-C2-80_HxUZkLk3J4cz5OmG62Su9MwPM_irYmfBlgvU","","","","","","","/search?q\x3dchelsea+handler+and+andre+balazs\x26um\x3d1\x26hl\x3den\x26client\x3dopera\x26sa\x3dN\x26rls\x3den\x26tbs\x3dsimg:CAQSEgmJPbDUTgKmTyE21O2xhGQnCA\x26tbm\x3disch","More sizes","",[]],["/imgres?imgurl\x3dhttp://assets.madame.lefigaro.fr/images/photo_set_item/picture/000/040/238/5hum15/12-UmaAndre_Balazs2005.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. CHELSEA HANDLER IS PROBABLY" title="CHELSEA HANDLER IS PROBABLY" width="470" <br><li>CHELSEA HANDLER IS PROBABLY</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-28 07:12 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Blending the Rules as We Go Along (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/world/asia/28iht-currents28.html) By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS | New York Times<br /> <br /> I wanted it to be right after breakfast when I asked Priya to marry me. The other elements were still forming, but that one felt important: a proposal to know together a thousand moments as simple and whole as this moment on a quiet Sunday morning.<br /> <br /> I gave a prologue, then asked. She cried, then answered. A ring was worn. And, in less time than it takes to mow a lawn, we had rewritten our fates � our fate � forever. Done deal.<br /> <br /> Or so we thought.<br /> <br /> In the coming days, we were reminded of what it means to belong to a tribe of people that straddles multiple cultures and multiple degrees of technological involvement � and, as a consequence, holds a rich variety of opinions about an engagement. We received an education in the nuances of doing a very old thing in these new globalized, digitized times.<br /> <br /> The first hint of engagement Babel came in a phone call to Priya�s grandparents in New Delhi, minutes after the proposal. Joy filled their voices when they heard our news; blessings poured forth, punctuated by the colonial remnant �all the best, all the best.�<br /> <br /> Her Nana, though, could not let the conversation end without asking a question:<br /> <br /> �But, Priya, how exactly does one get engaged?�<br /> <br /> The bride-to-be said something about a question being asked and a ring being given, and that was that. What we didn�t appreciate then was that, in India, it doesn�t count as an engagement when two impressionable young people make a decision all by themselves.<br /> <br /> Calling India to say that you have gotten engaged, but without any family present, without any rites having occurred, is like claiming to have clapped with one hand.<br /> <br /> Thanksgiving time soon came, and the two of us went to Washington, where our six parents live. Two celebrations of our engagement were planned: a dinner at Priya�s mother and stepfather�s home, the other a tea at my parents� place.<br /> <br /> Our new family traces its roots to cow worshipers in Benares and cow slaughterers in South Dakota, to Chennai in south India, to a piece of the Punjab that is now in Pakistan, to Iowa, to New Jersey and to a hamlet called Blaxall in Britain. We count among us those who worship the multitudinous Hindu deities, the lone Christian one and no divinity at all. We are speakers of English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, French and Spanish. Many of us bear the passport of a country in which we were not born.<br /> <br /> All of which is wonderful until you have to choose an engagement ritual.<br /> <br /> After some debate and soul-searching, we decided to invent our own rites. We lit candles. We held hands. We told stories. We traded gifts. We laughed. We ate.<br /> <br /> But, back in India, there was still some confusion. Priya�s grandparents, 10 and a half time zones ahead of us, were aching to hear our voices on the night of that first Washington celebration. My grandparents phoned several times during the tea at my parents� home four days later. The way they saw it, this was the engagement � this coming together of families at the home of a certified adult. The earlier thing, as they saw it, was more like a sweet gesture.<br /> <br /> So, two weeks after we got engaged by our own definition, my grandparents congratulated me for getting engaged. Priya�s Indian cousins BlackBerry-messaged her they were delighted to be able, at long last, to congratulate her � now that it was �official.� Other relatives wrote seeking pictures of our �engagement ceremony.� We tried to explain that we hadn�t had one. But in this definitional spat, we were clearly outnumbered.<br /> <br /> When, today, is an engagement valid in the eyes of the world? Is it, according to the Western contractual idea, when two people declare their commitment to each other in private? Or when love mingles with economics in the giving of a ring, the first step in a gradual entangling of fortunes? Is it when two families gather and drink and toast? Or when a certain traditional ritual is done � or, in our case, a new ritual?<br /> <br /> Or is it when you change your Facebook relationship status?<br /> <br /> We had been so consumed with family, and with the intricacies of the Indian and American rules of engagement, that we ignored our virtual tribe. We had called some friends on the phone immediately after it happened, and e-mailed some others. But then the celebrations of the nonvirtual world took off, and we were absorbed into that love and tumult, and our engagement went unrecorded by the digital sphere.<br /> <br /> Just when we thought we had satisfied every possible definition of engagement, marking it in ways suitable to ourselves, our parents and our extended clans, Priya�s stepsister brought up Facebook. Why hadn�t we updated our relationship status to proclaim the engagement? It was peculiar, this omission: The absence of a Facebook update could be read as the presence of something amiss. What were we trying to hide?<br /> <br /> Relationship statuses, like ideas, have derived their authority from different sources over the millenniums: A relationship could be valid if properly certified by the ancient rituals; or valid if faithful to the words of the holy texts; or valid if codified in a contract recognized by the correct governmental agency; and now, in 2010, valid if etched into one�s �Info� tab on Facebook.<br /> <br /> We promptly made things right. As it turns out, we were Facebook-engaged around the time that the site�s creator, Mark Zuckerberg, was named Time magazine�s Person of the Year. We made it �official� for the third time, our union ordained by this new minister of the universe.<br /> <br /> At last, the engagement is properly established before our American, Indian and virtual tribes � and, now, before the readers of this newspaper. The wedding looms, and with it another inevitable contest of definitions.<br /> <br /> I can already hear the question forming: �But how exactly does one get married?�</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://inkspill.com/refer/index.php?glimpse=2">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.thisweekbangalore.com/issue200/Berggruen-Hotels.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. andre balazs uma thurman." title="andre balazs uma thurman." width="470" <br><li>andre balazs uma thurman.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">imbond707</div><div class="date">08-06 08:41 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Dear Rolling_Flood,<br /> <br /> Interfiling/PD Porting is a law. And I understand that you want to file lawsuit so that this law can be changed. If you are so adamant about this then why are you wasting your time to know our views on this? Why don�t you go ahead and file lawsuit? If indeed you succeed then what if Americans stands up and see opportunity from this case that EB based immigration system can be challenged and file lawsuit to change EB based immigration system that allows only PhDs to immigrate to US? And you are not PhD. Please for your sake take a moment and try to release negative energy you have and then you will see that this world is so beautiful.<br /> <br /> May GOD give you wisdom. (Amen�)<br /> <br /> James Bond</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot Andre Balazs, Chelsea <img src="http://gotosay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/14-year-old-Brazilian-model-Dabora-picture-16.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. tattoo His name is Andre Balaz" title="tattoo His name is Andre Balaz" width="470" <br><li>tattoo His name is Andre Balaz</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sk2006</div><div class="date">06-05 12:31 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Sorry but no matter how you spin it, owning a home is better than renting. Renting is not smart. period. your money is gone every month. You are not getting that money back. <br /> When you own a home, the money goes towards a mortgage, and although most of it goes to interest at first, all interest paid is tax deductible which is a huge chunk of change every year. I get more money back as an owner than a renter and in the long run I save more AND own the home.<br /> <br /> 30 year renter vs 30 year home owner? That is not rocket science.<br /> <br /> ..And those who bought in the bubble lost money much faster than they would have "Lost" the money renting! Some of them even lost the whole House along with their Credit score!<br /> <br /> LOL.<br /> :D:D:D:D:D:D</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://policydetective.co.uk/roller/PolicyDetective/entry/capital_life_1">more...</a><br><br /><br />house Chelsea Handler might be <img src="http://puddleforhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1305163830-14.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler and Andre" title="Chelsea Handler and Andre" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler and Andre</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pete</div><div class="date">04-09 11:29 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Looks like everyone want to talk about their specific selfish advantages and ignore the problem on a whole if this bill passes.<br /> <br /> You can say it whichever way you like. Isnt everybody looking for selfish gains?<br /> A few months back somebody wanted info on labor substitution and the moderator took the man's side by saying we should all look for advantage and not worry about NAY sayers......<br /> <br /> There is nothing selfish about this. Universities usually donot take short cuts. My job before while they were doing PERM was on monster.com for 11 months!!!The received tons of applications. Yes I can confidantly say they "did not find " a suitable candidate. The H1B visa is a favor granted to us and should not be misused. It also works in IVs advantage because it makes their agenda more solid:<br /> <br /> WE ARE AGAINST MISUSE OF H1B AND WOULD LIKE GC REFORM.<br /> <br /> Unlike we want H1B abuse to continue AND ALSO GC reform.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo andre balazs chelsea <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/1794590990_46b1280cc6.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. andre balazs chelsea. hair" title="andre balazs chelsea. hair" width="470" <br><li>andre balazs chelsea. hair</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ssa</div><div class="date">06-23 05:16 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">in agreement.....there is definately pleasure in living in your own house....<br /> <br /> Ask current underwater home owners how much pleasure are they deriving from their owned home. Day to day pleasure of living may come from the size and the quality/amenities of the house you stay in, whether you own it or rent it is immaterial. If you can rent the same house for 50% of your monthly mortgage and on top of it never have to worry about declining home prices why would you be more happy owning it? Plus "owned" house is a little bit of misnomer here. Unless you have paid it off 100% it's not really your own. Rental property is owned by landlords and your "owned" home is in reality owned by your bank. Miss couple of payments and net results are very similar.<br /> <br /> Don't get me wrong. In rational market owning home is the easiest way to build up wealth but I can't stress the "rational" part of it enough. Although in most areas the excesses of housing bubble are washed away by now in some areas (like good school districts in Bay Area) the prices are still not aligned with the fundamentals like rents for similar properties and average annual incomes. Also renting has one huge advantage right now in this era of rapidly rising unemployment. You are mobile. You can easily move wherever you can find your next job.<br /> <br /> In long run it is always better (IMHO) to own than to rent. But in the short term - for next 1-2 years - I see no compelling argument to buy home unless you land a steal somehow. Sentimental red herrings like "pride and joy" of ownership is definitely not a way to go about making the biggest financial decision of your life. The fact that realtors use this exact phase so often should give you a clue!</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.winrars.net/2011/05/10/">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures debuts Andre Balazs, <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iwL5FEL9JvivKz2lZY4Qo0IU8Bw2V4svqcolhnqR40nmz9t8bJwl_BynnMb2cKJFD5tpt7Xzn_1mL2TV0gYgWlMmrmtffbN5o-aX9nk8_Kphmu2_DD6_LgwQ53uujMsZOIfDX1-QekbD/s400/andre%25252Bbalazs-william%25252Bbeaver%25252Bhouse%25252Blaunch-flickr-seeking%25252Bepiphany-2.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler, Andre Balazs" title="Chelsea Handler, Andre Balazs" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler, Andre Balazs</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pete</div><div class="date">04-09 10:29 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Why should others suffer because of consulting firms?<br /> You get a job at company A you work for them. When you move to company B that company does your H1B.. if required again. Why should company A do your H1B than the individual work for somebody else as "consultant". This has been going on for too long affecting everybody especially scientists and doctors and academic community. These consultants are delaying GC for us. The bill takes care of that problem and I think its fair.<br /> <br /> Also if the new bill requires repeating labor certification every time we move so be it. You are "best and brightest" correct.. prove it!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses tattoo His name is Andre Balaz <img src="http://www.janetcharltonshollywood.com/images/2011/01/chelseaandre.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. girlfriend Andre Balazs And" title="girlfriend Andre Balazs And" width="470" <br><li>girlfriend Andre Balazs And</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">LostInGCProcess</div><div class="date">09-29 12:36 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">After watching the debate the other day between Obama and McCain at the Ole Miss, I felt McCain was more truthful and talking from his mind. All these days I was hoping Obama was really going to make that "change", but after watching the debate, clearly it was McCain who, I personally feel, won the debate.<br /> <br /> Obama's speech was more like a prepared one. He was stumbling a lot, maybe he was nervous, I don't know. But McCain was cool all along, although he was not prepared for the debate...he changed his schedule in the very last minute.<br /> <br /> I am positive if he wins he would definitely do something about the broken Immigration System. Remember he has a daughter adopted from Bangladesh...of course, which has no connection with Immigration, but he seems to be the 'nice' guy.<br /> <br /> Cheers.:)</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.nuchat.nl/site/news.php">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup Chelsea Handler <img src="http://www.mjbnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/oprahs-half-sister.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Chelsea Handler might be" title="Chelsea Handler might be" width="470" <br><li>Chelsea Handler might be</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">msp1976</div><div class="date">04-08 08:17 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">The summary document says that Whistleblower protection does not protect immigration status. So the current language of "Whistleblower protection" has much new to offer because Whistleblower protection is already part of the federal law (outside of immigration act). Here is some info:<br /> http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/whistle.htm<br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower<br /> <br /> Yeah right....<br /> If the whistleblower protection does not protect the non-immigrant status, nobody would blow THAT whistle, would they ??<br /> I am amazed by the kind of circular logic these people concoct....</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend andre balazs chelsea. hair <img src="http://mocoloco.com/upload/2009/05/5_things_from_n/top5_andre_balazs.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Andre Balazs and Chelsea" title="Andre Balazs and Chelsea" width="470" <br><li>Andre Balazs and Chelsea</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Refugee_New</div><div class="date">01-06 12:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Discussion of non EB related issues should be stopped.<br /> This form should be used for employment related immigration issues, end of discussion. <br /> I have given you green for it.<br /> <br /> Why do you want to end this discussion? Are you scared of speaking the truth or you don't care the killing of innocent school kids?</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles andre balazs uma thurman. <img src="http://extratv.warnerbros.com/images/news/0510/kirstie-alley.jpg" alt="chelsea handler and andre balazs. Meeting hotelier Andre Balazs," title="Meeting hotelier Andre Balazs," width="470" <br><li>Meeting hotelier Andre Balazs,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">07-09 11:06 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I read these desperate cases where a whole lot of IV'ers try to help with their best understanding of Immigration Law. Including veterans like UN and others who have been through hoops, successes and failures in assesing a particular case.<br /> <br /> My personal understanding is that NO 2 two cases are identical for USCIS and there is a term "Officer Discretion" which comes into play a lot. This Discretion is more positive to the applicant when a case is prepared prefessionaly and a little negative when done without care.<br /> <br /> Also even though the individual affected tries to provide the information to get the best solution does not mean he/she has provided 100% information based on facts of the case. There could be something missed out easily just because that does not ring the bell for the person submitting the information or simply because the information is too private and not appropriate on a public forum.<br /> <br /> My point is these forums are not meant for a realistic solution to a complicated issue like the one on this thread. Please get a good attorney and that does not only mean Murthy or Khanna. There are tons of attorneys available both good and competent and affordable and who may have a solution which appeals USCIS officer.<br /> <br /> Best of Luck.<br /> <br /> This is very correct. Usually; when people post an issue they are only giving 20% of the story and there are more twists and turns that they are not disclosing and in our over zealousness to advise/post; we go through various scenarios.<br /> <br /> In my experience; uscis does not by default give a person a tough time. However; if there is a history (ie., denials); then they seem to go a little further into it.<br /> <br /> <br /> In my own case; when I had to go to local office interview; the list of documents that the officer asked for me was pretty extensive and basically outside the law. However; he still asked for those things (ie., tax returns; w2's from 1999 through 2006 (as an example)); He was really reaching in what he asked for. If I didn't have these things; then there is a possibility that a person may fake some of these things and then uscis tries to trap you. However; 245k; ead, etc.; future job offer has a lot of protections for us. It's never good to fake things; especially when most of the time it isn't necessary.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">tanu_75</div><div class="date">07-28 03:09 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Atleast republicans listen to Microsoft, Google etc and gives some visa etc...AllObama does is warn about Indians and Chinese growth<br /> <br /> Frankly he has a lot more serious problems to worry about than our issues. from the backlog, we are around 0.25 million and you have 300 million people in this country and 10% of them unemployed. So yeah, blame him all you want but any sane politician in his position would do the same. <br /> <br /> Let's consider this for example. Imagine you were in India and you had a few 100,000 decently skilled immigrants from some other country, who were waiting for their green card. Now you are the PM and you have to choose your focus between fighting terrorism, fighting inflation, high budget deficits with healthcare costs, high unemployment rate or giving green cards to these 100,000 people. I would think there would be a lot of pissed off countrymen in India who would scream at you when you are ignoring real issues and focussing instead on giving green cards to foreigners especially when you already have a sky high unemployment rate. Wouldn't be a great political strategy, would it? But maybe you would still do it, perhaps if you have a vested interest in getting it done. <br /> <br /> Still, next year you can bet that he'll do something on immigration since the states have started legislating on their own now and they can't afford this to continue.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sanju</div><div class="date">05-16 11:26 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Looks like, the letter sent out to India based business houses by the US senators has surprised the Commerce minister of India, Kamalnath. He is going take this up with US in the global trade meet at Brussels.<br /> <br /> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kamal_Nath_surprised_on_H1-B_visa_issue/articleshow/2055323.cms<br /> <br /> <br /> Kamalnath will do us all and the 9 companies a great service by staying out of this debate. He has already contributed by making "ignorant" statements like 'H-1B is a outsource visa". This guy has no clue about the issue at hand and he simply talks in broad strokes. If he jumps into the debate, that could be the last straw to break the camel's back. We will all be better off without him.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-19022570757917733372011-07-12T04:26:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.145-07:00lebron james momimages lebron james mother <img src="http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wjez.com/files/2011/04/LEBRON-JAMES-MOM.jpg" alt="lebron james mom. mother of LeBron James #23" title="mother of LeBron James #23" width="470" <br><li>mother of LeBron James #23</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">03-23 03:50 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">well..you hit nail..yes..I initially worked with that company that started with S**..but I changed them after 1 year after coming to US<br /> <br /> So, keep cool. Talk to an Attorney. use a good Attorney for everything from now. 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They don’t have the backbone to come out and say H1 should be abolished but instead they are taking the back door to kill the H1 through these draconian measures.<br /> <br /> You hit the nail in the head.<br /> <br /> Instead of getting rid of all H1B employees in one full swoop, this lobby wants to put law in place where new H1s will be mostly rejected due the "Consulting clause" and existing H1 employees will be hit in the head with a 2 X 4 when renewing H1, since the scrutiny and paperwork is the same for new H1, H1 extensions and H1 transfers. Same LCA filing, same I-129 forms. <br /> <br /> So instead of immediate purge, this is like getting rid of 5 to 10 thousand each month by making extensions and renewals and transfer impossible for those doing the consulting.<br /> <br /> Like the admin said, this is the slow bleed of H1B program where death is slow but not obvious and easily detectable.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://gyantunplugged.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mo-williams-lebron-james-delonte-west.jpg" alt="lebron james mom. star Lebron James." title="star Lebron James." width="470" <br><li>star Lebron James.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">abcdgc</div><div class="date">12-27 01:17 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">You are right about the lack of governance in Pakistan. And that there are more personalities and less institutions. <br /> But I think you are wrong about Kayani. I haven't seen any reports about any intelligence agencies pointing fingers at Kayani. So, I am curious if you could provide any links. It sounds like a conspiracy theory otherwise.<br /> <br /> Let me give you a proof about Kayani, not that you will agree with it, but I will give it a shot anyways.<br /> <br /> Pakistan PM agreed to send ISI DG to India when he spoke with Indian PM. Later Zardari also publicly agreed to send ISI DG. Next day the three i.e. Gilani, Zardari and Kaayani had a meeting. After the meeting Pakistan announced that Pakistan will not send ISI DG to India. Now, if Gilani and Zardari agreed to send ISI DG, why the conclusion of the meeting was with the decision that ISI DG will not go to India. It was the starting point of escalation. Who triggered it? Kaayani. This is a well covered report. 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Tough choices will need to be made and so be it.<br /> <br /> i'm not opposing reform. in fact i strongly feel that without reform this mess cannot be resolved. just like you do. but creating a new mess with LCA's that can't be handled in time? is that the answer? what about if you already have an LC approved? sound like you still need to duplicate the entire process for H1b renewal...does that make sense to you?<br /> or do you just want to support something, anything that might relieve the numbers?</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot tattoo lebron james mother <img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoN89dL0abPv3XfppZAMMcRRJqgvKnhimwCsQLbKoGss02rmuUa0stx6EHWpVvYEudJBSsjCjVSOiU9adMcjcOTWX6TnHzfwt4gf3hhyNOz_3Up08UCv-h4Yyc0apct5FvFZ1gf5esmWrz/s1600/Lebron%2525252525252525252BJames%2525252525252525252B5.jpg" alt="lebron james mom. lebron james mom arrested." title="lebron james mom arrested." width="470" <br><li>lebron james mom arrested.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gg_ny</div><div class="date">02-21 03:00 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">This guy Dobbs, claims to know everything that's wrong with congress, the laws, the trade agreements, and all he does is preach. 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For all you know, you may have been more happier. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> That is the general line of thinking everyone has including all the people who are posting on this forum. If more money does not equate to a better life, then why are all these people taking the trouble to desert their home land and live in a foreign country? If more money => better lifestyle, then it follows a home can provide a relatively better environment to a child than an apartment. <br /> <br /> If all Americans live in rented apartments, drive only used Japanese cars (resale value), furnished their homes with scant used furniture and were focussed on investing their money than spending it, then the American economy will go down to the level of a third world country in less than 10 years. <br /> <br /> This does not mean everyone has to run out and buy a home. The point as I said earlier is to see a home as a home and not as an investment.<br /> <br /> No. It is not the general line of thinking. Let it go and don't defend the indefensible. You don't buy everything your kid wants. You get what you can and what you think is best for your kid. <br /> I have lived in apartment when I was a kid and so has so many others here. We were happy and never regretted living in apartments. More money doesn't always imply happy life. Less money doesn't mean sad life. This year alone 6 of my friends are going back to India because they choose to live in their homeland. They have greencard etc. <br /> And renting people are not poor either. They choose to rent for various reasons. The question is - is it a good time to buy? Having 485 or green card has less significance in this economy. The housing market is crashing and will fall for another 2 years. So rent save money and when time is right buy a house. For those of you who are not convinced then atleast hold on till you get greencard, so that you will atleast be able to comeback when you visit your parents. We are talking about recession and depression and you never know when your company is going out of business and when there is going to be a layoff.<br /> If you disagree and think it is a good time to buy, then show me the reason.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles Did Lebron James#39; Mom, <img src="http://uvtblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/alg_lebron_james.jpg" alt="lebron james mom. KG and Lebron#39;s mom were" title="KG and Lebron#39;s mom were" width="470" <br><li>KG and Lebron#39;s mom were</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dpp</div><div class="date">05-17 10:03 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I am not saying everyone else are less skilled that me. Read my posts please. Nor am I saying everyone are less honest than me. I am saying that people applying for an H-1B without having a FULL-TIME JOB from day 1 are DISHONEST.<br /> <br /> Everybody who employs H1B is on FULL-TIME JOB only. There is no exception to that. But the employer can ask his employee to goto any client place to perform the work that the company agreed upon, that is in between the employer and client/third-party vendor. There is nothing to deal with H1B here. H1Bs are always work on a FULL-TIME JOB only with their employer. I don't know what is your problem? You are misleading H1B program on how it works.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">vinabath</div><div class="date">03-26 10:06 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">U should look more at Pre-forclosure ( if u can get hold of one) than the foreclosed properties. Most of forclosed properties need substantial investment to fix them. Generally public gets the last chance of good foreclosed properties. It is a bank- real estate nexus which eats up the good inventory before hitting into the market. US home auction is not a real auction but more like a open house for 100 properties at the same time. Quality of inventory is not worth it.<br /> <br /> Excellent point. If you friends with real estate investor, they might get you a deal. Its the same thing like used car sales. If you know the guy who does car auctions all the time you will get a nice car for real cheap. Same thing with houses too. Start looking for a good real estate investor. These people might charge some money for<br /> <br /> 1. finding a good deal<br /> 2. going thru auction/shortsale/whatever<br /> 3. fixup the house <br /> 4. help in financing<br /> 5. their profit<br /> <br /> giving that money is worth the hassle. <br /> <br /> The most difficult part finding this person.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-14 11:33 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">The Delta House Congress (http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010993) The politics of futile gestures, Dec 14, 2007<br /> <br /> In the movie "Animal House," the fraternity brother known as Otter reacts to the Delta House's closure with the classic line, "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part." To which Bluto, played by John Belushi, replies, "We're just the guys to do it." The movie ends by noting that Bluto becomes a Senator, so perhaps this explains the meltdown among Democrats on Capitol Hill.<br /> <br /> As they careen toward the end of their first year in charge, Congressional leaders seem capable of nothing but futile gestures. Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid failed once again to get enough votes for an energy bill, having refused to remove a $21.8 billion tax increase on energy that President Bush has promised to veto in any case. Mr. Reid was vowing to try again as we went to press.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, in Nancy Pelosi's House of self-inflicted pain, the Blutarsky strategy played out yesterday in one more hopeless attempt to pass a tax increase to "pay for" Alternative Minimum Tax relief. The Senate has already voted 88-5 against any such tax hike, so this House bill is dead before arrival. But Ms. Pelosi's troops are just the guys to do it anyway.<br /> <br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> Say what you will about Tom DeLay, at least he knew how to run the joint. Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid are letting their left-wing troops and interest groups run all over them, with the result that their signal achievement this year is a higher minimum wage. Considering most of their policy goals, this failure is good for the country. But the dysfunction amply shows that Democrats are attempting to govern with an agenda that is too far left even for many in their own party, never mind the country.<br /> <br /> Start with trying to end the war in Iraq, which Democrats claimed was their mandate from voters last November. That was a misinterpretation of their victory, which had as much to do with GOP corruption and overspending. But Democratic leaders nonetheless wasted weeks and no fewer than 63 votes trying to impose withdrawal deadlines, strategy changes, and other war-fighting micromanagement on Mr. Bush. Their only achievement has been to reinforce their image of national-security weakness for opposing the Baghdad "surge" that has been such a success. Recall Mr. Reid's memorable declaration in April that "This war is lost."<br /> <br /> Even today, Democrats are caught between their antiwar left, which wants more futile gestures, and Members from swing districts who want to fund the troops. Democrats have delayed funding for so long that the Pentagon is issuing furlough notices to 100,000 civilian employees so it can shuffle operations funding to keep the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in ammunition. <br /> <br /> Then there's the AMT fiasco. Without action by Congress, that hated second tax system will engulf 22 million middle-class Americans next year, most of them in high-tax, largely Democratic states. Congress has already been so dilatory that the IRS has said it may have to delay tax-return processing that is supposed to start in January. But so determined are House Democrats to raise taxes on somebody, anybody, to "pay for" this relief that they are holding out for Senate Democrats to walk the tax plank with them. In the end the House will surely back down, but not before Ms. Pelosi has put her moderate Members on record as tax raisers. Bluto strikes again. <br /> <br /> And don't forget the warrantless wiretap program against al Qaeda that expires early next year if Congress fails to act. The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is hardly dominated by hawks, passed a bipartisan bill in October. But it is now bogged down because Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy refuses to provide retroactive immunity to the telecom companies that cooperated with the U.S. government in the uncertain days after 9/11. The House bill is a similar bow to the ACLU, MoveOn.org and the party's antiwar left. If Republicans wanted to design a political battle that made Democrats look weak on security, they couldn't do it any better. <br /> <br /> ---------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> We could keep calling this roll: farm subsidies that are as egregious as anything the DeLay Republicans passed, the Schip health-care bill and its budget gimmicks, eliminating secret ballots for union organizing, spending bills that keep courting vetoes because they exceed Mr. Bush's targets. On nearly every issue, Democrats have been intent not on getting something done but on making a stupid, futile gesture to please their base.<br /> <br /> As for Mr. Bush, one lesson is that his veto strategy has been a political and policy success. Though widely called a lame duck, he continues to dominate the debate on security and defense. He is also on the cusp of controlling spending growth far better than he ever did when Republicans controlled Congress. <br /> <br /> We hope GOP leaders on Capitol Hill don't give Democrats a last minute reprieve on spending in order to be able to collect their own "earmarks." Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell looked shaky on that score earlier this week. The best GOP strategy is to put the responsibility to govern squarely on the Democratic majority, and support Mr. Bush's vetoes as a tool for improving policy. 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Non-state actors trying to kill Pakistanis, and Indians, and trying to start a war between India and Pakistan, are not the same as one country invading another.<br /> b) That was before the atomic bomb,<br /> <br /> Alisa,<br /> <br /> Look, the Pakistani military/Govt. is not capable of dealing with these 'non-state' actors. Your logic that it is going to take several years to neutralize and India has to wait for that period to pass is simply dumb. <br /> Would you allow a thief to rob your own home over and over again? 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I will give my example ..if I buy a house now ... for the good deals ..I have to buy one which is 14 miles away from work and another 22 miles away from city / airport (atlanta). and ofcourse if I buy at so far away it will not appreciate for another 10 years (many places have single roads ..and atlanta traffic is famous). there is still a bubble at better locations ..as sellers / builders are not lowering enough ..lots of for sale signs though.<br /> now by renting ..I am closer to work / family ..so atleast 250 $ saved in gas plus vehicle maintenance ..add another 300 in maint + hoa for new house plu 300 - 400 in prop tax etc. with this money itself --I get good deals on renting a townhome with good apartment companies (hence no HOA).<br /> so renting is not throwing money away ..you get a place to stay (with no maintenance) ..maybe smaller in size ..so you need to ask another question ,...do I need extra space (And maintenance ..) ..before you decide to buy especially now.<br /> <br /> <br /> Hi <br /> <br /> I am moving to Atlanta (Meritta) soon. 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That's what my brother was alluding to when he phoned me a couple of nights ago with what he called "breaking news from our childhood".<br /> <br /> Under a headline saying "Gay party has been exposed", the local Hindi-language newspaper, Amar Ujala, had published a photograph of some 20 frightened-looking men sitting on the floor, many trying to conceal their faces with shawls and scarves.<br /> <br /> A series of bullet points beneath the photograph highlighted what the editors presumably thought were the most shocking aspects of the story: a doctor, MBA students and teachers were present; this "indecent" party was organised under the guise of a birthday party at a dharamshala (spiritual dwelling or sanctuary); and alcohol was served.<br /> <br /> The news item went on to name some of the men who were arrested; thankfully, all have fairly common first names, and their last names were not provided. However, the organiser of the party was identified as Bunty and the piece informed us that he runs a "beauty parlour" named after him. So, for anyone interested in following up the story with a spot of gay-bashing, the aforementioned Bunty should be easy enough to find.<br /> <br /> The English-language Times of India went further with its irresponsible reporting of the same story, mentioning the jobs and neighbourhoods of some of the men.<br /> <br /> The paper also chose to identify the host Bunty with his last name and gave the exact location of his beauty parlour. I read the rest of the piece in horror. The names of those arrested include both Hindus and Muslims (both religions have sizeable numbers in Saharanpur).<br /> <br /> The location of the dharamshala is just two miles from my old school, where I was mercilessly bullied for being too effeminate when I was a boy.<br /> <br /> There are quotes from the police officer who organised the raid, in which he talks about finding "used condoms" and guests in a "compromising position". Saharanpur is described as an "ultra-conservative" town and a college teacher called Ayub Qureshi is quoted expressing his indignation: "This is certainly unheard of in Saharanpur. I don't know where are we heading to."<br /> <br /> Thirteen men were arrested, though according to police the party was attended by more than 100. The arrests should be condemned. These "gay" men probably have nowhere else to meet and many perhaps still live with their families, where discussing their sexuality would not be an option.<br /> <br /> As I looked at the English-language news item, I noticed that one of the first comments comes from someone in the state of Haryana:<br /> <br /> "Dear sir, all these westurn gay thing is now allowed in our culture. v must stop these gay people from having sex because then they increase in population and soon our bautiful culture country will be full of them. police have done good job. kudos to them"<br /> <br /> The notion of homosexual activity being considered foreign � and often as specifically a western perversion � is an idea I came across before, when making my film, A Jihad for Love.<br /> <br /> Last month, out and proud gay men and women marched in Delhi's annual gay pride march. Many posed happily for the news cameras. Rainbow flags were in abundance, as was western terminology such as "gay", "queer" (even transcribed into Hindi on some signs) and "LGBTQ".<br /> <br /> As I looked at photos of the event taken by my Facebook friends, I realised that most came from middle- or upper-class families and would have a degree of ease with the English language. I have often wondered about the need to use western models of emancipation such as "gay pride" marches and rainbow banners in cultural contexts that are vastly different.<br /> <br /> While filming "gay" Muslims around the world, I realised that very often an absence of affirmative language for their sexual selves in their native tongues was what united them. I have always found the word "queer" problematic and find its use on signs in Hindi to be surprising at the very least.<br /> <br /> In so many countries, invisibility is the norm and the preferred option for those who have same-sex desires. I have no doubt that most of the men and women who were busy marching in Delhi waving their banners would not like to be seen at a downmarket venue like the dharamshala in Saharanpur and I am not even sure if many of these newly minted "queer" activists from India's big cities would find common cause with the small-town types arrested at this "gay party".<br /> <br /> India remains a land of some of the greatest dissonance in the world. A booming economy and the world's largest and probably most aspirational middle class, it still seems to be not completely at ease with the sexual freedoms that are usually touted as western.<br /> <br /> Just last year, the archaically worded anti-sodomy section 377 of the British-written penal code was successfully challenged in the Delhi high court. The vociferous activists in Delhi and Mumbai hope that the law will be repealed nationally, thus making homosexuality "legal" in the world's largest democracy. 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Basically learning how people got into a mess and what uscis did to catch them or to deny their cases<br /> <br /> 7) go to dol.gov and look for foreign labor certification; there are FAQ's on perm labors and h-1b<br /> <br /> <br /> 8) go to uscis.gov and read the INA and CFR's<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> If a person is used to reading laws and understanding the hierarchy and then intertwining uscis procedure along with the various service center procedure then you will start to get a clearer understanding.<br /> <br /> All of the information is public. Don't rely on what your friend told you as they usually only know what someone else told them.<br /> <br /> I had a non compete agreement when I left my employer and couldn't work for one year. During that year; I had nothing to do other then watch tv and watch the portal. 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It means therefore that I already have a 25% equity of the house, which is $60k. <br /> <br /> If I saved the $250 per month at zero interest, I would have $30k. I don't know where you can find 5% interest p.a. investment today but for the sake of argument that I found one, I think I can't get the $60k at the end of 10th yr.<br /> <br /> JunRN, it all depends on how much risk are you willing to take in what area. Equity is generally believed or historically trended to provide 10% returns over 10 years span (multiple market cycles). Where as dwelling as an investment provides a marginal 3 to 5% depending on location in a normal growth rate (Exception to Bubble). Equity market has nose dived as did housing market and people consider it too risky to invest at this stage in equity due to uncertinities (lot of companies may not make it through though times or No. PC companies which has become QPC -filed for chapter11 protection has increased) even though it doesn't involve huge amounts as housing at per unit basis. For investers, same applies for dwelling investment as well at a higher scale. More Chapter 11->more job losses->more houses on foreclosure.<br /> <br /> Just to counter your argument, Let me tell you one scenario, When stock market went down, I invested in shares some time back in February 09, as of today, If I look at the individual investment, it stands at 60% increased. But I do not think that it will provide me a 60% returns.. over 10 years... I expect only 10% and may increase to 15% in the long run which is a ball park number. <br /> <br /> Lot of sellers/brokers referred Zillow during 2006 and early 2007 (Bubble) to sell their houses at an inflated prices as I mentioned earlier, when it went up 20000 per month for several months.. Based on these numbers..people streached themself and jumped to grab one before it goes beyond their reach thinking that it will continue to go up.. Now, the houses values under water and they are whining about it every day and night.. some of their home values evapourated by 30 to 40%. (I am talking about 100,000 to 150,000 south). Zillow goes up and down.. in short term depending on historic sales and builder's listing price changes, not based on any economic outlook. Every agent wears two hats and is two-faced, because a home’s “value” has to be higher when represent a seller and lower when represent a buyer. The Zillow range of value represents best hope for buyer at the low end of the range, and highest for seller at the high end of that range. <br /> <br /> Here's what they say about it in disclaimer "The Zestimate is not an appraisal and you won't be able to use it in place of an appraisal, though you can certainly share it with real estate professionals. It is a computer-generated estimate of the worth of a house today, given the data we have available. Zillow.com does not offer the Zestimate as the basis of any specific real-estate-related financial transaction. Our data sources may be incomplete or incorrect; also, we have not physically inspected a specific home."<br /> <br /> My point is, Unless the correction happens in housing market, which is widely believed to be another 10 to 12% further south from where it stands now.. there is always a risk in buying one thinking that its going to appreciate in next 10 years. Remember though the demand cycles for realty market is lenghty ones which will rise once in 10 to 15 years but this does not mean that there's going to be another bubble again to hike it up by 100 and 200% :). It may rise as historically did to provide a 3 to 4% returns. This is regardless of location... location.. location.. First, It will take time to stabilize the market just because there's too much supply, affordiability issue and aging population. <br /> <br /> Buy or not, depends on whether and how much you are willing and open to take risk. Higher the risk, higher the returns.. doesn't mean it applies to stupid decisions... 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I went to buy home last spring at my current location ( south carolina) but luckily I didnt buy it as some one advised me not to proceed unless I plan to stay for atleast five years. So that was good for me. <br /> <br /> Any way what are the good developing suburbun areas where we have good schools and property prices are reasonable in atlanta area?<br /> <br /> What is the trend of house price in atlanta area?<br /> <br /> Also regarding renting apratments, my son is in high school and I will be working in the Meritta area. I was looking for highshools and I found that Walton highschool, Pope Highschool and Roswell Highschools may be good choices nearby. <br /> <br /> Let me know your experiences in regards to any of those schools and nearby renatl apartments at low cost. I currently rent twobed room apartment and similar mightbe sufficient for me.<br /> <br /> Also please give links where I can see more info regarding atlanta housing, shcools transport etc.<br /> <br /> thanks<br /> I am on other side ..but Marietta is a good place. you will get better answers from google. my advice would be ..rent (at a location where you would get good schools ..since school is imp in atlanta) for sometime and then look for deals.<br /> do you have a GC ? my advice only ..if on EAD or H1 ..keep renting till you get a good deal ..btw ..what is yr platform ...field ..just curious</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://siamstateofmind.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/\x27Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth\x27_by_%C3%89douard_Riou_33.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. File:#39;Journey to the Center of" title="File:#39;Journey to the Center of" width="470" <br><li>File:#39;Journey to the Center of</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Marphad</div><div class="date">01-07 04:05 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I didn't know Narendra Modi is a muslim. I didn't know those are committing genocide in Palestine are muslims. I didn't know those who attacked Iraq and commited war-crime under the pretex of WMD are muslims. I didn't know that these people are muslims.<br /> <br /> May be Narendra Modi was born to a Moghul Emperor. Others are born to ottaman emperors. What about you vghc? Are you a product of muslim?<br /> <br /> I tried to stay out of this as much as I could. Can't tolerate anymore. Why the hell Narendra Modi is considered as terrorist? <br /> <br /> I am not saying every muslim is bad. As I mentioned earlier, few of my best friends are muslims. But why the hell each and every muslim remained silent when people in Sabarmati Express were burnt alive? Hypocrates!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll287/panchin10/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarthDVDR-1.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. images Journey To The Center" title="images Journey To The Center" width="470" <br><li>images Journey To The Center</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Sakthisagar</div><div class="date">07-28 03:27 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Frankly he has a lot more serious problems to worry about than our issues. from the backlog, we are around 0.25 million and you have 300 million people in this country and 10% of them unemployed. So yeah, blame him all you want but any sane politician in his position would do the same. <br /> <br /> Let's consider this for example. Imagine you were in India and you had a few 100,000 decently skilled immigrants from some other country, who were waiting for their green card. Now you are the PM and you have to choose your focus between fighting terrorism, fighting inflation, high budget deficits with healthcare costs, high unemployment rate or giving green cards to these 100,000 people. I would think there would be a lot of pissed off countrymen in India who would scream at you when you are ignoring real issues and focussing instead on giving green cards to foreigners especially when you already have a sky high unemployment rate. Wouldn't be a great political strategy, would it? But maybe you would still do it, perhaps if you have a vested interest in getting it done. <br /> <br /> Still, next year you can bet that he'll do something on immigration since the states have started legislating on their own now and they can't afford this to continue.<br /> <br /> <br /> hahaha If one is a PM of India??? woooooh that will be funny, any PM will ask the permission of Madam the congress president What to do? and whatever uneducated madam says that will be done., dont ever ever dare to compare India and USA. dont compare apple with oranges.<br /> <br /> And the President should never wait for Illegal immigrants to pass Legal Immigration. In USA immigration means it is Legal. not illegal. He is playing politics with every one. Please understand that. The US unemployment on Tech sector is only around 3 % that is not a big issue. They can very well give EB immigrants green card. If you are fascinated or halloweened by The Presidents personality no one can help you. Like in India people blindly worship their party leaders or PM or Madam for that matter.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://egywebhost.com/support/index.php?blog=4&m=269010">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://musings.elisair.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Journey-To-The-Center-Of-The-Earth-1959-ScrnS-27.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. pictures Journey to the Center" title="pictures Journey to the Center" width="470" <br><li>pictures Journey to the Center</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sanju_dba</div><div class="date">06-23 03:29 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">As of now Single Family Dwelling &Condos owned by corporate ( like banks , invest companies ) is 3.9%.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH 3D <img src="http://www.movies-wallpapers.net/Movies/Journey%2520To%2520The%2520Center%2520Of%2520The%2520Earth/Journey%2520To%2520The%2520Center%2520Of%2520The%2520Earth-02.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. Journey To The Center Of The" title="Journey To The Center Of The" width="470" <br><li>Journey To The Center Of The</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pthoko</div><div class="date">07-11 02:39 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Hi UN, Please take a look when u get a chance<br /> <br /> <br /> First of all my sincere gratitude to you for your patience and the time you put in to give a detailed reply to all cases.<br /> <br /> Here's my situation(I think a case of status violation)<br /> <br /> <br /> I did an L1 to H1 transfer in 2005. My L1 was valid till APRIL 2006. So my intention was to work with L1 employer till April 2006 and then switch to H1 employer.<br /> <br /> H1 employer also applied for a change of status, which I was not aware of that time. I asked the H1 company's lawyer whether I could continue with my L1 employer after getting the H1 and she said it's fine.<br /> <br /> So I got the H1B approval in Oct 2005, but still continued with L1 employer till APRIL 2006, then switched to H1.<br /> <br /> Recently I came to know that this could be an issue. When I was filling the G-325A form, I wondered if I specify that I worked with the L1 employer till APRIL 2006, would they catch this?? Even if they catch , how big an issue would this be??<br /> <br /> If I put the dates to reflect the dates to show that I quit my L1 employer in Oct 2005 itself, would this be an issue?? I guess in this case, if by any chance they ask for any further evidence like pay stubs or W2 in that period of time, I would be in trouble.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> From what I have read from the forum, A lawful re-entry should clear the violation in my case right?? I haven't filed the I-485 yet. My I-140 is pending.<br /> Do they catch this during I-140 stage??<br /> <br /> ALSO CAN THEY DENY H1B DUE TO PREVIUOS VIOLATION OF STATUS, WHILE I RE-ENTER?? This is my biggest fear now!!!<br /> <br /> Can I go to Canada/Mexico for stamping? where would I get an appointment at the earliest??<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Thanks.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://times.ua/story/5481/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/844/844607/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-20080109043743715_640w.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. Journey to the Center of the" title="Journey to the Center of the" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Administrator2</div><div class="date">04-06 09:03 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">This bill seems to require a labor certification like process for every H1B extension. All of us who have gone through labor certification know how painful the initial data collection is when it comes to proving unavailability of US workers. How many employers will want to or be able to get a labor certification like process done for every H1 extension?<br /> <br /> Anti-H1B lobby wants to make the system so difficult that it will be impossible to complete all the requirements. Their strategy is, if they cannot eliminate H-1B program, they will make in non-workable. Also, this bill was in the making for more than two years. They are timing their articles in the press with this bill because of a reason. Don't simply reject it by saying that "this is not going to pass". Taking this bill lightly will be a mistake.<br /> <br /> Please inform your friends, colleagues and employer about this very serious problem.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair quot;Journey To The Center Of The <img src="http://moblog.net/media/h/a/r/harimanjaro/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth-2.JPG" alt="journey to the center of the earth. Journey to the centre" title="Journey to the centre" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the centre</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">03-24 04:32 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I think it is mainly for graduate students who are researchers or professors right?<br /> <br /> I know my brother went this route and the graduate students/post doctorate students don't get paid much. 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And they do not underpay them, because they HAVE to pay prevailing wages based on the wages determined by the Department of labor. <br /> <br /> Just wanted to let you know that the employer has to pay at least the prevailing wage for a starter to qualify the petition. The employer also has to pay a median wage to the H-1B holder that is commensurate with similarly qualified employees in the company. Otherwise the employer could be prosecuted for wage violations.<br /> <br /> Norm Matloff's figures are faulty because he measures only the prevailing wage as a yardstick which is the bare minimum for qualification. And then he claims H-1Bs are undercutting American employees. No wonder, if you make calculations with lower figures, on the average, H-1Bs look as if they are getting paid less than American employees. To get the actual picture, Norm needs to know actual wages of H-1B employees, which is not possible because not all employers divulge employee pay. As long as the figures can be taken to one's advantage, we always will have these critics running around with distorted graphs and figures. <br /> <br /> One reform Zazona.com should support and fight for in EB Greencards is making the application employee-centric, not employer-centric. Current procedure is in a way bondage to the employer, especially when USCIS takes a long time with multiple stages (read delays) that too not bothering about how long the application has been pending. If USCIS processing improves and they try to reach out to their customers, then a wait of one or two years for Greencard should not be an issue. Infact, I support instant GC proposal in that case.<br /> <br /> Regarding the claims of stealing jobs, I see tons of job advertisements weekly. Many of these ads specifically exclude non-sponsorship candidates (read H-1Bs). US citizens have a bigger market and better opportunities than H-1Bs. I am not sure how it is not possible for them to get jobs. As Logiclife mentioned, the unemployment rate is 2% in IT field. Perhaps people are not prepared to move to areas where jobs are growing. I can not specukate any more on that.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.thechemblog.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house Journey to the Center of the <img src="http://onlyjewels.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. Journey to the Center of the" title="Journey to the Center of the" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Raju</div><div class="date">05-24 12:21 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">If you go through the transcripts of his shows over the last 4-5 years, he is stauncly against everything foriegn, period. He hates H1-Bs, absolutely hates indian call centers , hates cheap chinese goods, hates illegal aliens ... he is not just anti-immigrant, he is xenophobic.<br /> The reason he is so popular is because he appeals to populist sentiments .. its the easiest thing in the world to blame foreigners when the economy is bad and believe everything will be hunky-dory if they are kicked out.<br /> <br /> <br /> I used to watch his show for 2 yrs. This is what exactly he wants to do. I agree 200% to the above passage. He wants to build walls for everything, technolgy, foriegn goods and Immigrants(legal and illegel). I am surprised that he is a harvard graduate. He want to send 15 mil illegals out, which is 10% of the whole work force. The current unemployment in this coutry is under 5% which the best in the world. 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I have a 3 year old daughter and she being able to run in our own backyard is worh of some financial risk. The house prices are lower (still I think a little higher than it should be) and the interest rate is good too. So, go for it and good luck.<br /> <br /> Per iwantmygreen you (just like me) are here to hurt his/her emotions. Apparently we get a kick out of that.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses 2010 journey to the center of <img src="http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/e90/4bc93522017a3c57fe015e90/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-poster.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. tattoo Journey to the Center" title="tattoo Journey to the Center" width="470" <br><li>tattoo Journey to the Center</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pete</div><div class="date">04-10 04:12 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Its important to understand the root cause for the retrogression. 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Can we go after Sep3rd with the old receipts dated for Aug 23rd 2007?<br /> <br /> Thanks In Advance,<br /> kSR<br /> <br /> There is another thread in this section that somebody posted that has the answers. You can take the Fp and request re-scheduling for your family giving the travel iternary copy and date(s) when they would be available</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend house Center of the earth <img src="http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2008/07/11/alg_fraser.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth. #39;Journey to the Center of the" title="#39;Journey to the Center of the" width="470" <br><li>#39;Journey to the Center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">krishna.ahd</div><div class="date">12-26 08:05 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I like Amma's post, pretty good, well thought out and i stand corrected, in my earlier remarks. 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If so, do not buy.<br /> <br /> ValidIV, Based on your quote, we should be prepared for prices going down further and I485 getting rejected as being the worst case scenario.<br /> <br /> Also when I rent, I rent a 2-3 bedroom house, but I would want to buy a larger house say 5 bedroom (because I am planning long term). <br /> Hence my rent is 1500 whereas with mortgage payment its going to be 3000. <br /> <br /> I could save extra 15000 each year for down payment. So lets say I have 30K cash on hand, I can save 30K more in next 2 years and either go for a bigger house or hedge against rate increase. We all know that prices are not going to go up until 2011. Speculate or don't.<br /> Even Suze Orman will tell you that more the mortgage , more you pay in the end. <br /> <br /> Although your theory of buying 3 properties with 800 K is ambitious, it is riddled with risks and with biggest assumption that rents will not go down and property prices will go up. If this assumption falls apart, your investment starts making loss.<br /> <br /> My last landlord had victorian homes and she had trouble renting them because they needed constant upgrades to keep up with newly constructed communities. So she took out a equity loan and then the house prices dropped.<br /> <br /> And she still had trouble finding renters. This was in a community where I found hard to find a rental home. What will you <br /> <br /> <br /> And lets say they do go up defying expectations, you can watch trend for 3-4 months and then jump in at any time. Whats the hurry? We build up piles of cash waiting for the right opportunity and jump in at the right time.<br /> <br /> Do you agree even though interest rates are going up, house prices are not for the next 3 years? At this moment all Rent vs Buy calculators are saying its going to take me 11 years with 1% price increase to break even on my investment. Who knows where I will be in 11 years?<br /> <br /> How can we decide when we do not know what future holds for us beyond next 2-3-5 years?<br /> <br /> I am from same school as SauveSandeep. <br /> <br /> There are risk profiles of investors, I believe you have more tolerance than we do.<br /> <br /> My parents back in India, rented till the kids were 10 yr olds, then they bought a house at 58 my dad is retired with abundant financial security. <br /> <br /> :) I want to live life like that.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nogc_noproblem</div><div class="date">08-22 03:10 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">A man walks into a bar and he's really pissed. <br /> <br /> The bartender gives him a drink and asks what the problem is. All he says is, "All lawyers are idiots." <br /> <br /> A man sitting in the corner shouts, "I take offense to that!" <br /> <br /> The pissed-off guy asks him, "Why? Are you a lawyer?" <br /> <br /> He replies, "No, I'm an idiot."</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">abcdgc</div><div class="date">12-27 01:55 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I also think the media could have acted more responsibly than it did. I was somewhat disappointed by Pakistani media. I think there was too much bias and not so much objectivity in the coverage. I am afraid the Indian media would have acted in a similar manner too....<br /> <br /> You haven't yet denounced the Bombay attacks but you are quick to attack Indian media. Good job, you have been trained well. Indian media is at fault in showing the carnage but the terrorist who carried out the carnage are saints???<br /> <br /> Its funny to see your assertion that its ok if 200 die in a bomb blast. It maybe ok for Pakistanis, but it is not ok for Indians. Stop calling Indian media as "bias". There was no ambiguity in the coverage. It was direct telecast. Why blame the media to educate the larger population that what's going on. Let me guess, terrorist do not like freedom of speech. You need to stop watching that garbage in Pakistani TV channels.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-9044037467337465442011-07-12T03:30:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.146-07:00common cold cartoonimages Common Cold Virus Came From <img src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/462202/462202,1270728555,5/stock-photo--d-render-of-cartoon-character-with-flu-virus-50471716.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. hairstyles common cold virus" title="hairstyles common cold virus" width="470" <br><li>hairstyles common cold virus</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">niklshah</div><div class="date">01-07 10:35 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Those who said, Hamas was hiding inside school and firing rockets, go check the fact in CNN.<br /> <br /> U.N. 'sure' no militants at school hit by Israeli troops<br /> <br /> http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/07/israel.gaza.school/index.html<br /> <br /> Human sheild, hiding in hospital, hiding in mosques, hiding in school - All are big lie and bullshit. Just to justify the killing of innocent lives.<br /> <br /> <br /> oh every one saw your link u sent, did u see CNN when they were showing mumbai killings.. Palestine and Israel are fighting for land and occupation but what was fault of people in mumbai??? think hard man if this war needs to be stopped it has to be stopped from all the sides u cant blame single community or nation for this..........</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper hairstyles common cold virus <img src="http://www.sedonaobserver.com/SO_001/images/OpEdPage_Cartoon2_June05.gif" alt="common cold cartoon. Cartoon by Mike Konopacki," title="Cartoon by Mike Konopacki," width="470" <br><li>Cartoon by Mike Konopacki,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ramba</div><div class="date">01-29 10:06 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Interesting to watch this video. How CNN and Lou is propagating false information and not airing how H1B system works. They think viewers are idiot. It may be true that USCIS might have approved more than mandated numbers. It does not matter. Even they can approve 1 million H1B petition. But everyone has forget one thing. One must verify how many actual new H1B visas are issued by the consulates (DOS) based on approved petitions and how many adjusted to H1B status from other non-immigration status in US. There are so many H1B visas denied by the consulates. CNN do not air that. <br /> <br /> Furthermore, there are so many cases in which more than 1 employer might have applied H1B visa for same person. It is legal. Finally the guy come to US thro one employer. Other approved petions are wasted in this case. They can not do labor subsitution in H1B like in GC.<br /> <br /> CNN is smartly hiding the actual facts.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://muslimmedianetwork.com/mmn/windows-live-pictures/RhinoVirus_D78E/ibntufail.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. of the common cold and of" title="of the common cold and of" width="470" <br><li>of the common cold and of</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">GC_Applicant</div><div class="date">04-08 11:44 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Not that I am going to buy right now., but want to get my home work done.<br /> <br /> Can anybody suggest some good guidelines for mortgage financing., like FHA loans (if I-485 applicant can qualify) and good lenders.<br /> <br /> Thanks for all the great info.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 Cartoon by Mike Konopacki, <img src="http://sandrarose.com/images12/cure-for-common-cold-virus.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. hot Cold Virus cartoon 3" title="hot Cold Virus cartoon 3" width="470" <br><li>hot Cold Virus cartoon 3</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">WaitingYaar</div><div class="date">04-05 09:05 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">One thing is for sure that pending GC cannot take over the lifestyles of the individuals. One should continue doing thinking long term prosperity and standard of living. It is a good time to make this move if you have some cash to make 20% down, otherwise the rates, and type of loan programs are no longer attractive. The housing market is probably at the bottom, and hopefully with the new efforts to revive the housing market things may be improving soon. So considering interest rates are still low, housing values at 2004 level, it is a good combination. Just my 2 cents to the discussion!!</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://anni80.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://fr.toonpool.com/user/1631/files/nothing_stops_the_virus_634675.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">SunnySurya</div><div class="date">12-19 10:11 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">In my mind, if a group of people have blind faith on any thing then thats a religion. If the same faith is backed by hardcore facts and the proof could be produced to substantiate it then thats science.<br /> <br /> God just happened to be entangled in the debate between blind faith and fact based faith.<br /> <br /> What or who is god anyways, is he omnipotent or just someone who learns by trial and error. After all it took him 8 billion years to create this universe.<br /> <br /> I beleive, God is anyone's last hope , a light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to make sure that light is not that of an oncoming train.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00486/cold2_486525s.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. 2011 Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="2011 Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>2011 Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mmillo</div><div class="date">07-08 12:57 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">unitednations..!!<br /> <br /> r u the same from immigrationportal.com.. !! people r looking out for u in this immigration greencard darkness..<br /> <br /> <br /> UN<br /> <br /> we miss you and your experience</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.kiref.com/news.php?readmore=1555">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.vadscorner.com/quack6.gif" alt="common cold cartoon. from the common cold." title="from the common cold." width="470" <br><li>from the common cold.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ahimsa</div><div class="date">11-13 08:42 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">[B]... BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Microsoft's Bill Gates this week fired the first shot in the coming fight for more cheap foreign labor. Gates warning of a shortage of high-tech workers that his company needs to be competitive... <br /> We can ignore Lou on his yet another one-sided propaganda.<br /> But I think, if Lou is fair-minded (which he is not), he should have called Bill Gates to discuss on H-1B not Kim B.<br /> <br /> H-1B reform is an off-topic right now for us.<br /> Also, IV is neither supportive of or against H-1B increase.<br /> <br /> US lawmakers already started discussing to reform H-1B with point-based system. <br /> Senate had a hearing on Sep 14, 2006:<br /> http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2006_09_14/2006_09_14.html<br /> <br /> Lou thinks lawmakers do not know anything about refoming H-1B.<br /> <br /> So, we can ignore Lou for ever.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 of the common cold and of <img src="http://images.sciencedaily.com/2008/11/081120073115-large.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common Cold Virus Came From" title="Common Cold Virus Came From" width="470" <br><li>Common Cold Virus Came From</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ramba</div><div class="date">01-29 10:06 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Interesting to watch this video. How CNN and Lou is propagating false information and not airing how H1B system works. They think viewers are idiot. It may be true that USCIS might have approved more than mandated numbers. It does not matter. Even they can approve 1 million H1B petition. But everyone has forget one thing. One must verify how many actual new H1B visas are issued by the consulates (DOS) based on approved petitions and how many adjusted to H1B status from other non-immigration status in US. There are so many H1B visas denied by the consulates. CNN do not air that. <br /> <br /> Furthermore, there are so many cases in which more than 1 employer might have applied H1B visa for same person. It is legal. Finally the guy come to US thro one employer. Other approved petions are wasted in this case. They can not do labor subsitution in H1B like in GC.<br /> <br /> CNN is smartly hiding the actual facts.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.thaiall.net/modules.php?name=MS_Analysis&file=index&op=MSAnalysisGeneral&screen=2&overview=1&sortby=A_hits">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/cold_eeze.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. The common cold typically" title="The common cold typically" width="470" <br><li>The common cold typically</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">texcan</div><div class="date">08-05 01:27 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">And if you feel your esteemed queue is getting bigger you are more than welcome to leave this place.<br /> <br /> And Sir dontcareanymore, who are you to show people out. <br /> <br /> Please calm down, its ok if someone has ideas that donot match 100% to your ideas; your decency is in letting people speak and hear them still.<br /> <br /> friend.....Donot get angry, please. <br /> <br /> what a pity, we donot let anyone talk, speak unless they agree with us and we call ourselves educated, democratic....voice of immigration....<br /> may i dare say ...."we are not even close"..<br /> <br /> lets not fight, please. I am not blaming you sir, but the action. so please <br /> donot blast me, i know you are a wonderful person; i am blaming the action not you.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair hot Cold Virus cartoon 3 <img src="http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/graphics/news3/HotWheelsBF5_S1V1.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. quot;Gearing Up,quot; quot;Common Cold" title="quot;Gearing Up,quot; quot;Common Cold" width="470" <br><li>quot;Gearing Up,quot; quot;Common Cold</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gaz</div><div class="date">12-28 08:41 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I hope thats your bravado speaking. Otherwise what you have stated is mostly inaccurate. Much as I would like to see Pakistan walloped for supporting the jehadi pigs, what war could potentially escalate into is far scarier than 200 people killed in Mumbai. It could mean the deaths of hundreds (or many times that) people - both Indian and Pakistani. That casualty number is not acceptable given that we've been absorbing thousands of losses in the last 50 years...scratch that - even in the last 20 years. IMHO Kargil was a bigger event than Mumbai than this since they had the b*lls to waltz onto Indian territory.<br /> <br /> Strategically, India has no advantage pushing on to Islamabad (which is why we didn't in the wars earlier). Logistics will not support an invasion - primarily because the local population will not support it. And then it means killing thousands of non army personnel to hold on to territory and sustaining the same kind of losses. ('71 push to Dhaka was a contrast because the local population was supportive of India's/ Muktibahini push)<br /> <br /> Nukes - for the delivery mechanism it doesn't need to be accurate - it just needs to get close and explode above or around the target. If it explodes in the air there are fewer casualties than if it were to land on the ground - then the massive fallout would be even more catastrophic. Anti-missile shield? Wow - but no way are they going to be effective. 4 minutes of flying time from Pak to India for an aircraft - its hard intercepting aircraft (which are far slower than missiles the last time i checked).. you need to research a little more before speaking up. And none of India's or for that matter Pakistans missiles have been war-proven (remember Murphys law - yes that will creep in here also)<br /> <br /> Yes - India can wipe out terror camps; wipe out the PAF/ Pakistan army etc. But what is the strategic advantage? An economic setback of 20 years? No buffer between Afghanistan, and the hardcore mullahs west of Pakistan (most Pakis outside of the ISI are liberal Islamists). Also, the US will be more concerned about the Afghan border and will step up international pressure on India to let Pakistan be - worse - it could take an offensive posture against India as in '71 (like everyone else US cares about its interests first)<br /> <br /> Pakistan is that spoilt younger sibling to India that keeps making noise to get whatever it wants. Now the time has come when even they know they've gone too far. And its A**kicking time - but not militarily. A tough stance from India and the rest of from the rest of the world will work also. Tough love, baby!<br /> <br /> India's interests are best served by getting ISI branded a terror organization, Pakistan a terror state and by de-linking Kashmir with the whole terror issue since most of the terrorists are non locals anyway (because Pakis want the focus on Kashmir). Repeal article 370 so that Kashmiri Pandits are assisted in returning to Kashmir along with other Indians (whatever religion so wants to). Rebuild Kashmir economically. Help liberal Pakis rebuild their country - and with a better economy, maybe good sense will prevail in that failed state. <br /> <br /> Strength is not always an action of force. Strength is sometimes force of action - and India needs to be forceful in its actions - not relenting, not giving up until South Asia is a peaceful place again.<br /> <br /> As someone who comes from an army family and who has been trained as a reserve, I want to assure you guys who think that an Indo-Pak war will linger; that it will not. It will take Indian army 15-20 days to reach Islamabad if the full force is deployed and the army is in charge of the war and not our politicians.<br /> Pak has nukes, but their delivery mechanism is not sound and before Pak launches any nukes, US will disarm them and even if a few are launched India had a very good anti missile shield which will intercept and destroy all warheads before it enters Indian air.<br /> Now to actual strategies that India should follow-<br /> 1. The civilian government in Pak is not at fault, previously they were responsible for terrorist attacks on India but now they are suffering at the hands of a monster of their own making. Terrorism and ISI.<br /> 2. India should use air and missile power to strike out and wipe out a 500km radius around each terrorist camps while offering an olive branch to the Pak govt. What this does is it will kill with certainty all terrorists and will also wipe out surrounding villages.<br /> 3. These are casualties of war and are a necessary evil, it will strike fear in the hearts of villagers and when ever a terrorist camp is set up; the surrounding villagers will chase them out in fear of India's wrath.<br /> 4. India should send RAW analysts to assassinate all rouge ISI officers, if needed Mossad of Israel can help India.<br /> 5. Finally the only way to deal with the problem of Pakistan longtime is to either socially cleanse Pakistan for the civilian government and bring in more modernism or carve out pakistan into several independent states. This is a long term goal which has to be thought about.<br /> <br /> If anyone is interested I can post the actual army strengths of India and Pak, its an interesting statistic and I am sure the Pak government knows about it in more detail than me. And it beats me that in spite of knowing the facts they are doing all this war posing. Just a tit bit from it, Indian army (only) is 1.3mil + 450K (reserves) strong. The combined Pak armed forces are 450K active + 500K reserves. India outnumbers Pak in almost every aspect 1:5 on an average. We have fought 4 wars and India has won all 4 times, why should the 5th time be any different? Lets finish this and move on, we have to become an economic superpower and we cannot be bothered by such trivial things like terrorism and pakistan. Lets take terror to the terrorists, like the song from the Hindi movie Arjun goes <br /> " Dushman ko yeh dikadho dushmani hai kya...":cool:</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.kenesrig.com/weblog/index.php?month=5&year=1614">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.mesano-na-zaru.si/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/gobelin-623x277-142-0151.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. hot Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="hot Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>hot Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mbartosik</div><div class="date">09-29 12:05 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">My primary reason for supporting Obama is environment...<br /> <br /> Obama truely supports renewable energy, and did not cave to placating the public with lowering gas tax. While I think that $15,000,000,000 per year may not be enough it is a start in the right direction.<br /> <br /> I got my green card earlier this year, and one of the first things that I did after getting it was contribute to Obama's primary campaign. Now I've been contributing to his election campaign (I'm sure that there's a public access site you can look up contribution at).<br /> <br /> McCain did not once vote for the Renewable Energy Investment Tax Credit extension. Not once out of 9 times. Sure he has been out of DC many times, but not all. How can you have an "all of the above" energy policy when you haven't voted once for renewable energy.<br /> <br /> See my solar system install here: http://tinyurl.com/4h3sm7<br /> - it's impressive.<br /> <br /> So I put my money where my mouth is -- solar powered net zero retrofitted house, featured on local TV and in news papers (got another interview in a hour). Mostly with American made equipment (one of my criteria).<br /> I support Obama with contributions -- since I cannot vote.<br /> I also support IV with contributions.<br /> <br /> My political slogan:<br /> "Blow baby blow"<br /> "Shine baby shine"<br /> - Renewable energy is the future, it is made in the USA!<br /> <br /> Many of us high skilled immigrants have the above average get-up-and-go that it takes to move this country forward to a brighter future. After all we had the get-up-and-go to move here.<br /> <br /> However, the system does work against us. Being an "temporary" sure did not make it any easier making the investment that I have. Until I got my green card, being "temporary" was a huge problem and worry, because I had made decisions based on the assumption that would change.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot Common+cold+virus+cartoon <img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5045/5282059808_7e6f809318.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">diptam</div><div class="date">09-26 04:37 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Just Kidding - reading your post i was feeling like I'm reading a comment from Fox News. However i do respect your opinion and thanks for expressing it.<br /> <br /> My Point is more long term - in the shorter term no major change can happen to economy even if Barack wins but eventually Economy would be stronger under Barack's leadership. He also stressed that he would stop "JOBS BEING SHIPPED OVERSEAS" which means companies like TATA or INFY or some Chinese company taking my Job ( or any American's Job ) away from US to INDIA or CHINA. If you are planning a future in US - you would not want your US job taken away by your brother at INDIA or CHINA and Barack will make sure that doesn't happen.<br /> <br /> The Bottonline is he will create tons of Jobs at US , so unemployment will be very low , average peoples will be happy and however loud ANTI-IMMIGRANTS scream and shout no AMERICAN will pay attention. Our EB reforms will Pass much easily and we will be able to able to lead a much happier and content life with GREEN CARD.<br /> <br /> Once again my Point is definitely Long Term - in the shorter duration Barack has to first fix the Mortgage Mess and do something with Iran by taking help from EUROPE.<br /> <br /> For arguments sake :)<br /> if Barak wins the skies will part, unemployment will disappear, GCs will rain from the sky. Americans will hug Iran and peace will prevail....it is insane arguments like the one below that obamaphiles make, scares me about what will happen when he becomes the president. No legislative experience that is ok for him but not ok for Republican VP choice. Trashy ads from him are ok but no..no from the republicans. not a single major newspaper talks about his dealings with rezko or the 100k allocated to be spent on the garden. No major deatails on a single concrete proposal...reason being that public is not interested in the finer details. In the tank with major unions, look at the promises being made to them...anyways i dont get to vote i can look at all this dispassionately and watch it from far. He has a slick marketing campaing and the media loves him. Either ways my EB is so screwed i dont think either can help us out.<br /> as you say 'lets take it EZ'</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://giuse010.altervista.org/phpBB3/referrers.php">more...</a><br><br /><br />house The+common+cold+cartoon <img src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/tmc/lowres/tmcn1523l.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Emergency Medicine cartoon 4" title="Emergency Medicine cartoon 4" width="470" <br><li>Emergency Medicine cartoon 4</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mariner5555</div><div class="date">04-09 11:29 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">we may be thinking that the points below are a worst case scenario but according to the famous economist Roubini - this is a likely one.<br /> on the lighter side - if this really happens then even the mighty GC would finally become just a card.:rolleyes:<br /> --------<br /> 1. We are experiencing the worst US housing recession since the Great Depression and this housing recession is nowhere near bottoming out. Housing starts have fallen 50% but new home sales have fallen more than 60% thus creating a glut of new –and existing homes- that is pushing home prices sharply down, already 10% so far and another 10% in 2008. With home prices down 10% $2 trillion of home wealth is already wiped out and 6 million households have negative equity and may walk away from their homes; with home prices falling by year end 20% $4 trillion of housing wealth will be destroyed and 16 million households will be in negative wealth territory. And by 2010 the cumulative fall in home prices will be close to 30% with $6 trillion of home equity destroyed and 21 million households (40% of the 51 million having a mortgage being underwater). Potential credit losses from households walking away from their homes (“jingle mail”) could be $1 trillion or more, thus wiping out most of the capital of the US financial system.<br /> 2. In 2001 it was the corporate sector (10% of GDP or real investment) to be in trouble. Today it is the household sector (70% of GDP in private consumption) to be in trouble. The US consumer is shopped out, saving-less, debt burdened (debt being 136% of income) and buffeted by many negative shocks: falling home prices, falling home equity withdrawal, falling stock prices, rising debt servicing ratios, credit crunch in mortgages and – increasingly – consumer credit, rising oil and gasoline prices, falling employment (now for three months in a row), rising inflation eroding real incomes, sluggish real income growth.<br /> 3. The US is experiencing its most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. This is not just a subprime meltdown. Losses are spreading to near prime and prime mortgages; they are spreading to commercial real estate mortgages. They will spread to unsecured consumer credit in a recession (credit cards, auto loans, student loans). The losses are now increasing in the leveraged loans that financed reckless and excessively debt-burdened LBOs; they are spreading to muni bonds as default rates among municipalities will rise in a housing-led recession; they are spreading to industrial and commercial loans. And they will soon spread to corporate bonds – and thus to the CDS market – as default rates – close to 0% in 2006-2007 will spike above 10% during a recession. I estimate that financial losses outside residential mortgages (and related RMBS and CDOs) will be at least $700 billion (an estimate close to a similar one presented by Goldman Sachs). Thus, total financial losses – including possibly a $1 trillion in mortgages and related securitized products - could be as high as $1.7 trillion.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo 2011 Common+cold+virus+cartoon <img src="http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/249266/large/M0550240-Rhinovirus-SPL.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gcisadawg</div><div class="date">01-06 05:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Refugee New,<br /> <br /> The focus has totally shifted from "Israeli occupation of Palestine" to "Terrorism". WHY? Blame it of Arafat, his successors and now Hamas.<br /> <br /> See how other Arab countries are treating Palestinian Refugees.<br /> <br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugees<br /> <br /> You can not blame everything on Jewish media. There is no point in you and me jumping up and down. The people that needs to realize should realize and focus on a workable solution. <br /> <br /> Mumbai terrorism was discussed at length but you did not see the same level of discussion for LTTE's war with SLA. LTTE shares religion, language and ethnicity with lots of Indians but you DID NOT see the board discussing about that war a lot. What does that mean? It is people's nature to care only about things that impact them. There are so many stuffs that happens in world that doesn't impact all.<br /> <br /> This is another example of Middle east getting much more media attention than war between LTTE and SLA. With all the media attention and world opinion favoring Palestine until 10 years ago, they should have gotten their own state long ago.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.saruhanlar.net/profile.php?lookup=1">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures from the common cold. <img src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/62870/62870,1156393933,2/stock-photo-virus-cell-1732994.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gapala</div><div class="date">06-23 01:52 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Here is one calculation that might give you one more reason to buy...<br /> \<br /> <br /> Yeah sure! Based on your calc skills, people will get under water in no time.. Did you consider the part of principal at all in your calc? 23000 a year and end up at 8K ????<br /> <br /> Based on my calc, your monthly payment will be somewhere around $2750 for a 400K loan at that rate. Do the math that makes it 2750 x 12 = 33000 and your 666 will become 1500 now :). Now add all the other stuff such as HOA, Maintenance, property tax, closing cost and what not... to derive the per month cost for first year<br /> <br /> Credits are one time.. how about next year and there after??<br /> <br /> Unbelievable!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses Common+cold+virus+cartoon <img src="http://static.ctia.in/images/article/health/Live_Healthy/cold_1.jpg" alt="common cold cartoon. Common+cold+virus+cartoon" title="Common+cold+virus+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>Common+cold+virus+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Green06</div><div class="date">09-26 10:31 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">We are living in this country for 8 years on H1b with a hope that one day we will be permanent residents of this country. I love to see Senator Obama as the next president of US but I am afraid that that would be the end of my GC path. I have Canadian Immigration as a backup and if we don't get anything here by next year then we will move to Canada. We are already getting good offers from Alberta Canada and seriously thinking about moving there.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://armagio.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup The common cold typically <img src="http://freeware.remakes.org/images/curefor/CCscreenshot.gif" alt="common cold cartoon. The+common+cold+cartoon" title="The+common+cold+cartoon" width="470" <br><li>The+common+cold+cartoon</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-30 06:26 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Select Readings<br /> <br /> <br /> Alessandrini, Michele and Tullio Buccellato (2008), �China, India and Russia: Economic reforms, structural change and regional disparities,� Economics Working Paper No.97, December 2008, London: Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe, 33 pp.<br /> Hoffmann, Steven A (1990), India and the China Crisis, Berkeley: University of California Press, 324 pp.<br /> Malone, David M. and Rohan Mukherjee (2010), �India and China: Conflict and<br /> Cooperation,� Survival, vol.52: 1, pp. 137-158.<br /> Bajpaee, Chietigj (2007),�The Panda and the Peacock,� China Security, vol. 3 no. 4 Autumn 2007, pp. 103 � 123.<br /> <br /> Asian Development Bank (2010), Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010, �The Rise of Asia�s Middle Class,� 41st Edition, 2010, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, August 2010, 283 pp.<br /> Pew Global Attitudes Project (2010) (http:/ /pewglobal.org/files/2010/10/Pew-Global-Attitudes-India-Report-FINAL-October-20- 2010.pdf), Indians See Threat From Pakistan, Extremist Groups, Released: Wednesday, October 20, 2010; Accessed online 12 December 2010<br /> The Chinese Central Government�s Official Web Portal (http://www.gov.cn/english/leaders/wenjiabao.htm); Accessed online 16-20 December 2010<br /> <br /> �Chinese premier calls for enhanced cooperation, trade with India (http:// www.gov.cn/english/2010-12/16/content_1766862.htm)� <br /> <br /> �China-India friendship,� Chinese premier tells teenagers in India with calligraphy (http://www.gov.cn/english/2010-12/16/content_1766822.htm)�<br /> Ministry of External Affairs (http://www.mea.gov.in/) <br /> <br /> Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People�s Republic of China (http://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/) <br /> <br /> �We�ll be able to reach strategic consensus, says Wen (http:// www.hindustantimes.com/specials/coverage/jiabaovisit/We-ll-be-able-to-reachstrategic-consensus-says-Wen/newdelhi/SP-Article10-639024.aspx),� Hindustan Times<br /> �Prime Minister and Wen to talk trade, stir sticky issues (http://www.hindustantimes.com/Prime-Minister-andWen-to-talk-trade-stir-sticky-issues/Article1-639018.aspx),� Hindustan Times<br /> <br /> �India, China developing relationship of substance: Indian ambassador (http:// news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-12/13/c_13646832.htm),� Xinhua News<br /> <br /> �Jiabao�s visit to focus on strengthening Indo-China trade (http:// www.moneycontrol.com/news/cnbc-tv18-comments/jiabaos-visit-tofocusstrengthening-indo-china-trade_505188.html),� CNBC<br /> �Has Chinese premier�s visit strengthened India-China bonds? (http:// www.moneycontrol.com/news/current-affairs/has-chinese-premiers-visitstrengthened-india-china-bonds_505516.html),� CNBC<br /> �China-India ties fragile, need special care: Chinese envoy (http:// timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/China-India-ties-fragile-need-special-careChinese-envoy-/articleshow/7092210.cms),� The Times of India<br /> �RCom to raise $1.9 bn from China bank (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ tech/news/telecom/RCom-to-raise-19-bn-from-China-bank/articleshow/ 7106651.cms),� The Times of India<br /> �India, China cement ties with 49 pacts (http://financialexpress.com/news/indiachina-cement-ties-with-49-pacts/725349/2),� Financial Express<br /> �China�s domestic demand push boon for Indian exporters (http:// www.financialexpress.com/news/chinas-domestic-demand-push-boon-forindian-exporters/724771/2),� Financial Express<br /> �Indian drug firms look to scale the Great Wall (http:// www.financialexpress.com/news/indian-drug-firms-look-to-scale-the-greatwall/724785/),� Financial Express<br /> �Pact on financial services likely to open doors for Chinese banks (http:// www.financialexpress.com/news/pact-on-financial-services-likely-to-open-doorsfor-chinese-banks/724780/),� Financial Express<br /> �India, China May Sign Banking Accord During Wen Jiabao�s Visit (http:// www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/india-china-may-sign-banking-accord-during-wen-visit-easing-icbc-s-entry.html),� Bloomberg<br /> �Shanghai Halts Fixed-Asset Lending through Year End (http://online.wsj.com/ article/SB10001424052748703929404576022550653865350.html), � The Wall Street Journal<br /> �PBOC Officials: Interest Rate Hike Could Hamper Economic Soft Landing (http:/ /online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101220-702333.html),� The Wall Street Journal<br /> �Foreign Ministers should look into pending issues: Wen (http:// www.thehindu.com/news/national/article956137.ece),� <br /> �Officials should sort out stapled visa issue: Wen (http://www.thehindu.com/ news/national/article956256.ece),� The Hindu<br /> �Muslim women lead protests in restive west China (http:// www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31853732/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/),� MSNBC <br /> �China�s Galloping Inflation (http://blogs.forbes.com/ gordonchang/2010/12/12/chinas-galloping-inflation/),� Gordon G. Chang | Forbes,<br /> �Business interests further Sino-Indian ties (http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/ foreign-view/2010-12/603015.html),� GlobalTimes<br /> <br /> �Al Qaeda urges Uighur jihad in China. So what? (http://www.csmonitor.com/ World/Global-News/2009/1008/al-qaeda-urges-uighur-jihad-in-china-so-what),� <br /> <br /> �The story of Chinese monetary sterilization (http://www.livemint.com/2010/ 12/20215815/The-story-of-Chinese-monetary.html),� <br /> �Chinese banks scaling back loans to ship owners, yards (http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/sub/shippingtimes/story/0,4574,417590- 1292443140,00.html?),� December 15, 2010,</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend Common+cold+virus+cartoon <img src="http://fasdprevention.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/cartoon-from-herd.jpg%3Fw%3D473%26h%3D431" alt="common cold cartoon. prevent the common cold?" title="prevent the common cold?" width="470" <br><li>prevent the common cold?</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">bondgoli007</div><div class="date">01-06 05:34 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">My point is, they keep the spotlight on Hamas and go kill as many innocent civilians as possible. <br /> <br /> Even when they kill school kids, we still blame Hamas. We don't blame the killer and try to stop their mad actions. Thats my point.<br /> :-) your argument or your feeble attempt at it is quite pathetic.<br /> <br /> No one on this forum feels any less sad on the happenings in Gaza as you but at the same time no one is demanding sympathy the way you are....not to mention the bare display of your own rage and hypocrisy on discussions on Islamic terrorism which everyone except you feels is a major cause of the tragedy in Gaza.<br /> <br /> If you want to do something constructive, put is in proper language...on the contrary you ignited a war of words between you and the rest of the member all of whom you reckon are "muslim haters"....<br /> <br /> I will concede one point to you...you do know the meaning of hate...and you know it well..<br /> <br /> Peace be with you...if it can.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles hot Common+cold+virus+cartoon <img src="http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/9/2/51141_md-squad%25252520rhinovirus%25252520plague%25252520champion.JPG" alt="common cold cartoon. common cold headmar," title="common cold headmar," width="470" <br><li>common cold headmar,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ghost</div><div class="date">07-17 11:00 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Randall,<br /> <br /> We, members of IV who are on H-1B visas, can bring our spouses and children with full rights to travel. Family members are NOT counted in the quota for H-1B. Spouses cannot work as their status is dependent (H-4).<br /> <br /> Our agenda is to resolve the Green Card Queue. People are waiting in the queue since 2001. The current status of queue can be found at: http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/bulletin/bulletin_2943.html (Look under the employment based numbers)<br /> <br /> We do not mind waiting in the queue until we get the Green Card. The problem is that the Green Card process is currently Employer-Centric. In the sense, once the GC process is initiated (Let's say Microsoft), the employee has to stick with Microsoft until the Green Card is approved.<br /> <br /> Even worse, we cannot get an official promotion during the wait as this will result in starting the GC process from scratch and inadvertantly sends their application to the end of the queue. Imagine Skilled Labor (people with BS, MS and PhD degrees in Science and Math) who are waiting in the queue for more than 5 years with out an official promotion and at employer's mercy. <br /> <br /> The employer precisely knows that the employee is stuck with their firm until they get their GC and they can conveniently ignore our professional growth (pay raise, promotion, etc). Make no mistake:rolleyes: , on the record they always sympathize our plight but they will not do anything about it. They always want more H-1B numbers but not GC numbers. Talk about employer exploitation.<br /> <br /> IV wants to make the GC process employee-centric so that the employers do not exploit the skilled labor.<br /> <br /> The problem of mis-match between H-1B numbers and GC numbers is created because of the disconnect between two programs. H-1B numbers do not have country limits where as GC numbers have a country limit. <br /> <br /> For example, let's assume that out of the current 65000 H-1B visas, 25000 are from India and 25000 are from China (First come first served basis) and the remaining 15000 are from the Rest of the World. However, the GC numbers have a country limit: 10000 for India, 10000 for China, etc. This results in a queue that will only increase with more H-1B numbers and a disconnected GC program.<br /> <br /> IV members are not against H-1B program (we are here on this program) but at the same time the H-1B increase is not our agenda (we leave it to the exploitant employers who lobby for it). We want to make the GC process employee-centric so as to stop the employer-exploitation and not hinder our professional growth. <br /> <br /> I am not aware of AFL-CIO/Programmers Guild agenda but my understanding was that they want to completely shut-down the H-1B program instead of reforming it. The bottom line is there aren't enough American Citizens who have advanced science and math degrees. So, we need a H-1B program. How to make this program more effective and less exploitative is debatable.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> This thread is very interesting to me. I've kind of lived though both sides, and it is really aweful for everyone but the abusive employer.<br /> <br /> My understanding of Immigration Voice's agenda is that this group is really for people who have H1B visas and are in the country already to bring their spouses and children here with full rights to travel and work, make sure renewals of H1Bs happen so you can stay in the country, and, even better, to convert H1B visas to green cards.<br /> <br /> My understanding is that the only reason that Immigration Voice supports increased H1B visa numbers is because people whose current visas are about to expire, and family members, are counted in these same numbers.<br /> <br /> Please correct if I'm wrong. I really would like to get this right.<br /> <br /> Anyway, if I do have it right, it seems to me that the AFL-CIO position (give people green cards instead of H1B visas) bridges the core concerns of members of Immigration Voice and the Programmers Guild. Whether or not everybody recognizes this is a different story, but it is good to know where the overlapping concern is, and hopefully in long term, get people talking about a solution that really does try to bridge the gap.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">willgetgc2005</div><div class="date">08-11 06:36 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">See below what CNN has hired. As if they cant get office managers. Go figure.I sent Dobbs asking him about this. <br /> <br /> <br /> Title Salary<br /> <br /> <br /> SENIOR PRODUCER ATLANTA GA 45345<br /> SENIOR PRODUCER ATLANTA GA 45345<br /> OFFICE MANAGER ATLANTA GA 34819<br /> OFFICE MANAGER ATLANTA GA 34819<br /> OFFICE MANAGER ATLANTA GA 34819<br /> SENIOR PRODUCER ATLANTA GA 45345</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ramaonline</div><div class="date">02-02 05:21 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Both L1 and H1 visa holders pay taxes just like any othe US Citizen</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-19813336938125739122011-07-12T01:57:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.146-07:00common bile duct ultrasoundimages dilated common bile duct <img src="http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/Cases/bwh/images/99/R63A1.GIF" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. dilated common bile duct" title="dilated common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>dilated common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">rbalaji5</div><div class="date">07-13 02:03 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">But the same 100-0 logic can be applied between EB1 and Eb2-India. How does EB1 of 2008 get it immediately but EB2-I waits more than 4 years (speaking for myself here) -clearly preference is at play here. if that makes sense then a 100-0 ratio for EB2/EB3 also makes sense <br /> Honestly nothing makes sense - I am only trying to derive a rationale for the spill over logic used by DOS/USCIS.<br /> <br /> What you said is correct.?.<br /> <br /> EB2 has more experience / advance degree compared to EB3. EB1 has more advanced than EB2. <br /> <br /> Can you give preference to 12th Standard guy instead of Engineering guy. <br /> <br /> I agree with Pappu <br /> <br /> Each employment based categories are for different levels. <br /> <br /> Wakeup EB2s..</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper dilated common bile duct <img src="http://www.radgray.com/images/stories/ercp_cholangiocarcinoma.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. showing common bile duct" title="showing common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>showing common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-30 06:50 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Why does China block foreign websites? (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/malcolmmoore/100070017/why-does-china-block-foreign-websites/) By Malcolm Moore | Daily Telegraph<br /> <br /> Skype has joined the ever-growing list of internet companies that are now unwelcome in China.<br /> <br /> Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Foursquare, Vimeo, Blogger, Blogspot, Wikileaks and Hulu are some of the others.<br /> <br /> In the West, the automatic assumption is that China is scared of greater internet freedom. If it relaxes its grip on YouTube, for example, Chinese internet users might suddenly all start looking at videos of the Tiananmen Square massacre.<br /> <br /> Actually, while China does ban some of the websites because of the information they contain (Amnesty, Wikileaks), the ban on the others is nothing more than plain old protectionism.<br /> <br /> China is keeping YouTube out because it has its own domestic video sites � Tudou and Youku � and it wants them to grow and prosper. Youku just made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange and is now worth around $5 billion.<br /> <br /> Google�s departure has hugely benefited Baidu and now Alibaba, which has pushed the US giant into third place in the Chinese market.<br /> <br /> Likewise for Facebook. China doesn�t mind social networking. Its domestic Facebook clones, Renren and Kaixin001, boast 100 million users between them.<br /> <br /> Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, is seeing its user numbers rise by 50 per cent every week. From last year to this year the number of Chinese microbloggers rose from 8 million to 125 million.<br /> <br /> Chinese microbloggers have scored some notable successes against the government this year, helping to highlight and, in some cases correct, a series of injustices.<br /> <br /> Of course, the Communist party also finds it easier to control (and censor) domestic web companies than foreign firms, so keeping out the likes of Twitter makes the strategy a double-win.<br /> <br /> Today�s revelation that Skype is now illegal is a continuation of the trend. In this case, the government is clearly supporting the home-grown services offered by its state-owned companies, China Telecom and China Unicom.<br /> <br /> These are more expensive than Skype, require both a hefty monthly fee and then higher call charges, and would probably flounder (as they have to date) without the government�s help.<br /> <br /> Stamping out foreign competition is nothing new. All countries do it. But China is quickly becoming the most aggressive and protectionist country out there.<br /> <br /> Perhaps after a few years the government will be pressured to let these foreign internet companies back in � Facebook already seems to be negotiating a return � but by then, they will have been firmly left in the dust by their Chinese rivals.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqZklH46YukWTiAZ90Cj73ZCnVbKX-cTV6x5OHjhp5MQTrBdReLKCGL8nvaFzqQZ9gGHYnrD33GXhY1grCSAm1eqQxdnnRlHv31TfDO10XtE4xSBXQzarcYNtNkjnl8MsKh-RPieCOkqw/s1600/cystic-duct-1a.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. with the common bile duct." title="with the common bile duct." width="470" <br><li>with the common bile duct.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ahimsa</div><div class="date">11-13 06:37 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Just watched Lou Dobbs tonight.<br /> <br /> Lou tried his usual tactic of calling politicians "powerful".<br /> He said "Next guest is the most powerful chairman, likely chairman, of the ways and means committee in the senate, Charlie Rangel".<br /> <br /> Charlie rebutted immediately "I don't know what you mean by that. You can call powerful or whatever, but what we think will matter is how to get things done by working together..."<br /> <br /> Lou will never change his course...</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 showing common bile duct <img src="http://img.medscape.com/fullsize/migrated/409/001/cc0705.01.powi.fig5.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. common bile duct (CBD)," title="common bile duct (CBD)," width="470" <br><li>common bile duct (CBD),</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">just_wait_for_gc</div><div class="date">08-11 02:52 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">toung is made of BS</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.the-online-counselor.com/index.php/site/referrers/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.jpma.org.pk/images/jun2010/PancreaticTuberculousAbscess1.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. a normal common bile duct" title="a normal common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>a normal common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">kinvin</div><div class="date">02-25 06:06 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Lou Dobbs is the founder of the failed Space.com site. He might realize that he could not have even got the business started without Indian H1B's. <br /> <br /> Had he run the business properly he would also have been a .com success story by now and would have been a key note speaker at Diwali and Navratri functions in NJ. <br /> <br /> �I am a .com success story because of you hard working H1B�s�-------- Dobbs.<br /> <br /> �But now I make a living by bashing them.�</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/430/20110701234109/www.msd.com.mx/secure/ebooks/CoreCurriculumTheUltrasound/files/e9fd70c82ca0e7f034279a48ec7c9aaf.gif" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. 2010 of common bile duct from" title="2010 of common bile duct from" width="470" <br><li>2010 of common bile duct from</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">10-02 11:02 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">As China Opens, U.S. Lobbyists Get Ready to Move In (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/01/AR2007100101672.html?hpid=sec-business) By Ariana Eunjung Cha | Washington Post Foreign Service, October 2, 2007 <br /> <br /> BEIJING -- It's almost 8 a.m., and former U.S. commerce secretary Donald L. Evans and his team are standing in front of the St. Regis Hotel, preparing for their day of meetings with Chinese finance officials. <br /> <br /> Small but meaningful gifts in Tiffany's signature baby-blue boxes? Check. Briefing books with the pronunciation of everyone's names? Check. Black Audi A6s to whisk the group to the meetings? Check. <br /> <br /> Evans was in town representing the Financial Services Forum, which is made up of chief executives of 20 multinational banks. His goal was to convince Chinese regulators that opening their financial sector to more foreign investment would be good for China's economy. <br /> <br /> Armies of lobbyists are descending on the Chinese capital in anticipation of the 17th Communist Party Congress beginning in mid-October. The gathering will choose a new generation of leaders, setting the political agenda for the next five years. <br /> <br /> But the dark-suited Western lobbyists are an odd spectacle given that in China, policy and legislative decisions are still made behind closed doors. Lobbying exists in a gray area; because there are no laws specifically pertaining to it, it isn't even supposed to exist. <br /> <br /> Nevertheless, some of Washington's marquee lobbying firms -- including Jones Day, Hogan & Hartson, DLA Piper and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld -- have set up offices in China. Officially, they are just investment advisory and communications firms. Chinese companies mostly work through government-affiliated industry associations, although some have also hired Western-style lobbying firms. <br /> <br /> In June, foreign companies successfully lobbied Chinese officials to remove conditions on hiring temporary workers in a new labor law that they said would make it prohibitively expensive to do business in China. Likewise in August, they were able persuade China to remove some language in early drafts of the anti-monopoly law that seemed to discriminate against foreign companies, according to Chinese and foreign academics. <br /> <br /> The Chinese government has said it took input from domestic and foreign interests into account but has not been specific. <br /> <br /> Foreign companies are interested in what happens in China, as its economy is becoming the world's third-largest as well as a capitalist instead of planned one. There's concern that the legal framework for business that China's legislators are writing today could affect the fate of multinational businesses for decades. <br /> <br /> Evans said that the degree to which Chinese officials are interested in hearing foreign perspectives on business issues has increased dramatically. In the past, he said, he would go into government meetings and recite a set of bullet points, and the meeting would end. These days, he said, there's real discussion and debate. <br /> <br /> "They are very proactive in wanting to engage and share with the business community," Evans said. <br /> <br /> Scott Kennedy, director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business at Indiana University and author of "The Business of Lobbying in China," said that as recently as a few years ago foreign companies would grumble that they heard about new policies only after they were announced. <br /> <br /> "That is increasingly no longer the case. Today, even if they don't agree with the final result, they know it's on the horizon," Kennedy said. <br /> <br /> But China's laws have been slow to respond to the influx of lobbyists seeking to take advantage of the closer ties. Zhao Kejin, an associate professor at Shanghai's Fudan University who studies government-business relations and has written a book on lobbying in China, argues that because lobbyists do not need to register or file disclosure forms, the system is vulnerable to abuse. <br /> <br /> "There is lots of lobbying money flowing to individual officials' pockets," Zhao said. In addition to straight-up bribery, some lobbying firms keep friends of high-placed officials on the payroll or pay for officials to take luxury "training" trips abroad. <br /> <br /> In 2004, Lucent Technologies fired four executives who were part of its Chinese operations for violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits bribing foreign government officials and politicians. Last November, a U.S. software maker, Fidelity National Information Services, was accused of paying for luxury vacations for Chinese banking officials and their families in places such as Rome and Las Vegas. Fidelity has denied the charges. <br /> <br /> Lobbying is not only less of an institution in China than it is in the United States, but the people being lobbied are different. <br /> <br /> For instance, Murray King, head of the Shanghai office of APCO Worldwide, one of the oldest government relations firms operating in China, said that Chinese academics are among the key players that companies should reach out to. The most important members of that group are those who work with the think tanks affiliated with various state ministries, because they play an important role in the drafting of legislation. <br /> <br /> Another crucial part of high-profile lobbying efforts are "guanxi brokers," well-connected individuals who can give introductions to important officials, or "rainmakers," people who are so famous that many Chinese officials might be happy to meet and shake hands. <br /> <br /> "Because China is a country that respects authority, former politicians of the United States, when they come to China, can always play a very important role," said Steven Dong, a Tsinghua University public relations professor who studies the reputations of corporations. <br /> <br /> A former U.S. official will almost always be greeted by a Chinese official of the same rank, Dong said. <br /> <br /> Former officials with star power in China include Henry Kissinger, probably the most sought-after because of the role he played in establishing diplomatic relations with the Communist Party during the Nixon administration. Former Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt, who routinely visits China on behalf of Silicon Valley companies to talk about opening up China's Internet and telecommunications sector, is also a regular in the halls of Chinese ministries. Gary Locke, a former governor of Washington whose consulting firm represents Microsoft and Starbucks, is celebrated for being the first Chinese American governor and is so well known that school girls run up to him to take his picture. <br /> <br /> Evans, who was commerce secretary from 2001 to 2004, has been working for the Financial Services Forum since 2005. This was his second trip to China on behalf of the group. <br /> <br /> Evans was received by the Chinese government this month with all the pomp and circumstance of a state visit. <br /> <br /> His schedule, which included all key financial ministries and regulators, was almost identical to that of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. during his visit in July. Evans even had a private diner with Vice Premier Wu Yi. <br /> <br /> There was lobbying on both sides. <br /> <br /> Jiang Jianqing, chairman of the state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, a rank similar to that of minister, pummeled Evans with questions about the subprime lending crisis and trade protectionism in Congress. ICBC has recently been ranked the second- or third-largest bank in the world by market capitalization. <br /> <br /> Evans said the Chinese must make sure that U.S. legislators understand they are open to foreign investment. He said it's important for the Chinese to make sure the U.S. government understands "your view as an important trader, to make sure they understand your commitment to moving your economy toward an ultimate market economy." <br /> <br /> The total foreign ownership in a Chinese bank cannot exceed 25 percent. But even as Evans began to lay out his case for why China should raise or do away with foreign ownership caps for banking, securities and insurance firms, Jiang took the opportunity to point out his frustration that his bank's application to open a single branch in the United States has not been approved, while U.S. banks, including some that Evans represents, already have significant operations in China. <br /> <br /> Evans said he'd be happy to look into the holdup. <br /> <br /> Near the end of the one-hour meeting, the two turned to a less-tense topic: the development of China's countryside. Evans talked about his visits to western China, where he met two blind brothers with whom he has kept in touch, and how much their lives had changed over the years. Jiang said he, too, was concerned about bridging the gap between the rich and the poor in China. <br /> <br /> The two men smiled and shook hands. That was considered progress.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://angryfucks.org/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.naika.or.jp/im2/42/01/figs/09/fig2.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. and common bile duct were" title="and common bile duct were" width="470" <br><li>and common bile duct were</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">rsdang</div><div class="date">08-29 10:58 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">:D We've all been there, but don't like to admit it. We've all kicked <br /> <br /> back in our cubicles and suddenly felt something brewing down below. As <br /> <br /> much as we try to convince ourselves otherwise, the WORK POOP is <br /> <br /> inevitable. <br /> <br /> For those who hate pooping at work, following is the Survival Guide <br /> <br /> for Taking a dump at work.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *CROP DUSTING* - When farting, you walk really fast around the <br /> <br /> office so the smell is not in your area and everyone else gets a whiff, but no <br /> <br /> one knows where it came from. Be careful when you do this. Do not stop <br /> <br /> until the full fart has been expelled. Walk an extra 30 feet to make sure <br /> <br /> the smell has left your pants. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *FLY BY* - The act of scouting out a bathroom before pooping. Walk <br /> <br /> in and check for other poopers. If there are others in the bathroom, <br /> <br /> leave and come back again. Be careful not to become a FREQUENT FLYER. <br /> <br /> People may become suspicious if they catch you constantly going into the bathroom. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *ESCAPEE* - A fart that slips out while taking a pee or forcing a <br /> <br /> poop in a stall. This is usually accompanied by a sudden wave of <br /> <br /> embarrassment. If you release an escapee, do not acknowledge it. <br /> <br /> Pretend it did not happen. If you are a man and are standing next to the farter in the urinal, <br /> <br /> pretend you did not hear it. No one likes an escapee. It is uncomfortable for all involved.<br /> <br /> Making a joke or laughing makes both parties feel uneasy. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *JAILBREAK*- When forcing a poop, several farts slip out at a machine <br /> <br /> gun pace. This is usually a side effect of diarrhea or a hangover. <br /> <br /> If this should happen, do not panic. Remain in the stall until everyone has <br /> <br /> left the bathroom to spare everyone the awkwardness of what just occurred. <br /> <br /> <br /> *COURTESY FLUSH* - The act of flushing the toilet the instant the <br /> <br /> poop hits the water. This reduces the amount of air time the poop has to <br /> <br /> stink up the bathroom. This can help you avoid being caught doing the<br /> <br /> WALK OF SHAME. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *WALK OF SHAME* - Walking from the stall-to the sink-to the door <br /> <br /> after you have just stunk up the bathroom. This can be a very uncomfortable <br /> <br /> moment if someone walks in and busts you. As with farts, it is best to <br /> <br /> pretend that the smell does not exist.--Can be avoided with the use of <br /> <br /> the COURTESY FLUSH. <br /> <br /> <br /> *OUT OF THE CLOSET POOPER* - A colleague who poops at work and is <br /> <br /> Dog-gone proud of it. You will often see an Out-Of-The-Closet Pooper <br /> <br /> enter the bathroom with a newspaper or magazine under their arm. <br /> <br /> Always look around the office for the Out-Of- The-Closet Pooper before <br /> <br /> entering the bathroom. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *THE POOPING FRIENDS NETWORK (P.F.N)* A group of co-workers who band <br /> <br /> together to ensure emergency pooping goes off without incident. This <br /> <br /> group can help you to monitor the whereabouts of Out-Of-The-Closet <br /> <br /> Poopers and identify SAFE HAVENS. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *SAFE HAVENS* A seldom-used bathroom somewhere in t he building <br /> <br /> where you can least expect visitors. Try floors that are predominantly of <br /> <br /> the opposite sex. This will reduce the odds of a pooper of your sex <br /> <br /> entering the bathroom. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *TURD BURGLAR* - Someone who does not realize that you are in the <br /> <br /> stall and tries to force the door open. This is one of the most shocking <br /> <br /> and vulnerable moments that can occur when taking a poop at work. If <br /> <br /> this occurs, remain in the stall until the Turd Burglar leaves. This way <br /> <br /> you will avoid all uncomfortable eye contact. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *CAMO-COUGH* A phony cough that alerts all new entrants into the <br /> <br /> bathroom that you are in a stall. This can be used to cover-up a <br /> <br /> WATERMELON, or to alert potential *Turd Burglars* - Very effective when used in conjunction with a <br /> <br /> SHIRLEY TEMPLE . <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *SHIRLEY TEMPLE* - A subtle toe-tapping that is used to alert <br /> <br /> potential Turd Burglars that you are occupying a stall. This will remove all <br /> <br /> doubt that the stall is occupied. If you hea r a SHIRLEY TEMPLE, leave the <br /> <br /> bathroom immediately so the pooper can poop in peace. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *WATERMELON* - A poop that creates a loud splash when hitting the <br /> <br /> toilet water. This is also an embarrassing incident. If you feel a <br /> <br /> Watermelon coming on, create a diversion. See CAMO-COUGH. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *HAVANAOMELET* - A case of diarrhea that creates a series of loud <br /> <br /> splashes in the toilet water--often accompanied by an Escapee. Try <br /> <br /> using a CAMO-COUGH with a SHIRLEY TEMPLE. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *AUNT BETTY* - A bathroom user who seems to linger around <br /> <br /> forever...Could spend extended lengths of time in front of the <br /> <br /> mirror or sitting on the pot. <br /> <br /> An AUNT BETTY makes it difficult to relax while on the crapper, as <br /> <br /> you should always wait to poop when the bathroom is empty. This benefits <br /> <br /> you as well as the other bathroom attendees <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ************************************************** ****************** <br /> <br /> SOME VARIETIES~ <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *The King Poop* - This kind is the kind of poop that killed Elvis. <br /> <br /> It doesn't come until you're all sweaty, trembling and purple from <br /> <br /> straining so hard. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *Bali Belly Poop* - You poop so much you lose 5 lbs. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *Cement Block* - You wish you'd gotten a spinal block before you <br /> <br /> poop. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *Cork Poop* - (Also Known as Floater Poop) = Even after the third <br /> <br /> flush, it's still floating in there. How do I get rid of it? This poop <br /> <br /> usually happens at someone else's house. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *The Bungee Poop* - The kind of poop that just hangs off your rear <br /> <br /> before it falls into the water. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *The Crippler* - The kind of poop where you have to sit on the <br /> <br /> toilet so long your legs go numb from the waist down. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang* - The kind of poop that hits you when <br /> <br /> you're trapped in your car in a traffic jam. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> *The Party Pooper* - The giant poop you take at a party and, when <br /> <br /> you flush the toilet, you watch in horror as the water starts to rise.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 with the common bile duct. <img src="http://www.materonline.org.au/Home/News/December-2009/Endoscopic-ultrasound-provides-a-diagnosis-of-panc/Wittmann-casestudy-web_figure_1.aspx" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. dilated common bile duct" title="dilated common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>dilated common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-25 01:11 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">UN I think you are hyping up the current situation too much.<br /> <br /> Yes there are raids and arrests,<br /> <br /> But it is not so bad. You are saying as if everyone in consulting is getting denied. If it was so bad, all immigration forums would have been filled up with denial posts and cries for help. Maybe you have encountered people who only faced denials and not the entire spectrum. Thus your judgement may be influenced.<br /> <br /> I'm not one of those alarmists because many "people can't sleep" when they have immigration issues.<br /> <br /> Howeve; I very rarely give very specific examples, or post the RFE;s, denials because USCIS/DOL do go around and peruse the internet looking for information.<br /> <br /> Within IV there is a number of postings of h-1b denials.<br /> <br /> You will see plenty more. If a company responds to the rfe with a middle man purchase order; denial will come quickly; if purchase order is in different location of LCA (LCA has to be certified covering the work location prior to filing of h-1b) then verry quick denial.<br /> <br /> However; in most other cases it is taking vermont service center long tim to send rfe and then long time to deny after response to rfe.<br /> <br /> Check out greg siskind blog; where he reported another lawyer got internal memo of how to scrutiinize h-1b's for staffing compoanies; check matthew oh blog from last year when he reported massive rfe's coming fom vermont service center.<br /> <br /> I don't take things lightly. I'm pretty plugged in as to what is going on. I started discussing this last year and told peopl with extensions that they better file it early just to preserve more options if something should go wrong.<br /> <br /> check around with your companies, friends, etc.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.fontegospel.com.br/?p=29210">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/qjyFwIjC/PyLeBQ/ultrasound.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. An ultrasound can" title="An ultrasound can" width="470" <br><li>An ultrasound can</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alien2006</div><div class="date">07-14 03:03 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I wouldn't use the word slave so calously. We on H1s are not slaves, we have some restrictions but we are not slaves. I think you need to see some good documentary or better yet read books on slavery.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair common bile duct (CBD), <img src="http://www.ispub.com/ispub/ijs/volume_24_number_1_1/choledochal-cyst-in-an-adult/chole-fig1.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. dilated common bile duct" title="dilated common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>dilated common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nogc_noproblem</div><div class="date">08-05 02:21 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">The ten Commandments of married life <br /> <br /> Commandment 1: Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. <br /> Commandment 2: If you want your wife to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say, talk in your sleep. <br /> Commandment 3: Marriage is grand -- and divorce is at least 100 grand. <br /> Commandment 4: Married life is very frustrating. In the first year of marriage, the man speaks and the woman listens. In the second year, the woman speaks and the man listens. In the third year, they both speak and the neighbors listen. <br /> Commandment 5: When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife is. <br /> Commandment 6: Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one. <br /> Commandment 7: Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something she said. After marriage, he will fall asleep before she finishes. <br /> Commandment 8: Every man wants a wife who is beautiful, understanding, economical, and a good cook. But the law allows only one wife. <br /> Commandment 9: Marriage and love are purely a matter of chemistry. That's why the wife treats the husband like toxic waste. <br /> Commandment 10: A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished....</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.westfalia-scherlebeck.com/news.php?readmore=5">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.radiographicceu.com/images/article_pics/ERCP-9.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. 2011 common bile duct" title="2011 common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>2011 common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Pineapple</div><div class="date">11-09 02:20 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Not to split hairs, but I do not think Lou Dobbs is really "Republican" as far as the core political philosophy of GOP goes, and the same goes for Tancerdo et all. All are extremist nuts and never had any mainstream following. But there is a difference: Forget the fact that he is a pathetic opportunist who switched from financial analysis to immigrant bashing simply because the latter generated more ratings than the former. He positions himself as a anti-globalization nativist, and would find more sympathizers in the loony left rather than the loony right. Tancerdo etc are thinly disguised white-supremacists / nativists and their natural base is the far far right Ku Klux Klan nuts.<br /> <br /> In any case, there is nothing special about this election which teaches us to ignore the idiots. Most americans are distinctly uncomfortable with the rants of these guys and therefore Lou dobbs would always remain irrelevant. The world moves not because Lou says it does.. it moves regardless.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot a normal common bile duct <img src="http://www.medical.toshiba.com/images/clinical/ul/Clinical-AplioMX-01.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. Common bile duct in liver with" title="Common bile duct in liver with" width="470" <br><li>Common bile duct in liver with</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-30 07:20 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">In Mumbai, a Place to Showcase an Art Collection (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/greathomesanddestinations/30gh-location.html) By AMANA FONTANELLA-KHAN | New York Times<br /> <br /> At Ashiesh Shah’s housewarming party in November, amid clinking champagne flutes, one of his friends joked that his apartment is actually an art gallery in disguise. Looking at the sculpture of a two-foot-long baby made of material from a spinnaker by the Canadian artist Max Streicher suspended above the staircase, any guest to his home might agree.<br /> <br /> Mr. Shah, 32, began collecting art in his 20s when he was still getting his start as an architect. Now he designs interiors for many of the city’s Bollywood actors. But up until last year, he had never had his own space to design. He was living with his parents in an apartment on Mumbai’s scenic Marine Drive.<br /> <br /> It was struggle to find the right space to showcase his art collection in a dense city with soaring real estate prices. “My art is not only two dimensional, it also takes up floor space and in a city like Mumbai, floor space can be just as expensive as art,” Mr. Shah said.<br /> <br /> He looked at more than 40 apartments over seven months, before settling on the one he bought in October 2009, a dark apartment subdivided into several small, boxy rooms in a five-story concrete structure built in the 1960s.<br /> <br /> The 1,075-square-foot apartment was nearly 41 million rupees (about $900,000 at 45 rupees to the dollar) average for an apartment on Peddar Road, a busy arterial in south Mumbai in the affluent Altamount neighborhood. His neighbors include some of his clients, as well as Mukesh Ambani, a business magnate who built a $1 billion 27-story building home, and industrialists like Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group.<br /> <br /> It took over a year and around 5 million rupees ($110,000) to convert the space from a two-bedroom cramped duplex to an airy one-bedroom studio. Knocking down a total of nine walls, Mr. Sha said, “gave me freedom to place art pieces in a fluid, open space.”<br /> <br /> Still, it wasn’t enough square footage to showcase all of his collection at the same time. As a result, he created a small storage room for pieces not on display, which he rotates into the apartment about every six months. “It means that the art never gets static,” he said.<br /> <br /> But with limited space were opportunities for functional pieces to have artistic elements, as is the case for his staircase. Mr. Shah had initially planned to turn the steps — carved from a solid cube of white Indian marble — into drawers for additional storage, but they were too small. He converted them into what he calls “curious steps” instead. “I am planning to give them out to artists in the future to make commissioned miniature art for them,” he said.<br /> <br /> Other features, such as a partition panel that pulls out from a wall in the living room, have dual functionality, serving as a projection screen for video art and creating a sectioned-off viewing area.<br /> <br /> White epoxy flooring — “Which took three tries to get right,” he says — and white walls on the main floor help create an illusion of greater perceived space, as well as a neutral background for his art collection.<br /> <br /> Mr. Shah also added whimsical elements to “give the flat an element of play,” he said. In the guest bathroom, a light projector positioned above the sink creates pronounced shadows on the walls when people wash their hands. “Guests end up spending those five seconds more in the bathroom and think, ‘That was fun,’ ” Mr. Shah said. He placed a sculpture of obstetric forceps by the Indian artist Anita Dube next to the floating baby that hangs above his stairs.<br /> <br /> Pointing to an antique couch, which he upholstered using a vintage Rajasthani carpet, Mr. Shah said that he made sure the red design motif in the center of the carpet was positioned to resemble a pair of lips.<br /> <br /> “Did you notice that?” he asked. “I did that because this is my gossip couch.”<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Taking on the world (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Taking-on-the-world/articleshow/7192176.cms) Times of India Editorial<br /> Delhi plans Tate Modern-style gallery in old power station<br /> Ambitious project in Indian capital involves dismantling parts of the Indraprastha power plant beside banks of Yamuna river (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/28/india-delhi-power-plant-project)<br /> By Jason Burke<br /> Delhi to build its own Tate Modern on banks of Yamuna (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8228523/Delhi-to-build-its-own-Tate-Modern-on-banks-of-Yamuna.html) By Barney Henderson | Daily Telegraph<br /> Indian Citibank 'fraudster' arrested (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12092058) BBC</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://raccontamiunastoria.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house of common bile duct stones <img src="http://www.ceessentials.net/images/biliary/image012.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. common hepatic duct," title="common hepatic duct," width="470" <br><li>common hepatic duct,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nojoke</div><div class="date">01-01 12:23 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Do you think Indian strikes on Pakistan, or a war between India and Pakistan, is going to weaken these guys, or strengthen them? <br /> What would be dumb now?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Suppose there are theives from Bihar that come and rob you in West Bengal. <br /> You can either send your West Bengal police into Bihar, and turn it into a rivalry between two police departments. And a rivalry between two provinces.<br /> Or you have the two police departments work together to reduce crime rate in the future.<br /> <br /> You are delusional. Your example is no way related to what is happening. I don't know if I should explain the difference. 'You can wake up a sleeping man, but you cannot wake up a man pretending sleeping'. I have a feeling that you are simply trolling here. <br /> The attack on pakistan terrorist camps is not to defeat terrorist, but to send a message to pakistan government to get serious. Either take action on these terrorist or we will do it. (It is more like humilating pakistan that we can do this and world is on our side and you better do something about this problem). We ask Azad Masood now because, if we get one guy out of pakistan, all other terrorists would realize that they cannot have a safe haven in pakistan. At least they won't be preaching openly in the public to go and bomb India. <br /> So stop trolling:D</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo 2010 of common bile duct from <img src="http://img.medscape.com/pi/features/slideshow-slide/ultrasonography-gallbladder/fig3.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. The common bile duct diameter" title="The common bile duct diameter" width="470" <br><li>The common bile duct diameter</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">kedrex</div><div class="date">12-27 04:48 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I myself am originally from Mumbai so please dont doubt the deep sense of outrage that I feel. But amid all this talk about going to war, here are a few things to ponder<br /> <br /> 1. Think about how long it takes to construct a single runway of an airport. In the developed countries, it takes about 2-3 years, for India safe to say 5-6 years. One of Paki's first responses would be take out entire airports not just runways. Can you imagine how long it would take us to recover<br /> <br /> 2. Why should India kill Pak when it is killing itself every day. At this rate, just imagine how long this country will last. Sitting back and being a spectator could just about be the best option<br /> <br /> 3. If we are outraged by 200 civilians/police/NSG dying, do we really have the stomach to absorb 1000s, lakhs ........<br /> <br /> 4. Talking of "surgical strikes" - surgical strikes on what? Even the dumbest terrorist knows that its probably not a good idea to be in a terror camp right now.<br /> <br /> 5. Do we really want to unite all those crazy Punjabis, Balochis, Taliban and the Paki army<br /> <br /> 6. Ok, what about assassinating Kayani. Wonderful, we have destroyed the last institution in Paki land. Get ready to welcome millions of refugees<br /> <br /> I know I know that I am not coming up with any good course of action, just pointing out the flaws in the rest of them. But thats all my layman's strategic vision gives me. Maybe with just 1/100th the cost of war, we can improve our border/maritime security and also our intelligence apparatus<br /> <br /> Personally, I think war is going to happen. I just wish people even remotely understand what it is that they are asking for.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.thaichatzoneradio.com/webstat/Referrers.htm">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures and common bile duct were <img src="http://scielo.isciii.es/img/revistas/diges/v101n8/imagenes1_figura2.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. distal common bile duct" title="distal common bile duct" width="470" <br><li>distal common bile duct</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dealsnet</div><div class="date">09-29 12:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">It will be disaster for the country, if a man with only four year of national experience, out of which two year spend on primary campaign to run the country. Immigrant people only can talk loud. But he sensible american people will vote McCain to power. This openion poll is non sense. Demoratic party is like congress party in India. Trying to be socialist, not socialist, support everything all evils to get vote and support. Pleople planning to spend money for Obama is waste. Instead support IMMIGRATION VOICE.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses Common bile duct in liver with <img src="http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/252625/large/M1300519-Coloured_X-ray_of_a_cyst_in_the_common_bile_duct-SPL.jpg" alt="common bile duct ultrasound. common bile duct ultrasound" title="common bile duct ultrasound" width="470" <br><li>common bile duct ultrasound</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">rockstart</div><div class="date">07-14 12:47 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">USCIS has not changed any law they have re-interpreted an existing law which was unclear and some folks have said that CIS interprets laws based on inputs from congress to understand the intent behind the law. If you complain to CIS that you have changed law they will send you a polite reply that we do not make any laws we just implement it. <br /> <br /> Bear this in mind. We are not opposing because EB2 is getting the number, we are opposing because USCIS arbitrarily changed the law -- without any legislative approval. 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Here is what I have got and this is due to severe crunch in construction industry.<br /> <br /> Land: $600,000 (it was listed for $850K 12 months back, thats after 25% drop)<br /> Construction Cost: $190/sqft (It was $280~$350 2 years back) - for 3000sqft - $570,000<br /> City Permits and Architectural fees - $120,000<br /> <br /> A grand total of $1.3 Million. But this if if you were to build it, the run-of-the-mill tract home builders can get it much cheaper, say around $1million.<br /> Again these figures vary by region but generally give a picture of cost breakdown in California.<br /> <br /> <br /> Land - 46%<br /> Construction- 44%<br /> Permits - 10%</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mpadapa</div><div class="date">09-26 01:14 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Just to clarify GWB is a Yale graduate.<br /> With a democratic controlled congress and Obama being a president, CIR is bound to happen. If high-skilled community doesn't unite and get our voices heard then we might come up empty. Remember the last time an immigration bill was passed by the Democratic president (AC21). They flashed few carrots (2-yr recapture, portability and H1 extension beyond 6 yr) and threw us under the bus with flood of 245i applicants. EB3 queue is still suffering from those backlogs.<br /> <br /> In the near term only democrats will be in a position to provide us with some relief because they control the congress. <br /> <br /> "I have no doubt in my mind that a Harvard graduate can get USA out of this economic turmoil. ":)<br /> i had to chime in, sorry but GWB is also a Harvard graduate. Only a Harvard Business graduate can get us in this turmoil ? :)<br /> <br /> Obama might be good, i dont know, i have yet to see a some good bills from him or concrete actions, but people like him and in the US perception and media support is everything. I think he will win. If might not be good for us because of the following<br /> a) Sen Durbin, is anti H1 and also anti GC (IMO)<br /> b) Massive support from labor unions. Just reading some of the statements from the the unions who support him indicate that they will want their pound of flesh after the elections. Watch out for those changes.<br /> c) If the democrats get a majority then there might be a chance (Reps dont have a chance of getting a majority), if the congress stays divided then the opinions are sharper and the same thing will happen again.<br /> d) CIR had little if any EB benefits, it was mainly for the illegals...we were simply added due to actions from IV and the rest.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">file485</div><div class="date">07-08 04:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">thanks UN..<br /> <br /> we don't mean to bug you..!!<br /> <br /> but sometimes these r so scary..it feels we r better off being illegal in this country..<br /> <br /> all this is just plain BS..when we r paying so much in taxes and SS in this country..we r still chopped and diced like vegetables ...<br /> <br /> btw..on the same note since you r here..does the 'out of status' count only after the last entry in to thr country..or it is still scrutinised right from the time you land into the US..<br /> <br /> pls post..</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-57277041007220410332011-07-12T01:43:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.146-07:00heart attack grillimages for the Heart Attack Grill <img src="http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2011/05/11/450x362-alg_heart_attack_burger.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. 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He is a serious guy who wants to do the right thing.<br /> <br /> He would try to balance middle class american families and unemployment situation. When close to half a millions jobs are lost, it is illconceivable for anybody to push for immigration reform eventhough we may be on the right side of justice and victim of broken system.<br /> <br /> There may be some tough situations for immigrants such as less outsourcing, american worker priority and other programs to promote STEM within the company. However, he will be the person to stand up for plights of tech workers. He understands the need and benefits of tech-immigration. As far as I know, his voting for H1 and CIR has been positive. It will be Obama and not someone elase whao will decide the policy. Durbin might tie the loose ends.<br /> <br /> My feeling is this: Let us trust this man. Explain to him through IV and any other channels our problems and how it impacts present and future of America. If we could successfully argue (by all pure means) for a "A business model where tech-immigrants bring benefits and rate of returns in a much higher and assured fashion than the stock market", we could win this debate.<br /> <br /> We are dealing with reasonable, smart and patriotic people. We need to continue to explore better methods to effectively communicate and win the deal. It is all about intellectual exercise to win a deal....<br /> <br /> It is always prudent to have back up plans, however, it should not distract us too much.<br /> <br /> haven't we agreed that GC is only worth so much and we do not want to have our life hostage to GC. At the same time, timely GC status gives better control of our career and discharging our family obliations. Sooner is better. However, we could do only so much. <br /> <br /> Let us continue to do our best and hopefully with a new administration, we would learn new equations.<br /> <br /> I trust in the ability of IV and IV-sympathetic constituencies to bring us deserved reward and recognition sooner rather than later.<br /> <br /> Staying positive, continuing to learn (lobbying and swaying), adapting to the environment (what are the business needs of main street and wall street and how leaders perceive those) and doing our best (use best of our minds and achess game of life.....a special gift of God to Indians and others) and learn to be happy.<br /> <br /> Remember, this is the first stroke of my pen.... 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Before long, we may all be converted to islam because Pakistan is an islamic republic not a secular democracy and the country is ruled by military dictators and hardliners. <br /> Yes, in India, there have been attacks by Hindus on innocent muslims but imagine the plight of Hindus, if it had been a muslim majority and an islamic republic of india!<br /> <br /> There are many good thinkers and hard-working folks in Pakistan but you can never trust the hardliners there and these hardliners seem to be grabbing power in the country all the time.<br /> <br /> Did you know that the original demand for Pakistan 1947 was a long stretch of corridor stretching the north and the south and the east and the west, connecting different muslim dominated pockets together? <br /> Which meant India was to be divided into 4 quadrants and to get from one quadrant to another, an Indian had to cross Pakistan...it was simply ridiculous!!</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.marketivaasia.com/deposit-dan-withdrawal/cara-withdrawal/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://static2.stuff.co.nz/1299225024/461/4734461.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. 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Good work!<br /> <br /> Part of the title of this thread reads 'even H-1 renewal will be impossible'. That is just priceless. No, H-1B renewal will be impossible IF YOU ARE NOT HERE BASED ON HONEST CIRCUMSTANCES. Anyone with trouble renewing H-1Bs after this bill should get a real job or leave if they are not up to that task. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Stop judging whether someone is upto the task or not . There are so many people work for consulting companies and their green card applications are pending in various stages for years. <br /> <br /> Hope your so called fulltime job truly fulltime and pray that there will not be any lay offs in in fulltime employers company while your green card petition is pending. <br /> <br /> H1b can be applied even for temporary / part time jobs too.. try to get your facts correct.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2790/5736687846_4fd6d4fd31.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. 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Bringing in more foreign workers.<br /> <br /> Critics say he's got it wrong.<br /> <br /> STEVE CAMAROTA, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: If we have a shortage, then the solution is to let the labor market be tight and more Americans will be attracted to those jobs as wages rise. If American business really feels that we're not teaching enough math and science in school, they need to pressure the political institutions to do a better job of teaching our kids.<br /> <br /> TUCKER: Congress has a different solution. It's known as the Skill Act of 2006. It would nearly double the current cap on H1B visas and allow for a 20 percent increase every year after the previous year's quota was met, virtually guaranteeing an endless supply of lower-paid workers from overseas.<br /> <br /> A study by Georgetown University found that the total potential number of new tech visas created by the Senate bill would by 1.88 million over the next decade. But the Bureau of Labor Statistics only projects a need for 1.25 million workers in computing and engineering fields. That's more visas than jobs.<br /> <br /> Worker advocates say Congress is ready to sole a problem that doesn't exist.<br /> <br /> KIM BERRY, PROGRAMMERS GUILD: We don't see any evidence of a shortage. A shortage under the laws of supply and demand would be an increase in wages, it would be body shops or headhunters stealing employees from other companies.<br /> <br /> TUCKER: And that's not happening.<br /> <br /> (END VIDEOTAPE)<br /> <br /> TUCKER: No. In fact, wages are stagnant and declining. A study published by "BusinessWeek," in fact, found that the starting wages for computer scientists and engineers fell 12 percent or worse, Lou, from 2001 to 2005. It doesn't sound like a tight labor market to me.<br /> <br /> DOBBS: No, it's just going in the opposite direction.<br /> <br /> You know, at some point these people have got to be a little embarrassed by their shoddy economics and their lack of, let's say, integrity and intellectual honesty in what they are doing here. And perhaps at some point find a conscious in corporate America about what they are doing to working men and women in this country. You would think it would happen -- we hope sooner rather than later.<br /> <br /> Thank you, Bill Tucker.<br /> <br /> <br /> Wass up between these dudes? Lou and Kim? Are they buddies or more? :) .. damn.. He gets him on to his show so often as if Kim B is a prominent person. Why the hell doesnt he let America hear the other side of the story?? I mean not in this article.. in general.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://villaturbiglio.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r225/fridechx/ad9fea49.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. wallpaper of the Heart Attack" title="wallpaper of the Heart Attack" width="470" <br><li>wallpaper of the Heart Attack</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">apb</div><div class="date">10-01 05:45 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Engg from top school in India + MBA + CFA started the process of GC in 2000. Lost first round of GC in the black hole of backlog processing center and restarted again in 2004. Never was out of job even in the worst of economy and always got good pay from company.<br /> CIR was a disappointment and I took PR from Canada since I lost hope with the system after 9 years in limbo and being a probationary worker without any career hope. My wife with her masters in computer had to remain on H4 for long and now when we have EAD we thought we could be a little better off, the broken system in USCIS again came up during EAD extension processing and gave us a jolt. EAD finally gets approved after several SRs, Infopass and ombudsman mail but only after the current one expires. If 90-120 were not enough, then at least allow EAD extension to be filed much before in advance.<br /> H1B extension can work based on Receipt notice, 485 is filed based on EB and EAD extension applied based on pending EB based 485--BUT we can work only after we get the EAD in hand. Why? 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Durbin who will dictate the immigration policy.<br /> <br /> I wish we get some clarity in this aspect. In the economic downturn, I wish to work more than I ever did and see that US comes out of recession fast. But for that I have to be inside the country first. I have to be given a fair chance to contribute to this economy first and I need to be treated with respect and honor.<br /> <br /> <br /> Sen. Durbin's position on this issue and his closeness to Sen. Obama is certainly a cause for concern, however, one thing I have noticed over and over with Sen. Obama is that he is a cerebral pragmatist with a fairly decent judgement. He is not a locked in ideologue, when a rational argument is put to him he tends not to be dogmatic like the current president and instead will try to cut a deal. <br /> To get the support of republican moderates in any CIR legislation pro business immigration policies will need to be included in an Obama administration. No doubt the legislation will include some H1b restrictions, but they may be more open to EB visa recapture etc. That will atleast get those in the 485 queue some relief. Noone can reason with the Sen. Sessions and Rep. Kings of the congress. The same group that is so ultra conservative that they basically openly revolted with their president on numerous issues including the current economic rescue package. <br /> My fear with a Sen. McCain administration is that on the immigration issue, whatever his personal views, we will see another 4 yrs similar to the last 4 on immigration! He will get nowhere moving his party either. Pres. Bush is about as pro CIR as they come, he tried and tried very hard, but to no avail with the Congress. Even before the election, you can see the disagreements between McCain and the extreme right wing conservatives. Atleast with Obama, the scene will be shaken up, noone knows where it ends up, but atleast there is a chance the gridlock will be broken.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair The Heart Attack Grill <img src="http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/heart-attack-grill-1.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. heart-attack-grill-1.jpg" title="heart-attack-grill-1.jpg" width="470" <br><li>heart-attack-grill-1.jpg</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dealsnet</div><div class="date">01-07 11:16 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Somebody give me idiotic comment in my reference about Sadam. It is true that during the Kuwait invation, Iraqi army is supported by palastine people in kuwait. they also sided with them in lootting the country. After the war Kuwaitis driven out 5 lakh palastines from there. Now not more than 10 thousand palastines in kuwait. So these people are traitors. You can ask anybody worked in Kuwait during that time. As I said before, I have been in Kuwait 10 years ago and talked with many people. So not much sympathy for Palastines from Kuwait. No body like them. So they are making just crocrodile tears for them. No action from Arabs. Only retarded Indian or paki think about them.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.kenesrig.com/weblog/index.php?month=5&year=1614">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.filmyfriday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ram-gopal-verma.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. 2010 Heart Attack Grill" title="2010 Heart Attack Grill" width="470" <br><li>2010 Heart Attack Grill</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">njboy</div><div class="date">04-08 08:14 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">genuine firms like microsoft are unable to hire h1b people because ..guess what? all the h1 quota is over..here in new jersey, I was approached multiple times by people who said if I get anyone to file an h1 in their company, and if the h1 came through..I would get 1000 U.S.D. I asked them..what should be their qualification, they said..dont worry about qualification, they'd give a free course for QC tester and place them. 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Read for yourself.<br /> <br /> <br /> Sec. 204.5 Petitions for employment-based immigrants. <br /> <br /> ...<br /> <br /> ...<br /> <br /> (e) Retention of section 203(b)(1) (http://www.uscis.gov/propub/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=sethitdoc&doc_hit=1&doc_searchcontext=jump&s_context=jump&s_action=newSearch&s_method=applyFilter&s_fieldSearch=nxthomecollectionid%7CSLB&s_fieldSearch=foliodestination%7Cact203b1&s_type=all&hash=0-0-0-1509) , (2) (http://www.uscis.gov/propub/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=sethitdoc&doc_hit=1&doc_searchcontext=jump&s_context=jump&s_action=newSearch&s_method=applyFilter&s_fieldSearch=nxthomecollectionid%7CSLB&s_fieldSearch=foliodestination%7Cact203b2&s_type=all&hash=0-0-0-1529) , or (3) (http://www.uscis.gov/propub/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=sethitdoc&doc_hit=1&doc_searchcontext=jump&s_context=jump&s_action=newSearch&s_method=applyFilter&s_fieldSearch=nxthomecollectionid%7CSLB&s_fieldSearch=foliodestination%7Cact203b3&s_type=all&hash=0-0-0-1551) priority date. -- A petition approved on behalf of an alien under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act accords the alien the priority date of the approved petition for any subsequently filed petition for any classification under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act for which the alien may qualify. In the event that the alien is the beneficiary of multiple petitions under sections 203(b)(1), (2), or (3) of the Act, the alien shall be entitled to the earliest priority date. A petition revoked under sections 204(e) (http://www.uscis.gov/propub/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=sethitdoc&doc_hit=1&doc_searchcontext=jump&s_context=jump&s_action=newSearch&s_method=applyFilter&s_fieldSearch=nxthomecollectionid%7CSLB&s_fieldSearch=foliodestination%7Cact204e&s_type=all&hash=0-0-0-1773) or 205 (http://www.uscis.gov/propub/template.htm?view=document&doc_action=sethitdoc&doc_hit=1&doc_searchcontext=jump&s_context=jump&s_action=newSearch&s_method=applyFilter&s_fieldSearch=nxthomecollectionid%7CSLB&s_fieldSearch=foliodestination%7CACT205&s_type=all&hash=0-0-0-185) of the Act will not confer a priority date, nor will any priority date be established as a result of a denied petition. 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I have never understood why Indians (even 2nd generation) by default support Democrats, when all the values and rational reasons point us towards Republicans. I am libertarian in my views and a staunch supporter of republicans.<br /> <br /> Reasons for Indians to support Democrats -<br /> <br /> 1. Generally religion neutral and not influenced by christian right wing<br /> 2. Generally tolerant of people from other cultures rather than being a party of white folks run by white men<br /> 3. Tendency to help human/environment suffering<br /> 4. Afraid of military draft that could recruit our kids<br /> <br /> Reasons for Indians to support Republicans -<br /> <br /> 1. Supportive of outsourcing which is one of the many reasons our home country is flourishing these days<br /> 2. Supportive of entrepreneurship, which many if not all Indians plan to pursue at some point in their life time in USA<br /> 3. Lower taxes so you can spend your money rather than have govt spend it for you in things you don't need (such as bear research in Montana for $3MM)<br /> 4. Privatize social security so you can keep you own contributions rather than throw it into the common pool. Let me explain this a bit here. Indians contribute to SS all their life until 65, but never get to enjoy it as rarely we live past 65. Life expectancy of Indian women is around 60 and men is around 55, rarely we live up to 75+ like Caucasians. What happens to the money we contribute to the common pot? It is enjoyed by somebody else, if we had private accounts, you can retire around 55 and enjoy your contribution till you live.<br /> 5. Family values of Indians very much like the value system of middle-america's republican base - religious, hard working, humility, respect for elders, american dream of owning a 3bed-2bath house with a yard, cul-de-sac and basketball etc.<br /> 6. Aligned with Indian govt's views on fighting terrorism<br /> 7. Allow your kid to go to private school of your choice with your tax dollars, rather than force you to send your kid to public school in your area<br /> <br /> Immigration<br /> <br /> Now coming to the issue on hand, overall roughly 60% to 80% of americans do not want any kind of immigration (check wikipedia). That is the unfortunate truth! We should all be lucky to be here due to generally business friendly laws that allows for H1B visas and EB GCs for skilled labor. If left to public, immigration would be banned. Hence, I believe both parties use this as a posturing issue during elections to their favor. khodalmd in the previous thread explained the breakdown of republicans/democrats accurately. Logically speaking, republicans can be convinced about its need to sustain economy and generate taxes as more baby boomers retire, but this logic is these days trumped by mix up with illegals.<br /> <br /> If Obama wins, economy/stock market would tank, more jobs would be outsourced. My fear is that during those times, any kind of immigration law would not pass. 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To me that is just the way few folks live, think and believe :) they call themself "Atheist" instead of hindu or a christian or a muslim or buddist. ...there are around 40 organized ways people live on this planet earth recognized as "religion". <br /> <br /> Atheism, as an explicit position, can be either the affirmation of the nonexistence of gods or the rejection of theism. It is also defined more broadly as an absence of belief in deities, or nontheism.<br /> <br /> You seems to be confused between "Religion" and Theism :D :D :D What can I tell ya?<br /> <br /> <br /> Another dumb guy :D:D:D<br /> <br /> Take a science class. Read Kant's philosophy<br /> <br /> Dude, who ever you are, Immanuel Kant was engaged in arguments all along his life on the existence of God, the attributes of God, the immortality of the soul, the problem of evil, and the relationship of moral principles to religious belief and practice. He came up with his own Pilosophy for the role of religion in the dynamics of human culture and history. <br /> <br /> Kantism is not in those 40 recognized religion that I mentioned above. There are many more like Kant in this world who live their life in their own way with what ever way they think and believe. Kant did not succeed after all that effort.. he was more confused. See the accounts below.<br /> <br /> Walsh see Kant as thoroughly hostile to religion in general and Christianity in particular.<br /> <br /> Other interpreters see Kant as trying to mark off a defensible rational core of Christian belief, but offer differing judgements about the success of his efforts. <br /> <br /> Michalson evaluate these efforts as self-defeating, paving the way for a more radical denial of God such as Nietzsche's. <br /> <br /> Collins and Wood see Kant articulating an account of the dynamics linking morality and religious belief that has positive value for a believer's reflective appropriation and practice of faith.<br /> <br /> Kant lived a different life as you can see from all the accounts above. What is so scientific about Kant? Just curious, do you follow Kantism? 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If we keep a no profit no loss mantra, it would be helpful to everyone and also it will make this organization very strong.<br /> Lets discuss its relevance? What does the Core think about this.?<br /> <br /> reddiv,<br /> <br /> I know how happy you when you came up with this idea, but do you really have to cross post it in so many different threads and forums? 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Owning means you lose flexibility. It is impossible to put numbers against all these.<br /> <br /> However, my personal "estimate"/"Tipping point" (taking into account the loss of flexibility etc) is when I have positive cash flow from owning (i.e. rent > mortgage + tax + maintenance). Some very successful RE investors I know take the same approach and are very successful.<br /> <br /> No. Speculators generally drive up the prices. What I am doing is not speculation. It is being cautious and rational(with the data I have). The one who drove up the housing price are the ones who were speculating that it will go up in price forever and created this huge bubble. You got the meaning of speculation wrong. <br /> Speculation is "engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of large gains, esp. trading in commodities, stocks, etc., in the hope of profit from changes in the market price."<br /> There are people who are waiting for the house prices to come to back to sane levels. And there are people who cannot get loan even if they wish to buy. 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Do you fit into that category? If so, do not buy.<br /> <br /> ValidIV, Based on your quote, we should be prepared for prices going down further and I485 getting rejected as being the worst case scenario.<br /> <br /> Also when I rent, I rent a 2-3 bedroom house, but I would want to buy a larger house say 5 bedroom (because I am planning long term). <br /> Hence my rent is 1500 whereas with mortgage payment its going to be 3000. <br /> <br /> I could save extra 15000 each year for down payment. So lets say I have 30K cash on hand, I can save 30K more in next 2 years and either go for a bigger house or hedge against rate increase. We all know that prices are not going to go up until 2011. Speculate or don't.<br /> Even Suze Orman will tell you that more the mortgage , more you pay in the end. <br /> <br /> Although your theory of buying 3 properties with 800 K is ambitious, it is riddled with risks and with biggest assumption that rents will not go down and property prices will go up. If this assumption falls apart, your investment starts making loss.<br /> <br /> My last landlord had victorian homes and she had trouble renting them because they needed constant upgrades to keep up with newly constructed communities. So she took out a equity loan and then the house prices dropped.<br /> <br /> And she still had trouble finding renters. This was in a community where I found hard to find a rental home. What will you <br /> <br /> <br /> And lets say they do go up defying expectations, you can watch trend for 3-4 months and then jump in at any time. Whats the hurry? We build up piles of cash waiting for the right opportunity and jump in at the right time.<br /> <br /> Do you agree even though interest rates are going up, house prices are not for the next 3 years? At this moment all Rent vs Buy calculators are saying its going to take me 11 years with 1% price increase to break even on my investment. 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Please see the below.<br /> <br /> <br /> Type and class of admission 1998-- 1999-- 2000-- 2001-- 2002-- 2003-- 2004-- 2005-- 2006-- 2007<br /> <br /> <br /> Employment-based preferences 77,413-- 56,678-- 106,642--178,702--173,814--81,727--155,330--246,877--159,081--162,176<br /> <br /> First: Priority workers 21,375-- 14,844-- 27,566-- 41,672-- 34,168-- 14,453-- 31,291-- 64,731-- 36,960-- 26,697<br /> <br /> Second: advanced degrees or exceptional ability 14,362--8,557-- 20,255-- 42,550-- 44,316-- 15,406-- 32,534 --42,597-- 21,911-- 44,162<br /> <br /> Third: Skilled workers 34,282 --27,920--49,589--85,847-- 88,002-- 46,415-- 85,969-- 129,070--89,922-- 85,030<br /> <br /> Fourth: Special immigrants 6,570-- 5,072-- 9,014-- 8,442-- 7,186-- 5,389-- 5,407-- 10,133-- 9,539-- 5,481<br /> <br /> Fifth: (investors) 824-- 285-- 218-- 191-- 142-- 64-- 129-- 346-- 749-- 806<br /> <br /> See the link below for reference: <br /> <br /> http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s...7/table06d.xls</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles 2010 Heart Attack Grill <img src="http://eater.com/uploads/heart-attack-grill-blair-river-2.jpg" alt="heart attack grill. heart-attack-grill-blair-river" title="heart-attack-grill-blair-river" width="470" <br><li>heart-attack-grill-blair-river</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sab</div><div class="date">01-08 01:50 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Both these incidents make you shudder in disbelief and disgust for those who believe in wars and bloodshed.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">bfadlia</div><div class="date">01-07 02:44 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">You say romans converted egyptions to christianity. If it is true, romans follow catholic church. Coptic is Othodox christians, started during the period of apostole. Romans may ruled them, but every one is coptic. Not changed the religion by force. You contradit your statement.<br /> Mohamed copy bible and make his own version and misled the people. It is like a cult. Like Mormon in USA. It is written in the bible. 'Those who change any word from the bible will be punished'. Mohamed's fate decided by God.<br /> <br /> Buddy.. I'm not trying to argue with you.. just hope you get more information about what you are talking about.<br /> 1- Coptic tradition claims that St. Mark brought Christianity to Egypt around 50 CE. A small community of Christians developed in Alexandria in the late first century, and became more numerous by the end of the second century. Some similarities in beliefs helped Christianity to be accepted by Egyptians, including the beliefs that the Egyptian god Osiris was both human and god, the resurrection of Osiris, and the godly triad of Osiris, Isis, and Horus.<br /> During the third and fourth centuries, the Romans persecuted various religious dissidents, especially Christians. The emperor Diocletian attempted to restructure and unify the Empire, and instigated some harsh reforms which led to rebellion among the Egyptians. Diocletian then began extensive persecutions of Christians, which was referred to by Copts as the Era of Martyrs. The year of Diocletian's accession (284 CE) was designated Year One in the Coptic Christian calendar in order to observe the tragedies. Christianity was threatening to the Roman Empire because its strong monotheistic belief "made it impossible for its serious adherents to acknowledge the Roman emperor as a deity" (Carroll 1988). Also, many important leadership positions in Egyptian society and the military were held by Christians.<br /> 2- According to Jews, god would never change the commandments of the old testament which jesus did.. so for them he was blasphemous.. you just shrug this off as a christian.. by the same token why do u think muslims would care what u think of Mohamed?<br /> Speak for yourself and stop talking on behalf of god.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">03-06 09:00 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">A Peek Into Corporate America (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030501370.html)<br /> <br /> Not waiting for Congress to impose new disclosure laws, shareholder activists have persuaded some of the nation's largest companies to disclose their political spending on such things as issue campaigns. 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Rents are holding steady in CA, so calculations might play a bit differently in CA.<br /> <br /> First of all, 5% is not available today for 30 yr fixed, its more like 5.25%. Another attractive option could be 5 year ARM or 7 year ARM if you can make additional payments for the principal, it will significantly bring down the principal amount owed at the end of first 5 years if you make CONSISTENT (per month) additional payments.<br /> <br /> I live in WA, I searched MLS & zillow for recently sold homes, most homes are going for 15-20% less than owner asked priced. Avg 3 bedroom house price here is 500K.<br /> <br /> 1. I do not qualify for tax rebate offered this year due to income level restrictions (spouse works)<br /> 2. Rents in Seattle have fallen steeply. Last year (aug), I was searching for apartment, I was offered at 1600 or 1700. The same apartment is now going for 1450. Some have fallen more steeply upto 1200 of the same class. 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Again what field you work in also plays a big role in the decision. if you are a techie and work in a product based company Bay area has all the top companies you could wish to work for. Where as cities like Austin merely have satellite offices for these companies based in bay area. I guess if you work in the service industry you would have more choices to pick from. Plus reason to consider austin for me is that "Austin is very much like bay area" ... In that case i think why not live in Bay area itself :)<br /> <br /> But yes if you are in bay area, Paying 700+ for a decent place just does not make sense even with all the rebates. <br /> <br /> <br /> I am hoping my gut feeling is proven wrong :)<br /> <br /> I moved out of bay area last year to WA. I had mixed feelings about making the move, but except for the weather, I think it was a good decision. One year down the line, I feel happy about it. The home you get for 700K in bay area, you can get for 550K in Seattle. 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Which is why you will always be paying owners like me for a roof to live under.<br /> <br /> <br /> With those rent/price ratio - it makes no sense indeed to rent. <br /> <br /> If I may ask you for a huge favor - could you please PM me more details about where specifically in Queens you have those kind of rent/price ratios?<br /> <br /> Since the market prices got so inflated - my experience is that the rent/price ratios are still wayy off historical trends. 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Also you will still be an asset no matter what. That is not the case with "consultants". <br /> Thx for saying that. My boss who is a professor in a research university at least thinks that way, and also believes that I am a leader (FYI riva2005). Frankly, if you are not displacing an American, and there is legal proof of that, there is no reason to worry. Also, mjrajatish: yes, it will be difficult to move in 2 weeks. Same holds for me too because they have to prove that Iam not displacing another American in the new workplace. 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But immigrants took all that away by stealing the jobs of Americans. If the immigrants had not been sucking out the welfare from this country, the social security trust fund and the US treasury would be overflowing with money. <br /> <br /> Goddammit these immigrants who stole the jobs of thousands of hard working lettuce pickers and meat packers and farm workers, who, had it not been for these job-stealing, flag waving, non-english speaking, country invading, sovereignty ruining, wage-depressing immigrant intrudor-invader-thief would have been millionaires by now.<br /> <br /> When will the politicians listen to Lou Dobbs who is the only smart person left in the United States now?<br /> <br /> :D :D :D</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.svgbarbis.de/joomla1514/index.php?option=com_simplecalendar&view=calendar">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/02/NewVillager-LightHouse-Video.jpg" alt="will smith house in la. hairstyles will smith house in" title="hairstyles will smith house in" width="470" <br><li>hairstyles will smith house in</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pthoko</div><div class="date">07-11 05:27 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Putting more pressure on the UN<br /> <br /> Hi UN,<br /> First of all my sincere gratitude to you for your patience and the time you put in to give a detailed reply to all cases.<br /> <br /> Here's my situation(I think a case of status violation)<br /> <br /> <br /> I did an L1 to H1 transfer in 2005. 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I guess in this case, if by any chance they ask for any further evidence like pay stubs or W2 in that period of time, I would be in trouble.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> From what I have read from the forum, A lawful re-entry should clear the violation in my case right?? I haven't filed the I-485 yet. My I-140 is pending.<br /> Do they catch this during I-140 stage??<br /> <br /> ALSO CAN THEY DENY H1B DUE TO PREVIUOS VIOLATION OF STATUS, WHILE I RE-ENTER?? This is my biggest fear now!!!<br /> <br /> Can I go to Canada/Mexico for stamping? where would I get an appointment at the earliest??<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Thanks.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot dresses will smith house in <img src="http://myfavoritestars.blog.com/files/2010/11/nia11.jpg" alt="will smith house in la. will smith house in la. she" title="will smith house in la. she" width="470" <br><li>will smith house in la. she</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mhathi</div><div class="date">09-26 10:01 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Here's something from his website. I am not one hundred percent sure of what he will do but I do remember him talking about increasing EB GCs early on in his presidency bid. <br /> <br /> "Improve Our Immigration System<br /> <br /> Obama and Biden believe we must fix the dysfunctional immigration bureaucracy and increase the number of legal immigrants to keep families together and meet the demand for jobs that employers cannot fill. 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If more money does not equate to a better life, then why are all these people taking the trouble to desert their home land and live in a foreign country? If more money => better lifestyle, then it follows a home can provide a relatively better environment to a child than an apartment. <br /> <br /> If all Americans live in rented apartments, drive only used Japanese cars (resale value), furnished their homes with scant used furniture and were focussed on investing their money than spending it, then the American economy will go down to the level of a third world country in less than 10 years. <br /> <br /> This does not mean everyone has to run out and buy a home. The point as I said earlier is to see a home as a home and not as an investment.<br /> this maybe your view .. but I can find some faults with it.<br /> yes ..more money is equal to better lifestyle but a bigger house is not necessarily a better lifestyle for everyone. for many tech workers, following this line of reasoning will cause them more problems.<br /> I don't know about you ..but I came here to US for money and for better quality of life (I didnot come here to buy a big house !!). a big house would mean that I have less money as more money goes for property tax / maintenance etc etc<br /> now ..since I save money by renting ..I can afford to put my son in better dayschool, fund his college fund , take him for more freq vacations etc etc.<br /> now this maybe different for some people ..maybe those earning more than 125 K or with double income.<br /> also ..do you mean people should pay more for a house than it is worth ??<br /> <br /> I agree with yr last points ...that not everyone has to run ..and thats what I am saying.<br /> once you get GC and have a stable job and get a good offer on a house ...buy ..else wait. 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After that EB3 benefited from a Schedule A recapture that went almost entirely to EB3, a lot to EB3 Philipenes and a good chunk to EB3 India.<br /> <br /> AFAIK last year though, once that was ll over and vertical spillover was implemented, EB2/EB3 Inid should both have got only the strict country quota mandated GC numbers.<br /> <br /> Anway- offhand as I said...gotto rum.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Paskal,<br /> <br /> Your post made me look again into the text. Alright, I see some things now, doesnt fully explain the lack of EB3 numbers but let me summarize.. <br /> <br /> EB2-ROW-> EB2(general-pool). I have always conceded that this should be the case. (for those who disagree, see my initial posts). <br /> <br /> My point always has been on the spillover of EB1 numbers, that very clearly is to be shared amongst EB2 and EB3 (and if you apply USCIS "new" yard-stick), this will be first-come-first serve, so pretty much will help the most regressed category. 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And I think this is what you are asking for.<br /> <br /> We are here because USCIS allowed us to come here. We (employees, employers, immigration lawyers) should have done our due diligence in doing everything possible to protect ourselves against possible/potential audits and queries. Someone should have warned us that there is actually a difference between "temp job" and "full-time job" (EDITED: for GC requirements) like 20 years ago when this consulting business started. The very same people who did not warn us should actually have told us that LCA location is not to be taken lightly, that benching is not okay. All of these did not even occur to us when we enjoyed our lives in this nation.<br /> <br /> Yes, USCIS is awake all of a sudden. They are enforcing rules all of a sudden. They are scrutinizing our application all of a sudden. Is that illegal for them to do it? NO. Can something be done to stop them? Certainly NOT. What could we have done to avoid getting into the soup? 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Why are lawyers in the picture?<br /> <br /> - If they find problem in consulting, why are they not going after Tata, Wipro etc. Don't tell me these companies are clean? <br /> <br /> - Why is USCIS so disorganized without good IT. Do you think other agencies are also same? Do you think USCIS does not have enough money?<br /> <br /> - Why can't they ban DV lottery? But go after H1Bs.<br /> <br /> - Why can't ICE do their job of enforcement and round up illegals. If they were strict we will not have so many illegals or the problem of illegals.<br /> <br /> The questions will go on. But you need to step back and think more from the perspective of a applicant waiting for his GC or H1B .</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend will smith house in la. 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That is as long as a person hasn't overstayed an I-94 card by more then six months; no major criminal or health issues then everything is reset upon leaving and re-entering USA.<br /> <br /> However; USCIS officers try to find other ways to nail people when a person needs protections such as 245k.<br /> <br /> I have seen a couple of cases where people have had an i-140 denied due to education. They appealed and re-filed another 140 and in the eta 750b they omitted certain education diplomas that were listed in the first application. USCIS then accused them of fraud and a permanent barrier to getting greencard.<br /> <br /> Now; it looks like the officer is going down the same road on your husbands case. Accusing your husband of essentially fraud by claiming that he was working with a company listed in the g-325a biographical information when it appears to uscis that he wasn't working with them. 245k or any other part of immigration law which could protect him becomes difficult to use when they accuse you of fraud.<br /> <br /> To get a better grasp of things; you need to post the RFE's that he received on his original case (don't post general stuff but be specific) and what they are saying now. 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Nice attitude. <br /> <br /> I can say that I am in trouble because of everyone else in the queue of 500,000 highly skilled H1 and L1 people waiting for GC. Everyone else other than me and my family is causing trouble for me.<br /> <br /> If all others in the queue were to vanish or die somehow,my PD would become current and I can file for 485.<br /> <br /> Isnt that the attitude of IEEE-USA. We are in trouble because of competition from Indian and Chinese professionals. <br /> <br /> They have a problem with Indian and Chinese engineers whether they come here, or dont come here. They have problem with H1B, they have a problem if they dont come here and merely work on jobs in India and China that are outsourced from here to there.<br /> <br /> Just like IEEE-USA has problem with existence of competition, you have problem with the existence of consultants because that sub-community within this community is also asking for Greencards. And your solution is to eliminate competition.<br /> <br /> Consultants can say the same thing...that we are in trouble because of these perm-fulltime jobs holders who stick to one job for 10 years and we have a problem with that.<br /> <br /> How can you justify, with reasonable objective arguments that perm-fulltime jobs holders should be ahead of the queue from consultants and they are more deserving candidates for Greencard than consultants? I am not a consultant myself but I'd like to hear your reasoning behind this. Dont tell me crap that consultants pad their resumes. Everyone does it. Whether its consultants or perm-fulltime jobs holders, and whether its H1B or citizens, EVERYONE who is desperate for a job would pad his/her resume. You would do it too if it meant getting yourself away from filing bankruptcy.<br /> <br /> I have worked in both capacities, as consultant and as FT. I did FT for 5 years and got fired and moved to consulting and am doing good here. 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Equity market has nose dived as did housing market and people consider it too risky to invest at this stage in equity due to uncertinities (lot of companies may not make it through though times or No. PC companies which has become QPC -filed for chapter11 protection has increased) even though it doesn't involve huge amounts as housing at per unit basis. For investers, same applies for dwelling investment as well at a higher scale. More Chapter 11->more job losses->more houses on foreclosure.<br /> <br /> Just to counter your argument, Let me tell you one scenario, When stock market went down, I invested in shares some time back in February 09, as of today, If I look at the individual investment, it stands at 60% increased. But I do not think that it will provide me a 60% returns.. over 10 years... I expect only 10% and may increase to 15% in the long run which is a ball park number. <br /> <br /> Lot of sellers/brokers referred Zillow during 2006 and early 2007 (Bubble) to sell their houses at an inflated prices as I mentioned earlier, when it went up 20000 per month for several months.. Based on these numbers..people streached themself and jumped to grab one before it goes beyond their reach thinking that it will continue to go up.. Now, the houses values under water and they are whining about it every day and night.. some of their home values evapourated by 30 to 40%. (I am talking about 100,000 to 150,000 south). Zillow goes up and down.. in short term depending on historic sales and builder's listing price changes, not based on any economic outlook. Every agent wears two hats and is two-faced, because a home�s �value� has to be higher when represent a seller and lower when represent a buyer. The Zillow range of value represents best hope for buyer at the low end of the range, and highest for seller at the high end of that range. <br /> <br /> Here's what they say about it in disclaimer "The Zestimate is not an appraisal and you won't be able to use it in place of an appraisal, though you can certainly share it with real estate professionals. It is a computer-generated estimate of the worth of a house today, given the data we have available. Zillow.com does not offer the Zestimate as the basis of any specific real-estate-related financial transaction. Our data sources may be incomplete or incorrect; also, we have not physically inspected a specific home."<br /> <br /> My point is, Unless the correction happens in housing market, which is widely believed to be another 10 to 12% further south from where it stands now.. there is always a risk in buying one thinking that its going to appreciate in next 10 years. Remember though the demand cycles for realty market is lenghty ones which will rise once in 10 to 15 years but this does not mean that there's going to be another bubble again to hike it up by 100 and 200% :). It may rise as historically did to provide a 3 to 4% returns. This is regardless of location... location.. location.. First, It will take time to stabilize the market just because there's too much supply, affordiability issue and aging population. <br /> <br /> Buy or not, depends on whether and how much you are willing and open to take risk. Higher the risk, higher the returns.. doesn't mean it applies to stupid decisions... 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These things are way off the reality in this country.. <br /> <br /> Historically, we all have seen that markets goes up and some times bubbles up, and goes down for a correction, some times south into recession.. .This is quiet natural to happen.. be it housing market or money market. We all know that Housing market needs a correction from those days where prices went up by $20,000 a month for several months without any control driven by easy credit, 0 down and stupid stated income policies.. Sure enough.. market started to correct itself after the credit become tight and lot of folks who jumped on to buy house at the top of peak went under water due to drop in the value of their homes... Here comes the obama housing rescue plan.. what are they trying to do here? trying to maintiain the bubble by encouraging more credit and spending.. working against natural correction of home prices towards south. <br /> <br /> Now lets look at whats happening around us and see if we will have returns on house as an investment.. (For those who are without GC, this becomes important).<br /> <br /> The gross domestic product (GDP) or gross domestic income (GDI) of US, a basic measure of an economy's economic performance, is about $13 Trillion per year as widely reported and boasted. Of that amount, approximately half, or $6.5 Trillion, is directly or indirectly related to government spending on the Federal, State, and Local levels.. :)<br /> <br /> Think about that for a second, about half of US current GDP is government spending? Does it sounds like developing nation? and due to job loss, loss of interest income, strained consumer keeps cutting back..the economy will contract further and eventually the goverment spending will be a major portion.<br /> <br /> US does not produce any consumer goods, its all China..if you don't produce you don't sell and if you don't sell you don't make an income, and if you don't make an income you don't pay taxes...plain and simple. So, what do we do, Borrow and spend.. but remember, the interest obligations will grow to suck the dollars away from goods and services that it purchases. (Folks are in China now :D)<br /> <br /> Due to a struggling economy, primarily driven by consumers credit crunch, lower sales means, less revenue for government and they must borrow more money to keep the government machine spending and the economy rolling despite lower tax revenues.<br /> <br /> It was all good when Consumers and Government borrowed, as long as they could find someone to lend and collectively could spend. During the bubble, banks lent to consumers freely and foreigners lent to Government until banks and foreigners realized we simply borrowed too much slowed lending as it became much more difficult to service the debt. Now banks are not lending to consumers with less than best rating and the government is forcing banks to lend to consumers by loaning banks TAXPAYER money at 1/4% and the banks loan it right back to us at 4.5 yo 5.5% now. How about that? :D:D<br /> <br /> Due to lack of credit for non-government sector, of US economy...private sector is becoming much poorer much faster creating an imbalance in the society. Mathematically private sector going south will continue due to the very high leverage on the Private Side as more and more dwindling dollars are simply allocated to paying interest due to less revenues. With time a greater and greater percentage of a troubled economy will be directly consumed by rising interest payments resulting in less <br /> government spending which might lead us to an inflation, wages will never keep up with exploding commodity prices. Then only option remains Tax increases on those who earn :)<br /> Because, Right now a huge portion of government spending is feeding the poor, housing assistance, and providing medical care to the poor and elderly. Once the government bailout dry up, fewer and fewer will be able to borrow, work on and pay taxes in private sector, fewer and fewer will be able to pay taxes and the burden will rest on the shoulders of those that have something to offer...all what they have will not be enough to sustain a $13 Trillion dollar economy.<br /> <br /> With such a scenario, house prices cannot stay up at more than 4 times the desposible income of majority (middle class) population which remains at less than mere USD 30000. You can imagine now, what is going to happen if home prices does not correct itself due to government interfearance.<br /> <br /> Its an individual perspective to decide to buy home.. Do comment and throw out your ideas..<br /> <br /> You can find my analysis of housing market on link below (india vs. US) http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=285966#post285966</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot lebron james mom delonte west. <img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h6zDWFKHkcw/TcW5OYdfezI/AAAAAAAAApY/dS16M5NVYE0/s400/kobe_bryant_biography.jpg" alt="delonte west tattoos dime magazine. makeup delonte west" title="makeup delonte west" width="470" <br><li>makeup delonte west</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-25 12:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Oh, and I think I should elaborate just a little more. <br /> <br /> I am not asking whether the USCIS can or cannot exercise scrutiny on approving 485s where a person, under AC21 provision, switches to a small consulting company.<br /> <br /> Of course they can, the 485 is for a full time job, and whether a job with a small consulting company is of a full time nature or not, is up in the air and they can 'scrutinize' it all they want, if they choose to.<br /> <br /> My question to UN is whether he thinks if they will choose to go after 485 AC21 job switches to small consulting companies like he thinks they will for small consulting company H-1Bs, and not whether they can.<br /> <br /> Thanks again,<br /> <br /> You see on all these ac21 issues we rely on uscis memos. Every one of these memos state pending change to the regulations; we are going to follow the principles of this memo.<br /> <br /> it has been 8 years and they still haven't changed the regulations. Memos can be changed at their whim at any time.<br /> <br /> Currently; uscis position is that if someone ports to another company; they are not supposed to check the ability to pay criteria. However; they left themselvees an out that theey can check the genuineness of the ac21 employer. Becasuse of this last statement; what they have been doing is asking for ac21 employer tax returuns, and quarterly wage reports. If you are already on payroll then size of company doesn't matter. However; if you are not on payrroll and it is a very small company then they can challnge it.<br /> <br /> btw; I am not epecting quota to finish early this year. Many companies/lawyers are very frustrated with h-1b right now. I was talking to education evaluator and he told me that there is litteally no business right now. Companies I know of how filed 70 cases last year are not filing any this year due to a combination of issues (iowa issue, lack of approvals and great demand for tansfers by thos who were laid off or had theirr h-1b's cancelled.<br /> <br /> Right now; newer companies who don't have much experience with h-1b are going into the lions den without knowing there is a lion in there.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.virginija.lt/statistika.php?en=repair&limit1=no&limit2=yes">more...</a><br><br /><br />house images hot delonte west lebron <img src="http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/0/0/4/3/4/8/1/cavs-13958459351.jpeg" alt="delonte west tattoos dime magazine. dresses delonte west lebron" title="dresses delonte west lebron" width="470" <br><li>dresses delonte west lebron</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-30 06:23 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">India-China Relations: It’s the economy, and no one’s stupid (http://idsa.in/system/files/IB_IndiaChinaRelations.pdf) By Joe Thomas Karackattu | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses<br /> <br /> The recent visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao clearly had a productive focus - SinoIndian economic ties have been re-enforced, and there has been an effort to re-balance the trading relationship. This Brief uses irony to communicate five propositions (i.e. the intended meaning of these five statements is the opposite of what is stated), that can be found in several discourses on Sino-Indian ties. It evaluates these propositions in the light of the tangible and intangible gains from Premier Wen Jiabao’s second official visit to India.<br /> <br /> 1. Obama’s visit had more substance for India<br /> <br /> How do you weigh a visit by a foreign Head of State or Government – one that prods a relationship in an incremental way versus one that promises a turnaround from a low baseline? The political and strategic dimension of the India-US partnership received an immense boost with Obama’s visit, and so did the economy. However, with Wen Jiaobao’s visit, India and China have prepared the ground for what hopefully shapes up to be a balanced economic and a healthy political partnership. If Premier Wen has second-placed talk of India and China being rivals – surely the political gains are waiting to be realized. Incidentally, the MoUs signed during Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit are worth $16 billion (against $10 billion worth of agreements signed during the Obama visit).<br /> <br /> Re-balancing of the Indian deficit (roughly USD 20 billion) from its trade with China has been promised through enhanced trade facilitation in the pharma and IT/Engineering sectors, a proposed CEO’s forum, more openness to Indian agro products, greater presence in Chinese trade fairs, and the desire for a strategic economic partnership. The present focus on infrastructure financing in India through Chinese banks is demonstrative of a ‘win-win’ situation for both sides. China’s consumer price index (CPI) 1 , a key measure of inflation, hit a two-year high of 5.1 per cent year-on-year in November 2010. Meanwhile, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC; the equivalent of the RBI in India) raised banks’ reserve requirement ratio (the deposits mandated to be withheld) for the sixth time in 2010 as a sterilization measure to prevent excess money supply from adding to inflation. Under such circumstances, Chinese banks have been foraying into lending operations elsewhere as well (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s (ICBC) commercial property loan in summer 2010 to a group led by private-equity firm, the Carlyle Group, in the United States is a case in point)<br /> <br /> Policy Focus: The push for horizontal investments from China i.e. market seeking FDI through local production seems to have received less attention. This is an area which needs to be explored fully to address employment generation in India, and for Chinese firms to have a visible household presence in India (similar to Korean and Japanese consumer durables, for instance).<br /> <br /> 2. China has not changed. It cannot be trusted. Politically, there seems to be no progress on resolving the border dispute, and in the economic sphere there seems to be an in-built incongruence in the growth trajectories of the two countries.<br /> <br /> The 1962 war was the reflection of the variance in India and China’s diplomatic, ideological and political approach to bilateral ties and international affairs. Those were the years running up to the Sino-Soviet split, the US engagement in Korea, Taiwan, and the second Indochina war (all involving China), and the domestic misfortune of the Great Leap forward. China had real and perceived fears of India’s oscillation between the United States and the Soviet Union. However, today China is placed in different circumstances, both as a political power and as an economic power. It is now more deeply entrenched in the economic architecture of the world. China’s concern to develop its Western regions coupled with diminishing incentives to foreign investors on the East Coast implies a patient and consistent effort at domestic restructuring in China. The stimulus measures and other construction projects need to be absorbed, the idea of “soft infrastructure” over “hard infrastructure” i.e. transparency and corruption-control has to be pushed through, and inequity needs to be tackled both between cities and rural areas, and between provinces in China. That is a long-drawn process of reforming social security and healthcare in China, apart from administrative reforms relating to land and labour rights (hukou system).<br /> <br /> Intuitively, the prospects of relying on Europe and the United States as consumer markets for China over the long term are dicey (imagine how long an economy growing at 8 to 10 per cent could rely on markets that grow at between 2 and 3 per cent?). The present incongruence in the growth trajectories of India and China is ascribed to the market-first approach in China versus the business-first approach in India’s liberalization of its economy. Almost as a visible consequence, China is a larger trading nation even as the private sector there is yet to benefit from lenient financial intermediation (the State plays a big role even today). India on the other hand has a promising private sector and vibrant secondary markets even as its integration into the international economy is hindered by relatively higher tariff barriers in the country. The absence of overlap in the key growthdrivers of both countries (Industry versus Services in China and India, respectively) actually presents the most important reason for India to work with China, and for China to work with India.<br /> <br /> The economic imperatives for China to engage with the larger Asian region are borne out by the trends in consumption expenditures in this region. China presently is mired in the need to revive consumption expenditure internally, in order to offset the export-dependent economic engine of its growth. The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2010, the flagship annual statistical data book of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), indicates the role that Asia stands to play as an alternate consumer market in the long term. The resilience of the middle class in Asia during the 2008-09 recession is highlighted by an estimated USD 4.3 trillion in annual expenditures during the crisis (ADB 2010). This was nearly a third of the private consumption in OECD countries, and is projected to account for 43 per cent of the worldwide consumption in 2030.<br /> <br /> Policy Focus: India and China have a real chance of promoting mutual economic growth and development if their economic ties are not ‘securitized’, and the issue of tariff (from India’s side) and non-tariff barriers (China’s side) and protectionism (both countries) is addressed. The CEO’s forum, for one, could initiate linkages with Chinese Universities to develop internship programmes drawing on China’s younger generation of graduates to visit Indian companies desirous of expanding operations in China.<br /> <br /> As for border talks, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Premier Zhou Enlai agreed in the past to have mid-level bureaucrats handle talks for mediating the border issues (Hoffmann 1990: 32). Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Premier Wen Jiabao have reached an understanding to have foreign ministers of the two countries deal with the vexed problem. Certainly, the level of engagement has been upgraded specifically vis-�-vis the border issue.<br /> <br /> Another important point to note is that, as per the Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Project (October 2010), in 2009 46 per cent of Indians expressed a positive view of China, compared with just 34 per cent in 2010. The Chinese Ambassador to India may think that the fragility in India-China relations emerges from over-reaction to issues concerning China in India. However, the same report qualifies that only 3 per cent of Indians surveyed consider China as the greatest threat for India, whereas, despite a sanctioned media, more Chinese have negative opinion on India (only about one-third of Chinese respondents (32 per cent) have a favourable opinion).<br /> <br /> So where does the fragility come from? Does it arise from the ‘looseness’ of a democratic apparatus to shape public opinion? But Chinese public opinion is negative despite the regimented approach to the dissemination of information. Clearly, even if it is not the final word, these perceptions reveal how both countries need to do more to genuinely take forward the elationship at the level of ordinary citizens. The leadership in both countries has to find ways to shape debates within their countries to soft-land negotiated outcomes, if there is a genuine and concerted effort to resolve the border issue, and other contentious issues that may arise.<br /> <br /> Policy Focus: There is a need to cultivate individual perceptions of the other, at the level of citizens. This exercise could be executed at the level of greater tourist facilitation measures or exposure to popular culture through mass media. More Indian television programmes, dubbed in Chinese, should be promoted in China (currently only a few such programmes are broadcast in China). Surprisingly, Chinese programming (similar to NHK, DW-Asia or Russia Today) is not even on offer on most satellite networks in India. 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This makes restrictions on Consulting companies, so what Clients won't be able to find people, so they do hire people as full time instead of temporary consulting position. That is good for us we can find more full time positions from client it self. I even heard that this bill makes sure H1B are paid by market rates instead of DOL wages which are often very less than market value. Good thing for us the staring salaries would be at higher rate than present rates. This bill is bad for consulting companies but good for us. 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But most of the jews not recognise him during the time. Those recognise him convert to christianity. They suffered because of their non belief. But details in the bible for the second coming of jesus and the nation of Israel to prepare for his coming, so the present day jews are supported by God. In the end they all belive the mesiah. <br /> About trinity, we human cannot understand the complexity of God. We still cannot understand or expalin the nature misteries, how we can understand God in detail??. But God revealed some details to his people through prophet. Malachi is the last prophet. It is the last book in the old testment. After the mesiah was come to the world. God was revealed to human.<br /> <br /> Thank you so much for the information although I think I never asked about the trinity or salvation or the return of the messiah (only said the yearning for that return should not be used to justify one people displacing another and taking their land).. 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People who were prudent or had the ability to buy during 1999-2003 are doing good so far.<br /> As for buying in the current market...as they say location...location...location<br /> <br /> here is a slightly technical article about the current interest rate, FC and impact on housing in San Diego.<br /> <br /> http://www.fieldcheckgroup.com/2009/06/04/6-5-beware-real-estate-false-bottoms/<br /> <br /> rent Vs own calculator after factoring in annual home expenses..<br /> <br /> http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/calculator/<br /> <br /> <br /> Your leverage is $270,000 in this investment, and you pay 5% interest on it which is tax deductible. You don't suppose one can borrow 270Gs to invest in, per my example, S&P 500 to get 10% annually? Of course the you are able to borrow that much on a home is because it is considered relatively a safe debt for the lender. 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My husband's employer (non-IT) had applied for his GC in EB3 - in 2005 which makes sense since the job required a B.S (Even though he was MS and was working for this company since 2002). We have our 485s filed and are using our APs/EADs. Now, i haven't applied for GC through my employer yet, but if i apply, it would most likely be EB1 or 2, and would love to port my PD of 2005. The reason i haven't done that is because i personally do not think that getting a GC couple of years earlier is going to make my life any different than it currently is.<br /> <br /> Having said that, I completely understand what "rolling flood" is trying to say. And I also agree to what his point of view is. When a person who initially agreed to apply with EB3, changes his mind/company/ or whatever and wants to apply in EB2, he should theoretically start over. Why is it reasonable that he/she cuts in line ahead of a person who was already there. There is a reason why these categories are formed. <br /> <br /> Shady means or non-shady means, EB2 means that u have superior qualifications and you are more desirable in the US. <br /> EB3 means there are a lot like u, so u gotta wait more. Period.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Marphad</div><div class="date">12-17 02:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">This forum is for immigration related discussion. 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Also, by the time I find resouces to learn more about stock, the prices might ahve gone up.<br /> <br /> So can anyone provide good online tools to know more about investing on stocks and buying stocks online...<br /> <br /> Thanks<br /> <br /> Someone is talking about Hotels....<br /> http://immigrationvoice.org/forum/showthread.php?p=255794#post255794<br /> I stayed in woodlands...but had advance booking. Even with advance booking they had created a scene ..had to wait for 30 mins to get it confirmed. Palm grove is difficult get. Try palm grove or woodlands. Auto rikshaw will take around Rs.100 from woodlands. With the things running in your mind on that day, you won't think of saving money.<br /> <br /> Good luck..!!!<br /> <br /> furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..................</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ramba</div><div class="date">09-26 03:24 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Employment based GC will exist whoever wins. CIR or any other reform that increses number of immigrants per year (legal/illegal/ammnisity/point system/high skilled/low skilled) may not be possible in new administration (BO/Mcsamebush), unless economy bounce back. Immigration is tiny bit of the big problem facing this country. If the current economny lead to depression/recession what is the use of having GC/USC?<br /> <br /> Both are politicans their first ambittion is the office. Country first is simply bull. However, I think BO, is the right choice at this momnet. as atleast he is having professional approch in every problem. 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So it is going to be difficult to remove him. <br /> <br /> Also Joe Scarxxx/Pat Buchanan on MSNBC are anti-immig.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.happy2you.net/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1207">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.thehealthage.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/cold.jpg" alt="common cold. the Common Cold Institute" title="the Common Cold Institute" width="470" <br><li>the Common Cold Institute</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">BumbleBee</div><div class="date">03-24 02:41 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Again, I am not the one you should be asking to define "full-time" and "temp" type jobs. Ask USCIS or DOL or whoever is going to adjudicate your green card.<br /> <br /> I am simply saying that if USCIS has made a distinction between perm job and temp job, AND if they feel that consulting job is of temp type, someone along the line has dropped the ball and missed this. They also missed the fact that the employee needs to work at the LCA specified location. They also missed (or circumvented) that benching is not allowed.<br /> <br /> You can blame anyone and everyone for it. Maybe the immigration attorneys were the ones that should have warned both the employers and employees that consulting jobs do not fit the H-1B requirement. Maybe USCIS was sleeping all the while and suddenly they decided to start enforcing this. But the fact that they can ALL-OF-A-SUDDEN claim that H-1B visa is for permanent jobs only, AND that employees need to stay in the LCA location means that our lawyers, employers, and employees were incompetent in their judgment and did not do their due diligence to protect against potential audits and queries.<br /> I am telling you the same thing I told the other guy .... you don't need to give me justifications.<br /> <br /> Just hope that USCIS will buy your story!<br /> <br /> http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=bac7d92e8003f010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCR D&vgnextchannel=1847c9ee2f82b010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1 RCRD<br /> <br /> Q : What is an H-1B?<br /> <br /> The H-1B is a nonimmigrant classification used by an alien who will be employed temporarily in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability.<br /> <br /> As per USCIS, H1B is for temporary job</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/A-Cure-for-the-Common-Cold_2.jpg" alt="common cold. A Cure for the Common Cold" title="A Cure for the Common Cold" width="470" <br><li>A Cure for the Common Cold</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">12-30 02:23 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I think you missed my point. Which was that the 'solution' that Mr rinku1112 was suggesting, destabilizing Pakistan by funding dissident groups, is something that Pakistan already suspects India is doing. And there might be some truth to it. So, then, Pakistan would want to fund groups that would try to destabilize India. <br /> Thats the vicious cycle.<br /> <br /> It might be true, it might not be. Its only reactionary if its at all true and a very subdued reaction that is. If India was Israel in its attitude and what it is in its size, you wouldn't have seen the vicious circle that you think you see. It would have been all over by now - without all the intellectual sparring and head-banging that go on, on these immigration forums. Pakistani terrorism would have been a moot point - a non-issue.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://jasonwahl.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://edge-img.datpiff.com/m3095ca0/Various_Artists_The_Common_Cold-front-large.jpg" alt="common cold. The Common Cold Hosted by" title="The Common Cold Hosted by" width="470" <br><li>The Common Cold Hosted by</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">xyzgc</div><div class="date">12-28 12:21 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Please don't advocate war.<br /> If India can defeat the entire British Empire without firing a weapon, I can't believe that there isn't an ingenuitive solution to this mess. I can't believe that Indians and Pakistanis can't be the ones to solve it without weapons, especially nuclear ones.<br /> <br /> Nuclear weapons technology is old. Soon every country (and undergraduate engineering student) will posses the knowledge to build them. Yet if we continue to handle disputes in the same way that was bred into us when our people hunted on some African plane, it will be the end of all of us.<br /> <br /> India defeating entire British empire without firing a weapon? Where did this come from? British colonized Indians for 150 years! <br /> If Indians were a military power, they wouldn't have been colonized in the first place.<br /> Do you seriously believe the dogma of non-violence Quit India movement drove the British away?:)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 for the common cold virus. <img src="http://www.themorningnews.org/images/Daniel-CommonCold.jpg" alt="common cold. cure for the common cold?" title="cure for the common cold?" width="470" <br><li>cure for the common cold?</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">kshitijnt</div><div class="date">09-27 11:15 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">With economy in doldrums, mccain has almost lost election. CO is leaning to democrats so is VA and NH. And no state that Kerry won in 2004 is leaning to republicans. PA is almost safe with Biden in ticket. So Obama has reasonably stable lead in polls. 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Pat was surprised that Demz were considering it.<br /> <br /> It is available here http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/washington/26immig.html?_r=1&oref=slogin<br /> <br /> WASHINGTON, Dec. 25 � Counting on the support of the new Democratic majority in Congress, Democratic lawmakers and their Republican allies are working on measures that could place millions of illegal immigrants on a more direct path to citizenship than would a bill that the Senate passed in the spring.<br /> <br /> The lawmakers are considering abandoning a requirement in the Senate bill that would compel several million illegal immigrants to leave the United States before becoming eligible to apply for citizenship. <br /> <br /> The lawmakers are also considering denying financing for 700 miles of fencing along the border with Mexico, a law championed by Republicans that passed with significant Democratic support.<br /> <br /> Details of the bill, which would be introduced early next year, are being drafted. The lawmakers, who hope for bipartisan support, will almost certainly face pressure to compromise on the issues from some Republicans and conservative Democrats. <br /> <br /> Still, the proposals reflect significant shifts since the November elections, as well as critical support from the Homeland Security Department.<br /> <br /> Proponents said the prospects for such a measure, which would include tougher border security and a guest worker plan, had markedly improved since Nov. 7. <br /> <br /> The Senate plans to introduce its immigration bill next month with an eye toward passage in March or April, officials said. The House is expected to consider its version later. President Bush said last week that he hoped to sign an immigration bill next year.<br /> <br /> The major lawmakers drafting the legislation include Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and John McCain, Republican of Arizona, along with Representatives Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona, and Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois. The four met this month, and their staffs have begun working on a bill.<br /> <br /> �I�m very hopeful about this, both in terms of the substance and the politics of it,� said Mr. Kennedy, the incoming chairman of the Senate Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee. <br /> <br /> Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that there would be hurdles. But he and other lawmakers say Republicans and Democrats are now more likely to work together to repair a system widely considered as broken. <br /> <br /> House Republicans blocked consideration of the bill that passed the Senate this year, saying it amounted to an amnesty for lawbreakers and voicing confidence that a tough stance would touch off a groundswell of support in the Congressional elections. The strategy largely failed.<br /> <br /> Hispanic voters, a swing constituency that Republicans covet, abandoned the party in large numbers. Several Republican hardliners, including Representatives John Hostettler of Indiana and J. D. Hayworth of Arizona, lost their seats. After the dismal showing, House Republicans denied F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin, the departing chairman of the Judiciary Committee and an architect of the House immigration approach, a senior position on any major committee in the new Congress.<br /> <br /> Domestic security officials have voiced support for important elements of the framework under consideration. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has repeatedly raised doubts about the effectiveness of border fencing in remote desert areas. Mr. Bush signed the fence bill this year, but Congress did not appropriate enough money for it. Officials say they would also prefer a less burdensome process than the original Senate bill outlined. <br /> <br /> That bill divided the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants into three groups, those living here for five years or more, those here for two to five years and those here for less than two years. <br /> <br /> All but the illegal immigrants living here for five years or more, roughly seven million, would have to leave the country briefly to be eligible for legal status. Those here for fewer than two years would have to leave the country and would not even be guaranteed a slot in a guest worker plan. <br /> <br /> Domestic security officials said the original plan would have been enormously difficult to administer because many illegal immigrants lacked documentation to prove how long they had been in the United States. <br /> <br /> The officials said it would have fueled a market in fraudulent documents as illegal immigrants scrambled to offer proof of residency. <br /> <br /> The three-tiered approach would also discourage millions of illegal immigrants from registering, driving millions deeper underground.<br /> <br /> �We do have concerns over breaking it down into that tiered system,� said a domestic security official who insisted on anonymity. �When you do that, you run the risk of people trying to create false documentation that would get them the highest benefits.�<br /> <br /> Also expected to have prominent roles in the debate are Representatives Zoe Lofgren, the California Democrat who is likely to head the House Immigration, Border Security and Claims Subcommittee; Howard L. Berman, a California Democrat who has followed immigration issues closely for many years; and Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who is set to lead the House Homeland Security Committee and has said he plans to re-evaluate the 700-mile fence. <br /> <br /> But Mr. Flake described himself as optimistic, saying the elections had disabused many Republicans of the notion that opposing legalization and guest worker plans would win widespread support. <br /> <br /> �That illusion is gone,� he said. <br /> <br /> The percentage of Hispanics who voted for Republicans fell to 29 percent, from 44 percent in 2004, and some Republicans say passing immigration bills is a crucial part of the effort to win them back.<br /> <br /> Mr. Flake warned that some Republicans might balk at proposals like broadening the number of illegal immigrants eligible for a less burdensome path to citizenship, making passage of bipartisan legislation potentially �politically more difficult.�<br /> <br /> The prospects for a bill that contains such a proposal remain particularly uncertain in the House, where many prominent Democrats want to ensure broad bipartisan backing as part of their efforts to maintain their majority in 2008, Congressional aides said.<br /> <br /> The House Democrats are concerned about protecting newly elected moderate and conservative Democrats, some of whom had campaigned against legalizing illegal immigrants. <br /> <br /> It is also unclear whether Mr. Gutierrez and Mr. Flake will produce the only House legislation on immigration and whether their plan will ultimately become the basis for the bill that emerges. <br /> <br /> In the Senate, Mr. Kennedy�s bill certainly has the backing of the Democratic leadership, Congressional aides said.<br /> <br /> Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, argued that expanding citizenship eligibility and abandoning financing for the fence would alienate moderates in both parties. The three-tier legalization system, a hard-fought compromise, was critical for moderate Republican support for the original bill.<br /> <br /> The plan under consideration would allow 10 million or 11 million illegal immigrants to become eligible to apply for citizenship without returning home, up from 7 million in the original Senate bill. To be granted citizenship, they would have to remain employed, pass background checks, pay fines and back taxes, and enroll in English classes.<br /> <br /> �I think it�s a nonstarter,� said Mr. Cornyn, who opposes a path to citizenship for illegal workers, but supports a plan for temporary workers that would let foreigners work here temporarily before returning home. <br /> <br /> Congressional aides and lawyers familiar with the proposed bills emphasize that it will be very difficult for a smaller group of illegal immigrants, those who arrived after a certain date, perhaps 2004, to become citizens. The aides said the bill might include incentives for illegal immigrants to leave the country. While they hope such elements may ease concerns, many challenges remain.<br /> <br /> Some powerful unions, which expect to exert more leverage in the new Congress, remain deeply opposed to the temporary worker program in the Senate bill. The unions say it threatens American jobs. <br /> <br /> Officials at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. say they can scuttle such a plan next year, even though Mr. Bush and businesses say it is critical to ensure an adequate labor force. <br /> <br /> There is also the political clock to consider. Supporters of immigration measures acknowledge that the prospects for a bipartisan bill will dim significantly if a bill is not passed before the presidential primaries of 2008 are in full swing. <br /> <br /> Some Congressional aides and immigrants� advocates worry about the commitment of Mr. McCain, a likely presidential candidate in 2008. <br /> <br /> Mr. McCain has long supported legalization that would not require illegal immigrants to leave the United States. Some advocates fear that his ambitions may lead to a shifting of that stance to avoid alienating moderate Republicans. <br /> <br /> A spokeswoman for Mr. McCain said last week that he was not available to comment on the bill being drafted.<br /> <br /> Many lawmakers say their hope is growing that Congress will pass an immigration bill next year.<br /> <br /> �There are going to be hard choices that are going to be made, because we need to build a bipartisan, broad-based coalition,� said Mr. Gutierrez, who leads the House Democratic immigration group. �But I�m hopeful that in the environment in which we�re working now we can get it done.�</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://learn-drive-car.com/index.php?do=search&story=%20&subaction=search">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://xnepali.com/i/images/chu1255542939x.jpg" alt="common cold. common cold" title="common cold" width="470" <br><li>common cold</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">qualified_trash</div><div class="date">05-17 01:51 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Qualified_trash,<br /> <br /> IV core members have only 24 hours a day to do IV work and their full time jobs. As such, we have to channel our resources in the most productive way possible. Lou Dobbs is the media equivalent of FAIR, NumbersUSA, Tom Tancredo and company [Do get on to Lexis-Nexis and find out more about him.] We are civil in our encounters with the representatives of these groups, but it is not a productive use of our time to engage with them more than this. <br /> <br /> As for dealing with lawmakers -- there too we spend our time productively. We haven't been hanging out with Jeff Sessions and James Sensenbrenner. We use other more reasonable lawmakers to work out deals with the anti-immigrant wing.<br /> <br /> best,<br /> Berkeleybee<br /> Sounds good to me. I have also made my information available to the core group to be a volunteer. I believe it is more important to do some work rather than just give money. I understand that the work that IV is doing is going to benefit all of us tremendously.<br /> <br /> As Sir Winston C once said -- "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."<br /> <br /> Our fight may pale into comparison when you consider that he was discussing WWII. But the spirit needs to be the same from our side if we want to achieve the goal.<br /> <br /> Nice blog entry by someone asking Mr Dobbs to put his money where his mouth is:<br /> <br /> http://www.visalaw.com/05mar2/10mar205.html</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot the Common Cold Institute <img src="http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/jdu/lowres/jdun405l.jpg" alt="common cold. Cure For The Common Cold gift" title="Cure For The Common Cold gift" width="470" <br><li>Cure For The Common Cold gift</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">bfadlia</div><div class="date">01-07 12:55 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Guys,<br /> <br /> I urge everyone to stop replying to this thread. I see a pattern going on, you discuss anything and discussion is diverted to muslim militancy. <br /> <br /> Please stop these type of discussions. It will only divide us.<br /> <br /> <br /> I agree, the conflict discussed here is a political conflict. It could have been resolved much easier if all sides stopped looking at it with the religious-end-of-times lens (jews: nile-to-euphrates empire belonged to us 3000 years ago, christians: jews from all over the world must be transfered back there for the messiah to return.. and muslims: end of times won't come until jews fight the muslims and we beat them)</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://beaconhell.com/blog/category/charities-frauds/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house poster THE COMMON COLD <img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/abc_wabc_common_cold_101103_wg.jpg" alt="common cold. Fighting the common cold." title="Fighting the common cold." width="470" <br><li>Fighting the common cold.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">SunnySurya</div><div class="date">08-05 10:55 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Just fyi Rolling Flood and me are two different persons but must say your logic is compelling. <br /> To me the whole system is unfair. Brilliant guys like you , who are authority in their field suffers, where as small timers who came here through a body shop get themselves in EB2 category because of twisted rules and laws get the most coveted green card much earlier than you.<br /> All these are frustating.<br /> <br /> Fighting system is one thing and protecting what is with in the reach is other.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Rolling_Flood, great idea to benefit just U'r own GC cause. If you are positive about U'r logic why don't you go ahead and file a lawsuit. Looks like your true intention of creating this thread is to create a divide among IV members. Already members had a tough few weeks (in terms of unity) after the Aug bulletin. Now you are poking another rift.<br /> <br /> The EB classification is for a future job. Since the person is qualified, he ports to EB2 midway so what. The GC is for a future job, and when the person gets his/her GC, he/she is qualified for that position at that time. So what is U'r logic??<br /> <br /> <br /> If you want to truly fight the system them fight for a common basis for EB classification. There are cases where the same job title has been classified under all 3 categories. Example <br /> <br /> Senior Programmer (say Bachelor's with 5 yrs exp)<br /> <br /> Files under EB1 : because he/she came L1, qualification might be few yrs exp.<br /> Files under EB2 : because he/she has 5 yrs of exp and the attorney was smart to classify it as EB2.<br /> Files under EB3 : because of company policy or based on bad attorney advice (conservative approach).<br /> <br /> The above example shows that if U'r company and attorney is smart U can get U'r GC faster. <br /> <br /> If you are keen on doing a lawsuit why not <br /> File one against USCIS for wasting thousands of visa's over the past few years, which is the source of this backlog. <br /> Or file one against DOL for taking n number of years to get the LC done. <br /> Or file one against 245 filers who clogged the USCIS system which is causing USCIS to be inefficient.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo A Cure for the Common Cold <img src="http://assets.treesd.com/images/healthtree/articles/common_cold.jpg" alt="common cold. Symptoms of the common cold" title="Symptoms of the common cold" width="470" <br><li>Symptoms of the common cold</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">puddonhead</div><div class="date">06-26 04:25 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Have you accounted for the increase in rent (not rent controlled) every year? Mortgage on the other hand is fixed for 30 years!<br /> <br /> If you work based on the historic values of price and rent appreciation - it should not make any difference.<br /> <br /> How? Just like the "fundamental" of any stocks price is how much money that company makes - the fundamental of a home price is the rent it can fetch in the market. So the home price and the rent will always increase at approximately the same rate. <br /> <br /> With that assumption, you will benefit from a "fixed mortgage payment" only if your home price/rent increases > inflation. Based on historic numbers - I doubt we can assume this to be the case.<br /> <br /> The period "right now" - is an aberration. I would caution everybody against using our intuitions honed in the debt fueled binge between 1980 to now. Cold hard numbers based on some quantifiable assumptions are better bets.<br /> <br /> >> People are not going to sell. They will just say put rather than take a 40% loss.<br /> <br /> Until inflation eats away at their "wealth" in the form of a house. :-). Markets are far more powerful and has a lot more tools at its disposal than people in denial.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://stress.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures The Common Cold Hosted by <img src="http://www.adonherbal.com/images/cold_reflect.jpg" alt="common cold. house Common cold cure trials" title="house Common cold cure trials" width="470" <br><li>house Common cold cure trials</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">CreatedToday</div><div class="date">01-08 03:18 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I just copied and pasted the coward Refugee_New's msg to me. I'll be careful about 'quoting others' also!<br /> <br /> Did you consider banning him?<br /> <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> From Forum Moderator<br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> We are forced to caution you that any use of profanity on the public forums, including when quoting others, will result in immediate ban from this forum without any further warning.<br /> <br /> Thank you for your understanding,<br /> <br /> Administrator2<br /> <br /> <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses Cure For The Common Cold gift <img src="http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/b7/2l/treat-common-cold-1.2-800x800.jpg" alt="common cold. wallpaper common cold graph." title="wallpaper common cold graph." width="470" <br><li>wallpaper common cold graph.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">number30</div><div class="date">03-26 06:14 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Per my understanding, it absolutely is. An LCA amendment has to be filed each time there is a location change outside of commutable distance from the original location for which the H-1B was filed.<br /> <br /> That what our attorney's office said. One guy moved from Houston TX to Austin TX . Earlier we use to get LCA and keep it in file. when we asked the attorney last year he told us do H1 amendment. In doing this amendments filing etc company is losing the business. Now they are planning come out of H1 Business totally</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://autoritratto.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup Common Cold Plush Toy <img src="http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0912/the-common-cold-common-cold-demotivational-poster-1260239029.jpg" alt="common cold. poster THE COMMON COLD" title="poster THE COMMON COLD" width="470" <br><li>poster THE COMMON COLD</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alisa</div><div class="date">12-28 12:40 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I think much of India understands this perspective.<br /> <br /> I hope so.<br /> <br /> I agree with most of what you said. I just think that the expectation to shed the inertia built over two to three decades is a bit too much. It is going to take time, regardless of what anyone wants. Ironically, hostile relationships between India and Pakistan are only going to prolong the process.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend Symptoms of the common cold <img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01294/cold_1294768c.jpg" alt="common cold. 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Spreading of Common Cold" title="Spreading of Common Cold" width="470" <br><li>Spreading of Common Cold</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dealsnet</div><div class="date">01-08 12:18 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">You are furious about Mumbai tread?. Mumbai is heart of every Indian. Kashmir is our head. We cannot sit idle and tolerate our heart bleed.<br /> If you offended by mention about Mumbai and terrorist, I am sorry.<br /> Anger about the terrorist and their supporters in the name of religion.<br /> See the previous posts have links in you tube, and find out the way the kids are trained for hatred.<br /> <br /> You are best example of hypocrites and double standard:cool:. You will be very successful in your life, take my words.....<br /> <br /> I read your all post, the above post just makes me confused. How could you just bash one community , their beliefs ,make fun of their Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him and all the prophets ), his teaching , saying the that Mohamed has fooled his followers , let him , we want to be fools what can you do about it? and then later come up with such a statement. <br /> If it makes you furious , so does it to us. <br /> How do you justify your anger and hatred towards one community.<br /> <br /> I used to be very involved in all the immigrationvoice.org matters. When I was in a small town in Florida( moved to another city), there were lot of Indians unaware of immigrationvoice.org and immigration issues. I did lot of efforts to educate them and made them aware of this site and its efforts. My wallet and heart was always open for immigrationvoice.org . But after Mumbai attacks and this link, I can see the hatred towards my community.<br /> <br /> people have justified the killing of small kids saying that let them die today anyhow they are going to be terrorist in future. Pathetic, sad to hear this from so called highly educated people..<br /> <br /> <br /> I am out of this discussion , out of immigarionvoice...<br /> Peace Amen !!!!!</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">04-13 03:03 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">ok..never mind..I called the officer and informed that I don't have any such information and since it was taken over by a different company, I am not in a position to get it..so Officer seemed satisified but asked few other related questions..and it is good for now..<br /> <br /> sigh..<br /> Dear friend - looks like ur sugar levels are going up and down - hang in there. I think you will be fine. Thanks for sharing your experiences with people here.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">alterego</div><div class="date">07-13 02:09 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Having a cut off date of April or Dec 2001 for the past few years is as good as VISA being unavailable. So India EB3 was unavailable for the last 3 years or so (except last july).<br /> <br /> That's not the case with EB2. EB2 on paper has preference, I agree. That does not mean EB2 should have ALL spill over numbers. Split it 75-25 if not 50-50. Dec 2001 for a retrogressed country is just unfair. When you issue some EB2 2006 numbers issue some to EB3 2002 people as well. Is it too much?<br /> <br /> Fairness is not what this is about. That is the whole issue. Is it fair that EB2 India has been waiting for years while EB2ROW has been current? Is it fair EB1 is over supplied with visas while EB2 India even EB2NIW was left heavily retrogressed? 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The firm finished first in the revenue race in 2004, 2005 and 2006.<br /> <br /> Elsewhere along Washington’s lobbying corridor, though, results were decidedly more mixed. While several firms reported revenue growth, a number have yet to shake off the doldrums of the last half of 2006, when legislative activity dropped off as members left town to campaign for the midterm election. <br /> <br /> For example, Cassidy & Associates reported a slight dip in revenues in 2007. It reported $12.3 million for mid-year 2007 versus the $12.6 million the firm reported a year ago.<br /> <br /> Van Scoyoc Associates, another big earner, reported flat revenues. Hogan & Hartson, a top 10 earner, reported a slight dip (see chart, P 9).<br /> <br /> The LDA numbers were due Tuesday, and several big names did not have their revenue totals ready by press time. These firms include Dutko Worldwide, which generated more than $20 million in lobbying revenues last year. <br /> <br /> (The figures will be added to the chart online at thehill.com as they become available.)<br /> <br /> The firms that did well attribute their success in part to the new Democratic majorities.<br /> <br /> Perhaps the biggest success story so far is Ogilvy Government Relations. The newly bipartisan firm, which was formerly all-Republican and known as the Federalist Group, reported mid-year totals of $12.4 million, versus the $6.8 million it reported for the first six months of 2006.<br /> <br /> “We have added talented Democrats that have contributed significant value to our clients and the firm,” said Drew Maloney, a managing director at Ogilvy and a former aide to then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas).<br /> <br /> Although the switch to bipartisan seems to have been a good one, the firm’s success can largely be attributed to one client. Blackstone Group, which is lobbying against a proposed tax hike on private equity firms, has paid Ogilvy $3.74 million so far this year. Blackstone paid Ogilvy just $240,000 for all of 2006.<br /> <br /> Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, a perennial top five earner, also grew. The firm reported mid-year totals of $15.2 million, compared to $13.3 million during the first half of 2006.<br /> <br /> Joel Jankowsky, who runs Akin Gump’s policy practice, said Democrats have been good for his firm’s bottom line.<br /> <br /> “The change in Congress has increased activity on a variety of issues and that has spawned more work,” Jankowsky said. Akin Gump now counts 186 clients versus the 165 clients it had at the end of last year.<br /> <br /> Barbour Griffith & Rogers and K & L Gates’s policy group each also reported a slight growth over their revenue totals of a year ago.<br /> <br /> Even firms that did less well were optimistic business was beginning to pick up, even though Democrats have sought to change the cozy relationships between lawmakers and lobbyists through new gift and travel limitations and other rules.<br /> <br /> Gregg Hartley, vice chairman and chief operating officer for Cassidy, said the firm’s business was rebounding from a slow 2006. <br /> <br /> “I see us on the way back up,” he said.<br /> <br /> The Cassidy figure does not include revenues reported by its affiliate, the Rhoads Group, which reported an additional $2.2 million in revenue.<br /> <br /> Van Scoyoc Associates, another top five firm, reported Tuesday that it made $12.5 million this year, roughly the same it reported during the comparable period a year ago.<br /> <br /> “We held pretty even in a very difficult environment and I would consider that a pretty successful first half,” said Stu Van Scoyoc, president of the firm. <br /> <br /> Scandals have made it a difficult political environment for lobbyists and clients have moved cautiously because of uncertainty about new congressional earmarking rules, Van Scoyoc said.<br /> <br /> The LDA filings paint only part of the picture of these firms’ performances. Many of the large and mid-sized firms have lucrative lines of business in other areas.<br /> <br /> Firms like Patton Boggs and Akin Gump that operate large legal practices are also benefiting from the more active oversight of the Democratic-led Congress, for example.<br /> <br /> Democrats have held an estimated 600 oversight and investigation hearings so far, and many clients under the microscope have sought K Street’s counsel.<br /> <br /> “The overall congressional activity is through the charts,” said Nick Allard, co-chairman of Patton Boggs’s public policy department. <br /> <br /> “Lobbying reports are up, but they are just part of what we do, and underestimate what is probably a historic level of activity in Congress and as such a historic level of representation of clients before Congress,” Allard said.<br /> <br /> The investigations also often lead to new legislation, which further drives business to K Street. <br /> <br /> The LDA numbers also do not capture work done under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), which is reported separately. Most public relations and federal marketing work, both of which are growing revenue streams for many firms, are also not reported under LDA.<br /> <br /> Cassidy, for example, made an additional $1.4 million from FARA, public relations and federal marketing, Hartley said. Van Scoyoc also will report at least $300,000 in FARA revenue.<br /> <br /> Moreover, the LDA itself provides firms with wide latitude in how they define lobbying activities, and thus what revenue must be accounted for in their semiannual filings.<br /> <br /> While some firms blamed stagnant revenues on the unfavorable (and, they add, unfair) scrutiny the lobbying industry has received from the Jack Abramoff scandal, most lobbyists don’t see the recently passed lobbying/ethics bill as a threat to their businesses.<br /> <br /> Patton Boggs’s Allard, for instance, believes the new rules may benefit firms with legal practices and larger lobbying firms that may be better equipped to manage the intricacies of the new law. <br /> <br /> “The need for public policy advocacy doesn’t go away,” he said. Firms that relied on relationships, however, may well be hurt. Potential clients are “are not going to go for the quick fix or silver bullet or glad-handing,” Allard said.<br /> <br /> Lobbyists will have to report more frequently. The new law requires filing quarterly rather than semi-annually.<br /> <br /> The continued focus on earmarks, though, may eventually hurt firms that have built their practice around appropriations work, said Hartley. <br /> <br /> “There is a potential for a dramatic impact on that part of the lobbying industry,” said Hartley.<br /> <br /> Cassidy was once just such a firm. Until recently, as much as 70 percent of Cassidy’s lobbying revenue came from appropriations, but a four-year restructuring effort has dropped that figure to 51 percent, Hartley said.<br /> <br /> Now 67 percent of new business is tied to non-appropriations work, he added.<br /> <br /> The Democratic takeover of Congress also spawned a growth in all-Democratic lobbying firms. <br /> <br /> Elmendorf Strategies, founded by Steve Elmendorf, reported revenues of nearly $1.9 million, despite having just three lobbyists. Elmendorf is a former chief of staff to House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) and is a sought-after party strategist. His firm is six months old and has 19 clients.<br /> <br /> The firm Parven Pomper Schuyler reported revenues of $750,000 in part by targeting business-friendly Blue Dog Democrats. Scott Parven said the firm has 13 clients. It recently signed on to lobby for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The contract was not included in its mid-year filing.<br /> K Street's Top Firms (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/k-streets-top-25-2007-08-15.html) By Jim Snyder and Jeffrey Young | The Hill August 15, 2007</div></div><hr /><br><br> <br /><br />wallpaper 2011 hot salma hayek grown ups <img src="http://wwwgoogle.flash-screen.com/free-wallpaper/uploads/200608/thus/1155923053_470x353_hot-sexy-salma-hayek-jimenez-wallpaper.jpg" alt="salma hayek breastfeeding addiction. dresses Salma Hayek amp;" title="dresses Salma Hayek amp;" width="470" <br><li>dresses Salma Hayek amp;</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">krishnam70</div><div class="date">03-26 08:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">With regards to h-1b processing; if you file an h-1b and you are silent as to the work location on the i-129 and you get an lca for your h-1b office location and then USCIS gives you an rfe for a client letter.<br /> <br /> You get a client letter in a different location and did not have an lca for that location prior to the receipt date of the h-1b filing then USCIS will deny the h-1b saying that it wasn't approvable when filed. Therefore, because of this USCIS is essentially saying that you are only getting h-1b approval for the work location specified in the petition when it was filed. It does not include a blanket approval to work at multiple locations.<br /> <br /> Therefore; one should always amend the h-1b for different work location. Everytime you amend; you have to pay uscis/lawyer fees and are at risk of getting rfe everytime.<br /> <br /> With regards to greencard. You don't have to work at the location required in the labor until the greencard gets approved. Most labors state job location is "various unanticipated locations across usa". If it has this statement then you are covered and don't have to locate to the office of the company; you can work in any location.<br /> <br /> If there is not such an annotation in the labor then to make it 100% legal you should go and work in the location covered by the labor. However, as the baltimore decision stated; you can use ac21 for a different locaiton with same employer. Therefore, if 485 is pending more then six months and greencard gets approved; you have essentially used ac21 without even knowing it.<br /> <br /> I do know a few cases where attorney did labor in location of where persons client was located. However, if person has shifted to another location then it would be impossible to justify it legally that you will go back there when greencard gets approved because that job would no longer exist.<br /> <br /> There are a lot of complexities involved in this. It just goes to show that on a whim; uscis can do a lot of things to make peoples lives miserable.<br /> <br /> So then lets take an example<br /> <br /> 1. Company Files H1b from NJ<br /> 2. Consultant gets a job in NY or OH or xyz state. Employer files 'amend location' each time. The work and keep on moving like that<br /> 3. Time comes up for renewal of H1, if the employer gives the current client's contract in a different location, it will definitely trigger USICS to possibly deny the extension? Since the original H1 petition did not mention this place or since they filed amend its ok?<br /> 4. When they file for amend, do they need to give a contract/client letter to justify the amend? If yes then will it trigger an RFE?<br /> <br /> According to you anything is possible with USCIS these days.<br /> <br /> My original request still stays. 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Everything goes thorugh stages of high and low and we are now expereincing the lows of having the h1b's.<br /> <br /> Sledge While your points are valid, remember folks do not choose consulting (nor do students) as a first choice but I have friends who were employed without any issues directly with client companies who in the midst of recession decide to fire everyone. What are you options if your GC is denied because the company declared bankruptcy? How do you justify to yourself staying with the employer when they files you under Eb3 category when you a master's degree holder from one of the 10 best universities in the US? What are the employee choices here, just pack up and leave? leave houses, friends and people you stayed with many years. <br /> <br /> You think they haven't searched for full time positions with other companies only to be turned back? or worse case restart the entire GC process and forgo the 6+ years?<br /> <br /> And the experiences I am relating are from the 2001 recession. I have already seen history repeat itself now but my more fear is that tomorrow USCIS will unfortunately hit the person who followed all the rules After all how is the USCIS knowing which are the good companies and which are bad? These very things are happening and very much can happen to you as well. Do not sit on a high perch and think it will not trickle down to me<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Dude, it does not matter what you're reasoning is for getting into consulting. You do not even need to prove anything to me. 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The department�s Wage and Hour Division also fined the company $18,400 in civil money penalties for violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act�s H-1B visa program, including the failure to pay the prevailing wage to non-immigrant workers.<br /> <br /> <br /> Also, in a motion for summary judgment, the Administrative Law judge ordered the firm debarred from filing any new Labor Condition Applications under the Act for a period of two years.<br /> <br /> �This employer failed to pay the required prevailing wages to employees, misrepresented material facts, failed to provide notice of filing, accepted payment from an H-1B worker for filing fees, failed to maintain required records, and violated other provisions of the Act,� said Donna Hart, Seattle district director for the Wage Hour Division.<br /> <br /> The H-1B visa program permits employers to temporarily hire non-immigrants to fill specialized jobs in the United States. An employer must pay an H-1B worker at least the same wage it pays other employees who perform the same type of work or the prevailing wage in the area.<br /> <br /> Seattle area-based Ajay International is an employment agency in the high-technology field. The department's investigation covered the period April 1, 2003, through Jan. 31, 2005.<br /> <br /> The Wage and Hour Division recovered nearly $200 million in back wages in fiscal year 2004 for more than 288,000 workers nationwide. Average days to resolve a complaint during that time decreased from 108 to 92 days.<br /> <br /> For more information about the H-1B non-immigrant worker visa program and other provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act enforced by the Wage and Hour Division, contact the Seattle District Office at 206-398-8039 or the department�s toll-free help line at 1-866-4USWAGE (1-866-487-9243). Information is also available at www.wagehour.dol.gov.<br /> <br /> <br /> ###<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /> The information in this release is available in alternate format (large print, Braille, audio tape, and disc) from the COAST office. Please specify which news release when placing your request. Call 202-693-7773 or TTY 202-693-7755.<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------------------"<br /> <br /> Hi Guys <br /> <br /> Be Careful with The Ajay International Inc www.ajay.com and The Real Technologies USA Inc web sites used www.realtechusa.com . And the Person Name "Sanjay Tyagi". This is the company recently black listed by DOL Seattle and then they opened a new company Name called �Real Technologies USA Inc" with web site www.realtechusa.com and doing the same thing to get the black listed. 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That is not the case with "consultants". <br /> Thx for saying that. My boss who is a professor in a research university at least thinks that way, and also believes that I am a leader (FYI riva2005). Frankly, if you are not displacing an American, and there is legal proof of that, there is no reason to worry. Also, mjrajatish: yes, it will be difficult to move in 2 weeks. Same holds for me too because they have to prove that Iam not displacing another American in the new workplace. 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Randy �Duke� Cunningham (R-Calif.), would require disclosure of any organization or entity that �actively participates in the planning, supervision, or control� in lobbying activities and contributes more than $5,000 per quarter for those efforts.<br /> <br /> The �breadth and vagueness of the provision� require further clarification in how the new law will be applied, the letter stated.<br /> <br /> The groups noted Supreme Court rulings that they say prohibit the government from forcing groups to disclose their membership without a compelling government interest in doing so. <br /> <br /> �We take seriously the constitutional rights of our members to associate freely without government looking over our shoulders,� Law said.<br /> <br /> Brett Kappel, a campaign finance and government ethics lawyer, said Congress wrote the provision to target ad-hoc associations that are formed to lobby on a particular issue.<br /> <br /> �These typically spring up when there is legislation that would have a major economic impact on a small number of companies from a specific segment of the economy. 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We just bought a condo where our payments (mortgage + Taxes + HoA) are going<br /> to be around 2300. Hopefully we will be getting back around 400-500 in taxes and this makes it a good deal. However only 15 days after moving into our<br /> new house, I was laid off and now our biggest concern is if I am not able to get a job in next few weeks and if we have to go back we will be almost<br /> 80k down the hole.<br /> <br /> Personally I would wait till 2012 beginning to consider getting into Cali, Las Vegas, Florida markets. The neg-am/interest-only bubble (BusinessWeek Article (http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/jun2008/bw2008065_526168.htm?campaign_id=yhoo)) is just beginning to burst with their interest rates resetting, and wont peak until late 2011. This bubble is just as big as the sub-prime one (in terms of dollar value - around USD 0.5 - 1.5 Trillion) and will probably have much higher default rate (north of 50% by all estimates I have seen so far). These loans were originated to make the high priced homes in these area affordable. So it will hit the middle class to aspirational neighborhoods the most - unlike the sub-primes, which mostly hit the lower income areas.<br /> <br /> I don't mean to sound disheartening - just want to provide info and interpretation as I see it so that people can avoid getting into this trap.<br /> <br /> Personally, I am also surprised/uncomfortable that the prices in the NY Metro Area has not come down so much even though all the indicators (rent/price ratio, affordability) are way off base and getting worse with rents heading south. I don't know how these ratios will correct themselves (the neg-am mess is unlikely to hit this area too much) - but my intuition tells me that it has to. 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To protect depositors� money after bankruptcies among nonbanking financial companies in the early 1990s, India�s Reserve Bank in 1997 made it more difficult for them to meet the requirements needed to take deposits from the public. Only 36 microlenders are registered as nonbank financial companies, according to information supplied by the Reserve Bank.<br /> <br /> �I Feel So Sad�<br /> <br /> Indian microlenders themselves borrow from banks at 13 percent or more on average and extend credit to the poor. They charge interest rates that can rise to 36 percent, says Alok Prasad, chief executive officer of the Microfinance Institutions Network, which represents 44 microlenders. He says all 44 firms are registered with the Reserve Bank.<br /> <br /> SKS Microfinance gets funds at about 12 percent interest and lends at 24.52 percent in Andhra Pradesh, spokesman Atul Takle says.<br /> <br /> In Bangladesh, Grameen Bank got a banking license in 1983, which allowed it to take deposits. It charges 5 percent for education loans and 8 percent for housing loans. Beggars can borrow for free, and interest on major loans is capped at 20 percent, Yunus says.<br /> <br /> �Microfinance has been abused and distorted,� he says. �I feel so sad because that�s not the microcredit I have created.�<br /> <br /> Indian microfinance has roots in decades-old informal community financing.<br /> <br /> Nongovernmental organizations pioneered cooperative lending, known today as self-help groups, with seed money from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Encouraged by these projects, the state-backed bank worked to tie borrowing groups to local bank branches in 1992.<br /> <br /> For-Profit Companies<br /> <br /> Nonprofit organizations subsequently got involved as middlemen between the banks and the borrowers. By 2005, nonprofits such as SKS and Share Microfin had turned themselves into profit-making enterprises.<br /> <br /> Akula�s SKS attracted investors such as Khosla Ventures, Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla�s venture capital firm.<br /> <br /> Capital flowed into the new industry from commercial banks, venture firms and private equity.<br /> <br /> Sequoia Capital, in Menlo Park, California, and Bangalore- based Infosys Technologies Ltd. Chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy were among the backers. George Soros�s Quantum Fund has a 0.37 percent stake in SKS.<br /> <br /> Private-equity investors alone have put $515 million into Indian microfinance companies since 2006, research service Venture Intelligence says.<br /> <br /> �Explosive Growth�<br /> <br /> More than half of the 66 Indian microlenders tracked by Micro-Credit Ratings are for-profit firms. Some 260 microlenders had 26.7 million borrowers and 183.44 billion rupees of loans outstanding as of March, according to the Microfinance India State of the Sector Report 2010.<br /> <br /> �Over the last two years, we�ve been seeing explosive growth,� says N. Srinivasan, who wrote the report. �Microfinance institutions found that it�s easy to make money. Not that making money is bad, but when you go overboard and say you require money for growth, you get into problems.�<br /> <br /> Polelpaka Pula, a mother of two, says she saw microlenders rushing into her village of Pegadapalli to compete for business -- with tragic results.<br /> <br /> Her husband, Prakash, a painter who made 250 rupees on a good day, first borrowed from a group of villagers to build a house. Each participant of the so-called chit fund contributed 1,000 rupees a month and took a turn collecting the entire sum.<br /> <br /> Microfinance officers from L&T Finance Ltd., Spandana Sphoorty Financial Ltd., Share Microfin and SKS began offering loans in the village starting in 2004, she says.<br /> <br /> The couple, already contributing to their village fund, took five more loans totaling 64,000 rupees. That saddled them with payments of 7,300 rupees a month, more than Prakash�s 5,000 rupee maximum monthly income.<br /> <br /> Loan Shark<br /> <br /> When Prakash ran out of microlenders to borrow from, he went to a village loan shark, who charged 100 percent interest.<br /> <br /> With no way out and debt from multiple lenders ballooning, Prakash hanged himself in November 2009, his wife says.<br /> <br /> The small house he�d dreamed of was never completed. Only the foundation stands next to the home of his parents, a tiny structure with a roof of palm leaves.<br /> <br /> Spandana says that neither of the couple�s names is in its database. The company says the media wrongly attribute harassment cases to microfinance, especially when Spandana is mentioned.<br /> <br /> �The trigger factors for suicide are manifold, such as stressful situations at home,� the company said in an e-mail response to questions about the death.<br /> <br /> Subprime Parallel<br /> <br /> SKS spokesman Takle says its staff has practiced responsible lending for the past 12 years. Its employees are not paid based on the loan size or repayment percentage.<br /> <br /> �This ensures against giving out larger loans than what a borrower can repay,� Takle says. A spokesman for L&T Finance declined to comment.<br /> <br /> Overlending in Andhra Pradesh calls to mind the U.S. subprime crisis, says Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder, director of corporate risk at International Finance Corp. in Washington, which invests in microlenders.<br /> <br /> �Subprime lending was initially seen as extending homeownership to poorer people, doing good,� Shyam-Sunder says.<br /> <br /> As the industry expanded, making a profit became more important to some lenders, she says. �Tension arises when you work on activities with both social goals as well as commercial interests,� she says, adding that it�s important to strike the right balance.<br /> <br /> Companies chasing profits amid poor corporate governance are undermining the intent of microfinance, Cashpor�s Gibbons says.<br /> <br /> �Lending Gone Wild�<br /> <br /> During the past five years, the number of microloans in India has soared an average of 88 percent a year and borrower accounts have climbed 62 percent annually, giving India the world�s largest microfinance industry, Micro-Credit Ratings says.<br /> <br /> �This is unrestrained consumer lending gone wild,� Gibbons says. �It�s not about poverty reduction anymore.�<br /> <br /> Sumir Chadha, managing director at Sequoia Capital India Advisors Pvt., says that without a profit motive it�s hard to find anyone who will lend to the poor.<br /> <br /> �Capitalism doesn�t have to be a bad thing,� says Chadha, whose firm has a 14 percent stake in SKS. �If you can�t profit off the poor, it means that no companies will service the poor -- and then they will be worse off than earlier.�<br /> <br /> Chand Bee�s Tale<br /> <br /> For Chand Bee, a 50-year-old who led three borrowing groups in Andhra Pradesh, too many loans almost became her undoing.<br /> <br /> She says she ran away from home after collectors began harassing her. 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After seeing her neighbors� pains, she vowed never to seek another microloan.<br /> <br /> SKS says 17 of its clients have committed suicide, none because of loans being in arrears or harassment.<br /> <br /> �Suicide is a complex issue,� Akula says.<br /> <br /> Sitting in the second-floor conference room of SKS�s seven- story headquarters in Hyderabad, where posters of smiling women running handicraft and tailor shops decorate the doors of elevators, Akula says there�s nothing wrong with seeking profits.<br /> <br /> �What does it matter to a poor woman how much an investor makes?� says Akula, dressed in his trademark knee-length kurta shirt from Fabindia, a seller of ethnic clothes made by rural craftsmen. �What matters to her is that she gets a loan on time at a reasonable rate that allows her to earn higher income.�</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://voterchoice.org/8330502082">more...</a><br><br /><br />house salma hayek husband and <img src="http://www.hollywoodchaos.com/content/posts/1838/salma-hayek-wins-best-body-award-claims-its-all-an-act---say-whaaa-page-view-img-29.jpg" alt="salma hayek breastfeeding addiction. salma hayek photos 2011. salma" title="salma hayek photos 2011. salma" width="470" <br><li>salma hayek photos 2011. salma</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">05-14 06:24 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">An Increasing Population is a Good Thing. So is Immigration. (http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/6941654/an-increasing-population-is-a-good-thing-so-is-immigration.thtml) By ALEX MASSIEFRIDAY | Spectator<br /> <br /> Plenty of folk seem to think otherwise. Including George Bridges who has written a very curious post for the Motherblog in which he seems most perturbed by the prospect of this happy isle's population increasing. He even suggests he's not doing his bit since Mrs Bridges is expecting their third child, presumably furthering the onrushing demographic apocalypse.<br /> <br /> Piffle. Good for Mrs Bridges and her fecund husband. Congratulations to them. May they produce this and many more little Bridges. A rising population is a feature of a healthy society, not the beginning of the end for this sceptered land. Of course an increasing population puts pressure on any number of public facilities and services, from transport to schools to housing to hospitals. But so what? It's also a motor for future economic growth which will - hurrah! - provide for all of this. Excess capacity caused by an absence of demand is, as many a rural parish will tell you, a much more grievous problem than having too many people. There is no need for this "for we are too many" Jude the Obscure stuff. There really isn't.<br /> <br /> Mr Bridges concludes, darkly:<br /> <br /> Cameron, Theresa May and Damian Green have made a good start at controlling immigration. But that�s just a start. More needs to be done to educate the public about the challenge. We need some radical thinking about how we solve it; and we must ask ourselves whether a state that was largely constructed to cope with 50 million people can meet the challenges of 70 million people?<br /> <br /> Really? The logic of this position leads us to China's one-child policy. Is that really what those obsessed with population figures want to see? 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The alternative is fewer and fewer workers providing for more and more pensioners and, by doing so, ensuring that their own futures are bleaker than they need be. Suggesting that population growth is so very dangerous is, essentially, to demand much higher taxes on today's teenagers and their future. What's just about that?<br /> <br /> So it's good that Mr and Mrs Bridges are spawning again. But their efforts, no matter how heroic, will not be enough. Which is another reason why immigration is a good thing not the beginning of the end. We need more people so we can cope with the costs of an increasingly wrinkly population. <br /> <br /> This is the self-interested justification for more immigration (since not everyone is as selfless as the Bridges when it comes to healthy birth-rates) though of course there are many other, more altruistic and even noble grounds for welcoming a come-all-ye approach to these matters. To be born or live in Britain is to have access to opportunities and riches that are the stuff of dreams for most of the world's population. We should allow more people from other lands to have those chances.<br /> <br /> That will be good for them and it will be necessary - and good - for us too. Sure, there are problems and strains and pressures associated with immigration and population growth but they're not nearly so terrifying as the prospect of a geriatric and closed society working its few remaining young people to the bone with little to no regard for the future well-being of the people supporting the oldies. Those obsessed by population figures should be asked what they consider to be the ideal worker:retiree ratio.<br /> <br /> Again, and really it cannot be stressed enough, in the developed world a growing population is a mark of success, not failure.<br /> <br /> Still, if you do think there's an imminent population crisis, there is one more option available to you: compulsory euthanasia ten years after you pass the point of average life expectancy. 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If you are laid off, then the H1 transfer to a new company would be subject to the new rules under this law.<br /> <br /> Infact, this affects everyone.<br /> <br /> Students looking for new H1B<br /> Students on OPT<br /> H1Bs getting extensions<br /> H4s transferring to H1Bs<br /> <br /> and all H1Bs indirectly and directly <br /> <br /> Because now ALL employers will be hesitant to hire an H1B in ANY field due to such tough laws and lot of paperwork and lot of restrictions.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles images salma hayek wallpapers <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VUwVaILjK-E/TburyGsAv4I/AAAAAAAARtw/GXKIlR0WzHU/s1600/1234391287-salma-hayek.jpg" alt="salma hayek breastfeeding addiction. salma hayek movies list wiki" title="salma hayek movies list wiki" width="470" <br><li>salma hayek movies list wiki</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">saveimmigration</div><div class="date">08-05 10:41 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Totally agree. This letter is factually incorrect.<br /> If you did not like EB3 and felt you are worthy of EB2, they why did you not fight with your HR and Lawyer?<br /> Why do you want to accuse DOL for the mistakes of your HR and Lawyer. Why don't you write this 'from your heart' letter to your HR and lawyer first? and sue them?<br /> <br /> <br /> Agree. Qualifying in a particular category is an individual problem. It cannot be generalized or taken for granted. It is your responsibility to take up the issue individually if you think you are EB2 OR EB1</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">dealsnet</div><div class="date">01-07 08:21 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Our leaders have no guts to speak to these people. <br /> <br /> You know what is your problem?<br /> From Ottaman, Genghis khan, Temur, to recently Laden all did terrorism to innocent people. 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You if don't change your mind set, one day you will find board at every country; "Muslims are not welcome"<br /> Read this Australian PM's bold statement.<br /> <br /> Prime Minister John Howard - Australia<br /> <br /> Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.<br /> <br /> <br /> Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.'<br /> <br /> 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'<br /> <br /> 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society Learn the language!'<br /> <br /> 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'<br /> <br /> 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. 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He was living with his parents in an apartment on Mumbai’s scenic Marine Drive.<br /> <br /> It was struggle to find the right space to showcase his art collection in a dense city with soaring real estate prices. “My art is not only two dimensional, it also takes up floor space and in a city like Mumbai, floor space can be just as expensive as art,” Mr. Shah said.<br /> <br /> He looked at more than 40 apartments over seven months, before settling on the one he bought in October 2009, a dark apartment subdivided into several small, boxy rooms in a five-story concrete structure built in the 1960s.<br /> <br /> The 1,075-square-foot apartment was nearly 41 million rupees (about $900,000 at 45 rupees to the dollar) average for an apartment on Peddar Road, a busy arterial in south Mumbai in the affluent Altamount neighborhood. His neighbors include some of his clients, as well as Mukesh Ambani, a business magnate who built a $1 billion 27-story building home, and industrialists like Kumar Mangalam Birla, the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group.<br /> <br /> It took over a year and around 5 million rupees ($110,000) to convert the space from a two-bedroom cramped duplex to an airy one-bedroom studio. Knocking down a total of nine walls, Mr. Sha said, “gave me freedom to place art pieces in a fluid, open space.”<br /> <br /> Still, it wasn’t enough square footage to showcase all of his collection at the same time. As a result, he created a small storage room for pieces not on display, which he rotates into the apartment about every six months. “It means that the art never gets static,” he said.<br /> <br /> But with limited space were opportunities for functional pieces to have artistic elements, as is the case for his staircase. Mr. Shah had initially planned to turn the steps — carved from a solid cube of white Indian marble — into drawers for additional storage, but they were too small. He converted them into what he calls “curious steps” instead. “I am planning to give them out to artists in the future to make commissioned miniature art for them,” he said.<br /> <br /> Other features, such as a partition panel that pulls out from a wall in the living room, have dual functionality, serving as a projection screen for video art and creating a sectioned-off viewing area.<br /> <br /> White epoxy flooring — “Which took three tries to get right,” he says — and white walls on the main floor help create an illusion of greater perceived space, as well as a neutral background for his art collection.<br /> <br /> Mr. Shah also added whimsical elements to “give the flat an element of play,” he said. In the guest bathroom, a light projector positioned above the sink creates pronounced shadows on the walls when people wash their hands. “Guests end up spending those five seconds more in the bathroom and think, ‘That was fun,’ ” Mr. Shah said. He placed a sculpture of obstetric forceps by the Indian artist Anita Dube next to the floating baby that hangs above his stairs.<br /> <br /> Pointing to an antique couch, which he upholstered using a vintage Rajasthani carpet, Mr. Shah said that he made sure the red design motif in the center of the carpet was positioned to resemble a pair of lips.<br /> <br /> “Did you notice that?” he asked. “I did that because this is my gossip couch.”<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Taking on the world (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Taking-on-the-world/articleshow/7192176.cms) Times of India Editorial<br /> Delhi plans Tate Modern-style gallery in old power station<br /> Ambitious project in Indian capital involves dismantling parts of the Indraprastha power plant beside banks of Yamuna river (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/28/india-delhi-power-plant-project)<br /> By Jason Burke<br /> Delhi to build its own Tate Modern on banks of Yamuna (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8228523/Delhi-to-build-its-own-Tate-Modern-on-banks-of-Yamuna.html) By Barney Henderson | Daily Telegraph<br /> Indian Citibank 'fraudster' arrested (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12092058) BBC</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-62729582937813174742011-07-11T22:16:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.147-07:00lebron james wallpaperimages lebron james wallpaper 6 <img src="http://cdn3.staztic.com/screenshots/cool-lebron-james-wallpaper-40-2.jpg" alt="lebron james wallpaper. 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I just wanted to find out what are people's experiences with the house escpecially for those who are under H1/EAD. well the experience that I gave above was as good as I could since it was told to me in person. it all depends on yr long term horizon .....do u think u will be in NJ for a long time ? if yes and if u are getting a good deal, then house makes sense - price of house would always go up by the cost of inflation + 1 percent (except during bubble burst ..like now) - and I guess RE in NJ will always be in demand ..but u would know better. <br /> house is definitely better in many many respects --<br /> if u don't see it as an investment -- then why not ..take the plunge !!<br /> The only problem that I have (in my case) is GC !! and the fact that prices went up by average of 10% during last 4 - 5 years - which is craziness (And as we know now - a bubble). 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Whether in domestic infrastructure, or international reach and goodwill, or in its ability to project power far from its borders, this lead is impressive. Yet, such asymmetries can be overcome through alliances and partnerships. Possibility of conflict can be reduced through developing interconnectivity and trade and commercial interdependence. In both areas substantive progress has been achieved by New Delhi. <br /> <br /> The real truth is that India has to get its act together, not merely in catching up in GDP growth, but in translating this in to core national power that can impact on the region and the world. Present strategy then has now to be based on consolidating our immediate neighbourhood and developing selective major power relationships that will translate in time to global influence and political strength. This is the real meaning of �balance� in strategic relationships and has to be pursued with great patience and foresight, but with single minded zeal. <br /> <br /> There are serious obstacles along the way. Our strategic culture of not looking beyond the immediate future precludes effective long term planning. Delhi has always defined its strategic interests in vague principles and ideological terms and not through practical achievable time bound objectives. This needs to change. <br /> <br /> Beyond our neighbourhood we have to develop closer ties with major powers such as the US, Australia, Japan and Korea, key democracies with shared values. This will call for a clear break with our past practice of non-alignment and solidarity among the weak. India, as a strong power in its own right, has the responsibility to assume today the leadership of the medium powers and an alignment with the strong. <br /> <br /> Yet, our bilateral relationship with China has to be firmly grounded in a cooperative, constructive and comprehensive relationship. That is again critically important to develop balance, particularly with China, long imbued with the sense of Middle Kingdom. Even as China begins to adjust to a reality of equal and sovereign powers, New Delhi has to exploit openings that may emerge. China�s incursion in to India�s strategic space, should be met not by lamenting over this fact, but through calm and carefully constructed counter measures in China�s periphery. <br /> <br /> CONCLUSIONS<br /> <br /> Many options may not indeed be feasible at the present time. For example nothing can reduce the utter dependency of Pakistan as a client state of Beijing, to which it has surrendered its sovereignty. But, this does not apply to its other neighbours, such as Myanmar, Nepal or Bangladesh or other Southeast Asian countries. <br /> <br /> This brings us back to the larger issue of bilateral relations between India and China. Lack of knowledge of the �other� breeds mistrust and leads to fear. We need first to bridge the enormous divide and gap in mutual perceptions. This can be brought about mainly by a very much enhanced people to people contact, knowledge of each other�s cultures and history. Not just tourists and visitors, but scholars and young people must enormously increase their contacts in sports, cultural activities and through education in each other�s countries. India needs to match the capabilities of Beijing�s Confucius Centres. There is an enormous amount to learn from each other and without giving up our basic advantages of a more intimate knowledge of the global language, we can continue to enhance our knowledge of each other<br /> <br /> Next is in the areas of trade and commerce. As China�s living standards rise the pay and perquisites of its workers will have to rise in commensurate manner to ensure social stability and its competitive manufacturing advantage will diminish. Instead of Bangladesh, Vietnam and the Philippines benefiting from this development, India is better poised to exploit this advantage. Some simple but fundamental changes to labour laws and ways of doing business in India will have to change and could make all the difference. <br /> <br /> The final factor in achieving a balance is in the area of military capability and deterrence. It is not the most critical issue today to develop a dominance in military capability. For, force today is of diminishing value, except where it serves the purpose of deterring the intention of another to cause you harm. Therefore, an asymmetric but effective deterrence utilizing select capabilities can achieve greater dividends. Such a deterrence potential has to be developed not only in a strategic sense, but also in tactical capabilities. This will have to be in areas of advanced scientific areas; such as in space, under sea warfare capabilities, maritime surface attack, cyber defence and rapidly deployed special forces. <br /> <br /> Indeed, India and China has lived close to each other throughout history, as different civilizations, with distinct identities and simultaneously as leading global powers. Yet, it has no history of either permanent animosity or of conflict. That is a lesson from history that we need to replicate. It may be argued that in the intensely globalizing world and diminishing distance there is today a fundamental difference. 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If an H-1B worker is given a living allowance, it is treated the same by the IRS as any other US resident. In some cases, H-1B workers pay higher taxes than a US citizen because they are not entitled to certain deductions (eg. head of household deduction amongst many others). Some H-1B workers are not eligible to receive any Social Security or Medicare benefits unless they are able to adjust status to that of permanent resident.[3] However, if their country of citizenship has a tax agreement with the United States, they are able to collect the Social Security they've earned even if they don't gain permanent residency there. Such agreements are negotiated between the United States and other countries, typically those which have comparable standards of living and public retirement systems</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">mirage</div><div class="date">08-05 08:05 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">In your example the EB-3 guy was in the green card line before the EB-2 guy. Why on earth should he be asked to come in line after EB-2 guy if he decides to file a new one under EB-2. Why did not you wake up when Labor Substitution was going on. that was something which was utter non sense. People deciding to go for Green card in 2007 stood ahead of people from 2002 by substittuting a 2001 labor. Thank God it's gone.<br /> What i mean is: Porting should not be an option based on the LENGTH OF WAITING TIME in EB3 status. 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Who would have thought that USCIS would ever go back and pull out a resume from an application that was filled for H1-B in 2000 and compare the resume for 140 you are filling in 2009. In the last few years USCIS has spent a lot of money on technology. They I believe have scanned all the past applications, which can now be linked to all your immigration benefits you are filling for. It�s become a lot easier for an IO to pull out all the past information- like all your H1-B petitions, your 140 petitions today if they wish too when you apply say for an EAD renewal. The sad fact is that USCIS is a blackhole where they can sit on your application for years or decades while you suffer while you cannot do much. Yes you can go to a senator/Congressman or write letters, but if your application is pending with a smart IO who did not like your complaining to the Senator, he can make your life difficult by asking documents after documents before making a decision on your application, while the senator cannot interfere with the process. Welcome to the world of bureaucracy.<br /> <br /> It all depends on the IO who deals with your case.<br /> <br /> We can find tonnes of discrepancies if we want to with any case.<br /> <br /> Most of us here discuss consulting companies - but it is just not consulting companies that are suffering. Sometime back, TSC changed its original interpretation that MBBS is equivalent to masters degree and denied EB2 140s for Physicians from India. 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They flashed few carrots (2-yr recapture, portability and H1 extension beyond 6 yr) and threw us under the bus with flood of 245i applicants. EB3 queue is still suffering from those backlogs.<br /> <br /> In the near term only democrats will be in a position to provide us with some relief because they control the congress. <br /> <br /> "I have no doubt in my mind that a Harvard graduate can get USA out of this economic turmoil. ":)<br /> i had to chime in, sorry but GWB is also a Harvard graduate. Only a Harvard Business graduate can get us in this turmoil ? :)<br /> <br /> Obama might be good, i dont know, i have yet to see a some good bills from him or concrete actions, but people like him and in the US perception and media support is everything. I think he will win. If might not be good for us because of the following<br /> a) Sen Durbin, is anti H1 and also anti GC (IMO)<br /> b) Massive support from labor unions. 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Puri refused the TSA order, citing an agency exception that allows Sikhs to pat down their own turbans to avoid intrusive searches and then have their hands tested for possible explosives.<br /> <br /> The situation escalated when TSA agents initially ignored Puri's protestations and said they would decide what the rules are, according to an official traveling with the ambassador.<br /> <br /> Puri told an Indian newspaper that the issue was resolved in about 20 minutes after he asked a supervisor to intervene.<br /> <br /> The incident underscores the sometimes bumpy relationship between the TSA and foreign delegations traveling to the United States in an era of heightened security.<br /> <br /> Diplomats are required to submit to searches, which intensified for many foreign travelers to the United States in January. The TSA put in place special procedures for greater scrutiny of individuals from 14 countries, most of them Muslim, prompting complaints from Muslim governments. (India was not on the list.)<br /> <br /> In April, "enhanced random security measures" for all passengers were put into effect - including pat-downs, sniffing dogs and more rigorous explosives testing. And last month, the TSA approved even more invasive body searches, which posed particularly sensitive issues for passengers with certain religious beliefs and medical issues.<br /> <br /> For globe-trotting diplomats, the U.S. government has offered since 2007 a list of "tips" to help them get through "the screening process easily and efficiently." It advises foreign dignitaries to carry two sets of credentials and warns that "screening may include a hand-wanding procedure and pat-down inspection." Searches, the memo says, will be conducted out of public view.<br /> <br /> The episode involving Puri has roiled sensibilities in India, where Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna complained this month about the TSA's pat-downs of Meera Shankar, the country's ambassador to the United States. Krishna said Shankar was frisked twice in three months, most recently when she was pulled aside at the Jackson, Miss., airport and subjected to a body search by a female TSA agent.<br /> <br /> "Let me be very frank that this is unacceptable," Krishna said.<br /> <br /> Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the State Department would look into the matter and try to take steps to avoid such international incidents.<br /> <br /> State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement: "The threat to aviation is a global challenge and every airport in the world is wrestling with how to best protect the flying public with as little friction as possible. We are all in this together. Our citizens are affected and those of other countries. Our diplomats are impacted, so are the diplomats of other countries. These situations in this country are certainly not unique."<br /> <br /> A TSA spokesman defended the treatment of Puri and Shankar. The overwhelming majority of 2 million U.S. air travelers, the official said, have had a positive experience using the nation's airports.<br /> <br /> Puri "was not required to remove his turban, and our officers worked with him to complete screening according to established procedures," said spokesman Nicholas Kimball. "We will continue working with our officers to reinforce all established policies, including those pertaining to the respectful screening of religious headwear and clothing."<br /> <br /> Kimball also said that a review of Shankar's pat-down in Jackson demonstrated that the TSA agents "followed proper procedure."<br /> <br /> "United States airport security policies accommodate those individuals with religious, medical or other reasons for which the passenger cannot or wishes not to remove a certain item of clothing," Kimball added. "For religious headwear, a passenger can pat the item down themselves and then have their hand tested for traces of explosive residue."<br /> <br /> In March, a State Department goodwill tour of the United States for a delegation of Pakistani lawmakers backfired after the group was asked to submit to additional screening on a flight from Washington to New Orleans. The lawmakers refused to board. The Pakistani army recalled a military delegation from Washington after the officers were subjected to what it called "unwarranted" searches.<br /> <br /> Many of the incidents involve domestic flights at airports where TSA agents may have less exposure to foreign fliers than those at major international airports. One U.N. official, an American citizen of South Asian extraction, traveling with his American wife and children, said he often gets pulled aside for pat-downs and "random searches."<br /> <br /> He said his youngest daughter recently recalled her memories of a flight: "I remember, we go on the airplane, and I take my shoes off, and you take your shoes off, and the men take Papa away and touch him everywhere," the girl told her mother.<br /> <br /> But other diplomats from South Asia say they have had no trouble with the TSA.<br /> <br /> Anwarul Chowdhury, a former Bangladeshi ambassador to the United Nations, said he has traveled without problems for more than a decade as a foreign and U.N. official. He recently returned from a trip to Spain without incident. "We had smooth sailing," he said. "My wife also wears a sari all the time. I don't wear a turban, but I think they were extremely courteous, very nice."</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://cdn02.cdn.socialitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/haley-reinhart-04212011.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. #39;American Idol#39;: Haley" title="#39;American Idol#39;: Haley" width="470" <br><li>#39;American Idol#39;: Haley</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">paskal</div><div class="date">04-09 12:24 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Why do you need to hire other person if Joe is fit f<br /> or the job though he is not as bright as other H1b person. For example you do not need IIT graduate for QA position. For example If you want a core system software programmer in TCP/IP level or semiconductor R&D you can go brightest in the World. Bill Gates is an exception. 95% of bright people will have degree or more in current world.<br /> <br /> <br /> i can only answer from a personal perspective.<br /> that logic works fine in some jobs and for those, that is exactly how it should be. for jobs that need some analysis/creative thinking etc it makes a huge difference. yell me why you would like to get a degree from the best school/ same degree right?<br /> i am a physician, if i were recruiting tomorrow (and we are) a million things matter. education, experience, acquired skills, where the applicant worked, what the patient population was etc<br /> by uscis rules anyone with board certification in our specialty is fine. if we advertise for more...we are breaking the law. if we take the better candidate with more skills...again if he /she has a visa, we breaking the law. pretty restrictive would you not say? understand that the group would gladly gladly hire an american if he fit in with the vision of what we need. but good candidates are scarce. and settling for the not so good bloke seems just not right.<br /> any way which physician would you choose to go to? these days patients come to us after checking our detailed credentials on the website. They know when they walk in whther i trained at the mayo clinic or abcd community hospital. so yes it matters, to you and to my group.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://kiranmary.com/?p=145">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000_Bpsn4b5p2E/s/700/7192-Haley-Reinhart-018.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. Haley Reinhart at the American" title="Haley Reinhart at the American" width="470" <br><li>Haley Reinhart at the American</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nitkad</div><div class="date">04-15 02:05 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">I am on H1B and I485 is pending. I just bought a mid-price house and I will recommend to buy only if your I140 is approved. I waited for many years but finally bought one. Buying the house was a big decision but I am glad that I took it. I have a 3 year old daughter and she being able to run in our own backyard is worh of some financial risk. The house prices are lower (still I think a little higher than it should be) and the interest rate is good too. So, go for it and good luck.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Haley Reinhart at 2011 <img src="http://americanidolcompetition.com/wp-content/uploads/mvbthumbs/img_2928_haley-reinhart-eliminated-sings-benny-and-the-jets-american-idol-10.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. Haley Reinhart ELIMINATED /" title="Haley Reinhart ELIMINATED /" width="470" <br><li>Haley Reinhart ELIMINATED /</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">desi3933</div><div class="date">08-05 03:39 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Don't remember exactly, I can look into the wording of the law but I think post bachelor 5 year experience for EB2 is a law and not Memo.<br /> <br /> Incorrect. Law does not mention 5 years. It simply says advanced degrees or their equivalent. Read for yourself (again!)<br /> <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------<br /> INA: ACT 203 - ALLOCATION OF IMMIGRANT VISAS<br /> <br /> Sec. 203. [8 U.S.C. 1153] <br /> <br /> ....<br /> ....<br /> ....<br /> <br /> (2) Aliens who are members of the professions holding advanced degrees or aliens of exceptional ability. -<br /> <br /> (A) In general. - Visas shall be made available, in a number not to exceed 28.6 percent of such worldwide level, plus any visas not required for the classes specified in paragraph (1), to qualified immigrants who are members of the professions holding advanced degrees or their equivalent or who because of their exceptional ability in the sciences, arts, or business, will substantially benefit prospectively the national economy, cultural or educational interests, or welfare of the United States, an d whose services in the sciences, arts, professions, or business are sought by an employer in the United States. <br /> <br /> <br /> .....</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://pensiericomenuvole.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://cdn03.cdn.socialitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Haley-Reinhart-Performs-American-Idol-Homecoming-05142011-0201.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. hair Haley Reinhart on" title="hair Haley Reinhart on" width="470" <br><li>hair Haley Reinhart on</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">ohpdfeb2003</div><div class="date">06-27 01:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Right, you pay for what you called "service", which is what your landlord is providing. And you pay him to let you stay in his house, which means YOU my friend are paying more than 80% of HIS mortgage. At the end of his mortgage, all his tenants would have collectively chipped in to pay more than 80% of HIS mortage and he has a house at the end of it all. What do YOU have? Zero, zilch, nada!<br /> <br /> No true in most cases espcially where housing is not affordable, is there a rule anywhere that tenants have to chip in 80%. There are several foolish housing investors, that I know of right now who arent even making 50% of their mortgage.<br /> <br /> If landlords are doing so well then who are the people undergoing foreclousures and bankruptices that we hear about :D<br /> <br /> Historically over a 30 year period, housing doesnt even return inflation adjusted value of money.<br /> <br /> What does a renter have in the end? He had the diversified returns from the downpayment money he has invested else where and difference between rent and mortgage compounded every month.<br /> <br /> Money paid as interest is the "service" cost of the money being loaned to you. You are paying so that you can live in the house you did NOT pay full cash for.<br /> <br /> My interest in a year is 2 times more than the standard deduction. I don't have a business yet, but when I start one, I'm going to have more deductions. Do the math!<br /> <br /> not forever, only the first few years. you will have to revert to standard deduction, that samething that renter's get years down the line.<br /> <br /> Right goahead and deduct your business expense from your personal tax return, IRS will pay you a visit:p</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Haley Reinhart chose to sing <img src="http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/thehollywoodgossip.com/snapshots/255357_1.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. Haley Reinhart and Naima" title="Haley Reinhart and Naima" width="470" <br><li>Haley Reinhart and Naima</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unseenguy</div><div class="date">06-20 08:37 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">You actually nailed down exactly what i have been thinking...<br /> <br /> Its just seems impossible to get a decent house which is not 25+ in Cupertino, Redwood shores etc ..And my gut feeling is these places the homes will never be affordable, they may lose some value but not much.<br /> <br /> I have also been debating about Austin as an alternative. Again what field you work in also plays a big role in the decision. if you are a techie and work in a product based company Bay area has all the top companies you could wish to work for. Where as cities like Austin merely have satellite offices for these companies based in bay area. I guess if you work in the service industry you would have more choices to pick from. Plus reason to consider austin for me is that "Austin is very much like bay area" ... In that case i think why not live in Bay area itself :)<br /> <br /> But yes if you are in bay area, Paying 700+ for a decent place just does not make sense even with all the rebates. <br /> <br /> <br /> I am hoping my gut feeling is proven wrong :)<br /> <br /> I moved out of bay area last year to WA. I had mixed feelings about making the move, but except for the weather, I think it was a good decision. One year down the line, I feel happy about it. The home you get for 700K in bay area, you can get for 550K in Seattle. Not much different, but somewhat cheaper.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://ronreyn.com/blog/index.php?p=51&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://static.poponthepop.com/images/gallery/haley-reinhart-eliminated-from-american-idol_341x458.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. hot guess loves american idol!" title="hot guess loves american idol!" width="470" <br><li>hot guess loves american idol!</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">SunnySurya</div><div class="date">08-05 03:57 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">You have rekindled my interest. I am not a lawyer but have been in a job that required reading contracts and legal matters. Your points made me think that we may have some case here. So if you are intersted we could take some legal opinion. If four or five people can join then we can share the cost for the initial consultation.<br /> <br /> Of course porting is derived from law!<br /> As I was pointing out earlier, this debate has become warperd. The question is about porting with BS+5, not porting per se. I believe the BS+5 came from a legacy INS memo after a lawsuit or something. Perhaps we should ask the question on one of the attorney forums.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot Haley Reinhart is 1 Ranking <img src="http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Haley%2BReinhart%2BIdol%2BProm%2BAmerican%2BIdol%2B10th%2Bv5kT1_ObBh_l.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. Haley Reinhart (Clockwise" title="Haley Reinhart (Clockwise" width="470" <br><li>Haley Reinhart (Clockwise</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">09-26 08:26 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">I am a big supporter of Obama and a big fan and am eagerly looking forward to see him as our next President of United States. As a legal highly skilled immigrant what can I expect? Well, not sure if I would see myself living here anymore. I have been in the green card queue for more than 8 years now and still waiting. Will Obama's administration do anything for people like me to help reduce backlog? I doubt such a thing will ever happen. I would see myself and people like me discouraged and start packing our bags and move on with life.<br /> <br /> Why do I feel discouraged? If anything is going to happen for the immigrant community when Sen. Obama becomes the President, it is going to be in the lines of CIR 2007. There would be provisions to make illegal immigrants as legal and remove backlogs to family based quota whereas posing harsh restrictions on H1b visas and reducing Green Card quotas and scrap AC21 portability and try to experiment with some new kind of skilled immigration system. <br /> <br /> The above is very evident based on the fact that Senator Durbin has been very hostile to EB immigrants. It is evident that Senator Durbin will make the calls when Senator Obama becomes the president.<br /> <br /> Please post your opinions. This is a very important discussion. It is very important that the community see what is in store for us when the new Administration takes charge.<br /> <br /> A lot of folks in the EB community are looking forward to 2009 thinking something will definitely happen. Yes, something will definitely happen - and that may not help us</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://times.ua/story/5481/">more...</a><br><br /><br />house American Idol Photos: Haley <img src="http://www.tvwatchers.net/images/haley-reinhart-american-idol-audition-milwaukee1.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. tattoo #39;American Idol#39;" title="tattoo #39;American Idol#39;" width="470" <br><li>tattoo #39;American Idol#39;</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">hiralal</div><div class="date">06-11 11:19 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Mortgage of $95 dollars in California ????? man, even I would have purchased a house there ..once the honeymoon is over (100 dollar rent), even a kid can guess where this house will end up (and she wants help from govt ???) ..wonder how many such loans were bundled ..and how many houses will end up in foreclosure ?<br /> <br /> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQ_ZgC75Zfyw<br /> <br /> --------------<br /> Will the coming wave of OptionARM mortgage resets look like the wave of subprime defaults?<br /> <br /> This Bloomberg piece paints a sobering picture of where things are at, and it's clear right off the bat why the resets are going to kill a number of buyers:<br /> <br /> Shirley Breitmaier’s mortgage payment started out at $98 when she refinanced her three-bedroom home in Galt, California, in 2007. The 73-year-old widow may see it jump to $3,500 a month in two years.<br /> <br /> Breitmaier took out a payment-option adjustable rate mortgage, a loan popular during the housing boom for its low minimum payments before resetting at higher costs later.<br /> <br /> We're not sure what the housing market is like in Galt, California, but if we had to guess, Ms. Breitmaier is pretty under water right now, and a refi is probably out of the picture. Now this might not kill the banks -- after all, the chart below is well known and we're guessing that much of their portfolio has been slammed accordingly. But in terms of flooding the market with foreclosed home, slamming prices, it's too early to believe that it's all priced in.<br /> <br /> And generally, the effect that will have on the economy and consumer confidence will be brutal:<br /> <br /> The delinquency rate for payment-option ARMs originated in 2006 and bundled into securities is soaring, according to a May 5 report from Deutsche Bank AG. Over the past year, payments 60 days late or more on option ARMs originated in 2006 have almost doubled to 42.44 percent from 23.26 percent, Deutsche Bank said. For 2007 loans, the rate has climbed from 10.1 percent to 35.25 percent.<br /> <br /> “We’re already seeing much higher levels of delinquencies of these option ARM loans even before you reach the point of the recast,” said Paul Leonard, the California director of the non- profit Center for Responsible Lending.<br /> <br /> The threat of soaring payments has counselors at Housing and Economic Rights Advocates busy.<br /> <br /> “There’s a level of hopelessness to the phone calls now,” said Brown.<br /> <br /> -----------<br /> More than $750 billion of option ARMs were originated in the U.S. between 2004 and 2008, according to data from First American and Inside Mortgage Finance of Bethesda, Maryland. California accounted for 58 percent of option ARMs, according to a report by T2 Partners LLC, citing data from Amherst Securities and Loan Performance.<br /> <br /> Shirley Breitmaier took out a $315,000 option ARM to refinance a previous loan on her house.<br /> <br /> Her payments started at 3/8 of 1 percent, or less than $100 a month, according to Cameron Pannabecker, the owner of Cal-Pro Mortgage and the Mortgage Modification Center in Stockton, California, who is working with Breitmaier. The loan allowed her to forgo higher payments by adding the unpaid balance to the principal. She’ll be required to start paying principal and interest to amortize the debt when the loan reaches 145 percent of the original amount borrowed.<br /> <br /> ‘Pick a Pay’<br /> <br /> Such terms aren’t typical for option ARMs, which were also known as “pick-a-pay” mortgages. Interest rates on many payment option ARMS are “typically very low in the first one to three months” and can be as little as 2 percent, according to Federal Reserve data.<br /> <br /> Breitmaier, who has been in the home for 45 years and lives with her daughter, now fears she will lose the off-white stucco house that’s a hub for her family.<br /> <br /> “I wish the government would bail us out like the banks and the car businesses,” she said. “I’d like to go from here to the grave next to my husband.”<br /> <br /> Paul Financial LLC originated the loan and it was sold to GMAC, Pannabecker said.<br /> <br /> “This loan is a perfect example front to back, bottom to top, of everything that has gone wrong over the last five to seven years,” Pannabecker said. “The consumer had a product pushed on them that they had no hope of understanding.”</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo #39;American Idol#39;: Haley <img src="http://www.topnews.in/files/images/Haley-Reinhart_0.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. 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They are the bread and butter of US IT business, not the full-time H1bs working in-house, who again takes a consultant to complete his job.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.planet6oclock.com/planet6oclock/?q=node/1002/track&page=5&sort=desc&order=Time">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures Haley Reinhart at the American <img src="http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Haley%2BReinhart%2BFox%2BAmerican%2BIdol%2B2011%2BFinale%2Bq_JxxM5MNCTl.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. 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This thread should be closed and people should concentrate on the call campaign instead on fighting each other.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://madeinfashionblog365.style.it/178/indianini-2011">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup hair Haley Reinhart on <img src="http://idolseason.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/haley-reinhart-idolprom2011-2.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. 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Haley Reinhart" title="Haley Reinhart" width="470" <br><li>Haley Reinhart</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">njboy</div><div class="date">04-08 08:14 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">genuine firms like microsoft are unable to hire h1b people because ..guess what? all the h1 quota is over..here in new jersey, I was approached multiple times by people who said if I get anyone to file an h1 in their company, and if the h1 came through..I would get 1000 U.S.D. I asked them..what should be their qualification, they said..dont worry about qualification, they'd give a free course for QC tester and place them. So I wont be surprised if big fortune 500 companies are also behind this bill.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles hot guess loves american idol! <img src="http://cdn03.cdnwp.celebuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20/Haley-Reinhart-400x300.jpg" alt="american idol haley reinhart. 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The core selling point being that the US is loosing talent by not giving us GCs in a timely manner.<br /> I agree ..it cannot be used as the main point. but everywhere (even here) .money (or economic issues in this case) talks.<br /> also, when you use current issues to link to the immi cause then there is a better chance of selling it.<br /> for eg - during Y2K ..nobody complained when immigrants were flocking here.<br /> when dot com was at height - clinton was easily able to sign the H1 cap increase bill.<br /> the issue today is housing ..but I agree many legal immigrants have brought (though I guess 60 - 70 % have not) ..and if the numbers were twice or thrice and there was unity ..then it would have been different.<br /> if you see the prev link about foreclosures ...say in a sub division - the average house rate is 400K. one of them goes in FC ..bank lists it for 250K ..in the same sub div - if 3 genuine sellers want to sell and compete - then they have to bring down their prices to maybe 300K ..and hence all the house values in that Sub Division effectively comes down ..so even 1 house buyer matters. In the end this issue will mostly be solved by increased demand ..and sizeable amt of that demand will come from immigrants.<br /> <br /> and if you see and analyze this link - the market will be swamped by foreclosures.<br /> http://www.cnbc.com/id/24187419<br /> http://blogs.marketwatch.com/greenbe...un/?mod=MWBlog</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sanju</div><div class="date">12-18 05:41 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Why is it that there are no true democracies in the middle east? Have you ever thought of that? Do you realize that in a country like Saudi Arabia women are oppressed and they have to follow the dictates of the mullahs!! Every person, irrespective of their personal faith is subject to the Sharia laws!! Is that justice!! Why is it that Muslims don’t see oppression within their own country and try wage a jihad against that? Why is it that Muslims don’t want to spend time and effort cleaning up their own house? <br /> <br /> <br /> Let me tell why, because it has got to be someone else's fault. Those terrorist who attacked America no 911 had nothing to do with Chechenya or Palestine or Darfur. They were merely blinded by their twisted world view that was based on their twisted belief system. And the applied to the terrorist who attacked Mumbai on 11/26.<br /> <br /> Although it is difficult to swallow what these misguided guys did, it is even more difficult to see EDUCATED LITERATE people defend barbaric heinous inhuman actions in the name of religion. I can't even image in the wildest of my dreams anybody's GOD will tell someone to conduct such acts and anybody's GOD will tell that person to defend such acts. This has got be work of an extremely inferior mind which says - lets try to reason out why such attacks are conducted on unarmed civilians including woman and children. 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There are a lot of rebates available and various tax credits (fed tax credit is only $2K). My rebate was $3.75 per watt, plus state tax credits.<br /> <br /> Capacity 9KW.<br /> <br /> I did a lot of work myself (mostly design - and it is a unique in US design) and worked with a professional installer (first install like this he had done). I also did a lot of the physical work on the roof too.<br /> <br /> KWh (per year) depends on location, angle and direction of roof.<br /> <br /> In Long Island multiply by about 800 for a steep west facing roof like mine so KWh = 9000*800. For more south facing and lower pitch multiply by 1100. In southern California I don't know what the multiplication factor would be, but you sure get a lot more sunshine, my guess would be more like x1800 for south facing. There are calculators where you can plumb in long/lat angle/direction and size.<br /> <br /> Roof area about 1000 sq ft including the concrete. So about 900 sq ft of solar tiles.<br /> <br /> Snow does not stick because the glass surface is too smooth, the tiles at the edge where the snow sticks are concrete.<br /> <br /> Geothermal heat pumps, they work like an air conditioning unit but exchange heat with the ground (via pipes) rather than the air. This is much more efficient because ground temp is about constant 55F (in NY). They can run forward or reverse (heat or cool) too. They can be used with forced air or radiant floor heating (not baseboard).<br /> <br /> If you are seriously interested in installing something like this my email is mark at immigrationvoice .org<br /> <br /> On the immigration side: So I've gone out on a limb, and bought a house and installed a load of upgrades, but still waiting for I485 to be processed. I consider this to be a hugely patriotic thing to do -- (could the Iraq war have anything to do with energy supply), yet still no GC. I would love to ask Mr. Dobbs, what he has done to reduce his demand for foreign energy imports!! He probably uses 4000 gallons of oil a year for heating :-)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 lebron james mom delonte west. But LeBron is taking his show <img src="http://sportsofboston.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/022211_Rivers.jpg" alt="delonte west terminator. images 2011 delonte west" title="images 2011 delonte west" width="470" <br><li>images 2011 delonte west</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">newbie2020</div><div class="date">08-06 04:36 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">People will jump to the ship which goes faster...Thats the bottom line, If tomorrow for some reason EB3 ship moves faster than EB2 ship then you would also jump your EB2 Ship and go to EB3 ship as most other people including me. Focus your energy on some positive action items which benefit the community.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://kikka.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://thefabempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/EDC_3222.jpg" alt="delonte west terminator. dresses guard Delonte West" title="dresses guard Delonte West" width="470" <br><li>dresses guard Delonte West</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">07-10 03:21 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">UN, I am impressed by your knowledge of immigration laws. 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Basically learning how people got into a mess and what uscis did to catch them or to deny their cases<br /> <br /> 7) go to dol.gov and look for foreign labor certification; there are FAQ's on perm labors and h-1b<br /> <br /> <br /> 8) go to uscis.gov and read the INA and CFR's<br /> <br /> --------------------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> If a person is used to reading laws and understanding the hierarchy and then intertwining uscis procedure along with the various service center procedure then you will start to get a clearer understanding.<br /> <br /> All of the information is public. Don't rely on what your friend told you as they usually only know what someone else told them.<br /> <br /> I had a non compete agreement when I left my employer and couldn't work for one year. During that year; I had nothing to do other then watch tv and watch the portal. No matter how small a question was asked/posted I researched it through all the sources I mentioned above.<br /> <br /> Finally; don't do what you think is right or "gut feeling"...<br /> <br /> <br /> Research it; research it and research it some more. 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Now when issuing H1B, they issue most of them to Indians (>50%) no country limit applies there. When it comes to GC and they put a 7% country limit and that�s where the backlog starts. <br /> <br /> If they (USCIS) don't want to do anything about this then they should consider putting a limit on H1B and let business look for talent in countries other than India.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 hot NBA baller Delonte West <img src="http://sportsforbitches.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/lebron-momma.jpg" alt="delonte west terminator. 2010 delonte west lebron." title="2010 delonte west lebron." width="470" <br><li>2010 delonte west lebron.</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">chanduv23</div><div class="date">09-29 11:00 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Obama presidency will be a positive experience or a negative, based on whether Sen. Obama chooses to show Leadership or panders to the extreme left-wing of his party.<br /> <br /> Obama has everything to gain from supporting the EB community. An example is the loyal following Pres. Clinton has developed with the Asian community through the passage of recapture in the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act. Passing pro-EB immigration bills will definitely create a pro-Obama community as he gets ready to run for the second term. Though these new Permanent Residents may not be having the vote, they can contribute generously to the Obama campaign legally. <br /> <br /> Obama campaign won't be able to bank on 'Hope and Change' for the second term. Contributors will be judging him based on what he has done for their community. As he faces the Republican money-machine these contributions from the grateful former-EB immigrants will create a safe avenue for funding. <br /> <br /> Helping EB immigrants will not hurt Obama with the labor unions and left-wing groups. Whatever be their gripes, they will not be voting Republican or contributing Republican for sure. Same cannot be said of EB immigrant community who can by and large go Republican, if they see Obama working to the detriment of their interests and the community. With Asian votes and more importantly being so crucial in NY/NJ and CA, If I were Obama I would think hard before supporting anything that can turn these communities against me, and my party for a long time given the uncertainties of politics. If past trends have been any indication EB immigrant community has always voted solidly Democratic. Last thing any sensible leader or party will do in democracy will be losing thousands of future voters likely to vote for them and/or their party. <br /> <br /> Obama can either create a lasting Legacy with this community.Or he can make them angry for life by pandering to the extreme left-wing of his party, who won't even remember the action come the next elections. I hope Obama makes a sensible choice for the greater good. But if the current Democratic party politics is any indication, I am skeptical. It is beyond my understanding why the Democratic party leadership is hell-bent on converting the pro-Democrat EB immigrant community into future reliable Republican voters, by consistently black-balling any bills that could help the community!<br /> <br /> Passing anti-EB immigrant measure will NOT help the Dems get any new votes that they already don't have. Dems may lose a few votes for short term -which I highly doubt - by passing Recapture and other pro-EB bills. But that loss will be more than offset by new grateful voters who will vote Democratic for a generation and may be more. I can only hope that common sense prevails, and Obama acts keeping the common interests of his party and EB immigrants in mind while acting on the issue, while getting ready to pack-up for Canada or India, if forced to do so by Sen. Durbins pet policies.<br /> <br /> In my opinion, Sen Durbin's stance on EB immigrants would be the cause of concern and like we all know Sen Durbin will make calls on these issues if Sen. Obama becomes the President. Lets see how it unfolds.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://quovadis.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/wallpapers/8743/delonte-west-mobile-wallpaper.jpg" alt="delonte west terminator. 2010 basketball, Delonte West," title="2010 basketball, Delonte West," width="470" <br><li>2010 basketball, Delonte West,</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Raju</div><div class="date">05-24 03:32 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Raju, the unemployment is at 4.7%. That is good, but how about earning power and wage increases ? I hear all the time my friends report that they can no longer afford goods and services as they did five or four years ago. There are plenty of evidence that in many sectors wages have dropped or have stagnated. Is that indication of surplus pr shortage of workers ?<br /> <br /> Regarding his idea of sending 15 millions of illegals out, that is not absurd. He never told he wanted to do it overnight. A gradual, slow deportation program yes, it would be probably the best way to handle this. <br /> <br /> I am sorry if I look negative to you guys, but my goal is to be sincere and honest about facts here.<br /> <br /> I think that wages have gone up drastically during the dotcom bubble and you should expect them to flatten for a few years. Also, the economy is coming out from a bust and that accounts to a little stagnation. It is simple man, the world also has to catch up. If you get the same job done for much less in coutries like China, India, Russia and romania, why do you think the wages will go up, unless there is a new technology, that absolutely needs cutting edge skills. This is the way it has been in ht past, this is the way it is in present and will be this way in future. The services and goods you are talking about will become more expensive if you want to send the undocumented workers out. And the wages may not go up that much because companies can get stuff done in other parts of the world. A reporter should talk about two sides of the issue and I have never seen Lou do that. 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Similarly an argument can be made to artificially retrogress EB1 so that an EB2 who is waiting for 4 years gets his GC first. <br /> Whether EB1 is presently retrogressed or not doesn't matter.<br /> Let's think about this for a moment. We are trying to completely negate the category preference established by law and asking them to grant GC's based solely on PD regardless of category.<br /> Ain't gonna happen - dont want to be a pessimist but at some point we have to call it as we see it.<br /> Agreed.....the categories were made for a reasson.....and the same logic is being followed by the DOS to spillover unused VISAS. While I understand the frustration of EB3 folks, I would encourage those same folks to folllow IVs initiatives like - call campaigns for House bills...etc. As I have said before IV is working for one and all...w/o caring for their categories. 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He is tough, temperamental, driven and, according to many around him, rather lonely.<br /> <br /> Over the next five weeks, The Washington Post will tell Gerald Cassidy's story in a unique way. On Monday, the series will jump to the newspaper's Web site, washingtonpost.com, to begin a 25-chapter serial narrative that will describe how Cassidy built his business, how he made the deals that earned his millions, how he and his fellow-lobbyists influenced decisions of government and helped create the money-centric culture of modern Washington.<br /> <br /> Cassidy's career has spanned an astounding boom in the lobbying business. When Cassidy became a lobbyist in 1975, the total revenue of Washington lobbyists was less than $100 million a year. In 2006 the fees paid to registered lobbyists surpassed $2.5 billion; the Cassidy firm's 51 lobbyists earned about $29 million. In 1975 the rare hiring of a former member of Congress as a lobbyist made eyebrows rise. 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If your mortgage payment is only $500 above apartment rent I would say buy. But if you are looking at paying double as mortgage I think its really inflated.<br /> <br /> I would like to read more about buying foreclosed properties. I hear there are some good deals out there :D<br /> <br /> <br /> When you sell, you need to pay 3% as commission to both the seller and buyer agent. You will break even as soon as the house appreciates 6% plus your closing costs, anything above that would be your profit. <br /> <br /> Now with the market going down, my guess as to when the house appreciates is as good as anybody else�s.<br /> <br /> As far as Rent vs Mortgage goes, I would go with owning a house and paying mortgage than being on rent, I just cannot live in an apartment anymore. Caring for aging parents is our duty and responsibility as much as providing a decent home to our children and giving them a life. If I can strike a balance and fulfill my duties to both, I am happy. 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I had to practice what I preach.<br /> <br /> One of the reasons they ask for tax returns, w2's is they want to assess your intentions; if tax returns, etc. , is out of line with offered wage then it can make them think that it is not believable you will be doing that job once greencard gets approved.<br /> <br /> Once 485 is filed; you are in a period of authorized stay. At that point; you can sit around and do nothing; switch jobs, etc.; However; to keep working you need to have authorization (ie., EAD card if you don't hold H-1b).<br /> <br /> I didn't prepare my personal tax returns on purpose because uscis could have assessed my intentions differently. When I asked him why he wanted to see the tax returns for 2005 and 2006; even though I have unrestricted employment and I can do nothing if I please; he responded it was to assess intention. Since he saw I was self employed; if my tax returns were out of line with the offered job I was going to take upon greencard approval then they may not believe it.<br /> <br /> Now; I didn't give him any financial data for 2005 and 2006. Although this is legal; if I was going to port to self employment then he could have assessed whether I was going to become a public charge or how I was living in 2005 and 2006. I had all my financial documents (ie., bank balances, brokerage account); just in case he went down this road. <br /> <br /> he didn't but just in case he wanted to; I was ready for it.<br /> <br /> <br /> Hi Unitednations, <br /> I have a little problem. I am a canadian citizen on H1b and used to commute across the border everyday. I work for Ford and every year during christmas we get a week long vacation. My contracting company does not pay me for the xmas break. So, I filed for unemployment compensation in michigan for that week - reason - temporary layoff (as a Canadian Citizen you can collect unemployment from michigan......thats what my US citizen colleagues do every year........Does this mean I was out of status for that week?....Can this cause my I-485 to get rejected? (I have done it twice in 5 years)</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">GCisLottery</div><div class="date">05-24 12:53 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">How does a media person whose objective is to get good rating and keep the show on air for as long as he could matter for our goals?<br /> <br /> Can we find something else to talk about?</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-915820719973429419.post-62803435890941171822011-07-11T19:37:00.000-07:002011-07-12T17:45:29.148-07:00journey to the center of the earth bookimages to the Center of the Earth <img src="http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4403/journeytothecenterofthew.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. 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For people like us it adds another layer of complications<br /> due to our status (or rather...lack of status).<br /> <br /> We are in Bay Area (San Jose Metro area) and were paying around $2000 in rent. We just bought a condo where our payments (mortgage + Taxes + HoA) are going<br /> to be around 2300. Hopefully we will be getting back around 400-500 in taxes and this makes it a good deal. However only 15 days after moving into our<br /> new house, I was laid off and now our biggest concern is if I am not able to get a job in next few weeks and if we have to go back we will be almost<br /> 80k down the hole.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.thq.com/resources/large_us/fe11bc0565001ad34cf0a62435c6b759.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. 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If you want to work then you can use EAD; if you want to go in/out of USA then you need advance parole.<br /> <br /> At the same time you can have h-1b. <br /> <br /> Both things allow you to stay here.<br /> <br /> Now; once 485 is filed; you do not need to comply with the terms and conditions of your non immigrant status. However; you shouldn't start working with another employer until you have EAD.<br /> <br /> Technically; you could sit at home and do nothing; as long as you have intent to work with the employer until 485 is pending for more then six months and employer doesn't pull the plug before 180 days then you would be fine.<br /> <br /> You could try to convert the h-1b to part time or transfer to another company.<br /> <br /> I only know of one case where person was doing future base employment and invoked ac21 at his local office interview (law says you can do this) and stated he was going to work with someone else.<br /> <br /> USCIS adjudicator asked for a letter from the company that they had intent to hire him up until the 485 had been pending for more then six months. Company would not give the letter and his case was denied.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 JOURNEY TO THE CENTER <img src="http://www.cityonfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/o-dwayne-johnson-to-star-in-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-2.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Verne ook, Journey to the" title="Verne ook, Journey to the" width="470" <br><li>Verne ook, Journey to the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">easygoer</div><div class="date">01-08 12:28 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Rayyan,<br /> <br /> You are a highly skilled person. Think objectively: <br /> <br /> 1. This thread is not immigration related. It is a non-immigration thread that admins allow just as a communication platform among people and has nothing to do with IV. <br /> <br /> 2. People can have their opinions. You really can't stop. It becomes objectionable when it is personal. Then, you report as Abusive link and moderators will take actions. I have reported couple of abusive language posts in past and action was taken in very short time.<br /> <br /> 3. Please don't mix issues. Your efforts for enlightening people about immigration issues are appreciated. You should not leave because couple of threads are running that you don't like.<br /> <br /> My 2 cents to you, to bfadlia and everyone.<br /> <br /> My requests to all "Please end this discussion immediately". This is hurting our own people. There are no bad religion and good religion. We have seen over the time period whenever any relgion allowed their religion heads to dominate politics and day to day life (including Hindu, Christian in the past), they have created havoc. Every religion experienced this in the past. Please repect other's religion feeling and stop it. Let's concentrate on our main issue of immigration all together.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.ixtractor.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.empireonline.com/images/features/beat-the-volcano-with-cinema/journey-to-the-centre-of-the-earth.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. 2011 Journey to the Center of" title="2011 Journey to the Center of" width="470" <br><li>2011 Journey to the Center of</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unitednations</div><div class="date">03-25 02:53 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">UN,<br /> Any stories of AOS applicants porting to self employment under AC21, that you could share with us?<br /> <br /> Given your explanation on risks involved with porting to a small company, I wonder how self employment plays out in an AC21 scenario.<br /> <br /> Thanks very much, as always.<br /> <br /> I know many people think about it but they don't have the kahunas to actually execute it. I am not aware of anyone who has tried it and was open about it with uscis.<br /> <br /> In my case when my 485 was pending I went self employment route. I had to give updated g-325a to show employmnet history and I put it right there for officer to see at local office interview. He actually made an astonishing face and I told him that it was allowed and 485 was pending and I can do what I wish during this time. I also told him that I was not my ac21 employer I was just doing this while 485 was pending and I was porting to another job after my 485 was approved. I gave him offer letter and company tax returns from the ac21 employer that I hadn't joined yet.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><img src="http://admin.eclector.com/covers/014/9780141441979.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. journey to the center of the" title="journey to the center of the" width="470" <br><li>journey to the center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">new_phd</div><div class="date">08-10 01:58 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Sorry to post in this thread, but I was wondering if United Nations would be kind enough to answer two questions for me (well, actually one is from my colleague). They are kind of generic so it might help other people too, I hope. I posted this on other threads but I havent gotten any responses for the longest time, so Im posting here. Very sorry to those who are following this thread for the original topic. <br /> <br /> 1) From my colleague: As per his family customs, his mothers FIRST name was also changed after marriage. Before marriage she was Vimla Patil, and now she is Anasuya Deshpande. She uses her married first name and last name on her passport, childrens birth certificate, etc. Only her school leaving has her maiden first name, maiden last name. <br /> <br /> He was wondering how to put this info on his I-485/G-325a form. They ask for Mothers Maiden name in one column, and then first name in the next. If he puts down Patil and then Anasuya - it wont be correct as such a person doesnt exist. What is the best way to represent her name. (remember, the birth cert that he will be submitting for himself will have her name as Anasuya Deshpande)<br /> <br /> Any help would be greatly appreciated.<br /> <br /> 2) My question (and this has been asked before, but no one has a rock solid answer). My husband's labor has been approved, approved I-140, his priority date is Oct 2006. I received a labor sub (please dont scream at me.. I dint have anything to do with the matching... it just came my way:o) , but pending I-140, my priority date (if I-140 is approved) will be Feb 2005. <br /> <br /> I wanted to know if we should only choose one of these two applications to proceed further or file two I-485 applications- One with me as primary and him as beneficiary, and the other with him as primary. There are these rare postings where people have said that USCIS can reject both applications/ drop both or deny one initially itself, or ask you to choose one upfront. No one has talked about successful multiple filings, so we dont have unbiased statistics in this space. What is your thought on this issue? Which way would you recommend we proceed? Frankly, I am nervous about my application until the I-140 clears, (and my I-140 was only applied in July 2007) ... yet my husbands pd is almost 20 months after mine. Please enlighten.<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> <br /> FYI, both of us have been in the U.S since 2000, but for various strokes of timely bad luck we couldnt file until Dec 2006, So I hope there arent too many hard feelings from people who have also waited as long as we have. I know the feeling.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://bre.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://www.greatcanadiantravel.com/resources/apps/cart/products/thumbnails/304__thumb_425x0.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Book this Tour. Previous Page" title="Book this Tour. Previous Page" width="470" <br><li>Book this Tour. Previous Page</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">riva2005</div><div class="date">04-08 01:11 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Guys you are unnecessarily raking your brain over this. This is a blatant anti immigrant anti eb green card bill disguised as h1 reform. The people who wrote this bill are the same people who were carrying placards saying "legal immigrants welcome, no to illegal immigration". Now do you really believe them? Even Jeff sessions was one of them and he is the number one opposer of legal eb immigrants.<br /> <br /> Pitha,<br /> <br /> You're going in the right direction. But a slight correction here.<br /> <br /> These guys...Sessions, Grassley etc dont really support or oppose anything on principle. Its not like they have made up their mind about what they think is right or wrong for the country. They are responding to their campaign contributors. Plain and simple.<br /> <br /> I can cite 2 such examples:<br /> <br /> Firstly, Senator Dianne Feinstein. She was against Amnesty. Thru and thru. Now, the spinach and lettuce growers lobbied her. Suddenly, she supported and sponsored Agjobs bill. And what does Agjobs bill have in it? Mini-Amnesty, but only limited to agricultural workers. And this change of heart didnt even take 6 months. Elected officials tend to be very flexible when you are suffering from weight of heavy and burdensome cash in your pockets that needs to be relieved.<br /> <br /> Another example, our own dear Senator Chuck Grassley from the State of Iowa. He is strong opponent of Amnesty. Believes in the rule of law. Always opposed to legalizing the illegals ... except when he doesnt. When does he not oppose legalization? When is co-sponsors Agjobs bill with Sen. Dianne Feinstein? You see, Iowa isnt exactly the Silicon Priarie if Bay Area is the silicon valley so he dunt give damn about them damn H1B scum. But Iowa does grow quite a bit of corn. And suddenly the corn has become a cash-rich crop due to Ethanol. So the farmers of Iowa had a heavy burden of the extra cash in their pockets. Senator Chuck Grassley relieved that extra weight of cash from corn growers and chose to co-sponsor the Agjobs bill that gives Amnesty to agricultural workers.<br /> <br /> This is the data from the Federal Election commission that tracks money in politics and www.opensecrets.org where there is a more user-friendly way to find out the same data of who gives money to whom in politics and lobbying. <br /> <br /> <br /> Senator Dianne Feinstein : 2005-2006 PAC Contributions<br /> Based on data released by the FEC on Monday, February 19, 2007. <br /> <br /> Obtained from www.opensecrets.org : http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/memberprofile.asp?cid=N00007364&cycle=2006&expand=A07 <br /> <br /> TOTAL Agribusiness $97,000<br /> <br /> Crop Production & Basic Processing $47,000 <br /> American Cotton Shippers Assn $1,000 <br /> Blue Diamond Growers $3,000 <br /> Calcot Ltd $1,500 <br /> California Avocado Proponent $1,000 <br /> California Citrus Mutual $3,000 <br /> California Cotton Growers Assn $500 <br /> California Grape & Tree Fruit League $1,500 <br /> California Rice Industry Assn Fund $1,000 <br /> Farmers' Rice Cooperative $8,000 <br /> Florida Crystals $1,000 <br /> Louisiana Rice PAC $1,000 <br /> National Assn of Wheat Growers $1,000 <br /> National Cotton Council $1,000 <br /> National Potato Council $1,000 <br /> Nisei Farmers League $2,000 <br /> Producers Rice Mill Inc $1,000 <br /> Raisin Bargaining Assn $3,500 <br /> Riceland Foods $1,000 <br /> Southern Minn Beet Sugar Co-op $4,000 <br /> Sun-Maid Growers of California $2,000 <br /> Sunkist Growers $1,000 <br /> USA Rice Federation $2,000 <br /> Western Growers Assn $1,000 <br /> Western Pistachio Assn $4,000<br /> <br /> Total Agricultural Services/Products $17,000<br /> <br /> American Assn of Nurserymen $2,000 <br /> American Veterinary Medical Assn $2,000 <br /> California Westside Farmers Inc $1,000 <br /> Farm Credit Council $6,000 <br /> Friant Water PAC $2,000 <br /> National Council of Farmer Co-ops $1,000 <br /> Nestle Purina PetCare $1,000 <br /> Society of American Florists $2,000<br /> <br /> <br /> Senator Chuck Grassley : 2005-2006 PAC Contributions<br /> Based on data released by the FEC on Monday, February 19, 2007. <br /> <br /> Obtained from www.opensecrets.org : http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/memberprofile.asp?cid=N00001758&cycle=2006&expand=P<br /> <br /> Total Agribusiness $34,500<br /> <br /> Crop Production & Basic Processing $1,000 <br /> Dairy $5,000 <br /> Poultry & Eggs $1,000 <br /> Livestock $1,000 <br /> Agricultural Services/Products $14,500 <br /> Food Processing & Sales $8,000 <br /> Forestry & Forest Products $4,000</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 Journey To The Centre Of The <img src="http://www.saltmanz.com/pictures/albums/Cover%2520Scans/Book%2520Covers/Journey%2520to%2520the%2520Center%2520of%2520the%2520Earth.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. to the Center of the Earth" title="to the Center of the Earth" width="470" <br><li>to the Center of the Earth</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Marphad</div><div class="date">01-08 03:35 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Refugee_new is a moron. 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Just because they are pointing out some problems in the program we cannot brand them as anti immigrants or lazy people. We ourself know that there are some issues in the program. While we were studying in the college it was big achivement if our research article comes into IEEE. So IEEE is considered as one of world best academic association. <br /> <br /> It is not TCS,Infy,Wipro is causing delay to GC. Infact I worked one of those companies and still they are one of best in India. Still I may work those companies if I go to India.<br /> <br /> If there is real shortage of skilled people then we will pass all the tests which are given in Durbin proposal and we can get H1b. What is the problem in accepting? Infact I am not supporting Ban of H1b on consulting but other than that everything can be fine and easily passed by most of H1b persons<br /> <br /> <br /> I am not Ronald Regan but I am compelled to say, " There you go again...."<br /> <br /> My view is not based on my personal gain or loss. My view is even if they ban consulting H1b numbers will not be reduced so much and cap will be reached.<br /> <br /> <br /> Why are you consistently discussing about H-1B caps. Green card delays are not because of H-1B quota, I am sure you know this. H-1B caps have nothing to do who applied for the H-1s, whether those were consulting companies in US or a company in Japan. You are just saying it consistently in all your posts because you don�t like more people coming here after you are on path to green cards. In all your posts, you have this mid set where the door closes right behind you and more people should not be allowed on H-1. I am sure you qualify to be the member of IEEE-USA. Please Google search for their membership form. Just because the name of the organization is �Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers� doesn�t mean that every thing on their agenda is kosher.<br /> <br /> <br /> Why do you think IEEE-USA members are undeserving and lazy just because they are interesting to put restrictions in H1b? Infact they are interested in more green cards.<br /> <br /> <br /> This shows that you have no clue about the reality. You have looked at the IEEE website and formulated the opinion about the nice people at IEEE-USA, who are working overtime for you to get your green card. This is what you think, right? Well! My friend we live in a very strange world in which political organization (like IEEE) show stuff on their website just so that they don�t appear to be outright anti-immigrants.<br /> Also, I do think that anybody who do not want to pick up their ass to find a job and rather chose to whine about someone else taking away the job is lazy and for sure undeserving. They are interested to put restrictions on H-1B because they want to eliminate their competition. Every community/group, big or small, have their opponents and enemies just because of the sheer nature of the competition for resource with other groups/communities. H-1B community now forms substantially large group of people. It is natural that orgs like IEEE-USA will be a natural opponent of H-1B community because there is a competition. Now, most members of IEEE-USA are older and middle aged folks, who are not able to compete with good quality engineers from other parts of the world. The folks on H-1 are young, dynamic and fast learners. IEEE-USA folks cannot compete with this group and so they are working to eliminate competition from H-1B folks by other means. Sometimes they call H-1Bs as indentured servants, sometimes promoting outsourcing, sometimes taking away their jobs and sometime depressing wages. They throw out all sorts of rationale to hurt H-1B community. And some idiots on this and other forums have not clue of the bigger picture and are hell bent on screwing the so called �body shoppers� as if it is ok to work at the client site to do the same job at the same amount if you are employees of KPMG or Accenture or Bearing Point. But it is not ok to do the same thing if you are an employee of TCS, INFY or SIFY etc. If this is not discrimination, then tell me what is????? I sincerely do want to understand your view and please consider me to be totally ignorant person who is here to learn from you. I sincerely mean it.<br /> <br /> <br /> We ourself know that there are some issues in the program. While we were studying in the college it was big achivement if our research article comes into IEEE. So IEEE is considered as one of world best academic association.<br /> <br /> <br /> So you do think that anything associated with the word �IEEE� is gospel. Let me share with you my friend that IEEE and IEEE-USA are totally different organizations. Just like any other organization in the world, IEEE-USA is working to address the issues of their members only. IEEE-USA is working to fix the issues of their members who live in USA ONLY. It has no clue and no desire and no objective to look at any of your issues, no matter what they are. We all acknowledge that are problems with the H-1B program but the question is, Is Durbin-Grassley approach the real solution to the problem? Congress did not address anything associated with H-1B visa for last 6-7 years. If you write to lawmakers they only understand only thing about the word �H-1B� and that is increase in H-1B� that�s it. Now every system in the world needs tweaking from time to time and this has not happened with H-1B program for a very long time. Either way, throwing out people waiting for green cards for 6-7 years is not the solution, putting in restrictions to undermine the entire H-1B program (because they know they will not have enough votes to reduce the visa numbers or eliminate the program) is not the solution, �investigating� companies when they hire someone on H-1B as if hiring someone on H-1B is a crime is not the solution, singling out companies from one country because the guy driving IEEE-USA (Ron Hira) doesn�t want more people to come from India because he hates his heritage � is not the solution. Yes there are problems, but Durbin-Grassley bill is not the solution.<br /> <br /> <br /> If there is real shortage of skilled people then we will pass all the tests which are given in Durbin proposal and we can get H1b. What is the problem in accepting? <br /> <br /> Who needs enemies if we have friends like you? I mean why do you want hard working people to unnecessary go through more problems before getting their green cards, as if the existing problems for us are not enough. You simple want to make the system difficult to test human endurance? You know what, we can do this, how about all the stringent conditions of Durbin-Grassley bill will apply ONLY on you and we are all sure that the �HIGH-SKILLED� that you are, you will pass all the �tests� with flying colors. For rest all the others, please consider us lowly skilled and please set a bar lower to the extent that is humanly achievable, we are not �highly-skilled� super-humans like yourself.<br /> <br /> <br /> Infact I am not supporting Ban of H1b on consulting but other than that everything can be fine and easily passed by most of H1b persons<br /> <br /> Yes, you have not yet clearly said that �I support banning all H-1Bs�, not in those words, not yet. But reading your posts, it is apparent that you are headed there, as soon as you get your green card. As I said earlier, form now on, just think that all the Durbin-Grassley conditions apply on you and live your life as per the standard set by Durbin-Grassley. For the rest of us, please have mercy on us.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair Verne ook, Journey to the <img src="http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/02/08/article-1297165386971-0D16107A000005DC-165742_466x310.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Journey to the Centre of" title="Journey to the Centre of" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Centre of</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">pbojja</div><div class="date">07-15 10:25 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Can some one explain why do we want send the "WISH LIST" letters to DOL now ? Why not when a ROW GC applicant was getting a GC well a head of very well qualified Ind/Chi applicant ? <br /> <br /> Fortunately they fixed the spill over ,Indian/Chinese EB2 applicants can get their GCs sooner now , are we trying to mess this up ? I know you are going to say we are not against EB2 . I m not against ROW applicants but can I get my GC before a ROW applicant by sending a letter to DOL stating that I m more qualified than the other applicant can you send my GC please?</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://movehair.jp/hpgen/BLOG/?date=20110421">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://movieenergy.com/images/2008/373051_brp.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Journey to the Center of the" title="Journey to the Center of the" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">unseenguy</div><div class="date">06-21 03:08 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">That is a nightmare !!! unless you are bill gates, Tata, Ambani etc etc ..if u have a relative in US in the same location then maybe you can manage but still it is problematic ..on top of it, how do you earn money in say India to pay mortgage in US ??<br /> if my GC (or say residency in any country) is denied, I would not want any immovable property in that place ....break - ins, mntc problems, maintenance etc ..I know there are some agencies which will take care of the property for you but their fees are high. I would rather have my money in liquid form and take it with me (or have the ability to take it with me).<br /> as someone else said ..maybe an option would be to stay back and sell the house (at a loss I guess) ..and risk going out of status (but re-entry would be problematic).<br /> I had a question though ..if GC is denied and EAD is valid for 2 years ..can you stay till EAD expiration date ? (I know u have option of MTR ..but say that is denied too ) ..in other words, how long can you stay after GC is denied<br /> <br /> Usually they will give you 3-4 weeks to leave.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hot 2011 Journey to the Center of <img src="http://www.hbirddesigns.com/~launch/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/invasion_of_the_sea.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. A Journey to the Centre of the" title="A Journey to the Centre of the" width="470" <br><li>A Journey to the Centre of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">hiralal</div><div class="date">06-25 10:48 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Just as an example, this may be an anomaly, but I know this Australian Indian citizen, who has recently bought 2 houses in the LA Valley and is having no issues filling them with contractors so far (1 my friend), even in this economy. He works on SAP projects traveling on H1 , but is in Aussie land most of the time, with his family. The rent more than pays off his mortgage.<br /> I have only one sentence to say ..watch the movie "pacific heights" ..I was watching it now and that is a perfect movie for those who intend to rent their homes.<br /> (ofcourse it is just a movie ..but very interesting, worth watching for everyone and gives you some knowledge too. what you have mentioned is the best case scenario ..the movie is the worst case scenario. as always, reality is somewhere in between).<br /> personally there are better ways to make money ..for me diversify is the key word ..(rather than everything in real estate or everything in stock ...and yes, you need to watch the money you have like a hawk (and that is difficult when you give your house on rent ..for eg how do you find out if only the tenant's family is living there - or whether he has sub leased to 2-3 families etc etc)</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://www.wiravisuals.com/?p=247">more...</a><br><br /><br />house Journey to the Center of the <img src="http://images.scholastic.co.uk/assets/a/94/81/124561-px310-231749.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Journey to the Centre of the" title="Journey to the Centre of the" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Centre of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">obviously</div><div class="date">08-05 08:59 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Rolling Flood,<br /> <br /> Clearly, you are a NumberUSA person trying to provoke deep rifts amongst a highly skilled workforce that succeeded in getting HR 5882 out there. Your game is up. Look, no one is claiming porting / interfiling is due to 'length of time'. Each application, under each category, is for a DIFFERENT job. Now, obviously, when you gain experience in one job, you become MORE ELIGIBLE for another job, typically at a more senior level. With that, comes a higher income and higher TAXES back to the USA. So, it is likely that EB3 applicants might have started in one job, gained 5 or 6 years experience, a Masters degree and a few certifications etc., and then become attractive candidates for jobs that require a Masters degree ... hence being eligible for an EB2 filing. The folks reviewing EB applications didnt start yesterday and are not wet behind their ears. EB3's that interfile to EB2's have to, LIKE ANYONE ELSE, show the merits of the EB2 application BY ITSELF. There is no notion of 'imagined eligibility'. If that hypothesis were true, how do we know that you did not suffer from a case of 'imagined eligibility' yourself??!! <br /> <br /> Your perverted logic that people are using interfiling on the premise of 'waiting time in EB3 queues' is a fallacy without legal merit. It is a classic case of riding the ladder of inference and using your own conclusions to make up supporting-evidence, to the contrary of reality and law.<br /> <br /> Now, if you think you can snake in a controversy through a law suit, only to protect your inflated sense of protectionism, keep in mind, that your target is the EB2 category itself, not the interfiling process. That latter is a provision of law. I presume that you are in EB2 yourself. Be prepared for unintended consequences because USCIS could very well freeze ALL EB2's INCLUDING YOURS! Might seem a far stretch, but realistically, anytime a court sees 'merit' in challenging an established system, ALL come under purview. How can your case be assumed to be 'innocent' while everyone else that you are against be 'guilty'? How do we know that YOUR EB2 filing was not based on 'assumed eligibility'?<br /> <br /> There are numerous cases of people going to court seeking 'justice' only to find themselves very quickly standing 'on the other side'... trying to get out of a self inflicted mess.<br /> <br /> Obviously, you have issues that run deeper than discontentment with US legal immigration process. Get yourself some help. Seriously.<br /> <br /> I challenge you to disclose <br /> YOUR REAL NAME<br /> YOUR CASE NUMBER<br /> YOUR EMPLOYER'S NAME<br /> YOUR EB2 JOB DESCRIPTION<br /> so that the larger community can find out if there really is no eligible US person to take that job. Seriously. Want to play that game? I can give you a 100% guarantee, that you would rather fight a 'shadow cause' being the coward you are ... and wont hold yourself up to the kind of scrutiny that you wish to hold others to.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo journey to the center of the <img src="http://www.mattfind.com/12345673215-3-2-3_img/movie/z/r/d/journey_to_the_center_of_the_earth_2008_1024x768_228380.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. 2011 Center Of The Earth" title="2011 Center Of The Earth" width="470" <br><li>2011 Center Of The Earth</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Macaca</div><div class="date">12-30 06:53 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Oppression born of fear<br /> There is fear at the heart of the Chinese and Russian systems. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/8229075/Oppression-born-of-fear.html)<br /> Daily Telegraph Editorial<br /> <br /> An over-mighty state crushes those whom it deems its opponents. Yet in doing so it exposes its weakness. Take the cases of Liu Xiaobo, who yesterday marked his 55th birthday in prison in China, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, currently on trial in Russia. The reaction of the Chinese government earlier in the year to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mr Liu was hysterical. Because the dissident and his family were not permitted to attend the ceremony, the prize was placed on an empty chair, a potent symbol of the oppressive nature of the Communist Party; in short, a diplomatic disaster.<br /> <br /> The relentless pursuit of Mr Khodorkovsky has likewise further tarnished Russia's image. The former head of the oil company Yukos is likely to be sentenced to a six-year term this week for embezzlement and money-laundering, shortly before he completes an earlier, eight-year sentence for tax evasion. The charge that he stole �16.3 billion of oil revenues between 1998 and 2003 is absurd. And the political nature of the case has been made crystal clear by Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, who said earlier this month that "a thief must sit in jail". Mr Khodorkovsky's cardinal sin, in Mr Putin's eyes, is to have provided funding to opposition parties. His second sentence will mean he will be out of the way well beyond the presidential election scheduled for March 2012.<br /> <br /> These two men are being hounded because they challenge the status quo, which in China is the political monopoly of the Communist Party, and in Russia, bureaucratic cronyism. In both countries, those who have grown rich and powerful under such conditions want to keep things as they are. Yet the very intensity of the persecution reveals a fear at the heart of each system that its authority is more fragile than it might appear. Does the emperor have any clothes?<br /> <br /> <br /> Ivory Coast election crisis: A roadmap for African political reform (http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2010/1230/Ivory-Coast-election-crisis-A-roadmap-for-African-political-reform) By Frazer & Berggruen | CSM</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://makingmoneyonlinemarketing.com/2011/05/alert-google-is-talking-about-you/">more...</a><br><br /><br />pictures Book this Tour. Previous Page <img src="http://www.usborne.com/images/covers/eng/max_covers/2227.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. A fantastic flap ook that" title="A fantastic flap ook that" width="470" <br><li>A fantastic flap ook that</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">desi3933</div><div class="date">08-06 09:33 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Rolling floods,<br /> What is your PD ? EB2-India is Jun2006. It is just 2 years back. So I am guessing your PD is even less than 2 years and you are getting so restless that your are seeking to get more rulings done in place where 2000 thousand unnecessary laws & rulings exist for a 'could be an easy' process. I think instead of talking to lawyers you need to see a doctor...<br /> <br /> But doctor asked him to see a lawyer. :D</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses A Journey to the Centre of the <img src="http://www.disneyfancentral.com/WindowsLiveWriter/journey%252520to%252520the%252520centre%252520of%252520the%252520earth.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. makeup Book cover of : Journey" title="makeup Book cover of : Journey" width="470" <br><li>makeup Book cover of : Journey</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nogc_noproblem</div><div class="date">08-25 04:43 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">What men say and what they actually mean . . . <br /> <br /> � "I'M GOING FISHING" Means: "I'm going to drink myself dangerously stupid, and stand by a stream with a stick in my hand, while the fish swim by in complete safety." <br /> � "YES, DEAR..." Means: Absolutely nothing. It's a conditioned response. <br /> � "IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO EXPLAIN" Means: "I have no idea how it works." <br /> � "TAKE A BREAK HONEY, YOU'RE WORKING TOO HARD". Means: "I can't hear the game over the vacuum cleaner." <br /> � "THAT'S INTERESTING, DEAR." Means: "Are you still talking?" <br /> � "I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT YOU, AND GOT YOU THESE ROSES". Means: "The girl selling them on the corner was a real babe." <br /> � "WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?" Means: "What did you catch me at?" <br /> � "I HEARD YOU." Means: "I haven't the foggiest clue what you just said, and am hoping desperately that I can fake it well enough so that you don't spend the next 3 days yelling at me." <br /> � "YOU KNOW I COULD NEVER LOVE ANYONE ELSE." Means: "I am used to the way you yell at me, and realize it could be worse." <br /> � "YOU LOOK TERRIFIC." Means: "Please don't try on one more outfit, I'm starving." <br /> � "WE SHARE THE HOUSEWORK." Means: "I make the messes, she cleans them up."</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://tech.mangot.com/roller/">more...</a><br><br /><br />makeup center of the earth book <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2596395444_362f1d8025.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. Journey to the Center of the" title="Journey to the Center of the" width="470" <br><li>Journey to the Center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">yibornindia</div><div class="date">08-05 12:11 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Friends,<br /> I need to find out how many people are interested in pursuing this option, since the whole interfiling/PD porting business (based on a year 2000 memo) can seriously undermine the EB2 category.<br /> <br /> I am currently pursuing some initial draft plans with some legal representation, so that a sweeping case may be filed to end this unfair practice. We need to plug this EB3-to-EB2 loophole, if there is any chance to be had for filers who have originally been EB2.<br /> <br /> More than any other initiative, the removal of just this one unfair provision will greatly aid all original EB2 filers. Else, it can be clearly deduced that the massively backlogged EB3 filers will flock over to EB2 and backlog it by 8 years or more.<br /> <br /> I also want to make this issue an action item for all EB2 folks volunteering for IV activities.<br /> <br /> Thanks.<br /> <br /> <br /> Hey Bro! Think of you this way.<br /> <br /> You are no different than those trying to move from EB3 to EB2. They are doing this to get GC faster then others.<br /> <br /> You are stopping others from entering in your line, to get GC faster. :p<br /> <br /> Ultimately you both are the same.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />girlfriend 2011 Center Of The Earth <img src="http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/410380.1020.A.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. journey to the center of the" title="journey to the center of the" width="470" <br><li>journey to the center of the</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">DallasBlue</div><div class="date">09-29 07:22 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">USINPAC and AJC should support us for talented future lobbyists. :-)<br /> <br /> Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill's Next Big Player Is Made in India (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR2007092801350_2.html) By Mira Kamdar (miraukamdar@gmail.com) | Washington Post, September 30, 2007<br /> <br /> Mira Kamdar, a fellow at the World Policy Institute and the Asia Society, is the author of "Planet India: How the Fastest-Growing Democracy is Transforming America and the World." <br /> <br /> The fall's most controversial book is almost certainly "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," in which political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt warn that Jewish Americans have built a behemoth that has bullied policymakers into putting Israel's interests in the Middle East ahead of America's. To Mearsheimer and Walt, AIPAC, the main pro-Israel lobbying group, is insidious. But to more and more Indian Americans, it's downright inspiring. <br /> <br /> With growing numbers, clout and self-confidence, the Indian American community is turning its admiration for the Israel lobby and its respect for high-achieving Jewish Americans into a powerful new force of its own. Following consciously in AIPAC's footsteps, the India lobby is getting results in Washington -- and having a profound impact on U.S. policy, with important consequences for the future of Asia and the world. <br /> <br /> "This is huge," enthused Ron Somers, the president of the U.S.-India Business Council, from a posh hotel lobby in Philadelphia. "It's the Berlin Wall coming down. It's Nixon in China." <br /> <br /> What has Somers so energized is a landmark nuclear cooperation deal between India and the United States, which would give India access to U.S. nuclear technology and deliver fuel supplies to India's civilian power plants in return for placing them under permanent international safeguards. Under the deal's terms, the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty -- for decades the cornerstone of efforts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons -- will in effect be waived for India, just nine years after the Clinton administration slapped sanctions on New Delhi for its 1998 nuclear tests. But the Bush administration, eager to check the rise of China by tilting toward its massive neighbor, has sought to forge a new strategic alliance with India, cemented by the civil nuclear deal. <br /> <br /> On the U.S. side, the pact awaits nothing more than one final up-or-down vote in Congress. (In India, the situation is far more complicated; India's left-wing parties, sensitive to any whiff of imperialism, have accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of surrendering the country's sovereignty -- a broadside that may yet scuttle the deal.) On Capitol Hill, despite deep divisions over Iraq, immigration and the outsourcing of American jobs to India, Democrats and Republicans quickly fell into line on the nuclear deal, voting for it last December by overwhelming bipartisan majorities. Even lawmakers who had made nuclear nonproliferation a core issue over their long careers, such as Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), quickly came around to President Bush's point of view. Why? <br /> <br /> The answer is that the India lobby is now officially a powerful presence on the Hill. The nuclear pact brought together an Indian government that is savvier than ever about playing the Washington game, an Indian American community that is just coming into its own and powerful business interests that see India as perhaps the single biggest money-making opportunity of the 21st century. <br /> <br /> The nuclear deal has been pushed aggressively by well-funded groups representing industry in both countries. At the center of the lobbying effort has been Robert D. Blackwill, a former U.S. ambassador to India and deputy national security adviser who's now with a well-connected Republican lobbying firm, Barbour, Griffith &amp; Rogers LLC. The firm's Web site touts Blackwill as a pillar of its "India Practice," along with a more recent hire, Philip D. Zelikow, a former top adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who was also one of the architects of the Bush administration's tilt toward India. The Confederation of Indian Industry paid Blackwill to lobby various U.S. government entities, according to the Boston Globe. And India is also paying a major Beltway law firm, Venable LLP. <br /> <br /> The U.S.-India Business Council has lavished big money on lobbyists, too. With India slated to spend perhaps $60 billion over the next few years to boost its military capabilities, major U.S. corporations are hoping that the nuclear agreement will open the door to some extremely lucrative opportunities, including military contracts and deals to help build nuclear power plants. According to a recent MIT study, Lockheed Martin is pushing to land a $4 billion to $9 billion contract for more than 120 fighter planes that India plans to buy. "The bounty is enormous," gushed Somers, the business council's president. <br /> <br /> So enormous, in fact, that Bonner &amp; Associates created an India lobbying group last year to make sure that U.S. companies reap a major chunk of it. Dubbed the Indian American Security Leadership Council, the group was underwritten by Ramesh Kapur, a former trustee of the Democratic National Committee, and Krishna Srinivasa, who has been backing GOP causes since his 1984 stint as co-chair of Asian Americans for Reagan-Bush. The council has, oddly, "recruited groups representing thousands of American veterans" to urge Congress to pass the nuclear deal. <br /> <br /> The India lobby is also eager to use Indian Americans to put a human face -- not to mention a voter's face and a campaign contributor's face -- on its agenda. "Industry would make its business case," Somers explained, "and Indian Americans would make the emotional case." <br /> <br /> There are now some 2.2 million Americans of Indian origin -- a number that's growing rapidly. First-generation immigrants keenly recall the humiliating days when India was dismissed as an overpopulated, socialist haven of poverty and disease. They are thrilled by the new respect India is getting. Meanwhile, a second, American-born generation of Indian Americans who feel comfortable with activism and publicity is just beginning to hit its political stride. As a group, Indian Americans have higher levels of education and income than the national average, making them a natural for political mobilization. <br /> <br /> One standout member of the first generation is Sanjay Puri, who founded the U.S. India Political Action Committee in 2002. (Its acronym, USINPAC, even sounds a bit like AIPAC.) He came to the United States in 1985 to get an MBA at George Washington University, staying on to found an information-technology company. A man of modest demeanor who wears a lapel pin that joins the Indian and American flags, Puri grew tired of watching successful Indian Americans pony up money just so they could get their picture taken with a politician. "I thought, 'What are we getting out of this?', " he explains. <br /> <br /> In just five years, USINPAC has become the most visible face of Indian American lobbying. Its Web site boasts photos of its leaders with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and presidential candidates from Fred Thompson to Barack Obama. The group pointedly sports a New Hampshire branch. It can also take some credit for ending the Senate career of Virginia Republican George Allen, whose notorious taunt of "macaca" to a young Indian American outraged the community. Less publicly, USINPAC claims to have brought a lot of lawmakers around. "You haven't heard a lot from Dan Burton lately, right?" Puri asked, referring to a Republican congressman from Indiana who has long been perceived as an India basher. <br /> <br /> USINPAC is capable of pouncing; witness the incident last June when Obama's campaign issued a memo excoriating Hillary Rodham Clinton for her close ties to wealthy Indian Americans and her alleged support for outsourcing, listing the New York senator's affiliation as "D-Punjab." Puri personally protested in a widely circulated open letter, and Obama quickly issued an apology. "Did you see? That letter was addressed directly to Sanjay," Varun Mehta, a senior at Boston University and USINPAC volunteer, told me with evident admiration. "That's the kind of clout Sanjay has." <br /> <br /> Like many politically engaged Indian Americans, Puri has a deep regard for the Israel lobby -- particularly in a country where Jews make up just a small minority of the population. "A lot of Jewish people tell me maybe I was Jewish in my past life," he jokes. The respect runs both ways. The American Jewish Committee, for instance, recently sent letters to members of Congress supporting the U.S.-India nuclear deal. <br /> <br /> "We model ourselves on the Jewish people in the United States," explains Mital Gandhi of USINPAC's new offshoot, the U.S.-India Business Alliance. "We're not quite there yet. But we're getting there."</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hairstyles Journey to the Center of the <img src="http://www.hollywoodchicago.com/sites/default/files/images/journeyearth1.jpg" alt="journey to the center of the earth book. “Journey to the Center of" title="“Journey to the Center of" width="470" <br><li>“Journey to the Center of</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">sanju</div><div class="date">04-08 09:07 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">of course not....<br /> The provision defeats the purpose of whole whistle blower clause...<br /> <br /> Oh ok. Sorry, I was not sure about the message of your earlier post.<br /> <br /> And for this purpose, the provisions which seem to be protecting H1 employees are actually falling short of providing any protection to make H1 program more efficient. At the same time, the bill is imposing so many restrictions that it would make the entire H1 program "non-workable" and "useless", as highlighted by the administrator.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">akred</div><div class="date">04-06 08:51 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">This bill seems to require a labor certification like process for every H1B extension. All of us who have gone through labor certification know how painful the initial data collection is when it comes to proving unavailability of US workers. How many employers will want to or be able to get a labor certification like process done for every H1 extension?</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">gapala</div><div class="date">06-12 06:59 AM</div></div><div class="posttext">Guys.. stay put for now.. <br /> Did you hear that home sales are up! All these media and those streaky economists and so called "housing experts" claiming in the news channels for past couple of weeks?.. that is media messing around with people's head.. I was looking at the public records for home sales and found that a huge portion of current homes sales are nothing but LOW END old homes between (75K to 150K).. Only a neglegable percentage are the ones between (200K and above). This is exactly what media doesn't speak about.. they conveniently skip this part when they report on home sales lately...<br /> <br /> Its the gotcha guys.. now they started to increase price a bit.. banks are pushing up interest rates to create a scenario where people are made to believe soon, its going to be out of reach again.. so grab one now.. and get that $8000 credit for yourself.. What they are trying to do is, create an artificial demand.. We all know that it isn't going anywhere.. by Q409.. we will see the prices again going south.. only thing they can do is delay the natural correction during this summer.. 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Yet this was atypical of a relationship in which China, with newfound power, has found it easy to divide and rule the EU. <br /> <br /> While the European Council focused on the euro crisis last week, away from the limelight, EU leaders were adopting a new China policy. Discussion began four months ago when EU leaders took up Europe-China relations. Then the issue was overshadowed by the internal EU topic of the day: Romas. Dealing with China was relegated to short talks and coffee breaks. <br /> <br /> This reveals a lot about the EU�s strategic outreach. The EU looks inward and seems destined to be an enlarged Switzerland rather than the missing link between the US and Asia in shaping global affairs. China has recognized this, and increasingly sees Europe as an investment opportunity rather than as a global partner.<br /> <br /> On a recent trip to Beijing, I met a range of prominent Chinese officials and academics. Not one asked me how Europe intended to influence US strategy toward Afghanistan or about European views on the upcoming referendum in Sudan. To Beijing, Europe is not so much post-modern as post-global.<br /> <br /> How can the EU�s strategic shrinkage be reversed? EU Council President van Rompuy�s comment in September on the need for �reciprocity� � giving to China only when the EU gets something back � was a good start. In line with this, the draft for the new EU trade policy looks at the possibility of closing off the European public procurement market if China does not give the EU reciprocal access to its market. This tough EU language has not gone unnoticed in Beijing. I was repeatedly asked about it by Chinese interlocutors. China understands a clear but consistent message.<br /> <br /> By itself this new approach will not be enough. The EU must pursue a set of commonly agreed aims. Europe needs to set urgent, coherent strategic priorities, setting aside strategic patience and trust, the key words of the new approach. <br /> <br /> The process of setting new trade policy priorities needs to be extended to the political realm. Member states must select a few priorities on which they really want to engage with China. Non-proliferation, climate change, good governance and human rights are good candidates.<br /> <br /> The big players in Europe have been bypassed economically in the last decade by China. They still have traction individually but much less than their national egos afford � this is true even for Germany, which currently is on its own fast track with large scale exports to China.<br /> <br /> The Wikileaks exposed how the US looks at the political dwarfs of Europe. The Middle Kingdom has a similar take. The feud over Dalai Lama visits in 2007 and 2008 showed that China was capable of hanging out to dry even Germany and France. The old days � the 1990s � when the EU could levy sanctions on China and enforce a change in behavior are gone. The last vestige of this era is the arms embargo. A new era has begun in which China can levy smart sanctions on European countries.<br /> <br /> Resisting the bilateral inclination is difficult. Bilateral visits like David Cameron�s recent tour to China and the Chinese president�s visit to Paris are locked in the logic of bilateral trade promotion. But seeing links to China mainly as a bilateral issue rather than a European-wide concern means accepting a weak position vis-a-vis Beijing. China deals with Europe as it is, not how we dream it is. When European states pursue their own agendas, China will get free traders in the Northern countries to block moves that it sees as too strong, while ensuring that indifferent Southerners dilute policies on human rights.<br /> <br /> A purely bilateral vocabulary seems increasingly anachronistic when an Airbus is assembled with subcomponents from all over Europe. Member countries must acknowledge that signing up to the EU is a binding commitment. A high-level EU official conceded that the just adopted internal strategy paper was kept relatively bland because of suspicion that it would be leaked to China. As a result, it couldn�t contain a more detailed game plan for how to secure EU interests through trade-offs and linkages.<br /> <br /> The EU�s bilateral instinct can be overcome. The internal pressure for multilateral compliance should be stronger once the External Action Service is up and running. But the EAS is no deus ex machina. Member states must be continuously engaged to pursue reciprocal engagement with China. The European Parliament, with its new say over foreign policy, could play an important role by naming and shaming member states that subvert the EU�s strategic priorities in exchange for bilateral advantages. <br /> <br /> A joined-up China policy is urgently needed. Events tend to overtake the EU while it ponders policy and its strategic approach. This year, it was Chinese investments in Europe, particularly in government bonds from Greece to Spain. China�s investment in Europe is a natural diversification from a dollar verdose. Chinese investment should be welcome, but the EU should be an intermediary so that this process is not framed as a bilateral favor that creates political dependency between China and member states. Eurobonds, which have been widely discussed as a solution in the euro crisis, could be a useful tool in this. <br /> <br /> For EU foreign policy �czar� Catherine Ashton and her team, fleshing out the elements of a common EU China policy and being able to apply it in time means anticipating events and providing guidance for how individual actions and bilateral visits play to (or undermine) Europe�s strength. For example, the EU needs a code of conduct for dealing with Liu Xiaobo after the Nobel debacle. Such a code of conduct could be minimal. The important point is that it is adhered to.<br /> <br /> Member states must make strategic choices that do not favor short-term national rewards at the expense of Europe�s strength. 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Not only that if you go without IV support but at the same time use IV forum that will certainly impact the unity of IV and that will may have impact on survival of IV in future. I think Core IV Group is in fix in this issue and whatever they tell someone will be unhappy.<br /> <br /> If law tells something and DOS violates that then certainly there is a valid point. If DOS follows law and law is unfair then you need to try changing the law. If you go to DOS simply they will tell we followed the law. If you find viloation of law then you may get some support. <br /> <br /> I definitely feel that EB3 should go ahead with this campaign. there has to be some fairness ...if we don't speak up then year after year, the same thing will happen and maybe in 2015, EB3 will get spillover visas. those who are writing against EB3 --tell me this, if a person who has come to US in 2007 and he has applied during the july fiasco ..and if he gets preference over a EB3 person who is still stuck with a PD of 2002 ..would you still say that the system is fair ???<br /> my point is let there be a little spillover ...maybe in a ratio of 2 to 1 ..but a little bit atleast ..is that asking for too much ???</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />dresses lebron james mom and delonte <img src="http://mediaoutrage.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Lebron-mom.jpg" alt="lebron james mother pic. 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NO.<br /> <br /> What created the 20,000 H1B visas for US educated students is lobbying by US universities. They saw a drop in student enrollment due to shortage of H1 visas in 2002 and 2003. Read the bureau of Immigration stats report to verify that drop in F1 visa demand from India and China in the early 2000s. Now its back up.<br /> <br /> Ron Hira and IEEE-USA have systematically worked for nearly 10 years to eliminate H1B program. However, they are doing it in a way that makes them look like reasonable people and helps them mask their xenophobic and protectionist attitude. <br /> <br /> This bill has been pretty much authored by xenophobes of IEEE-USA. If you look at the IEEE-USA website and what Sen. Grassley has been saying over the years, it has an uncanny similarity. Last year, IEEE-USA's insistence caused Sen. Grassley to put amendment in Jud committee to remove the provision of EAD for L1 spouses. Look at IEEE-USA's website and you will find remarkably similar material. Whether it was a justified and fair amendment, its a different issue.<br /> <br /> Lately, IEEE-USA has been against H1B employees who go back to India and China. Some time ago, they were saying "When does temporary end and permenant begin"...meaning, what part of "Temporary" do H1B "temporary non-immigrant" workers do not understand. They were against H1B employees becoming permenant by seeking Greencards and wanted them to go back after 6 years. <br /> <br /> Then they started opposing people who come here and go back because that is supposed to facilitate outsourcing. And IEEE-USA, like Lou Dobbs, hates outsourcing. So now they are unhappy even if H1B workers come here for 3-6 years and go back. <br /> <br /> So in a nutshell, they(IEEE-USA) are against H1B employees if they :<br /> <br /> 1. Come here and stay here on GC.<br /> 2. Come here and go back.<br /> 3. Never come here but work for US companies and enable outsourcing.<br /> <br /> So the people who oppose all 3 of the above...like RON HIRA of IEEE-USA basically does not want us to exist in hi-tech work. Probably they would want all Indian and Chinese engineers to work in fields and pick cotton.<br /> <br /> Similary, Chuck Grassley has no problem with giving amnesty to illegals if they are agricultural workers. But in general he doesnt want too much immigration. So immigration is fine, as long as the brown people dont do white people's job. Immigration is good as long as brown people stick their brown asses in fieds picking cotton and stay away from that keyboard so that people like Ron Hira and his colleagues can get their 1990s back and write 4 lines of code per week and make $100,000 a year.<br /> <br /> Rimzhim, this whole public policy thing is really not your cup of tea. You go and stick to whatever it is that you are doing and let the core group handle this issue. 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The chief continues, "Okay, were they doing anything else?"<br /> <br /> The monkey nods his head and moves his mouth back and forth, meaning they were talking.<br /> <br /> The chief loses his patience: "If they were having such a great time, who was driving the stupid bus then?"<br /> <br /> The monkey cheerfully swings his arms to the sides as if grabbing a wheel.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Refugee_New</div><div class="date">01-06 02:27 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Refugee_New,<br /> <br /> It all depends on people's mind. You don't need to answer me, and I am sure you are pure by heart as my many muslim friends.<br /> <br /> It depends where your bias is. Are you (you means in general people, not you particularly) biased to religion or you are biased to humanity! When a christian or hindu gets killed, if it doesn't pain you as much when a muslim gets killed, you are more biased towards religion. <br /> <br /> People are biased towards religion often shelter under humanity sentences to prove their point. But quite ofter they become onesided. Like People were igniting fire crackers in Pakistan when Mumbai massacre happened. When one of them gets killed, they shout on name of humanity. <br /> <br /> My sympathies are with poor innocent kids of palestine got killed. <br /> <br /> But people should come out and unshelter terrorists who live in civilian facilities. Same as Dawood & Azhar Masood. People want to harbour them but them if other country takes military action to capture them and some civilians killed because they were in civilian area, it is bad to shout on name of humanity. BECAUSE IN THAT CASE THEY ARE REALLY NOT INNOCENT.<br /> <br /> It pained me a lot when terrorist struck Mumbai and i did condemn the mindless killing just like fellow Indian and Indian Muslim. Don't you think Muslims in India united and showed their unity and condemned Pakistan?<br /> <br /> Don't compare terrorists like Dawood and Masood Azhar with those who are elected democratically by people of their nation.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">rajmirk</div><div class="date">05-24 08:17 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Please spend some time on this website....browse around, get acquainted, find the right threads and you will automatically find your answers. There is no 1800 number to call for assistance here............<br /> <br /> I agree. But lets not scare away people either by such open criticism and rudeness. 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Your game is up. Look, no one is claiming porting / interfiling is due to 'length of time'. Each application, under each category, is for a DIFFERENT job. Now, obviously, when you gain experience in one job, you become MORE ELIGIBLE for another job, typically at a more senior level. With that, comes a higher income and higher TAXES back to the USA. So, it is likely that EB3 applicants might have started in one job, gained 5 or 6 years experience, a Masters degree and a few certifications etc., and then become attractive candidates for jobs that require a Masters degree ... hence being eligible for an EB2 filing. The folks reviewing EB applications didnt start yesterday and are not wet behind their ears. EB3's that interfile to EB2's have to, LIKE ANYONE ELSE, show the merits of the EB2 application BY ITSELF. There is no notion of 'imagined eligibility'. If that hypothesis were true, how do we know that you did not suffer from a case of 'imagined eligibility' yourself??!! <br /> <br /> Your perverted logic that people are using interfiling on the premise of 'waiting time in EB3 queues' is a fallacy without legal merit. It is a classic case of riding the ladder of inference and using your own conclusions to make up supporting-evidence, to the contrary of reality and law.<br /> <br /> Now, if you think you can snake in a controversy through a law suit, only to protect your inflated sense of protectionism, keep in mind, that your target is the EB2 category itself, not the interfiling process. That latter is a provision of law. I presume that you are in EB2 yourself. Be prepared for unintended consequences because USCIS could very well freeze ALL EB2's INCLUDING YOURS! Might seem a far stretch, but realistically, anytime a court sees 'merit' in challenging an established system, ALL come under purview. How can your case be assumed to be 'innocent' while everyone else that you are against be 'guilty'? How do we know that YOUR EB2 filing was not based on 'assumed eligibility'?<br /> <br /> There are numerous cases of people going to court seeking 'justice' only to find themselves very quickly standing 'on the other side'... trying to get out of a self inflicted mess.<br /> <br /> Obviously, you have issues that run deeper than discontentment with US legal immigration process. Get yourself some help. Seriously.<br /> <br /> I challenge you to disclose <br /> YOUR REAL NAME<br /> YOUR CASE NUMBER<br /> YOUR EMPLOYER'S NAME<br /> YOUR EB2 JOB DESCRIPTION<br /> so that the larger community can find out if there really is no eligible US person to take that job. Seriously. Want to play that game? 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My employer knew that Eb3 would be slower. <br /> <br /> What happened? cases like mine were eye openers and learning experiences for comrades who were going to file and they filed under EB2, I asked friends and relatives and classmates of mine to file under Eb2. <br /> Am i happy for them? No, I hate them. Of course, I am happy for them. Very very much. <br /> <br /> So, why would you not fight for us?<br /> <br /> If people like me and filers before me had not filed under EB3, and not shared our experiences, how would we have progressed?<br /> <br /> Suddenly, 'You Eb3 folks are depressed' from 'We folks are depressed'. lol for chauvinism.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I commend the initiative. But I see a few issues with it:<br /> <br /> You are complaining to DOS about USCIS and DOL. That will not work. Every agency has a specific role<br /> <br /> You are complaining to the official who sets visa dates. He has no authority to give relief just because some applicant/s are asking for it. He has to follow the rule every month and his responsibility is only to set the dates based on the statistics received from USCIS. This official has a very specific and limited role.<br /> <br /> The reasons are not compelling enough. You cannot just say you are waiting long enough and thus your date should become current. Rules cannot be changed just for that reason.<br /> <br /> If economy was down in 2001- 2003 and you were asked to file in EB3 and people in Perm could file in EB2 is your strongest reason, it may not work in your favor. Because by law you can file again and convert to EB2 and port your date. DOL and USCIS does not stop you from doing that.<br /> <br /> If you are qualified for EB2 but your attorney and employer filed in EB3, then it is not a fault of USCIS/DOL/DOS. You must talk to the company and the lawyer for it. If the company or the lawyer has broken any rule or employer has exploited you, then the letter should be complain to the appropriate authority about them.<br /> <br /> Please also note that labor is filed based on the degree and experience requirement of the job. By law if the requirement is only undergraduate degree for the job, the employer cannot file in EB2 just because the applicant has a masters degree or more experience than needed. So you cannot really put this arguement here because it will be against the rules.<br /> <br /> So I personally do not think this idea will work.<br /> <br /> While this mess is depressing for EB3 folks, we need to have a more compelling argument, determined membership and effective plan to get things changed.<br /> The root cause of the problem is limited greencard quota for EB3. And the solution is to get recapture, get rid of country limits, STEM exemption. Any single relief itself will be huge for all of us. With 179 phone calls and $16656 collected in last 3 months, I do not see that happening. It will need a far more bigger and determined effort. Such amount can be spent on full scale lobbying in just one month. 179 phone calls are nothing if we have to make a compelling case for ourselves.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2011 and after plastic surgery. <img src="http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/03/HEIDI-MONTAG-PHOTO.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. 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Most lawmakers may vote in favor of this bill as the anti-lobby is warpping this bill around a message "this bill is to enhance protections for American workers, so are you going to vote against American workers?" As such most lawmakers could vote in favor of this bill. The current environment is very dangerous where most people watch news in the sound-bites and half of the Senate is running for President. In such an environment, if you ask Obama, Hilary, Dodd, McCain etc., they are all likely to vote in favor of this bill, without going into the nuances and actual implications of this bill. None of these guys would want to be headlines saying something like �Obama is against American Works�. No one will actually care to look at the long term implication of such a bill whereby most of the IT jobs will be outsourced.<br /> <br /> From tomorrow, we should all email and inform everybody that we can, including our employers. What is the direction from IV core? 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You have a lot of companies run by the same nationality who will only recruit their own people. The staffing companies don't advertise in Indonesia, Germany, Brazil, etc. They only go after their own people. The whole monopolization of visas was used to prevent this type of behaviour.<br /> <br /> .................................................. .................................................. ....<br /> .................................................. .................................................. ..<br /> <br /> <br /> UN,<br /> <br /> I don't think your view of Indian monopoly in IT is correct. It is a natural flow of human resources from countries which had plenty of it to USA which needed it.<br /> <br /> The reason for Indians/Chinese taking up majority of H1B visas is that there are lot of educated candidates to pick from highly populous countries like India and China.<br /> <br /> US never gave any preference to Indians or Chinese in H1B visas. The fact is India and China produced lot of graduates who were capable of doing IT work. So US had the necessity for skilled people, India and China had the supply of these people, naturally staffing companies came up to bank on this opportunity. It was a natural evolution, there was no bias towards Indians/Chinese. If you take any small country in the region, they didn't have enough qualified people so staffing companies didn't flourish in those countries.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />2010 2011 heidi montag before and <img src="http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2010/11/25/alg_heidi-montag_plastic_3.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. 2010 montag plastic surgery" title="2010 montag plastic surgery" width="470" <br><li>2010 montag plastic surgery</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">samrat_bhargava_vihari</div><div class="date">02-02 04:59 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Lou knows it all; he knows it is the L-1 visa holders and not the H1B visa holders. But his viewers know what H1b is and have never heard of L1. So it helps him to cite H1B. He has shown "figures with 0 tax returns" on his show at times; they are from ppl who are now on H1B but were on L-1 in the past when they submitted the 0-tax returns.<br /> <br /> <br /> ???? How do you know that L-1 visa holders will not pay tax ?</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://sleeplessdoll.iobloggo.com/">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://images.sugarscape.com/userfiles/image/DECEMBER2010/Lozza/HeidiMontag.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. surgery face. heidi montag" title="surgery face. heidi montag" width="470" <br><li>surgery face. heidi montag</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">Ramba</div><div class="date">09-26 03:24 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Employment based GC will exist whoever wins. CIR or any other reform that increses number of immigrants per year (legal/illegal/ammnisity/point system/high skilled/low skilled) may not be possible in new administration (BO/Mcsamebush), unless economy bounce back. Immigration is tiny bit of the big problem facing this country. If the current economny lead to depression/recession what is the use of having GC/USC?<br /> <br /> Both are politicans their first ambittion is the office. Country first is simply bull. However, I think BO, is the right choice at this momnet. as atleast he is having professional approch in every problem. He is having little bit socialism. I think economy will boucnce back in BO admin, which is the important issue at this point.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />hair We love Heidi Montag. <img src="http://cdn04.cdn.socialitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/heidi-montag-face-photos-01202010-31-820x928.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. 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If when I bought this house the market was like this, I would not have bought but would have waited. Period.<br /> <br /> And for those who become nostalgic. I myself was bought up in a small house, it had only two rooms, I repeat, the whole house had just two rooms, nothing else. We had to share a toilet with 3 other houses of similar size, was I happy then?, Of course I was happy, I used to play cricket and other sports on the street with other kids with vehicles passing by once in a while. Is the situation same here?. No, but do kids here have other ways of having fun, oh yes. It doesn’t matter if the kid is living in an apartment or a house, all that matters is if he is having fun. Somebody came up with a strange logic that our love for our kids will diminish if we buy a house. If you have bought a decent, affordable house your love will not diminish, it will only manifold.<br /> <br /> I am not against renting, nor against people living in an apartment, I myself have lived in apartments before. I am against people who only want to save for god knows what, for people who are afraid to take small risks (for ex: buying a small home and not a mansion) when the market becomes good, they will ask you to prepare for the worst case scenario. They will say don’t buy a house because the sky will fall or don’t buy because the world will come to an end. Nothing is permanent here, not the job, not the location. You just have to take calculated risks. You just cannot console yourself saying you are from middle class and cannot do a thing, lift yourself up. If you want to buy a house but you are not doing it now because the market is bad, then I am not against you, so don’t jump on me.<br /> <br /> Dude - Since you did not point out the danger of buying a house in this economy(you and some others said go ahead and buy), I am pointing it. I will continue to point to the risk. <br /> <br /> And you are back to the point "housing is better than renting". Everyone has their own reasons to rent out or buy. I am not making a blanket statement that renting is good or buying a house is good. Where as you keep making the argument that renting is bad and buying house is good. We don't know the situation what one is in. Their jobs may be shaky. You just cannot say they made a mistake by renting. And some don't think not owning a house is a big deal. "Lift yourself up:(? (do you attend NAR seminars?)" - that is your view. Google and you will see that there are many who think buying house means wasting time maintaining.</div></div><hr /><br><br> <a href="http://lom.eugamer.de/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=167">more...</a><br><br /><br /><img src="http://ficklepost.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/heidi-montag-post-surgery2_14.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. Heidi Montag unveiled her new" title="Heidi Montag unveiled her new" width="470" <br><li>Heidi Montag unveiled her new</li><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">nk2006</div><div class="date">09-30 02:54 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Yes, you are right, the recent 485 denials for people using AC-21 have nothing to do with Obama/Durbin immigtaion policy. But I kind of remember there were some harsh provisions for people using AC 21 in CIR 2007 version. I am trying to find out the details about it.<br /> Correct me if I am wrong.<br /> <br /> I dont think there were any provisions in 2007 CIR that curtail job movement using AC21 for greencard holders. I think we are over-analyzing this - that Sen.Durbin is against lot of H1B provisions is evident. Also he may not be in favor of visa-recapture for EB immigrants - but I dont think he will single handedly drive immigration rules and make the life of all EB immigrants tough. He may have some support in changing the rules in H1B - but I dont think even he is not that negative regarding GC aspects - even if he is, may not get widespread support for it in congress. <br /> <br /> Also Obama has shown his governing style (from the campaign, debate etc) - which is very level headed based on a bunch of things and discussions rather than following "one" ideological path blindly. 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God did not come to create religion but a way to salvation. the main message of the bible is forgiveness, and the sacrifice that God made in order to save mankind. the person the bible portrays is the man who wanted to sacrifice his life for all of us. history proves that to be true. I don't think any king would want to change that message. <br /> God hates evil, and both God and evil cannot exist together. Man is doomed to eternal death because of sin. but God loved us that none of us should perish, and that's how he gave us a way to escape death (not mortal). that is through the great sacrifice He made for mankind. <br /> <br /> Book of Romans 5:8<br /> "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Look, your intensions may be good and I respect that, but one cannot solve one problem by creating another problem of equal magnitude.<br /> <br /> Isn't "religion" the reason why folks are fighting? I do not mean to offend anyone, but I think all religious books have been doctored by the kings who were in power during the last two centuries. Bible, Geeta, Quran, or for that matter any religious book of any organized religion - they are all doctored from its original version. Why? Because the purpose of these books is? Guess what? To oragnize the religion. Their primary purpose is not spirituality. Because if the sole purpose was spirituality, no one will have fought each other in the name of religion for thousands of years.<br /> <br /> I guess the question I would ask is - WWJD ie. What Would Jesus Do? If you asked Jesus that are you the only son of god, WWJD? I can tell you with 100% surety that he will say - we are all sons and daughters of God. But con artists have doctored the holy book to suit their meaning and interpretation. Anyways, I do not mean to have a philisophical debate here with you being the "protector" of Jesus, why? Because Jesus or Allah or for that matter any great soul doesn't need any protection from anyone. Just as a cartoon cannot damage Allah, any discussion about any faith cannot damage the GOD. But too often we want to be seen as if "God is on MY side" because I follow CORRECT religion, and everyone else is against my team of "ME & GOD". And thats just the most absurd thing mankind could come up with in the form of organized religion. But the truth is, thats the most common view most humans take, everyone is protecting their "GOD", which actually sounds like a joke. Does god need any protection??? I mean give me a break.<br /> <br /> Please don't bring one flawed system to replace another flawed system.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br />tattoo Heidi Montag#39;s Plastic Surgery <img src="http://www.celebjihad.com/celeb-jihad/images/heidi_montag_plastic_surgery.jpg" alt="heidi montag plastic surgery face. 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You haven't seen anything yet. Consider:<br /> <br /> http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/loan-matrix.jpg<br /> <br /> and:<br /> <br /> http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/adjustable-rate-mortgage-reset-schedule.jpg<br /> <br /> Option ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) and Alt-A ARMs are the next two shoes to drop. In case you've had your head buried in the sand, the economy is on verge of a collapse. Unemployment is soaring and many more companies are considering layoffs. Many economic observers are opining that we are already in recession.<br /> <br /> Desi junta, and others, I entreat you readers to please consider this seriously in your house purchase decisions. If for some reason you need to sell and move out, at a minimum you will be saving some money (by not losing your downpayment, for example) by choosing to rent. Rent a house/townhouse from a private owner if you are tired of renting an apartment and have growing kids - it's a "renters market" in the private rental marketplace right now with so many investment properties purchased during the housing bubble available for rent.<br /> <br /> I would like to offer up a few blogs, whose commentators should be taken seriously. 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Competitive politics has made it tougher to figure out head from tail. <br /> <br /> The reason everyone is totally confused is because the totals are so mind-boggling: Rs 1.39 trillion is the figure being bandied about and anybody who had that kind of financial spectrum would be giggling hysterically all the way to the nearest bank in Liechtenstein. <br /> <br /> It may have been a steep earning curve for someone but it has also been a steep learning curve for the rest of us, trying to figure out all those arcane acronyms being bandied about. Try asking Congress members what the 2G controversy is all about, and they will look quite blank. They have been conditioned to believe that 2G is short for the two Gandhis, Sonia and Rahul, and any other combination is beyond their comprehension. Mention 3G and the plot thickens with Priyanka added to the mix, even though she's now a Vadra. In Congress circles, however, a Gandhi is a Gandhi, and will smell just as sweet (with due apologies to Shakespeare). <br /> <br /> Back to the learning curve and the acronyms that everyone's so concerned about. Here's the first lesson in the Scamsters Dictionary. 2G led to CAG which in turn led to CBI which took it to DoT. Then the trail led to TRAI which, in turn, has led to all sorts of connections to the DMK in Chennai and elsewhere, made a sharp U-turn, and moved back to DIAL. And now we have the ED getting involved, trying to ensure that the PMLA has not been violated. Finally, we are still trying to get to the bottom of how VCCPL carried so much clout in such a short time. That, we're told by the opposition, can only happen if there is a JPC. <br /> <br /> So far, the investigative bandwidth is spanning the entire spectrum, from NGOs to chartered accountants, priests and editors, friends and family. Everything is relative. It seems to be like the 2G licence which has something called UAS or Unlimited Access Services. Now we all know who had unlimited access to whom, and the raids on Radia have even given us a new phrase to include in the Scamsters Dictionary, "Economic Terrorist", as contributed by Praful Patel who has been stung by his name popping up in the tapes. It's become a mad race to clear your name ASAP. <br /> <br /> For the uninitiated, the Scamsters Dictionary starts with DoT, or the Department of Telecommunications, which deals with anything to do with communications, from phones to faxes and everything in between. Then, we have TRAI, or Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, a supposedly independent body. 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This owes largely to the vast, and continuously mounting, influence of the Hindu religious right-wing in India and its Muslim counterpart in Pakistan.<br /> <br /> Seemingly irreconcilable foes, the two speak the same language -- of unending hatred between Hindus and Muslims -- each seeking to define itself by building, stressing and constantly reinforcing boundaries between the two religiously-defined imagined communities.<br /> <br /> Much has been written on the ideology and politics of right-wing Hindu and Islamic movements and organisations in both India and Pakistan, by academics and journalists alike. Yet, almost no attention has been given to how individual Hindu and Muslim religious activists at the local level, as distinct from key ideologues and leaders at the national-level, imagine and articulate notions of the religious and national 'other'.<br /> <br /> Understanding this issue is crucial, for such activists exercise an enormous clout among their following.<br /> <br /> The Lahore-based Mashal Books, one of Pakistan's few progressive, left-leaning publishing houses, recently launched a unique experiment: Of recording and making publicly accessible speeches delivered by maulvis or Muslim clerics at mosque congregations across Pakistan's Punjab province, including some located in small towns and obscure villages.<br /> <br /> These speeches deal with a host of issues, ranging from women's status and scientific education, to jihad and anti-Indianism, all these linked to an amazingly diverse set of understandings of Islam.<br /> <br /> Hosted on the Mashal Books Web site MASHAL BOOKS (http://www.mashalbooks.org), these speeches reflect the worldviews of a large majority of Pakistani maulvis, representing a range of sectarian backgrounds, who now exercise a major influence on the country's politics and in shaping Pakistani public opinion and discourse.<br /> <br /> Of the dozens of speeches hosted on the Web site, only two are classified as relating particularly to India, but these may still be taken to be representative of how a great many Pakistani maulvis conceive of India and of relations between India and Pakistan. Predictably, in both speeches India is depicted in lurid colours, as an implacable foe of Pakistan, of Muslims, and of Islam.<br /> <br /> Not surprisingly, then, efforts to improve relations between India and Pakistan or to work towards rapprochement between Hindus and Muslims are vociferously denounced. The two maulvis appear to insist that Islam, as they understand it, itself requires that Pakistani Muslims must never cool off their anti-Hindu and anti-Indian zeal.<br /> <br /> The first of these two speeches, by the Deobandi Maulana Muhammad Hafeez of the Jamia Masjid Umar Farooq, Rawalpindi, refers to India only in passing. He presents Muslims the world over as besieged by a host of powerful non-Muslim enemies.<br /> <br /> It is almost as if their 'disbelief' (kufr) in Islam goads all non-Muslims, wherever they may be, to engage in a relentless conspiracy against Islam and its adherents, a war, like Samuel Huntington's infamous 'Clash of Civilisations', in which compromise and reconciliation are simply impossible because Islam and 'non-Islam' can, in this worldview, never comfortably coexist.<br /> <br /> It is also as if Muslims have a monopoly on virtue and non-Muslims on vice. 'Islam will rise,' Maulana Hafeez thunders, 'and America and India will fall,' conveniently forgetting (assuming he knew of the fact) that India probably has more Muslims than Pakistan and that if India falls, it will drag its tens of millions of Muslims along with it, too.<br /> <br /> The second speech is by a certain Maulana Mufti Saeed Ahmed of Jamia Masjid Mittranwali, Sialkot, who belongs to the Ahl-e Hadith sect, which closely resembles the Saudi Wahhabis.<br /> <br /> Pakistani Ahl-e Hadith groups, most notoriously the Lashkar-e Tayiba, have been heavily involved in fomenting violence across Pakistan, Kashmir and in India as well.<br /> <br /> Hatred for India and the Hindus seems to be an article of faith for many Pakistani Ahl-e Hadith, as Maulana Ahmed's speech clearly indicates.<br /> <br /> At the same time, it must also be recognised, as is evident from instances that the Maulana cites, that these deep-rooted anti-Indian and anti-Hindu sentiments are constantly fuelled by brutalities inflicted by non-Muslim powers, including the United States and fiercely anti-Muslim Hindu chauvinists in India, on Muslim peoples.<br /> <br /> These brutalities need not always be physical. They can also take the form of assaults on and insults to cherished Islamic beliefs, which inevitably provoke Muslim anger. The appeal of people like Maulana Ahmed lies in their practiced ability to use these instances of brutality directed against Muslims to craft a frighteningly Manichaean world, where all Muslims are pitted against all non-Muslims in a ceaseless war of cosmic proportions that shall carry on until Muslims, it is fervently believed, will finally triumph.<br /> <br /> Recounting a long list of anti-Muslim brutalities (but conveniently ignoring similar outrages committed by Muslims on others), Maulana Ahmed exhorts his listeners to unite and take revenge. 'O Muslims!,' he shrilly appeals, 'get up and take in hand your arrows, pick up your Kalashnikovs, train yourselves in explosives and bombs, organise yourselves into armies, prepare nuclear attacks and destroy every part of the body of the enemy.'<br /> <br /> His speech is peppered with fervent calls for what he terms as 'jihad' against both America and India, these being projected as inveterate foes of Islam and of all Muslims.<br /> <br /> He prays for America to 'be destroyed', and ecstatically celebrates the recent devastating terrorist assault on Mumbai by a self-styled Islamist group that left vast numbers of people dead, unapologetically hailing the dastardly act as a 'big slap on the cheek of the Hindus'.<br /> <br /> Not stopping at this, he calls for continuous terrorist violence against India, including, he advises, unleashing 'bloodbath to (sic) Indian and American diplomats in Kabul and Kandahar'. Only then, he argues, can Pakistan's rulers 'relieve the pressure' on them and being peace to their country.<br /> <br /> The 'enemy', as Maulana Ahmed constructs the notion, could be any and every non-Muslim, particularly Americans, Jews and Hindus or Indians. It is as if every non-Muslim is, by definition, irredeemably opposed to Islam and is necessarily engaged in a grand global conspiracy to wipe Islam from off the face of the earth. It is as if non-Muslims have no other preoccupation at all.<br /> <br /> All non-Muslims are thus tarred with the same brush, and no exceptions whatsoever are made. It is almost as if Maulana Ahmed desperately wants all non-Muslims to be fired by anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic vitriol, for that is his way to whip up the sentiments of his Muslim followers and fire their zeal and faith.<br /> <br /> It is as if further stoking such hatred is crucial to his ability to maintain a following and to claim to authoritatively speak for Islam and its adherents. 'The hatred among the people against the kafirs has reached a new height,' the Maulana exults.<br /> <br /> For the Maulana, fomenting hatred of non-Muslims is his chosen way of realising what has for centuries remained the elusive dream of Muslim unity. That this hatred, which he so passionately celebrates, inevitably further stokes the fires of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim prejudice, already so widespread among non-Muslims, appears of no concern to him at all. In fact, he seems to positively relish the frightening Huntingtonian thesis of the 'Clash of Civilisations'.<br /> <br /> Deobandi and Ahl-e Hadith outfits today enjoy tremendous clout in Pakistan, and they have been at the forefront of Islamist militancy that now threatens to drown the country in the throes of what promises to be an interminable civil war.<br /> <br /> As the speeches of these two Pakistani clerics, one a Deobandi and the other from the Ahl-e Hadith, so starkly indicate, inveterate hatred for India and the Hindus, indeed for non-Muslims in general, is integral to the ways in which vast numbers of Pakistani Muslim clerics understand religion, community, nationalism and the world.<br /> <br /> Such hatred is inevitably further fuelled by acts of brutality directed against Muslims by non-Muslims, including by the United States, India (particularly in Kashmir) and by militantly anti-Muslim Hindu chauvinist groups.<br /> <br /> Muslim and non-Muslim right-wing radicalism and militancy thus enjoy a mutually symbiotic relationship, opposing each other while, ironically, unable to live apart, needing each other even simply to define themselves.<br /> <br /> Religion is too powerful an instrument to be left in the hands of hate-driven clerics to manipulate as they please, most often for fuelling conflict between communities and states.<br /> <br /> As the frightening records of Hindutva chauvinists in India and the Pakistani clerics discussed in this article so strikingly illustrate, leaving religion to the right-wing to monopolise is a sure recipe for bloody and endless conflict.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">GCScrewed</div><div class="date">07-13 06:04 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">willwin - What we are essentially saying is to artificially retrogress EB2 than it otherwise would have so that an EB3 who is waiting for 7 years gets his GC first - thats really what the spillover break up will do. Similarly an argument can be made to artificially retrogress EB1 so that an EB2 who is waiting for 4 years gets his GC first. <br /> Whether EB1 is presently retrogressed or not doesn't matter.<br /> Let's think about this for a moment. We are trying to completely negate the category preference established by law and asking them to grant GC's based solely on PD regardless of category.<br /> Ain't gonna happen - dont want to be a pessimist but at some point we have to call it as we see it.<br /> <br /> I don't think the issue is that simple. The whole thing just surfaced another screw-up of the system. The actions taken by all the agencies certainly made things worse. <br /> <br /> DoS suddenly interpretted laws differently than before. This just like the PERM, BEC, and last July episode. They took actions without considering people already in line. Those with good faith waiting in line have been constantly pushed around. How many people experienced being stuck in BEC while PERM approves new application like crazy? Who is accountable for all of these? They can't do things willy nilly any more. Someone mentioned lawsuit since DoS either interpret the law wrong now or in the past. <br /> <br /> Needless to say that the distincation between EB2 and EB3 has become so meaniningless now. How many positions really satisfy the EB2 requirements? From what I heard that most people just try to get around the system to get an EB2. One of the persons who filed EB2 told me that a high school graduate would probably be able to work in that position too. <br /> <br /> Just my observation.</div></div><hr /><br><br><br /><br /><div class="post"><div class="posttop"><div class="username">delax</div><div class="date">07-13 12:33 PM</div></div><div class="posttext">Having a cut off date of April or Dec 2001 for the past few years is as good as VISA being unavailable. So India EB3 was unavailable for the last 3 years or so (except last july).<br /> <br /> That's not the case with EB2. EB2 on paper has preference, I agree. That does not mean EB2 should have ALL spill over numbers. Split it 75-25 if not 50-50. Dec 2001 for a retrogressed country is just unfair. When you issue some EB2 2006 numbers issue some to EB3 2002 people as well. Is it too much?<br /> <br /> Again - want to continue a healthy debate, but as per the law, EB2 is more skilled than an EB3 and therefore gets precedence regardless of the date. If we split up the spill over 75/25 between EB2 and EB3 then what answer do we have to the more skilled EB2 candidate who did not get a visa number because a less skilled EB3 took the number based on an arbitrary split up (75/25) and because the EB3 has an earlier PD. Does it meet the meritocracy test which is the intent of the law.<br /> <br /> I may sound plain and harsh but thats the categorization as per existing law not my personal opinion.</div></div><hr /><br><br>heidi montaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033028744893245013noreply@blogger.com0