There is only one fixed law of Governments: When Government tries to fix things it ALWAYS fails. It will therefore fail in the whole bail out mess, no matter who is the President.
So last Friday DOL tried to fix its computer system, which was working OK, it messed things up. Apparently DOL knows about this problem and is trying to fix things. Among the problems we noticed:
1. Sponsorship questions are taking longer to generate
2. The link which employer click on that E mail to verify sponsorship is NOT working
3. When printing the ETA 9089, the job experience data field is empty, although you can view the data. This problem seems to have been fixed
4. Filed cases are getting a C designation (for Chicago) even though all PERM cases are handled by Atlanta and should get a A designation.
Hopefully DOL will not deny cases for failure of employers to reply to the sponsorship e mails, because the glitch is in their computers.
But then, it is the Government at work, so who knows.
See why they need to certify more computer professionals.
On another note: If the Employer has has submitted the registration application and has not heard anything from the DOL for weeks, they should write to:
BE-RFI.Atlanta@dol.gov
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
My Last Sarah Palin Blog
Ok, this is my last Sarah Palin blog. I know, you are thinking not again, but you need to understand that Sarah Palin's exit from the National Life is a calamity for unseasoned comics.
Lets just pretend that Sarah Palin runs for President in 2016, campaigns in towels, (like she did for her campaign staff) and that all heterosexual males just gets mesmerized, and vote for her. Even the 7 year olds. And she becomes The President.
So Newsweek reported that Sarah Palin does not know the difference between Countries and Continents. She could not understand why Africa is a Continent, and that the NAFTA was signed by different countries. So why deal with confusing countries in the Visa Numbers? Just delete the country quota, make it one world. India and China just became current. Yay!
Then, no one in her administration understands the complicated ETA 9089. Lets KISS her and Keep It Simple Stupid.
This is my proposed ETA 9089 Form for 2016.
1. Do you have a job (any job) open?
2. Can you pay for a job, (any job)?
3. Is the alien qualified to do a job (any job)?
4. Is the Alien good looking?
5. Will the Alien have sex without contraception?
6. Do you believe in Guns, Christian God and will you exterminate the Gays?
If thew answer to all the above is yes, then the alien has an interview with the District Office.
There you have a point system.
Great Looking---5 points
Good Looking----3 points
Fair Looking----1 point
Clothes
Price range $ 1000/- and above---5 points
Price range $500/ and above------3 points
Price range $350------------------2 Points
Anything below------------------Points deducted from your total
Based on the number of points, preference systems will be allocated.
There she solved all the complexities of an employment based immigration.
Ok, no more on Sarah Palin, unless she becomes a senator from Alaska!
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Lets just pretend that Sarah Palin runs for President in 2016, campaigns in towels, (like she did for her campaign staff) and that all heterosexual males just gets mesmerized, and vote for her. Even the 7 year olds. And she becomes The President.
So Newsweek reported that Sarah Palin does not know the difference between Countries and Continents. She could not understand why Africa is a Continent, and that the NAFTA was signed by different countries. So why deal with confusing countries in the Visa Numbers? Just delete the country quota, make it one world. India and China just became current. Yay!
Then, no one in her administration understands the complicated ETA 9089. Lets KISS her and Keep It Simple Stupid.
This is my proposed ETA 9089 Form for 2016.
1. Do you have a job (any job) open?
2. Can you pay for a job, (any job)?
3. Is the alien qualified to do a job (any job)?
4. Is the Alien good looking?
5. Will the Alien have sex without contraception?
6. Do you believe in Guns, Christian God and will you exterminate the Gays?
If thew answer to all the above is yes, then the alien has an interview with the District Office.
There you have a point system.
Great Looking---5 points
Good Looking----3 points
Fair Looking----1 point
Clothes
Price range $ 1000/- and above---5 points
Price range $500/ and above------3 points
Price range $350------------------2 Points
Anything below------------------Points deducted from your total
Based on the number of points, preference systems will be allocated.
There she solved all the complexities of an employment based immigration.
Ok, no more on Sarah Palin, unless she becomes a senator from Alaska!
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Our First Black President
I have never been so proud to be an American as today.
During the 80s and 90s, raising kids in a predominantly white neighborhood of Tanglewood, and in River Oaks Baptist School in Houston, we had endured intense discrimination. Kids told my children that their parents told them not to be friends with them because they were not white. The teachers told them they would go to hell because they were not Christians. At River Oaks Baptist School, my daughter and son were placed in remedial classes, simply because they were not whites. The fact that they were Mensa members did not matter to the School. Our neighbors looked at us as though we did not belong there.
Slowly though (or fast if you consider it only 5-7 years) the neighborhood changed. There are more and more ethnic families there. I have an Iranian and Chinese neighbor. I see a lot of South American, Indian and different faces now. I placed my kids in Saint John's School, where they did not face any discrimination. They have moved on to Yale and Duke and did not let the River Oaks Baptist people brain wash them into thinking they cant.
That is why, I was in tears yesterday not only to see Barak win, but to see him get the votes from all segment of society and win by a huge majority. Only in America can you go from having separate bathroom and drinking fountains for black America to the President in 40 years. I am confident that finally having a President with a high IQ in the white house will improve our country. America has proved that we do not want Joe the unlicensed plumber simply because he was born in the US. We want the licensed experienced plumber, no matter what his race, religion, national origin, ethnicity or sexual orientation is.
As to McCain, we got the old McCain back yesterday during his concession speech. The McCain who could reach out to Ted Kennedy for the McCain-Kennedy Immigration bill, the McCain who would speak the truth no matter what. That McCain had disappeared during the Campaign. Ambition propelled him to appease the Conservative Right Wing base, got him to elect Sarah Palin with no forethought that she would be running the country if he should die, the McCain who unabashedly approved false and defamatory commercials against Barak. Had the republican party ran on issues rather than negative campaign, they would have had a much better fighting chance.
My daughter, a Literature major from Yale, likened McCain's power grab to that of Macbeth. A good man turned bad from the ambition to become King. Yes, the Republican campaign can be said to be a "tale told by an idiot---full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Hopefully the thunder, lighting and rain that has engulfed our country will dissipate as order returns.
And as for Sarah Palin, I do hope that she has menopause before she can pop out another Down Syndrome baby on this earth.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
During the 80s and 90s, raising kids in a predominantly white neighborhood of Tanglewood, and in River Oaks Baptist School in Houston, we had endured intense discrimination. Kids told my children that their parents told them not to be friends with them because they were not white. The teachers told them they would go to hell because they were not Christians. At River Oaks Baptist School, my daughter and son were placed in remedial classes, simply because they were not whites. The fact that they were Mensa members did not matter to the School. Our neighbors looked at us as though we did not belong there.
Slowly though (or fast if you consider it only 5-7 years) the neighborhood changed. There are more and more ethnic families there. I have an Iranian and Chinese neighbor. I see a lot of South American, Indian and different faces now. I placed my kids in Saint John's School, where they did not face any discrimination. They have moved on to Yale and Duke and did not let the River Oaks Baptist people brain wash them into thinking they cant.
That is why, I was in tears yesterday not only to see Barak win, but to see him get the votes from all segment of society and win by a huge majority. Only in America can you go from having separate bathroom and drinking fountains for black America to the President in 40 years. I am confident that finally having a President with a high IQ in the white house will improve our country. America has proved that we do not want Joe the unlicensed plumber simply because he was born in the US. We want the licensed experienced plumber, no matter what his race, religion, national origin, ethnicity or sexual orientation is.
As to McCain, we got the old McCain back yesterday during his concession speech. The McCain who could reach out to Ted Kennedy for the McCain-Kennedy Immigration bill, the McCain who would speak the truth no matter what. That McCain had disappeared during the Campaign. Ambition propelled him to appease the Conservative Right Wing base, got him to elect Sarah Palin with no forethought that she would be running the country if he should die, the McCain who unabashedly approved false and defamatory commercials against Barak. Had the republican party ran on issues rather than negative campaign, they would have had a much better fighting chance.
My daughter, a Literature major from Yale, likened McCain's power grab to that of Macbeth. A good man turned bad from the ambition to become King. Yes, the Republican campaign can be said to be a "tale told by an idiot---full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Hopefully the thunder, lighting and rain that has engulfed our country will dissipate as order returns.
And as for Sarah Palin, I do hope that she has menopause before she can pop out another Down Syndrome baby on this earth.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
EAD Card Delays
You had filed your Adjustment of Status Application (I-485) during the July-August 2007 rush. Now you need to renew your EAD card. It has been 90 days since you filed the I-765. (You can file this form 90 days before it expires). But you have heard nothing from the CIS. What can you do?
By Law the USCIS is supposed to give you the EAD card by 90 days. If 90 days has passed since the receipt of your I-765 notice, the CIS ombudsman advises you do the following:
1. CALL CIS at 1-800-375-5283 and talk to an officer. (Dont leave a message). Tell them its been 90 days and you need an interim card. Please keep records of the date and time of your call and officer number.
2. If you don't want to call, you can make an infopass appointment and go to your local CIS office. However they do NOT issue interim cards any more. They will inform the Service Center.
If its been a week after you do the above, and you have not heard from the CIS, you can write to the CIS ombudsman with all the details at:
cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov
Please use this E mail for only this issue.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
By Law the USCIS is supposed to give you the EAD card by 90 days. If 90 days has passed since the receipt of your I-765 notice, the CIS ombudsman advises you do the following:
1. CALL CIS at 1-800-375-5283 and talk to an officer. (Dont leave a message). Tell them its been 90 days and you need an interim card. Please keep records of the date and time of your call and officer number.
2. If you don't want to call, you can make an infopass appointment and go to your local CIS office. However they do NOT issue interim cards any more. They will inform the Service Center.
If its been a week after you do the above, and you have not heard from the CIS, you can write to the CIS ombudsman with all the details at:
cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov
Please use this E mail for only this issue.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Monday, October 27, 2008
USD going up with the Indian Rs
NEW DELHI -- Effective Friday, October 24, 2008, all United States Consular Sections in India will adjust the consular exchange rate from Rs. 50 to the dollar to Rs. 54 to the dollar.
This rate change is effective for all rupee-denominated costs of applying for visas and passports, including the nonimmigrant visa application fee paid at HDFC bank branches prior to the scheduling of visa appointments. The new application fee for nonimmigrant visas is Rs. 7074 (equivalent to USD $131). Receipts issued by HDFC Bank prior to October 24, 2008 that reflect a payment of Rs. 6,550 will be honored and there will be no need for a supplemental payment.
For a full listing of specific fee changes and more information on all U.S. visa and consular services, please visit the Embassy website at http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
This rate change is effective for all rupee-denominated costs of applying for visas and passports, including the nonimmigrant visa application fee paid at HDFC bank branches prior to the scheduling of visa appointments. The new application fee for nonimmigrant visas is Rs. 7074 (equivalent to USD $131). Receipts issued by HDFC Bank prior to October 24, 2008 that reflect a payment of Rs. 6,550 will be honored and there will be no need for a supplemental payment.
For a full listing of specific fee changes and more information on all U.S. visa and consular services, please visit the Embassy website at http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Friday, October 24, 2008
VOTING and IMMIGRANTS
Record number of new naturalized citizens will vote this year. The democratic congress made sure that as many people as possible got through the immigration process as possible before the voter registration deadline. Since IKE struck Houston the scheduled Naturalized ceremony was postponed. The Houston District Office rescheduled the oath ceremony just before the registration deadline, and called every applicant personally to make sure they came to the ceremony.
Generally Naturalized Citizens are more interested in American politics and vote in record numbers. These are people who chose to become American and was not simply born in America. Thus they are more interested and more aware. Most of them will probably vote democrat. The republican party seemed to do better in rural white conservative areas.
Realizing that though the Republican run USCIS promulgated a new test that makes it harder for citizens to pass. I think they hope that people who pass the test are more educated, and therefore richer and vote Republican.
I doubt whether candidates like Sarah Palin would pass this hard test. Please check it out at:
www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/100q.pdf
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Generally Naturalized Citizens are more interested in American politics and vote in record numbers. These are people who chose to become American and was not simply born in America. Thus they are more interested and more aware. Most of them will probably vote democrat. The republican party seemed to do better in rural white conservative areas.
Realizing that though the Republican run USCIS promulgated a new test that makes it harder for citizens to pass. I think they hope that people who pass the test are more educated, and therefore richer and vote Republican.
I doubt whether candidates like Sarah Palin would pass this hard test. Please check it out at:
www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/100q.pdf
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The word 'Immigration" in the debate
In all the three debates, the word Immigration was just mentioned once. Last night, Mr. McCain accused of Mr. Obama of misrepresenting McCain's stance on immigration in the ads. What is McCain's stand on immigration? I don't know. Yes, he proposed the McCain Kennedy bill, which was an excellent and fair solution to the problem. But then he went back and said he would be very harsh on illegal immigrants to appease his conservative constituents.
The same is probably true of his views on stem cell research or abortion.
But does the issues that a President holds really matter? If it did, wouldn't a comprehensive immigration reform plan be already passed? Would the bailout bill take so long to pass? Our legislature is more interested in their own agendas than what is good for the country. In order for a President to sign a bill there has to be a bill, which passes both houses. I don't think any bill regarding Health Care, Social Security or Immigration is going to pass in any case.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details.
The same is probably true of his views on stem cell research or abortion.
But does the issues that a President holds really matter? If it did, wouldn't a comprehensive immigration reform plan be already passed? Would the bailout bill take so long to pass? Our legislature is more interested in their own agendas than what is good for the country. In order for a President to sign a bill there has to be a bill, which passes both houses. I don't think any bill regarding Health Care, Social Security or Immigration is going to pass in any case.
Contact Houston Immigration Lawyer, Annie Banerjee for more details.
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