L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
My husband finally got some info - the lawyers were going to put it through as EB3 (there was some confusion as the company changed lawyers recently and it seems they didn't look at his documents properly) but after he questioned this, they have asked for some more information from him for EB1. Pretty big processing time difference between EB1 and EB3 so hopefully once they've got more documentation, they will be able to do it as EB1.
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Devil can be in the details at times. Do note that there are three flavors of "EB-1" classification. The first is for Superman. The second is for outstanding professors and researchers. The intra-company transfer one is the third.
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I came over on an L1 last summer and have recently applied for a GC, the submission went in at the end of March, I've been told to expect a minimum of 4 months and possibly up to a year to get the GC in hand by our immigration lawyer.
The paperwork is pretty extensive and takes some time to compile, none of it is particularly taxing, just that you end up answering the same question 29 times
I'll keep you posted on how long it takes
The paperwork is pretty extensive and takes some time to compile, none of it is particularly taxing, just that you end up answering the same question 29 times
I'll keep you posted on how long it takes
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
I came over on an L1 last summer and have recently applied for a GC, the submission went in at the end of March, I've been told to expect a minimum of 4 months and possibly up to a year to get the GC in hand by our immigration lawyer.
The paperwork is pretty extensive and takes some time to compile, none of it is particularly taxing, just that you end up answering the same question 29 times
I'll keep you posted on how long it takes
The paperwork is pretty extensive and takes some time to compile, none of it is particularly taxing, just that you end up answering the same question 29 times
I'll keep you posted on how long it takes
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
we submitted ours (L1A) March 28. nothing showing on USCIS website yet, but we got our biometric appt letter today. me 3pm may 15th wife 8am May 16th !!! nice one
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My husband was L1A and family all L2s. We applied Dec 2010 and had our GC May 2011. It was very straightforward. That was the Texas Service Centre. The only pain involved was the fact I had to have a whole load of vaccinations!
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Thanks!
Great, so fast. (And yes, I'm not looking forward to the vaccinations either!) The company lawyers are currently getting the paperwork together so hopefully our applications will be submitted in a few weeks.
Great, so fast. (And yes, I'm not looking forward to the vaccinations either!) The company lawyers are currently getting the paperwork together so hopefully our applications will be submitted in a few weeks.
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
Just got my green card today (yay!), so for the curious here's the timeline:
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
Just got my green card today (yay!), so for the curious here's the timeline:
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
Just got my green card today (yay!), so for the curious here's the timeline:
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
I-140 filed October 27
I-140 receipt November 14
I-140 approval January 9
I-485 filed February 6
I-485 receipt February 21
Biometrics appointment April 5
Approval dated April 21 and received today \o/
This is L1-A to permanent resident under EB-1 "multinational manager".
Our lawyers also wanted to file for EAD and AP at the same time with I-485, and those are still very much in progress. A lot of good that was...
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
Hi,
My husband and I moved to California in June last year with his company sponsoring us - he has the L1A visa and I have L2. The company is now also sponsoring us for green cards and is getting the paperwork together to submit the applications.
I've got a few questions: does anyone have any recent experience of how long the applications take (with immigration I mean, after the company has submitted the paperwork)? Also, do you have to have a medical examination for these applications (and if so, what do they involve?)? Thanks!
My husband and I moved to California in June last year with his company sponsoring us - he has the L1A visa and I have L2. The company is now also sponsoring us for green cards and is getting the paperwork together to submit the applications.
I've got a few questions: does anyone have any recent experience of how long the applications take (with immigration I mean, after the company has submitted the paperwork)? Also, do you have to have a medical examination for these applications (and if so, what do they involve?)? Thanks!
You are aware that there is a period from when the forms are submitted til you're permitted to leave USA? Apply for Advance Parole. In my case I had an international trip planned and I had to delay application til I returned. The AP cards arrived a couple of days after our biometric scanning which was about a month after USCIS applications, so you're trapped in ISA for a month-ish from applying.
However once the paperwork was with the US Gov in late-November, the GCs are in our hands now in late April, so 5 months total.
The advice I will give might be a little unique to the UK, and if we'd known then likely have saved at least a month or two, is some of our birth certificates were the "short" kind, which doesn't list the father's name. Some of this because we lost original BC and got a short-form copy, some just got a short-form initially anyway. We had to go online and pay for UK Gov to post us long-form. Once they got scanned+posted to USCIS then we got approval very quickly after.
We also got asked for better more legible copies of the I.D with the photos showing, I didn't see the copies the attorney made, but I made the requested copies myself and I scanned high-res and printed enlarged.
No interviews, just RFE (Request for Evidence) for birth certificates and better photo-page scans.
If the attorney had known this before and done it better, I guess the 5 months would be 3-4 months type, so the 4 months typical we see for L1A to GC.
If I'd know all of what I know now, I could have shortened the process 6 probably months overall (waiting for medical, waiting for travel to complete, correcting bad documents).
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Re: L1A/L2 to Green Card questions
The AP cards arrived a couple of days after our biometric scanning which was about a month after USCIS applications, so you're trapped in ISA for a month-ish from applying.
However once the paperwork was with the US Gov in late-November, the GCs are in our hands now in late April, so 5 months total.
Ian