Trump Tweets Immigration into the US will be suspended.
Apr 21st 2020, 5:38 pm
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No there isn't. You can substitute experience for a degree. But in any event, as said by TexanScot above, none of us can possibly know the case that was put forward or what qualifications the applicant did or didn't have. Speculation about somebody that you think may have got a visa fraudulently really doesn't help anybody.
Apr 21st 2020, 5:43 pm
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This is a bit concerning.
I'm here on an L1B (since 09/2015) and wife on L2, I am a systems engineer at one of the big tech firms.
PERM is complete, I-140 approved, I485 filed on Feb 28th and we received our EAD/Advanced parole cards today. Biometrics was cancelled due to COVID.
L1B PED is mid next month and the lawyers have submitted a request for recapture of time spent outside the USA which will take me to April 2021 although I am bracing us for an RFE. I believe we can stay in the USA under AOS provisions but it's getting a little antsy.
I wouldn't mind going back to the UK, I'm getting a bit bored with dealing with all this stuff.
I'm here on an L1B (since 09/2015) and wife on L2, I am a systems engineer at one of the big tech firms.
PERM is complete, I-140 approved, I485 filed on Feb 28th and we received our EAD/Advanced parole cards today. Biometrics was cancelled due to COVID.
L1B PED is mid next month and the lawyers have submitted a request for recapture of time spent outside the USA which will take me to April 2021 although I am bracing us for an RFE. I believe we can stay in the USA under AOS provisions but it's getting a little antsy.
I wouldn't mind going back to the UK, I'm getting a bit bored with dealing with all this stuff.
Apr 21st 2020, 5:47 pm
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E3 holders half way through a two year visa - not getting excited just yet but will have to keep an eye on it all.
Apr 21st 2020, 5:51 pm
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I'm pretty sure they would sort something out but either way, not too bothered. Might go and bum around in my wife's village in northern Thailand for a few years. But if they gave me a UK based WFH gig, That would be really tempting.
Apr 21st 2020, 6:01 pm
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No there isn't. You can substitute experience for a degree. But in any event, as said by TexanScot above, none of us can possibly know the case that was put forward or what qualifications the applicant did or didn't have. Speculation about somebody that you think may have got a visa fraudulently really doesn't help anybody.
Given it more thought I don't think trump will axe or suspend any visa groups per say he will just increase the filing charges many many times over which would have the same effect in many respects.
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Apr 21st 2020, 6:19 pm
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Changes to the fee schedule have to go through rulemaking, and he was very explicit that whatever it is he will be doing - and we still don't know the details - will be done through an Executive Order.
Apr 21st 2020, 7:11 pm
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See here:
(Tweet by the State Department reporter for Bloomberg News who was able to obtain a draft copy of the EO)
"the EO includes broad exceptions: for refugees, people considered essential workers, health workers, spouses, children, potential adoptees, and "any alien whose entry would be in the national interest."
"the EO includes broad exceptions: for refugees, people considered essential workers, health workers, spouses, children, potential adoptees, and "any alien whose entry would be in the national interest."
Apr 21st 2020, 8:15 pm
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..and I do think we're at an advantage here and we do plan on tying the knot very soon. But I don't want to get complacent. Do you think there would still be a risk after we're married? We'll still need to go through the actual process of AOS etc
Apr 21st 2020, 8:22 pm
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It sounds like there will be exceptions for spouses of US Citizens but I'd still be tempted to get married ASAP and get your AOS application filed, it can't do any harm and it'll free you from being on a L-1B.
Apr 21st 2020, 8:22 pm
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Apr 21st 2020, 8:23 pm
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I don't see how it's possible to progress a new AOS case right now whilst ASCs are closed, since there's no way for USCIS to collect biometrics.
I've been reading of cases on other forms where the agency has been waiving the requirement when they already hold acceptable biometrics from a prior encounter (e.g. from an EAD), but that doesn't help anyone who has never provided them to USCIS before.
My girlfriend would also like us to get married - and it's something that's definitely in our future - but I don't think I'd be able to get through AOS.
All the uncertainty at the moment is just really frustrating.
I've been reading of cases on other forms where the agency has been waiving the requirement when they already hold acceptable biometrics from a prior encounter (e.g. from an EAD), but that doesn't help anyone who has never provided them to USCIS before.
My girlfriend would also like us to get married - and it's something that's definitely in our future - but I don't think I'd be able to get through AOS.
All the uncertainty at the moment is just really frustrating.
Apr 21st 2020, 8:26 pm
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NY Times saying new green cards likely suspended but not worker and temporary visas. Exemption also likely for GC dependent kids. Still developing...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/u...e=articleShare
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/u...e=articleShare
Apr 21st 2020, 8:40 pm
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I don't see how it's possible to progress a new AOS case right now whilst ASCs are closed, since there's no way for USCIS to collect biometrics.
I've been reading of cases on other forms where the agency has been waiving the requirement when they already hold acceptable biometrics from a prior encounter (e.g. from an EAD), but that doesn't help anyone who has never provided them to USCIS before.
My girlfriend would also like us to get married - and it's something that's definitely in our future - but I don't think I'd be able to get through AOS.
All the uncertainty at the moment is just really frustrating.
I've been reading of cases on other forms where the agency has been waiving the requirement when they already hold acceptable biometrics from a prior encounter (e.g. from an EAD), but that doesn't help anyone who has never provided them to USCIS before.
My girlfriend would also like us to get married - and it's something that's definitely in our future - but I don't think I'd be able to get through AOS.
All the uncertainty at the moment is just really frustrating.
Apr 21st 2020, 8:48 pm
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Not quite sure of the details of Biometrics but if its finger prints and photographs, isnt this information gathered each time an entry to US takes place? I know each time I visited from UK on the VWP prints and pics were taken at Passport Control, Newark Airport. Also, do Biometric Passports fit in to all this?
What exactly are Biometrics?
What exactly are Biometrics?
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