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Big congratulations to this forum and members who have passionately fought this cause (STEM OPT rule) and to get this rule very close to being implemented. But folks your fight is not over yet!!! I am assuming that next steps for you is to get on work visa and mostly get in line for permanent residency. In the current day situation working and maintaining work visas has become excruciatingly painful with all the increasing scrutiny, regulations, high fees etc. There are so many proposed regulations in the pipeline that is going to make our lives miserable and put undue burden on already highly regulated process.
There is a proposal to improve the work visa programs and but it does NOTHING to help backlogged high skilled immigrants. If this rule doesn’t get AMENDED by granting UNRESTRICTED EAD/AP and several other improvements, then you are in for very long ride!!! Not many of you know how long the GC queue is and the struggles associated with it. As of writing this moment, there are about 200k primary petitions ahead of you, including dependent petitions it is about 400k.Under EB2&3 USCIS allocates 5800 GCs a year, yes just 5800. With spillover from EB1 and little bit of spillover from family categories, we predict if someone applies GC in 2016, you might get GC in 2033-2035. These are not some random numbers pulled from the sky. These are hard numbers crunched by going through ton of information available. Obama announced some relief (aka I140EAD) in 2014, unfortunately the rule got diluted by lobbying power of employers and lawyers. The rule is open for comments right now. Please comments if you really don't want to get stuck in backlogs forever.
USCIS Seeks comments
Regulation link
Tips on comments:
You need to let USCIS know that you want:
•Unrestricted I-140 EAD with travel capability
•Ability to file the I-485 with a new employer without a new I-140 petition
Draft Comment for High-Skilled Immigrant Relief (I-140 EAD Rule)
There is a proposal to improve the work visa programs and but it does NOTHING to help backlogged high skilled immigrants. If this rule doesn’t get AMENDED by granting UNRESTRICTED EAD/AP and several other improvements, then you are in for very long ride!!! Not many of you know how long the GC queue is and the struggles associated with it. As of writing this moment, there are about 200k primary petitions ahead of you, including dependent petitions it is about 400k.Under EB2&3 USCIS allocates 5800 GCs a year, yes just 5800. With spillover from EB1 and little bit of spillover from family categories, we predict if someone applies GC in 2016, you might get GC in 2033-2035. These are not some random numbers pulled from the sky. These are hard numbers crunched by going through ton of information available. Obama announced some relief (aka I140EAD) in 2014, unfortunately the rule got diluted by lobbying power of employers and lawyers. The rule is open for comments right now. Please comments if you really don't want to get stuck in backlogs forever.
USCIS Seeks comments
Regulation link
Tips on comments:
You need to let USCIS know that you want:
•Unrestricted I-140 EAD with travel capability
•Ability to file the I-485 with a new employer without a new I-140 petition
Draft Comment for High-Skilled Immigrant Relief (I-140 EAD Rule)
Comment