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USCIS Rejecting All I-485 Applications

02.07.2007 by arZan Category Uncategorized


A quick example of how screwed up the US government machinery is, can be gauged by the fact that just 13 days after they announced the current status of processing I-485, they come out with a bulletin that says that all applications are stopped and none will be accepted.

Effective Monday July 2, 2007 there will be no further authorizations in response to requests for Employment-based preference cases.  All numbers available to these categories under the FY-2007 annual numerical limitation have been made available. [Link to USCIS Website]

Murthy.com is one of the best sites to get your updates and a very thorough explanation of the shenanigans of the system. On this issue they write

 We think that, apparently, the reason for this strange unfolding of events is that, by completing adjudication of an unprecedented number of I-485 cases, the USCIS is pushing the DOS to issue a revised Visa Bulletin early next week. The goal of USCIS appears to be to make the immigrant visa numbers “unavailable” as early as possible by exhausting the entire visa numbers for fiscal year 2007 (until Sep 30, 2007).

There is a lot of speculation as to the reason for this, including that the USCIS does not want too many I-485 cases to be filed while they are trying to clear their backlogs and that they want people to pay the substantially higher USCIS filing fees that will take effect from July 27, 2007 onwards. What ever the reason, we believe their actions are not acceptable and are in violation of the law. [Link to Murthy.com Article]

There is also a strong belief that this is being done so that everyone who files will have to do so under the higher fee structure which comes into effect from August 01, 2007.

And all this while the Congress goes about creating sops for illegal immigrants. Legal immigration brings in educated, skilled, professional people who have been obeying laws and paying taxes for years. And in typical politician fashion, they get shafted in their rear end for it.

Next time anyone complains about India’s politicians, I ask them to look at their so-called ‘educated” American counterparts. The Americans will defeat the Indian politicos hands down in their lack of common sense and stupid law making.

Disgusting indeed !

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  • Tony

    Bob:

    The Computer you are sending your messages from is – Made in China

    The clothes you are wearing are – Probably made in India or Bangladesh or Mexico

    The car that you drive is – Probably made in Mexico

    So why all the fuss. Just accept the fact that today is the era of “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”. There is no need to be so antagonistic about your feelings.

    And BTW the professionals in India work on obscenely low wages no more. We probably live a more lavish lifestyle in India than you do over here. We can afford to have 4 maid servants and two chauffeurs while you are still doing your own dishes, your own laundry etc.

    Then why do we choose to live and work in America, because – We are more educated than most of you here are. You should have watched the Jay Leno street show where he interviewed a few teenagers in Los Angeles asking what the capital of United States was….and guess what most them answered LA, NY etc and some of them didn’t even know where Washington DC was.

    So please before you verbally abuse the legal workers who work for the betterment of this country, take a look in your own backyard!

    Sincerely,
    Tony.

  • RR

    Bob,

    Why should the workers in your company hate Globalization? I am sure your company has been able to hire more people across the organization in the US due its products or services being sold in other countries.

    You can look at it the other way and say that if your company was not in the Fortune 100 and was say a Fortune 1000th company then it might have hired lesser people in the US, hence providing lesser job opportunities.

    I am not entirely sure if your workers standard of living has come down due to globalization or the company is too big and has grown too fast, which has resulted in the imbalance in pay and in turn standard of living. It has to be combination of various internal and external factors and not just Outsourcing and immigration.

  • angry rat

    Fellows,
    Why do you even bother talking to Bob? He’s doing what every Nazi worth his salt did in Germany: blame somebody for his problems. (I seriously doubt he finished any college, by the way, unless it was some evangelical college of engineering… Just a regular little demagogue.)
    The USA was/is the unrelenting champion for globalization, and has brought endless suffering to billions everywhere. (Look how good globalization and free market turned out in Russia, or in Africa, South America, and how it’s going to turn out in Iraq. Before they know everything will be in the hands of private companies.) Now these hungry multinational corporations are devouring the US population as well. The problem is not immigrants, legal or illegal. The problem is the curious fact, that the US had put its hands on a huge chunk of the world’s wealth, and this wealth right now is in the possession of ~3% of the population. These people will treat their own population the same way they treated any third-world country. And just as the Nazis did, they blame somebody else.
    By the way, the US would be a marginal little sh@thole, if it wasn’t for the immigrants. There would be no nuclear superpower if it wasn’t for some German, Hungarian and Italian scientists. There would be no computer, no biotechnology, no Silicon Valley. Because, simply put, the educational system here turns out only brain dead zombies, like Bob. There’s no reasoning with him. Just like with that moron in the White House, reason has nothing to do with him. He thinks with his gut. The archetipical “litte man”. Can’t you feel the smell of the beerhouses and burning books?

  • Jack

    I think that immigration into this country is good, it’s good for everyone. However, so long as it is done by the rule of law. Our law. I am however against anyone who is here illegally and then demands all the rights of a legal citizen. For them they should be sent back to the gates and made to come in legally. Other than that as I said immigration is good for everyone. But done come here by sneaking in and then saying you owe us all the right you have and we demand them right. Nope that’s wrong.

  • http://BOB..YoureastupidFu!!others-whyareuevenbotheringtotalktosuchajackAss? AJ

    BOB .. You’re a stupid Fu**!! Go and live alone with ur family and friends on a deserted island.. Others – why are u even bothering to talk to such a jackAss?

  • Mycroft

    Wait a minute, the globalists are accusing an isolationist of being a nazi? WTF? I guess al and the rat must be indians. Sorry huddled asses, we’re fed up and full. We don’t need ya, we don’t want ya, and the future of this country will again be decided by those of us who vote, not our temporary guests, no matter educated or entitled they think they are.

    Wait until we pull the plug on citizenship applications and leave you all sitting around crying because we have the one thing you never will, A VOTE!

    Good on ya, BOB!

  • http://BOB..YoureastupidFu!!others-whyareuevenbotheringtotalktosuchajackAss? AJ

    Take your SINGLE vote and shove it up ur Ass BOB! You are talking as if you are representing the whole USA.. tells me one thing – You must be driving FORD F-150 and you’re are a redneck!!.. and you maggot, my screen-name is AJ, not AL .. Go back to your cropfield now and make sure you do your job right!! Thats what your fathers did here when they came here.. All the progress thats been made in the last century was definitely not by anyone you know directly!! So Git r Done Biatcch!!

  • Jack

    One thing is for sure, If you come into this country by sneaking in. you have no rights. You have no demands. For all the people who come here within the rule of the law. All the power to them and welcome. For you who do not. You have no rights. You have not earned any go back and do it the right way. But do not sneak in to our country and demand rights that you have no grounds getting.

  • noname

    Jack, good point there. But people who read this blog post is most probably legal.

    Bob, your wage argument is wrong. I can assure you most IT people at the I-485 stage(do you even know that I-485 is?) get paid a lot more than you do. And the companies are willing to paid it. Also the wage requirements are set by the government.(like you said, to make it fair for people like you.) If you still don’t like it, contact your favorite congressman.

  • sekhar

    bob,
    small suggestion. before u curse immigrants for your failures, try to stop the patriotism coated racism and shut the hell up. these people are talking about the july bulletin’s affect on their life and not your jacked up life style and loser career.

  • southernboy

    aww.. poor li’l Bob is feeling threatend by ‘undereducated immigrants’ who want to take away his li’l job. Maybe if you went someplace marginally better than community college, or even worked better at moving to middle management in your dead-end job, you wouldn’t be so worried about your job moving overseas.

    Consider the possible scenario; Your Fortune 100 decides to stop hiring all these pesky foreigners whose thick accents put a damper on your average workweek. Since your Fortune 100 would also end up paying the awesome salary for your insignificant job so that you could afford your car payments their costs would be higher than par globally. Soon enough, your giant corporation would flounder (General Motors rings a bell?) and they’d either 1) go into bankruptcy and fold or, more likely, 2) get taken over by a private equity firm which would quickly identify you for the gigantic redundancy that you are and ship your job off to India. Either ways, you suffer. I guess now you realize why you’re still paid your meagre little salary. Your capacity for argument clearly justifies it.

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  • An Indian Who Kicked Out a American

    Dear “Americans” fulminating against Indians,

    I need to point this out but your ancestors came to US,illegally,by today’s standards. Now Indians and Chinese are coming in,legally and whopping your ass. Cry as much as you want but you Americans (referring specifically to the white ones cribbing like a crybaby about how nice your dads lived in the 50s under Jim Crow laws, a time when your dads’ inherent steak and A1 sauce dumbness could be covered through exploitation of non-whites) are going to be redundant soon. The Mexicans will do all the menial jobs and the Indians and Chinese are going to do the smart jobs. That is because you guys can neither use your hands and earn a day’s honest labor nor can you can add two and two. So how will you keep yourself occupied?

    By inbreeding in your trailers, watching American Idol and living off tax dollars Indians and Chinese contribute to the USA (since they have the jobs).We do not mind of course paying for your extra mayo and cheese fries since we as Indians and Chinese feel a karmic obligation to support God’s dumb creations.

    And oh those dumbasses who talk about our English being not upto the mark, do teach your vice president to learn to spell “potato” and your President to pronounce “nuclear” and get one sentence in straight before pointing fingers at others.

    Now enjoy.

  • Brad

    The recent announcement of USCIS and DOS really slow down the momentum for getting permanent resident here in this great country. By now lot of Computer professionals, Doctors, Attorney’s lost trust/belief in the Immigration system and their practices.

  • Mark b

    wow what a heated debate i read from top to bottom well done everybody so much hate and abuse?
    So we can all agree that the immigration issues will take another 200 years to put right. its a good job we have rational immigrants comming here to fuel democracy and keep the racist bigots under control.We can all be proud of the efforts of the new bread of immigrants willing to travel here to educate fellow beings on the very basic human rights!

  • DD

    For all those who are whining about immigrants taking away their “jobs” – What a bunch of crybabies. If you are so smart, so educated and if you know it all, why are you afraid of immigrants taking away your job??

    All you have to do is update your skill set, work harder and compete. Isn’t the whole nation built on concept “capitalism”?

    At least you don’t have “thick” accent. You as a citizen have access to many resources than immigrants who are on visas with limited abilities.

    Stop whining please!

  • Tom Caron

    I noticed a lot of your comments in conclusion
    to form descrimination in either oposition or not
    oposition to this curent immigration issue.

    The realy key is who is an american?

    “An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German,
    Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek.

    An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or
    Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

    An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

    An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.

    In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

    An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

    An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

    The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
    Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

    An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

    When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

    As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

    Americans welcome the best of everything…the best products, the best books, the best music, the best food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

    The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America .

    Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It’s been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

    Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American!

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