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She already had advance parole and her GC application was nearly complete when she was laid off 2 years ago. Her employer was actually nice enough do what was necessary for the paperwork to move along. She’s now waiting for her GC.
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AP (advance parole) does not make her eligible to work. With AP you can re-enter the country while your I485 application is pending.
To collect unemployment she needs to be able and available to work.
And assuming the petitioner does not withdraw the application an immigration officer might issue RFE (request for evidence) and ask the petitioner to prove that they are able and intend to hire your friend. Operating with loss at any time since starting the process would disqualify them. Being laid off from the company that is petitioning is not helping your friend’s case. RFE for any reason would likely kill her application and not working for the sponsor upon approval can bite her if she ever applies for citizenship.
Most people try not to think about all that, it’s just too stressful.
I know of more than one applicant who simply gave up and left.
[quote=briansd1]
Perhaps… but her anger at unauthorized immigrants is unwarranted and misdirected. They didn’t do anything to her and the possibility of them obtaining legal status has no bearing on her prospects for a Green Card.
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But it does.
Research employment-based immigration forums and you’ll learn about a number of initiatives that were killed by Hispanic Caucus, which insists on ‘comprehensive’ reform. Some Republicans (Sessions, Tancredo…) are seen as unfriendly by EB community, but it is mostly Democrats who are holding skilled immigrants in limbo.
