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Participant[quote=briansd1]
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.
[/quote]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.Participant[quote=briansd1]
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.
[/quote]
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.
[/quote]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.Participant[quote=briansd1]
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.
[/quote]
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.
[/quote]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.Participant[quote=briansd1]
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.
[/quote]
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.
[/quote]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.Participant[quote=briansd1]
I don’t need to peruse those forums.
I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
[/quote]The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.[quote=briansd1]
This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
[/quote]Nice friends you have.
[quote=briansd1]
But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
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She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…[quote=briansd1]
Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
[/quote]It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
[quote=briansd1]
The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
Participant[quote=briansd1]
I don’t need to peruse those forums.
I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
[/quote]The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.[quote=briansd1]
This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
[/quote]Nice friends you have.
[quote=briansd1]
But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
[/quote]
She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…[quote=briansd1]
Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
[/quote]It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
[quote=briansd1]
The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
Participant[quote=briansd1]
I don’t need to peruse those forums.
I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
[/quote]The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.[quote=briansd1]
This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
[/quote]Nice friends you have.
[quote=briansd1]
But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
[/quote]
She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…[quote=briansd1]
Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
[/quote]It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
[quote=briansd1]
The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
Participant[quote=briansd1]
I don’t need to peruse those forums.
I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
[/quote]The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.[quote=briansd1]
This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
[/quote]Nice friends you have.
[quote=briansd1]
But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
[/quote]
She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…[quote=briansd1]
Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
[/quote]It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
[quote=briansd1]
The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
Participant[quote=briansd1]
I don’t need to peruse those forums.
I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
[/quote]The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.[quote=briansd1]
This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
[/quote]Nice friends you have.
[quote=briansd1]
But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
[/quote]
She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…[quote=briansd1]
Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
[/quote]It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
[quote=briansd1]
The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
Participant[quote=UCGal]
The Dream act is for the folks who’s PARENTS brought them to the US illegally (they had to be under 15 when they arrive) can serve in the military and gain a path to citizenship.
[/quote]It is also for the kids who ‘aged out’. Once you turn 18 you lose your status as an H1B dependent. If there is a permanent residency application pending it gets canceled. You can try to re-enter on student’s visa, but with parents in the GC line you are unlikely to get it.
Participant[quote=UCGal]
The Dream act is for the folks who’s PARENTS brought them to the US illegally (they had to be under 15 when they arrive) can serve in the military and gain a path to citizenship.
[/quote]It is also for the kids who ‘aged out’. Once you turn 18 you lose your status as an H1B dependent. If there is a permanent residency application pending it gets canceled. You can try to re-enter on student’s visa, but with parents in the GC line you are unlikely to get it.
Participant[quote=UCGal]
The Dream act is for the folks who’s PARENTS brought them to the US illegally (they had to be under 15 when they arrive) can serve in the military and gain a path to citizenship.
[/quote]It is also for the kids who ‘aged out’. Once you turn 18 you lose your status as an H1B dependent. If there is a permanent residency application pending it gets canceled. You can try to re-enter on student’s visa, but with parents in the GC line you are unlikely to get it.
Participant[quote=UCGal]
The Dream act is for the folks who’s PARENTS brought them to the US illegally (they had to be under 15 when they arrive) can serve in the military and gain a path to citizenship.
[/quote]It is also for the kids who ‘aged out’. Once you turn 18 you lose your status as an H1B dependent. If there is a permanent residency application pending it gets canceled. You can try to re-enter on student’s visa, but with parents in the GC line you are unlikely to get it.
Participant[quote=UCGal]
The Dream act is for the folks who’s PARENTS brought them to the US illegally (they had to be under 15 when they arrive) can serve in the military and gain a path to citizenship.
[/quote]It is also for the kids who ‘aged out’. Once you turn 18 you lose your status as an H1B dependent. If there is a permanent residency application pending it gets canceled. You can try to re-enter on student’s visa, but with parents in the GC line you are unlikely to get it.
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