My Green Card Status as of June 11 2007

I will blog my Hara Patta (Green Card) status.

My Green card processing was initiated on December 2006. It took me a while to collect documents and provide them to the attorney.

After I provide all the documents to the attorneys, I saw a job posting in early February 2007 on Dice. It was typical stuff. There were no response for the job Ad. After much waiting for a response to the Ad, my Labor Certification was applied on April 2007.

My labor was certified in few weeks and on early June 2007 the company attorneys received an Labor approval and told me that my priority date is April 26, 2007. So the PERM approval took around 10 weeks. Now the attorney has started to work on my next stage of Green Card process(I-140). So I have requested to confirm that the I-140 will be applied with premium processing.

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Two important rules came out on May 2007.

1. No more labor substitution.
2. I-140 should be applied within 180 days after the labor approval.

I am in favor of these rules. I think this will be of significant impact.

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As per June 2007 bulletin, priority dates moved ahead a big time.

For EB2: 01-Apr-2004
For EB3: 01-Jun-2003