August 1st: EB-2 485 Application Approval Mills Running for

First Day of August 2008 VB EB-2 485 Application Approval Mills Running for Indians and Chinese

Today marks the first day when the approval notice production machines in Nebraska Service Center and Texas Service Center will start running producing and printing the eligible EB-2 green card approvals. California Service Center and Vermont Service and local field offices may also have some EB-485 cases of these priority dates for Indians and Chinese and they are likely to pump out approvals beginning from today. There are also a large number of immigrant visa application cases pending in the visa posts in India, China, and other parts of the world fot these Indians and Chinese waiting for the immigrant visa scheduling or issuance of immigrant visas for these priority dates. We take this opportunity to extend congratulations to these new permanent residents for enduring the ordeals and painful journey.

The USCIS and visa posts will also start receiving new EB-2 I-485 applications from another group of Indians and Chinese who have been desperately waiting for these dates to get into the door of I-485 track so that they can take advantage of EAD, Advance Parole, potential change of employment under AC 21 portability provision, etc. Indeed, reaching I-485 stage allows these foreign workers some level of freedom in their lives unlike those who are strictly in nonimmigrant status. We also take this opportunity to extend contratulations to these new EB-485 filers for their new freedom in a state of practical semi-permanent resident privilege under the immigration laws and policies. They will start a new journey which are distinguished from their prior journey strictly in nonimmigrant status.

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