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How long did the process take? I became a citizen without an attorney and from start to finish it was about 5 years... Different process used though (got married). Got a pile of paper about 2 inch high from all the forms I had to fill, mail that I sent and received, etc... Painful process.
Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.
Glad you made it OP, congrats! As an immigrant in the US I went through the "Extraordinary Ability" path and the process was a journey of pain and anxiety. Many roundabouts with a lawyer that promised me expertise in the process and it ended up with a NOID (Notice of Intention to Deny - something like that) from USCIS. My wife and I had to study the USCIS manual page by page and re-wrote almost all documentation from…
Unfortunately immigration law is full of quack attorneys who abuse immigrants. If you feel you were unfairly treated or scammed, you should report your lawyer to their local Bar organization. Most will take it very seriously - especially in immigration, a repeat offender will often lose their license.
There should be a series on hacking the American immigration system to work around all of its draconian rules.
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Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.
Does this timeline depend on country of birth?
I have a dumb question but how often do tourist visa overstayers get deported while running their own business under an incorporated ITIN? There's not even an I-9 check for non-employee income. There's got to be millions of people doing something like this or as 'independent contractors' considering how trivial it is and the obvious completely broken immigration system that demands these kinds of hacks.
Is the immigration system broken? Or are there just billions of Indian and Asian people?
But the wait and difficulty is much more than 6 times if you’re Asian versus if you’re European.
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Unfortunately immigration law is full of quack attorneys who abuse immigrants. If you feel you were unfairly treated or scammed, you should report your lawyer to their local Bar organization. Most will take it very seriously - especially in immigration, a repeat offender will often lose their license.
At the same time, the political climate and even the person you get reviewing your application could make a difference. I was denied the first time I applied for PERM after the officer combed through the supporting paperwork to find problems. Was it my lawyer's fault? Did my employer make a mistake in the job search? Was it because it happened in the Trump years? Who knows.
O1 isn’t that hard with a good immigration lawyer. It’s about checking boxes, not extraordinary talent.
if you're not hacking the immigration system, are you really an engineer??
O1 isn’t that hard with a good immigration lawyer. It’s about checking boxes, not extraordinary talent.
if you're not hacking the immigration system, are you really an engineer??
This sounds iffy. I'm in the US on a L1-B visa as well, and my company went through rounds of layoffs, which concerned me. All information I've read, including the immigration team from my company (Big Tech), points out that if I lost my job, I would have had a short time to leave the country with no chance to find other jobs.
Unless I'm reading too much into it, it sounds like OP spent some time in the US in an illegal status, until that gap was bridged with the new visa.
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Our case took around 14 months for the EB-1 from the first call to lawyer to the green card in our mailbox.
Does this timeline depend on country of birth?