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EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card (PERM) Concurrent Filing

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The stage 2 in an Employment based green card application process is filing an immigrant petition Form I-140 on behalf of the beneficiary. As per the new rule by USCIS the green card application can be filed simultaneously with I-140 petition. The process of filing Form I-140 and Form I-485 at the same time is called concurrent filing.

On Form I-140 one has the option to choose between consular processing and adjustment of status for green card application. Concurrent filing on Form I-140 and Form I-485 can be made only if the employee is currently inside the United States. Concurrent filing on Form I-140 and I-485 is not applicable if the employee wishes for a consular processing outside the United States.

The Form I-140 and Form I-485 can be filed together only when a visa number is immediately available. First one needs to determine if an visa number is immediately available. In case of employment based first preferences category the immigrant visa number is usually current, so one can apply for green card application while filing I-140. Concurrent filing of green card application based on other preference category usually depends upon the the date the labor certification application was accepted by the Department of Labor for processing when a labor certification is required. The Visa Bulletin is available using which one can check their place in the immigrant visa queue. The cutoff dates for all the categories of employment based green card application is provided by the Visa Bulletin.

If there is not much demand than the visas in a given preference category and based on country of birth or it may be the country of changeability, then immigrant visas becomes current. If the Chart shows “C” then it means the visas is immediately or it is current and one is eligible for both filing both the Form I-140 and Form I-485 simultaneously.

When Form I-140 and Form I-485 are concurrently filed one has lots of benefits like filing the green card application earlier along with it one will be filing Employment Authorization Documents and Travel Document, so one can work legally and also can travel outside the United States.

USCIS will issue separate Receipt Notices for the Form I-140 Immigrant Petition and the Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status to Permanent Resident. The Receipt Notices will be issued on Form I-797. You can expect to receive the Form I-140 Receipt Notices within 30 days. The Form I-485 Receipt Notice will be issued to also within 30 days. The Form I-797 Receipt Notices are confirmation that USCIS has received the petition and application, and accepted them for processing.

One must wait for USCIS to complete processing of this case. Generally, an interview is not required. However, if an interview is required, USCIS will be issue an appointment notice to complete processing. If an appointment is not required, decision via mail will be sent. USCIS will most likely issue a decision on the Form I-140, Immigrant Petition before it issues a decision on the Application to Adjust Status to Permanent Resident. If I-140 is approved USCIS will process the I-485 application. If USCIS denies I-140 then I-485 will also not be processed.


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Green Card History & The Application Process Today

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1) Have you ever wondered where the Green Card Process came from?
The system was first started in the early 1800’s as a National Defense program. During those times there was a huge increase in immigration to the United States. The amount of people coming into the country was so great, a system had to be created to keep track of all immigrants. It was a very large and difficult task to accomplish. In today’s world we process well over a million immigration applications a year. Can you imagine what this would have been like in the early 1800’s when everything was processed manually without computers?

2) History was made between 1820 and 1879 when over 49 million immigrants enter the country.
Those years alone counted for one of the biggest booms the United States of American has ever seen. Cities were built and the country grew by leaps and bounds.

3) Did you know the first immigrants ever to reach the United States were the Asians and Indians.
They were the first true immigrants to the United States. They taught the others how to survive the hard winters and where a large part of the development of the United States.

4) Did you know in 1940 the U.S Resident Green Card was white?
There really was never a real green colored card. If you want to dig further into the past, you will find that the greed card was never really a card at all, but a receipt. You see back in the 1800’s it was really effortless to become a citizen of the United States. You landed on the shore, took a number, went through a few medical checkups and then you received a receipt. This receipt had a unique number attached to it. That number was considered your green card. The immigration department knew who you were and where you came from by that receipt. Not much consideration was done to ensure the receipt endured the harshness of the land or weather. Throughout the years the green card took on many diverse colors. Today the card is more white than green.

As the years go on, the laws will change and so will the green card. As technology changes so will the green card. There may come a day when the green card is your fingerprint or may even be the unique characteristic of your eyes or voice.

There is one thing next to taxes and dying we can count on and that is the need for an ever changing green card. At no time in the history of the United States has immigration every been more politically challenged and influenced over the last five to ten years. There has been a slow creep towards making it harder for people to immigrate to the USA. These are the slow changes that have enable the green card to change over the many decades and centuries and it will be the same slow process that will enable the green card to change with the ever increasing threat to national security of the USA.

We are an ever changing people, and country. The world and a people will adjust to meet these different challenges. Those that enter the USA will also be a part of those changes. They will help to shape a nation and become a product part of a hard working society. They will champion the will of the people and build dreams where only despair once lived. This is what the USA has stood for and will continue to stand for as the decades and centuries come and go. The green card is a badge of understanding between the USA and all that come to her shores. The green card stand as a sign of pride and of a dream of a better life for those that come test the waters of immigrating to the land of the free and the home of the brave.


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