Perhaps it is because of the recession that the process is taking a little longer than we all expect. Normally under EB2 category, the total amount of time should not take longer than 10 months. In my case, this is what happened, but this was well before recession.

Applied for Labor - January 25

Labor approved - March 2

Applied for I-140 and I-485 - October 28 (I had a hard time putting documents together, my Nepali citizenship certificate had an error in my date of birth but I was lucky enough that it was in Bikram Sambat. Pulled some strings and made the translation flawless)

Finger Printing - November 12

I-140 Approval - December 13

I-1485 Approval - December 14.

Green card received - December 21

I never received an advance parole.

Shivani,

I have not heard about any reject cases per se, but I had overheard someone mention that a Nepali was denied his greencard because of his two time DUI arrest in four years. That is a repitition of misdemeanor, and could be considered as felony even though it does not reflect moral turpitude. But again, please do not quote me on this since I do not know all details.

There might be inquiries or RFEs if either you or your employer fail to furnish appropriate documents, but other than that, if you believe your application process has taken along normal course, you need not worry. Admist healthcare controversies and Economic turmoil, immigration reforms comes last in Uncle Sam's list.

yea u need your translation of citizenship and birth certificate.

This is in regards to abc_n_xyz's query. Besides making translation of your nepalese certificate (which obviously results in having a wrong birth date) you could also have two close relatives (preferably residing in USA) make an affidavit explicitly mentioning your date of birth and your relationship to them. This document should be notarized. Also, their name, address and telephone number should be reflected in the document.

For dolphin, the normal processing timeline under EB3 is undecided, that means it could either take as little as a year or as long as ten years to have your greencard approved. The better alternative is, join a school part time (I am sure your work pays for it), complete the degree asap and then ask your work to apply your green card under EB2 category.

I concur 'pyara....' I completely overlooked the job description part. My reply was based on an assumption that dolphin was fairly new to the job. I apologize.

I do not think citizenship of Nepal is required. Only thing required is your birth certificate which is not equivalent to citizenship certificate.

I never had to submit or translate the citizenship certificate. All I submited are birth certificate from Municipality in their letter head (I had this done in English), and I also submitted the SLC's character certificate as a back up for that birth certificate which also has my DOB in vikram sambat. Based on those documents and without any RFE, I received my GC.

I am just sharing my experience. All you need is birth certificate. If you have original birth certificate, that is fine. If you don't have one, have it done from your VDC or Municipality. I suggest to get it done in English so you don't need to translate it back. You can ask for the letter pad in advance and have it printed in English and get their signature. But make sure that you have both of your parents' name on the birth certificate.

True Elixir, but the caveat is, municipality referenes Nepalese citizenship to make the birth certificate. And if there is an error while converting the dates from Bikram Sambat to AD, the authenticity of that particular document goes south.

Jet,

I did not even have to show them the citizenship to prepare for my birth certificate. Each of us know somebody from Municipality or VDC to get these things easily. Nobody even cares there. They will give you anything you want if you have some sort of connection. If you don't have connection, couple hundred rupees makes that connection. You know what I mean. However, even if they checked my citizenship, DOB would be the same since there was no errors.