Saturday, June 30, 2007
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Friday, June 15, 2007
Employment Visas “Current” for July
In a surprise development, the release yesterday of the Department of State’s July 2007 Visa Bulletin shows that visas will be Current for all employment based preference categories, except “Other Workers” beginning July 1, 2007. The “Other Worker” category is ‘Unavailable”, meaning that no adjustment of status application can be filed or immigrant visa issued at a consulate in this category regardless of how early the priority date. For all other employment based categories adjustment of status applications can be filed and consular immigrant visas can be issued for cases already processed regardless of priority date. Just two months ago the 3rd employment preference category showed backlogs of 3 to 6 years, and backlogs for 2nd preference for India and China were 2 to 4 years, so this is an unexpected surge forward. It is not known whether visas will remain current in August or retrogress once more. A full copy of the monthly Visa Bulletin can be found at http://travel.state.gov under “Visas”, “Frequently Requested Visa Information”.
It is anticipated that there will be a high volume of I-485 adjustment of status filings prior to July 31st because of the current priority dates and because of the substantial increases in the CIS filing fees effective July 30th.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Running out of LCD glass
Dell is taking 16-24 days to fill an LCD screen order:
There is an industry wide shortage of LCD glass. This shortage mainly affects LCD monitors but could in the future affect laptops as well. This shortage was caused by the large adoption of LCD monitors, HD televisions and laptops in the past year while creation of new factories lagged demand.
Currently there is a 16 to 24 day delay in getting LCD monitors through Dell. While you may see other LCD monitors in the marketplace this is due to product already in stock at distributors and retail locations - it will start to be constrained in the near future. If you have a need for a new desktop and monitor the suggestion is to place two orders to separate the two products, this will allow the computer to ship without waiting for a monitor.
Friday, June 1, 2007
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