From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Mon Oct 5 17:12:31 1998 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id RAA10726 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:12:30 -0700 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id RAA11867 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:12:30 -0700 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA21800 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:53:26 -0700 Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05693 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:13:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: I-140 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***I got ahold of INS today and the man could only laugh at such a ridiculous suggestion. The I-140 is only an application, he said, and is no guarantee that the applicant will get perm res status. So you can stash that one away in your memory in case someone tries to pull an I-140 on you. Joe St.Hilaire On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Virjean Edwards wrote: > We have not heard of this and we are currently inundated with every kind > of application. I will try to find out as well. > > Has it been 12 months or more since he applied for perm res status too? > You did not mention that. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Virjean H. Edwards University of Washington > Assistant Registrar Office of the Registrar > Residency Officer 264 Schmitz Hall, Box 355850 > (206)543-3290 Seattle WA 98195-5850 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joseph M. St.Hilaire wrote: > > > I have a student with a father who has been on a H visa (and the student > > has a H-4 [dependent] visa). The father says he has now received an > > I-140, which, according to my glossary, is a Petition for Prospective > > Immigrant Employee. When I told him he would need approval for permanent > > resident status before I could reclassify his son, he said that INS has > > changed its procedures and that the I-140 is now proof of approval for the > > green card. I tried calling the local INS office, of course without any > > success on a Friday afternoon, so I thought I'd ask you good folks if you > > had heard about any such change in INS procedures. > > > > Joe St.Hilaire > > Western > > > > > > .