On June 12, 2026, USCIS officially suspended the immigration ban that had frozen cases for hundreds of thousands of people since late 2025, affecting 39+ countries including Nigeria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen. The ban only affected final decisions, not the processing of petitions, RFEs, or NOIDs. USCIS is updating systems and providing new guidance to officers. However, USCIS may appeal the court order, and a stay is possible, so nothing is fully resolved until the appeal is decided. Applicants from banned countries should not rush to submit documents and should ensure all documents are signed with ink, not electronically, as USCIS has been denying cases based on signature issues since February. Premium processing is strongly recommended for those who can afford it, as it guarantees a decision within 45 days for EB2 NIW and 15 days for EB1A, providing certainty during uncertain immigration periods.
SO WHAT NEXT? US IMMIGRATION BAN SUSPENDED TILL FURTHER REVIEW
Added:In the on in December 2025, just as we were preparing to enter the new year, we saw the news about the immigration ban um that was going to affect over 39 countries. And for the 39 countries, the 39 countries included Nigeria, it included um yeah included Nigeria, Afghanistan, Somalia um and some other countries quite a lot of countries were affected and then that was like the sad news that we ended last year with um fortunately some of majority of some of our countries like Kenya um South Africa um I know most of the European countries um Canada they were not affected by that ban. So we entered the new year in 2026 with the sad news but we felt okay like let's see maybe in 3 months they were going to remove the ban and things were going to get better but the year continued and by February um I think mid January we got another shocker by because they announced that they were going to they added another layer to the band such that it now they included like I think about 75 countries, but this one specifically affected people that were outside America. So, this would be for people who were going to go through consular processing um outside of the country. And I think after that happened, then in February, the visa bulletin showed that EB2N was current for the first time in almost 3 years.
And this was good news cuz they were like, "Oh, okay. NW is current now be a lot of people that were on the line that were waiting to adjust their status. It gave a lot of us the opportunity to adjust status. Um but then for those people whose countries were under the ban it therefore meant that even though they could adjust status the final decisions they could not get the final decisions on their on their cases. Let me be clear that the 39 country ban that came into effect on January 1, 2026 only affected decision the final decision. It meant that if you submit your I140 that is your EB1, EB2, EB3, EB4, EB5, any immigration process, OPT whatever they would process it. If you are maybe they decide oh they need more evidence from you they can send you a request for more evidence that is RF or they send an NID that is notice of intent to deny. Um if that is the case for your for you they will send that out. The the cases were being processed. The only thing that was held that was not being processed was the final decision. So they were not processing final decisions for anybody at that time. Um okay.
[clears throat] Okay. So they were not processing final decisions for anybody at as uh from that January 1st 2026.
But people were still they would allow like you can still submit your petition.
You can still get an RF and you must still respond to the RF when EP2N became current in February. people like a lot of us started doing adjustment of status because and I'm saying this because a lot of us maybe by now I know one of the things that have made me you know stayed away for a long time was I was resisting the urge to talk about this but um and I'm saying this in the most honest way that I can share it in times past I mean before this whole thing started I'm talking 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, like 2020. What people did then when EB2N was still current was that a lot of people that applied for the I140, they submitted their petition and then they did adjustment of status because you would get an EAD card pending when your adjustment of status would be processed.
that was a sort of security for a lot of people because it gave people the opportunity to get an EAD card that could allow them to work. So you find somebody you graduate for instance maybe you are in America you see one of your friends whom you graduated with and the person tells you oh I didn't even join IW and you be like oh I'm yet to be approved but you see them working in like like good jobs like they're not dealing with the OPT drama that restricts you to work within the field that you are supposed to work because if you are an OPT you must only work in the area that is related to your degree but with your EAD card from EB2 IW. It does not kind of restrict you. It's a no restriction EAD. So you find find them working already in normal fields and all of that. And the question was like how are they doing it? How well this is what happened. So what the situation we have currently now where EB2NIW is current I mean there's no backlog that is what happened. Then you are you if you can I know it sounds weird especially when the memo came out that you have to go back to your country to do adjustment of status at a point I was like okay maybe that's why I could my my [laughter] mouth was trying to prevent me from coming out to say this but thank god you know they came back and said oh no no no we don't mean all of you should go back we just mean like if you are in a particular situation then you are the ones that should go back to your country. So the summary of what I'm trying to say here is this. If you can if you can and you can afford it and you're doing EB2 NIW, perhaps you have a case that is in process that you've not had a final decision on it yet and you feel that you had a good case, you have a very high chance of getting approval on your case. In all fairness, this might actually be a good time for you to do your adjustment of status. Um I know that the visa bulletin for June will be July will be released this week.
Probably tomorrow morning or yeah tomorrow morning we should expect to see the visa bulletin or worst case scenario by Friday we should get the visa bulletin and I know they were intentionally holding on to the visa bulletin because of the old drama that happened on Friday. Why?
I'm not sure. But if there's one thing I know, if they start approving cases, the backlog for EB2 is going to be massive.
Like I don't mean baby massive. I mean critical massive. Like terrible massive.
Yes. because you are going to have to be dealing with people that already got approved and are filing for adjustment of status and people that have not yet been approved but because EBW came current since February they were able to do the adjustment of status. I will not even be surprised if the backlog goes as far back as 3 years like back to where we were in February because that's quite a lot of people that have been able to you know key into this and do their adjustment of status. It is not bad in life. It's just unfortunate sometimes you know some people in my language they say sometimes it turns the back what turns is back to you means that for some people it is facing front to them. Yeah, I'm trying to translate Euroba to English language. God help my life. But the point I'm trying to make is that [laughter] you um for some people it is beneficial to them. For some of us it might not be beneficial to us but um as it stands everybody it's um yeah people's luck are different right so in this situation since became current in February it therefore meant that it gave a lot of people the opportunity to apply for adjustment of status which is not bad in a way because um that's the goal goal.
That's what we were all praying for anyway. And thank God that was um what happened. Um yeah. So now fast forward to 20 26 June. We are here now. For the last 4 months, the visa betting did not change. Things have remained the same. Um the visa yeah the visa blessing didn't change but we were hoping that perhaps they would lift the ban for either the 39 country or they will leave the ban for the 75 country but none of that has happened but the policy the January one memo they are going to reveal the policy by in um after 180 days um I'm not going to lie with what we have seen happen in the last two weeks.
I think it was good that those the the organization that are filing this case, they actually took it up and we are forever grateful to them for doing this especially for most immigrants. I cannot tell you how many people went through hell in the last few months. It has been hell for a lot of people. I know people that graduated in December until now they do not have their OPT card. OPT is the card you get either one year or 3 years to work after you graduate from school in America. Personally, personally, just for me personally, I feel it is injustice. Why? Somebody comes from their country, they have been some of them paid out of pocket for school. And the premise was that after they graduated, they would be able to, you know, put that knowledge to practice and gain skill that could be relevant to their career. and now they've graduated and they don't have an opportunity to do that. I don't think it's nice but immigration is not a right is a privilege. We appreciate them for the privilege but at the same time um agreement should be agreement. Yeah. But it is what it is. We are that this is the situation we find ourselves. So aside from that like you can imagine now a student who was in school who probably just was just trying and just striving just managing to finish the program and now they graduated from the program and then there is no hope no job no like it's not it's not as if they cannot get the job but now they they um they cannot get the card you understand and now Um, with all of these things that is going on now, we thank God.
Well, the summary of the matter is that June 12th, Friday last week, they eventually released a memo saying that they are going to step down that January one decision and allow people to start filing the adjustment of status. We thank God for that. Now since that is the case we know that they have also filed an appeal to counter that memo that was released on Friday. So what else? What do we do?
That is why I said okay fine let's have a discussion about it. Let's all come together and kind of discuss about this.
So um oh yeah in life you always have some people that they will always be um like this. So this does not bother me. Um just a second.
Okay.
Um apologies everybody. I think we have someone in the chat who should not be here.
All right. So, back to the conversation that I was back to the conversation. So, now the ban has the the memo release says the ban has been lifted. But what does this mean practically for people that are going to file? For those of us that are waiting to submit our application because we um I mean possibly you feel oh um should I file now? Maybe you have cases that are pending. Should you do your should you upgrade your case to premium processing or um should you just leave it to kind of like just stay there? um or for those of you that were contemplating whether you should apply for adjustment of status um should you do it or should you not do it these are the issues that are running through our minds now and I know that by tomorrow my prayer is that by tomorrow we would start really receiving alert that's my I pray so I we I'm really really looking forward that we wake up tomorrow morning and we start seeing alerts like I mean approval alerts yes we are not hoping to see any denials and all that. But we hope that from tomorrow morning um they would actually start doing what they promised to you know the promise that they will start doing even though the hearing for the appeal will start on Wednesday but we hope that at least spending this time they will just honor that decision and start doing what they're supposed to do.
Another thing I also would like to mention is that um in as much as yes this is an open space and we want to share things and everything we understand also that um the walls have ears. So I'm trying to also as much as possible not put any of us in jeopardy because yes the walls have ears we have to be careful about the things that we share online and everything because we respect the fact that immigration is a privilege. It is not a right but then we are in this we are in this together.
This is this thing affects a lot of us personally. So we all know that there's no way it's almost like um they said when you are pushed to the wall you just have to do something. So we just have to make sure that we arm ourselves with the right information and know what is right to do. So I will start by answer you can if you have any question you can put in the chat box and then I can pick our questions and directly address them. I have some of my points that some things that I would like to also address here as we journey along in this new phase because I'm not going to lie to you a lot has changed. A lot has changed. If you think that um the way I1 I mean EB2 and IW, EB1 A, EB3, E4, EB5 um everything used to be in the past, things have changed drastically.
Things that they used to accept before, they don't accept it anymore. Like things they used to overlook, they're not overlooking it anymore. like they they have some like it's almost like it it feels like there is a new there is a form of new um manual that they use that we don't know we don't see we cannot see it but when they give RF we see some of the things that they do um from there and I'm saying this the number one example which is very very important like please if you do not hear anything from this chat this evening If you have not heard anything from this chat this evening, please I beg you listen to this. If you are submitting any document to USCIS from this moment, make sure that your signature is written with ink.
Use pen. I I'm sure it's not that bad for a pen. Cannot be more than maybe 50 cents. Please use pen to sign. Please use I'm saying it again. Please use a pen to sign like don't do e signing no don't do that don't do that anymore don't do that anymore we have noticed this pattern since February you know when we see people's we can see it in the in in in RF but they did not make it official until May 16 when they released the memo however they have been denying people based on that since February so that's why I'm saying that one just have to do things right now. You cannot afford to do things anyhow now. You cannot afford to just say, "Oh, it doesn't matter. Um, they did not used to this thing did not used to matter. Um, I'm just going to do it that way because my friend that applied in 2024 did it and he went through and they scaled through. So, because that my friend did it and scaled through, I am going to do it also and skill through. Don't do that. Don't do that anymore. Don't do that. You must do things the right way."
Now, sign with ink. Buy the pen. It's just 50 cent, $1, whatever. Make sure you are signing with your pen. The I140 forms, the I9089 forms, whatever form you are submitting and the petition itself. Sign it with pen. The only thing I think that they might actually look over is maybe your recommendation letters. your for your recommendation letters. You know, sometimes some professors, some university, they have e signatures. It might just be that. So, um they might forgive that. But then please insist that your recommenders also sign with pen. And the reason they do this is because they trying to prevent fraud. They're trying to reduce the amount of fraud because they know that people sometimes they just insert signature. Maybe you take a picture of the signature and just insert it in the document. So they don't want that anymore. They're trying to prevent it.
So that's why they are saying you should use your pen to sign. Very very important. I'll start I'm attending to some of the questions while I address the conversations I have here. So the number one question for everyone is this. Has the ban been lifted? As of today?
The answer is yes. As of today, we don't know about tomorrow, but as of today, yes, partially. Why? Because they already filed an appeal and the appeal hearing from the first secret is going to start on June 17, which is this Wednesday. They're going to sit on it three times. June 17, June 22nd, and June 24th. So we are still inside the heat but things are going to get a little bit better now. So that's what I can say on that. For countries that are not affected by the ban like Ghana, Kenya, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, if your country is not part of the ban, good um it is going to be business as usual for you. So, first question, uh, you want me to shed more light on EB1A as well? Well, um, I don't know what you mean by the question shed more light on EB1A. Um, maybe give more context to that. Um, you said, hi, can Eban applicants do premium processing now?
Eg, I am a Zimbabwean. I'm from Zimbabwe on partial bank. Okay. Yes. So, um, this is just me personally. Um, please I'm not speaking for anybody and this is just me. Um, I've I have clients that have submitted the application since December 2023 and they've not gotten the final decision from USCIS till now because they did not do premium processing. I have people from April 2024, January 2025, they are still waiting for USCIS's decision.
So, it's just me. I am a forever advocate of premium processing. Why?
Imagine if you submitted your petition in January 2025 and you did not do premium processing and you waited till December 2025 when they released the news about the ban.
You were automatically affected by that news. Meanwhile, your fellow colleague who did premium processing in maybe they submitted also with you in January 2025 and then they decided oh I'm tired of waiting and they were able to maybe pull the money together somebody's leg somebody's arm somebody's head somebody's shoe somebody's bag and tied it together and paid for premium processing they got the final decision in May 2025 for example they submitted for adjustment of status us um by May 2025, right? I mean a fellow Zimbabwean like yourself and now they got their green card by October 2025. They are done with the process. Gasia done. But for you that did not do the premium processing, you are you were now caught in this partial ban rubble.
you cannot move forward because without the ban being lifted you don't know your final decision even though they've lifted the ban now it does not mean that automatically they will process your case it is when they choose or when they wish that they will process your case if it is under normal processing there is no law I repeat no law you cannot fight them. There's what? There are things that you can do here. But let me not say there is nothing you can do. There are things you can do. If your case is after I think if your case is up to 3 years, you can actually file for them to attend the case. I think is it 3 years or two years? I think it's two years. If your case is up to two years and under normal processing and they have not attended to it, there is a um there is a USCIS injunction that you can file and then they can consider you know fast track the case. I don't personally put my mind and unfortunately I will not go research about it. Please read about it. Google and Chad and Claude is your friend.
Please use it and Google and find that out. Most of the people that I've seen that have gone that route and you know wrote written the induction wrote written to USCIS spoken to them about oh my case has been delayed for a while I've submitted my L140 for the past 2 3 years I've not heard anything what's going on they honestly don't do nothing about it but they will tell you oh okay fine we will process it for some of you you might get lucky they might process it for some people they might just leave it in the system and continue to look at it. I think at the end of the day um the sum of what I'm saying is that if you can afford it do premium processing.
Why? Because tomorrow is not guaranteed for you. If you do premium processing you already know it's 15 days. If you do DB1 that you get your final decision if you do precessing for EB2 NIW, you are guaranteed that within 45 days you will know the final decision. But I know that the money is a lot. Every year they keep increasing it. They started with 2,500.
I don't know how we got to $2,965 cuz that's where we are right now.
That's what they charge now. They've added a lot on top of it over time. And who knows, maybe tomorrow morning you might wake up and they could have they might increase the premium processing to 3,200 again. So every day things change.
If you can afford it, go for it. I know I've spent a lot of time on this and I'm saying this because I think some of us really need to understand that immigration changes every day. If you can afford it, just do premium processing, complete the process and get yourself out of the system. Can family members in Zimbabwe or other countries on the 39 only country do B1 B2 visitor visa for now? Well, well, well. The memo that was released on Friday in a way it does not affect the 75 countries. We are waiting for tomorrow morning. Let them clarify that part for us. Okay. What we know is that the the policy memo that was released on Friday, it specifically affects PM that is the policy manual 6020192 that affect it means that they freeze all application all benefit for nationals of over 19 countries. We all know that about 39 countries. That's policy manual 6020192.
The second policy manual that they strike down on Friday was the policy manual 60201 94. That is the one that affects the larger B of the 39 country. It still does not include people that are outside that are going through consular processes. The last one was the um PA 2025 to 2026. That one that law that allows officers to use your country of birth as a significant negative factor against you in your green card EAD and your state and status decision. I I'm sure a lot of us did not know about the last policy, but it actually was there.
So if you are from a country that they deem not good in a way like Nigeria for example when they are adjudicating your case they would actually consider your country as a reason to punish you for like your case might just get a negative strike down just because you are from you were born in that country. So, but for I mean in answer to your question about the B1 B2 visa for the now um a lot of people I know this one because I'm a Nigerian so I know a lot of people that have gone to the embassy in the last 6 months they have consistently been denying people B1 B2 visa. A few people, I've seen just one person, one person that got in on B1 B2 visa since January, just one family, the husband, the wife and their child. And they actually were government officials. They were coming to the US on um governmental assignment. Even though it was B1, B2 visa they gave them, but they were government officials.
So but every other person people that were trying to get F1 visa, B1 visa, B2 visa, they have not given them people on H1B they actually I know a lot of people that H1B that they got visas. Yes, because in a way I don't know how they did it but H1B was somehow somehow in way exempted from the whole thing. So um yeah but that that that was the situation. So the next question you are curious if anyone has done or planning to do premium processing in this lift.
Yeah. If anybody is doing premium processing now, um if you want to consider it, I would say maybe sometimes for me like when news like this come out, I like to take my time and read the news, understand it very well, look at the terrain, understand what USCIS is really saying clearly. Because sometimes the initial news that they share they will clarify it maybe in like after 2 days or after one day they always give out another memo that gives more clarity to what they are saying. So I would say if you are having um if you're doubting whether you should do premium processing or not maybe you should wait till Wednesday when they do the first secute meeting that's June 17. You can wait till then and see what um what they will bring out because trust me oh they are always typing a memo. Yeah. Yeah. So does any applicant from the ban 75 country get affected while applying for NIW?
So Mr. Rogers can you please clarify the question? He said does any I'm not sure I understand. I think there are some there's something that is missing in the question. So um how much the lawyers on this platform charge?
Well, I'm not a lawyer. So yeah, if you want to know how much I charge for EB2, you can book a consultation with me and know. Can someone file adjustment while having pending I140? Good question, Esa.
Yes, of course. Of course. Yes, you can file adjustment of status with a pending I40. Yeah, you can. It's allowed. Yeah, a lot of people have done that. In fact, I had one client in February. Um, very nice guy is um from Pakistan and he's had his EB2N in the system for a long time. I think it's April, was it April or May 2024 and he was like, you know what, lady, I think I'm just going to do this. I'm like, yeah, I think you should do it. I think you should do it.
And yeah, so he decided to do the adjustment of status. And when he went through the adjustment of status process, you know, we helped him put his documents together and he submitted for the adjustment of status. And after I think in April, so he did he already did his biometrics and everything. And then he came he was like, you know what? I think I'm just going to pay for the premium processing for the EB2. And he did pay. And guess what? He got approved. Like I was so happy. I'm so [laughter and gasps] happy he got approved for the EB2 in uh in May um for it and he got his EAD card as well. So, you know, sometimes you never can tell, you know, something can just sp um the next level. So, it might just be what will spoil you to take the step.
So, if you can do it, do it. But the only problem with adjustment of status now is that you have to do medical and medical is where the problem is because some for some of us that stay in some places whereby there are not so many medical doctors medical USCIS medical surgeons around it might be a little bit difficult for you to get um an appointment for the um for for your medicals and you you must submit your medicals while you are submitting for adjustment status. So very very important. Um so you so somebody else said so yes the answer is that you can submit adjustment of status even though your I140 has not yet been approved. If I were in this situation right now like now I'm going to do the adjustment of status. I'm so going to do it. That's just me because when all of this thing clears out and if I the visa bulletin retresses is going to be massive, baby. It's going to be massive. So I did my So this question I did my adjustment of status for EB1A in 2025. Biometrics was done in 2025 as well. You have not heard from USCIS since then. Ah, you cannot hear now. You are Nigerian. There's a ban for Nigerians. So the ban means that everybody from Nigeria is automatically on a standill. So from tomorrow morning though, who knows you might hear a lot.
Please if you get an alert, share with us. Let us celebrate together and you know celebrate your good news with you.
So we we know that from this week we should hear really good news. And let me also state that and for those of us that have been following my page on Instagram. Yeah. And shout out to my assistant that has been you know following up on updates and everything on there. Thank you so much. Like I've told I was just like please just make sure that any news that comes out please just make sure that people are updated at least on Instagram even though we cannot come on WhatsApp. So if uh um as of today, okay, for people that are from the banned countries, I mean the 39 banned countries, if you submit your adjustment of status prior now, I mean you submitted it to 25 and all of that. If you do get an appro like you can get you can literally wake up tomorrow morning and get get to know that they've approved you for the EAD or your green card um um and they will send it to you like so that like that solves the problem right but for those of us that perhaps you did to NIW don't forget that they are still going to be treating your cases on is not going to be like the EB1 people EB2 as a retrogression as at February they were treating cases from 2020 2022.
Yeah. No, no. Was it 2022? Yeah, I think so. I'm not sure. But anyway, the point I'm trying to make here is that if your case is EB2 NIW, don't expect magic to get the EBA the adment of status green card automatically. They will still follow due process. They will follow due process. So please um be patient with them. Um another thing is I'll post on the group. There is a way maybe by tomorrow morning like everybody everybody [applause] as you're waking up tomorrow morning we are bombarding Emma I mean the US channel so you're going on Emma and you're telling them oh you submitted your case blah blah blah blah blah from from from this time to this time please can you I've not heard back from USCIS can you expedite my case you like tomorrow morning we are going to be typing we're going to be typing like you're going to be calling you're going to be disturbing so that you can move your case up on the ladder especially if your case is EB1 even if your case is EB2 and you have been in the system maybe you've submitted you've gotten your approval since 2024 2025 like call them call them you you're not doing anything wrong you're just trying to you know move your case up the the ladder Okay. So, please let us reach out. I guess that's the point. Let us reach out tomorrow morning. Make sure that we are contacting USCIS and telling them to move our case up the ladder. For those from the 39 countries such as Nigeria under the ban, what are the chances of getting STEM OPT approval before the year ends? Ah, Augustine that one it's between us and it's between [laughter and gasps] that's the OPT part. I think that if nothing at all moves, OPT at all should be approved.
Especially for people that graduated since December and people that graduated in May that submitted early enough.
Yeah, I think at least you should get your EAD and STEM OP. So please if nobody is doing this our my this thing you know this please I don't mean that we should wake up tomorrow morning and then USCI should start looking for the person that told everybody should that they should they should go online and start disturbing them please I'm a small person no but yes if you have been waiting for your op you have been waiting for your STEM OP tomorrow morning you should not be slacking you should be texting the chat bot, the Emma chatbot, you should be calling USCIS to tell them, "Oh, the memo said that you guys have to release my OPT card. Please approve my OPT card now. I need it now. Now, like, you ain't joking. You need it now. So, contact them and do what you need to do.
The the chances of you getting it before the year ends, I think the chances is good. if they would honor the memo. But if they don't honor the memo, I'm sorry, you still have to wait. Please explain what you mean by sitting on it. I wish you put a little bit of context so that I know what you are referring to here, but I'm sorry. I don't think I know what you are referring to. What about those awaiting decisions on the EB visa?
Should decisions be expected? Yes, decisions should be expected from tomorrow. Yes, decisions should be expected. How long does your review process take? Oh, it takes 72 hours. Um, you can find the form on the start page.
Yeah, you can go on my website is mygreatpeople.com and you can find the form there. Um, okay. Do you mean the recommendation letter must been signed even if the person's name is at the bottom of the letter? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Please. Very good question from Shedra. Thank you. Very wonderful question. Please, your um like I so sorry I would stop a little bit here and talk about new changes on immigration process for those of us that are going to be submitting our I140s and our I485 soon. Please, if you're going to be submitting anytime soon, please know this much. Okay? I want you to do something. Take a chill cold bottle of water. We are in summer so everywhere is hot. Yeah. Take a cold, chill bottle of water. Calm down.
Please calm.
I know you want to submit. Your blood is hot. It's hot as it hot. Calm down. H.
And make sure that you are doing it right.
This time we are is not the time for you to go and jump and submit anyness.
Don't do any and I'm saying this because there are repercussions for you doing any ness at this time. Three major repercussions.
Number one, USCIS has an entire department that is set up now to vet everything that you submit. I'm not saying you're submitting anything wrong, but I'm saying their job is to dot all the eyes and cross all the tees.
If you submit a document that is not that you put together surely not because it was not correct but because you did not come down and do it right, you will be penalized for it.
There is no space for sorry again. I mean sorry that they will now send your document back to you. I ship your document back to you and write there that you did not feel so so so and so.
you did not sign. They don't do that anymore. They will collect the money and they ain't going to refund you nothing.
So, you will lose money.
That's one. You will also be in trouble because they will put it on record. That document that you submitted that is not correctly done, it is going to be on your record if you come back tomorrow.
And don't forget, oh, we all know that we are in the age of technology and with everything that is going on. Yeah, you know big brother is watching.
You will be penalized for submitting incorrect documents. So maybe for maybe tomorrow you now come with the right thing you did it right now you are submitting it. they will go back and look at what you initially submitted and compare it with the new one you are submitting and they might honestly just penalize you and at that point your explanation will not make any sense at that point. So please I'm begging you now as you are preparing your document to ship it tomorrow morning because some of us we're going to sleep at the door of USPS overnight like you're literally going to go and sleep in our car because of US USPS as USPS is opening the door as FedEx is opening their door tomorrow morning you are entering with them for some of us we are submitting tonight for because of course all of these applications have online opportunities to submit now you are ready to Submit your application. Before you click send, check and check and check again and check again. And please drink cold water and check again and check again and please check again because there is no space for error again. No space for error. You do anyhow, you see anyhow.
You do you submit the wrong document you get in trouble forever. You'll be explaining till Jesus comes. There's no sorry there's no it was a mistake again.
They have said it. They have released the memo. They have been clear about it.
Please do not put yourself in trouble.
Sign your document with pen. That 50 cent that you going to use to buy that viral will not kill you. Don't do technology.
technology please. I'm not saying that if you you know as per you are you can do your thing no but I'm saying this for people like myself who want to go through a smooth process who don't like stress and that's why I'm emphasizing this the second the third thing is that when you don't sub when you if you make mistake so I said number one they will not refund your money again they will not ship it back to you and tell you to correct the error that you did they will collect the money, they will not refund you the money. Number two, it's going to be on your record. Um, even if in the future you now come and submit the right documents, they will compare that wrong one that you did the first time and compare and contrast. And if unfortunately you fall into the hand of a not so good person, they will use it against you.
Why? Why? a little patience could have solved that problem for you. I know we consultants and lawyers, they charge a lot of money for this service and you know me, I'm I've always been an advocate of do it yourself, but in this age and time um even though you do it yourself, give your roommate, give a friend, give your wife, please give your friend. I do reviews.
Come to us. Let us help you look at the document before you submit it. There's no space for error. Again, I'm saying this because I've said it in 2024. I was very particular about it. I used to talk about it a lot and a lot of people still made mistakes and over time I of course came and did webinar. We showed you examples of oh don't do this, don't do that and people still did it anyway. But then there was no they were not using AI. There was no online submission. you can still get away with it. They were not punishing people for it. But now they will punish you for it. They will they penalize you for it. So please just do it right. I'm begging because tomorrow morning a lot of people are going to be submitting a lot of documents. Please do it right. I'm begging you. If you are a you somebody from like Nigeria and you know that you were born after 1992, I think it was 1991 they did the NPC birth certificate.
I be take your time and do the right thing. Whether you were born in 1980 or you were born in 1971 or you were born in 2000, do it. Just do it. Just for, you know, just for balance sake, just do it. Um, if you're from maybe a country like say you're from Canada, you're from an European country, just make sure that you file like ask questions, look at your documents, ask people in the country, a please, what what are the documents that I should submit? Is this correct? Is this not correct? I've reopened the groups now. I know, like I said, for those of us that are just joining, so I'm saying it again.
Apologies. Apologies. I apologize. I apologize. Sorry for the long closure.
Please forgive me. Thank you so much.
Yeah, now the group is open. You can ask your question. Yeah, for the group. If of course somebody will answer. If nobody answers, if I have time and I come around, I will answer. It's that simple with me. So um moving on your oh by the way another thing to mention for those of us that are submitting I140 soon that's EB1A or EB2 NIW EB3 or EB4 or EB5 whatever the case may be please if RF or an NID or you submitting fresh let me shut up so that you can all hear me clearly okay I give it 1 2 3 4 5 you can hear me now right include Include the CV of your recommener. I'm saying it clearly.
Include the CV of your recommener.
Things have changed. Include the CV of your recommener.
Okay? Please include it.
I'm saying it now. Include the CV of your recommener. In the past, it used to be not it used to not be a big deal. So far, the recommener writes in the letter that oh, I am so so and so person. I'm recommending this person. It works. But now [clears throat] it's not going it's not going to work anymore. I'm saying this because I know that it is not going to fly anymore.
Include the CV of your recommener. Even if you have to be the one to sit down and pull the CV together and write the CV and build it for the person, just make sure that you attach a CV of your recommener when you are submitting your I40.
What about premium processing increasing the chance of RF? As always, I have never and I will never believe that theory. I'm sorry. I know that lawyers tell you this. Maybe because I'm not a lawyer. Sh. So, maybe because I am an optimist. I am an annoying optimist. So, I believe that. Yeah. I I don't believe in things like that. If you will get RF, you will get RF fee. Whether you do pre processing or not. If your petition will get RF, it will get RF. Your pre processing is not the reason why you got an RF. But I know I know I know it. I know I know there are so many theories out there that says otherwise. I'm sorry if I am breaking if I if I'm not following the status quo, but I'm saying that I don't believe that theory that doing premium processing increases your chances of RF. I'm sorry, but that's just my belief. However, just because we live in a world whereby you cannot always do like know everything and do everything, why don't we balance things up? I would say this, this is what I say for people that ask me this same question. I know that you are not going to listen to me anyway. I would say this much. Maybe you can submit your I40 first.
Perhaps maybe you submit your I40 in June for example and then by July or August you now do premium processing.
How about that?
Yeah, maybe that is like um I think that's fair. But I'm saying this because it's a personal experience for me and I'm saying this because it's paining me when I see people that say it online that if you do premium processing when you submit initially it it causes you to have a ref. It's not true. It's not true. I'm telling you it's not true because if you submit premium processing after 9 months or after 2 years if you are going to get RF you will still get the RF. It will not reduce your chances of getting the RF. The fact that you submitted the fact that you think oh I did not do premium processing I submitted in January 2024 and we are in June 2026. If I pay for premium processing now, USCIS will consider my case and because they know that I've spent two and a half years in the system. My case has been with them for two and a half years. Maybe because of that they will temper just messy sorry Messi with justice or justice with Messi whichever one it is. You know what I'm trying to say? They will not temper any justice with Messi. They will not and I'm telling you from personal experience they not going to temper no mercy with no justice or no justice with no mercy. If you will get a ref you will get a referee.
Okay. I don't want to be too well you know me I'm a funny person and I have to be happy when I talk because then it will be too boring. I'm sorry for people that like to be official and formal.
This is not a formal space. We are an un an official family and we talk and we gist um as we do this. So apologies if this is not your style and you are used to people being serious when they talk but I'm not a serious person and I don't think I would ever God will not even allow me to be serious anyway. So please do not I that's just me but I might be wrong but I'm saying personally from my own personal experience premium processing does not increase your chance of RF if you submit it when you submit your I140 if God says you will not get RF you ain't going to get one but if it is in your destiny that you get one if you like stay in the system for two and a half year, stay in the system for 5 years, you will still get the ref. Thank you so much for coming to my TED talk. Um, and let me proceed. What happens if someone decides to fight for adjustment of status but the IB2 wasn't later approved. Ah, [laughter] my sister, if you hear law, it has gone.
It has gone. the money that's gone. So the question is that what happens if someone decides to file for adjustment of status but their EB2 was not approved eventually.
Unfortunately the money is gone.
That's it. That that's the summary. It's a gamble. Even your NIW, no matter how confident you are in it, it's a gamble.
It is what it is. That's it. People that work with me, if you work with me, if you come to my consultation and or you reach out to me, I'm going to tell you the truth. I ain't going to I guarantee you no approval. But we're going to work the out of the work. We're going to make sure that your position put the best fit forward for you. Yes. But we ain't going to guarantee you no approval because it is a human being that will make the decision. The human being might decide to be nice to you. They might decide not to be. So there's nothing we can do about it. Unfortunately, unfortunately.
So please note this and no piece that if you do adjustment of status while your EB2 is not yet approved it is a gam gamb bull. If your EB2 NIW petition is not approved eventually you lose the money for the adjustment of status. It does not affect your current status. It does not. It does not. It does not. You will still retain your current status. The fact that you have applied for adjustment of status does not mean that you can now apply for an immigration benefit in the future. Well, okay. Let me pedal down on that to because we are in a different dispensation where nothing is guaranteed. So, sorry. Apologies.
Apologies. Um um no I no I'm read I'm trying to replay in my brain now if there's any law that negates that I don't think there's any law that negates that all this now sometimes now God just help my intelligence so hey thank god I have done PhD before this AI thing came that's how I just not go to school again. It is well in Jesus name. All right. So as I was saying um I don't think that that should be a fear that you should deal with because in all fairness you will waste you will spend that money. Yes you will spend that money that $1,440 that you use to do the adjustment of status to file for it. You will spend that money eventually.
But if you use it to do digestive of status, you secure your spot in the system because I'm going to tell you for those of us that maybe are just entering. Let me just tell you what you don't want to hear. And it is the truth. The ban has been lifted for now until when the appeal changes things.
The visa bulletin for July has not yet been released. So therefore, we don't know what July holds for us. But one thing is sure.
You know that thing that I know that is sure is that EB2 is going to retrogress.
He shall die.
That much I know. It may not retrogress in July. It might be in August. Might be in September. But when that retrogression happen is going to be massive. But then let me also air at the side of caution by saying that we have a good news that a lot of us don't know and I'm happy to share this good news with us.
Do you know that in fiscal year 2025 they had 46,000 green cards left over that rode into 2020 since fiscal year.
So it means that we actually have extra 46,000 green cards that became beneficial to the employmentbased visa category.
So naturally, so for let me just like put it practically. Let's say in year 1026, you are supposed to have 100 green cards for the entire employment based visa category.
The good news is that we had extra 46,000 added.
So that extra 46,000 actually was one of the things that contributed to EB2 and IW being current. I know it's just a spec. It's just a tiny it's not only it.
I'm not giving the credit to that extra 46,000 but it's still something. Ah 46,000 is not small too. It's not, you know, you know, it's not small. It's not 46,000 green card is a lot, you know, but um that's the good news. So, we hope that with that extra the backlog on the EB2 is not going to be too much eventually.
Yeah, we hope so. So, um what is the frequent reason I 140 is denied? Ah, his wishes are wizards. [laughter] I'm just joking. I'm just joking.
Okay. There are so many reasons why I40 can be denied. Um I will come back to that question. Let me write it somewhere. I'll come I'll come back to it because I want to talk to you about people that are going to be filing I140 the things that you should start looking out for your evidences your recommendation letters your well positioning and all of those other things. So please um I'll come back to that question. What happens if someone decides to file for adjustment of status? I've answered that question. Um for those from the 39 countries such as Nigeria under the ban, what are the chances of getting OP approval before a state of policy is granted? I I think in all fairness um if they are not going to be wicked they will they should approve the opt for you guys as soon as possible. Yeah. I think if there's anybody that should benefit from this day of policy, this June the Friday um good news, it should be OP and STEM OPT people because in all fairness, you guys didn't do you guys don't you are not they're not they're not reviewing any case for you in all fairness. So why won't you be approved? But let's just pray that they they do it. Yeah, let's just pray that they do it. Premium processing is now 30 days says I don't know I've not heard that news I'm not I don't work in USCIS so I don't I don't know when when did they change to 30 days again please is it true okay I don't know when they change to 30 days but it used to be 45 days um for EB2 and IW and then for EB1A it used to be 15 days.
When did they change to 30 days? Sorry, let me move on. Do you mean someone can do premium process for EB2 right now?
Oh, yes, absolutely, Joseph. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you can. Of course. Yes. So far, you have an I140 in the process. You know what? It's very simple. Just fill the form I907. Okay? It's very simple.
Fill the form I907.
Fill the payment processing. Whichever one you want to use, whether you want to use your credit card, you fill the G1450. If you want them to remove the money directly from your bank account, you fill form G1650.
They do not take credit card. They do not take checks or money orders anymore.
Hey Jesus, in our own time, yeah, in our money order we used to use and checks.
But you know, times have changed. Times have changed. Sorry, I was only reminiscing on the good old days of money orders and checks. But anyway, back to our conversation. Yes, they do not take money orders and checks anymore. They only take credit cards or debit card or direct bank withdrawal.
So, very simple. Just fill those two forms. Fill the G1145. Very important.
Very important. Fill the G1145 so that you can get the email notification when they get your application. Submit it very simple. Submit it online. That one is no big deal, you know, and you you get it done. Yeah. What what of those that have submitted EB2 since 9 months ago and have not gotten a decision. Can premium processing be done now?
I said my own no.
Do premium processing if you can afford it. Do it. Do it. Do it. You spend the money. Yes. You use the money to go and rent apartment that you're not supposed to be living in and they are paying huge bills there or you used to buy something on Tik Tok shop, you know, buy something on the things that you you don't need that you don't use in the house. What do you need that TV that extra TV in your room for? Use the money to do your premium processing and forget about it and stop doing car note and buy small Toyota and be using it. Get your immigration sheet out of the way. Please just get it done. I'm telling you, the day you get done with this thing, the day you get your papers sorted, there's a peace that comes. It's different.
There's a joy that flows through you.
There is confidence that you have. You sleep, you close your eyes. You have that.
I don't know how to explain it to you.
You cannot the the it's different. It's different. You will see opportunities.
You key into it. You will see a job you can apply. You can go out with confidence. There is a lot a lot a lot that he just gives you. You have no idea no idea how much how much peace you will have if you saw this whole thing out. I am I it's painful that some of our countries like Zimbabwe you know we are part of this ban. is painful. But I'm assuring you e you can just stick it through. Just endure a little bit more.
Little bit more. Just stick it out and get this thing done. Just get it done.
Forget all this revolities. Oh, I remember. I'm sorry, but it's a joke. um when they remove when they announced the whole H1B $100,000 increase um I have some of my friends my Nigerian friends when I was living in Texas and then they called me that you know what we lost our jobs now blah blah blah blah blah and they were going to sell the house and everything and some of our other friends on the group chat started joking and saying Hey B, I buy house on H1B now. But the point is, I'm not saying it is bad for you to do that, right? If you can, please, by all means, of course, go for it and do it. Yes. Um, getting a property in America is a big deal. It's very good. Yeah. But sort your immigration out. Sort it out.
That's it. That's it. And that has been my message for the past 6 years that I've been saying. My message has not changed. It remains the same. Get your immigration sorted. You get it sorted. I am assuring you. It will be like every puzzle falls in place. Every other puzzle will fall in place. It's not even unfortunate that this year they stopped us from getting SBA loan. Imagine if it was last year e when we could still get SBA loan. You'll just be able to get $1 million that you go used to buy one business. I'm telling you it was good.
It was so good. It was so good. I'm telling you. Just get it. Oh god. I know that as I'm saying it now, some people will say some lady I started making jokes and it's not serious again. But I'm telling you the truth though. Yeah.
My brothers and my sisters cannot lie for you. I don't lie for you. I'm telling you what I know. The money I have is what I'm giving you. Do this thing. Do this thing and be done with it. If you are still outside America, maybe our reality might not be your reality. In fact, I did this meeting at this time because I wanted to talk to us people in America here first because now we fire burn they burn us differently because we inside the eat of it.
So moving on, do you advise somebody submitting a B1A tomorrow plus premium plus adjustment of status all together [laughter] be coming down be coming down? Ah anyway, yes, my answer to you is if you can afford it, do it. That's it. If you can afford it, you can file for EB1A, EB2 or your EB2 IW plus premium processing plus adjustment of status. If you can do it, do it. That is if you can afford it.
Well, it's a lot of money. What is what I'm saying? It's a lot of money. Oh, [laughter] it's a lot of money. Money that is down payment for house. Yeah, it's a lot of money. It is. But if you can afford it, please do it. Yeah, that's just me.
That's that's if you are my brother or you're my sister, that's what I will tell you because that's what people told me and that's what I did and that's what worked for me and I don't regret it and that's why I've been telling everybody to do the same except you don't want to stay in America. I just want to go back to your country or you want to go someplace else you don't have to concern yourself with all these things that they are saying but if this is your mea if this is your caba do it if USIS fails to act on a premium processing case within 45 business day because the case was placed on hold due to the travel ban policy is the premium processing fee refundable answer to your question is I don't know until tomorrow morning I don't No. So we have never experienced the ban before. So we don't have a use case to consider this. But by let me say by fairness the money should be returned. By being fair yes the money should be returned. But if it is me oh if they approve my case let them take the money. I dash them. I dash them. Let them give my approval but I think they should return the money. S I submitted the first question but you skipped it. I will ask again. Ah but you did not ask again now the gangas. You didn't ask again. Okay the next question says how long will the decision be made? I want to try and round up the meeting by 7:30 p.m.
Central Standard Time. That means we have eight more minutes. So please if I don't get to your question pardon me.
Um, if you want me to continue the meeting maybe 10 minutes over, so we end by 7:40. Please clap or send me love.
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Yeah. So please thank you for subscribing and for liking and for sharing. I share too please. So thank you. I appreciate you. Thanking you. All right back to the question. How long would a decision be made after the meeting to get a decision on their appeal and so the so what we know is that the first circuit they're going to be sitting from they're going to they submitted it on Friday. submitted it on Friday morning. The lady, the USCIS lawyer, she submitted it in the morning on Friday. And then on June 17, they would be um presenting it. On June 22nd, they would also, that's next week, Monday, they would also be sitting on it again. And we hope that by June 24th that is the upper Wednesday the they would make the judge will make a decision. But you know the beautiful thing we are praying for judge con those people's page go and donate for them and please go and drop something there. They are an NGO you know we didn't pay them for this they an NGO so let us go and support them please let's go and support them they they did a good job because they are not just fighting for one person they they fought for everybody everybody you know and that is the beauty of nonprofits in America so let's support them thank you so much um so we don't know how long the decision will take but by June 24 tentatively we should get a decision Can I get a refund on my PP money now that USCI like I said I don't know about that?
Um can someone just submit if their petition is not ready [laughter] just to be in the queue. Um in the past I would have said yes to this question.
Honestly, honestly, I would have just said yes to your question that you can just submit your petition even though it is not ready just to be in the queue in the quick in the queue quick Q quick.
anyone quick whatever. Anyway, back to the conversation.
Please, I beg of you don't submit any outing at this time.
Please, please, for your sake, don't do it.
Don't do it.
You can correct what you have not submitted.
You cannot correct what has been submitted.
I will never be an advocate of online submission. There's I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Apologies, but I would never support online submission. That's me.
It's going to be paper all the way.
Paper back all the way. Paper all the way.
There's a reason. If you have worked in corporate before, you know what I'm saying. If you worked in corporate, if you worked in legal services before, if you've been an investigator before, you know what I'm talking about. That paper back paper like paper paper beats anything. paperm don't worry I can all say some things as per we are in the space that we are but if you can e do paper back do paper do paper yeah there's a reason why if you go to court e no matter how much technology have advanced you will still see in the offices even in government offices they will still tell you that some documents it is type you know type writer type I mean typewriter of old that that typewriter that they pour ink I hope we are not all old there you know typewriter that one that you will slam it to the left and slam it to the right and type the thing inside that's what they use to type the document there's a reason for it there's a reason for it not say it but if you he that has ears let him hear what the spirit is saying to the church all right moving on Um don't submit your document it's not ready please don't do it. Your documents are going to be filed on record and if in the future you want to correct something that you know should not have been there. It's going to be difficult for you to correct it. There are speculations that the ban lift is only for people within the US.
Can you please confirm if it is true or not? I am confirming to you that it is true.
Yeah, it is true. Unfortunately, tomorrow morning they will release a document that clarifies whether it impacts people outside. So, let us wait till tomorrow morning for that clarification. But as of today, from what we understand from the initial memo and the other documents that was the memo that was sent, you know, so they initial they released a memo for all of us on the page on their page. They now released another memo for their staff as well that we have access to. So from both memos, it shows that it is actually for those of us that are inside.
But maybe tomorrow morning they will clarify. That is why in fact I have I know this webinar should have been done yesterday. I was waiting that I kept waiting that oh maybe they will upload maybe they will maybe they will clarify maybe they will clarify maybe they will clarify but I'm just too excited for the news. I'm like I'm going to talk today.
I'm going to come out and gist with people. Let's find a way forward. What about those of us who file premium processing in your talk for our EB1 AI 140 and submitted since February?
What should we do now?
H you wait. You don't have a choice.
You wait and you pray that that your referee would receive the breath of God and the grace of whatever religion you practice and pray that it should be approved. I know you've done a good job.
Um yeah and everyone of us that have gone through this process I think we also see if you have ever applied for I140 please go and this night e I want you to just go and take a like celebrate yourself please like I mean if you went through this process you know people that they just fight it once and everything just went through and I just be like ah no more I can know how to do it you went through this process it didn't shake you shake shake you one kind shake your body you know celebrate yourself I'm not going to lie I've done a lot of things in my life I've gone through a lot of things in my personal life I've been through hell I've been through a lot I but I will assure you the toughest thing I ever did was this thing is the the toughest I've ever done it was hard I saw she bans So if you've gone through the process, please celebrate yourselves. Celebrate yourselves. You've done well. You've done you've done well. We've tried. It's a lot. So I pray that your RF will get approved. I pray that you hear good news. I pray that your effort will not go down that you will smile when you get the news because it is not enough for you to apply when you now get RF is double work. When you now get Nid on top of RF is double triple triple triple is not easy but it is well it is the situation we found ourselves. Will my F1 status be affected once I submit my adjustment of status while I waiting approval? No, your F1 status will not be affected. However, you must maintain your F1 status. Please, if you've submitted your adjustment of status, it is not a reason for you to now go and get out of like stop going to school or maybe leave your OPT. No, no, no, no, no. Please maintain status. Look in the past e they used to say oh ad of status is a status. Well I not lie for I go lie for you. I go lie for you maintain status. So maintain status. So I I maintain status.
Just make sure that you maintaining status because what if the of status did not go through please maintain status. Can someone who is receiving a child's benefit apply for EB1 EB2 Mr. Please DM me tell me that you are the person that talked about child benefits. Let us jump over that question.
Is the adjustment of status for F1 J1 still under consular processing? No, no, no, no, no. So they clarified on that.
[applause] Praise the Lord. They clarify that.
That's not what they meant. [laughter] So they've clarified on that. So that news about you going back to your country to do postlap processing, they've clarified on it for the most part. So it's not everybody that will need to go to their country for consular processing. Not everybody. Um in fact for the most part if you are if you are a person maybe especially if you even did EB1 EB2 definitely if they approve your case is because you have something of value you want to bring to the country. So you automatically don't even qualify for that clause for going back to your country. But let me not lie. Oh, I'm going to tell you the truth. Oh, anything can happen. There is no straight way or straight. Oh, this is it for this administration. So, you still have to be careful and pray for God's favor. If you file OS and get your EAD while you are a student, would you advise the person to use it while they are still a student?
H good question. Me I will use it.
That's just me. Some people say don't use it. I respect their choice too. But me, I'm going to use it. That's it.
That's just me. That's me. If I get ED card while I am still a student and my and on the condition that your EB2 has been approved please on the condition that your EB1 or EB2 has been approved I will use the EA but if your EB2 and EB1 has not BEEN APPROVED PLEASE DON'T use it please don't use it I we beg youhm but If your I140 has been approved and you get an EAD card, you are literally punishing yourself by not using it. So please sir, use it to if you don't use it, I just s you just punish yourself for no reason. You know if F1 does if F1 file EB2 and an adjustment of status simultaneously if it is denied, do they lose their F1 status? Again I read it because this one pertains to a lot of us. If I am an F1 student that is I am an international student currently and I file for EB2 or EB1A and at the same time I also submit my adjustment of status. If for example they deny the case the I140 you know and of course that adjustment of status does it mean that you have lost your F1 status? The answer is capital letter N capital letter O. It means no. You don't lose your F1 status provided you remained in F1 status. That is why I said it earlier that if you get EAD card, please make sure you have your I140, EB2 or EB1 approval before you use that EAD card. The only condition that will make you lose your F1 status is if you have used your EAD card without approval because you if you start using your EAD card they they and then god forbid back.
In fact, you will not still lose your F1 status. What am I saying? you will not lose your F1 status because you um I mean because they deny your case provided you remain in school or you remain on your OPT or STEM OP. And another thing I want to say please I hope we all know that OPT and STEM OPT is F1 visa status. A lot of us mistake this thing. If you are an OPT you are still on F1. If you stem OPT it is still F1. you are still tied to that school that you finish from. Okay. But I want to say that in August they are working on changing these laws. So if they change it eventually a lot of things will change about how you the affordances that your F1 visa gives you.
But as of today that that's what all things.
Okay. It's like my social battery is dying.
Um, and then I've already made 3 minutes to that 740 even.
And we have plenty questions to go and I want to still talk about people that will file I140.
How do we do it? Okay, let me do five more minutes because I want to address I140 filing.
Um if F1 okay can I still file adjustment of status when I have pending I4 yes yes that's the answer as a Nigerian yes you can please how about the policy of going on to apply for a green card the policy has been reexplained they have reexlained the policy that that's not what they mean that you are going back to your country it is you know what I think I'll I'll do a post and put on all the groups that clarifies on part. Okay. Yeah. I have a pending AOS from B2 to F1.
Ah, okay. Okay. AOS. Okay. Okay. So, you are moving from B2 to F1. Do you advise I submit the three forms for EB2N IW concurrently? Do you advise I do premium processing for EB2?
Ah, if you wait a minute, you are Nigerian is Nigerian.
Ah barrel is plenty.
Ah it's a dicey situation because moving from B2 to F1 these days with Nigeria being on the ban is a little bit technical because we on the ban they not approving cases. Well with the with the Friday news they might you know start approving cases. So yeah, but I don't know. I I don't want to advise you wrongly. So I don't know.
I know answer that I should give you.
But in in this our current dispensation, it's a dicey situation.
If my proposed endeavor changes between when I apply for AOS and the interview time, how do I navigate this change and the interview? Wait, so let us be clear, sir. Your proposal endeavor changes when you apply for AOS and interview time.
Yes, your proposed endeavor could have changed. Okay. But there should still be something you are doing in that field related to your proposal because you cannot just come except you move from mass communication to becoming a medical doctor which is like two different unconnected in fact there communication even so yes you can still claim health communication so you know what I mean I know you because I know you so anyway but The point I'm trying to make is that yes, your proposed endeavor could have changed. Okay? But so far you are doing something that is related to that proposed endeavor. Even though what maybe you got a job in another industry that is not related to your proposed endeavor, that's fine. You have to work now. If you did not get a job in what you are proposing to do, you have to continue living life. I mean, will they come and pay your bills for you? Ain't nobody going to come. Ain't nobody going to come to do that for you, right? But are you doing what you said you would do in your proposed endeavor?
And please, this goes for every one of us. I want to beg you. I want to beg you. I know that you were told that, "Oh, if you get your 140 approval and your green card, you don't need to stay in the field where you propose to work blah blah blah blah blah." Please, please, even if it is one paper in a year, publish it in your proposed endeavor. Even if it is one conference you will attend.
Even if it is, do something in your proposed endeavor. Do not leave that field until you get your naturalization and become a US citizen. Please, I know that people say this a lot and I'm begging you, don't listen to them. Don't listen to them. Please don't listen to them.
Always do something in your field of proposed endeavor.
Make sure you are doing something in that field. Write a paper, publish a attend a conference, do a blog post, go to a conference, write a book, whatever.
Create a website, consistently post on the website, do something. If it is research, maybe you are working in a wet lab. I know of course when you leave school, it might be difficult for you to find opportunities to still get access to go to wet labs and all of that. Start doing dry lab and do something. do something in your field of proposed endeavor because these days they can ask a question if an officer that does not like you, God forbid, he might use it against you when you're going for your citizenship and your naturalization.
Have you seen has anybody seen the new citizenship question?
Have you seen the the the new question this pamphlet? It's tough. It's tough now. very difficult now. So please don't deviate completely from your field of proposed endeavor. You can go to another field entirely. You can be doing something else entirely. But you made a promise that you are going to do that thing. Please try and do something once in a year. At least once in a year. Do something. Thank you. How long can I hold on to my medical? Forever. Until the law changes. Do not open the seal envelope. Please don't open the seal envelope. Stick to it. Is it possible to file for AB2 petition while waiting for the OPT approval? Yes. Oh yes. Yes, of course you can do that. You can file for EB2 petition while you are waiting for your OP approval. Did the adjudication ban affect 01 as well? 100%. We thought it did not affect it when they started until we started filing and we saw that it affected it [laughter] unfortunately.
So yes, it did affect it and graduated is the same. I'm saying this because I have clients that did apply for the money and then we found out unfortunately it affected them but so but then if you're coming from outside the country in a way they actually go gave some people visa. I don't know how that happened but yeah yeah we cannot explain that part. I graduated since December and apply for opt since November. Um I don't think I get the question as a Ghanaian ODS in January.
done figure print but have not received your green card is the weight normal?
Yes, it is normal. It is normal. Yeah.
Um yeah, if you have not gotten your green card and you are not under the ban like a Ghanaian, a Kenyan is normal. Hello, I'm a Nigerian. My op spendings is December. I apply to PhD program. If my OP gets approved first and I start working, can I still go for my PhD and leave the OPT? Yes, you can. You can do that.
You can do that. You can still go for the OPT. You can go for your PhD. The moment you accept your PhD, your OPT automatically terminates.
Can someone apply for OPT a few months before graduation? Oh yes. So yes, I don't know who made this law or who started advising people that they should wait until they graduate before doing OP. In my time, you apply for your OP 3 months before graduation. So these days I see people applying for premium processing for OPT and I'm surprised.
I'm surprised because I remember my first OPT I applied in 2017 and when I was doing it everybody told me that you apply 3 months before graduation you know. So please I don't know all these people that advising people should stop listening to people on social media and all of that and listen to what university tells you you should apply 3 months before graduation even if they are do you know do you know that some of us that are stuck in this December 2025 OPT on approval team let us call this sorry to say some of us you were trying to beat the system and you now got caught in the system you should have applied for if you me I got my OPT card in December. I got it in December and even though in fact I got it before I graduated before I walked the stage I got my OP card you know so please so let's stop doing that thing I know that a lot of people do that thing but it's not right you should apply for your OPT 3 months before your graduation even if they even if they are crawling even if they're not doing anything they would have approved it you know before I'm sorry please I know I'm not I'm not saying this to make you feel had you know it's been tough for the last 6 months for those of us that have not collected OBT I know it was not easy it's not easy financially it was not easy so I'm not I'm not ridiculing your pain but I'm saying this for those that are going to be graduating soon apply for your OBT before you graduate thank you can someone apply for yeah um a Ghanaian did um yeah I think I've answered you some lady can I send him my application for BA online. Yeah, you can. It is allowed. Yes. Yes. They It's a very clean process. And they will even give you $50 discount for doing that.
But I will never do it.
When you say in ink, do you mean only send out physical copies? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean that you should sign it with ink. Only signature only signed with ink. That's all.
Please. So don't send um handwritten document. Just signature only the signature should be written in ink please. So um I use a lawyer and submitted my case in December 2025. Can I move it to premium on Monday? Please talk to your lawyer. The reason is because some lawyers they don't like it.
So if you go and do premium processing, if you get they tell you that they are not going to help you to do the RF and you may not like it. So please confirm with your lawyer. How long can medical be done before it is no longer valid?
Oh, there's no more valid. It's valid forever.
And it is true. It should be valid forever because some of us we've come to this country, we will spend eight years before we adjustment of status. So if we had hepatitis B, tuberculosis or anything of that it could have infected everybody now, you know. But anyway, can we file adjustment of status online?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You can file adjustment of status online and if you need help finding adjustment of status. So yeah, this is the marketing path because I see that we're almost done. Um yes, I provide all of these services. So please um if you need any of these services, you can reach out to me. I can help you file your adjustment of status, prepare your documents. If you have found if you filled the forms yourself, you need somebody to help you review it. I also provide the review services as well. Um underline I provide a premium service. It is what it is. Can someone who has submitted an E2N IW application travel out of the US if their current status expires? Yes.
Yes. Yes. So when you submit your ABN IW and your status expire, travel abroad.
Okay, it's fine. It's allowed. And then come back in and when you get No, not come back in. When you get to your country, tell them that you are now outside, they will convert your case to consular processing.
Um, I've answered you So, please stop asking that question. It is normal for you to wait. They don't have a particular time that they will use to give you your green card. When I did my adjustment of status, the people that I submitted, we went to the post office the same day to go and submit our adjustment of status. Some of them collected their green card in 3 months.
Some collected their own in six months.
I not collect my own until after 9 months. Everybody's luck is different.
Um, so if the OP isn't given and some people I know they not collect their own drink card until after one year, 6 months. They did not do anything wrong.
They did not do anything wrong. It was not any fault of theirs. It was just their luck. If the OPT isn't given yet, does it mean we are still in status?
Um, it's tricky because you are supposed to still be in status, but they are trying to do something weird with that thing. So, I'm sorry. I cannot advise on it. They're trying to say that if you don't get your OP, like for instance, you dated in December and you didn't get the OPT. I don't want to talk on it because they are trying to play some games on it right now. So, I I don't want to give you hope. Normally you should not be but they're trying to play games with that process. If an applicant is submitting a new petition after a previous denial, can [clears throat] the applicant use the old letters of recommendation? It is not easy to get new one. Oh yes, you can.
Why not? Of course. Yeah, of course. Use it. Letters don't have expiry date. Mhm.
And worst case scenario, you can just tell the person that oh they denied me.
So, I want to refile. Do you mind updating the letter and changing the date? Okay. Yeah, some of them would agree, but yes, of course, you can use it. It's already on their record anyway.
So, it's already with them in their system anyway.
Is this personalization of errors applicable to even OPT applications?
Like no USCIS officer have can ever have the tiniest error. Um, no, no, no, no, no. So, errors are not allowed.
But can errors be forgiven? Yes, they can. If you make an error, can you tell them that, oh, I made an error? I made a mistake. I think they will forgive.
Especially if it is OPT. Yeah. But I 140, they not forgiving you nothing anymore. And they are not going to refund your money. Hello. I'm a Nigerian. my op spending since December.
I applied to OP program. Okay, I think I've answered this question. For a Nigerian, do you adise submitting EB1? I think I've answered this. Okay, they're just repeating the question. Can I file for AB2 and IW alongside adjustment of status? You are from Nigeria. Yes. Yes, you can. You can submit your I140 and your adjustment of status at the same time. Are they saying anything about NBC and visa approval? As of today, no.
Can you advise someone from Nigeria to submit a US now or wait to the ban from the 75 country is lifted? Um if you are inside America, you should submit your adjustment of status. You should not even you should not even nothing concerns you with the ban. You know, you should just submit already. How much is AOS? $1,440 plus $260 for your EAD card if you want to get the parole to travel outside America is $630. If you have children, it's going to be $950 for each of your children.
Um, I think that is the end of Solomon.
Okay, this last person is an England person, so pardon me. Someone filed for EB1, I140 and I45 currently pending outcome. He wasn't able to file for AOS for his kids 17 and 15. They came from England. What should he do now that the kids are overh Why did you allow those kids to overstay?
You could have fed an addendum and file for those kids and added them to it.
You need a lawyer. I'm not a lawyer.
Sorry. So this person's case is um they f for EB1 I140 and I485 concurrently waiting for result then they their children came 17 and 15 years from England that what should they do now since the kid the children have overstate their visa number one they should have never overstayed their visa you could have even though yes the ban was on you could have submitted adjustment of status for them even though. Yes, the ban was on. Yes, you could have. You could have reached out to a lawyer. You you should have overstaying now is a little bit tricky for the kids because they might ban them for 5 years.
They might say they want to deport them.
I don't know. I'm sorry. Is there premium for adjustment of status? No, there's no premium for adjustment of status. So those of us that have done AOS and biometrics in 2026 for EB2 IW, if the July calendar pro retrogress, will that affect you? Yes, of course. Of course, it's going to affect you, but not in a bad way because you'll be in the system. You're better than somebody that does not even have the opportunity to apply at all in the first place. So I think um that's the end. Let me talk about the I140 in the next five minutes.
So sorry if we don't take all your remaining question. I believe there's a way I can copy all of them. Let me try and see if I can copy some of them so that I'll try and respond to it on WhatsApp.
If I can I'll try and copy them and apply on WhatsApp. So please if you are submitting for your adjustment of status uh no if you are submitting your I140 and by the way I provide the EB2N IW service um if you need somebody to help you write your petition I put it together if you want to do um review written your petition yourself you need somebody to help you to review the petition please reach out to me I provide the service as well and yes adjustment of status I'm very good at that so yeah now if you our thoughts soon. I want to point out some certain things that you should not do to you. Number one, don't rush and submit any how thing.
Please, I beg you, do everything diligently. That's one. Two, you see the we have three prongs for EB2N.
Okay. The prong one is substantial merit and national importance. I want to correct something. They are not looking for national importance. That thing is a is is is scam. Scam. Please don't look for national importance. Look for the potential direct impact of your work.
They wrote it in the in in in that thing. You are just not looking for it.
Okay?
You are just not looking at the manual that we've gone on USCI's website. You It's just because you are not looking at it. Those guys are not looking for your they not asking for your national importance. What they are looking for is the potential direct impact of your work. As I said it, look, the best way I can put it is this.
>> [laughter] >> You know when you are growing up you noun is the name of a person, animal, place or thing and then verb is an action word. Okay. See it is an action word. It's a verb potential direct impact. There's a difference between importance and impact. They looking for impact not importance only. Yeah, the importance is good but you will get RF if you focus on national importance only and you're not focusing on direct potential national impact. It is there on their website. So please I beg of you as you proceed on this journey if you're writing your prong one focus on potential direct national impact action.
What exactly do you want your work to impact? Not the vagueness, the vagueness of importance. That's one. Two, well positioning. When you are attempting your well positioning, okay, remember times have changed. Times have changed.
Um I have paper. I've written two publication. I have 100 citations. I have 25 recommendation letters. It don't work no more.
It don't work no more. No.
Please remember it is a verb. They they are looking for action words. Action. Well positioned. The literal meaning of well positioned is what they are looking for.
So please gone for well positioning like literally literally when they say well positioning for example you should make sure that you are actually in a position whereby you can actually do what your proposal endeavor is supposed to do. So for example, a lot of us will say maybe you said you're well position you're well positioned you work in Amazon or you work for Walmart and so what what's special about it especially if your work is going to be research based they will look at it they will tell you in your RF that you are an industry person you are working in industry aside from your current industry gaining from your impact which people what other classes of people will be able to benefit from your work.
So if you cannot sufficiently prove and explain how you are well positioned outside of the circumference of your job that you are well positioned to do the work, you will not get well positioning.
That is why for now it is more expedient for you to actually make connections with agencies and a letter an email of collaboration with a lab a research center a daycare if you are working with children or I'm just giving an example right um it will go a long way a collaboration you must show collaboration they want practical things they don't want I will do I I will do I will do they don't want I will do I will do I will do I am going to I am going to what have you done as of today now if they give you the because there's a particular kind of immigrant that they want currently they want immigrants that are going to be financially beneficial to their country and that is why you hear for people that are doing consular processing from abroad they asking them the question of um what do they call it public charge for those of us that are inside America they are doing that Now, so please make sure that when you are presenting your case, you are not being vague. You are being practical. Get connections. Don't focus heavily on publication, citation, recommendation letters. In fact, do you know that some do you know that recommendation letters is not a compulsory part of your petition? Do you know I hope you know that you can put 100 recommendation letter and still get denied. It's not a compulsory part of your application. In fact, I have had people that we applied for applied for people without putting any recommendation letter and they got approved. They got approved. The quality of your work is what matters. Not the amount of recommendation letter or the amount of papers that you have written.
Are you well positioned? Literally from that word well position meaning physically or in the future sit well.
Sit. If I like the word for me I tell my people it is well situated not well positioned it is well are you well situated are you in a well are you in a position are you in a situation whereby you can do that thing if you're not in a situation that affords you the opportunity to do your people's endeavor that is why you keep people keep getting RF on well positioning so as you prepare your documents to submit and file um I know I I used to say that, oh, I'll be doing the webinars more often and I'll come online more often and I don't used to come, but I think I'll be doing it more now these days. Um, I've changed.
I've changed. I've g my life to Jesus.
I've [laughter] changed. So, please and please patronize me. I build nailsize my bills nails. Thank you so much. People that work with me know that I give you premium service. I'm not a lawyer. It's very important that I give that disclaimer. I am everything we do is for research purposes only. People that are in the pepper community, you know, you know how we do it there. Yeah. So, it's for research purposes only. Thank you so much for joining the webinar today and um we'll continue the conversations on WhatsApp. Um it's wonderful to have us all together once again. Let us push and continue to push until we all get our green cards. Um, I know it is late, so apologies to people on the east coast that have stayed up till 900 p.m.
Apologies to you. Um, people in California, you guys is 6 p.m. over there for you. So, you guys are fresh in your evening. Thank you so much everybody for joining. Um, somebody is supposed to apply for your kids. They do not have unle presence until they have turned 21. Yes, thank you. Yeah, that's actually right. Yeah. Um but because they have overstayed their visa that might not really really mean anything for now. So all right everybody have a lovely evening. Bye.
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