After all the good we were due for one bad… But there is still hope!
Hey, if you've been following my Immigration Blogs you know that today was a big day for me. With all your surprise help over the last week I was able to complete the mad push over the last week to file my Adjustment of Status, and it went out yesterday. The hope is if I can show the documents are filed my work would hold my position open as it would be easier than getting new hire in place. I guess with all the good that happened over the last week, we were due for some bad news to settle the cosmic scales and we got it.
Sadly my workplace decided against giving me the time to get my EAD (or Work Authorization), and want to go ahead with their charges of Termination. The reasoning being I could not guarantee that I would receive my EAD or AOS, therefore they need to fill the position, it is after all immigration and nothing is cut and dried with them. Not what I hoped for and many of your kept your fingers crossed to happen. But I can see there point of view after all I cannot offer a firm date, because the USCIS does not work that way… It is after all not the MVA, were you sit down take a number and get it all sorted in that day. Now we are down to the last part of the appeal process, which ironically may take longer to complete than it will to get my EAD. So if I get my EAD in the next 45 days or the notice that its on the way, if this is shown at the Appeal hearing I might yet still be able to get my old position back. So there is hope…
If this doesn't happen in time at least I will have my EAD and be back on the road to be able to support my family again, and 5-6 months down the road I will have my AOS adjudicated and have my Greencard too. I wish I could give more solid time lines, or an ironclad guarantee that everything you've helped make happen will happen. I am confident that it will and the road back has begun, I just don't know if there is enough time to save my job, but at with your help the process is now started.
One last thing before I go here. Some of you noticed my tweet today.
Hint… Referring to an Immigrant as illegal in an insulting tone and as a None person is the same as calling a person of color the 'N' word
This happened to me today, I wont say who, were and when, but the circumstances and the person it came out of this surprised and upset me. There seems to be an almost sneer attached to the word illegal immigrant that gets spat at us, I got that and then a minute later got called a None Person. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but being called a None Person slammed me and scared me to the core. Maybe it was the truth of the word that I am really a None Person here in the USA and will remain that way until my AOS becomes pending again. However am I not real? I'm father, a husband, a human being, eleven years strong in this country paying taxes and contributing positively to the USA, with a paperwork blip stopping me from continuing down this road.
I am not a None Person! No one is! And to be called this is deep hurting insult. I'm important to my wife, to my kids and to my friends… We move through life touching and rubbing up against each others worlds, our impact can be little more ripple caused by a pebble, but those ripples spread out and become a might wave.
I'm certain all these things have happened to me, are happening to me and I'm not going to wake up in a shower somewhere.
None person indeed!
