new VAWA law?

[virginia81 0]

hello everyone,

i filed my Adjustment of status on Nov. 14th 2011, based on an approved VAWA.

so far, i have only received an employment authorization, no interview notice. in december, my case was transferred in december from Vermont Service center to Missouri.

does anybody have an idea of how long this process takes? I looked on the USCIS website and did not see processing time for AOS based on VAWA. please help.

check out the new provisions on immigration

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4970eh/pdf/BILLS-112hr4970eh.pdf

[virginia81 0]

does anybody know anything about this yet?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

H.R. 4970 hasn't passed the Senate yet, and it probably won't. The Senate passed a competing bill in April, S. 1925. That bill probably won't pass in the House of the Representatives.

The law itself will not expire. What might expire is the funding for enforcing the law. That funding officially ran out last year, but a temporary extension was approved by Congress. The funding is typically reauthorized in five year increments, and Congress has generally revised the law each time it comes up for reauthorization. This happened in 2000 and 2005. What happened this year is the Senate decided to get progressive with the reauthorization and extend VAWA to cover LBGT couples. The House of Representatives fought back with a much more conservative bill.

Nobody in either house of Congress wants to get rid of the law, but it remains unknown what the law is going to look like after a compromise is eventually crafted.

[virginia81 0]

H.R. 4970 hasn't passed the Senate yet, and it probably won't. The Senate passed a competing bill in April, S. 1925. That bill probably won't pass in the House of the Representatives.

The law itself will not expire. What might expire is the funding for enforcing the law. That funding officially ran out last year, but a temporary extension was approved by Congress. The funding is typically reauthorized in five year increments, and Congress has generally revised the law each time it comes up for reauthorization. This happened in 2000 and 2005. What happened this year is the Senate decided to get progressive with the reauthorization and extend VAWA to cover LBGT couples. The House of Representatives fought back with a much more conservative bill.

Nobody in either house of Congress wants to get rid of the law, but it remains unknown what the law is going to look like after a compromise is eventually crafted.

thank you so much for your answer