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Answer: Ct voted 60/40 for Obama and Ct got exactly what they voted for. A bunch of poorly paying part time jobs and 8.1% unemployment. Innocently wondering how is that hope and change working out for y'all?

Try Utah. Unemployment 4.6% and next time think before you vote!

*snorts* Hawaii=4.5%, Iowa=4.8%, Vermont=4.6% and they're all "Blue States". I also love how you randomly decided I voted for Obama. Just for the record I voted McKinney/Clemente.

I have lived in CT for over 20 years now. CT has a lot of high end jobs, Hartford is home to the Insurance Industry, Stamford has a lot of Financial sector jobs, GE capital is spread out over Fairfield county, Danbury has a few GE units and also a big German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and also Duracell.

Most CT school districts are consistently ranked amongst the best in the Nation.

Bridgeport, New Haven yes God help you if you live anywhere there.

Finding a job in CT is really dependent on where exactly you live. I have lived in Danbury for almost 20 years and when my wife first came over she spoke very little English but was able to find a factory job across the state line in NY. We have since moved to the Hartford area and if she went out looking for a job here she ain't going to find one.

All those places are pretty far from where we are though, we're in Bristol. So our main options are Bristol, Southington, Farmington, New Britain... If we had two working cars it wouldn't be as much of an issue, but one of them is broken and I can't afford to fix it until he gets a job. >_<.

looking into temp agencies is a good idea. Here in Jackson Michigan my husband has done it and scored his last couple of years of employment. They pay might be low to start with but its usually full time 40 hrs a week. Then you get hired in within 90 days or a year depends on the company.

Give it a go! :)good luck

Thanks. Yes we'll have to start looking at temp agencies. A friend of ours got several job offerings through them so it might work. I know where I work has only been hiring temps lately.

Fairfield is for rich people!

KimberlyAhmed, I was thinking he's been mostly applying for full-time jobs.. maybe it would be better if he applied for a part time instead to at least have Something.

It is! CT was a big manufacturing and tobacco farming state back in the day, but everything has moved out of state/country, so there's not much left except this endless crumbling post-industrial suburbia. Our three largest cities, Bridgeport, New Haven, and the capitol, Hartford, tend to show up in "Most Dangerous City in America" lists. If I had the money I'd be out of here so fast, I'd like to move to WA or something. It's so depressing.

But anyway, Thanks for the tips, I'll have him check out those links!

Harpa Timsah, Yes exactly, it just doesn't exisit here because German has certifications for everything, even Cashiers! I'm not sure what he's been applying for actually, I think just what ever he can get at this point. CT is problematic because all we have really is chain stores and insurance companies. The main street in the city we live is is just chain store after chain store, and fast food places. We have 8 Dunkin' Donuts in town, and they're building a new one! A wal-mart grocery store just opened up and no bites there, no bites at home depot or lowe's even though he has hardware experiance.

We went over his resume together and it's good. It looks like a normal resume and I even had my mom go over it just to make sure. I couldn't think of a better way to write he degree that would explain what it is without under representing it. I even added "certified by the chamber of industry and commerce" to it. And I added a subsection that explained the major coursework. Also he applied at banks too since he was going to community college for Finance.

Thing is he hasn't even gotten interviews, so they can't say they didn't like him based on an attitude or accent, because they haven't even spoken or met with him. And they were trying to scew him over... He'd worked in Rides for 3 seasons, multiple awards form management for excellent customer service, rarely if ever called out, had visitors writing to the park to tell management how awesome he is etc. And then this season he switched over to housekeeping because they said he could apply for a management position there, which he didn't get, so he got a lower management postion instead, even though they kept talking about how great of an employee he was and how everything ran smoothly when he was incharge instead of the girl that got the position, and he never complained about tasks given. Then apparently he wrote up some teenage underlings for gooffing off in the break room when they weren't on break, which he was supposed to since that was his job... and then right after management introduced this employee survey which was biased because it didn't ask "how do you feel about your current management team" its was "how do you feel about manager X? How do you feel about manager Y?" So all the angry teenagers retaliated by making his review entirely negative, which upper management knew wasn't true (due to their direct feedback). But they decided to demote him, and didn't even have a meeting to discuss it, it was just he showed up to work and they were like by the way we demoted you. So he tried to meet with management and they refused and he finally told them he quit if they were pulling that. (Personally I think he could have stuck it out until the season ended but what's done is done).

He doesn't have much of an accent at all. It's there but it's not like ACCENT!!. Heh people at the park tended to think he was Irish for some reason.

He worked as a department head in a hardware store. So yes, stockroom stuff and contacting suppliers for inventory and stuff. His degree is the "Journeyman Management Assistent's Certificate of Competance in Wholesale and Foreign Trade". Germany's a bit weird with their degrees where the focus is on guilds and trade schools instead of universities. So basically he went to vocational school part time for 3 years while also doing on the job apprenticeship at the hardware store, where he continued to work after he took his exams and was awarded the Journeyman's Certificate. And then he got laid off and was unemployed for most of the following 6 years (interrupted by a short internship) - because in Germany when you have a Journeyman's Certificate in a certain area, you are ONLY allowed to work in that area. So he wasn't allowed to get a job in IT or something because he wasn't Certified for it.

My husband came to the US in late 2009 and got his GC early 2010, but he has not been able to find any steady work. We're in central Connecticut. He's applied for plenty of low level positions in local retail stores, fast food, and hotels, but there have been almost no call backs, except Target calling to set up an interview and then saying it was a mistake, a local snow plowing place saying he got the job and then never hearing from them again, and finally our local amusment park, where he was able to work seasonally for the last four summers before finally quitting because they were trying to screw him over. Why is next to NOTHING biting??. He has his secondary school certificate, and also has completed post-secondary education in the form of "Journeyman Management Assistent's Certificate of Competance in Wholesale and Foreign Trade". He speaks fluent English. We even tried community college for a bit, and now having trouble getting financial aide for that...

I don't understand what's going on, is CT's job market that poor??

EAD Card came in the mail this morning, after we go the Green Card last week.

HI! We got an email that the EAD card was ordered, lol. ALso, as a side note we did not file I-693 at all. We just filed the vaccination worksheet from DS-3025.

Hi guys! Approval notice and the Green Card arrived in the mail today. Approval date is March 15th.

Woot! email today "On March 16, 2010, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you."

Before EAD and no RFE's! Yaaaaaaaay!

Ok, now the USCIS site doesn't even work.........

Yeah that has me pissed off. Got a touch on the 9th and 10th but nothing yesterday and nothing today so far. No touches on EAD since day after biometrics.

And another touch today!

We had a touch today!

Had a touch on I-485 this morning, the "reason" being that AAO message again, this time saying on Feb 16th they returned it. Seems like they are just plugging in something just to plug a reason in.

Hey guys,

for how long is your DL valid for? going to apply for one myself and just being curious about it...

Five years.

No news regarding the applications, but today we went down to the DMV and got my husband his CT driver's license.

Touches on both AOS and EAD today!

Hello, had biometrics today, went quickly and smoothly. Hopefully things will move quickly now.

A Whole Foods Market near us has a job opening that would be perfect for my husband if he could work: Beer Buying Specialist. LOL.

Quick update on the AAO thing: I was able to get in touch with CSC this morning, who says they received our case on the 16th (the same day that the email said AAO returned it) and said it will undergo review and then we will be contacted with a decision.

Ok I talked to CSC this morning and they said they had received the case on the 16th (the same day the email says AAO returned it) and it would undergo review and then we would be notified of a decision.

Our time between NOA1 and transfer was 12 days. We are in Connecticut.

I sent in the DS form vaccination checklist, and so far we have a biometrics appointment and a notice saying our case was transfered to CSC. No RFE (just that weird thing about the AAO...)