My advise would be: bring the lawyer if you have the chance! I didn’t bring mine at the day and I regret a lot. They asked me the same questions (some of it) of my application (i485), and he asked about how did I find my sponsor (I don’t know if it’s the same with you, but I hired a company called BDV solutions. They found me my sponsor and they make the arrangements between the sponsor and me)… The agent made A LOT of questions, if I paid to the sponsor in order to have the application filled, (which I said OF COURSE NOT!), he asked me to see the emails between me and BDV.. anyways, A LOT of questions… It was thought. My lawyer would had made my life and this experience much more easier. When I had the interview my EAD wasn’t approved yet, so I wasn’t working for my sponsor. My EAD was approved last month and I’m going to start working for them next month. My interview was on August 31st. I still don’t have an answer. 😞

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. My company is BDV also. Did you had to print out the emails from BDV to show on the interview?

He asked me to see my phone 😳 I showed him everything, he copied the names and emails on a paper.. and after the interview I told BDV how it went. He mostly asked about the relationship between me, BDV and the sponsor.. The interview lasted about 40 min. My husband is my dependend, his interview was about 15 min and he only asked the questions on the application. If I had another chance or if they call me for a second interview, I will DEFINITELY bring the lawyer with me.

Did you and your husband have separated interviews? I didn’t know that. I thought that they would do the interview together at once and both you and your dependent could answer the questions.

I thought that too. Only when I was there I found out that ours would be separated… He called me first, and then my husband. As far as I knew, for employment based applications, the interviews were together. Mine was separated. I don’t know why.. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Like I said, my husband’s interview was a way shorter and much more easier than mine.

Obrigado Liliane pelas suas respostas, me ajudou muito. Vou tentar procurar um advogado pra ir comigo na minha entrevista então. Teve gente que me falou que seria fácil a entrevista pra só checar documentos, mas acho melhor eu me precaver então, principalmente a respeito da BDV.

So your case would still be approved before vb retrogresses further. Good luck.

@Rogerio por nada!!! o que eu puder fazer pra ninguém passar pelo mesmo sufoco 😅… estamos no msm barco. Boa sorte 🙏🏻

@Hanson thank you 🙏🏻 I think that there’s also a chance that they are waiting until I move and start to work for my sponsor. My priority date is not retrogressed. It is July 2019. 🙏🏻 fingers crossed.

Boa noite Rogério e Liliane, Em março de 2022 eles transferiram meu caso para MO e desde então nenhuma mudança. Mandei e-mail para o Senador e a imigração disse que meu caso está em Orlando para entrevista mas isso já tem 1 mês e nenhuma mudança on-line. Já estou há 1 ano e 3 meses trabalhando para meu esponsor e essa demora está me consumindo. Espero que dê tudo certo para todos nós. 🙏🏻❤️

Oi Alexsandra você já fez a entrevista ou já recebeu agendamento do dia da entrevista por correio? Como tá a atualização on-line do seu processo? Está como interview scheduled?

Então, meu caso está parado há meses em MO. Hoje que recebi um e-mail do Senador( eu havia entrado em contato com ele por conta da demora da imigração) dizendo que meu caso estava no Office de Orlando aguardando uma entrevista. Mas ele diz no e-mail que a imigração deu essa resposta dia 22/12. Ou seja mais de um mês atrás e nenhuma atualização on-line. Estou perdida 🫠

If you bought your visa like from Bvd or other visa seller you should be concerned, they're denying it due to fraud, if your employment is legit you'll be good

It’s legit, I didn’t buy any visa. I just hired a company to find a sponsor for me.

You believe what you want to believe in, hopefully Officer does the same 😉

@amira seus comentários nesse aplicativo são os melhores, só negatividade em todos os posts. Espero que o que você solte pros outros volte pra você 😉

Rogerio, my advise bring an attorney if you can. The experience is completely different, my husband and I had a 2 hours interview like a looot of questions. Every single thing about I140, and I485, they even visited me in my sponsors place to confirm if I was doing what they filled in my application. the questions that I remembered: - how you maintain yourself while you were waiting for the gc? - why are you going to work there if you have a degree? - did the recruiting agency promised you the gc? - what are your duties? how much are you earning? how many employees? I mean, be ready my experience was tough

@valeria thanks for sharing that

That’s true. I’ve heard that they are visiting people on their worksite. Which it’s not a problem, because we are applying to work on those facilities. People saying shit about buying a visa, like that would be possible… just ignore them 😅

Liliane Cunha, seu PD é Julho/2019? E ainda você não recebeu seu green card? Torcendo pra que venha logo

Ainda não 😞 Obrigada

your pd is not current tho right?

current yes

mine is October 2020 other worker (unskilled ) and not current right?

Yours is not current

still not so clear with that . should my pd be earlier than January 2020 to be current?

This month is before June 2020, next month they went back and it’s before January 2020

@rogerio bring the lawyer wi us to the interview so that mean we need to hire the lawyer come wi us right? i dont know where I can find a lawyer to come wi me

@hope all my documents for the process of was through an agent, he work wi attorney that why I am worried and dont dont how to figure out.

@Liliane Cunha where was your interview?

Lawrence- MA

She didn’t say that. She said that the agent asked if the recruiting agency promised her a green card. No recruiting agency (as far as I know) promises nobody a green card.

@valeria lopez, how did you answer the first two questions?

@HOPE FAITH USCIS is aware of visa sellers agencies, especially EB3 unskilled.

it was a tricky question, they want to know if I paid the sponsor to get the GC that’s fraud. the interview has a lot of questions and they are not there to approve as much as they can, they want to denie as much as they can

yes I was approved after 21 months, my spouse was also in the interview we don’t have kids but as minors I don’t think they get the interview

I do have a minor kid and she is my dependent. She didn’t have to attend the interview, only me and my husband.

I believe that if they intended to interview one of your kids, they would send a letter on their names too. Me and my husband got separated letters, with the appointment on the same day and same time. I didn’t bring my daughter to the interview. I brought her documents and when the interview was finished I asked the agent if he needed to see or ask something about her.. He answered “no”, that she was fine.

@valeria your case was approved 21 months after the interview or after you applied?

bring with you a lawyer especially you filed i485J to port your Employer. I'm an BDV client too, and I want to port my employer too. People go through BDV too much and the immigration is watching all of the employers. BDV's service is so bad and they dont help at all if we have issue with employer. they took money from both sides, from employer and from us too. so better bring a lawyer and have they consulte about the documents too, it's not only Supplement J but also other documents

after we submitted the I485

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@Iona Iona Nguyen Did you fill I485J? I’m BDV client and I’m thinking to port my employer. Do you think is it a good idea?

I'm still looking for another sponsor to port it, and my lawyer is there to help me with supplement J. My lawyer said that just find a similar job, no matter what it is a small or a big restaurant, as long as they sign the supplement J, cause since we have EAD we can work for any employer from now. BDV and my employer are holding hands and always thread all of employees even then have their GC already. we paid 20k but they never on our side

I’m from bdv and I left my employer before getting GC. I found another company, I just filled the supplement J but I didn’t send to USCIS yet. I’m waiting for my interview to show them the supplement J

my lawyer said that it's better wait untill they call you to give them the Suplement J to reduce the waiting time

Since you guys have such bad experience, can you share the type of job you have with the employer? I am a BDV client and waiting for my EAD, just want to know what to expect when I start working.

i work at a very big fast food restaurant

@lona do you think I can wait for the green card to be approved for me to start working for the new company? or should I start working for them now?

@Iona Iona Nguyen and do they usually give supplement J tomrrduce the waiting time? or we need to ask them it? my sponsor has a big waiting list

@hanson I’m sorry but just expect the worst. I was working at MC Donald’s and the salary was 2k for month and I was renting 1 bedroom for 1k.

I asked my lawyer when I saw your post and he said we can work now, that's the advatages of EAD card

@lona thanks for sharing that. If your lawyer tell you something else about the supplement J, please post it here. I left my employer on the middle of last year and I just got the i-485J signed from another company, but I’m waiting for my interview to give them on the day. Im not working with the new company yet, but I’ll when my green card be approved.

@Rogerio Moraes lona lona Nguyen Is it just the low salary that makes you have to port your employer or do they treat you horrible as well? I am well aware that the jobs pays hardly any money, and I have a saving aside to cover at least half of the cost of living.

@Hanson I don’t know what company did you apply for, but in my case I had to deal with bad customer like homeless and the job it self was very demanding exhausted. It doesn’t make sense for you getting paid so low if you can continue the process in another company, in better environment and a better pay.

I dont know how your employer treats you but mine is the worse. I dont care about money but they ask me to do much many things, they also reduce the peole they should hire so that we have to work as double as other. more than that, they yelling, forcing me to do the thing no one do in the kitchen, discriminate Eb3 employees with other regular one, really bad experience

@rogerio you better work for your employer before the interview to have paystubs and to show your intention toward the job

So sorry to hear you guys' experience. Thank you for the insight. Hope your new employer will treat you better.

@Liliane Cunha how long it take for your husband to approved his work permit after you?

@lona lona Nguyen, when you say “my lawyer” are you talking about the lawyers from BDV or a different lawyer that you hired?

A BDV da uma consultoria grátis pra quem vai fazer a interview.

have you got the result of your interview?

eae fez?

country of Origin?

Blimey, these BDV guys sound dodgy as hell. Sounds like USCIS think so too, nobody should be charging any of you for help finding a job or getting a visa! https://www.sggimmigration.com/fraud-alert-programs-offering-eb-3-immigration-opportunities-may-be-unlawful/

if i140 has not been approved, what happens if you change employers?

@Rogerio Moraes algum update?

@Guilherme Andrade primeira semana de março é minha entrevista

boa sorte! posso entrar em contato com você por email? meu email é guilhermeandrade97@icloud.com @Rogerio Moraes

@Rogerio Moraes Did you get Green Card?

@Melody Chu hi, my interview is on the first week of march

Rogério, vc recebeu alguma RFE pedindo o form i485J? Eu recebi uma RFE pedindo isso. Meus exames eu enviei sem RFE no final de 2021 após uma cortesy Letter, aí já enviei porque eles informaram que meu i485 não tinha os exames anexados e eu poderia enviar a qualquer tempo ou eu poderia esperar eles pedirem via RFE. Enviei pra tentar ganhar algum tempo né. Como eles só pediram o i485j, acho que os meus exames enviados não foram perdidos, assim espero 🙌🙌

@Lion of Judah Pode ser que vc não tenha entrevista então. Porque se eles te pediram o i485j eles já devem estar com o seu processo andando e eles já tem o seus exames médicos. Eles não me pediram nenhuma rfe além do exame médico.

hello

I just wanna give an update on my process. I’ve done the interview and everything went very smooth and better than I was expecting. I just wanna thank everyone on this post that helped me with your comments.

congrats! were you asked about BDV during the interview? how did you respond?

@fred dantata No questions were asked about BDV neither how did I get the job position. My interview was super easy, but I believe it depends on the officer.

@Rogerio Moraes ok thanks for the response. I’m also a BDV client and i was worried about how to respond to that question.

@fred dantata Just be prepared for any questions. I brought all the documents that I had. If they ask about bdv, I would have the contract that I signed, payments and also a brief explanation on bdv website about what is bdv that I printed out.

@Rogerio Moraes thanks for the advise… i thought paying an agency such as BDV to link someone up with an Employer is illegal? Someone wrote that somewhere here. Did you discuss BDV with them during your interview? if yes, what questions were asked and how did you answer?

@fred dantata Don’t believe what everybody writes in here. Is totally fine for you to pay a company to find a sponsor for you. What is illegal is paying the sponsor/employer to get the job.

E aí Roger, tudo certo na entrevista? Espero que sim 👍🏻

@Lion of Judah Deu tudo certo sim, foi melhor do que eu esperava na verdade. Eu estava pronto pra qualquer pergunta e levei todos os documentos possíveis, mas a officer foi muito legal e só perguntou o básico. Nada da BDV foi perguntado, tão pouco onde e como encontrei o trabalho. A entrevista durou 1 hora e foi bem tranquilo. Parecia que ela queria aprovar logo o processo.

Que bom Rogerio… Feliz por vc. Agora é só o verdinho chegar 🤲🏻

@Rogerio Moraes did you give them the supplement J in the interview? were you working for the new employer at the time of the interview or not yet?

@shishi 9 I gave the supplement J on the day of the interview, but if I were you, I would send it before the interview if you are able. I’ve done the interview a month ago and I still don’t have my GC approved, they are still reviewing, probably because of the supplement J. I was already working for the new employer.

@Rogerio Moraes so on the day of the interview you were working for the new employer. Maybe because your pd is not current you haven’t gotten the gc yet

@shishi 9 my pd is from February 2020

yeah so you might have to wait a bit longer

I just received my decision today! new card is being produced

Congrats. 😀