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Did it ever takes many years? I-140 is relatively an "easy" step, pre-covid it was roughly 9 months(Perm certification) + 14 days (Premium processing I-140). F

• rhaway84773 4y ago
  There are 3 categories of people here. 1. H1B holders without an approved I-140. Their spouses cannot work. 2. H1B holders with an approved I-140 but not from a backlogged country. Technically, their spouses can work on an H-4 and EAD, but the odds are that they will get their green cards within months of getting their EADs, if not before. So it barely affects them either. 3. H1B holders with approved I-140s born in a backlogged country. This is pretty much the only category impacted by the maintenance of status quo, and the impact is massive, since these people could be waiting 5-80 years for a green card, which means if this lawsuit had succeeded, their spouses wouldn’t be eligible to work for 5-80 years despite being in the US completely legally, in a visa category which is designed to provide a path to immigration.
• wenc 4y ago
  It might not have in the past but in recent years especially during 45’s tenure there many pauses, government shutdowns and backlogs that lengthened th duration, not to mention the amount of time it takes for the lawyers to even start the paperwork which could be 2 years into the job.