webdev_fromDS

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this!

My employer has been helpful to file for my green card. I recently got "CERTIFIED" on my PERM and the lawyers are working to get my I-140 ready to file. I have some publications as first author and as a co-author is a highly respected journal.

I wanted to know if there is a path to move from EB2 to EB1? If there is, what would be the requirements to qualify? I ask this my I-140 priority date is late 2024, and the current date for my nationality is 2012. EB1 current date seems to be 2022. Is it possible to move to EB1 and carry over the priority date from the (hopefully approved) I-140?

Many thanks! I have read several of your AMAs and found them helpful!

I haven't looked into what's making the current solution slow/bad. I agree, better to start with this before I try to build and maintain custom site

Your point about the technical debt is fully appreciated!

I am definitely aware of the challenges that maintaining full website like this can be, and totally not thinking about reinventing CC processing! With my initial research, an AWS based approach is what I had in mind, with most of the heavy lifting by AWS and Stripe for payments. I still don't know how I can stitch up everything with AWS, but thankfully I've found the developer docs to be fairly intuitive so far.

Appreciate all the additional info too, cheers!

Thanks for the book recommendation, will check it out!

They already have a WordPress/Woocommerce solution that is slow and very inflexible for what they need. Shopify would be a good option, but they also take a hefty percent of every sale, not any better than 3rd party. Good thing is I will not be hiring any developers, the plan is to hire a development firm that will build out the website.

Thanks for the info on the intricacies, do you have any resources that can help me out with those?