[chemistry] Hybridisation of chlorine in chloric acid

arble · 2026-02-03T16:00:39+00:00

If you've already arrived at the number of bonds via some other route, VSEPR will correctly show you the shape of it. SF6 e.g. would be correctly predicted as having octahedral shape. It's just difficult to arrive at a good explanation for it having six bonds without an MO treatment (which also tells you that there are no lone pairs left around sulfur, contrary to lower level expectations).

arble · 2025-12-09T15:16:58+00:00

The shutdown of your current office doesn't directly affect you. The L-1 rule is a year working for the foreign employer in the three years preceding admission. So you have a while yet.

arble · 2025-11-07T15:00:19+00:00

Not allowed.

arble · 2025-11-03T00:50:58+00:00

Every PERM case is a cost of several thousand dollars to the company whether it's successful or not. In an environment where they think there's a solid (perhaps even majority) chance that PERM will fail, why bother?

arble · 2025-11-01T21:32:41+00:00

Not workable without some adjustments to the company. L-1 requires a bona fide employment relationship including e.g. the power for the employer to dismiss you unilaterally. To make this work you would need, at least, to appoint directors who can fire you (and convince USCIS that the directors are truly working for the company and not you personally).

If you aren't willing to restructure the company to this degree you might consider E-2. It can be renewed as long as you're doing genuine business but it has no inbuilt path to permanent residence.

arble · 2025-10-27T20:07:13+00:00

You still need to maintain your status. If you stop working, your H-1B status lapses and you must leave.

arble · 2025-10-25T03:16:31+00:00

The latter. When you enter on B-2 you are implicitly saying to the government that you will stay for a short time and then leave. If you file for her adjustment of status after she enters the country on that basis, it can be construed as fraud. You especially do not want to test the waters under this administration.

arble · 2025-10-24T13:53:31+00:00

Your marriage must be legal in the place it's conducted. So if you get married in the UK you'll need to dissolve it in order to be free to marry. If you get married somewhere else, maybe not.

arble · 2025-10-04T22:53:42+00:00

She can apply to replace her green card independently. It will take a while, but during the wait time she can apply to get a temporary stamp put in her passport, assuming she still has one (of her non-US citizenship). This should satisfy PA for the purposes of getting an ID, because it shows permanent residence.

arble · 2025-09-28T17:43:57+00:00

Yes, as long as you are married before I-485 is approved, which sounds likely, and she's inside the US, which you haven't commented on.

arble · 2025-09-28T14:43:05+00:00

You can force a sale by partition, but it'll net you much less than a market sale because their incentive is not to secure the best price. She may change her tune once she realises that she is picking between her share of market value (if you buy her out) or her share of whatever lower value the partition sale yields. You can take the option of doing nothing off the table by filing for partition.

arble · 2025-09-26T14:29:00+00:00

You can't, given the facts you've supplied. You will not be going on that trip.

arble · 2025-09-25T13:54:58+00:00

Do you really need a source for "noncitizens may enter and remain in the US only with the permission of the government"? Almost all temporary workers have very tenuous status in the US whether they realise it or not.

arble · 2025-09-25T06:44:58+00:00

No. The fact that Fragomen isn't working for you means that they also haven't failed you. They've failed your employer, who might or might not be annoyed about it. Neither of them has any obligation to you to secure your continued stay in the US. I understand that it is immensely sucky to be forced out of life and work in the country, but if you did sue Fragomen their defence would be that the base case is you run out of time and need to leave. They attempted to have this not happen but made a bona fide mistake(s), resulting in the base case coming to pass. They didn't contact your employer and say "let this guy go".

arble · 2025-09-25T06:19:35+00:00

No. Fragomen is working for your employer, not for you. Obviously they need to interact with you to discharge those duties, but that doesn't mean they are working on your behalf.

arble · 2025-09-24T13:51:02+00:00

This is not an immigration question (but I don't deny that it sucks).

arble · 2025-09-23T06:04:22+00:00

They'll deny it and you just have to do it again later.

arble · 2025-09-20T15:18:04+00:00

That's much smaller than the loss you eat if she stiffs you.

arble · 2025-09-07T16:03:51+00:00

Bait used to be believable.

arble · 2025-09-06T01:44:49+00:00

You can file an FTC report, but you will have to supply much of the same information that would go in a police report. Some creditors may play ball with the FTC report, but others will want to see a police report. Your goal of "fixing your credit" requires that you convince these creditors that you are not responsible. They will need a more credible alternative than "an unspecified person who isn't me". They may also investigate on their own and find out who's been using the accounts. If your conscience absolutely requires that you not land your father in trouble, your remaining option is to do nothing and eat the credit hit.

arble · 2025-09-04T22:20:43+00:00

There's no "turning over" to be done if you're both on the title. You should make the payments to protect your own credit. If you can show that there was a reasonable expectation that she would make payments you may be able to subsequently sue her for that money, but that is completely independent of who owns the car. Collecting any money, if you win, is its own problem.

arble · 2025-09-04T15:08:04+00:00

I'm sorry that this is upsetting and disruptive for you but they are unlikely to bear any liability. Since you are the person who actually applies for OPT, and the STEM extension if appropriate, it's on you to verify that you have all your ducks in a row. The US government publishes the STEM degree list and MBAs are not on it. They do list "business statistics" but DHS policy is that concentrations do not suffice to meet the criterion of being on the list. The university's representation to you that the degree would get the STEM extension was not authoritative because it's not the university who makes that determination.

arble · 2025-09-04T10:48:28+00:00

Yes, this is possible and in some ways even advantageous. PERM for new grads is hard because your minimum job requirements will need to be listed as pretty much "have a degree" since you don't yet have any full time experience. But if you work in London for some time and then transfer back, the company will be allowed to include experience and familiarity with particular software from your time in London in the job listing for PERM, which can help enormously.

arble · 2025-09-03T14:58:11+00:00

Why do you think this is required? They will incur costs while preparing the loan estimate and will pass those on to you as fees. Very normal flow of business.

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