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USCIS Service CentersShould we file a class action lawsuit like Kaplan vs. Chertoff?

at one point every single person in this country had ancestors who were immigrants, and our significant others ARE immigrants. Your point just doesn't make any sense. We all feel for people who have waited months BEYOND the projected processing times, but as aaron said, nothing in immigration is a guarantee. No one ever said that anyone was ever going to get through X amount of months, USCIS can only project based on the amount of cases being processed. The OP also started another thread saying that it is the governments fault that he cannot consummate his marriage as much as he would like, that's just grasping at straws. No one in the government EVER told him that he can't travel to see his wife to spend as much time with her as he wants. 

The so called "illegals" who people on this site accuse of being given priority over everyone else are children who were brought here illegally by their parents when they were under the age of 18 , children who didn't have a choice in the matter. The Dream Act is giving these children the opportunity to become legal in a country that for many of them, is the only country they have ever known. It isn't like they are being handed a green card and being sent on their way. They still have a process to go through, and it isn't an easy for them either. They are people with hopes and aspirations and feelings like you and I, they are no less important than us, in my opinion. 

We all understood when marrying someone from another country that the process of bringing them here was going to take time. Some have had to wait longer than others, it is what it is. My husband is from a so called "T" country and was given AP after his interview. This is something we both knew was a possibility, it meant an extra 10 weeks of waiting for us. We were lucky it was only 10 weeks, there are many more who have waited much longer. Never for one moment did I ever think of coming here and complaining about the black hole of AP, we understood it was part of the process, a matter of national security, and what right would I have to complain after seeing the years people from Pakistan are having to wait. Given the state of terrorism in the world who am I to complain about the government wanting to protect it's citizens?

 

 What you say about illegals is not true. I live with a formerly undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, she came here in her 20's by just walking over the border from Mexico (which she also went to illegally) and now she complains all the time about "dee ###### immigracion" even though now she is being allowed to stay here with her family members and has a work permit--while my wife, who has never broken any immigration laws, is not allowed to even visit me for one week. I, too, have sympathy with the so-called "dreamers", but not with their parents who are law breakers and need to be deported ASAP. If you tell people here not to complain about the process, then how on earth can you listen to the complaints of these law breakers? It makes no sense. 

 

And by the way, look up the "Kids' Act" that the Republicans in Congress are trying to pass. It grants status to dreamers but NOT to their parents or any other illegals, and is thus being opposed by the Democrats for purely political reasons. If they really cared about the "dreamers" they would pass the Kids' Act and then worry about the rest later. But they don't, they just want to use the "dreamers" to get amnesty passed, since out of the whole lot of criminals the "dreamers" are the only people with an even half-way respectable position for asking for legal status. If it were about the "dreamers" I would be fine with amnesty, but it's not, it's also about their 10 million adult relatives who flagrantly broke this country's laws and want to be allowed to stay here because if they left they would have to wait a while to come back. If this process is so just, then why are they afraid to leave and come back through it as spouses and parents applying for CR-1's?

 

If immigration is a "privilege" and not a right a right as you seem so found of telling people around here, then there's no other conclusion to come to besides that illegals, who were never granted this "privilege", need to be deported and right away, or else life needs to be made so difficult for them here that they leave on their own, if the above is not financially a feasible. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 14 December 2013 - 09:50 AM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-14 09:48:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

Faxes sent!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-20 15:25:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

Faxes:

 

.The Honorable Bob Goodlatte - Chairman House Judiciary Committee

Fax#1: 202-225-7680,

Fax #2 (540) 857-2675

Fax #3: 202-225-9681

 

 

 

2. Director USCIS: Alejandro Mayorkas

Fax: 202-272-8118 - this has not worked in 3 attempts, but since the same number worked for Lori Scialabba on the 1st attempt, I am going to keep trying.

 

Email: alejandro.mayorkas@dhs.gov and alejandro.mayorkas@hq.dhs.gov and uscisfrcomments@dhs.gov and alejandro.mayorkas@uscis.dhs.gov

 

 

3. Deputy Director USCIS: Lori Scialabba

Fax: 202-272-8118

 

 

4. Maria M. Odom - Ombudsman USCIS

Fax: 202-357-0042

 

 

5. Brandi Blackburn, Assistant Center Director for NBC Division 8 in Overland Park, KS

Fax: 816-350-5785

 

 

6. Secretary DHS: Mr. Rand Beers

Fax: 202-282-8420

 

 

7. Washington Post - Letter to Editor

Email: letters@washpost.com

 

8. AILA

Email: executive@aila.org and newsroom@aila.org

 

 

9. Senator John Cornyn - Ranking Member U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Fax: 202-228-2281 OR 202-228-2856

10. Senator Chuck Schumer - Chairman U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Fax: 202-228-2281 OR 202-228-3027

 

 

Goodluck.


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 18:50:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

Well that's comforting.....


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 14:57:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

I think we should also mention that from crowdsourced data we KNOW that the 13 February date is "bakwaas" as one says in Hindi and that in fact they are giving out acceptances and RFE's to March, April, and even June filers, but just in an incongruous fashion. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 14:38:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

public.engagement@dhs.gov


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 12:59:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

These trend charts are recent as of October... is that when petitions started being transferred from NBC?  So I suppose we won't know how fast they are adjudicating until the Nov/Dec results are released.  is my understanding correct?

 

Correct, but we have a pretty good damn idea of how fast they are going from VJ data. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-19 12:45:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

 

Bro, man up a little and it's not intrusive if you willingly post the information on an open forum.

 

If you feel it's insultive, alert the mods, they'll decide and thread ban me.

 

Your issue has always been that you only want people that side with you to be the only one on your threads. This is VisaJourney.Com and not TheDudeJourney.Com

 

I have average credit due to divorce but make almost twice the poverty level for a family of seven. So now what? Who is passing out the awards?

 

 

I am sorry if my response seemed hostile. A lot is lost over text-only internet communication. Your question just seemed hostile to me considering that it was so non-sequiter....what do my finances have to do with these statistics or how the USCIS is (not) doing its job? I just did not understand, and I apologize for reacting too harshly. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-18 12:48:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

 

My original question was not posted to VJ in general but to the OP in particular. He seems wound up with statistics and petitions and lambasting the US government at each and every opportunity.

 

Since you brought up your relationship I will comment on that.

 

IMHO, those that have been married for a period of time such as you and especially with kids should have a fast track section.

 

I make more than twice the federal poverty level for 2 people and I have excellent credit. I am more than financially capable of having my wife with me, her presence here in fact would only improve my financial situation as she is eager to work. Thanks for the intrusive question and insulting assumption about me though. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-18 12:34:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

Are you completely ready to welcome your Wife to the US? Financially? Logistically?

 

What does that matter? For the record I am, and even if I was not you have 6 months after the issue of the visa to come to the US, and I guarantee that I could give her a welcome fit for a Queen in that amount of time. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-18 11:14:00
USCIS Service CentersNew USCIS Processing Numbers Our on Dash for October

The new numbers have come out for October. 

 

http://dashboard.usc...e=6&charttype=1

 

As will surprise no one, the # of all currently pending I-130 petitions went from 357,511 to 379,608 in October. for us Vermonters, that (dis-)Service Center completed 812 cases and had 1,964 pending customer action, but it got 1,500 new cases so it ended the month with 11,918 pending :( 

 

That really scares me, at that rate my petition won't be processed until next October :( Hopefully the VSC picked it up in November......


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-18 10:42:00
USCIS Service CentersGood News For Vermont Filers-- Caseload Being Shifted to California

http://www.uscis.gov...-service-center

 

Release Date: December 23, 2013

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently began transferring some extension of stay casework from the Vermont Service Center to the California Service Center to balance workloads. The affected casework includes the following form:

 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-23 13:30:00
USCIS Service CentersProcessing Time Difference between IR of Citizen to Permanent Residents

 

Just a small correction on semantics, the NVC doesn't adjudicate anything.  Their purpose for IR-1/CR-1 cases is for intake of documents and checking to ensure what is needed is there.

 

But the NVC issues RFE's and also signs off on a lot of paperwork. They may not call it "adjudicating" but what also could you call their relatively lengthy process? 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-23 23:53:00
USCIS Service CentersProcessing Time Difference between IR of Citizen to Permanent Residents

They don't receive as many petitions from Legal Residents as they do from U.S. citizens and that makes the line longer for U.S. citizens.  You would think that the $420 paid should be enough to cover the cost of the adjudication and that USCIS could allocate resources based on a prediction how many cases they are going to receive each month).  However, if you glance at processing volume data you'll see each month that while USCIS averages more and more I-130 petitions, completions have become fewer and fewer. 

 

There's a lot more to it than than that. When an IR/CR-1 gets through the USCIS, the NVC picks up their cases and starts adjudicating it as soon as they have people available to do so. When an F2A comes in, they wait to process it until the PD becomes current. They try to get the F2A's out the door faster because they have a longer wait at the NVC. They want the NVC to pick up their case as soon as the PD becomes current. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-23 19:30:00
USCIS Service CentersCalling all NYERS!!

That's going to be in your NY local office, not the service centers, which are national in scope. 

 

Mods, please move where appropriate. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 13 January 2014 - 06:16 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-13 18:14:00
USCIS Service CentersCalling all NYERS!!

The service centers are located in Vermont, Texas, Nebreska, and California. Do you mean the call center? Not exactly sure what you expect to get done there. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-13 14:59:00
USCIS Service Centerssolution to delays: close TSC, NSC ; increase CSC workforce three times.

Or how about this, build out another NVC center and send all I-130 straight to the NVC for adjudication. File the AOS papers etc. all at the same time, cut the USCIS out of it so that they can take care of important stuff (like illegal immigrants!) and cut the wait time in half for spouses (and hell why not I-129f's too?). 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-15 18:24:00
USCIS Service CentersInsufferably incompetent

Preach it aditya!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-09 09:45:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

Hi everyone im a sept filer petitioned for my husband from california i130 along with i485..
Sent paper work to phoenix sept 19
priority date sept 23
noa1 sept 26
web site still on initial review anyone gotten an aproval from sept?



They've started August transfers, if you're lucky you could be approved by March IMO. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-25 12:37:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

That's all about LPR's not a word about US citizen relatives in there. 

 

Same thing with that NGO. I've read their page, all they care about is getting people who broke immigration laws into the same line we are waiting in. Not a word about anyone who's applying for an alien who has never been to the US or only visited briefly and legally and then left, like we are. The only concern is for people who already broke the law. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 23 January 2014 - 06:36 PM.

thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-23 18:32:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

We dfinitely need to compare it to the DACA's. In August they did more than 95,000 DACA's, almost 1/4 the current I-130 backlog, and the next month that only did about 20,000 less than that. In November at Vermont they did over 10,000 DACA's and only 939 I-130's! Outrageous!

 

http://dashboard.usc...e=6&charttype=1


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-23 13:44:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

 

I think the K1's.

 

I think to both.

 

Do we want to start writing the letter right now, or do we want the volume data to come out? 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-22 12:06:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

New data is out for dates. Average wait time is now listed for every service center as 8.9 months (but somehow the national average is now 8.8???) and the new processing date is 8 March 2013. New volume trends have still not been released. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-21 14:46:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

Get ready for tomorrow boys and girls. Snow storm's coming here in the East, but people should be working from home and California will be open for business. Expect our numbers by Thursday at the latest. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-20 18:34:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

I think we should be hitting the media hard. NYT took interest, so it's not impossible to get their attention. One that I think will be interested is Aljazeera America: 

 

america@aljazeera.net. 

ajam.press@aljazeera.net


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-17 13:31:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

Wait, let's wait till they release the data and then do it all together. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-17 12:55:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

It's the 17th already, and Monday is MLK day so I am sure the lazy b@stards have the day off. Are they really going to push November's data our past the 20th?????????????????????


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-17 11:09:00
USCIS Service CentersNew I-130 Data and the Next Letter Campaign

Tomorrow is the 15th, so you know what that means! New I1-30 data should be posted before Friday. 

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As usualy, I think we can expect a big disappointment from the USCIS. I think we should start on a letter now.

 

Things to emphasize:

 

1. May is fast approaching and if they keep moving the processing date 1 day at a time it will take them about 10 years to get to that vaunted 5-month processing window. 

2. Public attention is mounting. There's some news over in the progress report forums, you can look for it there. We shouldn't say too much but we should indicate that we have been in touch with "media figures" for many months and some are starting to take notice. 

3. I was checking out the USCIS outreach page. We ought to remind them that though it's wonderful that they're having teleconferences on such intellectually stimulating topics as

 

"O and P Nonimmigrant Visa Classifications: Performing Arts and Entertainment

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a teleconference on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern) to provide feed..."

 

there are millions of US citizen relatives, torn apart from their families, and they ought to hold a teleconference (in ENGLISH) to discuss the concerns of all their US citizen relatives, for whom the USCIS supposedly exists to serve.

 

Also I was checking out their Feedback Opportunities page:

http://www.uscis.gov...k-opportunities

 

While I think a lot of it is just blowing smoke up our proverbial @$$es, it does present a lot of targets from whom we could try to induce a response. 

 

Also of note is the USCIS ideas page, where I have been posting. 

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/

 

I think we ought to post our letter here and try to vote it to the top, or else spam everyone off the page.

 

Thoughts?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-14 22:11:00
USCIS Service CentersNew Processing times

I must say I am certainly shocked with how fast the processing times seem to be speeding up! Two days ago I checked and they were on Feb 2013. Yesterday it was March 2013, and today it's April and some places May 2013! My friend who is helping his German boyfriend even said they've gotten their NOA2 and interview date all of a sudden. If this is the case, why did we have a backlog to begin with? Has anyone else seen a sudden movement in their cases? Just asking out of curiosity . . .

Where are you seeing April processing dates? That's not on the website. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-26 11:20:00
USCIS Service CentersI-130 Workload Transfer Linked to DACA - FOIA Finding

Here here!


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-20 18:33:00
USCIS Service CentersHELP!!! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO ANYMORE! 5 MONTHS SINCE NOA2 AND NOTHING!!!!

Thank you all so much for your help!! 

I will definitely call the USCIS as well as congressman and senator and be as specific as possible. Hopefully the lady at the congressman's office will have finally heard back from their liaison? Last time we called she still hadn't gotten any response. *keeping my fingers crossed*

Unfortunately the last time we talked to USCIS and were VERY specific the man on the phone just gave some random answer that did not answer the question at all, when asking again he just repeated the same thing once again. It just seems like 90% of the people working there are not qualified at all, even the tier 2 officers just read answers out of a book? sad.png

 

Once again thank you all so much!!! <3 

I will update you as soon as I find our any thing new. 

 

Hopefully this story will finally have a happy end...

 

Ask for a Tier 2 Supervisor. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-12-03 14:17:00
USCIS Service CentersK-1 process going faster?

 

Service centers don't have numbers to call, otherwise they'd spend all day answering calls about cases rather than adjudicating them.

 

Just gotta wait.

 

Sound advice, for having waited all of 3 months for your NOA2 I assume you are an expert on the subject of waiting. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-01-30 18:17:00
USCIS Service Centersvermont service center for processing i-130

They are currently the slowest service center. In November the processed just over 900 apps while they had over 14,000. You do the math. Sorry :/


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-02-16 13:52:00
USCIS Service CentersWhy are they Still Expediting Filipino/a applicants?

Is the situation over there still that bad? Or is this just a case of USCIS not changing course with regards to the situation on the ground?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-04-26 11:36:00
USCIS Service CentersK3 / K1 inconsistency

 

--I-129Fs are adjudicated with the I-130, but

--I-130s are pulled out of their place in the queue when the I-129F hits and both are put at the end of the queue and

--adjudicator counts (# of humans working on petition type) is set by the Service Center Director, per quarter, or when some shift is mandated by the President (study DACA shift, for example)

 

so, for the first run at a petition, there are variables to study, ultimately knowing how 'that queue' runs. 

 

I invite you to study, this quarter, as what happened last quarter is not representative of this quarter, at all.

 

So K-3's actually slow down the process?


thedude6752000MaleIndia2014-05-13 16:59:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)How long to wait to get any news from new Delhi embassy

If it goes on much longer your husband should file a write of Mandamus

http://www.visalaw.c...b3/2feb305.html

 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-05-20 12:44:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)All the things I've tried that didn't work!

There are some other steps you can be taking:

 

"You must first (before filing a law suit) try to resolve your matter with USCIS in good faith, you should have at least sent the Service Center director and District Director two letters inquiring about your case via certified mail with return receipt. 

You should also make an Infopass appointment with your district office and talk to an immigration officer to inquiry about the status of your case (this did it for me when my case was frozen).

Lastly, USCIS has the office of the ombudsman (a person that works for the public to resolve USCIS matters by making suggestions to make the process smoother or by inquiring about cases that have been frozen as far as processing goes) which can investigate the case for you. Check : http://www.dhs.gov/x...orial_0497.shtm

Only if you attempt all of this and after 6 months you still do not get a response then you should file the mandamus action. 99% of the chances are that if you do all of things I outlined for you above, you will receive a response as to the status of your case." http://discuss.ilw.c...rit-od-mandamus




thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-06-18 11:19:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)Day 60 on AP....

Go to the senator. Set up an info pass appointment. Look up the Ombudsman's office and get a letter ready for him too. There are actually a lot of things you can be doing at this point. 


http://discuss.ilw.c...rit-od-mandamus

 

"You must first try to resolve your matter with USCIS in good faith, you should have at least sent the Service Center director and District Director two letters inquiring about your case via certified mail with return receipt. 

You should also make an Infopass appointment with your district office and talk to an immigration officer to inquiry about the status of your case (this did it for me when my case was frozen).

Lastly, USCIS has the office of the ombudsman (a person that works for the public to resolve USCIS matters by making suggestions to make the process smoother or by inquiring about cases that have been frozen as far as processing goes) which can investigate the case for you. Check : http://www.dhs.gov/x...orial_0497.shtm"

 

Then if you have gotten no movement (unlikely) you can file a writ of mandamus. 


Edited by thedude6752000, 16 July 2013 - 05:44 PM.


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-07-16 17:42:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)why this AP is only for selected applicants and no sign of any help from anywhere.

Why don't you file a writ of mandamus? Go to news agencies? Try to sue the government? Move to another country? I have not even started this process and I am already hopping mad at it.......


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-07-01 16:41:00
Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)How Common is AP in India, particularly the New Delhi Embassy

How common is AP at the New Delhi Embassy? Does everyone get it? I am white and my wife is a Muslim with the most common Muslim last name there is (think Shah Rukh), I feel like no matter how strong our case is we are walking talking AP bait. She also has a denied F-1 visa in her background (no fraud, they just straight up refused to say more than 10 words to her at the embassy). This is important for me in judging whether or not the process is even worth it.....I am not prepared to spend much more than 1 year away from her after we are married. 


thedude6752000MaleIndia2013-07-24 18:11:00