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MahVika, it looks like you're in the same group as me, too. A whole bunch of us from right around the same time are still waiting.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-17 01:06:00
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Finally got our NOA-2. Got the approval email on friday 9/13... and today the NOA2 was in the mailbox. Exactly 9 months for approval (priority date was 3/13)

 

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Did you get transferred to a service center? 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 22:34:00
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OMG, Texas is turning out so many RFE's.

 

I hope it's nothing huge.  Most people forgot to sign a form or didn't include enough photos.  You can look on the  STUPID RFE THREAD.  Its pinned .

From reading the old Ombudsman's reports to congress, I believe that Texas has had this problem before, and was actually being supervised because of it. I think that they thought that they'd fixed that problem, but apparently not. Perhaps we should use the spreadsheets to figure out how many people have gotten RFE's from Texas as opposed to the other service centers, and send that info to the Ombudsman so that they're made aware of the situation.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 17:09:00
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Finally!  Got  NOA2 today!!  Last week was full of tears of frustration - today is of happiness and relief!  I know it is still a long process from here...but I am unbelievably relieved to go to the next step.

 

PD 3/20/13 at MSC

Trans 11/5/13 NSC

NOA2 12/16/13

 

For everyones sake I hope that this means NSC is picking back up on actually getting out some approvals!!!

 

YAY! I'm so happy for you!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 17:06:00
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I would bet your approval is closer than you think !!! Alot of people get phoney updates like that right before they get approved.


no no, not realtionship photos... passport photos.

 

My lawyer told me 10-12 relationship photos are enough.  25 is over kill  ( his words)


Well, #######. I sent in about 30. Maybe more. We have been together for 10 years, I figured that they'd want a good sampling of us together or with other family members from the entire time...


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 16:58:00
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Yep not a good idea to unlock... The tables and diagrams in the April spread sheet have also been screwed today!!! Can you please fix it Kaylara for one last time....

I'll see what I can do.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 11:10:00
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All I can think is, "this is why we can't have nice things." I'd like to believe it's people who simply don't know how to use Excel rather than people maliciously ruining the sheets, but who knows. Unfortunate either way. Lock 'em down, create a team of mods for them so that no single person is responsible for this huge undertaking.

The joy of google docs is I can actually watch them go through and delete things or change things and should be able to revert them to before it got messed with.   

 

Seriously, if you don't know how to use excel, please just contact me and I will add your information, or get it to the person who needs to add it. Don't just wander through the spreadsheet randomly deleting things.

 

I think that even if we lock it down, we might be able to add on more editors on an individual basis.  But you'd have to have a google+ or google drive account, I think.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 11:08:00
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I am not sure who is editing the spreadsheet but If you are not updating can you please allow us to access it so that way we can keep track of the approvals. Thanks

We can't unlock it anymore, because every time we do, someone goes in there and vandalizes it. I have to go check on the other spreadsheets as well, as I think people are in there screwing around with them just for the sake of being obnoxious and causing strife.  As it is, we may have to lock down the other spreadsheets as well if the vandalism doesn't stop.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-16 10:39:00
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I know what 2x2 means smile.png

 

But 2 pics each used to be required and local offices would issue a lot of RFEs for this. Maybe service centers use old manuals too? wink.png

Aren't they still required? I sent in two of each for me and my husband. (They also required the same when I was getting the CRBA for my girls from the Consulate in Amsterdam.)  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-15 03:39:00
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Leave a comment for them in the comments section in the document. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-15 01:45:00
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Yes, I don't know how to make a group, and I wanted to include all feb/march/april fillers transferred from NBC to TSC. It will be easy to follow what's going on.

If you know how do it please smile.png

Do you mean on here, or, like, on facebook? Because if it's facebook, then I know how to set up those groups. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-14 21:07:00
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I am thinking there is no other contact info????

 

USCIS Service Centers

If you contacted the National Customer Service Center with a case-related inquiry and more than 30 days have passed and you have not received a response, you may email the appropriate USCIS Service Center with your inquiry:

If you do not receive a response within 21 days of contacting the Service Center, you may contact the USCIS Headquarters Office of Service Center Operations by email at SCOPSSCATA@dhs.gov.

 

From: http://www.uscis.gov...Service Centers


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-14 14:24:00
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I still have no notice of this RFE they supposedly put in my case. I'll call Monday to confirm it was sent. Because one month is already too much.

Yeah, that's some serious craziness going on right there. Were they just going to no issue it and let your time to respond run out and close your case or something? How the heck are you supposed to provide more evidence when they haven't told you what evidence they require?

 

We are the same. We haven't received our RFE hard copy. Very frustrating and depressing.

When was your RFE supposedly issued? 

 

Are you guys all at Texas? 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-14 00:33:00
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Not all from the philippines are being alprove till now im still waiting im from
Philippines i got an rfe from nebraska till now i dont have the letter.how long will it take to received the ref letter

When does your file say that your RFE was issued?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-14 00:30:00
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I was thinking if we could do a fax blast. My idea is to shut down there fax machine once a week for a month. Here is how this could work. We need to choose a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. We choose a service center like NSC or TSC we may want to leave CSC since they seemed to be the only one working. We just fax our application number with transfer date to the center also ask for a date of process of our application. If enough of us do this we may get more action then non action we been getting from both our Representatives. We to publish the fax of the center we are faxing. I am out of the US with my family. I encourage anyone who has been transfered.

 

I'm not certain that this is a wise course of action. The service centers do more than service us and our kind of application. We could be causing problems for other petitioners, and I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 15:52:00
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@ Kaylara

That sounds great!!

To which email did you send? Last night, I did research to send a letter, but the only email i found says it is for if ur inquiry does not get addressed within 30 days, like service requests and whatnot. So, i am thinking if i send my letter to
ncscfollowup.nsc@dhs.gov

It may just get deleted.

There is a fax and phone number for the lincoln srv ctr but i dont know i it is correct and I dont want to fax my info into the 'unknown'

Thank you










I sent it to the NSC follow up. Because the answers I got from the USCIS and Congressional Inquiries were stupid and contradictory. If your letter to the service center doesn't get an answer of some type in the time frame listed, then you can escalate it to the next, higher up email. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 15:50:00
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FYI:
Tier 2, yesterday, said that the reason the cases are taking longer than others is bc certain countries take longer to send back the spouse's background check. I do not believe that and think it is a 'canned' reply. The only way it could minutely seem true is that certain countries seem to be getting approved more so than others. But the Tier 2 lost my confidence when she said that portions of our case is done but there are some things still pending. She could not see what else was pending, but she could see one portion pending is the background check. So, why can she see that but nothing else? 'canned' reply. And when I check the case online, it has not been 'touched' since the date of transfer

I doubt that's accurate. My husband is from the Netherlands, and the consulate there is fast, efficient, and very, very good. (I've dealt with them enough to know. The guards even recognize my husband and I. :P) We still don't have an answer on our petition. And if they were doing anything with your case, I believe that you would have seen the touch in your portfolio. 

 

But who knows. They could be right, they could be wrong, and we'd never know. 


I just sent the following email to the NSC. I will let you know if they actually answer me:

 

Dear Officer,
I am the applicant on the above listed petition. I would like to please verify that my case is physically present at the Nebraska Service Center. I received a transfer notice that stated my application arrived and is being processed there as of November 7th, 2013. Due to conflicting and confusing information I received form the USCIS's NCSC 800#, I requested a congressional inquiry into my case in order to gain some clarity on the situation. However, the letter I received from them stated that my file was transferred to Nebraska on November 11, 2013. My account on the USCIS website shows that my case has not been touched since November 7th, 2013. 
 
In addition, my transfer letter states that my case should be adjudicated within 60 days following the transfer, however, when I called the NCSC, the automated message I heard when I inquired about my case says that I should be adjudicated within 180 days. I am very concerned about this, as there is considerable difference between those two time frames. My congressional inquiry gave me an entirely different time frame of 3-5 months of additional processing time. This conflicting information combined with the processing time tables (Currently stating Feb. 12, 2013) and average processing time of 7.4 months has meant that I have no clear idea about what is happening with my petition. As I've been waiting nearly 9 months for adjudication on my husband's case as of today, any further delay means that we will be separated considerably more than a year. This means that we will incur more emotional and financial stress the longer that we are attempting to maintain two households. As such, I would like some reliable information regarding our case.
 
In speaking with other petitioners regarding our stand alone I130 petitions, I have learned that there are a large number of people who were transferred to the Nebraska Service Center more than a month after my case was, and who are not from the Philippines, who have already received adjudication on their case. (Either an approval or a request for more information.) This is very concerning to me, and other petitioners who were transferred to your service center at about the same time. As per the information on the USCIS website, petitions are processed in the order in which they are received. In light of the self reporting of other petitioners and the other inquiries I've made, I am very concerned that my file may be lost. 
 
Can you please verify that my case is physically present at the Nebraska Service Center? Can you also please clarify what further processing time I can expect? 
 
Thank you, and have a nice day.
 
Sincerely,
 
Kaylara

KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 15:06:00
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Someone mentioned they thought they were at 650 of the last numbers in your application. My number is in the 400s no approval I am at NSC was sent on November 5. Sorry to spoil your theory or my applications at in a closet

Does that mean we're closet buddies?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 14:26:00
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Your Case Status: Post Decision Activity

On December 13, 2013, we shipped this approved or re-affirmed case to the Department of State for visa processing. For more information, please contact them directly.

I got approved yesterday from NSC and now they shipped it to NVC today...



Congrats!


Ok so last night I did some research and typed in the msc numbers before me and it seems like they are up to the numbers ending in 650 and mine ends in 710 because they made approvals last night and sent out rfe yesterdays so I have a really good feeling that it coming either today or next week??

I did something similar. Mine ends in 309. #303 got approved 2 weeks ago, and #317 has an RFE from about a week ago. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 13:03:00
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Good Idea, but do you really think they file them numerically?  I mean,  by the looks of things, they just throw them in a box...  There doesn't seem to be any order to them.  If they filed them numerically, then there would be more approvals in oder ( like it should be)  IDK, it is so hard to figure this all out.

What I read on here, from that former adjudicator, seems to indicate that they are filed pretty much in date order. And that they had a first in/first out policy of dealing with the files. (With the exception of expedites and Congressional Inquiries.) Which is why I am having a very hard time understanding just what the heck is going on there. Did someone take our box/boxes and just lose them? Sign them out and go on vacation? Bring them home and just haven't done them yet? Perhaps the contractor that stages things for them is just ignoring our box(es)? Or are they shoved in some dark bowel of the service center? Who the heck knows. But something is seriously off.

 

I'm going to write the service center today to see if I can get any kind of information from them.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 12:37:00
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maybe some requested to expedite but they should have verified the location of the beneficiary in fairmness to everyone who applied first.  

 

i know the feeling of being left behind...but once you got your approval, the exctiement returns...just like giving birth...you'll forget the pain of labor once you see your child...

 

more patience to everyone....

 

 

*a bit of guilt coz were almost have the same timeline and stil you haven't had your approval

Don't feel guilty. You have nothing to feel guilty about. I'm not mad at you, I'm happy for you. I wish that we could all be so lucky.

 

I already went through a crappy immigration process when I moved to the Netherlands, and I haven't forgotten that. I don't doubt that there will be a bit more excitement because we've finally gotten over this hump, but I recognize that we're only on the first step, and there are several other hoops to jump through. In the meantime, he's trying to sell our house over there, and I'm trying to take care of the kids over here. I can't let myself get too crazy one way or the other because it makes my kids depressed, and then they wind up crying hysterically for hours. I don't want to do that to them if I can avoid it.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 12:28:00
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My PD is March 20, and I got transferred to Nebraska on the 7th.  (1rst notice on the 5th. 2nd notice on the 6th. 3rd notice on the 7th. And my file hasn't been touched since the 7th.) It looks like there's a whole group of us from right around that time that are still waiting.  If I read the former adjudicators information properly, there are about 50 files per box. Maybe we're all sitting in the same one. Perhaps we should compare our case #'s. In private, of course.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 12:18:00
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That's what I thought I was seeing. To me it looks like anyone from the Philippines was getting their case pushed to the front of the line, regardless of whether or not they were directly impacted by the typhoon. 

 

Maybe we can just chalk it up to most Americans being really bad at geography. :P 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-13 01:12:00
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Yeah, he's gotta speak to a Tier 2. And ask if there is any relief available to you because you're from the Philippines. Like I said, I don't know if it would work, but it's worth a shot. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 23:41:00
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Yea my fellow filipinos are so lucky... coz of the typhoon haiyan.. they got approval... 


Yea my fellow filipinos are so lucky... coz of the typhoon haiyan.. they got approval... 


Maybe if you called and asked if you were entitled to relief from a Tier 2, they'd speed you up?  I don't honestly know, but if they can help you get approved faster, I say go for it. You've been waiting more than long enough.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 23:31:00
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The Filipinos are getting fast approvals because of Typhoon Haiyan. I don't begrudge them that if they were affected. But I'm not convinced that they aren't just pulling any application with the Philippines involved to process quicker. I understand that there is a great need for this kind of relief in the face of a disaster. I do at times find it a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, though.  


That being said, I'm not convinced that the rest of it has anything to do with country. My husband is from a low fraud country. Still, here we sit.

 

I honestly think that it's possibly that they're just grabbing boxes or files at random. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 23:27:00
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Words from them "When USCIS receives your application or petition, we process your 

case in the order received by application type to be fair to all our 
customers. If you want to check on your case after filing, USCIS 
offers a variety of services for you to follow up on your application 
or petition.."....hope this is really prevailing.

 

Yeah, that's a lie. We've got plenty of proof that it's a lie, too. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 22:43:00
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 Got approved today too!! 

On December 11, 2013, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. 

Excellent! Congrats!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 04:07:00
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Congrats!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 00:42:00
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Also: http://www.dhs.gov/t...-annual-reports  

 

https://www.dhs.gov/...report-congress 2013


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 00:12:00
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If you want some extremely boring reading material while you wait: http://www.dhs.gov/x...to_congress.pdf  

 

Yep, 2010's Report on just what the heck is wrong with the USCIS and what should be done about it.  I'm trying to find a more recent report to see what's changed since then.

 

I warn you. It's very long. And very, very boring. Informative, but Zzzzzzzzzzz...


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-12 00:10:00
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I wrote very angry emails to my congressman and senator.  My husband told me to contact ombudsman, but last time I contacted them it took them 3 months to get in touch with me (for a simple address change) so I'm like "what's the point?" this time around.

Oh, I understand that. But I also know that they compile cases of the problems with the USCIS and publish a report suggesting appropriate changes agency wide. Something like this should at least be reported to them. Even if we're all pretty sure that they're not going to do anything about it.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-11 23:23:00
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Congressman sends me an email saying I have an RFE, but I have received NO NOTICE of an RFE.  I just called USCIS and Tier 2 tells me they requested an RFE on my case A MONTH AGO and that they haven't sent it out yet.

 

WHAT??!! ranting33va.gif ranting33va.gif ranting33va.gif

 

He says he told them to send it out now and I should get the letter in two weeks.

 

I can't even....

####### is that? I sure as heck hope that they're not going to try to hold you to a time frame based on an RFE that was not sent out to you for a friggin' month.  

 

Please tell me you're contacting the Ombudsman about this. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-11 21:24:00
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Infoneeded, 

where was your case transferred to??

I was transferred on 11/6 to Nebraska just like Dilmera and have not heard since sad.png

This is so upsetting... I am losing hope. I was crying all day yesterday because it has been 9 months and we are just stuck on this first step. sad.png

A bunch of cases near mine (also same priority date and transferred same time as mine) were approved two days ago. Sigh sad.png

I'm with you there. Had a bad day yesterday as well. Since I've been with my husband (Just about 10 years) I've never been separated from him for this long. That includes the 2 years that we had a long distance relationship. I'm really hoping that we get an answer soon. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-11 13:39:00
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actually dilmera im always looking at your post and waited for you to get approved causse we have the same timeline.

 

 trobably you'll get yours this week also and so to other vj'ers waiting

I'm doing something similar. :P You're probably in the same box as us. Or possibly a neighboring box. :P


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-11 01:16:00
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that sucks even reading it.... July is far away, and we are growing weary of this stupid process. as much as everyone else, I'm sure. 

Yep. :( I hope that you and your loved one are reunited well before July. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-10 14:08:00
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Mine too. And I've been going through the same kind of timeline as far as the service center goes. I'm pretty certain we're either in the same box on a shelf in Nebraska, or neighboring boxes.  I guess they can lie and say that the processing time is improving if they process a bunch of the newer applications and leave us to twist in the wind. The only good news is that they're going to publish the new processing dates within the next few days, and I'm only 3 weeks off being able to write them for a service request as per their letter when they transferred my case. Also, the new letter writing campaign is happening tomorrow, and the last one at least got a response. 

 

Early next year is my 10 year anniversary of being with my husband, and our 8 year wedding anniversary. I'm also going to miss his birthday. And I'm fairly sure that he's not going to be here yet by Easter. We're actually hoping that he'll be here by my birthday. (Mid-July)  

 

Goddess, it's depressing typing that out. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-10 12:45:00
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Are the petitioners allowed to schedule an infopass at the service centers? If it is allowed, maybe you can schedule an appointment and know more about your case since you live in Nebraska.

Nope.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-10 10:44:00
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:P Still stuck in a holding pattern. :P I hope that Nebraska is open tomorrow. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-10 02:00:00
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Dilmera, looking at your info, I think you and I are in the same box in Nebraska. :P

 

 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2013-12-10 00:50:00