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IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Case Filing and Progress ReportsI-130 MARCH 2013 FILERS!! NBC

Please write back to them and tell them that we were told specifically that transferring our cases to a service center would not further delay the adjudication of your case, and that does not appear to be the case.  (If you want, I'll send you a link to the press release.) 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-03-19 08:12:00
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Congrats! 

 

Again, I urge all of you who have been waiting for more than a year to research "Writ of Mandamus". 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-03-17 22:07:00
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Yes I'm having the same problem!!! When I called yesterday they told me they are working on cases from April!!!! But they could not put in a service request because they were backlogged yesterday so I called back today and they put in a request for service and told me once again if I don't hear anything on my case in 30 days to call back again
It's ridiculous i have seen so many approvals for April and may already its like they totally skipped my case

Because you have an MSC #, make sure that your service request gets routed to Nebraska instead of the NBC. I've seen Service Requests getting absolutely no response because they went to the wrong place.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-03-12 09:38:00
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SOMEONE PLEASE HELP US sad.png my hubby called today USCIS since in March it will be a year of waiting on this and they told him Nebraska BS CENTER is seeing april cases and we are MARCHHHHH FILERS sad.png we are so sad right now he put an e-request and idk wats going to happen now is been way to long sad.pngcray5ol.gif ClockWatch2.gif ClockWatch2.gif  WAT SHOULD WE DO

Call, get a tier 2 to put in a service request. Write the ombudsman or call them. Contact your Senators and Congress people's Immigration Liaisons. Schedule an Infopass appt. These are all things that you can do right now to try to get them moving on your case. Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that it would work. You may also want to research the term Writ of Mandamus and consider filing one. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-26 09:50:00
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Start collecting information for a Writ of Mandamus.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-18 09:44:00
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I am. I wouldn't bother getting an attorney at this point unless you have a super complicated case. If you have questions about the forms or paperwork, you can always ask here. People here usually try to give the best advice possible and don't even charge you for it. :)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-06 19:47:00
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At about the 6th month mark my grandfather started doing this to me. He probably wishes he hadn't at this point. :P He finds it unfathomable that putting in a large amount of effort and contacting everyone possible may still result in nothing.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-06 11:16:00
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Congrats Naam!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-05 13:40:00
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Congrats! 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-05 11:13:00
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YAY! Congrats!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-03 23:29:00
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sounds like a good idea....this would be really helpful for the people whose cases are on hold..... If we have a reasonable sample size, we could derive some sought of understanding, and analyze if USCIS has a specific pattern or procedure in handling such petitions........

There was some suggestion that certain areas of the country were waiting longer in certain service centers. It does seem to me like a lot of New Englanders/Mid Atlantic people are waiting longer than from other places, but I'm not sure exactly how accurate that is.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-03 22:08:00
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Thank you, guys. I appreciate it.

 


 

Kaylara, I know what that feels like.  My spouse had a cerebellar infarct (stroke) last summer when I was in the US and she was in Australia.  Talk about a terrible situation!  Best of luck to your partner, and to your MIL.

 

Sukie

Omg, that's so scary. I'm so sorry you went through that.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-03 17:47:00
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Ugh, my MIL had a seizure today. We don't know what's going on with her, but she had a TIA a few years back, so I'm actually pretty worried about her health. If it deteriorates any more, we're going to wind up having to go back to NL for a little while.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-02-03 17:24:00
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I called every day. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-31 23:44:00
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No case # yet, but I know they got my case on Jan. 21rst. Soon, hopefully!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-31 18:29:00
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YAY! That's awesome! Congrats Lucybelle!


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-28 10:45:00
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Oops. Well, I'm not the one updating March, but I'll see if I can let them know. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-25 23:25:00
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I'm serious. I'll pull every single one. Shouldn't take me more than an hour. But thank you! :) 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-23 00:47:00
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Especially given the stupidity of the RFE. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 22:02:00
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh my goodness.  What freaking BULLSH*T!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm so mad for you.  

They're getting another letter. And it's going to be a nasty one.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 21:53:00
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I wouldn't know how to do that and would doing that be legal? The idea I get is the ombudsman doesn't want to entertain complaints outside of the US, read complaints not filed by USCs. I think it's just like if you don't belong to the constituency of a senator, he/she won't help you.

It's legal as long as you're not stealing it from someone else. :) 

 

I think it's really time for your husband to get on the ball and start pushing for this. You're not in a position where you can fight your own battle here. He's really gotta step up his game here and start pushing for you. 

 

I'm sorry, I know that's not what you want to hear, but he should be working for you. *hugs*  I'm so sorry that you're going through this.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 21:52:00
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hi bad news so for you all that got transferred well i MEAN just me prbly the only dumb stupid woman on this that is getting played with the answers of Nebraska center, I emailed them ON JAN 8th and they practically told me that we have to wait 5 more months because the time starts to count once they receive the case not  when the other office did

 

ATTENTION:  The Nebraska Service Center (NSC) has a new email address for public inquiries.  The new email address is NSCFollowup.NCSC@uscis.dhs.gov.  Please use the new email address when submitting your inquiry and/or replying to a response from NSC.  Thank you.

 

Good morning,

 

Thank you for contacting the Nebraska Service Center National Customer Service Follow Up e-mail account (NSC NCSC).  Please except our apology for the delay in responding to your e-mail below.

 

USCIS records show your I-130 petition was transferred from the Missouri Service Center (NBC) on November  05, 2013. The Nebraska Service Center received the petition on November 6, 2013. Processing of I-130 petitions at Nebraska is approximately five months from the date we receive the petition.

 

USCIS records show this case is under extend review. We are actively processing this case.  However, we have to perform additional review on this case and this has caused a longer processing time.  If you have not received a decision or other notice of action on this case within 90 days, from the date of this email, please contact us for updates. 

 

I hope that this information will be of assistance to you. At this time I am closing your inquiry on this matter.

 

 

Regards

USCIS Nebraska Service Center

EX0031

Here is how you should respond:

 

 

Dear Nebraska Service Center,

According to the press release from the USCIS on October 21, 2013.

 

"USCIS recently began transferring some casework from the National Benefits Center to the Nebraska, Texas and California Service Centers to balance overall operational workload. The affected casework includes the following form:

Effect on Customers

If your case was transferred, USCIS will send you a notice listing the transfer date and where your case will be processed. Your original receipt number will not change and this will not further delay the processing of your case."

 This can be found at: http://www.uscis.gov...service-centers

What you are telling me is that the press release that I got, as well as the supplemental letter stating my case would be processed within 60 days were all lies? This certainly constitutes a further delay in my case, if I'm expected to wait a further 5 months. 5 months is the target processing time of the USCIS for a stand-alone I130 case for a spouse. You are telling me that I'm actually expected to wait close to 15 months for you to process my case? The National Average processing time is now 8.9 months, which I am past, and the Processing date at your service center is now March 20. My priority date is March 19. I am therefore outside of normal processing times.  You have had my case for 310 days. If my case needed additional processing, you have already had ample time to complete it. 

Claiming that my case is under extended review because you have failed to process it in the 10 months you as an agency have had it is unconscionable.   I can see in my case update that my case has not even been looked at since ____________.  I will be contacting my Congressman and Senators and the Ombudsman, as well as Service Center HQ regarding this.  And I will continue to escalate this matter as necessary until you process my case, as you should have done months ago. 

I hope that you understand my position on this matter. This is my Husband/Wife and our future life together. You must understand that any further delays are entirely unacceptable, and I will do whatever I have to do to get you to finish processing my case. My Husband/Wife is important. Our lives are important. And I will continue to fight for that.

 

Sincerely,

Whateveryourname is

Case # MSCnotliketheygoinorderanyway

CC: SCOPSSCATA@dhs.gov

OLUInquiries@dhs.gov

cisombudsman@hq.dhs.gov 

Maria Odom

Director USCIS: Alejandro  Mayorkas

Deputy Director USCIS: Lori Scialabba

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

Office of Administration-USCIS; Director: Nancy W. Guilliams

Secretary DHS: Randy Beers

Carrie Meadows: Carrie.meadows@mail.house.gov 

Kathryn Rexrode: KathrynRexrode@mail.house.gov

John Manning: john.manning@mail.house.gov

pete.larkin@mail.house.gov

 Bob.Goodlatte@mail.house.gov

talk2bob@mail.house.gov 

 

 

Probably everyone on this list: https://docs.google....GiQXzc_QEk/edit  Also your Congress people and Senators, President, Vice President, First lady, 

 

And if you want, every single email I can pull out of the Judicial Watch FOIA press releases.  Screw this bullshit. I'm so pissed for you guys I could spit nails.  


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 21:47:00
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Or you could try to use a US based proxy. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 17:57:00
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Yes, there should be an option for that. Can you bring this to the notice of the ombudsman?

Or you can when you write them. I, btw, wouldn't wait to write them. It takes them 45 days to just look at a request. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 11:21:00
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Should be an option there for if you're beyond processing times now. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-22 02:25:00
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Can you do an e-request online now?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-21 21:24:00
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Then perhaps you are a skilled person in your field or maybe your husband is tongue.png. Anyway, that was someone else's view, not mine; I have doubts about that.

My husband is. :P 


I WAS APPROVED BY TSC ON JANUARY 10TH AND STILL HASN'T BEEN SENT TO NVC YET

I was approved by NSC on Jan. 3rd, sent out to them on the 6th, and they haven't gotten it as of today. Ugh. So slow.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-21 12:29:00
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Thank you Marhaba. IF these people had done their job on time, we wouldn't be missing festivals, anniversaries and birth of children. An acquaintance told my husband that all the people who were approved out of turn are professionals and skilled people; I don't know how much truth there is to that statement.

Well, I don't know if I was approved out of order or not, but I'm not presently a professional.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-21 01:24:00
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Yes, quite a few.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-17 02:30:00
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Call on Monday and see what's going on? I don't think it should have gone back to Initial Review after you answered the RFE.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-11 23:03:00
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YAY! Congrats to you! 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 23:56:00
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Omg, I wouldn't print them all out. They're way too long to do that with! You'll wind up printing the equivalent to several novels worth of papers!

 

You're very welcome, and I'm no angel. I just like to help out. :)


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 15:03:00
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Bull. It may not be a conspiracy but this has been a problem since at least 2006. At least according to the Ombudsman's annual report. I haven't had time to read prior to 2006 yet. I'll do that later tonight if possible. (Reading through all the years from 2006 to 2013 takes time. Each is a rather large document to read through.) Statements like this one does actually make you think that they are doing it to extend the amount of time they have to deal with an application.

 

From the Ombudsman's report from 2006: 

Finally, the Ombudsman learned in March 2006 that at least one service center was 
issuing blanket RFEs for certain long pending I-130s regardless of the completeness of the file. 
As a consequence, USCIS spent additional resources to respond to inquiring customers who did 
not understand the nature and requirements of these RFEs and sent in duplicate documents. 
 
 
There are mentions of the problems with RFE's across the different immigrant classes in every single Ombudsman's report since then.  Including several where they report that family based visas had an RFE rate of 50-67%  
 
In fact, if you search through the following documents for "RFE" 'Requests for Evidence' or "Request for evidence" it becomes very clear that this is a serious problem that they've been very much aware of for years. Despite a "focus" on fixing the RFE problem, and various programs to attempt to fix the issues, here we still sit, 7 years (almost 8!) later, with similar problems which shows that they did not fix the problem at all.  
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

I will be reading the reports from prior to 2006 later today if I get a chance. I can also pull more of the RFE information in the reports listed above tonight for those who want it.

 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 13:36:00
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Yes, I got the letter in the mail a day after I returned from Jamaica. It was for our marriage certificate and my birth certificate (that they f'ing lost). My husband fed-exed me his copy right away and Texas received it on Jan. 3rd. I called NCSC and they told me to wait another 60 days. Total BS! I'm so pissed I don't what to do. Got it December 24th and it said I have 87 days to respond

Send a message to the Ombudsman with your case information, including the date that you were transferred to Texas and mention the supplemental letter that states you will get an answer within 60 days. Then give the details of your RFE. Date, items they were missing, etc. Tell them that you sent those in with your original file and are disturbed that your vital information has been lost, if this RFE was sent because they lost something. Tell them, now the USCIS has an additional 60 days to process your case, which is a completely unacceptable delay, especially since you sent this information to them in your original package.  

 

We know that this is not a new tactic. Hopefully, the people in the Ombudsman's office are aware of what the service centers were doing in 2006. (Basically, this.) If you want to add a quote from the Ombudsman's report from 2006 and state that you believe that they may be doing this again, I can provide you with that information.  


Yes, I got the letter in the mail a day after I returned from Jamaica. It was for our marriage certificate and my birth certificate (that they f'ing lost). My husband fed-exed me his copy right away and Texas received it on Jan. 3rd. I called NCSC and they told me to wait another 60 days. Total BS! I'm so pissed I don't what to do. Got it December 24th and it said I have 87 days to respond

What date was your RFE? (I'm updating the spreadsheet.)


I wonder if we should start a spreadsheet detailing the RFE rates for the different service centers. Or maybe we could add a formula to the existing ones to figure that out. 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 13:17:00
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Gafl, have you attempted to email the service center or open a service request as you are well past the 60 days mentioned in the transfer notice you got?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 12:28:00
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Post Decision Activity

On January 9, 2014, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I130 IMMIGRANT PETITION FOR RELATIVE, FIANCE(E), OR ORPHAN. Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service at 1-800-375-5283.

For approved applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include USCIS sending notification of the approved application/petition to the National Visa Center or the Department of State. For denied applications/petitions, post-decision activity may include the processing of an appeal and/or motions to reopen or reconsider and revocations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

PD:3/19/2013

transfer: 11/06/2013

approved 1/9/2014

 

 

Where were you transferred to?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 12:23:00
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Kedawn, have you gotten your RFE yet? What was it's date?


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-10 12:21:00
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I would, just to be safe, but the RFE should be enough, I would think.


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-09 09:39:00
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Either that, or they decided to stop doing it because they realized that we were talking to each other and that they were about to get a flood of emails. Which, I mean, they should get, because they're not doing what they said they would. 

 

 


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-08 22:20:00
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Ok, so. Try getting a service request, and also send an email to their HQ. Quote the transfer notice details along with the fact that you are still waiting beyond 60 days, and have not gotten any kind of answers from the Service center, who wants you to have a service request first. (Which is unacceptable, and just takes their processing time out to 90 days instead of the 60 you were told.) If you can't get a service request based on the Priority date in the system, you can also tell them that you're unable to open a service request, despite the letter that you have because of the processing dates. I would copy the Ombudsman on all this. Also your Congressperson and Senators if you've contacted them in the past. If you haven't yet done so, I seriously suggest doing it now.

 

(I do remember vaguely what's going on with your case, but it's like 2am here, and I'm brain-fried. I should be more coherent after some sleep.)

 

*hugs*


KaylaraFemaleNetherlands2014-01-08 01:54:00