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USCIS Service CentersReturning your Green Card because of USCIS error. Form i90

Today went to the infopass appointment where I stamped my passport for another year. the IO mention that C21 is no where mentioned in the system and even if I didn't file to correct the problem I would never had a problem later. And the fact that C21 is not mentioned in the system makes this case an unusual one for USCIS IOs and confusing. He agreed that what I'm doing is the right thing, at least from moral perspective, but wasn't necessary. 
 
Anyway, he gave another year in my passport and hand-wrote the category as C21 but mentioned that he can't change that in the system, only the service center supervisor can. Was bizarre to him that USCIS might have lost my original GC. 
 
Also today the online status changed from Case Reopened to Request for Evidence Response Review. They received my response on Sept 30 and they only opened the envelope today...




cat21Not TellingPhilippines2014-10-14 16:01:00
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Im definitely in, TSC screwed up our first petition and accidentally Denied it after 7 months of waiting, and they didn't want it fixed due to their error, instead they just suggested for me to Reapply. Now im waiting om my 2 petition to be approved and we are almost at 5 months now, I lost hope that me and my fiance will ever be together. We are waiting for soooo long, 7 months first pettitpetition and now 5 months the second one and its all TSC fault. This is sooo Ridiculous I have no words for them!!!
hakobrenaFemaleArmenia2014-07-21 08:03:00
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Im the beneficiary. Can I do sth? I kniw that my fiancee the petitioner will not do anything, cause he really doesnt care when we get our NOA2.
ashleyphillyFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 00:24:00
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hello sweetswinks,

I'd like to state in response to you comment to JessicaUK about 1-130's been more important. If i am not wrong, that is your position because you disagree with JessicaUK on her statement that they are "no more important than 129f".

I have not seen or heard of any political law (i'm referring to the constitution) that states that "a marriage should not be separated for 2-3 times as long as an engaged couple."

It may sound plausible but unfortunately, it is not true!

However, the 14th amendment of the U.S. constitution allows citizens equal rights and protection of the law. That means we should get the same treatment under the law.

My mum waited 7 yrs before she could join my dad who is a U.S. citizen.

So unless, there is a special circumstance, no immigration procedure is more important than the other.

Are you gonna include the processing times and data for I130's and I1485's to speed those up too? seeing as no immigration procedure is more important than the other.
 


sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 12:12:00
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Actually, hard numbers do not paint a convincing picture than images.

As a geographic information science major, I'd like to say that a picture does speak volumes.

Your intended audience may not have the entire day or the time to go through your "numbers" to get your point. Usually, you try as much as possible to catch his or her attention is a couple of seconds so that you don't lose his interest. This man has an important job and I suppose he has a lot on his plate so  we want him to actually take a good look not just a look at our petition to him.

Also, graphs showing PERCENT of work pending and completed are the most effective representation here.

For example,

In November 2013,

of the 3890 pending petitions, TSC completed 2204. That may seem like a heck of work, kudos to TSC! but in actual sense, that number represents only ~ 57%. quite a change, huh? Our shock value is May 2014 which has 5% completion rate (564 out of 11342).

I was giving feedback as someone who works in a state government office and liaises with federal government and news media outlets daily. I see what you are saying regarding percentages, but government officials always ask for numbers as the basis of an argument.


sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 11:47:00
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This is a really good idea!! I'm all for it, and  I also have a suggestion to add. The data, clearly shows the discrepancy between TSC and CSC but I also think it might be a good idea to work with some of the data just for TSC or USCIS overall. 

 

It's clear that TSC is focusing more towards I-130 applications. I did some rough statistics, they're completing them at a rate of around 30% per month. I also looked at I-485 applications, which sounds more complicated and even there they're completing them at at rate of around 16% p/mnth. 

 

So why are I-129F applications at TSC only being completed at a rate of around 6% p/mnth?? or even less as the months go on!

 

I-130 applications or I-485 applications are no more important than ours, we should all be equal in this process. Shouldn't TSC be processing every application at the same rate no matter how many applications there are? This backward and forward process of focusing on I-130s, then I-129Fs is just a vicious circle. 

Considering I-130's are for alien relatives and they're having to wait 18 months to be with their husbands or wives, I would like to disagree with your statement that they are no more important that I-129f's. I believe a husband and wife say their vows with the right to not be separated. For those who choose either path, they are aware of what is best for them and their situation, but a marriage should not be separated for 2-3 times as long as an engaged couple.


sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 11:37:00
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OK edited and updated

Some feedback; 

When liaising with a government body you should really use data with numbers, and not graphs that round numbers up or down. You want real data and hard numbers to really get the point across. I also feel as though the graphs located on USCIS website is good as any to use so i'm not sure why you wanted to make another one in a word doc? 

If you want a solid graph, combine both TSC and CSC into one graph with individual bars, and display the numbers from all the data provided, which includes "pending, "completions", "received", "awaiting customer feedback". The reason I say this is that representing government data isn't child's play when disputing these types of things.




Edited by sweetswinks, 21 July 2014 - 11:15 AM.

sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 11:15:00
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YashRadz,

I will try with your data

 

 

Can we do both??

He may not open an email or read our letter but we get at least 2 chances to reach him.

 

Is Donald Neufeld  on twitter?

 

 

 

Check out my previous post. Since TSC started receiving petitions consistently from Jun 2013 onwards, I started there. I left out the "awaiting customer action" and "receipts" columns. 


Hi there,

I've been tracking this data for a few months now and supplying this to the forums: 

Attached File  TSC vs CSC.JPG   60.29KB   0 downloads



 









sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 10:50:00
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I think the best way is to contact huge newspapers like the NYT and first state the issue framing it as unequal treatment. Texas citizens are being treated differently on a federal level than those in California for example. It's the kind of thing that would stir outrage and sell newspapers. It's a win win.


daviddelenNot TellingPhilippines2014-07-21 11:25:00
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Here are the graphs let me know what you guys think.

Looks great! (I mean not so great in terms of the stats, but great as a document :/ ) 


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 10:57:00
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signed :)


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 10:52:00
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Somebody mailed Donald Neufeld on another topic and his reply was this: I'm quoting from his post:

 

Dear Sir,

 

I assure you there is no malfeasance behind the processing time differences at our Service Centers.  However, information on how to report USCIS misconduct is available here.

 

Our goal is to provide consistent processing times across all our facilities.  However, in processing over 4 million cases annually at all four centers there are numerous factors that can impact our ability to deliver on that goal.  Unfortunately, the Texas Service Center (TSC) has developed a small backlog in handling I-129F fiancé petitions.  We are aware of this and are working diligently to address the delay.  If the petition filed on your behalf has been pending longer than the posted TSC processing time, the petitioner may submit an e-request.  Information on e-requests and other case status information is available here.

 

Sincerely,

 

Donald Neufeld


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 10:49:00
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Similar petitions have been tried in the past and have never reached the threshold to make anything happen. I personally think a letter to the individuals in charge from each and every one would have a greater impact.

 

But of course, you're welcome to start another petition and I'll be glad to sign.

 

You're probably right, :( These petitions need thousands of people to sign to make a change in a govermental place, but I didn't think we couldn't find that much on VJ. 

 

I'd gladly send a letter. I've seen on January TSC topic that someone sent an e-mail to the director of TSC and got a reply next day. Maybe we can do that if we can find his address instead of e-mail?


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 10:09:00
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Hey everyone,

Do you think we could use something like this??

 

http://www.change.or...online-petition


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 10:03:00
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I'm in, too! Let us know what to do!


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 07:52:00
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Check out this graph

Attached Files

  • Attached File  TSC.doc   80.5KB   20 downloads

Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 12:12:00
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Look at this


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 12:03:00
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I was giving feedback as someone who works in a state government office and liaises with federal government and news media outlets daily. I see what you are saying regarding percentages, but government officials always ask for numbers as the basis of an argument.

 

You are right

The data and graph should and will be included in the submission.


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 11:58:00
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Considering I-130's are for alien relatives and they're having to wait 18 months to be with their husbands or wives, I would like to disagree with your statement that they are no more important that I-129f's. I believe a husband and wife say their vows with the right to not be separated. For those who choose either path, they are aware of what is best for them and their situation, but a marriage should not be separated for 2-3 times as long as an engaged couple.

 

hello sweetswinks,

I'd like to state in response to you comment to JessicaUK about 1-130's been more important. If i am not wrong, that is your position because you disagree with JessicaUK on her statement that they are "no more important than 129f".

I have not seen or heard of any political law (i'm referring to the constitution) that states that "a marriage should not be separated for 2-3 times as long as an engaged couple."

It may sound plausible but unfortunately, it is not true!

However, the 14th amendment of the U.S. constitution allows citizens equal rights and protection of the law. That means we should get the same treatment under the law.

My mum waited 7 yrs before she could join my dad who is a U.S. citizen.

So unless, there is a special circumstance, no immigration procedure is more important than the other.


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 11:55:00
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Some feedback; 

When liaising with a government body you should really use data with numbers, and not graphs that round numbers up or down. You want real data and hard numbers to really get the point across. I also feel as though the graphs located on USCIS website is good as any to use so i'm not sure why you wanted to make another one in a word doc? 

If you want a solid graph, combine both TSC and CSC into one graph with individual bars, and display the numbers from all the data provided, which includes "pending, "completions", "received", "awaiting customer feedback". The reason I say this is that representing government data isn't child's play when disputing these types of things.



 

 

Actually, hard numbers do not paint a convincing picture than images.

As a geographic information science major, I'd like to say that a picture does speak volumes.

Your intended audience may not have the entire day or the time to go through your "numbers" to get your point. Usually, you try as much as possible to catch his or her attention is a couple of seconds so that you don't lose his interest. This man has an important job and I suppose he has a lot on his plate so  we want him to actually take a good look not just a look at our petition to him.

Also, graphs showing PERCENT of work pending and completed are the most effective representation here.

For example,

In November 2013,

of the 3890 pending petitions, TSC completed 2204. That may seem like a heck of work, kudos to TSC! but in actual sense, that number represents only ~ 57%. quite a change, huh? Our shock value is May 2014 which has 5% completion rate (564 out of 11342).


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 11:39:00
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Help!

how do i share the the graph here??


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 11:21:00
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where is the data for July 2013??


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:55:00
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YashRadz,

I will try with your data

 

 

Can we do both??

He may not open an email or read our letter but we get at least 2 chances to reach him.

 

Is Donald Neufeld  on twitter?


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:45:00
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So guys, i wanted to do the excel graph but there's a problem.

I downloaded the raw data from  the dashboard and things look like Texas barely gets any petitions.

In Feb, when it shows only 14  petitions, Texas completed 13 of them making it ~93% completion.

 

All Other Pending  Awaiting customer action  Completions  Receipts  Month & Year 2 0 0 0  Jun12   2 0 0 0  Jul12   2 0 0 0  Aug12   0 0 0 0  Sep12   0 0 0 0  Oct12   0 0 0 0  Nov12   18 0 0 0  Dec12   25 0 0 0  Jan13   14 0 13 0  Feb13   17 0 0 0  Mar13   18 0 5 0  Apr13   13 0 3 0  May13   23 0 0 0  Jun13   20 0 3 0  Jul13   24 0 1 0  Aug13   21 0 3 0  Sep13   15 0 6 0  Oct13   12 0 3 0  Nov13   13 0 3 0  Dec13   14 0 1 0  Jan14   12 0 2 0  Feb14   12 0 1 0  Mar14   11 0 1 0  Apr14   11 0 0 0  May14  

 

 

 

 

Does anybody have a different data out there??


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:41:00
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Guys,

Donald Neufeld is the guy to reach.

It says on his profile that  "Neufeld oversees all activities at the four USCIS service centers located in Dallas; Laguna Nigel, Calif.; Lincoln, Neb.; and Burlington, Vt."

 

and this is his address

 

Peter Rodino Federal Building 970 Broad St

Newark, New Jersey 07102


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:30:00
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Donald Neufeld is the associate director
This is the address i found for him

Peter Rodino Federal Building 970 Broad St
Newark, New Jersey 07102

I think another letter to Rick Perry would do since this would immigration issue is more political than anything else for them. Perry could do some "pushing".






Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:20:00
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https://www.change.o...-129f-petitions
Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 10:10:00
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Finding any speech by a Texas politician that might seem favorable to us would be a great addition.
I will look around to find one.

Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 09:40:00
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I am on board.
Could you add something about the current immigration issue.This important point to note is " people are trying to come here the right way."

Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 09:36:00
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Based on the progress of I-129F petitions approved at TSC as seen on the website (http://dashboard.uscis.gov/) as well as the attached image below, it seems TSC is slowing down their approvals likely as a trade off with something more "necessary" to them such as I-130s due to the media hype and news coverage. 

 

Only 564 I-129F petitions were approved in May 2014! 

 

We should all (petitioners from Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, and Jul) come together to bring attention to this lag. I'm sure TSC is aware of the situation, but without any transparency or accountability of the situation, they will churn them out at the rate they feel like. 

 

Yes, it may be only a "few" months delay in the grand scheme of things, but even those few months are precious with my fiance. And if you feel the same way, I think we should:

 

1) Write a letter and each of us send a copy to the director or other high ranking official at USCIS

2) Media attention on the subject just like how the I-130s had not too long ago

 

So, please let us try to do this not only for us, but those future filers as well!

 

 

 

DACA renewals, man.  DACA renewals.

 

Gotta give the illegals priority, same as before.


Avery CatesMaleUnited Kingdom2014-07-21 17:22:00
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As someone who has endured both processes for K1 and CR-1, I'll add my two cents.

 

5 months (if you've been waiting longer, this does not apply to you) is a reasonable amount of time to wait for your petition to be approved. Anything beyond that is too long, I agree since we were approved at 5 months for the I-129F and over 6 months for the I-130. The reason there is media and news coverage for the I-130s is because of the efforts of people on this forum coordinating together and sending faxes, emails, and calling politicians all at ONCE. They contacted newspapers, news stations, and anyone that would listen. If this is your goal to achieve equality for your cases to not exceed 5 months, then by all means go for it!

 

But let me explain the difference between the K1 and CR-1/IR-1. Since our backlog was cleared at USCIS, this created a huge backlog at NVC. Your cases are only in NVC for a short amount of time to receive a case number and ship it off to the embassy for the applicant to take their documents and schedule the interview themselves, correct? (It's been a while since we did this, so forgive me if I'm hazy on the process now). The CR-1/IR-1s, however, have our documentation reviewed at the NVC (after we send it to them) for processing and they assign the interviews for us before shipping them off. This used to take about a month or two, so let's say 5 months at the USCIS and 2 months at NVC, plus maybe 2 more months til the interview = 8-9 months total. Right? That's if everything goes smoothly. There have been a massive amount of "checklists" for the silliest reasons and also a delay of being able to pay fees at the NVC level (y'all do this later once in the country for AOS). This delays the case by another month or two. So now those people are looking at 10-11 months at best.

 

Our case was filed Sept 13th and my husband won't be flying back til August 30th. That's almost a year of waiting, and we had it good since we didn't have any checklists and it only took us 6 months to get our I-130 approved, compared to others waiting 8-11 months!

 

I had no idea about the CR-1 process until I had to go through it. So just letting you guys know, it's not as if we go through the same process. We'll always have much more to wait than K1s. If you want equality, then I-130s should be approved in 2-3 months in order to accommodate an equal petition to interview timeline.


k.dlgNot TellingEngland2014-07-21 14:26:00
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Im the beneficiary. Can I do sth? I kniw that my fiancee the petitioner will not do anything, cause he really doesnt care when we get our NOA2.

 

If he doesn't care, shouldn't you two be talking about this?  How can he consider marrying someone he doesn't care about?


Mike-eeh and OdieNot TellingPhilippines2014-07-23 13:44:00
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Can we get some clarification on the address/email address? Thanks! :)


sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-24 06:58:00
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jfgk1987,

 

I did not say that immigration is a right.

Immigration is a privilege that is why after all the processes, one is  NOT GUARANTEED a visa! (sorry, if it comes off as screaming but i don't want you to miss that point.

However, the treatment that we get through this process is 'protected by law' under the 14th amendment. Likewise education is also a privilege but you can sue a school for denying you admission is you have everything right by the books.

 

Don't twist my statement around. i get offended when you fail to put my whole argument together to draw conclusions but rather, take a small phrase from a whole paragraph.

I am not saying that 129f is more important.

 

If you read from the whole argument i presented, the overall gist i want you to take from it is that I believe that all processes  (I-130, I-129f, etc) are equally important.

 

sweetswinks' statement upheld the importance of I-130 over I-129f

 

"no more important " here means is not more important or the statement before and after that phrase are both important.

 I am done!


For the record I did not say I-130's held importance over I-129f's, I said this;

Considering I-130's are for alien relatives and they're having to wait 18 months to be with their husbands or wives, I would like to disagree with your statement that they are no more important that I-129f's. I believe a husband and wife say their vows with the right to not be separated. For those who choose either path, they are aware of what is best for them and their situation, but a marriage should not be separated for 2-3 times as long as an engaged couple.

My point was that I believe that I-130's should not take 2 - 3 times as long as I-129f's because they should be equal in processing times.




Furthermore I would like to point out that the focus should be on the hard numbers of CSC vs TSC to get them to distribute petitions evenly through both service centers to get an equal time of adjudication.

sweetswinksFemaleAustralia2014-07-21 13:04:00
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I will gladly send a letter based on the draft in this posting.  Can someone please post the mailing and/or email address(s) where the letter should be sent?

 

Also, can someone tell me where I should send a letter to my congressmen/senator?  I'm in Houston, Texas.  Not sure where to find the addresses of the appropriate persons to write.  Thanks.


studioguitaristNot TellingMalaysia2014-07-21 15:38:00
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We know that Service Centers have had different processing times from time to time. Texas was actually the fastest one less than a year ago... I expect people had tried to fix this before, too, and tried sending letters etc. to equalize the difference. Have any one of them succeeded? What ways did they try? Maybe we should look into that and try to find a way that would actually work.. 


LilayFemaleTurkey2014-07-21 13:17:00
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Not sure how that's relevant, I have however heard of US History. Discrimination just has no argument here. You took a simple interpretation of workload imbalance and...I don't even know what you did with it, but you sure made it out to be something ridiculous. Just know that I have no ill will toward you, I'm just trying to figure out your logic.   

 

Involving an immigration lawyer doesn't always mean there's a discrimination. I don't think someone was discriminating against my family for 10 yrs but i do believe that if an immigration lawyer was involved, the process would have gone faster whether visa approved or denied.

If an immigration lawyer has no baring on a case, there wouldn't be that specialty.

 

With that been said, I hope someone (higher at USCIS) would pick a phone or send an email to get some lazy folks at the TSC to get to work cause they are getting paid for doing nothing.


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 13:21:00
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sweetswinks, I get your point now. We both want equal treatments. It took my family exactly 10 yrs to reunion so I get your point.

Thanks.


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 13:09:00
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(L)  (L) No hard feelings people  (L)  (L)

 

So back to the original purpose of this thread,

 

I didn't choose Texas, Texas chose me and now, my petition is sitting in a huge pile of backlogs collecting dust..Let's get this petition thing together to Mr. Neufeld.

Y'all have a great day and gig'em


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 13:03:00
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I guess you've never heard of an immigration lawyer.

 


Ayisi&PhyllisFemaleGhana2014-07-21 12:58:00