How long did it take your case to get to the NVC?

[JVF 0]

omg things are getting "funnier" every time I speak to someone at USCIS. I just spoke to another immigration officer at USCIS (wanted to find our why my case was transferred to NY). Her response was "what? who told you that?. That's not true. We put a request to VCS and you need to wait 30 days before calling us. And, if they (vsc) don't answer within 30 days we will give you their email address and you email them yourself and wait 30 days for the answer". Wooow. What are mess... Why me?

[JVF 0]

Here is what I just received from USCIS. What should I do? This is ridicules.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

VERMONT SERVICE CENTER

75 LOWER WELDEN STREET

SAINT ALBANS,VT 05479

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Emailed to XXXX

Dear XXXX

On 07/13/2010 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:

-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:

-- Information not available

Case type:

-- I129F

Filing date:

-- 04/29/2010

Receipt #:

-- EAC-XXXX

Referral ID:

ETCXXXX

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):

-- XXX

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):

-- XXXX

Type of service requested:

-- Other

The status of this service request is:

After review of your file and a thorough search of our records, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is unable to locate your petition. Our records indicate that we approved your petition on June 30, 2010, and forwarded it to the National Visa Center for consular processing. You must file a duplicate petition or application in order to reconstruct your case. Please comply with the following instructions.

1. Submit either a copy of your prior petition with an ORIGINAL INK signature or submit a newly completed application/petition with an original ink signature on it.

2. Write the words "DUPLICATE PETITION" in bold red letters at the top of the petition and on the envelope that it is mailed in.

3. Attach proof of the original filing date. This may include a copy of your fee receipt or a copy of the front and back of your canceled check.

4. Submit copies of all supporting documents that established the relationship between the petitioner and beneficiary (at the discretion of the adjudicating officer, original documents may still be required in individual cases.)

5. Submit copies of prior notices or correspondence from USCIS.

6. Submit a formal letter from the Embassy or Consulate and one from the following, Transitional Immigrant Visa Processing Center (TIVPC), National Visa Center (NVC) or Department of State, in relation to this case.

7. Submit a sworn affidavit by the petitioner setting forth the facts of the original filing of the petition.

8. Include any photos that may be required for the filing.

9. Attach this letter to the top of your submission and submit to:

DO NOT OPEN IN THE MAILROOM DUPLICATE ENCLOSED

ATTN: AG4 AA0404

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services

Vermont Service Center

75 Lower Welden Street

St Albans VT 05479

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must submit Form AR-11 AND notify this office of their change of address, within 10 days from when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). To notify this office of a move, visit our website at: www.uscis.gov or call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283. The Form AR-11 can be downloaded from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. Instructions for filing the Form AR-11, including mailing instructions, are included on the Form.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

[Dodi 69]

You're right. This IS ridiculous. Contact your Congressman about this. Provide a copy of the letter. Explain what happened and how long you've waited, how many BAD answers you've been given. Have him or her DEMAND better help and expedition of the duplicated case. You paid the USCIS for a service and they haven't delivered. Complain until you get service.

I'm sorry, I wish I could provide better answers. You DID make a complete copy of your packet before you sent it, right? So you can reconstruct everything?

[JVF 0]

Thank you Dodi, but my congressman or senators office are no help. They are telling me exactly what USCIS tells me to do. I even find information quicker then they are.

[Dodi 69]

I'm so sorry. I really wish there were another way to go about it. Would you like some help putting a new packet together? I'll gladly offer my time to help if it will get it done quickly for you. I'm really good with organizing files (years as a paralegal make you a bit OCD about it).

PM me if you want help, honestly. I feel so bad for you. This could just as easily have been any of us. Sheesh, now I'm crying and it's not even my case. This is just awful.

[JVF 0]

Dodi, you such a sweetheart. Now you are making me cry and not because of my case, but because amazing people like you exist on this crazy planet. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Before I reconstruct my file, I am going to wait another week or so.

[Dodi 69]

No need for thanks, honestly. I just wish there were more that the rest of us VJ'ers could do to help. We're all going through this and it's so easy to look at people in awful situations like yours and say, 'Phew.... glad it's not me.' But how does that make you feel? It could so easily have BEEN me, or any of us. Right now I'm lucky and everything is moving along swiftly, but they could drop my case in the bin tomorrow by mistake, or spill their afternoon tea on it and claim it was damaged in shipping. It's a bureaucracy. There's no telling what they'll do.

I've got spare classification folders, printable tabs, and astrobrights at the ready if you decide you'd like some help. Just say the word!

[JVF 0]

It's ok I will survive. It could have been worse. I will wait another week or so and if there is still nothing from NVC I will reconstruct my petition. Getting original signature from my fiancee will be time consuming Hopefully it does not take long for USCIS to process it once they receive it.

[Dodi 69]

I didn't have his original signature on anything. We used a scanned copy of his letter of intent, it wasn't notarized, just signed, and attached a copy of his info page from his passport. My attorney advised me to sign his G-325a with his permission, but others have said they didn't have it signed and were approved. You had an original signature on the one you sent in, so send a COPY of it, just to prove you had her signature and were putting the duplicate together with as much haste as possible.

[JVF 0]

Good thing I made copy of everything I sent, but I still need to include her passport size photos

[Dodi 69]

Can she get access to a good quality scanner and scan them to you? A good photo-printer on quality paper might be doable if it's scaled and cut to size.

[JVF 0]

Here yes, there I doubt it. She will send it to me via regular mail. I decided to wait for a miracle another week anyway.

I just received another email from USCIS. In this email they don't ask to resend them duplicated petition, go figure. I called NVC still nothing

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

VERMONT SERVICE CENTER

75 LOWER WELDEN STREET

SAINT ALBANS,VT 05479

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Emailed to XXXX

Dear XXX:

On 07/26/2010 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:

-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:

-- Information not available

Case type:

-- I129F

Filing date:

-- 04/29/2010

Receipt #:

-- EAC-XXX

Referral ID:

XXX

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):

-- Information not available

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):

-- XXX

Type of service requested:

-- Non-Delivery of Approval Notice

The status of this service request is:

A review of our computer system shows that your petition was approved on June 30, 2010 and an approval notice was mailed to you (or your attorney or representative, if so represented).

We no longer have this petition as it was sent to the National Visa Center (NVC). Please direct future inquiries to the address below.

National Visa Center

31 Rochester Avenue

Portsmouth, NH 03801-2909

Phone: 603-334-0700

You may also obtain information on visa availability by calling the State Department at 202-663-1541. You may obtain general visa information by calling the State Department at 202-663-1225.

Please allow a couple of more weeks before you contact the National Visa Center, in order to give them time to enter the petition into their computer system.

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must submit Form AR-11 AND notify this office of their change of address, within 10 days from when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). To notify this office of a move, visit our website at: www.uscis.gov or call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283. The Form AR-11 can be downloaded from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. Instructions for filing the Form AR-11, including mailing instructions, are included on the Form.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

[cranehand 0]

WOW!!!!!!!!!! i am amazed at how calm you are buddy. i truly feel 4 you. can you say

immigration reform. this is absolutly crazy. and we pay them for this

Man im praying for you and i hope you get it sorted soon.

D and A

[JVF 0]

WOW!!!!!!!!!! i am amazed at how calm you are buddy. i truly feel 4 you. can you say

immigration reform. this is absolutly crazy. and we pay them for this

Man im praying for you and i hope you get it sorted soon.

D and A

Thank you my friend. You are good man. I have no choice but to stay calm. Like we say in Russia "Hope dies last" Good luck on your interview. Let me know how it goes.

[jojykhan 0]

As my case was approved the same day and i have contacted the senator as well but still no answer... Question remains what do we do as this seems its not common how do we get it to visa center... This is causing alot of stress for me and my finace i am like running to uscis office to try to get an answer there must be something one can do

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Here yes, there I doubt it. She will send it to me via regular mail. I decided to wait for a miracle another week anyway.

I just received another email from USCIS. In this email they don't ask to resend them duplicated petition, go figure. I called NVC still nothing

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

VERMONT SERVICE CENTER

75 LOWER WELDEN STREET

SAINT ALBANS,VT 05479

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Emailed to XXXX

Dear XXX:

On 07/26/2010 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:

-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:

-- Information not available

Case type:

-- I129F

Filing date:

-- 04/29/2010

Receipt #:

-- EAC-XXX

Referral ID:

XXX

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):

-- Information not available

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):

-- XXX

Type of service requested:

-- Non-Delivery of Approval Notice

The status of this service request is:

A review of our computer system shows that your petition was approved on June 30, 2010 and an approval notice was mailed to you (or your attorney or representative, if so represented).

We no longer have this petition as it was sent to the National Visa Center (NVC). Please direct future inquiries to the address below.

National Visa Center

31 Rochester Avenue

Portsmouth, NH 03801-2909

Phone: 603-334-0700

You may also obtain information on visa availability by calling the State Department at 202-663-1541. You may obtain general visa information by calling the State Department at 202-663-1225.

Please allow a couple of more weeks before you contact the National Visa Center, in order to give them time to enter the petition into their computer system.

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must submit Form AR-11 AND notify this office of their change of address, within 10 days from when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). To notify this office of a move, visit our website at: www.uscis.gov or call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283. The Form AR-11 can be downloaded from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. Instructions for filing the Form AR-11, including mailing instructions, are included on the Form.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services