Asleep at The Vermont DIsservice Center

[dogspot 90]

classic!

[Richie Rich 70]

Come on Al --give us some new material Is the Long waiting getting to you now ?? Hang in there buddy --once u r aproved --I am next . Looking for yr approval --I hope it comes soon

[BenjAshley 7]

CSC are not on november 1st. Stop worrying about what this website says in regard to that. That date is an average and is on november because someone has abviously grabbed a feb box and so its mucked all the averages up.

Chill people. It will happen

[Al422 221]

Come on Al --give us some new material Is the Long waiting getting to you now ?? Hang in there buddy --once u r aproved --I am next . Looking for yr approval --I hope it comes soon

Didn't like my Star Trek episode?

As for the long wait, it got to me, oh, say 4 1/2 months ago.

[KiwiBird 132]

I'm sorry, but the whole thing about calling it the "Vermont Disservice Center" all the time.... it was funny and clever the first time, but anyone else just find it redundant at this point?

[Milushka 22]

I'm sorry, but the whole thing about calling it the "Vermont Disservice Center" all the time.... it was funny and clever the first time, but anyone else just find it redundant at this point?

Maybe yes or maybe its actual as never before since its more than a month since you received your NOA 2 , dear KiwiBird, from CSC and me still not from VSC. We have the same timelines. You see ...

[Al422 221]

I'm sorry, but the whole thing about calling it the "Vermont Disservice Center" all the time.... it was funny and clever the first time, but anyone else just find it redundant at this point?

Why should I call it a "Service Center"? Did I get any service from them? Like the one I paid for over five months ago? No! All I got from them was a disservice, holding my life up for over five months.

So you see, this is truth in advertising. I call it what it is, a disservice center.

[TBoneTX 45,090]

Friend Al & others, your pain is felt. It truly is. In my petition's day (see timeline), the CSC was slothful while the VSC was whipping approvals out verrrry fast. I was going just about as bananas as you, and it was only through the graces of a kindly IO with whom I was lucky enough to connect (on "Tier 2," if you will) that my petition was removed from a transit station where it had been sitting for who knows how long and was sent to the next place along. When I reached that IO by phone, I remember blurting out, "You're an actual immigration officer, and not one of those screeners? Oh, I'm so happy to be talking with you -- I KNOW that YOU can help me!" I explained that I had filed 6 months ago to the day, and that other petitions filed after mine were already being approved, and "can you please send an e-mail to the processing floor and ask someone dependable to carry my file to the next stop?" After a few days' further delay while my petition was going through "secondary checks" (either for cause or for routine auditing quota), my NOA2 came --after just longer than 6 months.

During that time of waiting -- in fact, starting at the two-month mark -- I cursed USCIS, as loudly as you do now... and I posted my thoughts in strong language on VJ. To this day, whenever any other organization or business has the same "on-hold" music as does USCIS, I still feel my heart and breathing rates increase in the "freeze, fight, or flee" response. To THIS day.

Little did I know that the petition phase would be the easy part to that point. I and my contemporaries were blindsided by unspeakable treatment from the accursed, immoral, #######, Devil-designed and Lucifer-operated Guayaquil consulate. For just a smidgen of that (the full truth would have been completely censored from VJ), read the pre-2010 pages of the "US Consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador" thread in the Embassy/Consulate forum, and make a point of reading the embassy review by PDXBicycleBoy, who got hosed even worse than the rest of us were. Several of us remain so off-pissed, to this day years later, that we still can't bring ourselves to write our embassy reviews of that ####### hellhole, or to file the "after-visa complaints" with the Department of State, as two immigration attorneys with consular experience recommended separately.

My petition-phase and consular experiences are why I leave my detailed "signature" below my posts for all to read.

My wife's AOS process went so swimmingly that I found it a distinct, blessed pleasure to deal with USCIS again. Imagine that! I still find that realization hard to accept.

Very shortly before applying for ROC, we sent the AR-11 and I-865 forms for change of address. The USCIS offices that processed those papers did so very efficiently, and sent prompt acknowledgments.

People in my state now send stuff to the VSC (previously, it was to the CSC) to be dealt with. I've been very pleased with the initial efficiency of our ROC process. The VSC even sent us a surprise reminder letter (to our new address) that it would soon be time to apply for ROC. My understanding was that the Centers didn't send such letters and that it was completely up to us to remember the importance and timing of ROC. I was neither displeased nor unimpressed to realize otherwise. The biometrics letter came within days of the NOA1, which came within a week of our ROC submission, and the biometrics appointment was quick and professional.

During my dark days in I-129F petition limbo, my congressman's aide freely told me, "USCIS is our very worst (Federal agency)." He added that so many petitions come in that the CSC & VSC warehouses operate with forklifts to move the pallets of boxes. With the benefit of hindsight, I'm amazed that my one petition (or anyone else's) could be located or tracked, let alone be processed on any kind of general timeframe at all. Yes, things most certainly have to change; but no, I'm not convinced that USCIS is out to get us or hurt us or hose us or blithely dismiss & disregard us. Each citizen in the petition phase is but one bite of an extremely enormous elephant.

Al, the point of this is to suggest that you may not know what's coming next. Regardless, it appears (from firsthand reports over time, and current trends) that you will be dealing with a very reasonable embassy. (Caveat: your experience could differ if embassy personnel turn over or internal policies change, as they can without warning, and as they apparently did in Guayaquil.) Although I loathed and cursed USCIS at first, I was reacting out of the other side of my mouth later. We never know what's going to happen. I hope that this petition limbo is the hardest part of your journey, but realistically one can never say.

Edited March 8, 2011 by TBoneTX

[KiwiBird 132]

Don't worry, Al, you'll get your service. You just have to wait for it like everyone else in this process.

If all they ever do is cause you this huge 'disservice', they would never process your petition and never get her over here to the US.