five months and STILL the cheque isn't cashed

[whistlegirl 0]

Hi,

I'm brand new to this forum, but wanted to see if anybody has any feedback (and happy thoughts!) on my situation. I'm from Canada, and my fiance is American. We sent in our application May 7, and STILL the cheque has not been cashed and we have no case number. Much less anything else. My fiance did get notification (from US Postal Service) that the package was received. This is becoming more and more worrisome to me - anyone have any words of wisdom?

thanks in advance,

whistlegirl

[Dan J 277]

Hi,

I'm brand new to this forum, but wanted to see if anybody has any feedback (and happy thoughts!) on my situation. I'm from Canada, and my fiance is American. We sent in our application May 7, and STILL the cheque has not been cashed and we have no case number. Much less anything else. My fiance did get notification (from US Postal Service) that the package was received. This is becoming more and more worrisome to me - anyone have any words of wisdom?

thanks in advance,

whistlegirl

You need to have your fiance call the service center and see if they can track down what happened to the case. At this point its possible it may need to be resent.

[MR2nice 0]

Seems like it's lost. There's no way it takes that long and not cash the check. Have your fiance call them.

[chris4gretchen 1]

i agree. something is wrong if they havent chashed the check after 5 months.

Chris

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Your patience is amazing btw....I can´t imagine waiting this long just to see if they check the cash or not...Definately give them a call and wish you good luck so it gets resolved fast

[MissStacey 1]

5 months is definitely an extreme amount of time not to cash the cheque. I sent in my AOS right before the price increase,and it took them 5 weeks to cash the cheque- I thought that was quite a long period of time compared to how long it took them to cash the cheques for our I 130 and out I 824.

I would consider canceling that cheque and resubmitting a new package.

[MissStacey 1]

Also- you being in Calgary will mean that your case will go to Vancouver. The Vancouver Consulate is much quicker than Montreal with getting in for an Interview.

At least you have some good news there.

[Jasman0717 9]

I would say you have a problem. You should try to contact the service center first and if that doesn't work the contact your elected representative. Was the package sent registered or certified?

[*Maureen* 0]

i would definately call! 5 months is absolutely too long! I hope this gets resolved for you.

[*julez* 124]

I agree that a phone call should be made. I would also add that if they have, in fact, lost the petition, that you send them a copy of the signed proof that the TSC received the petition and lost. If you can do that, its likely that they will expedite your replacement petition, if a replacement is necessary! If they give you a hard time, do not hesitate to get yout fiance's congressperson involved. They should be able to help in getting an expedite if it comes to that.

Good luck!

[whistlegirl 0]

Thanks everyone, for your advice and support.

It's been an interesting week. My fiance did make some calls, and it turns out, our application was very likely lost. Of course, they don't actually say "lost", they tell him that they have been "experiencing some glitches" with the transfer of the system. Apparently they're now working with an outside service provider to help reduce the backlog, and as we know, have 'streamlined' the service centres that are now dealing with the K-1 visa. Since we sent our application to the Texas centre back in May, and now our area is the Vermont centre, I'm thinking that our application might be somewhere around Nebraska?

Anyhow, the supervisor that he spoke to will be sending him a letter acknowledging this 'glitch', and for the system to indicate that it's ok if we have two applications in process at once - just in case they find the old application. No word yet on whether she can expedite the process now that we've been waiting six months (on their error). Nor anything on whether we will be grandfathered in under the old fee, or if we'll have to pay the difference, or just cancel the old cheque and pay the new fee.

Once again, lots of hurry up and wait! Oh well, at least contact has been made.

[dianepc 0]

Thanks everyone, for your advice and support.

It's been an interesting week. My fiance did make some calls, and it turns out, our application was very likely lost. Of course, they don't actually say "lost", they tell him that they have been "experiencing some glitches" with the transfer of the system. Apparently they're now working with an outside service provider to help reduce the backlog, and as we know, have 'streamlined' the service centres that are now dealing with the K-1 visa. Since we sent our application to the Texas centre back in May, and now our area is the Vermont centre, I'm thinking that our application might be somewhere around Nebraska?

Anyhow, the supervisor that he spoke to will be sending him a letter acknowledging this 'glitch', and for the system to indicate that it's ok if we have two applications in process at once - just in case they find the old application. No word yet on whether she can expedite the process now that we've been waiting six months (on their error). Nor anything on whether we will be grandfathered in under the old fee, or if we'll have to pay the difference, or just cancel the old cheque and pay the new fee.

Once again, lots of hurry up and wait! Oh well, at least contact has been made.

Just glitches for explaination for 5 months suffering wait? its really not responsible to say this by taking our huge tax every year!!! The hardness for the visa is insane...:(

[SusieK 3]

Thanks everyone, for your advice and support.

It's been an interesting week. My fiance did make some calls, and it turns out, our application was very likely lost. Of course, they don't actually say "lost", they tell him that they have been "experiencing some glitches" with the transfer of the system. Apparently they're now working with an outside service provider to help reduce the backlog, and as we know, have 'streamlined' the service centres that are now dealing with the K-1 visa. Since we sent our application to the Texas centre back in May, and now our area is the Vermont centre, I'm thinking that our application might be somewhere around Nebraska?

Anyhow, the supervisor that he spoke to will be sending him a letter acknowledging this 'glitch', and for the system to indicate that it's ok if we have two applications in process at once - just in case they find the old application. No word yet on whether she can expedite the process now that we've been waiting six months (on their error). Nor anything on whether we will be grandfathered in under the old fee, or if we'll have to pay the difference, or just cancel the old cheque and pay the new fee.

Once again, lots of hurry up and wait! Oh well, at least contact has been made.

Just glitches for explaination for 5 months suffering wait? its really not responsible to say this by taking our huge tax every year!!! The hardness for the visa is insane...:(

what can I say but BS - call them, and send pod (proof of delivery with second app - )

Gl and wish I had your patience, I am on three months no word, nada...but that would be normal at this point . The thing that I notice is that your application was filed wayyyyyyyyyyy before July bombardment. Send new file hun and gl

xxxx