U.S. Senator's Help

[TominWV 0]

Hi,

I am looking at all these posting about huge delays and working on ideas to speed up my wife's application. I have contacted my U.S. Senator's offices and am trying to get them to help get my file noticed, and possibly get my I-797 Notice of Action sent. I mailed in the I-130 Nov. 3, 2007 and am waiting on a the intial receipt.

Has anyone attempted this. If so any success or suggestions?

I have also posted a question about the fact that my wife is expecting our baby in June. Any ideas of getting any special considerations from the service centers on this are welcomed!

Thank you

[SusieK 3]

Hi,

I am looking at all these posting about huge delays and working on ideas to speed up my wife's application. I have contacted my U.S. Senator's offices and am trying to get them to help get my file noticed, and possibly get my I-797 Notice of Action sent. I mailed in the I-130 Nov. 3, 2007 and am waiting on a the intial receipt.

Has anyone attempted this. If so any success or suggestions?

I have also posted a question about the fact that my wife is expecting our baby in June. Any ideas of getting any special considerations from the service centers on this are welcomed!

Thank you

There are quite a few of us who have enlisted the help of our congress peeps and senators, whether they can help or not remains to be seen with this certain issue since we all do not have receipts nada nothing. Most of us are from the start of August, i.e, German and forward - you are November???

We had to wait the 90 days in terms of actually putting a trace on the file, but again that was just an exercise in futility as I got a response quite quickly......dear mrs so and so....we need your receipt number to locate your file......doh...that is why I ordered the inquiry and trace. Had to laugh, and then take more meds (j/k here) but can give you the sense of what is going on. Just a side note, but I am not sure here as its a grey area, but sometimes your representative will want to know your number in order to see what is going, SOMETIMES - all I am trying to do is make it common to my government here in Central Florida that something needs to be done with this issue - I am sure they are aware, but I want to be really sure. Oh well sighs

Maybe with Chicago opening up, it will help, dont know yet, remains to be seen, think postive but do what you have to -

Cheers and gl to you and yours on this journey

Susie

Edited December 11, 2007 by SusieK

[Germanchick2502 0]

With all of the back log at VSC and CSC I would not get my hopes up. Because their first trouble will not even be considering to expedite your petition but to find it. Is it still at CSC is it on the way to Chicago, is it in Chicago... is it lost? Who knows at this point. I would hope for you and your wife that you will find a way to be together sooner. But there is not much hope. Hubby and I filed back in August and should be the first waiting in line but even that doesn't say anything about the time that it will still take for our petition to be entered into the system let alone be approved.

We did contact our Congressman but have heard nothing so far. They did ask for my maiden name, date of birth and married name instead of a receipt number in the hope that they might find the petition this way but there is not much hope. We did talk to our bank to ensure that the check would not expire and we took every other precaution and are now trying to assemble everything for the continuing process. But even this might not make much sense since we don't know when we will need those documents and they might be considered "old" by the time we need them.

Good luck buddy!

[thermophile 0]

unless your congressperson is specifically involved in one of the immigration related committees, I'd suggest contacting one of your senators. Senators tend to have much larger staffs. also contact their office in your home state rather than the DC office. I doubt that there is much they can do for you in expediting your case, but if it is lost they are the only way you can get any info. They can contact the visa center and see if you are in the system by your name whereas (to my knowledge) you can only base an inquiry on your number.

[SusieK 3]

unless your congressperson is specifically involved in one of the immigration related committees, I'd suggest contacting one of your senators. Senators tend to have much larger staffs. also contact their office in your home state rather than the DC office. I doubt that there is much they can do for you in expediting your case, but if it is lost they are the only way you can get any info. They can contact the visa center and see if you are in the system by your name whereas (to my knowledge) you can only base an inquiry on your number.

I took both routes there and sent emails off to a few....best reply was from my congressman since my senator is busy and just added me to his newsletter///god please hit spam and go on with other emails.......

The trace on name is done at the USCIS (at this point) and as of last week we were not in there, we did not need any help in doing this, you just have to have that 90 day issue to go forth to an Immigration Officer and they can check to see. Maybe you can bs a little about the dates, try it, nothing to lose. Its just seems that these I-130's are packed away somewhere and for a senator or congress person to initiate progress, the question does remain....WHERE THE HECK DO THEY START???

I just want them aware of the problem and maybe someone can shake something up somewhere and why and I am serious about this issue and sent email to my lawyer today asking this.......WHEN DID THE I`-130 become a step child? I know there are some debates on this issue, but if you research many threads through here, it it plain to see that other app's are being at least entered into system but these. I dont know. Really I could be out of it by now, but analzying it, its pretty darn clear. I do not see on USCIS website (and no it holds no water to me anymore) of them saying///"OH yeah and if you filed an I-130 just sorta kick back and wait it out mates". But I see other applications being processed under the other thread time line journals so just cant really figure it out.

Do not hold anything against other filers of different types of issues, its just that I thought that a backlog is a backlog, but I did not realize that they could categorize and shuffle us out of the conveyor belt. The time to categoize spell binds me in fact.

Sigh but patient for now nothing else we can do except what has been spoken about before.

Cheers and Good Luck on Journey