Lets collect some information about IMBRA effects

[GaryC 7]

#######!!!!! I just got this email!!!!

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The following is the latest information on your case status

Receipt Number: LIN*********

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status:

On June 1, 2006, we transferred your I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) to an

office in CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER for processing. That office has

jurisdiction over the case. They will send you a written decision as soon

as processing is complete. You should receive a notice informing you

that your case has been transferred to a local office.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case

status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision or

advice from USCIS within the projected processing time frame*, please

contact the National Customer Service Center.

National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283.

*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice

that you received from the USCIS.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I am now going to Califonia????????

[rachelw610 0]

#######!!!!! I just got this email!!!!

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The following is the latest information on your case status

Receipt Number: LIN*********

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status:

On June 1, 2006, we transferred your I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) to an

office in CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER for processing. That office has

jurisdiction over the case. They will send you a written decision as soon

as processing is complete. You should receive a notice informing you

that your case has been transferred to a local office.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case

status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision or

advice from USCIS within the projected processing time frame*, please

contact the National Customer Service Center.

National Customer Service Center (800) 375-5283.

*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice

that you received from the USCIS.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

I am now going to Califonia????????

I just got the exact same thing!

[Yodrak 7]

Laura,

I gave you some possible explanations for the 1st situation.

The 2nd situation is easy to figure - there's an open issue that needs to be resolved. Two common ones would be that there's an RFE involved and that there's an IBIS hit that needs to be resolved. (All bets on processing time go 'out the window' when there's an IBIS hit - it takes however long it takes.)

Yodrak

...

We see cases way ahead of processing date being adjucating and stuff that should have been adjucated yeons ago still in processing. Go figure.

[GaryC 7]

I heard they were consolidating some of the visa's but they just sent mine to the SLOWEST service center of them all!!!!OMG!!!

They also just changed the message on the website and are saying the same thing!!

Edited June 1, 2006 by GaryC

[rachelw610 0]

Ha, I just got 5, yes, 5 identical emails from USCIS saying the same thing your did! (Obviously mine was originated at NVC also).

So, I wonder where our petitions fall in line with those that are already at CSC.

The kicker? (I think this is funny, in light of the processing time discussion)

*The projected processing time frame can be found on the receipt notice

that you received from the USCIS.

Yeah, ok, they said 90 days on mine... you only have 6 days left CSC!! Such BS.

I heard they were consolidating some of the visa's but they just sent mine to the SLOWEST service center of them all!!!!OMG!!!

[jen&darcy 0]

Mine hasn't changed at all and I haven't gotten any emails but then again I am way behind both of you.

[Cigarovich 1]

Well folks we have become experts at:

1) grasping at straws

2) dissecting form letters

3) recognizing the disorganization of bureaucracy

4) hearing that patience is the wisest path

Well life isn't a Dan Brown book I'm afraid. There are no hidden meanings or happy endings if we just turn the pages.

We are organized at gathering information. We obviously are good at talking about it. But how much longer do we just talk and send out individual letters and make individual phone calls?

I'm planning to move back to the US (from Russia) with my Russian fiance in August and get married in September and her restarting school and I will be looking for a job. But now everything in the previous sentence is in jeopardy. Anybody in a similar situation? Thought so!

Well you can bet if I was in the states I would be making those phone calls all day too and getting just as far and hearing the million different stories.

Can we at least set a deadline for when we stop waiting and start acting? I'm talking about committees from each SC with coordinated group efforts to contact the press, contact the congresspeople responsible for the districts where the SC's are located, etc...or do we continue to hide behind our nicknames and accept the scraps and assorted BS being fed to us and devour it like famished animals?

I think it's about time to show we have some teeth.

[Ladylethal 12]

Are we beggining to see what will happen for real? Your cases are changing offices? Hmmmmmmmm.

EDIT: Tigretigre, the ombudsman just replied to my e-mail with the exact same response he gave you.

Edited June 1, 2006 by Luis&Laura

[Isabel 0]

Wow, that sucks. Sorry guys, to hear that.

Question: Did I get it right that they really havent recalled any K3 petitions yet? And do they actually just put the recalled K-petitions on hold? Or all K petitions with a receipt date after March 6th(including K3)?

My husband called Vermont SC and they said as well, that they are still processing cases as usual. So what?!

Regards Isabel

[GaryC 7]

I am just wondering if my case goes to the bottom of the pile, top of the pile or mixed in with the rest that have my same NOA1 date. This sucks SO BAD!!!!!

[Ladylethal 12]

K3 hasn't been affected yet.

Gary, you might as well call and ask what's going on now, and WHY are they transfering cases to CSC, maybe NSC is not processing K1s anymore.

[hockeygal 0]

Didn't someone over on the USCIS Centres section post something about Nebraska splitting the K1 visas up between California and Vermont? Sorry, I don't know how to perform links, but there was definately a post about it.

Edited June 1, 2006 by hockeygal

[Ladylethal 12]

So maybe that's it.

[jen&darcy 0]

Didn't someone over on the USCIS Centres section post something about Nebraska splitting the K1 visas up between California and Vermont? Sorry, I don't know how to perform links, but there was definately a post about it.

It was supposed to be I-129s not I-129Fs. It is posted on their website. It was effective April 1st though.

Edited June 1, 2006 by jen&darcy

[ladygatsby 0]

Well, my senator is calling the California Service Center right now. I told him that getting information from the representatives answering phones is like pulling teeth, but he assures me he can get the information we can not. We'll see, eh?

Fortunately, he's a kind, smooth talking man and my worries of him ticking off officials who can bury my petition are at rest.

I hope.

I hope everyone here is calling their state representatives and getting them to go into action. I have also contacted my congressman and am waiting for a response from him, as well.

I have spent my entire life living with the government. I grew up overseas on military bases, my father worked as a federal agent for over thirty years, my entire family seems seeped in government agencies of one type or another...and I have seen how just a few people can make MAJOR changes.

I've seen laws passed because a small group of people did the right things to get the wheels in motion. We can seriously make a difference...but we all have to pitch in and contact the right 'gears' to make things move the way we want.

We all know that this IMBRA deal is screwing a lot of us over. I believe that all of us wouldn't have had a problem filling out that extra form or getting that background check....IF we had been advised to do so. Well, we weren't and are being held responsible for a government agency's oversight.

Get mad. Do something about it. If you would like help to write a letter or anything of the sort, please let me know and I'll send you mine or even write one for you. We are on this forum to help each other out....so please consider me a resource....as I'm sure many others would make the same offer.