Lets collect some information about IMBRA effects

[elizaxyz 0]

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

[Aquelunya 0]

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

[ual777 0]

Ok guys, quick question. I WAS going to send in my 129(f) for the K-3 on Thursday....should I wait until this new form supposedly comes on 6/9?

[YnaYeBa0808 0]

Thanks mike for the info. sorry i woke up late coz i couldnt sleep last night i was getting anxiety attacks. i spent all day yesterday just trying to overcome it. i told my friend that i was having a hard time breathing... she asked me to calm down, i thought i was not too stressed about the whole situation. perhaps i really wasnt stressing but i get these attacks when something good or bad happens. and it turned out to be GOOD NEWS!

we will all get there, just a couple of days more... let us all keep our fingers crossed!

[Mike n Huong 1]

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I contacted Vermont directly yesterday and the woman told me that our petition was there and undergoing security checks. You should try to contact the service center you went thru, and ask a live person. The automated system said nothing about my petition being returned.

[dwar49 0]

I had posted this and seen it, but I guess I was so excited that a new form already in draft form that I forgot to read the heading and went straight to what had changed.

Btw, it does seem like it will be e-fillable, which would be fantastic for us all, since we can all send them straight with no further delays waiting for Fedex or whatever.

At least we have a little hope now!!!!!! I am leaving on Monday to go visit my Fiancee in UK. Will be first time we have been together since March 13th 2006. Hoping to be able to give her good news by then.

[rlt 0]

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I contacted Vermont directly yesterday and the woman told me that our petition was there and undergoing security checks. You should try to contact the service center you went thru, and ask a live person. The automated system said nothing about my petition being returned.

I just hope these security checks are the new ones on the american citizen.

Since USCIS was clueless on the phone about IMBRA, I wonder if they considered our recalled cases not approved by Consulates and in need of more Security checks.

Those who could go for 6 months or so.

I know, I know... but I needed to say.

I´m damn scared about everything now.

I just hate that no recalled petitions got any note from USCIS.

[Aquelunya 0]

Update----or not really, Called USCIS again, they do not have a direct number or email to contact Vermont, she said that I can write to them via snail mail

She wasnt very helpful at all really. She said there is no way to check, sometimes the system online does not get updated (this is the opposite of what they told me last time I called) I've lost all patience, something better happen soon!!!!

[Erol 0]

Since some questions/concerns about our petitions getting back to VSC. I talked to my Congressman's office yesterday and they contacted the NVC and were notified that my petition had just been forwarded that day to VSC. My letter from the German consulate on the returning of the petition was 18-May. So it took from 18-May to 6-Jun to get underway at least to VSC.

[meauxna 15]

I am not sure if this was posted in this thread or not, and I am sorry if they already did, because I am not going to brows thru 60 pages. This actually gives me hope. It seems that they are requesting the approval of the new form by June 9, 2006. It also sounds like it might be done by e-file. Tell me what you think???

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/for...i-129f_83-i.pdf

I found the '200,000 petitioners per year' number an interesting factoid. Always wondered how many K-1 petitions there were in a given year...

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I'm wondering.. someone else said that they were told that the petitions were being returned visa diplomatic mail--I'm assuming that means the same as diplomatic pouch. If so, I think the posts wait until their pouch is 'full' or send once per month, whichever comes first.

If your file is coming from a lower-traffic post, that could explain the delay in seeing it get back to the US.

[Aquelunya 0]

I am not sure if this was posted in this thread or not, and I am sorry if they already did, because I am not going to brows thru 60 pages. This actually gives me hope. It seems that they are requesting the approval of the new form by June 9, 2006. It also sounds like it might be done by e-file. Tell me what you think???

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/for...i-129f_83-i.pdf

I found the '200,000 petitioners per year' number an interesting factoid. Always wondered how many K-1 petitions there were in a given year...

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I'm wondering.. someone else said that they were told that the petitions were being returned visa diplomatic mail--I'm assuming that means the same as diplomatic pouch. If so, I think the posts wait until their pouch is 'full' or send once per month, whichever comes first.

If your file is coming from a lower-traffic post, that could explain the delay in seeing it get back to the US.

yes that was me, I did think about that myself.....well this is ridicilous, and that is all that I have to say!

And my congressman's district office has nothing to tell me either!!!!! They keep saying they're working on it.

Edited June 7, 2006 by Aquelunya

[Officer's Fiance 0]

FYI - Diplomatic mail (or pouch/bag) is typically sent out once a week at most embassies, irrelevant if they are full or not. (I used to work at one)

I am not sure if this was posted in this thread or not, and I am sorry if they already did, because I am not going to brows thru 60 pages. This actually gives me hope. It seems that they are requesting the approval of the new form by June 9, 2006. It also sounds like it might be done by e-file. Tell me what you think???

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/for...i-129f_83-i.pdf

I found the '200,000 petitioners per year' number an interesting factoid. Always wondered how many K-1 petitions there were in a given year...

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I'm wondering.. someone else said that they were told that the petitions were being returned visa diplomatic mail--I'm assuming that means the same as diplomatic pouch. If so, I think the posts wait until their pouch is 'full' or send once per month, whichever comes first.

If your file is coming from a lower-traffic post, that could explain the delay in seeing it get back to the US.

[rlt 0]

FYI - Diplomatic mail (or pouch/bag) is typically sent out once a week at most embassies, irrelevant if they are full or not. (I used to work at one)

I am not sure if this was posted in this thread or not, and I am sorry if they already did, because I am not going to brows thru 60 pages. This actually gives me hope. It seems that they are requesting the approval of the new form by June 9, 2006. It also sounds like it might be done by e-file. Tell me what you think???

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/for...i-129f_83-i.pdf

I found the '200,000 petitioners per year' number an interesting factoid. Always wondered how many K-1 petitions there were in a given year...

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,

National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

I'm wondering.. someone else said that they were told that the petitions were being returned visa diplomatic mail--I'm assuming that means the same as diplomatic pouch. If so, I think the posts wait until their pouch is 'full' or send once per month, whichever comes first.

If your file is coming from a lower-traffic post, that could explain the delay in seeing it get back to the US.

The ones from Brazil were sent back via Fedex and got to NVC in 4 days, I think.

[Mike n Huong 1]

Update----or not really, Called USCIS again, they do not have a direct number or email to contact Vermont, she said that I can write to them via snail mail

She wasnt very helpful at all really. She said there is no way to check, sometimes the system online does not get updated (this is the opposite of what they told me last time I called) I've lost all patience, something better happen soon!!!!

Call this number 1-800-375-5283

press 1 pause 2 pause 6 pause 1

Enter Receipt #

press 3 pause 2 pause 1

You will be connected to Vermont

[Aquelunya 0]

Well, now I don't know if I should even worry more If they sent it at the end of each week, Vermont should have had it ages ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bahhhh

Well the embassy assured us that there is no way that it got lost via this diplomatic mail/pouch, hence my only conclusion is that its just sitting somewhere, thats swell!!!!