Lets collect some information about IMBRA effects

[Razor 0]

Strange they yanked the statement

[rlt 0]

IT´S BACK!!!!

?????

How crazy is this?

The statement is back and now I saved it to my computer.

I´m not gonna check their website for the rest of the day so I can just celebrate Brazil´s World Cup match and sleep thinking I´m one day closer to my fiancée.

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So it was a good day afterall.

I mean, USCIS finally said something and the Yahoo article has OMB saying they approved the emergency request.

We´ll survive this mess and be happy again.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

HANG ON!!

They changed the statement!! That´s why they removed it before!!

Plz tell me if I´m crazy.

They now say the RFE template has been approved and they are sending it IMMEDIATELY to petitioners!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YnaYeBa0808 0]

IT´S BACK!!!!

?????

How crazy is this?

The statement is back and now I saved it to my computer.

I´m not gonna check their website for the rest of the day so I can just celebrate Brazil´s World Cup match and sleep thinking I´m one day closer to my fiancée.

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So it was a good day afterall.

I mean, USCIS finally said something and the Yahoo article has OMB saying they approved the emergency request.

We´ll survive this mess and be happy again.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

HANG ON!!

They changed the statement!! That´s why they removed it before!!

Plz tell me if I´m crazy.

They now say the RFE template has been approved and they are sending it IMMEDIATELY to petitioners!!

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just going to repost the link here if no one has read it yet

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffair...RA_061306PN.pdf

[GaryC 7]

This is without a doubt the news we have been waiting for! I assume that when I get home monday there will be a letter waiting for me. I will fill that out and go immediatly to the post office and ask if it can be mailed "SAME DAY EXPRESS"!!!

[rlt 0]

This is without a doubt the news we have been waiting for! I assume that when I get home monday there will be a letter waiting for me. I will fill that out and go immediatly to the post office and ask if it can be mailed "SAME DAY EXPRESS"!!!

I know, same here!!!

I´d just like to congratulate Bill and his girl who had the guts to go to the press and get that article done.

We would get new eventually, but I´m convinced that getting the press involved and calling USCIS for information made them speed things up. At least releasing a public notice, and then updating it on the same day.

I agree with Gary. That´s the news we were waiting for.

The new form should be up soon and for us who have filled the old one, the RFEs are being sent NOW!

In our investigations we always got lots of answers, but we never knew the "WHEN".

Now we do. It´s immediately.

Let´s make a bet and see who posts here about receiving the RFE first?

[YnaYeBa0808 0]

i see a NEW IMBRA RFE thread/poll coming up...

[kitkat1 5]

I´d just like to congratulate Bill and his girl who had the guts to go to the press and get that article done.

We would get new eventually, but I´m convinced that getting the press involved and calling USCIS for information made them speed things up. At least releasing a public notice, and then updating it on the same day.

Absolutely agree - it's awesome that Bill did this and I have no doubt that the questions the press asked of USCIS made a difference. Thanks Bill!!!

[Ladylethal 12]

Yay for immediatly!!!!! I hope it means THIS WEEK.

I am thinking though that you recalled petitions will get it first, and it might take them a couple of weeks to send them all, so I might have to sit tight and wait for another 15 days.

Edited June 13, 2006 by Luis&Laura

[m_olask 0]

this is great news, im so pleased for all the folk who were stuck in limbo through all this nightmare

i hope you all have a speedy process form here on in and the RFE's drop through your doors any day now

[Ladylethal 12]

I already told Luis to grab that, open, reply, run to the post office and FEDEX it the minute the mailman arrives.

[rl2009 0]

FYI - Below is the latest I have seen on fiancee petitions.

USCIS Public Notice: New Policy Concerning Fiance(e) Petitions

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released a public notice today entitled, "USCIS Notifies Public of New Policy Concerning Fiancée Petitions." The public notice begins, "Washington, DC - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that in order to comply with provisions of the International Marriage Brokers Regulation Act of 2005 (IMBRA), it will need to issue "Requests for Evidence" for more than 10,000 Alien Fiancée Petitions (Form I-129F) currently being held at USCIS Service Centers. USCIS will begin issuing RFEs to affected petitioners as soon as the RFE template has been approved and cleared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)."

To read the entire public notice, please go to:

https://dhsonline.dhs.gov/portal/jhtml/dc/s...html?doid=27727

[rlt 0]

FYI - Below is the latest I have seen on fiancee petitions.

USCIS Public Notice: New Policy Concerning Fiance(e) Petitions

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released a public notice today entitled, "USCIS Notifies Public of New Policy Concerning Fiancée Petitions." The public notice begins, "Washington, DC - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that in order to comply with provisions of the International Marriage Brokers Regulation Act of 2005 (IMBRA), it will need to issue "Requests for Evidence" for more than 10,000 Alien Fiancée Petitions (Form I-129F) currently being held at USCIS Service Centers. USCIS will begin issuing RFEs to affected petitioners as soon as the RFE template has been approved and cleared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)."

To read the entire public notice, please go to:

https://dhsonline.dhs.gov/portal/jhtml/dc/s...html?doid=27727

Yep, and after this statement they updated it and the RFEs are free to go!

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I don´t know who will get the RFEs first..

It makes sense that it would be the recalled ones.. but no one knows for sure.

If the new form is already approved and they will only release it by the end of june, I think all the petitions on hold will get the RFEs before anyone use the new form.

[JoelAndAnalyn 0]

I haven't read the previous posts so I apologize if this is repeated or out-of-date.

http://tinyurl.com/ju2nn

The US government just can't get anything right it seems...

Joel

[GaryC 7]

What I am hoping for is a mass RFE. They send everyone an email followed by a letter. I hope they give us the option to going online and downloading and e-file or doing it the old fashioned way with a printed form and snailmail.

[Karen_L 1]

I don't know if this is really important/not already been posted 15 times this morning, but I saw this article on the IMBRA on the AOL sign in screen this morning. Apparently, there is a growing awareness of what is going on:

10,000 Weddings on Hold

I hope the link works!

-- Karen