Denial?

[sweethomealabama 0]

Hey guys,

I'll try to keep this short.. but if anyone has any advice that would be awesome. My husbands 1 year extension letter has expired and we're (way) outside the processing times for the VSC, and still have not even had the biometrics. We called and the officer contacted the VSC to find out why it so late and she said she would contact them and we would receive info. The office confirmed our address, stated we had no RFE's and has not missed the biometrics appointment. And online it still shows the case is "pending at the VSC". The only mail we received was stating the case was transferred to the VSC. This is the letter we got:

***u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Outside Normal Processing Times

The status of this service request is:

Systems checks indicate we denied your case and a notice explaining our decision was sent on 4/28/2008 to the address we have on file.

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must also notifY

the Department of Homeland Security within IO days fro~ when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). If you have moved, please complete a Form AR-l1 and mail it to the address shown on that form. If you do not have this form'lyou can downl.oad it from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. If you move, please call us with your new address information as soon as your move 's complete. If you have already called us and given us this information, you do not need to call again.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ***

So... we got denied without any RFE's or the biometrics appointment??? We'd love to call but will have to wait until Monday. Has anyone ever had this happen?? Does he have to leave the country now or does he remain in a conditional??

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks a lot.

[Meriem_DZ 37]

Hey guys,

I'll try to keep this short.. but if anyone has any advice that would be awesome. My husbands 1 year extension letter has expired and we're (way) outside the processing times for the VSC, and still have not even had the biometrics. We called and the officer contacted the VSC to find out why it so late and she said she would contact them and we would receive info. The office confirmed our address, stated we had no RFE's and has not missed the biometrics appointment. And online it still shows the case is "pending at the VSC". The only mail we received was stating the case was transferred to the VSC. This is the letter we got:

***u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Outside Normal Processing Times

The status of this service request is:

Systems checks indicate we denied your case and a notice explaining our decision was sent on 4/28/2008 to the address we have on file.

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must also notifY

the Department of Homeland Security within IO days fro~ when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). If you have moved, please complete a Form AR-l1 and mail it to the address shown on that form. If you do not have this form'lyou can downl.oad it from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. If you move, please call us with your new address information as soon as your move 's complete. If you have already called us and given us this information, you do not need to call again.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ***

So... we got denied without any RFE's or the biometrics appointment??? We'd love to call but will have to wait until Monday. Has anyone ever had this happen?? Does he have to leave the country now or does he remain in a conditional??

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks a lot.

If I were you, I would make an infopass appointment and talk to someone in person. It could be a mistake and I would not trust calling the USCIS infoline at this point. Good luck.

Meriem

[reeses16 8]

I agree, you need an InfoPass appointment.

[NickD 203]

Hey guys,

I'll try to keep this short.. but if anyone has any advice that would be awesome. My husbands 1 year extension letter has expired and we're (way) outside the processing times for the VSC, and still have not even had the biometrics. We called and the officer contacted the VSC to find out why it so late and she said she would contact them and we would receive info. The office confirmed our address, stated we had no RFE's and has not missed the biometrics appointment. And online it still shows the case is "pending at the VSC". The only mail we received was stating the case was transferred to the VSC. This is the letter we got:

***u.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Outside Normal Processing Times

The status of this service request is:

Systems checks indicate we denied your case and a notice explaining our decision was sent on 4/28/2008 to the address we have on file.

If you have any further questions, please call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283.

Please remember: By law, every person who is not a U.S. citizen and who is over the age of 14 must also notifY

the Department of Homeland Security within IO days fro~ when they move (persons in "A" or "G" nonimmigrant status are exempt from this requirement). If you have moved, please complete a Form AR-l1 and mail it to the address shown on that form. If you do not have this form'lyou can downl.oad it from our website or you can call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 and we can order one for you. If you move, please call us with your new address information as soon as your move 's complete. If you have already called us and given us this information, you do not need to call again.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ***

So... we got denied without any RFE's or the biometrics appointment??? We'd love to call but will have to wait until Monday. Has anyone ever had this happen?? Does he have to leave the country now or does he remain in a conditional??

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks a lot.

If I were you, I would make an infopass appointment and talk to someone in person. It could be a mistake and I would not trust calling the USCIS infoline at this point. Good luck.

Meriem

Would make an infopass appointment immediately and have your husband bring in his current valid foreign passport for an I-551 stamp OR two passport type photos for a I-94 so your husband is still here legally.

Your husband can't legally work with that expired extension and they hold him responsible whether it's his fault or the USCIS's fault and most of the time, it's the USCIS's fault.

[cherr1980 1]

After a year of filing he was NEVER schedule for biometrics?? Why you did not get an INFOPASS to get a new stamp after the expiration of the NOA1?...ANYway I think is pointless to worry you more, Im not helpoing. There is no way to know why it has been denied. To be sincere on those type of delays I got for INFOPASS not call. I don't trust them at all...but INFOPASS I think is better.

It's exasperating because you are in a weekend...so schedule an INFOPASS as soon as you can get a slot. For me sounds that something on the biometrics got messed up.

He can stay here until an immigration judge says the contrary. And he should continue working, he does not need to show that or do a new I-9.

Good luck,

[sweethomealabama 0]

Of course we got an Infopass appointment a few months before his extension letter was to expire to check things out. We were told that we had not missed anything (letter for biometrics, RFE etc) and that he could only get the 551 stamp once the letter had expired. The letter has just expired.

Thanks for all the advice everyone, I appreciate it!

After a year of filing he was NEVER schedule for biometrics?? Why you did not get an INFOPASS to get a new stamp after the expiration of the NOA1?...ANYway I think is pointless to worry you more, Im not helpoing. There is no way to know why it has been denied. To be sincere on those type of delays I got for INFOPASS not call. I don't trust them at all...but INFOPASS I think is better.

It's exasperating because you are in a weekend...so schedule an INFOPASS as soon as you can get a slot. For me sounds that something on the biometrics got messed up.

He can stay here until an immigration judge says the contrary. And he should continue working, he does not need to show that or do a new I-9.

Good luck,

[*JG* 2]

Infopass immediately.

Good luck to you.

[diadromous mermaid 36]

After a year of filing he was NEVER schedule for biometrics?? Why you did not get an INFOPASS to get a new stamp after the expiration of the NOA1?...ANYway I think is pointless to worry you more, Im not helpoing. There is no way to know why it has been denied. To be sincere on those type of delays I got for INFOPASS not call. I don't trust them at all...but INFOPASS I think is better.

It's exasperating because you are in a weekend...so schedule an INFOPASS as soon as you can get a slot. For me sounds that something on the biometrics got messed up.

He can stay here until an immigration judge says the contrary. And he should continue working, he does not need to show that or do a new I-9.

Good luck,

Technically, he is as of this moment without status. So, all benefits that accompany status are withdrawn too. Not that it matters, if he's married to a USC, but an employer might not think that way. Either the VSC denied the application outright, due to information that they have which we are not aware of, or a notice was mailed to the alien *somewhere*, upon which no action was taken. I would take all the information you have on hand, including the evidence you submitted for the I-751 with you to the local office. Who knows, they might reopen the file on their own motion and adjudicate it.

[NickD 203]

After a year of filing he was NEVER schedule for biometrics?? Why you did not get an INFOPASS to get a new stamp after the expiration of the NOA1?...ANYway I think is pointless to worry you more, Im not helpoing. There is no way to know why it has been denied. To be sincere on those type of delays I got for INFOPASS not call. I don't trust them at all...but INFOPASS I think is better.

It's exasperating because you are in a weekend...so schedule an INFOPASS as soon as you can get a slot. For me sounds that something on the biometrics got messed up.

He can stay here until an immigration judge says the contrary. And he should continue working, he does not need to show that or do a new I-9.

Good luck,

Technically, he is as of this moment without status. So, all benefits that accompany status are withdrawn too. Not that it matters, if he's married to a USC, but an employer might not think that way. Either the VSC denied the application outright, due to information that they have which we are not aware of, or a notice was mailed to the alien *somewhere*, upon which no action was taken. I would take all the information you have on hand, including the evidence you submitted for the I-751 with you to the local office. Who knows, they might reopen the file on their own motion and adjudicate it.

Technically, my wife's employer could have been fined as much as $16,500 depending on whether they had previous offenses or not if they didn't dismiss her the day her extension expired. But her employer doesn't let it go that far. Also technically she is not permitted to have a driver's license in our state with an expired green card or some type of extension. Can also state technically we have some odd 20 million illegals here and laws against that, but without means to enforce those laws but that is not our problem. Our problem was to keep my wife here legally and the odds of her getting caught are much higher since they already have her name,

I found that statement absurd when your officer said you file for that I-551 or I-94 after your extension was expired and apparently that person is not aware of the law nor the consequences to the expired green card holder. We never let it go that far, and I as the USC was screaming, hey this is my family you are messing with, don't give me that line of #######, I know better, I am the one that signed your I-864, and I am the one paying your fees! This got action. Green cards came in for my wife and daughter just days before the expiration, and today only nine days away from my wife's US citizenship interview, ha we only had those cards for a couple of weeks and ready to turn them back in again. And hopefully our session with the USCIS will end when she says her oath. But you do have to fight to get some action, just cannot sit back and wait. Not like big brother is looking out for you.