The Stupid RFE Thread

[SoCalMark 49]

My stupid RFE was:

They could not read the travel stamps on my passport from the scan I sent them. The next one was 11" X 14" and was approved after 6 days delay.

[Sheeeeeeep 0]

Mine:

I864 says they want a W2, but they really want a 1040.

I'm waiting for a third RFE to come in and ask for a 1040 for 2010 and 2011. Even though it says they aren't required I bet they will be.

[Snikwad 8]

Make sure the pictures are the specific measurements that they require...oh and it's helpful if they don't lose half of your papers - nothing you can do about that though :/

[TBoneTX 45,029]

dleaman67, welcome to the forum! I've removed your post above and am moving your duplicate thread from the Introducing Our Members forum to the "What Visa Do I Need" forum, where it best fits. You'll see answers there.

[lucybelle 453]

My stupid RFE: They said my marriage wasn't registered with the civil authorities.

Learned: write a COVER LETTER for the marriage certificate explaining where to find the date and time that your marriage was indeed registered on your marriage certificate.

idiots...

[Ryan H 3,812]

~~~Friendly reminder, the purpose of this thread is to list RFE's that common sense dictate should never have been sent (hence the title of the thread). It is not meant for general Q&A or back and forth discussion. If you have a question, please start your own thread.~~~

Edited February 6, 2014 by Ryan H

[Sukie 1,454]

My Stupid RFE:

We received a checklist for a Police Clearance Certificate. My spouse lives in Queensland, Australia, and the NVC's instructions in the checklist clearly state that the PCC is sent directly to the US Consulate in Sydney.

Does not compute....

Turns out, they expected her to get TWO checklists - one from Queensland, which they had correctly encoded to be sent directly to the Consulate, but ANOTHER checklist from the State of Victoria, where she lived for 20 years.

On the instructions from NVC, there is a URL for the Victoria PCCs - I mean, IN THE LETTER THEY SENT US - that, if you open it, says that the State of Victoria will NOT give police certificates to people who DO NOT CURRENTLY LIVE in Victoria.

AND, the fingerprint checks for Australia are nation-wide.

So, the checklist was for an unnecessary Police Certificate, which could not be gotten anyway.

It took me 5 days of calling NVC to finally figure out what was going on behind the scenes. The checklist never specified that it was a certificate from Victoria that was missing.

We would have had a case complete over a week ago except for their error. ARGH!

Sukie

[Jeliica 10]

Mine was that the need more passport photos of my spouse and more passport photos of myself.

Which on the form it said 1 - I sent more than 1 - they probably lost it.

Ugh, uscis...really.

[phyxsius 1]

Ours was that they wanted a legible copy of our marriage certificate, even though we already sent a VERY legible copy of it.

I just mailed away our RFE response, but I sent in our ORIGINALS just to be on the safe side.

The USCIS lady that we spoke to on the phone said that it's ok to send in the originals, we just wont get them back, which is perfectly fine!

[fridgewater 15]

On the I-864 my husband's physical and postal address are the same, so when it asks for your postal address (if different) he left it blank, instead of putting N/A. I could scream! That's an additional 20 work days for them to stare at our forms.

[stupid 2]

My stupid CHECKLIST (NVC stage) was:

Sent the French marriage certificate "original certified copy", although we got married in the US 1st, then had the marriage transcripted after in the French registries.

​--> US administration wants the US documents when available.

Cost: 57 EUR of overseas mail + some delay to be quantified...

Edited September 15, 2014 by stupid

[Mellylamelle 2]

Our RFE was for passport photos. I am 100% certain I included them in our application! I remember the day we went to have them taken!

[MidAtlanticMerge 9]

I remember reading somewhere in this long and glorious thread that someone filled out forms in the wrong color ink. Can someone refresh me memory? I've started my forms with black ink and want to make sure thats okay.

Thanks!

[curiousgeorgina 52]

I remember reading somewhere in this long and glorious thread that someone filled out forms in the wrong color ink. Can someone refresh me memory? I've started my forms with black ink and want to make sure thats okay.

Thanks!

From what I have read all throughout my research, filling out the forms in black ink is fine, but "signing" them should be in BLUE ink because if signed in black they might mistake it as just a copy.

[LoveMyTico 999]

We signed everything in black ink from the I130 to the AOS to the waiver documents. Nothing was ever questioned.