For those whose name stuck in AP

[emt103c 10]

No matter how long winded your response, you are still wrong.

1. Yes, there is an A# on my husbands approved I-130, and I-129F as far back as 2004. and YES it is an alien number, not an admission number since he was not admitted on receipt of his I-129F.

2. Your anecdotal experience that your congressional liaison had more pull than your Senator is irrelevant. . .The response to inquiries is going to depend on the tenure of the official as well as the experience, persistence and efficiency of their liaison and not their "Constitutional" job description.

3. It is laughable for you to instruct me to "do more research" before answering a question about Administrative Processing. I don't care who you are or how confident you are that the OP should be consulting with the FBI telephone number, you don't even know what the OP's relative is in AP for. You obviously are the one who needs to research this process and quit encouraging people to waste time pigeonholing themselves into a tunnel-vision on ONE of MANY agencies that performs security checks for the immigration process.

You are wasting his time by telling him to be this concerned about the FBI check. There are so many other things he can and should be concentrating on.

[ferhounh 0]

No matter how long winded your response, you are still wrong.

1. Yes, there is an A# on my husbands approved I-130, and I-129F as far back as 2004. and YES it is an alien number, not an admission number since he was not admitted on receipt of his I-129F.

2. Your anecdotal experience that your congressional liaison had more pull than your Senator is irrelevant. . .The response to inquiries is going to depend on the tenure of the official as well as the experience, persistence and efficiency of their liaison and not their "Constitutional" job description.

3. It is laughable for you to instruct me to "do more research" before answering a question about Administrative Processing. I don't care who you are or how confident you are that the OP should be consulting with the FBI telephone number, you don't even know what the OP's relative is in AP for. You obviously are the one who needs to research this process and quit encouraging people to waste time pigeonholing themselves into a tunnel-vision on ONE of MANY agencies that performs security checks for the immigration process.

You are wasting his time by telling him to be this concerned about the FBI check. There are so many other things he can and should be concentrating on.

chill out... you are taking this too personally!!

1. question for you - did you do AOS or consular processing? In case of Adjustment of Status, since your file is created and completed entirely in the US, it is possible that the A# is assigned at the time of USCIS approval (I-130 or I-129F).

besides, a lot of things might have changed since 2004!

2. No, not anecdotal at all - it is based on experience and directly talking to staffers in both the offices, including speaking with the congressman himself (yes got lucky to run into him prior to the run up to elections). Again YMMV. I am not here to score points, simply sharing my experiences that could help some fellow beings - take it or leave it.

3. I don't disagree with you at all that MANY agencies may be involved while in a AP and that there could be MANY reasons why an applicant may be put in AP. My argument and my finding is that the "instant FBI fingerprint" check is absolutely the first stage at the interview and beyond. As I said in my earlier post, calling FBI, CJIS to see if the applicants' finger print was checked or not is to get some peace of mind. It is not to say that that the AP is due only to FBI fingerprint check.

have fun...

[ferhounh 0]

No matter how long winded your response, you are still wrong.

1. Yes, there is an A# on my husbands approved I-130, and I-129F as far back as 2004. and YES it is an alien number, not an admission number since he was not admitted on receipt of his I-129F.

2. Your anecdotal experience that your congressional liaison had more pull than your Senator is irrelevant. . .The response to inquiries is going to depend on the tenure of the official as well as the experience, persistence and efficiency of their liaison and not their "Constitutional" job description.

3. It is laughable for you to instruct me to "do more research" before answering a question about Administrative Processing. I don't care who you are or how confident you are that the OP should be consulting with the FBI telephone number, you don't even know what the OP's relative is in AP for. You obviously are the one who needs to research this process and quit encouraging people to waste time pigeonholing themselves into a tunnel-vision on ONE of MANY agencies that performs security checks for the immigration process.

You are wasting his time by telling him to be this concerned about the FBI check. There are so many other things he can and should be concentrating on.

chill out... you are taking this too personally!!

1. question for you - did you do AOS or consular processing? In case of Adjustment of Status, since your file is created and completed entirely in the US, it is possible that the A# is assigned at the time of USCIS approval (I-130 or I-129F).

besides, a lot of things might have changed since 2004!

2. No, not anecdotal at all - it is based on experience and directly talking to staffers in both the offices, including speaking with the congressman himself (yes got lucky to run into him prior to the run up to elections). Again YMMV. I am not here to score points, simply sharing my experiences that could help some fellow beings - take it or leave it.

3. I don't disagree with you at all that MANY agencies may be involved while in a AP and that there could be MANY reasons why an applicant may be put in AP. My argument and my finding is that the "instant FBI fingerprint" check is absolutely the first stage at the interview and beyond. As I said in my earlier post, calling FBI, CJIS to see if the applicants' finger print was checked or not is to get some peace of mind. It is not to say that that the AP is due only to FBI fingerprint check.

have fun...

oh, by the way... if anybody wants to do a bit more research, feel free to pour through publicly available procedures followed by the Department of State for Visas, aka Foreign Affairs Manual, section 9 on Visas:

http://www.state.gov/m/a/dir/regs/fam/c22167.htm

specifically, you may want to look at the "instant FBI fingerprint check" that has been the main discussion topic here.

IAFIS (Integrated Fingerprint Identification System):

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/110678.pdf

[emt103c 10]

The very definition of anecdotal experience would be that you got the information from your one limited experience with a congressional or senate staffer. As I said each person's representatives are going to have varying degrees of experience and persistence. So unless you're in the same state and district and therefore have the same reps as the OP. . . .

Yes, I do take this very personally. . .telling the people who frequent this section to "do more research" comes off very badly. . .Probably all of us have read every pertinent section of the FAM, and the INA that you could possibly post (not to mention each and every newspaper article, interview, journal article and legal perspective that we can possibly get our hands or computer screens wrapped around.) HOWEVER, I love when people post links to such information as any new person who comes by will see it and understand the wealth of information that is out there.

We do not come to the AP/Waivers section for our health. We have been through this, some of us each thing that could go wrong, did go wrong through no fault of our own. We've lived it for months or years at a time. Yes, I take it personally.

[WonTanNara 0]

One very important takeaway from all this:

If you are in AP, you need to sit back and calm down. Inquiries by your House/Senate liaisons need to be made to the Dept of State and/or the Consulate.

I did the same freakin' thing while my fiance was stuck in AP for EIGHT MONTHS.... I tried to call every number that might possibly give me any sort of information. The reality is that six months of AP is really not a long time these days, and AP is black hole. The Dept of State doesn't need to tell us diddly squat. After 9/11 it's now 'a matter of national security.' Maddening but true, and it's out of our control.

Get your Senator and/or your Congressman on the case and ask them to do monthly status updates. I really think that's your best bet. I had both my Senators and my Congressman doing inquiries and I also did a monthly status inquiry with the Consulate. Above all, have patience. It'll come.