Letter to President

[I Miss Her 0]

Questions are not just about discrepancies between service centers but more deeper……….today any H1B (non-immigrant) visa holder can just walk in to the any US embassies or US consulates with spouse and kids and just fill the required forms and submit documents will get stamp their passport and can bring their families within a week. No background check-up. Is this make any sense?

We US citizens who are more responsible have to wait 8-12 months to unite with our family………….Wow what immigration procedures. I miss my wife and daughter. She born 5-months back and only I can see them online everyday……..missing the moment of my life.

[Amor1 0]

Rick, I think it's great that you took action, but I wish you had sent a message to me to ask for permission to use part of an original letter I wrote and uploaded on vj for anyone to use & send to their state's reps. Just copying and not giving credit or asking permission to use for another purpose is not ethical. All of us want our elected officials to act and show some concern/compassion. Next time, please request permission. In this age of the Internet, I know that many people are doing this (copying and pasting), but it doesn't make it right. When I read your post, I thought, "My goodness! If he found this post with my letter, he could have sent a message to me, requesting its use." Best wishes in your endeavors and next, please be courteous enough to ask b/f copying someone else's words. See below my original letter in its entirety.---Amor1

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Hello, everyone! I finally finished this letter, and I think it's appropriate in tone and specific in our request for a Congressional Inquiry. It would not allow me to upload, so I pasted it below. Perhaps it will help all of us who are still waiting after inhumane periods of time as well as those who are just getting started. If you want, you can copy and add your home address, receipt numbers and anything else like email address and contact numbers. However, the body of the letter should stay the same because the Judiciary Committee needs to see that many of us are affected in this similar way--waiting, waiting, and waiting for our NOA2 indefinitely. We should get a response from the Senators themselves or the Subcommittee. It's only polite and respectful for them to respond.

Guidelines:

Print out a copy of this letter after you add your information. **Remember to add you House of Rep Member/Senator for your state. Again, this is protocol.

You can address your envelope to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security or each individual member who sits on this committee as well as your State's Senator. Personally, I will be forwarding a total of 11 letters (all members, the Subcommittee, and my State's Senator). It's up to you.

I believe including hard copies of the spreadsheets is necessary, but many will send these, so you don't have to do this. My letters will go off tomorrow, and as soon as I get responses, I'll add a new message here at visajourneys.com.

I wish all of you the best and hope that we see positive results from our proactive measures !--Amor1

*************************LETTER*************************************************

Your Street Address (here)

City, State and zip code (here)

October 20, 2008

United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security

224 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

To the Honorable Members of this Subcommittee:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays. Hence, we ask you, Honorable Members of the US Senate, to investigate these seemingly negligent periods of inaction.

The first step for our family members is to submit the petitions to establish the existence of a relationship. Then, once approved, our petitions and all documents submitted are forwarded to the National Visa Center for further processing. As you are aware, the next phase is the embassy approval with required medical examination and interviews. Unfortunately, many of us have not moved past the first step because there have been no updates sent to us. In particular, many of us are still waiting for NOA2 from the Vermont Service Center (VSC). Please see attached spreadsheets. While the California Service Center seems to be processing petitions at an increasingly rapid rate, VSC is months behind. Why is there such a major difference between these two processing centers? Are there more adjudicators at CSC? Moreover, some petitions that are received months after others are processed faster. When questioned about this inequity, telephone operators at the USCIS give a standard response: “It depends on the case; each case is adjudicated differently.” Then when we ask about our individual petitions on behalf of our qualifying relatives, we receive the generic, “We’re within our processing time.”

For many of us, the entire process thus far has proven to be quite discouraging. We cannot get accurate, specific responses to our inquiries, nor do we receive the “first in, first out” treatment we were promised. Hence, we need and request your assistance. Perhaps an inquiry from your committee will garner more substantive, more accurate responses. Perhaps there is a way to change the process, so national security is not compromised, and families are not unnecessarily separated from their loved ones indefinitely. Attached, please find a copy of NOA 1 for our petitions (I-130 and I-129F). Below, see our receipt numbers given by USCIS. It is with great respect for your charge on this committee that I, along with many others, request your inquiry into this matter. Hopefully, all of us will receive the NOA2 and continue positively on the path of reunification with our family members. Equally, we hope that others will benefit from our proactive measures and their processing time will be much shorter and more humane.

Respectfully yours,

Name (full)

Receipt Number for Petition __________

_________________________________

Receipt Number for Petition __________

_________________________________

cc: Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security

The Honorable Senator Ted Kennedy

The Honorable Joe Biden

The Honorable Diane Feinstein

The Honorable Chuck Schumer

The Honorable Jeff Sessions

The Honorable Jon Kyl

The Honorable Chuck Grassley

The Honorable John Cornyn

The Honorable ####### Durbin

(Your State Senator/US House of Representatives Member – here)

Here is the letter that I faxed to the White House a couple of minutes ago. The fax number is: 202-456-2461, anyone can send a fax. Also, at www.whitehouse.gov/contact they have a page where you can send comments, etc (up to 5,000 characters) instead of or in addition to faxing.

It would be better if everyone did this but, I/we cannot control that. As long as I have ink in my pen I will be sending letters. Nothing ever gets changed by sitting back and complaining. If you want change then take up your pen and write, fax, email everyone you can think of. Again, change will not occur without effort....

Please, for everyone's sake - take some time and make the effort. Even if it does not help you, maybe the person two months from now may benefit....

Mr. President:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays.

I am viewing the visajourney.com website, which tracks actual dates for K-3 visas, and am I see that the California Service Center is approving K-3 visa requests from December 2008. The Vermont Service Center is approving K-3 visa requests from August 2008. Why such a glaring discrepancy? Why aren't priorities shifted to balance this out? Why aren't we all on a level playing field?

Why is the California Service Center approving K-3 visa requests within a two month period and the Vermont Service Center is approving K-3 visas requests in a seven to nine month period? If my application was at the California Service Center instead of the Vermont Service Center, my wife would be on her way to getting her K-3 visa and one huge step closer to being with her family in the USA.

Why are K-1 visas being approved for foreign finance(e)'s at a faster rate than K-3 visas for foreign spouses? It is absurd that finance(e)'s are approved faster than foreign spouses.

Why are foreign worker's visas approved at a faster rate than foreign spouses? With unemployment already over seven percent, and climbing towards ten or eleven percent, why aren't the priorities shifted from approving foreign workers to approving spouses. Who is responsible for determining the processing priorities?

Why, after three months, isn't my I-129F viewable on line? When I call USCIS I have been told that "it takes a couple of weeks" to "you do not need to worry about it". THREE MONTHS - Ridiculous!!

This entire system is broken! Why are foreign spouses being punished? More importantly, why are law-abiding US citizens being punished?

Why is there no oversight? Why aren't questions being asked and explanation demanded? Why isn't the management team at USCIS held accountable for these glaring discrepancies. Why isn't the L.I.F.E. Act being enforced?

These are all questions that been asked of our legislators. They get, and then forward, non-answers or no answers to our questions. While we, the applicants for visas, must sit back and take whatever it is they want to send us. No one listens; no one cares; no one is our advocate…

[ed g 0]

I sent letters and faxes as well and got no response. I decided to call the white house and to my surprise they answered the phone. They said they could not help me but they transferred me to the state department and they said they would look into this. my papers were approved and my wife has her medical exam on tuesday. you might want to call if you are outside the timelines

[Troy W 0]

as a kid i used to write to president Clinton in his first term. i mailed the letters and always got a response.

i think if you mail the letter addressed to the president @ the white house, you will get a response, which you can at least shove in the examiners face.

i think the reason why snail mail gets responses is because someone actually pre-screens the letters to the president (or there is an actual TEAM) and not some unattended computer with a email address with 8392758975893475987534 emails and cobwebs on the keyboard.

go snail mail.

I wrote Obama a snail mail a mont a go and have not recieved a reply as of yet.

[Frenchwife 1]

good words.

What about short one. Comments / upgrade welcome.

Slow and chaotic treatment at Vermont Service center building (fostering?) anger and resentment

among current and future US citizens for arbitrary / unfair treatment.

why 9-15 months for a spouse of a US citizen to come if processed by Vermont Service Center with the famous K3 visa

while at the same time

about the same processing times if processed with the I130 (K3 supposed to be faster than I130)

significantly less currently down to 3 months for the same spouse if processed by California

noticeably less if a future spouse

2 months for the same spouse if requested from some local embassies

2 months for the spouse of a foreign worker

Processing times announced seem more a waiting/queue time than really processing.

Reason tries to find an intentional cause but fails to.

What is left? Powerlessness, carelessness or is it lack of government

.....

(feels good writing this, would it help to communicate?)

[Frenchwife 1]

a little improvement , more specific

Slow and chaotic treatment of supposedly fast K3 visa at Vermont Service center

building (fostering?) anger and resentment among current and future US citizens for arbitrary / unfair treatment.

???? why 9-15 months for a spouse of a US citizen to come if processed by Vermont Service Center with the famous K3 visa

while at the same time

about the same processing times if processed with the I130 petition

significantly less currently down to 3 months for the same spouse if processed by California

noticeably less if a future spouse

2 months for the same spouse if requested from some local embassies

2 months for the spouse of a foreign worker

Processing times announced seem more a waiting/queue time than really processing.

Reason tries to find an intentional cause but fails to.

What is left? Powerlessness, carelessness, lack of governance ?

Edited February 26, 2009 by Frenchwife

[Frenchwife 1]

more little improvement .

Slow and chaotic treatment of supposedly fast K3 visa at Vermont Service center

building (fostering?) anger and resentment among current and future US citizens for arbitrary / unfair treatment.

???? why 9-15 months for a spouse of a US citizen to come if processed by Vermont Service Center with the famous K3 visa

while at the same time

about the same processing times if processed with the I130 petition

significantly less currently down to 3 months for the same spouse if processed by California

noticeably less if a future spouse

2 months for the same spouse if requested from some local embassies

2 months for the spouse of a foreign worker

Processing times announced seem more a waiting/queue time than really processing.

Reason tries to find an intentional cause but fails to.

What is left? Powerlessness, carelessness?

Maybe those visa waiters are just too few to matter.

[Rick in VA 0]

Rick, I think it's great that you took action, but I wish you had sent a message to me to ask for permission to use part of an original letter I wrote and uploaded on vj for anyone to use & send to their state's reps. Just copying and not giving credit or asking permission to use for another purpose is not ethical. All of us want our elected officials to act and show some concern/compassion. Next time, please request permission. In this age of the Internet, I know that many people are doing this (copying and pasting), but it doesn't make it right. When I read your post, I thought, "My goodness! If he found this post with my letter, he could have sent a message to me, requesting its use." Best wishes in your endeavors and next, please be courteous enough to ask b/f copying someone else's words. See below my original letter in its entirety.---Amor1

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Hello, everyone! I finally finished this letter, and I think it's appropriate in tone and specific in our request for a Congressional Inquiry. It would not allow me to upload, so I pasted it below. Perhaps it will help all of us who are still waiting after inhumane periods of time as well as those who are just getting started. If you want, you can copy and add your home address, receipt numbers and anything else like email address and contact numbers. However, the body of the letter should stay the same because the Judiciary Committee needs to see that many of us are affected in this similar way--waiting, waiting, and waiting for our NOA2 indefinitely. We should get a response from the Senators themselves or the Subcommittee. It's only polite and respectful for them to respond.

Guidelines:

Print out a copy of this letter after you add your information. **Remember to add you House of Rep Member/Senator for your state. Again, this is protocol.

You can address your envelope to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security or each individual member who sits on this committee as well as your State's Senator. Personally, I will be forwarding a total of 11 letters (all members, the Subcommittee, and my State's Senator). It's up to you.

I believe including hard copies of the spreadsheets is necessary, but many will send these, so you don't have to do this. My letters will go off tomorrow, and as soon as I get responses, I'll add a new message here at visajourneys.com.

I wish all of you the best and hope that we see positive results from our proactive measures !--Amor1

*************************LETTER*************************************************

Your Street Address (here)

City, State and zip code (here)

October 20, 2008

United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security

224 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

To the Honorable Members of this Subcommittee:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays. Hence, we ask you, Honorable Members of the US Senate, to investigate these seemingly negligent periods of inaction.

The first step for our family members is to submit the petitions to establish the existence of a relationship. Then, once approved, our petitions and all documents submitted are forwarded to the National Visa Center for further processing. As you are aware, the next phase is the embassy approval with required medical examination and interviews. Unfortunately, many of us have not moved past the first step because there have been no updates sent to us. In particular, many of us are still waiting for NOA2 from the Vermont Service Center (VSC). Please see attached spreadsheets. While the California Service Center seems to be processing petitions at an increasingly rapid rate, VSC is months behind. Why is there such a major difference between these two processing centers? Are there more adjudicators at CSC? Moreover, some petitions that are received months after others are processed faster. When questioned about this inequity, telephone operators at the USCIS give a standard response: “It depends on the case; each case is adjudicated differently.” Then when we ask about our individual petitions on behalf of our qualifying relatives, we receive the generic, “We’re within our processing time.”

For many of us, the entire process thus far has proven to be quite discouraging. We cannot get accurate, specific responses to our inquiries, nor do we receive the “first in, first out” treatment we were promised. Hence, we need and request your assistance. Perhaps an inquiry from your committee will garner more substantive, more accurate responses. Perhaps there is a way to change the process, so national security is not compromised, and families are not unnecessarily separated from their loved ones indefinitely. Attached, please find a copy of NOA 1 for our petitions (I-130 and I-129F). Below, see our receipt numbers given by USCIS. It is with great respect for your charge on this committee that I, along with many others, request your inquiry into this matter. Hopefully, all of us will receive the NOA2 and continue positively on the path of reunification with our family members. Equally, we hope that others will benefit from our proactive measures and their processing time will be much shorter and more humane.

Respectfully yours,

Name (full)

Receipt Number for Petition __________

_________________________________

Receipt Number for Petition __________

_________________________________

cc: Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security

The Honorable Senator Ted Kennedy

The Honorable Joe Biden

The Honorable Diane Feinstein

The Honorable Chuck Schumer

The Honorable Jeff Sessions

The Honorable Jon Kyl

The Honorable Chuck Grassley

The Honorable John Cornyn

The Honorable ####### Durbin

(Your State Senator/US House of Representatives Member – here)

Here is the letter that I faxed to the White House a couple of minutes ago. The fax number is: 202-456-2461, anyone can send a fax. Also, at www.whitehouse.gov/contact they have a page where you can send comments, etc (up to 5,000 characters) instead of or in addition to faxing.

It would be better if everyone did this but, I/we cannot control that. As long as I have ink in my pen I will be sending letters. Nothing ever gets changed by sitting back and complaining. If you want change then take up your pen and write, fax, email everyone you can think of. Again, change will not occur without effort....

Please, for everyone's sake - take some time and make the effort. Even if it does not help you, maybe the person two months from now may benefit....

Mr. President:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays.

I am viewing the visajourney.com website, which tracks actual dates for K-3 visas, and am I see that the California Service Center is approving K-3 visa requests from December 2008. The Vermont Service Center is approving K-3 visa requests from August 2008. Why such a glaring discrepancy? Why aren't priorities shifted to balance this out? Why aren't we all on a level playing field?

Why is the California Service Center approving K-3 visa requests within a two month period and the Vermont Service Center is approving K-3 visas requests in a seven to nine month period? If my application was at the California Service Center instead of the Vermont Service Center, my wife would be on her way to getting her K-3 visa and one huge step closer to being with her family in the USA.

Why are K-1 visas being approved for foreign finance(e)'s at a faster rate than K-3 visas for foreign spouses? It is absurd that finance(e)'s are approved faster than foreign spouses.

Why are foreign worker's visas approved at a faster rate than foreign spouses? With unemployment already over seven percent, and climbing towards ten or eleven percent, why aren't the priorities shifted from approving foreign workers to approving spouses. Who is responsible for determining the processing priorities?

Why, after three months, isn't my I-129F viewable on line? When I call USCIS I have been told that "it takes a couple of weeks" to "you do not need to worry about it". THREE MONTHS - Ridiculous!!

This entire system is broken! Why are foreign spouses being punished? More importantly, why are law-abiding US citizens being punished?

Why is there no oversight? Why aren't questions being asked and explanation demanded? Why isn't the management team at USCIS held accountable for these glaring discrepancies. Why isn't the L.I.F.E. Act being enforced?

These are all questions that been asked of our legislators. They get, and then forward, non-answers or no answers to our questions. While we, the applicants for visas, must sit back and take whatever it is they want to send us. No one listens; no one cares; no one is our advocate…

You are kidding me!! You absolutely must be kidding.

We are trying the get this system corrected and working properly. And you, all you are concerned with is your pettiness - "Pay attention to me. I did it! I should get the credit!"

I was steered to this as an example to use. Question: Anyone that used YOUR letter that you posted did they give you credit? If not, did you bother them with this utter nonsense?

Give credit?? How, at the end of the letter to the president say "PS - the first paragraph of this letter was written by XXXXX and the remaining paragraphs were written by XXXXX with assists from XXX, XXXX, and XXXX"

This letter is in the public domain and is not copyrighted.

Unbelieveable!!!

[LDora 7]

I wish you hadn't put a blanket statement in your letter implying that you were speaking for all of us. I'm sure you mean well, but you certainly aren't voicing MY opinion. I realise that a lot of people feel left in the dust in regards to their applications when viewing the speed with which others seem to be processed, and I'm not saying the system doesn't need a closer look, and I CERTAINLY can't complain myself because some of you have honestly been waiting a long time, longer than I have, and I understand the frustration. However, I feel Obama has been working hard to make this country better for not just myself but for everyone yet to come, and right now that's more important to me.

I'm not going to discourage anyone from writing -- in fact, I think you should, because it's important to voice your opinions on the matter, and I'm sure you haven't been forgotten.

But please in the future refrain from stating or implying in your letters that the way you feel is a universal view held by everyone here.

That being said, I do applaud you all for taking these steps, and I hope everything works out for you.

[Rick in VA 0]

I wish you hadn't put a blanket statement in your letter implying that you were speaking for all of us. I'm sure you mean well, but you certainly aren't voicing MY opinion. I realise that a lot of people feel left in the dust in regards to their applications when viewing the speed with which others seem to be processed, and I'm not saying the system doesn't need a closer look, and I CERTAINLY can't complain myself because some of you have honestly been waiting a long time, longer than I have, and I understand the frustration. However, I feel Obama has been working hard to make this country better for not just myself but for everyone yet to come, and right now that's more important to me.

I'm not going to discourage anyone from writing -- in fact, I think you should, because it's important to voice your opinions on the matter, and I'm sure you haven't been forgotten.

But please in the future refrain from stating or implying in your letters that the way you feel is a universal view held by everyone here.

That being said, I do applaud you all for taking these steps, and I hope everything works out for you.

Thank you for not discouraging me or anyone else. Thoughtful...

I am sorry for you that you are happy with a three month lag between VSC and CSC. There are some that are offended and feel disenfranchised by this very large difference.

Anyway, glad you are happy with the process.

OBTW, did not imply that I was speaking for all on this website. Strictly a matter of interpretation. In addition to an English course, maybe a hobby would be a good thing to get...

[Rick in VA 0]

I wish to thank those who have constructive things to say.

I appreciate it.

To the others, sorry....

Henceforth I will keep my letters and emails to myself.

Good luck to those of you who raise your voice in disapproval and are not satisfied with the status quo.

OBTW, you are free to borrow from any of my letters/emails (see above).

Happy hunting and good luck!!!

Signing off...

Edited February 26, 2009 by Rick in VA

[LDora 7]

In addition, please don't put words into my mouth. And please stop acting so offended because someone disagrees with you.

Nowhere did I say I was "happy" with things. You were voicing your opinion, and so was I. I wasn't even addressing you specifically. What I said was right now there are more important things, in my own opinion, than speedy visas. My own initial acceptance took over a year. I don't know how long I'm going to have to wait for approval of my AoS (assuming I AM approved), and of course I'd rather it was sooner rather than later, but I do understand the priorities the President has right now, and I understand that people are working hard.

I'm sorry you seem to be taking this as a personal attack. Maybe you should take a breather and stop lashing out at people who differ from you.

[TBoneTX 45,297]

OBTW, did not imply that I was speaking for all on this website. Strictly a matter of interpretation. In addition to an English course, maybe a hobby would be a good thing to get...

As was pointed out in my earlier post, and as has been reinforced by LDora: Your wording very clearly included all members of VJ. What part of I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance implies otherwise? English course, indeed. Edited February 26, 2009 by TBoneTX

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Here is the letter that I faxed to the White House a couple of minutes ago. The fax number is: 202-456-2461, anyone can send a fax. Also, at www.whitehouse.gov/contact they have a page where you can send comments, etc (up to 5,000 characters) instead of or in addition to faxing.

It would be better if everyone did this but, I/we cannot control that. As long as I have ink in my pen I will be sending letters. Nothing ever gets changed by sitting back and complaining. If you want change then take up your pen and write, fax, email everyone you can think of. Again, change will not occur without effort....

Please, for everyone's sake - take some time and make the effort. Even if it does not help you, maybe the person two months from now may benefit....

Mr. President:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays.

......

#######? I mean, good for you writing to the President, but why just lump all VJ members with you?

[Minya's wife 24]

Here is the letter that I faxed to the White House a couple of minutes ago. The fax number is: 202-456-2461, anyone can send a fax. Also, at www.whitehouse.gov/contact they have a page where you can send comments, etc (up to 5,000 characters) instead of or in addition to faxing.

It would be better if everyone did this but, I/we cannot control that. As long as I have ink in my pen I will be sending letters. Nothing ever gets changed by sitting back and complaining. If you want change then take up your pen and write, fax, email everyone you can think of. Again, change will not occur without effort....

Please, for everyone's sake - take some time and make the effort. Even if it does not help you, maybe the person two months from now may benefit....

Mr. President:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays.

......

#######? I mean, good for you writing to the President, but why just lump all VJ members with you?

yeah, what Len said! Kudos to you for being all pro-active and #######, but please think twice next time about speaking for (or implying that you represent)the entire membership of VJ.

-P