touch?

[kcrand 0]

I am very interested to know if someone knows here, it would be nice to get a clear answer as to what is going on.

You receive your NOA-1. All excited, but know you have still Many Many lonely nights.

What is happening with your file. for example, if your noa 1 date is 12/3/08, and you are registered online for email updates, and check the site frequently only to find out that your last update is still 12/3/08. Is your file sitting at the middle or bottom of this big long pile?

then....

lets say you get an RFE, and you send back the rfe, which now shows the update as the date they receive the RFE. The letter on the RFE says they can take up to 60 days to decide. Now what is going on with your file? Are you sitting in the RFE pile where only one person looks at and responds to these? Why after waiting for 4 months would you have to wait an additional 2?

Maybe if I understood their procedures, like what are they processing? When they are processing what are they doing? heck if we took 3-4 hrs to put this package together, you would thing with all the employees that work on these cases, 1-2 hrs should be sufficient for them under the "trained eye" to approve or deny.

Kc

[brnidokiegurl 0]

i look at a touch as only a possibility someone TOUCHED you case by scanning it for whatever reason it maybe just to move from one desk to another, maybe they are reading it, maybe they are putting it back in the file cabinet, not sure anyone knows for sure

[BaWa 0]

i look at a touch as only a possibility someone TOUCHED you case by scanning it for whatever reason it maybe just to move from one desk to another, maybe they are reading it, maybe they are putting it back in the file cabinet, not sure anyone knows for sure

That's how I've been seeing it too so far. I think TOUCH means someone grabbed your case, maybe checked some dates or items, entered it (partially) in the system, verified claims or just moved it from one desk to the next one.

It could mean nothing, or it could mean everything. All we can do is sit back and hope for the best.

--BaWa

Edited May 5, 2009 by BaWa

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I am very interested to know if someone knows here, it would be nice to get a clear answer as to what is going on.

You receive your NOA-1. All excited, but know you have still Many Many lonely nights.

What is happening with your file. for example, if your noa 1 date is 12/3/08, and you are registered online for email updates, and check the site frequently only to find out that your last update is still 12/3/08. Is your file sitting at the middle or bottom of this big long pile?

then....

lets say you get an RFE, and you send back the rfe, which now shows the update as the date they receive the RFE. The letter on the RFE says they can take up to 60 days to decide. Now what is going on with your file? Are you sitting in the RFE pile where only one person looks at and responds to these? Why after waiting for 4 months would you have to wait an additional 2?

Maybe if I understood their procedures, like what are they processing? When they are processing what are they doing? heck if we took 3-4 hrs to put this package together, you would thing with all the employees that work on these cases, 1-2 hrs should be sufficient for them under the "trained eye" to approve or deny.

Kc

I have a neighbor that works at the VSC. And while she is absolutely closed mouthed about anything negative, or any internal "secrets", she has explained this to me and what it can mean, among other things. Basically it is benign, means nothing really. It means your file was either looked at or moved to another person for some reason. Possible reasons? The adjudicator that was assigned to your case quit or went on extended leave (maternity) and the case was given to someone else (to the end of line, please) or it was looked at and something needs to be verified, in which case it is given to someone else to find the necessary information or verification. Or it was looked at and found to be lacking something and you will receive an RFE. She advises that a "so called touch" is rarely a good thing, sometimes a bad thing...mostly it is just a thing. Part of normal processing. She also advises it is rare for a file to be moved from one adjudicator to another and that the majority of files will be processed without a "touch" except for when they are reviewed and approved. The vast majority of files spend all their time "waiting in line", come to the top of the stack and are procesed and approved about 15 minutes after they come to the top, so to speak.

Other than that she doesn't say much about the process why it takes so long, etc. She did tell me last fall they have hired a "bunch of new people". There is now word that a large part of the office will be moving to Essex, VT, about 20 minutes south. She does not know if it will be the part that services visas (or at least is not saying, which is typical) They do much more than process K visas at the VSC.

PS: I told her I think it is randomly generated government "chewing gum" for the masses to give VJ members something to talk about while they wait, the government version of a gossip tabloid. She laughed, but kind of a wicked laugh.

Edited May 5, 2009 by Gary and Alla