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[newhampshire 0]

I am posting for several reasons.

1. According to the USCIS case status online, our application was received on March 1, 2006, updated on March 4, 2006, and has not been handled since. If this is correct, this means that our application has sat with no action for almost four months.

2. I am unable to get information on the actual status of my specific case. When I contact the national toll-free number, I only get a generic response stating that my “application is being processed” and that I “will be notified when…” No one can tell me where my application is in the process, what has been done to my application in the four months since the Vermont Service Center received it, or when I can expect word.

3. I belong to numerous online immigration/visa forums. Almost every other couple who submitted I-130 applications to the Vermont Service Center in late February/early March has already been approved. Why are applications submitted AFTER ours being approved, with no word on our application? In what order are applications processed (not by date of receipt?)? Could my application be misplaced? What could be holding up my application?

4. The processing dates listed on the USCIS website are not correct, sometimes go backwards, and show little or no progress. Although those dates are what the national toll-free number refers you to, they are of no use if they are not accurate and are not updated regularly. On March 1, 2006, the USCIS website showed that the Vermont Service Center was processing I-130 applications from December 5, 2005. Today, on June 28th, almost four months later, the USCIS website claims that Vermont is now processing I-130 applications from December 24, 2005! This means that Vermont only moved ahead 19 days in four entire months! At this rate, it will take an additional fifteen months (on top of the four months that have already passed) to process my application. Could this be true? And, if it is, why are other I-130 applications filed in February and March of 2006 being processed and approved now? None of this makes any sense.

5. Since we filed our I-130 application, I have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I have been very sick and truly need my husband present to assist me with activities of daily living and household tasks. Is there any way to expedite our application because of medical reasons?

I have contacted the national toll-free line several times, and have sent correspondence to political representatives, with no results.

What I am looking for?

•Definitive answers and explanations to each of my questions/concerns.

•The actual specific status of our I-130 application, and not a generic or canned response that gives us no information.

With all of the focus on illegal immigration, it should not be so time-consuming or expensive for legitimate spouses of US citizens to immigrate to the US, nor should families be separated for months or even years. Corporations are allowed to pay $1000 to have a work visa processed in 15 days. Why are corporations receiving better service than citizens/constituents? And why should anybody have to pay $1000 for service that is obviously possible to provide in a significantly much shorter period of time than is being done?

Thank You

Edited June 28, 2006 by newhampshire

[Eva Malahova 0]

When you get the answers to all those questions , please let me know, because I sure, would like to hear some good answers.

We are all in the same boat I am afraid, and while some of us are on a constant edge of mental breakdown, some find ways to meet and be with their loved ones when they can, some turn to matters of religion and spiritual re-birth...et cet...

None of the above makes the process faster, unless someone is in a military, pregnant or some other extreme situation we just have to wait.

Just like you said - it is government not a commercial entity and they don't get their business from providing good customer service they just follow the process with no good incentive other than perhaps benefits....

I don't get it either, especially why USC have to be apart from their immidiate family for so long, when you can just fly them to Mexico and walk over the border somewhere in a desert in a matter of days:)) We get punished for doing things the right way.