6/22/09 NEWS: Immigration agency says application backlog virtually gone ....

[Tini27 0]

I assume this is a very big lie??? People like estadia are still waiting around for the FBI years later?

Just tryin to understand Who is estadia?

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

First: your 10 year GC can be renewed until the end of time, unless you commit a crime that makes you a persona non grata in the US.

Secondly: Without having a crystal ball, I can assure you that I would have already hired an immigration lawyer and would be breathing down their necks with my worst morning breath. I would have called my congress person, visited my local newspaper, and published an essay stating your experience. One year? Hmmm . . . Two? Not acceptible! But 5 years? Give me a break!

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Estadia is a user here that applied i think about the same time as me for a K1 (fall 07). Her petition is still stuck in fbi checks. So thats +- 1.5 years. She hasn't sat back but has been proactive on this from calling ucis a ton to gov. reps to ombudsman but no one can help. It used to be that you could sue the government but they closed that loophole last year.

[Chocolot 0]

Gees, I have one of those pink birth certs too....lol, I hope my interviewer is a little more professional. I thought once you had the interview they could only make you wait six months before a decision.

Good luck, I think an infopass at your local office may be necessary to get it sorted out.

Oh boy, I sure hope they find my application soon. Mine has been with them since January 2004. I went for my interview over 5 years ago in Las Vegas. I had an officer interview me who could best be described as arrogant and flustered. I dressed nicely, aced everything on the test and the English language questions, had all my documents ready, but after the interview, she just said "I'll be in touch" without giving me a reason why she couldn't approve it. She kept saying "Where you documents???? Where you documents? " Yes that was how she spoke, English was not her greatest talent. I'd politely point it out amongst the HUGE pile of documents in front of her, exactly where it was when she looked right at it just two minutes earlier. "You have no birth certificate??!! (I'd point it out........) "This no birth certificate!! she said as she flipped it over and over " "It's British, I'd say, it probably doesn't look like the ones you normally see. (British birth certificates, at least in the 50's were rather large pink colored documents) Her eyes narrowed and she continued.. "Where you divorce certificate then huh?? (I'd flip a few pages on the tome in front of here ..'There it is" I'd say. I remember it a so clearly because it was surreal. I kid you not, this was how it all went. I couldn't believe it when she actually said at the end "You have kids? I replied casually " No, I've never really felt the urge" You no have kids?? You no want them? Why?? They are a gift from God..." Oh dear I thought, I'm sunk. If it had been going downhill already, now I was entering the black hole, never to escape.

And so it was. I waited three weeks, she still hadn't called. I arranged another meeting with her, she literally (and I MEAN literally) pushed me out the door. Put her hands on my back and shoved. Being the USCIS, I just rolled over (don't want to make a scene in their office with the armed guards, you understand) and went back outside with my tail between my legs, feeling very disheartened. I was totally confused by her behaviour and that was the last time I heard ANYTHING. She no longer answered my phone calls or the half dozen letters I personally addressed to her. Despite repeated calls letters, phoning my Congressman (Geoff Flake Dem AZ) and Senator John McCain (Rep AZ) I've still had zero action on it.

Sad but true. Anyway, that is my tale of woe. Luckily I have 5 years left on my 10 year Greencard. They way things have progressed so far, I'm gonna need every minute to sort this out.

Arizona Girl