missed I-485(green card) interview

[ez4u2nv 0]

My wife and I missed our interview due to her health emergency. After arriving late we were instructed to send an explanation letter with emergency notice from the hospital . The gentlemen we encountered seemed to be annoyed with us. 1 day later , while our letter to request a new interview was in the mail, we received a i-485 denial notice in the mail, stating my wife has 30 days to leave. It also said if we want to appeal or reopen the case we need to fill out a form that cost 585$ to process. Is this really what i think it is? or did the letter automatically get sent once we missed the interview? The letter has the same date on it as my interview , is it standard? Has anyone had this problem, and if so how did your situation get resolved.

Thanks

[f1_gurl 0]

My wife and I missed our interview due to her health emergency. After arriving late we were instructed to send an explanation letter with emergency notice from the hospital . The gentlemen we encountered seemed to be annoyed with us. 1 day later , while our letter to request a new interview was in the mail, we received a i-485 denial notice in the mail, stating my wife has 30 days to leave. It also said if we want to appeal or reopen the case we need to fill out a form that cost 585$ to process. Is this really what i think it is? or did the letter automatically get sent once we missed the interview? The letter has the same date on it as my interview , is it standard? Has anyone had this problem, and if so how did your situation get resolved.

Thanks

You may want to contact your congressman to help u with ur case...

[Brad&Ameq 0]

Well denial of the case can be serious, what you may be able to do is file to appeal the case or motion whichever the denial says to do. Then call the NCSC 1-800-375-5283 and tell the CSR that the office made a error in denial of your case and the CSR will take a request for you. It will be sent to the office with an explaination of why you believe the case had a error of judication. If the office reviews the request and receives your letter for request to reschedule and they determine an error occurred they will refund your money for the appeal and resume case processing.

THIS SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A APPEAL OR MOTION. File the appeal or motion like it says, then call.

Otherwise you can make a infopass appointment with the office or request transfer on the NCSC line so a immigration officer can do something for you.

Hope this helps. Thanks

[ez4u2nv 0]

You may want to contact your congressman to help u with ur case...

I set up an infopass appointment. I don't see a reason for having to file an appeal, but i want to make sure. I think its total insanity that they would send you a denial notice the same day you miss your interview. Even on the receipt itself it says if you have an emergency that you "must call as soon as possible" which we did. Ill stay in touch with the forum and post results of the appointment on Thursday.

[Brad&Ameq 0]

True, but if you want something bad enough you will go through checks and loans like peanut butter!

You can make the appointment, they may be able to help you. But its always best to file the appeal that way you have that pending. But then again its up to you really. I Can tell you this, you have 15 days for a family petition and 30 days to appeal a case. Just trying to save you sometime.

[ez4u2nv 0]

True, but if you want something bad enough you will go through checks and loans like peanut butter!

You can make the appointment, they may be able to help you. But its always best to file the appeal that way you have that pending. But then again its up to you really. I Can tell you this, you have 15 days for a family petition and 30 days to appeal a case. Just trying to save you sometime.

Ok I went to the infopass appointment; keep in mind going to infopass you are talking directly to an uscis agent.

The agent reopened my case and told me it’s a good thing I came in, because the letter I sent them was on file but the person that put it in my file didn’t reopen my case, although they should have. Anyway the agent told me that he would give me an interview that day but mostly everyone is busy or training at the moment and to give him our phone number so he can schedule us for next week. He didn’t want us to wait for the automated process, so he is going to process our request manually. The person that we met at the info pass appointment is the same person that will interview us next week. He seemed annoyed at the agent that first handled us; cause he just passed off the work to someone else and/or deliberately mishandled our case because has a jerk.

The agent we talked to also told us that the computer said we had missing information; he had our file in front of him and told us that it was a mistake and our information wasn’t reviewed properly. It was in the file in front of him but no one ever looked at it besides him(they just stamped the first page of the affidavit of support, without looking at the rest of it).. He cleared it up on the spot.

So to some things up, we missed an interview because of a medical emergency. We did not notify the USCIS until after our interview was scheduled. We went to the interview 5 hours late, we were not accepted, We were then told to write a letter and send proof of emergency to the place of interview (which we sent the same day), and told that they would reopen the case and reschedule (which was a lie).The same day we scheduled an info pass appointment for the following week. Two days later we received a LETTER OF DENIAL of application with instructions to file an appeal, which cost 585$. We didn’t agree with this so we figured info pass will clear it up. When we got to info pass the guy got our file and opened it, the letter we sent was on the top of the stack (so they received it, but didn’t do anything to our case, it stayed denied at this point). So if anyone misses an interview and had a legit reason all you have to do is make an info pass appointment and show that an emergency happened. Or at least this is what happened in my case, anything could happen in yours. GOOD LUCK

Edited February 5, 2010 by ez4u2nv

[VanessaTony 3,567]

Ok I went to the infopass appointment; keep in mind going to infopass you are talking directly to an uscis agent.

The agent reopened my case and told me it’s a good thing I came in, because the letter I sent them was on file but the person that put it in my file didn’t reopen my case, although they should have. Anyway the agent told me that he would give me an interview that day but mostly everyone is busy or training at the moment and to give him our phone number so he can schedule us for next week. He didn’t want us to wait for the automated process, so he is going to process our request manually. The person that we met at the info pass appointment is the same person that will interview us next week. He seemed annoyed at the agent that first handled us; cause he just passed off the work to someone else and/or deliberately mishandled our case because has a jerk.

The agent we talked to also told us that the computer said we had missing information; he had our file in front of him and told us that it was a mistake and our information wasn’t reviewed properly. It was in the file in front of him but no one ever looked at it besides him(they just stamped the first page of the affidavit of support, without looking at the rest of it).. He cleared it up on the spot.

So to some things up, we missed an interview because of a medical emergency. We did not notify the USCIS until after our interview was scheduled. We went to the interview 5 hours late, we were not accepted, We were then told to write a letter and send proof of emergency to the place of interview (which we sent the same day), and told that they would reopen the case and reschedule (which was a lie).The same day we scheduled an info pass appointment for the following week. Two days later we received a LETTER OF DENIAL of application with instructions to file an appeal, which cost 585$. We didn’t agree with this so we figured info pass will clear it up. When we got to info pass the guy got our file and opened it, the letter we sent was on the top of the stack (so they received it, but didn’t do anything to our case, it stayed denied at this point). So if anyone misses an interview and had a legit reason all you have to do is make an info pass appointment and show that an emergency happened. Or at least this is what happened in my case, anything could happen in yours. GOOD LUCK

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