Contact congressman/senator

[SpelaD 4]

Hi. Im thinking of contacting our congressman due to my AP/EAD. I'd like to know how many of you have done it, what were your reason to have it expedited and how long it took to have AP/EAD approved after that?

[kiwirst 39]

Hi. Im thinking of contacting our congressman due to my AP/EAD. I'd like to know how many of you have done it, what were your reason to have it expedited and how long it took to have AP/EAD approved after that?

Hi.

I'm thinking of doing the same thing so I can get this moving but am also unsure how to go about it. From what I know & have heard from this site is if you have a firm offer of employment you can approach your congressman's office & ask if they will petition on your behalf to expedite your application under the grounds of 'Financial Hardship' I think.

Do you have a priority date on your NOA1?

Good Luck

Chris

[baron555 934]

Hi. Im thinking of contacting our congressman due to my AP/EAD. I'd like to know how many of you have done it, what were your reason to have it expedited and how long it took to have AP/EAD approved after that?

What's your reason?

[SpelaD 4]

my aunt is getting married and money is very tight. I'd like to continue with my nursing career, before I forget everything

[qcmeetsnc 1]

Here's my story:

Before my POE, I was employed by a US company, but working in Canada. So, they had to grant me a leave of absence while I was waiting for my EAD to resume working in the US. Before I "left", my employer gave me a letter explaining that they needed me back asap as I was their only employee who spoke French. Without me, many of our accounts would go unassisted for a while.

After I filed my AOS-EAD-AP docs, here is what I tried:

1. contacted the USCIS asking for an expedite and provided them with my employer's letter and my own to explain the situation. Never heard back from them.

2. contacted our congress representative 4 times by phone, once in person to have her help me expedite. When her aide finally called me back, she said that nothing could be done until 2 months had gone by.

3. made an InfoPass appointment but was told by an agent that nothing could be done until 3 months had gone by.

4. wrote a letter to our senator and her aide called me back 2 days later. The rest is history and in my timeline. Needless to say she was very helpful! She told me that "that's what we're here for. Please call me back if there's anything else I can do for you."

Bottom line is this: it is ultimately up to somebody else to decide if your case deserves to be expedited or not. As you can see, I was pretty desperate (and stubborn!), but it was worth it: I've been back at work since this past Monday!!!

Good luck to you!

[britnick77 0]

Will a child on the way count as "good enough reason"?

As, I need to work in order to save up funds. I am also considering this option, as I mailed my app on Nov. 18th, still have not received biometrics letter.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Moved from AOS forum to Working & Travelling During US Immigration forum as a more appropriate location.

[Dodi 69]

My husband's K1 went through smoothly, but after his POE everything went to Hades in a proverbial handbasket. The CBP officer who processed his POE wrote K1 in his passport/I-94 three times, but the person who entered him into the database put him in as a B2, and then proceeded to lose his hard copy file. We still have no idea if his file has been found. We only found out the file had gone nowhere when we met with a CBP officer at our local deferred inspection site to get the database error fixed. We then made a second Infopass appointment where we were told we'd need to "submit our AOS paperwork and hope for the best". Nice. Very reassuring. Then, we were informed on our third trip to the SSA office that when the Embassy processed his visa, they put his first and middle name into the First Name field, but nothing into the middle name field. It looked right on paper, but was wrong in the database because of this. The SSA refused to issue a SSN for him until the DHS would correct the problem. This caused another InfoPass appointment, with no results. In the end, we had to wait for the SSA people to get back to us. Then, a month after we were married, we discovered that our mail carrier had begun returning our mail as undeliverable for no apparent reason. We only discovered this when my grandparents gave us a card they'd sent for our wedding that they'd gotten back. We were able to meet with the postmaster at our local branch, but not before we'd missed his Biometrics letter, so we had to beg the USCIS to fax us a copy, as his appointment was less than a week after we found out. On the very same day, they sent us an RFE claiming I hadn't signed the I-864, when I have copies to prove that I did. I can only assume this means they've screwed up something else and needed to stop the 90 day clock on the EAD to give them more time without ruining their processing timeframes.

All of this required a lot of time off of work to attend appointments with my husband to try to fix these mistakes made by multiple government agencies. With me being the only one working to support our family of four, it has made things very hard for us financially.

I contacted our Senator's office on December 29th, just before noon. The immigration liaison was very sweet and emailed me a privacy release. I filled it in, signed it, and drafted a detailed letter explaining everything we'd been through, and had it back to her within the hour. She told me she'd get started that afternoon. Being the impatient person I am, I emailed her the next day around the same time to ask if she'd had any response. She said she had, but wasn't happy with their answer, so she'd sent off another email. No further word from her over the holiday weekend as expected, but on Monday, January 3, his EAD and AP both switched to approved, stating that card production on his EAD was ordered on 12/30, the day after we spoke to the Senator's immigration liaison. His AOS had been transferred to CSC on 12/27, but on 12/30 was transferred to the local office for processing, and we've had two touches since. I can only assume that she fast-tracked everything, not just the EAD.

I'm not saying it will work for everyone, but after all we had to go through due to gubmint mistakes, I'm grateful that someone went to bat for us. (And this was a conservative Republican's aide, while I'm a very liberal Democrat, so that's saying something!!) Just be honest, and make sure that you're thankful, and show your thanks. In the end, if they can't help you, you're no worse off than you were before you tried.

[Angelac 1]

We needed to expedite his AP as we needed to travel out of the country soon. I contacted the Immigration Liaison at the local Senators office and she has been a great help. She also suggested we make an InfoPass Appointment since it was such short notice. Kinda to hit them on both sides.

Had our InfoPass appointment this morning, and the IO worked on trying to see what he could do. He let us know that they are working on it, and while he can't promise anything, he was trying!

Called the Liaison back to give her an update, and she said she was still going to send the paperwork from her end also. So it is nice to see someone trying to help us out. After all the people we had to deal with in Barbados thus far, I have to say the local IO are much nicer!

[Darnell 8,478]

Dodi - double ouch !

please go back and bribe the post master !