O.K> group - I recieved a brown envelope from CSC today

[Mew 0]

What is Adminastrative Processing (or Adminastrative Review)? What will trigger it?

http://www.usaimmigrationattorney.com/Secu...tiveReview.html - useful link

There is a difference in Administrative Review and Administrative Processing. Bala and I were on Administrative Processing for almost eight months. We know there is a difference because whenever we would ask the DOS or Embassy about our "Review" they would correct us and say its "Processing not Review". We did not have any security checks ordered on our case, so our "processing" just involved the embassy "verifying information received at the interview". They made one phone call to my home (my son answered and they concluded I was living with a man here in the states ) and one phone call to Bala's home (and concluded from that call, that he was going to America to work), as far as we know and from what they told us, this is what our "administrative processing " consisted of. And it took a whole eight months to do that. As far as what can trigger it? "red flags". 1) Im older than Bala, 2) Im divorced,3) my ex husband is Asian. There are other things considered "red flags", and each CO can choose what they want to investigate further. No two petitions are alike, no two embassys are alike, and no to CO's are alike. So it just depends on a lot of things as to if you fall into Administrative Processing. Hope this helps. Best of luck to all.

Vicki/bala

About red flags: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...ic=22216&hl

[xiuyin 0]

What is Adminastrative Processing (or Adminastrative Review)? What will trigger it?

http://www.usaimmigrationattorney.com/Secu...tiveReview.html - useful link

There is a difference in Administrative Review and Administrative Processing. Bala and I were on Administrative Processing for almost eight months. We know there is a difference because whenever we would ask the DOS or Embassy about our "Review" they would correct us and say its "Processing not Review". We did not have any security checks ordered on our case, so our "processing" just involved the embassy "verifying information received at the interview". They made one phone call to my home (my son answered and they concluded I was living with a man here in the states ) and one phone call to Bala's home (and concluded from that call, that he was going to America to work), as far as we know and from what they told us, this is what our "administrative processing " consisted of. And it took a whole eight months to do that. As far as what can trigger it? "red flags". 1) Im older than Bala, 2) Im divorced,3) my ex husband is Asian. There are other things considered "red flags", and each CO can choose what they want to investigate further. No two petitions are alike, no two embassys are alike, and no to CO's are alike. So it just depends on a lot of things as to if you fall into Administrative Processing. Hope this helps. Best of luck to all.

Vicki/bala

Thanks for sharing the information. It helps. Best wish to you.

[jpine 0]

any new news on this issue

[MrLonely 0]

any new news on this issue

Update - I called the national customer service center yesterday as directed following my first letter to the director. (30 days). They show my original application in tact. The second letter that contained the amended first three pages (that was rejected because of no check) did not have any affect what-so-ever. The woman was extremely helpful and sympathetic. She took all sorts of information from me about my application. She told me that she would forward my request for action to California.

What was interesting from her comments after I told her That there have been many applications approved after several of us March petitioners have filed was that different cases call for different results. I told her that that did not make sense since the USCIS website backed up the processing date to February 23rd. Again, she could not explain why later applications were being approved. (Like this surprised me).

I will be watching my account to see if I recieve any touches after this call to the service center. I will keep every one advised of the situation.

But the good news again is that the "attempted amendment" did not affect the original application My receipt number was still active and still on hold.

Mike

[E&K 0]

Hi again Mike,

I have some news on this too. We received a letter from USCIS saying that they had received our inquiry, however they do not respond to e-mail or letter inquiries anymore and directed us to call their customer service number. Although no good news they are news, we didn't get any touches on our file either from this, so who knows what's in their heads.

Our next move will be to call them, but until monday, since then it will already be 6 months since we sent our application and they will have no excuse to brush us off this time.

I hope this time we do get answers, and I hope we all get our RFE's soon!!!!

Good luck!!