California to Texas & Texas to California - Part 2

[fermat 32]

david.badger@dhs.gov

Hello fermat, would you please post the email address for Mr.Badger? thanks

[Saylin 1,605]

question to everyone here...Is it possible to fill out the NVC forms for my wife with her married name, even if it has not been legally changed in her country nor in the US AND all I-130 paperwork was filled out under her maiden name? Would that ensure that her greencard would be under my last name or would it do nothing because her passport still shows her maiden name? To change her name in Colombia, it is rather long and it would not be my last name...it would be "DE *mylastnamehere*" so not my last name because of the DE part..anyone have any ideas on this?

My two cents:

Honestly, I'd keep filing out the paperwork in her maiden name. When I got denied last August, the immigration officer explained to me what visa I had to apply for, and one thing I remember, he suggested and highly recommended that I stay consistent with all my forms for my last name. Don't switch it up now. NVC might get confused that suddenly your wife has a different last name and there will be no documents to support it her new change. Plus, I'm not sure if what you're suggesting is legal since your wife hasn't legally changed her last name.

What I'm going to do, I'm waiting until I apply for US citizenship to legally change my last name in the US. I hear that the best time to legally change your last name to your married one is when getting naturalized. But of course, this depends if your wife wants to be a US citizen and if you and her want to wait that long.

I received an email saying that I got transferred to an USCIS office for a second time.. my signature below explains it all.

On a positive note, I guess someone is messing with my file.

You're being transferred all over the place

[fermat 32]

Try to channel your inner badger and write some nasty emails to some of the email addresses previously posted in this forum.

I received an email saying that I got transferred to an USCIS office for a second time.. my signature below explains it all.

On a positive note, I guess someone is messing with my file.

[SqdnGuns 21]

Try to channel your inner badger and write some nasty emails to some of the email addresses previously posted in this forum.

You need to BADGER your elected officials via Facebook and Twitter...........seems to be working for me now.

[xelance 31]

My two cents:

Honestly, I'd keep filing out the paperwork in her maiden name. When I got denied last August, the immigration officer explained to me what visa I had to apply for, and one thing I remember, he suggested and highly recommended that I stay consistent with all my forms for my last name. Don't switch it up now. NVC might get confused that suddenly your wife has a different last name and there will be no documents to support it her new change. Plus, I'm not sure if what you're suggesting is legal since your wife hasn't legally changed her last name.

What I'm going to do, I'm waiting until I apply for US citizenship to legally change my last name in the US. I hear that the best time to legally change your last name to your married one is when getting naturalized. But of course, this depends if your wife wants to be a US citizen and if you and her want to wait that long.

You're being transferred all over the place

thank you for the input :)I will keep them all the same like I was going to. Thanks again Saylin!

that badger looks vicious fermat, damn I wouldnt want to be caught in a dark alley with one of those bad boys.

[fermat 32]

Why were you denied?

. When I got denied last August,

[sarah et luc 7]

that badger looks vicious fermat, damn I wouldnt want to be caught in a dark alley with one of those bad boys.

Who'd win in a dark alley? Nurse Ratched or a badger or CIS?

Today in the mail I received a response to a service request I made on January 19th dated Feb 7

"The status of this service request: ...."

I also received ANOTHER hard copy of my NOA2 dated Feb 9th no longer Feb 7th...

BLERG!!!!

-Liz Lemon

Edited February 17, 2011 by sarah et luc

[Saylin 1,605]

Why were you denied?

First time was my own damn fault. I wasn't a member of VJ at the time and knew nothing about visas. I had just spent the summer with my husband in the USA and came back to Canada for a week. I thought that I could just go back to the USA and adjust my status there to get a green card. The officer kindly told me that was not legal and that I had to apply for a spousal visa. I also remember him telling me it would only take about 4 months. If that were true, I should have been in the USA at Christmas

[xelance 31]

Who'd win in a dark alley? Nurse Ratched or a badger or CIS?

Today in the mail I received a response to a service request I made on January 19th dated Feb 7

"The status of this service request: ...."

I also received ANOTHER hard copy of my NOA2 dated Feb 9th no longer Feb 7th...

BLERG!!!!

-Liz Lemon

another?! Im still waiting on my first hard copy lol

[sarah et luc 7]

another?! Im still waiting on my first hard copy lol

Yeah. I wish I could give them out.

So I'm still suffering from the flu and been calling NVC AVR about every 45 minutes or so (I've got the call down to 13 seconds BTW). So right now I've decided that I wanted to talk to a human.

THEY'RE WORKING ON MY CASE NUMBER RIGHT NOW! She said she couldn't look at the information because they were working on my case and that I should call back tomorrow for my case number, Little does she know that I'll be calling around 12:00am EST when they close just to talk to a human one last time.

So I called again to ask another question (about maiden name change) and she said we have it but it hasn't been put in the system and to give it another week.

Edited February 17, 2011 by sarah et luc

[xelance 31]

night time def. seems like the best time to call NVC...I called yesterday at about 1030 ET and spoke to an operator within 1 minute. Congrats!

[Saylin 1,605]

night time def. seems like the best time to call NVC...I called yesterday at about 1030 ET and spoke to an operator within 1 minute. Congrats!

I called at 5:17pm EST today and was less than a minute. I was shocked. Fastest time ever. I've been calling around 5:10pm all week and it's taking about 5 minutes. But today surprised me. I barely had time to register I was on hold before an operator came on.

Edited February 18, 2011 by Saylin

[elya4848 3]

I think that would ensure that her application be denied.

Use her legal name on all documents.

[fermat 32]

And don't do anything I wouldn't do.

Use her legal name on all documents.

[xelance 31]

more great news coming from our government:

"House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that he will not support a temporary measure to fund the government at current levels, even if a larger federal spending bill – called a “continuing resolution” – does not pass before a March 4 deadline. If no agreement is reached on the stopgap measure, a federal shutdown akin to one in the mid-1990s could result until a funding bill is passed."

LINK: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/17/6074524-leaders-up-the-ante-on-government-shutdown-threat

If we have a federal shutdown, we are all even more screwed.