any other people living abroad not get "auto expidited"

[yousufwalton 0]

So in the packet i included all required documents + some others.

The others were to prove my living abroad for more then 6 months.

Copy of my visa for indonesia showing a start date from may 2011, a copy of my temporary residence card showing the same start date / showing my expire date for may 2012

Copy of our sons crba / passport showing issuance in jakarta in dec2011/jan2012 among on the cover letter and bio data form showing current Indonesian addresses.

It was accepted Jan 27 2012 and still shows no notice of action or being touched.

called in tried to explain the situation to them, they basically told me shut up your lying etc(but in kinder words) They told me the only way to be recognized as filing abroad is to send it to the regional office or local office of the country you live in.... so any ways . requested an expedite on basis of my being jobless and us struggling to just survive here. they said ok wait up to 15 days you will get a letter with information of what to send us. well that letter got my my house in the usa and my parents got it and it wasn't a letter saying what to send it was just saying they wont do it. so the person on the phone lied to me as well.

so my mom and dad took the letters i sent with the package to the congressman and senators office in our home town ( they have local branches in our city. ) and they both said they would help on on the accounts of my mothers extreme illness , my visa expiring , uscis giving me false information , and my joblessness overseas causing finical hardship. and that it should had been processed faster living overseas....... So i feel happy and thankful to god and my family that the senators and congressman teams agreed to help us with this.

Ive been in indonesia for 26 months ( a bit more actually ) so i have no idea why they did this and basically led me on with false info on the telephone.

So anyways Who else living overseas did not get put in the "fast que" or auto expedite que "

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.

[Matt & Rocio 28]

Did you list your address in Indonesia or the United States under section B. Information about you, question number 2. Address on the I-130, Petition for Alien Relative form?

Since there is no international field office in Indonesia for USCIS you should be eligible for the faster queue that is rumored to exist for US Citizens living abroad with their spouse. I say rumored to exist because there is no definitive proof that this queue actually exists. There are a number of VJ members who reside overseas with their spouse and have reported receiving their NOA2 in just a few weeks so there is evidence to suggest that it does indeed exist.

Given my experience with USCIS customer support I doubt they even know it exists. These customer support representatives are trained to give very generic answers to your questions. If they can't give you a straight answer they suggest you contact an immigration attorney or a community based organization. What they should really say is to join visajourney.com

[chaine1 116]

Ditto Matt & Rocio.

I think the key to being placed in the 'filed from abroad queue' is placing your address abroad under question B2 on the I-130. Without that, you were probably placed in the normal queue.

And yeah, the USCIS customer support doesn't know this exists. I once called and mentioned this possibility and the agent got a little huffy and told me 'everyone is processed in the order in which they are received. There is no fast-tracking without an authorized expedite.' That statement is wrong. We were expedited as I am a USC abroad.

[Matt & Rocio 28]

Ditto Matt & Rocio.

I think the key to being placed in the 'filed from abroad queue' is placing your address abroad under question B2 on the I-130. Without that, you were probably placed in the normal queue.

And yeah, the USCIS customer support doesn't know this exists. I once called and mentioned this possibility and the agent got a little huffy and told me 'everyone is processed in the order in which they are received. There is no fast-tracking without an authorized expedite.' That statement is wrong. We were expedited as I am a USC abroad.

That is what i'm thinking as well. That's why I asked the OP if they used their foreign or US address in that field.

When I filed in July of 2011 the option for Direct Consular Filing existed, but you had to be a legal resident for a minimum of 6 months of the country you were filing from in order to qualify.

[jaycali 415]

So in the packet i included all required documents + some others.The others were to prove my living abroad for more then 6 months.Copy of my visa for indonesia showing a start date from may 2011, a copy of my temporary residence card showing the same start date / showing my expire date for may 2012Copy of our sons crba / passport showing issuance in jakarta in dec2011/jan2012 among on the cover letter and bio data form showing current Indonesian addresses.It was accepted Jan 27 2012 and still shows no notice of action or being touched.called in tried to explain the situation to them, they basically told me shut up your lying etc(but in kinder words) They told me the only way to be recognized as filing abroad is to send it to the regional office or local office of the country you live in....

What address did you list in the initial petition? And what kind of visa do you hold? It's not enough to show you've been there for 6 months, you'll have to have had residence there. being there and living there are two different things. I'm not sure if they accept temporary visas for expedite purposes.

so any ways . requested an expedite on basis of my being jobless and us struggling to just survive here. they said ok wait up to 15 days you will get a letter with information of what to send us. well that letter got my my house in the usa and my parents got it and it wasn't a letter saying what to send it was just saying they wont do it. so the person on the phone lied to me as well.so my mom and dad took the letters i sent with the package to the congressman and senators office in our home town ( they have local branches in our city. ) and they both said they would help on on the accounts of my mothers extreme illness , my visa expiring , uscis giving me false information , and my joblessness overseas causing finical hardship. and that it should had been processed faster living overseas....... So i feel happy and thankful to god and my family that the senators and congressman teams agreed to help us with this. Ive been in indonesia for 26 months ( a bit more actually ) so i have no idea why they did this and basically led me on with false info on the telephone.

Unless your congressman scares them, you won't get an expedite for any of these reasons. In their eyes, you can go back to the US at any time. If your visa is expiring, or you're jobless in Indonesia, there is no reason in their eyes that you can't just go back to the US.

Edited March 13, 2012 by jhsm85

[yousufwalton 0]

I have been in Indonesia since January 2010, first tourist to come in and process the papers , then a social visa, then a Kitas ( its a temporary residence permit ( foreigners cant just get residence permit easy) then after that got married the job sponsored visa expired. went to Singapore for an afternoon to get a social visa in my wife's name came back got the Kitas in my wife's name. ( again kitas is the temporary residence ((the best i could get)) you have to be married for like 3 years on the same sponsor for your permits here to get Permanent residence here.

The kitas here is a 1 year extendable Permit ( its not actually a visa ) but to extend it you have to have like 2000 dollars in a bank account which i don't.

for me to "just go back to the usa" would be me leaving my wife and my 1 year old US citizen son alone and she would not be able to handle international travel alone she has just never traveled. the financial reason there is one thing, My family is the US is paying for this all. my parents and my aunt. my mothers medical reasons re another thing as well that is being documented. ( there is a 5 page letter from her doctor ) and no i cant just go back to the usa i just don't have the money. my situation here just turned bad in a short amount of time. with some changes in the indonesians govermental regulation regarding foreigners / work / marriage. there is a big issue where immigration and manpower ministries here are fighting against each other with their different regulations. it has not only affected me but many people from many countries.

on the i130 had my us address because we NEVER receive mail from the States if it is sent to us. Indonesian postal service is one of the worst in the world. with corruption cheating and stealing of peoples mail is ever so common. Every thing else i mean every thing else from all the other forms to all of the documentation and evidence and cover letter etc they have copies of my visas since i have been here copies of my temporary residence cards since i have been here , copies of my police registration cards since i have been here. copies of everything needed to show me living here for 2 year and at the very least showing with no doubt a minimal of 6 months ( but the 2 years is ever so clearly shown) have me living in Indonesia. )

So basically the people at the senators office and the congressman's office are going to work together they believe that with all of the issues they will be able to help this progress in the allotted time frame they said it should work out ok.

InsaAllah just keep us in your prayers for my family here and for my mother who's very sick back in the states.

[foofurrah 4]

I'm in the regular cue, although I reside abroad with my wife. I could have filed at the Consulate, regret not having done so now that it's taking so long. I filed 10 months before our planned move to the US, at the time I-130s were taking about 4 months. I also didn't realize filing at the Consulate would be faster. I listed the US address on the I-130 although I made it clear on that and other forms that we reside together abroad. Perhaps whoever originally accepted the form didn't read it very carefully?

[Laure&Colin 558]

I'm sorry to say but some of you are just making things up here: there's no evidence whatsoever that you need to have been overseas for over 6 months or to have a legal status in the country you reside in to be placed in the fast queue. This is just assumptions based on what DCF requirements were when it still existed.

There's no hard evidence that this queue is reserved to petitioners filing from a country that doesn't have a USCIS field office either.

The only fact we know for sure is that this queue has existed since September/October, the details are unknown since it's impossible to get an official confirmation.

It's a good idea to make a "survey" to try and understand why some members are not placed in this queue, but we can't start by speculating on the reasons.

I suggest using a little questionnaire, valid for all USC petitioners living abroad, to help us pinpoint the exact process. I think I'm going to post it in a new thread. Please come and give your answers so we can analyse the data

[Laure&Colin 558]

Posted the little survey here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/357465-usc-petitioner-living-abroad/

Please take a minute to answer so we all have answers!