Long Road from USCIS to NVC

[TraciB 0]

My case was approved on March 2, 2012. USCIS made an error and didn't immediatly forward to NVC. I spoke with a Tier-2 operator on March 2, 2012 and she stated that an oversight had been made and she was emailing the CSC to forward my application to the NVC. Well, here we are 3 weeks later and I have heard nothing. The NVC said that after tomorrow, I can scan my approval notice and they would research it.

I have spoken with my Congressman, he inquired on my file and received word back today that my I-130 is in transit to the NRC. I said wait, what is the NRC and he said the National Records Center. Now, why exactly would my file be going to the NRC? This is just crazy.

Does anyone out there have any ideas as to what I can do to get it where it needs to be? Every couple days, I call the NVC to check (they are the nicest and most informative) and then I call USCIS and they are just worthless. This is a USCIS error and its costing me valuable time.

Any ideas out there???

Thanks in advance.

Traci

[together4evr 360]

I think you are in for a long wait

Call a tier two and firmly tell them the file needs to be sent to NVC and not NRC

Also call your congressman again and ask them to please send a firm letter telling them to send the petition to NVC which is the correct place it should be

Good Luck

This will take 1-2 months to fix

Type in the search button for NRC and you will see many people went thru this LOST FILE thing and how long it takes to get your file back to USCIS so they can again forward it to the right place (NVC)

Edited March 22, 2012 by togetherforever13

[TraciB 0]

I think you are in for a long wait

Call a tier two and firmly tell them the file needs to be sent to NVC and not NRC

Also call your congressman again and ask them to please send a firm letter telling them to send the petition to NVC which is the correct place it should be

Good Luck

This will take 1-2 months to fix

Type in the search button for NRC and you will see many people went thru this LOST FILE thing and how long it takes to get your file back to USCIS so they can again forward it to the right place (NVC)

So infuriating! Thanks for your input! My congressman is following up making it very clear it needs to go to the NVC. It is unbelievable how poorly these people do their jobs and that there is no recourse.

Edited March 22, 2012 by TraciB

[together4evr 360]

I have good news-- i found one person who said it only took 2 weeks to fix it

Bad news-I found 2 people who said that since the file was sent to NRC they lost all the paperwork

So if I were you I would start preparing an entire new packet (hopefully you have a couple copies lying around) and just have it ready in case they say they lost it

Or maybe just offer to send in a whole new packet to a specific person so it will not take a month or more to fix their error

I am sorry this has happened.

[TraciB 0]

I have good news-- i found one person who said it only took 2 weeks to fix it

Bad news-I found 2 people who said that since the file was sent to NRC they lost all the paperwork

So if I were you I would start preparing an entire new packet (hopefully you have a couple copies lying around) and just have it ready in case they say they lost it

Or maybe just offer to send in a whole new packet to a specific person so it will not take a month or more to fix their error

I am sorry this has happened.

Oh I have everything and would be more than happy to send them a new copy but I want it expedited. Would I send it back to the Chicago Lockbox and start from scratch with my approval letter? I will overnight it today if you think that is the right way to go.. thanks again!!!

[together4evr 360]

Do not send it to chicago

do not send it without permission and a NAME to send it to at the NVC or USCIS. Get it in writing from your congressman or email to you for the tier 2 person.

And yes after it is fixed then ask for the expedite

When you call again speak to the tier two person and offer a new packet to see if that will HELP THEM. lol

The hoops we have to jump through are incredible!

[TraciB 0]

Do not send it to chicago

do not send it without permission and a NAME to send it to at the NVC or USCIS. Get it in writing from your congressman or email to you for the tier 2 person.

And yes after it is fixed then ask for the expedite

When you call again speak to the tier two person and offer a new packet to see if that will HELP THEM. lol

The hoops we have to jump through are incredible!

I just spoke with a supervisor at USCIS (the operator really didn't want to transfer me though). The supervisor said that she can see in the system that an email came through on March 9 stating that my file needed to be sent to the NVC. They can't do anything more for another 2 weeks. If the NVC does not have it by April 9, I need to call back and go to the next step. On Monday, I am going to email the NVC and have them open up a research case for it.

Yes, we jump through hoops and I am fine with that. My packet was clean and error free, I am willing to wait for them to do what they need to but the rest of these errors are just ridiculous. If I wasn't doing my job right, I wouldn't have my job...

Thanks again!

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