Returning Petitions to the United States via 221g

[limah 1]

I am really wondering whats going on with this I-129 that is allegedly supposed to be expired.

USCIS is not really a big help at all. I got this email today..............

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: MSC**********

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: This case is now pending at the office to which it was

transferred.

The I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) that was transferred to our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location is now pending there. You will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when this case will be done, counting from when USCIS received it. This case is at our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You

can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

_________________

Some action is better than none, I must admit. I do at least feel good that we didnt fall into the abyss of lost apps!

[limah 1]

I am really wondering whats going on with this I-129 that is allegedly supposed to be expired.

USCIS is not really a big help at all. I got this email today..............

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: MSC**********

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: This case is now pending at the office to which it was

transferred.

The I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E) that was transferred to our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location is now pending there. You will be notified by mail when a decision is made, or if the office needs something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when this case will be done, counting from when USCIS received it. This case is at our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You

can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status & Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

_________________

Some action is better than none, I must admit. I do at least feel good that we didnt fall into the abyss of lost apps!

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO FRIGGIN CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got off the phone with USCIS and this lady tells me the I-129 is still valid. What the?????? She told me not to be concerned with the dates on the NOA 2, and that it is still being processed and when the make a decision on it, they will either deny it or send it back to Casa for a 2nd interview????????? I am so trippin right now and I dont know what to think!!???

[chiquita 0]

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I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO FRIGGIN CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got off the phone with USCIS and this lady tells me the I-129 is still valid. What the?????? She told me not to be concerned with the dates on the NOA 2, and that it is still being processed and when the make a decision on it, they will either deny it or send it back to Casa for a 2nd interview????????? I am so trippin right now and I dont know what to think!!???

i sooooooooooo understand!

it is ok though.

check this out!

i was told yesterday by an immigration officer in our local office that those people who answer the calls are people who are contracted out and know NOTHING!!!

i wanted so much to ask WHY then do we not get to talk to a REAL officer. but i wanted her not to get pissed off since she was already was a ######.

we are trying to get our green card situation straightened out now since Aug 06. we are in the black hole again where one office says one thing and another says another and those on the phone say another. trust me it is enough to drive you nuts! but i at least have my husband here with me to go through this together.

i would not put to much into what anyone says until you get the official notice. maybe, just maybe then you will get a glimmer of what the heck is going on. event that notice could be wrong from my experience.

hang in there. no one will ever understand what is like going through this until it happens to them. many claim they do but it is not true. we know and that is all that matters.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

chi

[limah 1]

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO FRIGGIN CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just got off the phone with USCIS and this lady tells me the I-129 is still valid. What the?????? She told me not to be concerned with the dates on the NOA 2, and that it is still being processed and when the make a decision on it, they will either deny it or send it back to Casa for a 2nd interview????????? I am so trippin right now and I dont know what to think!!???

i sooooooooooo understand!

it is ok though.

check this out!

i was told yesterday by an immigration officer in our local office that those people who answer the calls are people who are contracted out and know NOTHING!!!

i wanted so much to ask WHY then do we not get to talk to a REAL officer. but i wanted her not to get pissed off since she was already was a ######.

we are trying to get our green card situation straightened out now since Aug 06. we are in the black hole again where one office says one thing and another says another and those on the phone say another. trust me it is enough to drive you nuts! but i at least have my husband here with me to go through this together.

i would not put to much into what anyone says until you get the official notice. maybe, just maybe then you will get a glimmer of what the heck is going on. event that notice could be wrong from my experience.

hang in there. no one will ever understand what is like going through this until it happens to them. many claim they do but it is not true. we know and that is all that matters.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

chi

The things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMM...... What's the purpose of their jobs then? For the people that dont have internet access. I dont get it? Where are they getting the "extra" information from then, are they just making it up?

Even when I do get the hard copy in the mail, its going to say the same thing as the email does. I've forwarded both emails to the reps and I am waiting on a reply from him. I'm just anxious to see what he says.

[paisita411 0]

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!

I just got home from visiting my husband in Colombia last night (6/17/07) and of course, today I'm sitting at work completely bummed out because although we had a wonderful time together, everytime someone asks me how my trip was I want to say "TERRIBLE!! I'm here and he's there and we don't know when he's coming!!!" It takes all my strenght not to cry everytime.

Well....my cell phone rings..ID UNAVAILABLE...I'm so busy that I hesitate to answer b/c its probably a bill collector (ha ha ha), but I think, sometimes when the hubby calls it says the same thing...so I answered......

"This is the vice-consul from the US Embassy in Bogota..." I almost fell out of my chair! "We have your husband's application under administrative review and want to offer you another opportunity to interview in Bogota" The lady is as nice and polite as she can be, she tells me that the police certificate and medical are all valid and that she only needs me to send her an updated I-864 with this year's tax return and how SOON DO YOU WANT THE INTERVEIW? (YESTERDAY) She says that the embassy understands that long distance relationships are difficult and that they have to be very carefull about situtations with marriage fraud (she was almost apologizing to me)...then she says to me...."do you remember that I was the one that interviewed you and your husband in Februrary?" I SURE DID! So with that I started to explain away some of the concerns she raised at the interveiw and she said "lets not revisit the interview, I'm going to give you the opporutnity to have another interview with another officer and to provide more evidence" I told her that I just got home from Colombia last night and she said "that's great! that will be very beneficial to proving the validity of your marriage"

I don't know if this was prompted by my constant pestering of my congressman, incestant prayers to the Almighty or what, but I thank God first for this unbelievable turn of events and secondly to the support from the VJ community!

I have a meeting with my boss today to formally request the time off (I'm out of vacation days and just got home yesterday!) and as soon as I get the OK at work I'm emailing her with my availability for the appointment!!!!!!! It looks like we can have an interview in less than a month!!!

I had to share this with my VJ community

[JODO 2]

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!

I just got home from visiting my husband in Colombia last night (6/17/07) and of course, today I'm sitting at work completely bummed out because although we had a wonderful time together, everytime someone asks me how my trip was I want to say "TERRIBLE!! I'm here and he's there and we don't know when he's coming!!!" It takes all my strenght not to cry everytime.

Well....my cell phone rings..ID UNAVAILABLE...I'm so busy that I hesitate to answer b/c its probably a bill collector (ha ha ha), but I think, sometimes when the hubby calls it says the same thing...so I answered......

"This is the vice-consul from the US Embassy in Bogota..." I almost fell out of my chair! "We have your husband's application under administrative review and want to offer you another opportunity to interview in Bogota" The lady is as nice and polite as she can be, she tells me that the police certificate and medical are all valid and that she only needs me to send her an updated I-864 with this year's tax return and how SOON DO YOU WANT THE INTERVEIW? (YESTERDAY) She says that the embassy understands that long distance relationships are difficult and that they have to be very carefull about situtations with marriage fraud (she was almost apologizing to me)...then she says to me...."do you remember that I was the one that interviewed you and your husband in Februrary?" I SURE DID! So with that I started to explain away some of the concerns she raised at the interveiw and she said "lets not revisit the interview, I'm going to give you the opporutnity to have another interview with another officer and to provide more evidence" I told her that I just got home from Colombia last night and she said "that's great! that will be very beneficial to proving the validity of your marriage"

I don't know if this was prompted by my constant pestering of my congressman, incestant prayers to the Almighty or what, but I thank God first for this unbelievable turn of events and secondly to the support from the VJ community!

I have a meeting with my boss today to formally request the time off (I'm out of vacation days and just got home yesterday!) and as soon as I get the OK at work I'm emailing her with my availability for the appointment!!!!!!! It looks like we can have an interview in less than a month!!!

I had to share this with my VJ community

Good Luck

Edited June 19, 2007 by JODO

[morocco4ever 63]

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!

I just got home from visiting my husband in Colombia last night (6/17/07) and of course, today I'm sitting at work completely bummed out because although we had a wonderful time together, everytime someone asks me how my trip was I want to say "TERRIBLE!! I'm here and he's there and we don't know when he's coming!!!" It takes all my strenght not to cry everytime.

Well....my cell phone rings..ID UNAVAILABLE...I'm so busy that I hesitate to answer b/c its probably a bill collector (ha ha ha), but I think, sometimes when the hubby calls it says the same thing...so I answered......

"This is the vice-consul from the US Embassy in Bogota..." I almost fell out of my chair! "We have your husband's application under administrative review and want to offer you another opportunity to interview in Bogota" The lady is as nice and polite as she can be, she tells me that the police certificate and medical are all valid and that she only needs me to send her an updated I-864 with this year's tax return and how SOON DO YOU WANT THE INTERVEIW? (YESTERDAY) She says that the embassy understands that long distance relationships are difficult and that they have to be very carefull about situtations with marriage fraud (she was almost apologizing to me)...then she says to me...."do you remember that I was the one that interviewed you and your husband in Februrary?" I SURE DID! So with that I started to explain away some of the concerns she raised at the interveiw and she said "lets not revisit the interview, I'm going to give you the opporutnity to have another interview with another officer and to provide more evidence" I told her that I just got home from Colombia last night and she said "that's great! that will be very beneficial to proving the validity of your marriage"

I don't know if this was prompted by my constant pestering of my congressman, incestant prayers to the Almighty or what, but I thank God first for this unbelievable turn of events and secondly to the support from the VJ community!

I have a meeting with my boss today to formally request the time off (I'm out of vacation days and just got home yesterday!) and as soon as I get the OK at work I'm emailing her with my availability for the appointment!!!!!!! It looks like we can have an interview in less than a month!!!

I had to share this with my VJ community

This is incredibly good news, and surprising that the consulate actually treated you with respect. Casa just doesn't do that, even to the US citizen. It kind of sounds like whatever happened in your case has caused this women some big doo doo, and they are giving you a second chance because of her screw up. Be prepared, take everything, provide letters of support from both yours and his family. Good luck and let us know as things unfold.

[paisita411 0]

We have our interview date!!!!!!!!! July 23, 2007 in Bogota. They did not require us to call to schedule through the automated system or to pay the customary fees, the vice-consul emailed me and said that she personally placed us on the list!!! Thank you for your well wishes and for the advice. Believe me, this time I'm going armed to the tee with all of the evidence of our relationship.

Dre

[Aniomaman 0]

We just found out our own petition is being returned to the states as well for 'invalid relationship'. Myself and my Fiancee are both Africans but then she is a Naturalised US citizen while am a UK Resident. It sucks how someone can just see you and decide that you don't have a VALID RELATIONSHIP, I wonder how valid the CO's relationship is. It's quite devastating but then we going to see the end of it. Please any ideas on how we can go about this or maybe stopping them from sending it back so we could even have a 2nd interview. The silly @ss CO still has my passport even which is so annoying, he said he wanted to do some A/R but then my fiancee only found out about the intending revocation yesterday when she called DOS. She lives in Maryland, can she contact her Congressman or what would be the suggested step we should be taking cos I realise if it goes back then it would take quite a long time to get this back on track. Thanks for any suggestions, my PM is open as well to suggestions.

Many Thanks.

[Ta Ta 1]

So sorry to hear that Justchillin.

Yes, immediatley ask for a congressional inquiry before it leaves the post.

I hope others will come along and post with more help but really I think that is all you can do for now.

Get more relationship proof together for the congressman/senator but you have to act very quickly.

We have been on AP/AR for over 6 month, he is African and I am a naturalized German USC. I have been

reading in these return petition threads in case we end up like that.

God bless !

[Aniomaman 0]

Yes we are looking to go down that path for now. We are in no hurry as we are going to Nigeria in September for our traditional engagement and the whole family has bought tickets to fly back home, it just sucks that someone can see you in 5 minutes and decide your relationship is not valid; that's an insult really which is what we would be looking to overturn. I hope they get back to you, it would be very bad to have put you on AP for so long and then send it back but just believe God. Everything will be fine, you need each other now even more. Stay Blessed.

[Ta Ta 1]

Thanks, keep in touch.

You both will be in my prayers.

[paisita411 0]

Justchillin...

I'm glad that you have positive outlook, but maybe you don't realize that this could take up to 2 years? It is urgent that your fiancee get her congressman involved. Send him/her all the evidence including the plans for your formal engaement. You may still be able to stop them from sending back your case file. Also have her call the Embassy herself and ask to speak to the director of consular affairs and make her case. The more noise she makes, the more likely that you can handle this now. If they kept your passport, than it may be in Administrative Review and you have a better chance at a second interview. Good luck.

Dre

[morocco4ever 63]

These returned petitions are very time consumming, so it would be wise to contact your rep ASAP. Not many, but a few have been able to stop the return. It is rare though, but considering the alternative its worth the try. I highly doubt though that you can acheive this without assistance from your Rep.

One other point to this, even if it is returned, constance contact with a Rep will help keep your petition on their minds. Too many of them slip between the cracks because no one is pursuing it, and in their minds if your relationship is a fraud you would prefer that the case is just forgotten. So in other words it looks bad if you don't have your Rep involved.

I am impressed with your outlook though. I wonder, is that because you have the patience of a saint or that you just don't know what your up against?

Whatever the reason, I wish you the best.

[depressed 0]

I am protesting...I want this issue pinned!

Petitions Returned to the United States

More and more this is how Morocco is handling visa petitions, and it does not matter the amount of proof of relationship you provide. We need a central place to review/share extremely important information to help ourselves and others going through this issue. Possibly even prevent this from happening to others in the future.

I will gladly create a legible, credible, and searchable compilation of all immigration guidelines surrounding petition return/revocation, research, etc. if VJ would commit to pinning this issue for us. Even if it is only in the ME/NA forum...PIN IT PLEASE?????

~Kiya~

Hi I was wondering if anyone can help me as far as when they send back your petition for further review to Vermont if it has to go some where else first and also does Casablanca take forever to send it out... Also how long it takes for them to send you a letter letting you know what the review is about plus is there anything I can do in the mean time Thank u in advance for any help you can give me