Both I-130 and I-129 packages returned

[natte 0]

Hy guys,

Probably some of you know what it means. My husband is a n US citizen and he was applying for K-3 and K-4 for me and my daugher (we are in Russia) in March. We got NOA-1 for I-130 in May, so he sent I-129 papers immediately. A few weeks ago my husband called me saying that both packages from California and Missoury returned because "they couldn't verify spouse's address". Does anybody know what it means and why they came back? As I know they usually send a note asking to send them some additional papers or verifications, but none who has already gone through the whole process has ever heard of the return of papers.

Any ideas?

Edited October 28, 2006 by natte

[riblet 0]

I personally have never heard of this happening. If he can't see anything wrong with the petitions I would suggest either hiring an attorney or making an infopass appointment to see if they will point out the problem.

Hy guys,

Probably some of you know what it means. My husband is a n US citizen and he was applying for K-3 and K-4 for me and my daugher (we are in Russia) in March. We got NOA-1 for I-130 in May, so he sent I-129 papers immediately. A few weeks ago my husband called me saying that both packages from California and Missoury returned because "they couldn't verify spouse's address". Does anybody know what it means and why they came back? As I know they usually send a note asking to send them some additional papers or verifications, but none who has already gone through the whole process has ever heard of the return of papers.

Any ideas?

[natte 0]

I personally have never heard of this happening. If he can't see anything wrong with the petitions I would suggest either hiring an attorney or making an infopass appointment to see if they will point out the problem.

You see, he hired an attorney at first, but that person made such a mistake while filling in the forms, that they were not accepted at all (the person misspelt my husband's last name having a birth certificate in front of him), now that attorney has disappeared. So we have to go through the whole process on our own.

[Shakil 4]

Well.. I would suggest hiring a better attorney if the last one made such a stupid mistake. Nonetheless, this problem of getting forms returned can be solved by the Infopass appointment and going over there.

[Reba 2]

Sounds like maybe when they were running a background check on you, they counldn't verify your address in Russia somehow. Check how he wrote your address on the forms, maybe he got something wrong. Maybe the address was spelled different on each form or didn't match your ID or something. Could be anything.

When the forms have been returned as they have, then all you need to do is start all over from scratch. And check and double check that everything on the forms is spelled correctly, and that it all matches up.

[natte 0]

Thank you very much for your replies. I filled in that 4 page form by myself and definitely couldn't make any mistakes. All I wanted to know is if anyone has ever heard of both packages being returned to the petitioner. For me is seems rather weird and some people who has gone through the process think that way as well, they told me that even if the visa guys ever needed any additional papers they just informed about the petitioner either by email or regular mail, but never sent any papers back. I only want to know if I am the one who has such problem or not.

[Reba 2]

Ours were returned because the dimwit lawyer my husband hired sent it all to the wrong immigration office.

You're not the only one. Just try to figure out what was wrong with the forms, and then re-file them without the same mistakes.

[jonty 0]

Thank you very much for your replies. I filled in that 4 page form by myself and definitely couldn't make any mistakes. All I wanted to know is if anyone has ever heard of both packages being returned to the petitioner. For me is seems rather weird and some people who has gone through the process think that way as well, they told me that even if the visa guys ever needed any additional papers they just informed about the petitioner either by email or regular mail, but never sent any papers back. I only want to know if I am the one who has such problem or not.

Hello,

I suggest you to go to the USCIS Website and on the left click for the Infopass appointment. They will better explain why it happened.

For later filing, better hire an immigration attorney.

[Mike H. 0]

Ours were returned because the dimwit lawyer my husband hired sent it all to the wrong immigration office.

May I ask if USCIS returned your application package, or shreadded it and sent you a note to that effect?

In my case, I'm the dimwit. Sent I-129F for my wife this morning to VSC, when in fact it should have gone to Chicago.

[Reba 2]

they send the whole kit and kaboodle back to us.

Tho I know of one couple whose stuff got shredded because it went back and forth so much because of dimwits at USCIS.

They may just forward yours on, sometimes they do.