i130 mailing letters to local field offices - anyone done this before

[dubaiguy 1]

Hi All,

Will try to keep it short:

We put our American address on the i130 page 1, not our overseas address where we live. Yes, we know this caused us many months of delay, we are dumb, yes. But never-the-less, here we are.

This week at our address in USA (where we are not currently living at) we got a notice to appear at the local office in San Francisco. It said we MUST appear and to call the normal USCIS 800 number if an emergency prevented us from appearing.

So I called and spoke with tier 2. They advised me to write the USCIS San Francisco Office a letter explaining the address situation and mail it to the address on the letter we received from them (which is the field office street address that shows up in every google search).

I am a bit pessimistic that they will even open the mail there, let alone action something as it seems these field offices are essentially unreachable other than infopass. I asked if there was an official address change form I should be using- they said no, just mail a letter to the local field office explaining the situation and they wil lapprove and forward to NVC. Essentially they want to ask me the same questions that the embassy will.

So I mailed them, tracking shows the letter was signed for and received yesterday.

Curious if any of you have ever heard of mailing letters directly to the field office or if I just blew $90USD on DHL overnight express? Also curious how quick of a response (if any) you have seen from field office mailings.

Thanks!

Dubai Guy

NOA1 8NOV2012

Touched 17DEC2012

Received notice to appear at local office 23MAR2013

Local office received my response as per DHL records on 27MAR2013

NOA2 ---

[Darnell 8,478]

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Edited March 28, 2013 by Darnell

[hikergirl 277]

Hi All,

Will try to keep it short:

We put our American address on the i130 page 1, not our overseas address where we live. Yes, we know this caused us many months of delay, we are dumb, yes. But never-the-less, here we are.

This week at our address in USA (where we are not currently living at) we got a notice to appear at the local office in San Francisco. It said we MUST appear and to call the normal USCIS 800 number if an emergency prevented us from appearing.

So I called and spoke with tier 2. They advised me to write the USCIS San Francisco Office a letter explaining the address situation and mail it to the address on the letter we received from them (which is the field office street address that shows up in every google search).

I am a bit pessimistic that they will even open the mail there, let alone action something as it seems these field offices are essentially unreachable other than infopass. I asked if there was an official address change form I should be using- they said no, just mail a letter to the local field office explaining the situation and they wil lapprove and forward to NVC. Essentially they want to ask me the same questions that the embassy will.

So I mailed them, tracking shows the letter was signed for and received yesterday.

Curious if any of you have ever heard of mailing letters directly to the field office or if I just blew $90USD on DHL overnight express? Also curious how quick of a response (if any) you have seen from field office mailings.

Thanks!

Dubai Guy

NOA1 8NOV2012

Touched 17DEC2012

Received notice to appear at local office 23MAR2013

Local office received my response as per DHL records on 27MAR2013

NOA2 ---

We mailed our NOID response directly to the Charleston Field Office and it got accepted okay and put with our file.

So they do open the mail...