I-129f processing , what we all need to do to bring this to someones attention.

[Mark and Anna 10]

I just wrote a letter to Marco Rubio of florida, I request you all do the same, I told him about the wait time, backlog of 129f's and how it seems to be priority on the dream act visa's . if you also write his office and once he starts getting more and more letters and e-mails he will be most likly check into into it, he is one of the people in congress pushing for imigration so lets make him also look at the people who are doing it legealy also. come on what harm will it do, its better then not doing anything.just type his name and you will find his website and how to contact his office.

[cpk 2]

i just got started here, but reading your comment i am wondering are there delays with all the 129f filers in the aug30 2012 timeframe...i saw that they received some 600,000 dream filers .. is that the only known reason? thx

[Mark and Anna 10]

i just got started here, but reading your comment i am wondering are there delays with all the 129f filers in the aug30 2012 timeframe...i saw that they received some 600,000 dream filers .. is that the only known reason? thx

That is from what I understood from the lady i talked to on the phone, she told me that the dream filers have priority ! which i find nothing but a bunch of bull, they can wait in line like the rest of us ! they have been here all this time breaking the law ,and now they get priority over the people doing it the right way ! i hope everyone will write mr. Rubio and make him hear our voice ! and not just the undocumented !

[cpk 2]

That is from what I understood from the lady i talked to on the phone, she told me that the dream filers have priority ! which i find nothing but a bunch of bull, they can wait in line like the rest of us ! they have been here all this time breaking the law ,and now they get priority over the people doing it the right way ! i hope everyone will write mr. Rubio and make him hear our voice ! and not just the undocumented !

thanks for responding.. i will send a letter to him tonight.. i kind of figured obama put them on a fast track..

[I & B 273]

For those thinking of writing to Sen. Rubio or any other elected official about this mess, I would suggest you first spend some time perusing my how-to guide on the subject here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/421608-a-guide-to-writing-your-elected-representatives-about-the-i-129f-slowdown-at-the-csc/

[TBoneTX 45,291]

*** Thread moved from K-1 Process forum to USCIS Service Centers forum -- not a K-1 process issue; destination forum contains similar threads. ***

[serioja123 2]

I just wrote a letter to Marco Rubio of florida, I request you all do the same, I told him about the wait time, backlog of 129f's and how it seems to be priority on the dream act visa's . if you also write his office and once he starts getting more and more letters and e-mails he will be most likly check into into it, he is one of the people in congress pushing for imigration so lets make him also look at the people who are doing it legealy also. come on what harm will it do, its better then not doing anything.just type his name and you will find his website and how to contact his office.

I wrote him too few days ago, and to senator Graham, I got respond form senator Graham saying that he will not respond personally to me due to large volume on emails and he responds only to NC residents. I hope it my work, Also, I wrote to to California congresswomen Diane Feinstein.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

That is from what I understood from the lady i talked to on the phone, she told me that the dream filers have priority ! which i find nothing but a bunch of bull, they can wait in line like the rest of us ! they have been here all this time breaking the law ,and now they get priority over the people doing it the right way ! i hope everyone will write mr. Rubio and make him hear our voice ! and not just the undocumented !

It is very common and has been for may years for the service centers to handle one type of petition at a time. "Priority" may be the wrong word, rather "focus" may be more correct. I suggest you read the pinned topic at the topic of the K-1 forum where I had an interview with a director at USCIS VSC. Nothing has changed except possibly the workload. The man is an acquaintance of mine

You are going to learn a lesson in civics that you learned in 8th grade but forgot. It is called "Separation of Powers"

USCIS is an administrative branch department. Obama is the head of this branch ultimately and the cabinet member in charge is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano

Congress is the legislative branch, they are not "the boss" of USCIS and cannot make them do anything except comply with the laws that congress passed. They are. Rubio can do nothing but make an inquiry, he already has. He can answer your question if he wants or ignore you if he wants but he cannot change anything at USCIS.

It takes as long as it takes. The time it takes varies depending on a lot of factors. As many people that would complain about their K-1 would complain about the CR-1, the I-751s and the I-485s, everyone is more important than the next guy.

The people being processed by USCIS ARE doing it "legally". You are never in line behind "illegal aliens" because if they are illegal they do not go through USCIS.

One should be careful what one asks for as there have been several internal suggestions to speed up processing and they include...

1. Eliminate K-1s and have only CR-1s meaning you can only petition a spouse, not a fiancee.

2. Eliminate RFEs, if you cannot read and follow directions your petition gets denied and you start again, RFEs require the petition to be adjudicated TWICE and that is not fair to those of us that read instructions

Doing this would be easier than hiring new employees and cheaper. Your Senator may just ask USCIS for its suggestions and this may just be the answer.

Bottom line...the person you want to marry requires government action to remove a barrier that the government created and they take their sweet time about it. And this is just the start...you have another four years after the visa, minimum, of dealing with this until they become a citizen

[pachacuti 154]

It is very common and has been for may years for the service centers to handle one type of petition at a time. "Priority" may be the wrong word, rather "focus" may be more correct. I suggest you read the pinned topic at the topic of the K-1 forum where I had an interview with a director at USCIS VSC. Nothing has changed except possibly the workload. The man is an acquaintance of mine

You are going to learn a lesson in civics that you learned in 8th grade but forgot. It is called "Separation of Powers"

USCIS is an administrative branch department. Obama is the head of this branch ultimately and the cabinet member in charge is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano

Congress is the legislative branch, they are not "the boss" of USCIS and cannot make them do anything except comply with the laws that congress passed. They are. Rubio can do nothing but make an inquiry, he already has. He can answer your question if he wants or ignore you if he wants but he cannot change anything at USCIS.

It takes as long as it takes. The time it takes varies depending on a lot of factors. As many people that would complain about their K-1 would complain about the CR-1, the I-751s and the I-485s, everyone is more important than the next guy.

The people being processed by USCIS ARE doing it "legally". You are never in line behind "illegal aliens" because if they are illegal they do not go through USCIS.

One should be careful what one asks for as there have been several internal suggestions to speed up processing and they include...

1. Eliminate K-1s and have only CR-1s meaning you can only petition a spouse, not a fiancee.

2. Eliminate RFEs, if you cannot read and follow directions your petition gets denied and you start again, RFEs require the petition to be adjudicated TWICE and that is not fair to those of us that read instructions

Doing this would be easier than hiring new employees and cheaper. Your Senator may just ask USCIS for its suggestions and this may just be the answer.

Bottom line...the person you want to marry requires government action to remove a barrier that the government created and they take their sweet time about it. And this is just the start...you have another four years after the visa, minimum, of dealing with this until they become a citizen

There is such a thing as congressional oversight. And pressure from elected officials does have an impact on administrative agencies. I have worked for administrative agencies and know this first hand.

You are incorrect about them complying with law. K1 visa type established under the LIFE act was to avoid family separation. They are not in compliance with this aspect of the law.

On your final point about this only being the beginning: WHO CARE??? The two of you are together. You are living your lives. So, the process is long and annoying... WHO CARES? The problem is this stage where undue separation is being imposed on families of US citizens, arbitrarily. Whether that arbitrariness is law or prioritization or what have you, the separation is outside of K1 filers hands (and CR1 filers, and K3 filers, etc). These statements about this only being the beginning, are straw men.

[pachacuti 154]

It is very common and has been for may years for the service centers to handle one type of petition at a time. "Priority" may be the wrong word, rather "focus" may be more correct. I suggest you read the pinned topic at the topic of the K-1 forum where I had an interview with a director at USCIS VSC. Nothing has changed except possibly the workload. The man is an acquaintance of mine

You are going to learn a lesson in civics that you learned in 8th grade but forgot. It is called "Separation of Powers"

USCIS is an administrative branch department. Obama is the head of this branch ultimately and the cabinet member in charge is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano

Congress is the legislative branch, they are not "the boss" of USCIS and cannot make them do anything except comply with the laws that congress passed. They are. Rubio can do nothing but make an inquiry, he already has. He can answer your question if he wants or ignore you if he wants but he cannot change anything at USCIS.

It takes as long as it takes. The time it takes varies depending on a lot of factors. As many people that would complain about their K-1 would complain about the CR-1, the I-751s and the I-485s, everyone is more important than the next guy.

The people being processed by USCIS ARE doing it "legally". You are never in line behind "illegal aliens" because if they are illegal they do not go through USCIS.

One should be careful what one asks for as there have been several internal suggestions to speed up processing and they include...

1. Eliminate K-1s and have only CR-1s meaning you can only petition a spouse, not a fiancee.

2. Eliminate RFEs, if you cannot read and follow directions your petition gets denied and you start again, RFEs require the petition to be adjudicated TWICE and that is not fair to those of us that read instructions

Doing this would be easier than hiring new employees and cheaper. Your Senator may just ask USCIS for its suggestions and this may just be the answer.

Bottom line...the person you want to marry requires government action to remove a barrier that the government created and they take their sweet time about it. And this is just the start...you have another four years after the visa, minimum, of dealing with this until they become a citizen

And see my previous posts about empathy. In your case you only waited 2 months for NOA2 and a whopping 6 months until your fiancee was with you. You are patronizingly making your statements to people who have now waited 8+ months and still no NOA2 in sight. And nothing seems to indicate any type of change soon.

[I & B 273]

It is very common and has been for may years for the service centers to handle one type of petition at a time. "Priority" may be the wrong word, rather "focus" may be more correct. I suggest you read the pinned topic at the topic of the K-1 forum where I had an interview with a director at USCIS VSC. Nothing has changed except possibly the workload. The man is an acquaintance of mine

You are going to learn a lesson in civics that you learned in 8th grade but forgot. It is called "Separation of Powers"

USCIS is an administrative branch department. Obama is the head of this branch ultimately and the cabinet member in charge is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano

Congress is the legislative branch, they are not "the boss" of USCIS and cannot make them do anything except comply with the laws that congress passed. They are. Rubio can do nothing but make an inquiry, he already has. He can answer your question if he wants or ignore you if he wants but he cannot change anything at USCIS.

It takes as long as it takes. The time it takes varies depending on a lot of factors. As many people that would complain about their K-1 would complain about the CR-1, the I-751s and the I-485s, everyone is more important than the next guy.

The people being processed by USCIS ARE doing it "legally". You are never in line behind "illegal aliens" because if they are illegal they do not go through USCIS.

One should be careful what one asks for as there have been several internal suggestions to speed up processing and they include...

1. Eliminate K-1s and have only CR-1s meaning you can only petition a spouse, not a fiancee.

2. Eliminate RFEs, if you cannot read and follow directions your petition gets denied and you start again, RFEs require the petition to be adjudicated TWICE and that is not fair to those of us that read instructions

Doing this would be easier than hiring new employees and cheaper. Your Senator may just ask USCIS for its suggestions and this may just be the answer.

Bottom line...the person you want to marry requires government action to remove a barrier that the government created and they take their sweet time about it. And this is just the start...you have another four years after the visa, minimum, of dealing with this until they become a citizen

1. The current slowdown in I-129F processing is statistically aberrant from previous batch processing patterns over the last two years. It is more severe than previous slowdowns, both in terms of degree and duration.

2. The current I-129F slowdown is being done for the sole benefit of a newly contrived class of petitioner--those filing the I-821D. This is a class that was created solely by DHS's own internal procedures, without the mandate of any specific statutory change. Even accepting that DHS does have the power within its mandate to make this particular class, that does not mean they have carte blanche to implement it to the detriment of others seeking immigration benefits to which they are lawfully entitled.

3. You should probably have kept studying civics past 8th grade because the interplay between Congress and the federal agencies they establish to carry out the laws they create is extremely complex. Congress does, in fact, have the authority to oversee the operations of the DHS and its constituent agencies. They can do this in a number of ways, including requesting information or action from the DHS Inspector General, using their subpoena power to obtain information or sworn testimony, empowering independent auditors to review DHS practices, referring suspected cases of malfeasance or illegality to the Justice Department, and explicitly changing the law to either narrow or broaden DHS's discretion in a given area. None of these powers is trivial at all. And, when there is evidence that the USCIS is deliberately screwing over a class of petitioner that has been explicitly statutorily mandated in order to implement its own internally-mandated, discretionary, experimental program, I expect those in Congress to use one or more of the above means to hold DHS accountable and seek systemic fixes on behalf of the statutorily mandated class.

4. It's silly to assert that people should not complain about the current USCIS paradigm out of fear that legislators responding to those complaints will only make it worse. Yes, that's always a possibility, but the other possibility is that they make it better. It's our job to educate our legislators on the ways they can make it better so as to push them towards that result. The current problem is the DACA program implementation, not the K-1 visa. No one is going to conclude based on complaint about DACA that the K-1 visa must be eliminated. If someone wants to get rid of the K-1, that's a separate issue.

Edited March 31, 2013 by I & B

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

write letters.

[Azsara 110]

It is very common and has been for may years for the service centers to handle one type of petition at a time. "Priority" may be the wrong word, rather "focus" may be more correct. I suggest you read the pinned topic at the topic of the K-1 forum where I had an interview with a director at USCIS VSC. Nothing has changed except possibly the workload. The man is an acquaintance of mine

You are going to learn a lesson in civics that you learned in 8th grade but forgot. It is called "Separation of Powers"

USCIS is an administrative branch department. Obama is the head of this branch ultimately and the cabinet member in charge is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Janet Napolitano

Congress is the legislative branch, they are not "the boss" of USCIS and cannot make them do anything except comply with the laws that congress passed. They are. Rubio can do nothing but make an inquiry, he already has. He can answer your question if he wants or ignore you if he wants but he cannot change anything at USCIS.

It takes as long as it takes. The time it takes varies depending on a lot of factors. As many people that would complain about their K-1 would complain about the CR-1, the I-751s and the I-485s, everyone is more important than the next guy.

The people being processed by USCIS ARE doing it "legally". You are never in line behind "illegal aliens" because if they are illegal they do not go through USCIS.

One should be careful what one asks for as there have been several internal suggestions to speed up processing and they include...

1. Eliminate K-1s and have only CR-1s meaning you can only petition a spouse, not a fiancee.

2. Eliminate RFEs, if you cannot read and follow directions your petition gets denied and you start again, RFEs require the petition to be adjudicated TWICE and that is not fair to those of us that read instructions

Doing this would be easier than hiring new employees and cheaper. Your Senator may just ask USCIS for its suggestions and this may just be the answer.

Bottom line...the person you want to marry requires government action to remove a barrier that the government created and they take their sweet time about it. And this is just the start...you have another four years after the visa, minimum, of dealing with this until they become a citizen

[jft 12]

I want to suggest another avenue of contacting your representative, the town hall. Now for may Congresspeople the town hall is a very tightly controlled event with questions and questioners pre-screened but for many reps, like mine, it is totally open. If you do have the chance to ask a question directly put it as succinctly as possible ("Rep xxxx, it appears that all other visa processing at the USCIS CSC has been put on hold and DACA filers given priority. I am a US Citizen and fiancee applications like mine are being held so that illegals may be grated visas. Why is this? Do you think it is fair to put illegal immigrants in line before US Citizens?". I would also suggest that you bring a few friends and spread them around the venue to lead "spontaneous" applause. I doubt that this alone will get any traction but if it at least gets the Congressperson to ask their staff "hey, have we received any letters on this subject?" then I think it will have done some good.