My Info. Pass Appointment

[LaVegano 12]

Ok so today I went to my info. pass appointment. Woke up at 4;00am to make it. Got there and there were 3 people in the huge office. This is why I like early morning appointments place was empty. Anyway I sit down and start to ask her questions about my wifes name on the petition and so on. Well I get to the question of how long are we looking at for a decision. She answered that we are looking at 8-12 months from todays date just for the USCIS decision my wife and I have already been waiting 2.5 months and 3-4 more months for NVC and embassy. Then she told me that my wife would get a visa quicker if I filed the K-3 on top of the CR-1. Now this lady is blowing my mind with these comments. So she went and got the K-3 application and sat down and went through it with me line for line with a highlight marker. At this point I am rolling my eyes thinking what the hell is she talking about. I do not believe the USCIS will take this long. The whole appointment took 20 minutes. Then I called the USCIS hotline when I walked out of the office and the operator told me that tier 2 assistance was not available at the moment. So I hung up on her and called right back and had a tier 2 IO on the phone with me within 10 minutes. She lied and I knew she was lying. Anyway the IO Then told me that our I-30 petition was at the MSC (NBC). But yet I informed him that 3 weeks earlier another tier 2 IO told me that on march 19th my case was transferred to the local Dallas office. He said hold one minute and came back and confirmed that it was transferred to Dallas office. But he said it was received on April 24th. And told me to count 90 days from that date and if I have not heard anything from USCIS to call back. I guess what I am getting at is if you talk to 4 different IOs you will get 4 different stories on your case. This worries me. I talked to my senator today and he is going to get to the bottom of this. Or at least his aides said they were.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from Process & Procedures to Progress Reports.

[longtrip 24]

USCIS is full with unqualified officers processing petitions. Most of these folks do not even know the law. USCIS with all the petition fees collected from applicants needs to use part of this money to conduct a robust internal training for these officers on procedures, laws, so that if you ask different officers the same question, all will provide the same answer, rather than giving you different stories, confusing and worrying applicants' mind.

Edited April 27, 2013 by longtrip

[LaVegano 12]

USCIS is full with unqualified officers processing petitions. Most of these folks do not even know the law. USCIS with all the petition fees collected from applicants needs to use part of this money to conduct a robust internal training for these officers on procedures, laws, so that if you ask different officers the same question, all will provide the same answer, rather than giving you different stories, confusing and worrying applicants' mind.

Ain't this the truth. I just could not believe my ears when she was telling me this info. I will NOT be filing a K-3 petition you can believe that.

[Robinhood 13]

Seriously USCIS has pass all those lines. I hate to say that but I hate the agency more than anything right now. I mean how can she even talk about K3? Why would they try to mislead people? We haven't done anything but try to do the right thing right way unlike illegals who are currently getting VIP treatment for doing illegal things, some of them bought ID's, driving licenses, SS numbers, fake marriages, illegal border crossing, Working illegally, did not pay tax and so on but still government is encouraging them to keep doing that.

I have been waiting since 5 months and found that USCIS IO's are full of lie. Big fat liars are sitting there. I feel they must be getting hired for being Liars.

[LaVegano 12]

Seriously USCIS has pass all those lines. I hate to say that but I hate the agency more than anything right now. I mean how can she even talk about K3? Why would they try to mislead people? We haven't done anything but try to do the right thing right way unlike illegals who are currently getting VIP treatment for doing illegal things, some of them bought ID's, driving licenses, SS numbers, fake marriages, illegal border crossing, Working illegally, did not pay tax and so on but still government is encouraging them to keep doing that.

I have been waiting since 5 months and found that USCIS IO's are full of lie. Big fat liars are sitting there. I feel they must be getting hired for being Liars.

LOL. Yea the illegals get everything while we pay and wait wait wait. But yes the IOs are there to fill you with BS.

[Darnell 8,478]

please understand - the people behind the glass are NOT the I-130 adjudication staffers for the Dallas office.

I suggest you go again, and ask pointed questions.

Here's my lists:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/408164-info-pass-to-local-field-office/#entry5953573

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/422688-people-that-still-waiting-for-nvc-case-number/?p=6194948

Read those, refactor your plan.

[LaVegano 12]

please understand - the people behind the glass are NOT the I-130 adjudication staffers for the Dallas office.

I suggest you go again, and ask pointed questions.

Here's my lists:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/408164-info-pass-to-local-field-office/#entry5953573

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/422688-people-that-still-waiting-for-nvc-case-number/?p=6194948

Read those, refactor your plan.

Wow. Will they and are they required to answer all of those questions? How did you go about asking for a unit supervisor. Even calling my local cable TV internet company getting a supervisor is not easy.

[Darnell 8,478]

All n all, I went 5 times. 1 time I got the I-130 Adjudication Unit Supervisor. The rest of the visits, the floor supervisor had convos with the I-130 unit supervisor, each time. I brought my questions in written form so the floor supervisor could read them outloud.

I'm a bit over the top, as I never, ever accepted the first response from anyone behind the glass - they didn't even know that I-130s were sent from MSC to their office for local adjudication, when there's about 220 humans assigned in the other side of the building on this one task.

If you make enough of a fuss, each time, a human will step out of their comfort zone and actually make inquiries with the I-130 adjudication unit. It's on you to assist with the shifting, though. Don't accept anything they read off of their computer screen, back to you, either, as that is just as bad as the @#$ ing CSRs back at the national call center.

Edited April 30, 2013 by Darnell

[LaVegano 12]

All n all, I went 5 times. 1 time I got the I-130 Adjudication Unit Supervisor. The rest of the visits, the floor supervisor had convos with the I-130 unit supervisor, each time. I brought my questions in written form so the floor supervisor could read them outloud.

I'm a bit over the top, as I never, ever accepted the first response from anyone behind the glass - they didn't even know that I-130s were sent from MSC to their office for local adjudication, when there's about 220 humans assigned in the other side of the building on this one task.

If you make enough of a fuss, each time, a human will step out of their comfort zone and actually make inquiries with the I-130 adjudication unit. It's on you to assist with the shifting, though. Don't accept anything they read off of their computer screen, back to you, either, as that is just as bad as the @#$ ing CSRs back at the national call center.

LOL. Wow is all I can say I cannot go 5 times. It is hard enough to take time off of work to visit my wife. I am over the top as well and have no problem insisting on getting answers (this is my wife) and no govt. worker is going to kick me to the curb. VJ stats say we should be approved between May 9th-June 3rd so we will see what happens. But your info. is golden, thanks.