Notice of Potential Interview Waiver Case

[Anonymous885 44]

I submitted one last week and I was confused as to why the last 3 letters said DAL (Dallas) then I found out the local office services the requests which like you said is useless..

I called customer service again and she tried to convince me that the response was from NBC. I told her that it stated as my local office on the letter as well as on the envelope and the post office stamp also shows my local office's city. Where does it show NBC? She was then mad at me and repeated the same thing.

[jeffkadrliktorr 99]

So I called USCIS for the first time since submitting my AOS. She said my local office (Boise) is currently working on cases from May 2014. I said I applied in March, and she said since I've already submitted a request that she couldn't do another one until the 30 days has passed.

She didn't say whether or not my case is actually at the local office and didn't acknowledge the NPIW at all. Feeling kinda indifferent to

the outcome of the call.

Guess I just have to wait out the 30 days and hope for good things? :/

[Derwood 203]

Also every day we wait now is another day at the other end until we can apply for citizenship. Those who have had interviews and been approved are eligible to become citizens much sooner than those waiting 9-12 months with no decision.

That I can currently work and travel is a sidebar to the problem, that problem being that it shouldn't take a year to process an application that doesn't require an interview. It's especially unfair that some of us will be facing the unnecessary costs of redoing our medicals, through no fault of our own, on top of the $1075 we've already paid.

I completely agree with this. There are lots of issues surrounding the delay in processing our cases. It's easy to forget that we are only in a 'period of authorised stay' at the moment. Our legal position changes entirely once the green card is issued. If anything bad happened in our relationships (God forbid), we would be out of the country with no absolutely choice in the matter. That may well suit us in the circumstances but it seems unfair that the people who had office interviews would have the option of applying for ROC.

I wonder if they have Freedom of Information Act in the US like they do in the UK? Could we send in a request to find out how many NPIW cases are outstanding and how long they are taking on average to process?

[Natonstan 129]

I completely agree with this. There are lots of issues surrounding the delay in processing our cases. It's easy to forget that we are only in a 'period of authorised stay' at the moment. Our legal position changes entirely once the green card is issued. If anything bad happened in our relationships (God forbid), we would be out of the country with no absolutely choice in the matter. That may well suit us in the circumstances but it seems unfair that the people who had office interviews would have the option of applying for ROC.

I wonder if they have Freedom of Information Act in the US like they do in the UK? Could we send in a request to find out how many NPIW cases are outstanding and how long they are taking on average to process?

Derwood this post is spot on, we're entirely at the mercy of the relationships we are in, if anything were to happen then we're screwed, gotta leave. we're in limbo right now and we can't even seem to find out a damn thing about our cases that we paid all that money to process!

[otter~ 17]

Heh I know right?

This is what upsets me the most. We paid the $330 for our K1, spent ages putting together paperwork, waited for the K1s to process, pay for the medical, pay for the visa to be issued, then pay another $1070 and this is where we all are at the moment. Stuck in limbo land.

were all here legally, and yet, the people who come here illegally or whatever just get interviews after like 2 months and get their cards, while we who did everything right seem to get punished for it. It's so upsetting!!

And the fact we have to do our medicals again, cmon for real? I bet all those people that are here illegal don't have to have one, and those people even get benefits and stuff yet if one of us fell on hard times we would get in tons of trouble for it

I get people here ask me, "oh I always thought once you got married you became a citizen automatically?"

Maybe that used to be the case, but it can't be anymore, because you get all those bloody people who come over here and trick some poor USC into marriage or they come here and as soon as they get their GC they lie and turns out they just used the USC. It's people like THAT who are the reason we all get dragged through all of this

All of us who genuinely love our partners have to wait while they sift through all the BS lies and fraud applications while we have to wait

Sorry for ranting but I just don't think it's fair that us honest and genuine people have to wait while the people who just come here for all the wrong reasons get a ticket to the front... :/

[qwerk 1]

Fellas,

I just checked our status online and it shows card in production since Dec-29! We are Feb filers and got NPIW in June. Good luck everyone!

[nlherman 36]

Fellas,

I just checked our status online and it shows card in production since Dec-29! We are Feb filers and got NPIW in June. Good luck everyone!

Congratulations and happy New year. When was your NPWI letter dated?

[nlherman 36]

Heh I know right?

This is what upsets me the most. We paid the $330 for our K1, spent ages putting together paperwork, waited for the K1s to process, pay for the medical, pay for the visa to be issued, then pay another $1070 and this is where we all are at the moment. Stuck in limbo land.

were all here legally, and yet, the people who come here illegally or whatever just get interviews after like 2 months and get their cards, while we who did everything right seem to get punished for it. It's so upsetting!!

And the fact we have to do our medicals again, cmon for real? I bet all those people that are here illegal don't have to have one, and those people even get benefits and stuff yet if one of us fell on hard times we would get in tons of trouble for it

I get people here ask me, "oh I always thought once you got married you became a citizen automatically?"

Maybe that used to be the case, but it can't be anymore, because you get all those bloody people who come over here and trick some poor USC into marriage or they come here and as soon as they get their GC they lie and turns out they just used the USC. It's people like THAT who are the reason we all get dragged through all of this

All of us who genuinely love our partners have to wait while they sift through all the BS lies and fraud applications while we have to wait

Sorry for ranting but I just don't think it's fair that us honest and genuine people have to wait while the people who just come here for all the wrong reasons get a ticket to the front... :/

With all the stress in this process ranting is therapeutic.

We all suffer from making our file look too good for our K-1 visa...My wife met a woman at her first visit to the US Embassy in Tashkent who knew her petitioner fiancé for 3 months. He is 8 years younger than she is and I can tell you from day one they are not destined for their 4th anniversary (after citizenship). They do not share finances and barely talk to each other. The age difference and short relationship flagged them for an interview. They got their GC in July. Their AOS file was received by USCIS 2 weeks after ours, in mid April. My wife cannot talk to her anymore....it's too painful.

So like I said before, the process makes us rivals with others...not good...

[nlherman 36]

I completely agree with this. There are lots of issues surrounding the delay in processing our cases. It's easy to forget that we are only in a 'period of authorised stay' at the moment. Our legal position changes entirely once the green card is issued. If anything bad happened in our relationships (God forbid), we would be out of the country with no absolutely choice in the matter. That may well suit us in the circumstances but it seems unfair that the people who had office interviews would have the option of applying for ROC.

I wonder if they have Freedom of Information Act in the US like they do in the UK? Could we send in a request to find out how many NPIW cases are outstanding and how long they are taking on average to process?

You could do a FOIA request, but by the time you got a hearing and the data you want you'll either have your GC or you'll be old and gray or even dead. You think the USCIS is slow...

Even if you got an answer it would be evasive and incomplete. Look at how long its taken and how little FOIA's have achieved with the IRS recently ...these agencies even defy court orders...they are above the law and definately above Congressional scrutiny... Look where all our Representative and Senatorial inquiries have gotten us: Nowhere...

[Cute Pansy 3]

Fellas,

I just checked our status online and it shows card in production since Dec-29! We are Feb filers and got NPIW in June. Good luck everyone!

That is so exciting! Great news! Congrats you guys!

[Natonstan 129]

Fellas,

I just checked our status online and it shows card in production since Dec-29! We are Feb filers and got NPIW in June. Good luck everyone!

Great news, Finally some more movement!!

[qwerk 1]

Congratulations and happy New year. When was your NPWI letter dated?

We had NPIW dated on June 10.

[Zcomuto 16]

Good to see movement!

Though I am surprised that uscis is working over the holidays... I wasn't expecting to see any more updates until the new years.

[kartson 1]

Feb filer first noa March 7, June 5 npiw letter, Oct 7 filed a service request. No answer heard back. November 7th filed another request. Nov 24 they mailed me a letter saying to wait they're backlogged for an unknown period of wait time. December 26 I filed a 3rd service request, still nothing they did not even assign my case to an officer yet. I don't think they really care about our service requests, this option is designed specifically to limit our phone calls to their calling centers every day. At least that's what I assume.

[Natonstan 129]

Good to see movement!

Though I am surprised that uscis is working over the holidays... I wasn't expecting to see any more updates until the new years.

I remember it was December 27th when the NVC sent my K1 papers off to the London Embassy so they definitely do get stuff done during the week between Christmas and New Years!