What does this mean?

[li_09 40]

hi everyone

So I'm really nervous. My husband who is currently deployed called the military hotline and requested an expedition. The woman he spoke to said okay she'll put the request through and that was it. She didn't ask for anything to be sent although his orders were included with the initial package in case they did asked for it. We received this email yesterday.

Department of Homeland Security

P. O. BOX 851488 - DEPT. A

TEXAS SERVICE CENTER

MESQUITE,TX 75185

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Dear:

On 01/14/2014 you, or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:

Caller indicated they are:

-- Applicant or Petitioner

Attorney Name:

-- Information not available

Case type:

-- I130

Filing date:

-- 01/08/2014

Receipt #:

Referral ID:

Beneficiary (if you filed for someone else):

-- Linda

Your USCIS Account Number (A-number):

-- Information not available

Type of service requested:

-- Expedite

The status of this service request is:

Upon receipt of your request for expeditious handling, your case was reviewed and a determination was made that we need additional information to make a decision regarding your request. Please email evidence of your severe financial loss or extreme emergent situation totscsrmtdoc@uscis.dhs.gov. You must type XXXXX in the subject line for your request to reach an officer. Please include a copy of this notice with your email and limit your response to 10 pages or less.

You must email the requested evidence by01/22/2014 or your request for expeditious processing will be considered abandoned.

Does this mean they've reviewed our case and have seen his orders but it is not enough for our case to be expedited or were they wanting our orders to be emailed to them? My husband ended up just emailing the orders but it seems to me as if they've seen it already and we need more evidence to prove we should be expedited. I thought that being deployed to a combat zone was enough? Did anyone else get this email and was still approved on orders alone?

Feedback would be much appreciated

[reese1 68]

They are asking you to send info stating the hardship that will be created if the petition is not expedited. Like a financial hardship anything like that. And make sure he gets the info to them before the due date.

Edited January 19, 2014 by reese1

[li_09 40]

All he sent back were his orders because we thought military orders to a combat zone would've sufficed. Does this mean it will most likely be denied?

[reese1 68]

Not sure but more is always better. Send something showing how this will be a burden on you and him anything. How will if affect you financially, how will it affect your households, just anything else to email as well just in case. Best of luck you!

[April-n-Gary 17]

Looks similar to my case, it just means they got your request to expedite, haven't really looked at your file, and want you to send in your evidence for the expedite. I would send in the copy of his deployment orders and a cover letter explaining the reason for expedite.

I think, normally, the expedite is for when someone is about to deploy, so that they can bring their spouses to the US and settled before they have to leave on their deployment.

[li_09 40]

Looks similar to my case, it just means they got your request to expedite, haven't really looked at your file, and want you to send in your evidence for the expedite. I would send in the copy of his deployment orders and a cover letter explaining the reason for expedite.

I think, normally, the expedite is for when someone is about to deploy, so that they can bring their spouses to the US and settled before they have to leave on their deployment.

So did they approve your expedition? I looked at your timeline but you were K1 so I couldn't tell if that was just the normal processing time or your expidite request did get appoved?

I'm so nervous now. My husband barely has time to even go on the internet let alone sit on a computer and write out a cover letter (which he should because this is important). All he did was send his deployment orders back advising he's in a combat zone and that was it which really irritated me, I wished that he actually took the time to write more than that. There's nothing we can do now except wait.