IR1/CR1 Backlog makes the NY Times!

[jajaju 33]

wow that's incredibly depressing that we're the victims of a historically slow processing period..

[aditya3245 113]

Guys, its awesome news that we made it to New York Times. However in order to make this effort a success and garner maximum attention from all ends, this is the best time to step up the pressure.... Now that we have got the necessary media attention, we need to send out our new letter earliest by next week, before the heat of the situation dies out...

We need to make sure that our letter covers all points that has been left out in the New York Times publication.... I mean the number fudging by USCIS, adjudication of petitions out of chronological order, un necessary RFE's to buy time, blatant lies and arrogant dont care attitude replies to our enquiries etc etc.... All theses needs to go into the letter... Basically the content in our letter should focus on adding 'fuel to the fire' that has been created by this New York Times publication.

So lets focus on getting this letter going by next week itself guys... 'We need to make hay while the sun shines'

And to whom may I ask will this letter be sent to ?

[msc13 282]

Hi everyone

My husband and I and our two children are the family featured in this article. All thanks go to my husband for writing such a fantastic letter in the first place. We will keep you all posted if we get any news on anything.

[Ed and Gina 45]

I would strongly recommend that each and every one of us who has a petition in process contact their congressmen/women, senators, and that sorry excuse for a president...include the article from the NY Times...if you're as furious as I am over this...express it under no uncertain terms. This is UNACCEPTABLE!!! Finally, the TRUTH is out!!

[Gee&Cee 41]

Hi everyone

My husband and I and our two children are the family featured in this article. All thanks go to my husband for writing such a fantastic letter in the first place. We will keep you all posted if we get any news on anything.

Wow! Thank you for sharing your story and giving us all a chance to have our stories heard!

And thank you for posting this article! It's going on my Facebook page right now.

[B & G 200]

Two of the people mentioned in the article are VJ members! Ty to both who sat for their interviews and managed to have our plight made known to the public!

Edited February 9, 2014 by B & G

[Sukie 1,464]

Please share it on all the social media you can! Send it to your friends on email! Get the word out!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/program-benefiting-some-immigrants-extends-visa-wait-for-others.html?hp&_r=1

Please also respond to the writer of the article with your thanks and your stories. Click on her byline (her name, which is Julia Preston), and you will be taken to a page where you can write to her through the NYTimes.

Here is my letter.

Dear Ms. Preston,

Many thanks for your article about those of us who are separated from our loved ones due to the backlog of I-130 applications. I married in March 2013, and have been in that hellhole of silence known as USCIS since then. I was not with my spouse when she suffered a stroke last June. We will not be together on our first anniversary. We live on email and phone cards.

As a group of petitioners and beneficiaries we have contacted our Senators and Representatives to no avail. We groan, as a group, when one of the processing centers, or the National Visa Center, has a snow day.

We have started petitions, we have written to newspapers. And you have finally become our voice.

Thank you.

Sukie Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Sukie 1,464]

May I suggest that we all write to the writer of this article, Julie Preston, and thank her? Click on her byline (her name) if you read the article on the New York Times site. It will take you to her page, and you can write her through the NYT's reply system.

I have done so.

Sukie

[Gee&Cee 41]

May I suggest that we all write to the writer of this article, Julie Preston, and thank her? Click on her byline (her name) if you read the article on the New York Times site. It will take you to her page, and you can write her through the NYT's reply system.

I have done so.

Sukie

Great idea! I'll write her too. I'm having trouble locating her contact. I'm using my phone browser. Do you by any chance have her email handy? Thank you

May I suggest that we all write to the writer of this article, Julie Preston, and thank her? Click on her byline (her name) if you read the article on the New York Times site. It will take you to her page, and you can write her through the NYT's reply system.

I have done so.

Sukie

Great idea! I'll write her too. I'm having trouble locating her contact. I'm using my phone browser. Do you by any chance have her email handy? Thank you

[anuspras 65]

And to whom may I ask will this letter be sent to ?

To the same distribution list and preferably a few more whom we reached out to during our previous two successful letter campaigns......

Shall find and share you the list soon....

[BOS_LHR 829]

May I suggest that we all write to the writer of this article, Julie Preston, and thank her? Click on her byline (her name) if you read the article on the New York Times site. It will take you to her page, and you can write her through the NYT's reply system.

I have done so.

Sukie

100% agree, we need to make sure NYT knows that this article has an outspoken reader base so that they consider doing more on this subject in the future!

[Monalisa22 84]

Thank God!! Trust and believe i have been informing the public about what is going on by writing on political blogs everywhere. Thank you NYT!

[Jettechfsr 5]

You can email the author at this link I thanked her for writing this article and bring light to the nightmare we have been living

https://myaccount.nytimes.com/membercenter/emailus.html

[Al422 221]

Thisi is not the first time Obama did this. Remember the debacle 3 years ago with the huge flood of TPS applications form Hatians that caused our I-129(f) approvals to take 7 to 8 months?

USCIS priorities are fine as long as adequate resources are left to handle the non priorities. But ordinary citizens waiting for ordinary petitions for their families do not seem to matter to USCIS. Why is that?

Meaningful immigration reform must inlcude an expedioent way for those who want to enter the country legally, obey our laws, work hard, pay their taxes and learn English to do so. As long as sneaknig acorss the border into Neew Mexico or Arozona is easier, that is what they will continue to do.

Edited February 9, 2014 by Al422

[Kaylara 814]

We're going to need to update the distribution information as some of the people we were writing to before have been promoted (*facepalm*) and replaced.

Edited February 9, 2014 by Kaylara