Feb filer here who contacted my Senator....

[belinda63 3,038]

If you are standing in a long line waiting to buy a ticket and you go up to the person selling the tickets to ask them how much longer the wait is going to be don't you think it will slow the process down? Now what if 100 people went up to the ticket seller to ask how longer they are going to have to wait in line. The ticket seller is going to be so busy answering your questions they won't be able to sell tickets. Thus the wait has just become much longer.

Or more of a daily example. You are waiting for your food at a fast food restaurant. Someone walks up to the cashier and starts asking for all sorts of special things. Can I get creamer? And can I get some ketchup? How about some hot fries? Now I need extra dressing. I need a to go box. You get the idea. And what happens to your food while this special person is being dealt with? Your food is sitting there waiting for the cashier to get to it to give to you.

USCIS is required to answer every Congressional inquiry within a set number of days. So the person has to stop adjudicating the cases to write a letter/send an email/make a phone call. Now imagine if they had to respond to 20 Congressional inquired daily...when would they have time to adjudicate cases?

Contacting your representative to discuss an issue with a government agency is your duty as a citizen. But making an inquiry into your personal case when it is within processing times is not.

BTW I did contact my congressperson in regards to my case AFTER it had been in AP for six months. I didn't ask them to check on it a week after it went into AP as that would have been useless.

Edited June 18, 2014 by belinda63

[NYCruiser 423]

If you are standing in a long line waiting to buy a ticket and you go up to the person selling the tickets to ask them how much longer the wait is going to be don't you think it will slow the process down? Now what if 100 people went up to the ticket seller to ask how longer they are going to have to wait in line. The ticket seller is going to be so busy answering your questions they won't be able to sell tickets. Thus the wait has just become much longer.

USCIS is required to answer every Congressional inquiry within a set number of days. So the person has to stop adjudicating the cases to write a letter/send an email/make a phone call. Now imagine if they had to respond to 20 Congressional inquired daily...when would they have time to adjudicate cases?

Contacting your representative to discuss an issue with a government agency is your duty as a citizen. But making an inquiry into your personal case when it is within processing times is not.

BTW I did contact my congressperson in regards to my case AFTER it had been in AP for six months. I didn't ask them to check on it a week after it went into AP as that would have been useless.

Agreed on the airline situation...however in that case the free market (or whats left of it these days) takes care of the airline and income (people go to other airlines). However in our case this is a monopoly and enough said on that score.

However you are right about contacting them before 5 months is up is wasting time. You are right about the case status and Congressional Responses

[Wait4ever? 50]

I heard that a different department deals with congressional inquiries and not the actual agents who work on our cases.

[Texasav8r 183]

Interesting analogy but the people answering questions on the phone and responding to congressional inquiries are not the same ones processing the applications. If one is pulled, it would probably be by the T2 or other rep that goes to the desk of the adjudicator and grabs it from under the 8 foot stack personally after checking who has it in the computer. Not much of a delay really...and that is assuming they are even at their desk in the first place.

[NYCruiser 423]

Interesting analogy but the people answering questions on the phone and responding to congressional inquiries are not the same ones processing the applications. If one is pulled, it would probably be by the T2 or other rep that goes to the desk of the adjudicator and grabs it from under the 8 foot stack personally after checking who has it in the computer. Not much of a delay really...and that is assuming they are even at their desk in the first place.

I don't know what thread that was on, but someone said they maybe having a bake sale and are like 'the heck' with these winey K1 filers.....would love to be having coffee and cake with them..I sure they have stories....like we do.....

[defweezard 15]

Sometimes I just have to slap my forehead at the stupidity of some people's comments. Think McFly, think!