Looking for Russians adjusting from K1

[sarahsmiles 0]

Despite having other seemingly necessary "qualifications' for a CSC transfer, we weren't transferred. I starting looking at Devilette's previous thread asking who hadn't been transferred, and I saw a lot of Russian beneficiaries. Are there any K1ers from Russia who did get a CSC transfer? Ultimately it doesn't matter, but I'm just trying to satisfy my curiousity as to why we weren't transferred when other K1ers with our same DO who filed at the same time were.

[rebeccajo 14]

Scroll back through the CSC transferee thread. I know I've seen at least one but I can't recall who.

Edited February 10, 2007 by rebeccajo

[1HappyGuy 45]

I don't know why you would be transferred to CSC at all. Since you are applying for AOS the center in Missouri should be handling everything until it is transferred to your local USCIS office. I think you should be getting a letter soon regarding your AOS interview. Generally that is handled by the closest local office.

[Larry and Maria 0]

I don't know the reasons and we didn't get transferred either. I did wonder since everything was in order, no RFEs, short interview, and only asked a few questions he said he had to ask. The only thing I can think of is we didn't get the vaccination papers in and brought them with us. There was really no reason for us to go in other than deliver the med papers in the sealed env. Best Wishes!

[notscenenough 6]

they just don't trust us :]

or they just like us that much that they wanna see us at the interview

offtopic, a funny thing was, when i went to give out my fingerprints, ALL the employees at the USCIS office (somewhere in west hollywood) were RUSSIANS! like, all of them. they even spoke russian to eachother and me. guh, i hope i get a russian interviewer.

Edited February 11, 2007 by notscenenough

[sarahsmiles 0]

they just don't trust us :]

Well, notscenenough, unfortunately, my husband and I are wondering if that may be true...we have been wondering if maybe more Russians have tried to commit immigration fraud and therefore haven't been granted the transfers. Though it would be a form of discrimination, since USCIS isn't required to give anyone a transfer, there's nothing to be said about it.

Oh well.

I am also seven years older than my husband, so that could have something to do with why we didn't get the transfer. It was just disappointing that another K1er from Germany with our DO did, and we didn't (we were cheering each other on through VJ). When I get a chance I'm going to take RJ's suggestion to look back through the CSC transferee thread.

Who can say why USCIS does anything that they do???

[notscenenough 6]

sarahsmiles, just don't worry about it. im adjusting from F-1, so i have far more reasons to worry than you, yet i don't. you have to understand, that if you're actually married, living together, etc, they have NO WAY to screw this up for you, russian or not, older or not. my wife is also older than me, though only 2 years older. they can put off the process, make you wait, but they can't deny it, unless there's a real reason. so just wait and see what happens. most likely, nothing bad will.

Edited February 11, 2007 by notscenenough

[rebeccajo 14]

I'm absolutely certain that I read of at least one post on VJ from a CSC transferree with a Russian spouse.

I've seen them from the Philipines, Thailand, you name it. The only "high fraud" country I can't specifically remember is Vietnam.

Country of origin has nothing to do with it. If it did, there wouldn't be any Brits caught in namecheck - our #1 foreign ally in the 'War Against Terror'.

Edited February 11, 2007 by rebeccajo

[notscenenough 6]

rebeccajo, didnt someone on the forums report that someone from USCIS told them that people stuck in namecheck are mostly from the middle east? maybe you just had some terrible, terrible luck.

[rebeccajo 14]

rebeccajo, didnt someone on the forums report that someone from USCIS told them that people stuck in namecheck are mostly from the middle east? maybe you just had some terrible, terrible luck.

Look at the list on VJ of people stuck in namecheck and see for yourself if you think they are mostly from the middle east.

There is one namecheck forum I know of where most of the people on that list are either Indian or Middle Eastern. However most of the individuals on that forum are also employment based applicants. As a good many people from those regions of the globe have been recruited by US employers for technology jobs, it only stands to reason that you will see many of these petitioners stuck as well.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I don't have the proof of this, however, when I received my tranfer notice before we were aware what transfers to California meant, I called USCIS and did end up speaking to an immigration officer as the woman who answered the phone didn't know why an Atlanta file would be transferred to California. He assured me that the transfer was due to the heavy backlog of cases at the Atlanta office and that offices with heavy backlog loads were having cases transferred to other offices to expedite the processing and allow the original offices to catch up. I suspect that most of the transferred files come from offices that had a heavy backlog of cases or a heavy workload in relationship to the number of staff they have available. I also suspect that it is the more straight-forward cases that are being transferred since they can be processed quickly, while those that are more problematic are being left in their original queue.

Edited February 11, 2007 by Kathryn41