January 2018 I-129F Filers, Part II

[Adam Zollinger 130]

11 hours ago, Lucy&Jason said:

It’s an Intertional Marriage Broker. Once you met on a dating site, USCIS wants to make sure that the Dating Site don’t fall under an International Marriage Broker where an American pay fees to meet someone and marry.

Ah, i got it. That makes sense! Thank you! 

 

[Lucy&Jason 807]

Just now, Adam Zollinger said:

Ah, i got it. That makes sense! Thank you! 

 

Sorry it Should be International Marriage Broker... 😂😂😂

[Olisant 65]

6 hours ago, Faycol said:

Hi guys.....we finally got our Noa2 yesterday, we are so happy☺️. We sent back our rfe on the 13th of this month, they got it on the 16th and now the notice date on our Noa2 hard copy is  the 22nd. They have not updated on the  website yet. 

Woow so happy for you country man

[vickacy2002 43]

NOA1 Jan 5,2018

Case Inquiry Aug 8, 2018
RFE notice Aug 15,2018
RFE letter received Aug 21,2018 (My fiancee intent to Marry)
RFE sent back Aug 23, 2018 (Fiancee emailed me scanned copy of her intent to marry)
RFE mail arrived the CA center Aug 27,2018
RFE received notice of action notification via email and text.  New site  updated to Evidence was received Aug 28,2018 at 5:14 am CDT
NOA 2 XXXXXX

 

Round two wait game begins. Hope it does not last long this time. My 30 days case inquiry ends on Sep 8, 2018. Hope I get approved before that date. I will be hitting 8 months on Sep 5, 2018. Not a good feeling.

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[LuFlolady 881]

8 hours ago, Faycol said:

Hi guys.....we finally got our Noa2 yesterday, we are so happy☺️. We sent back our rfe on the 13th of this month, they got it on the 16th and now the notice date on our Noa2 hard copy is  the 22nd. They have not updated on the  website yet. 

congrats!

[Duane & Haney 95]

OK, I thought it might help others if I created a post which was updated regularly, that included not only the steps I was taking and the links to do them, but also any results I receive and the corresponding timing.

 

I don't know if that makes any sense, but here I go:

 

NOA1: Jan. 25th, 2018 (new website)

 

submitted USCIS inquiry online on 8/24/2018. According to this website here, I was one day outside of normal processing times, so was eligible to file. I received an e-mail shortly, informing me that I should expect a reply by Sept. 15th, and I was also given a "request ID number" to reference.

 

call USCIS: I called the USCIS on 8/27/2018, Monday. Even though this page here indicates Saturday hours, that does not seem to be the case anymore. Either way, entered a "1" for English and a whole lot of "2's" in order to finally talk to a tier 1. Basically like Adam Zollinger said, you have to keep saying you don't know your case number. When I spoke with the Tier 1, she asked for and confirmed a bunch of information, and after about 5 minutes of that, I just interrupted her and told me I wanted to talk to a Tier 2. Not sure how that was supposed to work, but a Tier 2 called me back in two hours, and the conversation went like this: "what is your info"...checked for a few minutes..."ask more questions"...checked for a few more minutes.... At the end, the officer was aware of the inquiry I filed on line, told me I wasn't very far out of processing time, and I should wait until the 15th, basically the call was not really useful.

 

submitted a request to the Ombudsman online on 8/27/2018: I received an automated receipt (multiple) via e-mail that said they would work on it and contact me "if they are able to help". So, we'll wait and see what happens there.

 

using Greenbaum's links, I contacted my senator on 8/28/2018: that is, in the case of my senator, you filled out an online form, printed it, then sent it via regular post to their office. It went in the mail this morning. I don't know how other senators work, but mine was like this. Was about 15 minutes of work.

 

what I have not done yet but plan to do:

 

contact my representative

schedule an infopass meeting with an immigration officer

 

At this point, I'm throwing all in to see what happens and will update this thread as I go along.

In truth, regarding the infopass meeting, I might wait on that for a few weeks, at least until after I hear back regarding the inquiry.

 

Hope this helps someone. (constructive) comments are welcome. :-)

Duane & Haney

 

[SilverMonk 194]

5 hours ago, LuFlolady said:

Me TOOOOOOOO! LOL how r u my friend any new news? I got an email yesterday saying they r still working on my case and there are no new updates and the last update was Aug 13th so of course I called and they said the same thing that an RFE has been requested but not generated.... I vow to call everyday

Hi LuFlolady, when you call every day do you always talk to a tier 2? If so, what excuse do you used go get them to transfer you go a tier 2? Because my fiancee had only talked to a tier 2 on two occasions and then seem kinda rude to her.

 

And on top of that she was telling me that when the tier 2 would call back to talk to her. That they would say back to get the excuse that the tier 1 officer put in and that was registered in their system. So I just wanted to know how you manage to get through to them if you're talking to a tier 2.

[LuFlolady 881]

27 minutes ago, SilverMonk said:

Hi LuFlolady, when you call every day do you always talk to a tier 2? If so, what excuse do you used go get them to transfer you go a tier 2? Because my fiancee had only talked to a tier 2 on two occasions and then seem kinda rude to her.

 

And on top of that she was telling me that when the tier 2 would call back to talk to her. That they would say back to get the excuse that the tier 1 officer put in and that was registered in their system. So I just wanted to know how you manage to get through to them if you're talking to a tier 2.

yes every time I call I speak with a tier2. I normally don't give a story. once they go thru their normal script and elaborate as to what they are saying is the final answer... I just say pls can I speak with someone else because I know there is more info available on my case....and they just transfer me without any further questions

[SilverMonk 194]

30 minutes ago, LuFlolady said:

yes every time I call I speak with a tier2. I normally don't give a story. once they go thru their normal script and elaborate as to what they are saying is the final answer... I just say pls can I speak with someone else because I know there is more info available on my case....and they just transfer me without any further questions

Oh okay. I'll just let my fiancee know that. I told her that she can just flat out say she wants to talk to another agent but she doesn't want to get on USCISs bad side lol.

 

Have you been telling the first agent that you know there's more information on your case even when you didn't know there was more information. 

 

Have you received your RFE btw?

[SilverMonk 194]

This might be a dumb question but I rather ask than not now. 

 

So we have an attorney representing us and all, she sent in form g-28 and everything with our petition. But we think we'll get an RFE.

 

My question is, can my fiancee (petitioner) reply to the RFE herself or will the lawyer need to send the RFE in? We wanted to do it ourselves since we lost trust in their service but we don't know if that is okay. 

[LuFlolady 881]

16 minutes ago, SilverMonk said:

Oh okay. I'll just let my fiancee know that. I told her that she can just flat out say she wants to talk to another agent but she doesn't want to get on USCISs bad side lol.

 

Have you been telling the first agent that you know there's more information on your case even when you didn't know there was more information. 

 

Have you received your RFE btw?

I would say I believe there is more to my case can I please be transferred to someone else. No I have not received my RFE yet when I called yesterday they said the same thing that it has been requested but not generated

[ashmed246 78]

I’m replying to an RFE on letter of intent. Should the letter be addressed to uscis in Lewisville TX which was the original address I filed with or to the PO box address that the RFE documents are to be sent to?

[Samursa 16]

Now I’ve heard everything (I think).

NOA1 - Jan.17 so I opened inquiry today. Also spoke to tier 2 today since it’s been 7 months and 11days. I was told it hasn’t been 7 months yet. I asked how do you figure that when today is 8/28. 

“We don’t work weekends, so it’s  only 5 business days per week and you need 7 months worth of business days.”

Where does this fuzzy logic come from??? By this math I need to wait 8+ months for 7 months of 5 day weeks of USCIS work days to be out of regular processing time.

So after all this I know nothing.

[mdma11 121]

3 minutes ago, Samursa said:

Now I’ve heard everything (I think).

NOA1 - Jan.17 so I opened inquiry today. Also spoke to tier 2 today since it’s been 7 months and 11days. I was told it hasn’t been 7 months yet. I asked how do you figure that when today is 8/28. 

“We don’t work weekends, so it’s  only 5 business days per week and you need 7 months worth of business days.”

Where does this fuzzy logic come from??? By this math I need to wait 8+ months for 7 months of 5 day weeks of USCIS work days to be out of regular processing time.

So after all this I know nothing.

That's a first but that can't be right.

[Samursa 16]

8 minutes ago, mdma11 said:

That's a first but that can't be right.

I think the problem is with that agent. I hope they aren’t trained to treat us like gullible children.