Group Letter to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee?

[Amor1 0]

If you read the "Letter to the Judiciary Subcommittee" and sent it off with your info, please let me know. I just want to gage how many fo us sent this letter and what an impact it made on the senators. There is power in numbers. Hope to hear from you if you sent it--Thanks!

[ed g 0]

I sent mine out and I emailed Hennedy and biden. thank you for your hard work

I sent mine out and I emailed Hennedy and biden. thank you for your hard work

[Movin on New Life 3]

If you read the "Letter to the Judiciary Subcommittee" and sent it off with your info, please let me know. I just want to gage how many fo us sent this letter and what an impact it made on the senators. There is power in numbers. Hope to hear from you if you sent it--Thanks!

where can I find this letter? I would like to send as well

[Y's_habibitk 2]

Im dropping mine in the mail box this afternoon.

[so2008 0]

I sent 1 hard copy and email to each one of them.

[mamalou 0]

If you read the "Letter to the Judiciary Subcommittee" and sent it off with your info, please let me know. I just want to gage how many fo us sent this letter and what an impact it made on the senators. There is power in numbers. Hope to hear from you if you sent it--Thanks!

My husband in the US had already dropped this letter 2 days ago.

[Amor1 0]

If you read the "Letter to the Judiciary Subcommittee" and sent it off with your info, please let me know. I just want to gage how many fo us sent this letter and what an impact it made on the senators. There is power in numbers. Hope to hear from you if you sent it--Thanks!

where can I find this letter? I would like to send as well

Hello and all the best to you! See below.

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Hello, everyone! I finally finished this letter, and I think it's appropriate in tone and specific in our request for a Congressional Inquiry. It would not allow me to upload, so I pasted it below. Perhaps it will help all of us who are still waiting after inhumane periods of time as well as those who are just getting started. If you want, you can copy and add your home address, receipt numbers and anything else like email address and contact numbers. However, the body of the letter should stay the same because the Judiciary Committee needs to see that many of us are affected in this similar way--waiting, waiting, and waiting for our NOA2 indefinitely. We should get a response from the Senators themselves or the Subcommittee. It's only polite and respectful for them to respond.

Guidelines:

Print out a copy of this letter after you add your information. **Remember to add you House of Rep Member/Senator for your state. Again, this is protocol.

You can address your envelope to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security or each individual member who sits on this committee as well as your State's Senator. Personally, I will be forwarding a total of 11 letters (all members, the Subcommittee, and my State's Senator). It's up to you.

I believe including hard copies of the spreadsheets is necessary, but many will send these, so you don't have to do this. My letters will go off tomorrow, and as soon as I get responses, I'll add a new message here at visajourneys.com.

I wish all of you the best and hope that we see positive results from our proactive measures !--Amor1

*************************LETTER*************************************************

Your Street Address (here)

City, State and zip code (here)

October 20, 2008

United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee

on Immigration, Refugees, & Border Security

224 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

To the Honorable Members of this Subcommittee:

As a law-abiding US citizen, I, along with my fellow members of visajourney.com, request your assistance with our USCIS petitions. At present, the time frame for reviewing cases is nine months or longer. Despite published announcements to the contrary, many of us have been separated from our spouses and children (on whose behalf we filed I-130 and I-129F petitions) for a painful amount of time, time which cannot be recovered. After following the guidelines posted on the USCIS website and paying all applicable fees, we are waiting in suspense for an approval (the Notice of Action 2 – NOA2), and this is the source of our dilemma—an inordinate amount of waiting time and no clear explanations for delays. Hence, we ask you, Honorable Members of the US Senate, to investigate these seemingly negligent periods of inaction.

The first step for our family members is to submit the petitions to establish the existence of a relationship. Then, once approved, our petitions and all documents submitted are forwarded to the National Visa Center for further processing. As you are aware, the next phase is the embassy approval with required medical examination and interviews. Unfortunately, many of us have not moved past the first step because there have been no updates sent to us. In particular, many of us are still waiting for NOA2 from the Vermont Service Center (VSC). Please see attached spreadsheets. While the California Service Center seems to be processing petitions at an increasingly rapid rate, VSC is months behind. Why is there such a major difference between these two processing centers? Are there more adjudicators at CSC? Moreover, some petitions that are received months after others are processed faster. When questioned about this inequity, telephone operators at the USCIS give a standard response: “It depends on the case; each case is adjudicated differently.” Then when we ask about our individual petitions on behalf of our qualifying relatives, we receive the generic, “We’re within our processing time.”

For many of us, the entire process thus far has proven to be quite discouraging. We cannot get accurate, specific responses to our inquiries, nor do we receive the “first in, first out” treatment we were promised. Hence, we need and request your assistance. Perhaps an inquiry from your committee will garner more substantive, more accurate responses. Perhaps there is a way to change the process, so national security is not comprised, and families are not unnecessarily separated from their loved ones indefinitely. Attached, please find a copy of NOA 1 for our petitions (I-130 and I-129F). Below, see our receipt numbers given by USCIS. It is with great respect for your charge on this committee that I, along with many others, request your inquiry into this matter. Hopefully, all of us will receive the NOA2 and continue positively on the path of reunification with our family members. Equally, we hope that others will benefit from our proactive measures and their processing time will be much shorter and more humane.

Respectfully yours,

Name (full)

Receipt Number for Petition __________

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Receipt Number for Petition __________

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cc: Members of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security

The Honorable Senator Ted Kennedy

The Honorable Joe Biden

The Honorable Diane Feinstein

The Honorable Chuck Schumer

The Honorable Jeff Sessions

The Honorable Jon Kyl

The Honorable Chuck Grassley

The Honorable John Cornyn

The Honorable ####### Durbin

(Your State Senator/US House of Representatives Member – here)