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    Well, that's a bit complicated. Legally speaking, I think this might be questionable. True, you can enter the US legitimately on the normal B1/B2 visitor visa and stay up to 6 months, in theory. In practice, they are going to ask you what you are doing for 6 months and how you are going to be supporting yourself. And furthermore they might ask about your immigration application, and that's when there is a further problem, because technically, you are supposed to wait *outside* the US while your immigrant visa application is in process. So you see, the answer is not so simple in this matter. It's the same thing I had considered, and ultimately decided against, myself.
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    https://hackinglawpractice.com
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    For what it's worth, I have travelled many times to see my wife in Miami since being in AP with DS-5535. So yes, but as always, it is up to the discretion of the CBP officer to let you in or not.
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    Correct, they are based out of St Louis.
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    This is like the problem for everyone caught in this going forward: their response times are getting worse...
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    I signed on with the Hacking Law Firm.
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    Well it has finally happened, pressing back on the law firm got a lawyer to talk to me and she was able to get the US attorney to lean on the consulate to send me--at long last!--the request for medical, a new RCMP certificate, new passport photos and my passport, and to resubmit the DS-260 (for no described reason). This can be considered positive movement. However, the court deadline is Jan 14 and this stuff cannot be done by that date, so the lawyers are going to have to negotiate something with US attorney to allow more time.
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    It is worth stating, I am a chump. I selected Hacking as they have a good name on this forum and were generally more responsive than Goldstein was in the exploration phase. Now, since actually retaining them in November I have never heard from a lawyer, I just get handled by the paralegal who usually tells me "contact the consulate." I am not very happy about it.
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    OK so I intuited right... I am not sure the paralegal even has any idea what I am talking about when I said CEAC.
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    The paralegal, as per the US attorney, referenced "EDP" or "Electronic Document Processing", like as if it should be something I am familiar with. Do you know this platform? The only electronic platform I have interfaced with for uploading documents to the National Visa Center/Consulate is CEAC.
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    Thanks for the tip, I have sent another email and cc'ed the law firm and my case email that they set up. Unfortunately, my experience with consulate is they do not respond for 2-3 weeks. There are people on here who claim that they have got back responses the next day, but I cannot see how that is true. It certainly hasn't been my experience, ever, with Montreal consulate, over the last couple of years.
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    I want to stay optimistic. What I am concerned about is, given what law firm reported from talking to US attorney, supposedly they instructed the consulate ("the agency" is the term the paralegal used, I start wondering if they even know what the details of my case are) to request a new medical. That did not happen. It was not in junk mail, and wouldn't be anyway. It just didn't happen. In addition, they 're-opened' DS-260 for no apparent reason, and didn't tell me that either. Now, the court deadline for the govt approaches next week, Jan 14. So what is going to happen now? The govt is going to claim to the court that they asked me for medical and i didn't respond, so please dismiss?? Is this what this is going towards?
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    I do not want to touch the DS-260, not to update it for anything, for fear of triggering new diversion to a bureaucratic sub-process. Someone, whether it be the consulate or the law firm handling my mandamus case (I really regret now even giving them the money) needs to instruct me specifically how to proceed.
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    I am going to be getting the RCMP police check tomorrow, yes. However, I am not going to touch this DS-260 unless I get some guidance, I don't want to alter and then trigger a reassessment of the DS-260 needlessly. The problem is, the law firm is being of no help, they just inevitably say 'contact the consulate', who themselves never answer for weeks! I am so angry that I have paid $5,000 USD for no help.
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    It seems like a bad idea--because then that would open up the need to vet the form and documentarily qualify it again. I do not want to make any changes to the form that would spur on another bureaucratic process thread...
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    I have no idea how to proceed. I do not want to touch the DS-260 if I am not required to. I am waiting for either the consulate or my law firm to tell me how to proceed on this.
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    I actually can't help feeling that they did this on purpose--not for egocentric reasons, I am not so important at all--but it is so ridiculous that it becomes harder to explain this by incompetence alone. Why? I have no idea. It isn't right that others be pushed ahead and I keep languishing.
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    Paralegal from Hacking says they will try to ask US attorney for guidance about this, but I can't say I am optimistic that I will get a clear answer. There are too many broken telephone links here and the consulate is always barely responsive. Looking at it in cold realistic terms, it looks like *someone* has set me back at least yet another a month from what it needed to be here, because the clarification for what I am supposed to do next may literally take two weeks...
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    Law firm is Hacking. The whole thing is a mess really. You know things like that, just little things like this, they delay someone for months, because just clarifying any detail takes literally weeks. It is soooo tiresome.
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    Now my DS-260 on CEAC IV site says "re-opened". No mention of a medical. Wth am I supposed to do with that. Law firm is useless at guidance, consulate will take weeks to respond. I am fed up.
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    The paralegal for the law firm contacted us yesterday to say that they spoke to the US attorney and that they had instructed the consulate to send request for new medical and asked when we were planning to send that in... Of course, they have sent me no such request! At this point, it is hard not to believe that is not a game.
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    Congratulations again @kryptonite!
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    It's optimistic, yeah, but good for you, keep that optimism. It is hard for me nowadays to do the same, so I admire it.
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    Another two meaningless CEAC “Last updated” updates on Dec 12 and 16. Still remains refused. They just like to play, i think.
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    It's sad. We of course should be happy for the people who have been pushed forward. It feels all the more lonely because other people get to go, and we don't, right? There is just no fairness or justice in this situation, it seems. There is no discernible political or institutional pressure to speak of that would push them to solve Administrative Processing cases with any speed. It's sort of the--and excuse my dramatic wording here-- "evil genius" of this AP category; no one really cares too much about getting people out of it. After all, the *original* presumption for this status category is that there was something wrong, somehow, with your application, maybe missing documentation on the innocuous side, or a background that reasonably calls for them to give you more scrutiny than already given, etc. That's clearly not what it is actually being used for in a lot of our cases, now, but that is the institutional idea that surrounds it. And so no one cares about the AP people. AP is like a dumping ground where they can leave you and forget about you for a long while, after already having processed you through other background checks and the interview, just leaving you in a black hole. It is a tool that the govt already had, that as of late has been used, at least in all appearances, cynically. This has left us people in this thread in a no-win position where we are either forced to wait indefinitely or try to buy our way out (with very expensive WOM suits). Make no mistake, I feel your sadness. I am more able than many to afford to travel to see my wife and be able to access sufficient credit to get the lawsuit going, but it has done financial harm to me. It has all added insult to injury, and it is being done to genuine, honest people who (in all cases that I know of) have faithfully followed the immigration laws of the United States, even while we continually hear in the news about people that do it the wrong way but find ways to stay there. I am not happy with the whole thing and, yes, i do find what has happened to myself, and to you, and to the others, as a form of injustice. Let us hope for better times ahead. We are not there yet.
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