Hello Everyone,
My wife had a CR-1 interview with the IV unit in Jerusalem on November 3, 2022. The case is now in 221g administrative processing.
We had a request for a joint sponsor and then a request for an additional verification document which we submitted December 1, 2022.
Our problem is that my wife is not an Israeli citizen and is there on a tourist visa. She arrived on October 27, 2022. We think her visa expires on January 24, 2023.
What should we do? I've sent the unit a weekly e-mail starting December 14. Each week I've made it clearer and clearer we need her passport back with or without a decision but have not gotten a single reply -- not even to acknowledge my concern.
Obviously we want the passport with a visa. If you look through our case, you might guess that we want it very badly. It's been a hellish year. These aren't competing objectives, but I suppose our top priority is to get her passport back and leave the country?
I sent Jerusalem IV an e-mail from a second account without case number and name and they are definitely triaging e-mails. Around Christmas, my wife sent her own e-mail which was a sob story about her medical scare during the holidays and received a standard reply to wait.
Should I even be worried yet? 2 weeks seems like a very short time left to arrange the return of a passport.
I'm tempted to send some e-mails from a second account, but it seems like it would annoy whoever is ignoring the e-mails from my primary account. Is it worth it to annoy them?
My congressman has opened a casework case for us. Should I ask her to badger Jerusalem IV immediately? I can and will fly to Jerusalem. But can I do anything there?
Thanks for your help!