Over 5 Months - what i did

[Maxx121 14]

Once I hit the 5 month mark i contacted my senator and sent them a letter authorizing them to look into my case.

After a week and a half past that I saw a suggestion here to email VCS so i did, a week later i got an approval just like the person who suggested it.

sample of the email i sent:

Email Topic: Service Request - EACXXXXXXX

Body of email:

Good Evening,

My name is xxxxx, my case number is xxxxxxx which has a receipt date of July 23rd 2010. I have been trying to put in a service request as my case is currently outside the 5 month processing timeframe. I have called your 800 number and spoken to a number of agents who continue to tell me that my case is not outside of the processing timeframe.

At this point I have been give many different dates as to when my petition would posibly be reviewed, most of which are in conflict to what you post on your website.

The agents that I have spoken to have been no help at all and I am now emailing asking if someone would be able to please put in a service request for my petition and possibly tell me when it will be worked on.

This has been a very stressful experience and i appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,

xxxxxxx

RESPONSE:

Hi,

The Petition for Alien Fiancé (e) (Form I-129F) was approved today.

For future status inquiries of a petition or application filed at this Center you may want to utilize our National Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-375-5283. If you would like to obtain forms, filing instructions, case status or schedule an appointment with your local office, please visit our website at www.uscis.gov.

Thanks,

Sharon

Immigration Service Officer

Vermont Service Center

I have no way of knowing if this is a coincidence or not but better to use all avenues than none. Contact your senator and call every day and email.

Good Luck to us all

VCS Email: vsc.ncscfollowup@dhs.gov

[SisJ 13]

Congrats!

[Prettysunshine 4]

Once I hit the 5 month mark i contacted my senator and sent them a letter authorizing them to look into my case.

After a week and a half past that I saw a suggestion here to email VCS so i did, a week later i got an approval just like the person who suggested it.

sample of the email i sent:

Email Topic: Service Request - EACXXXXXXX

Body of email:

Good Evening,

My name is xxxxx, my case number is xxxxxxx which has a receipt date of July 23rd 2010. I have been trying to put in a service request as my case is currently outside the 5 month processing timeframe. I have called your 800 number and spoken to a number of agents who continue to tell me that my case is not outside of the processing timeframe.

At this point I have been give many different dates as to when my petition would posibly be reviewed, most of which are in conflict to what you post on your website.

The agents that I have spoken to have been no help at all and I am now emailing asking if someone would be able to please put in a service request for my petition and possibly tell me when it will be worked on.

This has been a very stressful experience and i appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,

xxxxxxx

RESPONSE:

Hi,

The Petition for Alien Fiancé (e) (Form I-129F) was approved today.

For future status inquiries of a petition or application filed at this Center you may want to utilize our National Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-375-5283. If you would like to obtain forms, filing instructions, case status or schedule an appointment with your local office, please visit our website at www.uscis.gov.

Thanks,

Sharon

Immigration Service Officer

Vermont Service Center

I have no way of knowing if this is a coincidence or not but better to use all avenues than none. Contact your senator and call every day and email.

Good Luck to us all

VCS Email: vsc.ncscfollowup@dhs.gov

Thank you for posting. This is very helpful.

[RICARDO4EVA2 194]

Glad that some light was shed and you saw the approval.

[HEART 2010 2]

thanks MAXX121 for sharing this... mine is almost over 5months too, ill do the same way. Congratulations again!

[OBX 51]

Well done!

[Blob18 111]

Aye, well done indeed.

Technically the email is only for those who contacted the call center and got a service request which didn't help out yadda yadda. Whatever.

The call center is #######, the service requests don't do jack. So frankly until they improve their customer service they can get emailed at that email for case updates and questions as to why cases are beyond the stated national goal and fixed goal of 5 months.

Simple fix for them really. Improve your service and people will stop using the email.

[Messybrownhair 251]

Cool, congrats!!! It's about time!

[Faith & Andz 3]

Once I hit the 5 month mark i contacted my senator and sent them a letter authorizing them to look into my case.

After a week and a half past that I saw a suggestion here to email VCS so i did, a week later i got an approval just like the person who suggested it.

sample of the email i sent:

Email Topic: Service Request - EACXXXXXXX

Body of email:

Good Evening,

My name is xxxxx, my case number is xxxxxxx which has a receipt date of July 23rd 2010. I have been trying to put in a service request as my case is currently outside the 5 month processing timeframe. I have called your 800 number and spoken to a number of agents who continue to tell me that my case is not outside of the processing timeframe.

At this point I have been give many different dates as to when my petition would posibly be reviewed, most of which are in conflict to what you post on your website.

The agents that I have spoken to have been no help at all and I am now emailing asking if someone would be able to please put in a service request for my petition and possibly tell me when it will be worked on.

This has been a very stressful experience and i appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,

xxxxxxx

RESPONSE:

Hi,

The Petition for Alien Fiancé (e) (Form I-129F) was approved today.

For future status inquiries of a petition or application filed at this Center you may want to utilize our National Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-375-5283. If you would like to obtain forms, filing instructions, case status or schedule an appointment with your local office, please visit our website at www.uscis.gov.

Thanks,

Sharon

Immigration Service Officer

Vermont Service Center

I have no way of knowing if this is a coincidence or not but better to use all avenues than none. Contact your senator and call every day and email.

Good Luck to us all

VCS Email: vsc.ncscfollowup@dhs.gov

Sounds like it helped; I also emailed VSC after I was past 5 months because I could not get someone to put in a service request. However, eventually an officer put in a service request, so they responded in the email to tell me just to wait to receive a response from the service request. When I got a response from the service request, I got the standard response others received (You will be notified within 60 days of this email). However, as I just found out yesterday, mine was approved on January 4, which is the same day they sent me that email saying it would be approved w/in 60 days! So, it definitely can't hurt to email!

[ameribrit 37]

Well done!

We will be doing the same in just under 4 weeks. We allready have our Senator appraised of our situation, and we have that e-mail address thanks to, Lucy NY.

Hope we, and others that do the same once they go over the 5 month mark have the same success as you did

[REINITA♥REY 8]

Thanks for posting! I just sent my email off

[Sra Gomez 9]

Shall be writing this email in a couple of weeks! Hope I get the same result!!!! Congrats

[I & JJ <3 9]

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[jkelly07 120]

congratulations glad it worked for you,thanks for sharing,

[supercool 0]

Once I hit the 5 month mark i contacted my senator and sent them a letter authorizing them to look into my case.

After a week and a half past that I saw a suggestion here to email VCS so i did, a week later i got an approval just like the person who suggested it.

sample of the email i sent:

Email Topic: Service Request - EACXXXXXXX

Body of email:

Good Evening,

My name is xxxxx, my case number is xxxxxxx which has a receipt date of July 23rd 2010. I have been trying to put in a service request as my case is currently outside the 5 month processing timeframe. I have called your 800 number and spoken to a number of agents who continue to tell me that my case is not outside of the processing timeframe.

At this point I have been give many different dates as to when my petition would posibly be reviewed, most of which are in conflict to what you post on your website.

The agents that I have spoken to have been no help at all and I am now emailing asking if someone would be able to please put in a service request for my petition and possibly tell me when it will be worked on.

This has been a very stressful experience and i appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you,

xxxxxxx

RESPONSE:

Hi,

The Petition for Alien Fiancé (e) (Form I-129F) was approved today.

For future status inquiries of a petition or application filed at this Center you may want to utilize our National Customer Service Center by calling 1-800-375-5283. If you would like to obtain forms, filing instructions, case status or schedule an appointment with your local office, please visit our website at www.uscis.gov.

Thanks,

Sharon

Immigration Service Officer

Vermont Service Center

I have no way of knowing if this is a coincidence or not but better to use all avenues than none. Contact your senator and call every day and email.

Good Luck to us all

VCS Email: vsc.ncscfollowup@dhs.gov

Hey,

Mine is also July 23rd, thanks for the update. I emailed them already, although my service request was accepted and they gave me a number. But as you know it does not help much, so I emailed them anyways to see if they look into it if they have haven't touched my file yet.