I have already contacted my congressman, senator, the governor to no avail, perhaps a letter to the president is in order.

I did travel with my wife to visit her family last summer with her expired PRC, the I-797c extension, and her stamped passport, no problems on the return trip. Was a bit apprehensive as my wife's friend did travel alone and was delayed 4 hours with an interrogation and a strip search. If they tried that with my wife, I would have been very upset. But that didn't happen, laid down my photo ID as a veteran of a foreign war, and both of us were treated in a very courteous and polite manner.

That same friend of hers a year ahead of us, did receive a letter and an appointment to her local office only to learn that NSC lost her records, a 500 mile round trip for her. She was panicked as to why they called her in only to find out she had to make a second trip to bring in her documents, again.

Hope this board is good for sharing tips, it's my understanding that you do not make an appointment until you are within 30 of your extension expiration date. Is this true?

I don't know if there is a certain limit like 30 days. I made my appointment 7 days before expiration to visit them 1 day after. Remember: You are not required to have a document to be a legal permanent resident, you can go days, weeks, even months without.

A month or less before the expiration of the extension seems to me a good time to visit them, with exceptions, of course: If you make a 3-week trip and come home one day after the NOA expired, I would visit them 35 days before the expiration and asked for a I-551 stamp, with travel documents in hand.

Great ...and if something happen what are you going to do ?
Start all over again this time in Canada to bring your wife/husband there? I hope that's not your backup plan!

what's wrong with that kind of plan? Me and my husband plan on moving there in future anyways, so if it comes sooner rather than later, oh well! We believe that God has it all under control, and we're good with that.

Had a infopass appointment at the local Chicago office for extension stamp on the passport. I am not sure if i was just plain lucky or the fact that the USCIS person saw the memo stapled below my infopass appt and asked me what it was (to which I promptly replied ohh just something which clearly states I will get a one year extension) but anyway got a one year stamp. Hopefully will get my 10 yr greencard or citizenship by then. Wont be surprised if i dont get any.

Sandeep

Well that kind of explain why you are so relaxed over this BS processing time .
For sure you must be close to retirement ...yes Canada is a better choice but why didn't you do it from the beginning if your goal was to retire in Canada anyway?
You see I don't have that flexibility to move the whole family back to Canada ,my wife will never consider moving to Canada and maybe now you understand why I'm so pissed off when I see people here claiming that there is no big deal waiting one year ,two year maybe even three for those SOB to do some work at NSC

Remember: You are not required to have a document to be a legal permanent resident, you can go days, weeks, even months without.

Not so sure about that Peter, without current documentation, my wife would neither have a drivers license nor a job.

The day her PRC expired was the day her employers legal department called her in, she was so busy at work, she got permission for me to handle that end of it. Ironically on 03/27/2008 is the day that the NSCIS is drastically increasing the fines to employers that employ undocumented workers, and besides the feds, our state is taking a very active interest in additional fines.

These dates are interesting for the last recorded I-751 processing dates.

CSC 08/19/2007
TSC 04/26/2007
VSC 03/01/2007
NCS 07/05/2006

Would be nice if we were in any service center, except Nebraska.

Maybe USCIS should close NSC , save some money and all the applications be transferred somewhere else. Many times I asked myself if they still have my application or they lost it .Calling USCIS is worthless so… YES, Nebraska is a disaster

The call of the legal department is interesting - what did they demand to see and why? If they wanted to see her permission to work to comply with the Labor Laws, someone in that legal department needs a refresher on Labor Law: Such demand is not allowed, all the employer can and must do is checking some documents at the beginning of an employment. It could be different, however, if the employer needed to see your wife's document to comply with some security regulation, like the rules of a federal customer (DoD?) or export control.

I haven't heard about state laws on employment of undocumented people, but they should not be in contradiction to federal law.

The "customers" of the TSC in the first half of 2007 are not very lucky either; their adjucations are delayed like ours. Their application got sent to VSC where they are processed after later direct applications to VSC.

Added NickD and for sandeepb the I-551 stamp for 12 months - Congratulations!

List of I-751 to NSC, ordered by date on NOA, after the last known approval in 2007 (NOA 06-Dec-06)
and before the first known transfer to CSC (NOA 05-Aug-07)
Names ordered by date on NOA instead of date of I-751, because NOA is the date relevant to USCIS.
UserName...........Date of I-751.....Date on NOA...Biometrics......Approved.....RFE, Service Request, etc.
haozi101...........11/27/06..........12/06/06......01/03/07........09/14/07.....
Bertrand...........12/19/06..........12/27/06......01/20/07........01/29/08.....N-400
sandeepb...........12/26/06..........01/04/07......02/05/07........--/--/--.....service request, N-400, I-551 stamp for 12 months
coloradogirl.......12/27/06..........01/04/07......01/30/07........--/--/--.....
echostorm..........12/--/06..........01/05/07......02/16/07........--/--/--.....
CAPG...............01/06/07..........01/16/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....
jennybirgitta......01/13/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....service request, congressman, N-400
traversm...........01/14/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....
MDandZJ............01/21/07..........01/25/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....
Ruari..............--/--/--..........01/25/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....congressman
ron&nadine.........01/07/07..........01/22/07......02/27/07........--/--/--.....
dee................01/25/07..........01/29/07......02/20/07........--/--/--.....
Peter T............01/27/07..........02/01/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
drawbridgep........01/11/07..........02/02/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....
Illinois77.........01/31/07..........02/02/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....
chus...............01/26/07..........02/03/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....
STBM04.............01/31/07..........02/05/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
ives_damian........01/31/07..........02/06/07......03/12/07........--/--/--.....
winterpassing......02/06/07..........02/12/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....
MonicaT............02/08/07..........02/14/07......03/10/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
grenoble38.........02/01/07..........02/20/07......03/03/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
Illinois...........02/19/07..........02/23/07......04/18/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
onur ............. 06/26/06..........03/15/07......04/13/07........--/--/--.....
Tammi..............02/23/07..........03/23/07......04/05/07........--/--/--.....
decharte...........02/28/07..........03/26/07......04/10/07........--/--/--.....
ace13..............03/22/07..........03/27/07......04/17/07........--/--/--.....
NickD..............03/27/07..........04/--/07......05/01/07........--/--/--.....congressman
Lyuba..............--/--/--..........04/17/07......05/07/07........--/--/--.....
gyuwono............04/17/07..........04/20/07......05/18/07........--/--/--.....
Kearinne...........04/09/07..........04/30/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....
charlie & yeng.....4/27/07(resubm.)..05/01/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....
Frances............04/02/07..........05/05/07......05/24/07........--/--/--.....
Kanadka............05/12/23..........05/23/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....
Badgerbabe.........05/10/07..........05/24/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....
debeselizz.........05/24/07..........05/31/07......06/21/07........--/--/--.....
sandy2000..........06/--/07..........06/12/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
laura19angel.......--/--/--..........06/15/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
pkmk...............06/18/07..........07/02/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
wifiman............06/29/07..........08/05/07......08/15/07........08/25/07..... NSC > CSC

NSC claimed accomplishments for processing I-751s:
Posting date......Processing timeframe
12/14/07..........02/09/07
01/15/08..........02/10/07
02/15/08..........07/05/06 (yes, they went backwards)

Please check your data for correctness.

hahaha close to retirement -- not close, my friend, not even close. I wish that was the case, but it isn't. We're both 35.

We chose to go this route instead of moving to Canada first because of financial reasons (he has a much more stable and lucrative career than I did). Our eventual goal is to both have dual citizenship so that we can have the flexibility of being in either country without having to deal with bureaucracy. But that's just us.

I don't see a lot of people saying that waiting this long isn't a big deal, I just see people saying it's not worth the ulcers.

I truly hope you hear something soon.

I'm not yet sure that's necessarily the case. Our TSC petitions weren't all "finalized" in the VSC system until February 25 and 26, a little over two weeks ago. There have been two approvals of "direct" VSC filers since then, but those petitions might have already been on someone's desk for all we know.

"The call of the legal department is interesting - what did they demand to see and why?"

Exactly what is the law? She was issued a temporary PRC that expired, we also did a I-765, never thought about that, should check to see if that has a time limit. What I did bring in was my fold type brief case with everything in it, plus printouts on off the web.

":Receipt Number: LIN07129xxxxx

Application Type: CRI89, PETITION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS RECEIVED

Current Status: Case received and pending.

On March 30, 2007, we received this CRI89 PETITION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS RECEIVED, and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case. Please follow any instructions on this notice. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when yours will be done. This case is at our NEBRASKA SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register."

The I-751 application where it states to submit this form 90 days before the expiration date and felt I was making excuses for the NSCIS, is there anything else that I can do? We have complied fully with all aspects of the law, what else can we do?

Same exact problem with the DMV on renewing her drivers license, why did they send you an extension notice? Like I am suppose to know. At first, 3 1/2 years ago, they just wanted to see her passport and a valid SS card that she had, this time, complete records of her immigration status, I didn't know our state had an immigration officer that is not even affiliated with the NSCIS, but spent a week faxing him documents with phone conversations.

Call me ignorant, stupid, naive or whatever, many family farmers lost their farms here due to high inflated property taxes, taken over by corporations that are doing very well hiring illegal Mexicans paying them 100 bucks a week for their entire family to work expecting them to work 24/7. Some have managed to get home mortgages when I couldn't even add my wife to my checking account due to the APA regulations at first.

My son had to drive down to Madison, was hit broad sided by an illegal without a drivers license, called the cops, cop comes over and says, I wasn't there to see the accident and drives off leaving my son stranded. He wasted a year trying to file a claim against that person and got nowhere, courts wouldn't even listen to him, and got stuck with the repair bill for his vehicle. One can only assume the corruption we have in our government as our corporations want cheap slave labor.

While some of us are trying our best to take the legal route, any comments on this?

Yes my friend ,you are absolutely right ! Are they going to change the situation ? Definitely NOT ....the profit is quite substantial hiring illegal's so why would they want to change that ? USCIS is one big cover- up

Not sure if it is a very good idea to say anything negative about an agency that is literally holding a rope around your neck. Just for sake of peace of mind, trying to find ways to expedite the process. Ha, wonder if I could redo the I-130 along with a new I-485, would be happy to pay the fee for peace of mind, and this time we would be married for longer than two years.

Wife must have her I-688B, but I believe that was dated and should be long expired by now.

We had similar delay problems in Venezuela, just took me depositing a couple of bucks in a Miami Bank to resolve that, in US dollars of course. I use the term a couple of bucks loosely, let's just say a payment for premium service. Far better than I expected, a court wait of over two years was reduced to under 24 hours. Didn't expect that good of a service, expected more like two weeks. I did the money transfer at 3:00PM on a Thursday, all was done the following Friday morning. Now that is great service and well worth the price.

I see that the NSCIS also offers a premium service, but none for the I-751, if they did, would be more than happy to deposit a couple of bucks in even a Swiss bank account, worth it to me for peace of mind.

Non-documented persons are really getting a bad deal and the treatment is positively inhuman, know of a woman that was ran over by a tractor and crippled for life. She was instantly fired with no recourse, least private aid groups took care of her medical expenses. This is way beyond my comprehension as a human being as how many greedy people can be so inhumane to again, make a couple of bucks. Meat packing plants that were paying citizens 18 bucks an hour with workmans compensation and health insurance can now get by paying three bucks an hour, this is one reason the state is getting involved. Have you seen any decrease in the price of meat at your grocery store? It's criminal as to how they treat these people, but again, they are here, illegally.

WOW ...starting all over again ? That's quite an extreme option ,I never thought somebody will even consider that .
You see a lot of people here dumping more money rushing with another application (N-400) just to have the -751 approved ...that's extreme too but to start all over again ???? I'm not sure I will be able to do that anymore .
Having a premium service for I-751 you think my change the situation ? I don't think so . Remember all the empty words and promises that they made when they increased the fee ? Did we see any better services ? Is it worst then before ? Very much so !
I honestly believe that this premium service will be just another money grab like we've seen so far with USCIS
Would I pay some extra $$$$$$$$ to have this application processed right away ? Definitely and that considering that I waited already 13+ months ,way more then what they claim in their website :


Q : When can I expect USCIS to process my case?

USCIS processes applications in the order they are received by application type. Due to the significant increase in the number of applications filed, processing times have been affected. As a result, average processing times for certain application types filed after June 1, 2007, may become longer. For example:

Naturalization applications may take approximately 16-18 months to process;
Family-based adjustment of status applications may take 10-12 months;
Immigrant petitions for relatives and workers may take 9-10 months.

This is interesting, I contacted my senator's office again for a follow through, was told the reason for why the NSC set the I-751 date way back is because they are no longer processing I-751's.

And that all the I-751's were transferred to the CSC, with processing dates 08/19/2007, the office told me we should have been informed of this transfer and with out date of 03/27/2007, our case should have been processed already. They asked me if we received any word about this, I said absolutely nothing. They are going to follow through for us and should get back to us in two weeks.

See what happens. The NSCIS could be a little more informative on moves like this, just takes one guy with a computer to update minor things like this.

Anyway, least for now, feel more hopeful.

Are you sure about this?
Some people here are waiting since December 2006.
If they no longer deal with I-751 what happened to the old applications, they were disposed as garbage?
Who is your Senator?

Russell D. Feingold, WI, he was going to run for president, but his wife is divorcing him, can't have that, can we? What I said is exactly what I heard. Have you contacted your senator? Would be nice to hear the same thing from different people.

Yes I did ,but my congressman was very superficial ,his solution was "go and get the stamp on the passport " like I didn't know about that .
I will contact tomorrow again and see what he has to say about this .His name is Dennis Kucinich.
I wish this could be the start of an investigation inside the USCIS

I'm not sure you guys saw my post on March 7, 2008. I now live in California, I went to LA for my infopass to get the I-551 stamp, the officer that took my appointment called NSC and they said:
"Yes her file is still here, but no need for a special request for Transfer. They have a big pile -undetermined filing dates- that they are transferring to CSC soon b/c they can't get to them in NSC and need the help from CSC to process". She said that basically any expired file not sitting in front of an officer at the moment would be sent to CSC for processing. The Officer then told me to keep waiting for my I-751 approval"

Thank you for that information. When did you visit the office in LA? I hope CSC adjucates our applications until the end of this year.

Is this true???? So NSC is now planing to transfer our files Ok, but when will they do it , when will they sedn thse I -751 within 1 month or within 1 year , they will send them but WHEN???? WHy when I check my status online I can,t see that this is BS

IT is TRUEEEE!!!!!!!!! If you look at this link at the type of files processed by nebraska you will see that they don,t process the I-751 have a look. I am so mad
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00048f3d6a1RCRD

The times posted is not very accurate. Visajourney.com timeline is closer to the truth.

Wife and I rented a DVD last night.

The fine for marrying an alien to bring them into the USA is $250,000.00 and five years in prison.

The fine for copying a DVD is $250,000.00 and five years in prison.

Does this mean the crime for marrying an alien to bring them into this country is just as serious as copying a five buck DVD? If so, shouldn't we have to fill out an I-751 before renting a DVD?

Senator Feingold's assistant that deals with, is that the INS, NSCIS, HLS, USCIS, NSC, CSC, can't seem to get that straight, was very nice, we spend over 20 minutes on the phone, no rush, plenty of questions, it felt good talking to someone that showed a degree of concern and hopefully something will be done about it. My wife made a friend through a friend of a woman that is nine months ahead of us, she had delays and made inquiries only to make a 500 mile round trip to learn her records were lost, they didn't tell her that, so had to make a second trip to bring copies of all of her I-751 stuff, least her application number was still stuck in a computer someplace. If we have to go, planning on bringing a ton of paper with us.

Gather all this started in 1986 when congress limited immigration with a lottery of 50,000 people per year, but with unlimited immigrants through marriage, lots of nasty stuff was going on with supposingly millions of people coming in through the convenience of marriage. Well since then two things occurred in around 1988, a far more extensive background check before the card was issued followed by the I-751. Not only was my wife scrutinized, but I was as well, brought and send in documents from the day I was born here.

With the surprise of the I-751 and reading between the lines do people marry just to bring immigrants into this country today? Would certainly take a ton of forged documents to get away with it, and with the risk of prison and that fine, would have to charge at least a million bucks, and people with a million bucks to blow certainly don't need to marry to get into this country, there are other means. Not only that, but living in WI with our divorce laws, that spouse is in the position to clean you out and can always claim you abused him/her. Our divorce laws are such that if your spouse gambles, drinks, and blows all the money the good spouse has earned to keep the family together and there is only one can of beans left, that dirty rotten spouse is still entitled to half that can of beans. And for my wife and I to get a marriage license, we had to bring in our history first before it would even be issued. It's ironic with one country how 50 different states can have 50 different sets of rules.

And to further complicate matters, my wife brought her 14 old daughter with her. If our marriage did end up in a divorce that I gather is permissible, I would end up paying child support payments until she was 18 years of age, certainly no motivation to marry just to bring a person into this country.

Wife and I went through all of our papers looking for the EAD cards, we almost feel we had to turn those in at the interview, but so many things to remember, was just curious if those were still valid, but both hers and our daughters cards were missing, everything else there regarding the I-688B cards was there neatly in folders.

We ran across the welcoming papers with the responsibility of a new permanent resident to stay mostly in this country first, and to pay taxes second, even on goods she sold in her native country to the US government. Couldn't help but comment if the IRS wants your tax dollar, they better get on the USCIS's back and get your permanent resident card in place, otherwise, you won't have a job to go back to.

My wife and I have a deep love for each other, and we had to meet many obstacles to get together, not only in the USA, but in Venezuela as well, we took one issue at a time. These rules and regulations or formalities, whatever you want to call them have been the only stress in our marriage, wife asked me what I would do if she doesn't get her card, I just said we will sell everything and move to a country that does welcome us without all this hassle. It's a miracle to find someone you love so deeply, I am not about to lose that.

Still working on the N-400, what confuses me is that our local field office processes this application, so why do we have to send the package to Nebraska? In looking at the some odd 20 letters we received from the USCIS, from all over the country, except from Nebraska. Was thinking, would be nice to have one office to deal with.

Would contact your senator rather than a congressman, they seem to know more about what's going on. With a two year term, spend more time trying to get reelected that anything else. Just my experience.

Assuming you're signed up on the CIS site, you'll all get an email on the day NSC begins the transfers. It then took us another 2-3 weeks before we received a second email saying our old TSC petitions had actually been received at VSC. CSC seems alot speedier than VSC, so you guys will probably ultimately be a bit "luckier" than us.

It looks like CIS has now determined that only CSC and VSC will be processing I-751s.

I wanted to update our status, Peter T. if you want to add to the chart for CAPG:

December 27, 2007 - received I-551 stamp in passport good for 6 months.
February 28, 2008 - Received letter asking us to appear for an interview re: Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence (I-751) on March 20 (next week)

It is annoying that we have to accumulate all the "evidence" for the 4th time now but after reading everything here, we are extremely grateful that they have even acknowledged us. I don't know if this is the reason why but, my husband has a business contact at the DHS who told us in January that he would have our local CIS director submit a service request. He recently checked back with my husband about 3 weeks ago to find out if anything happened, he replied that no, we had not heard a single thing.

That was 3 weeks ago and I'm wondering if he pushed it forward somehow or if it was just a coincidence that we have the interview scheduled.

I can't decide if we were randomly selected for the interview or if they have some reason to doubt our marriage so I'm probably going to be really obnoxious and submit every single possible piece of evidence I can think of going back the past 2+ years as they request.

OH and I was asked to go on a business trip next week and the interview is putting a crimp on that. Of course there is no way I would ever even attempt to reschedule the interview but my boss is not happy that this is getting in the way. BTW, the letter that we got about the interview has no phone number, does not say anything about "if you need to reschedule..." It does say If you do not come to the interview your application may be denied.

And lastly, I love this wording: "Bring those documents that will best prove your valid continued marital state." I don't know about anyone else but to me, the definition of marriage is something that cannot be documented. Maybe I should videotape an argument, hehe, if that doesn't prove a marriage I don't know what would.

Don't worry about it. Interviews are virtually always a result of random selection, not because of something questionable in your file. Best to look at it this way: on a week from today, you will almost certainly be approved. You just have to appear in person to get your approval.

I would gladly trade the uncertainty all of the old NSC and TSC filers are experiencing for that ANY day of the week!

I noticed there is an email you can write to if you have a complaint about the USCIS. So I emailed it asking about the 6 month back track, about NSC not processing I-751 , about people who filed just a few months ago getting approved when a lot of us have been waiting well over a year, and a few other things. I got a reply back almost instantly!


I wonder if there's an email address I can write to to complain about their complaint email address not working.

Anyway, I'm going for another infopass on tuesday, but don't really expect the officer there to have any idea what's going on. If I manage to get a 12-month stamp I'll consider it a successful trip.

....and what's Visajourney.com timeline for I-751 applications submited to NSC ?
You may know something that I don't know so ...can you explain ?

What was the e-mail you used if you don't mind asking ?
Was it USCIS-COMPLAINT@DHS.GOV

Because I have done nothing that would make me believe I should be denied! My only "crime" was to marry a US citizen, and last time I checked, that is not a reason to deny my application as long as I stay within the government-proposed process!

What are you so scared of? What would you do different if you had the 10 year card now?


Yes, this is not Germany (where, should we decide to live there, hubby and I would simply board a plane, travel to Germany, walk into the local immigration office with our marriage license, and receive residence and work authorization for him!)

I am a woman.
And yes, I absolutely would.

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NSC Updates on I-751 processing - 07/06/07 Nebraska Service Center (NSC) will no longer fee receipt Form I-751 Nebraska Service Center (NSC) will no longer fee receipt Form I-751, Petition to Remove the Conditions of Residence effective July 2, 2007. I-751 forms received at NSC will be shipped un-receipted to the California Service Center (CSC). WAC receipt numbers will be issued by the CSC along with adjudicated petitions. Also TSC (Texas Service Center) will be sending I-751 to CSC.

Well, I use to be one of those people who I really didn't care or concern myself too much with the backlog at the NSC. I just figured, it would happen eventually, so why worry? This new piece of information really irritates me. What the heck is going on there? Are they even processing the remaining I-751 applications or is the plan to eventually transfer ALL of them over to the CSC? Are new applicants still being told to send their I-751 to Nebraska? This is ridiculous.

This is not new information. It's from last July, when they started automatically transferring all newly filed petitions at NSC to CSC.

Yes, I've always known that the I-751s sent after July were being transferred to CSC. That's not what I'm talking about. I want to know is what is happening to the I-751s that are still sitting at the NSC. The ones sent before July 2007. Are they no longer processing ANY I-751s? Is my application just going to sit there until someone decides to transfer the rest of them to the CSC? Are they slowing plowing through them? What?

yep, that's the million dollar question...seems it's anyone's guess...

This is from five seconds ago, "This case is at our NEBRASKA SERVICE CENTER location."

This is from the very latest I-751 instruction form:

If you live elsewhere in the United States mail your petition to:

USCIS Nebraska Service Center
P.O. Box 87751
Lincoln, NE 68501-7751

Nothing posted either on the N-400 except NSC does not even list processing N-400 applications, but, and again from the very latest....

If you live in AK, CO, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, MI, MO, MN, MT, NE, ND, OH, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI or WY, send your N-400 application to:

Nebraska Service Center
PO Box 87400
Lincoln, NE 68501-7400

So how is a person suppose to know this stuff?

Never a good idea to complain to any US government agency, and that includes all 1,526 of them, only gets you into more trouble. While our congress started and funds them, not want congressperson can name all 1,526 agencies and are not even aware of the rules they are making. In many cases one finds out the hard way by following the rules of one agency is breaking the rules of another agency.

It's best to take your nice pill when dealing with agents, be humble and helpful, even give them sympathy for how hard they have to work.

Also not good to be an individual, EPA recently fined a huge corporation that was dumping tons of pollutants into the air a whole $5,000.00, while a small vehicle AC shop with two guys were fined $67,000.00 for doing what they called scam retrofits, not even harmful to the atmosphere. If we really want action, all 3 million of us should march in Washington, DC, if there is 3 million of us, find that hard to believe. There are only about 40 of us here, about 6 in another board. Maybe just our cases have been dropped by the wayside, not a bad percentage when you consider about 50 out of 3 million.

Few weeks ago I suggested that every single one of us should send a letter to Nebraska asking for an explanation why is taking so long to process our applications and why the older applications were left unattached collecting dust (or even getting lost) while the newer ones were transferred to California and approved within 3 to 4 months
Guess what ....not even one person wanted to join this kind of protest ,more then that someone (I won't name it ) even sad not to do it because it will slow down the process even more ,can you believe that ?????
You won't find any support here as pretty much everyone is willing to put up with this BS. Sad but true !

I'm sure there are other immigration support web sites... maybe you wanna check them out.. here, I'll even give you the name of one... VisaPro

That was me and I stand to my word!
Oh, and "every single one of us" would be about... hmmm 35 letters? I don't think you'd make a difference that way. If you really want change, vote (or have your spouse vote..) for the right people and address the folks above the service center level. You won't achive anything by bogging down the SC itself. IMHO

There are essentially the people you can send your complaints to:

-Both of your US Senators
- The Chair and Ranking Member of the Immigration Subcommittee of each House of Congress
Senate - Chair - Ted Kennedy (MA), RM - John Cornyn (TX)
House - Chair - Zoe Lofgren (CA), RM - Steve King (IA)
- The Secretary of DHS, Michael Chertoff
- THe Director of USCIS, Emilio Gonzales
-Your Congressman
- The USCIS Ombudsman, Michael Dougherty
- The Inspector General of DHS, Richard Skinner

These are the people who actually have the outside influence to do something and the people who need to know what is going on. If we do not let them know what is going on, they can't do anything about it.

The two senators and the representative are obvious contacts for complaints. I had never heard of the USCIS Ombudsman before, what is his/her influence? And what is the job and the influence of the Inspector General? (I don't believe that the Secretary or the Director would react to our complaints if they are not brought forward by the other contacts on the list.)

I did write a letter the day the July 05, 2006 date came out, even included key documents with a plea of concern to make whoever read that letter easy to read, with all the information in front of them. No reply as of yet, and perhaps a waste of a stamp. Calling the toll free number on case status only results in keying in your application number to hear the same thing on the web and if your application date doesn't exceed the processing date, don't bother us kind of thing. Infopass appointments can only be made two weeks in advance and no sense in making that long trip until the very last minute.

Glad I made that call to my senators office yesterday, least have some knowledge and they promised to make the inquiry for us.

Just put a big red X on my calendar, won't hold my breathe, and if nothing happens between then and now, will make that infopass appointment.

What else can one do? Those that pushed either got yelled at or who knows what happened to their application. The ball is in their court. Those that I know that sent in their I-751 early, had it returned, but is 90 days really enough?

Added I-551 stamp and scheduled interview for mew5280

List of I-751 to NSC, ordered by date on NOA, after the last known approval in 2007 (NOA 06-Dec-06)
and before the first known transfer to CSC (NOA 05-Aug-07)
Names ordered by date on NOA instead of date of I-751, because NOA is the date relevant to USCIS.
UserName...........Date of I-751.....Date on NOA...Biometrics......Approved.....RFE, Service Request, etc.
haozi101...........11/27/06..........12/06/06......01/03/07........09/14/07.....
Bertrand...........12/19/06..........12/27/06......01/20/07........01/29/08.....N-400
sandeepb...........12/26/06..........01/04/07......02/05/07........--/--/--.....service request, N-400, I-551 stamp for 12 months
coloradogirl.......12/27/06..........01/04/07......01/30/07........--/--/--.....
echostorm..........12/--/06..........01/05/07......02/16/07........--/--/--.....
mew5280(CAPG)......01/06/07..........01/16/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 6 months, interview scheduled
jennybirgitta......01/13/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....service request, congressman, N-400
traversm...........01/14/07..........01/18/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....
MDandZJ............01/21/07..........01/25/07......02/14/07........--/--/--.....
Ruari..............--/--/--..........01/25/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....congressman
ron&nadine.........01/07/07..........01/22/07......02/27/07........--/--/--.....
dee................01/25/07..........01/29/07......02/20/07........--/--/--.....
Peter T............01/27/07..........02/01/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
drawbridgep........01/11/07..........02/02/07......02/15/07........--/--/--.....
Illinois77.........01/31/07..........02/02/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....
chus...............01/26/07..........02/03/07......02/23/07........--/--/--.....
STBM04.............01/31/07..........02/05/07......03/02/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
ives_damian........01/31/07..........02/06/07......03/12/07........--/--/--.....
winterpassing......02/06/07..........02/12/07......03/09/07........--/--/--.....
MonicaT............02/08/07..........02/14/07......03/10/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
grenoble38.........02/01/07..........02/20/07......03/03/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
Illinois...........02/19/07..........02/23/07......04/18/07........--/--/--.....I-551 stamp for 12 months
onur ............. 06/26/06..........03/15/07......04/13/07........--/--/--.....
Tammi..............02/23/07..........03/23/07......04/05/07........--/--/--.....
decharte...........02/28/07..........03/26/07......04/10/07........--/--/--.....
ace13..............03/22/07..........03/27/07......04/17/07........--/--/--.....
NickD..............03/27/07..........04/--/07......05/01/07........--/--/--.....congressman
Lyuba..............--/--/--..........04/17/07......05/07/07........--/--/--.....
gyuwono............04/17/07..........04/20/07......05/18/07........--/--/--.....
Kearinne...........04/09/07..........04/30/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....
charlie & yeng.....4/27/07(resubm.)..05/01/07......06/02/07........--/--/--.....
Frances............04/02/07..........05/05/07......05/24/07........--/--/--.....
Kanadka............05/12/23..........05/23/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....
Badgerbabe.........05/10/07..........05/24/07......06/11/07........--/--/--.....
debeselizz.........05/24/07..........05/31/07......06/21/07........--/--/--.....
sandy2000..........06/--/07..........06/12/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
laura19angel.......--/--/--..........06/15/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
pkmk...............06/18/07..........07/02/07......07/13/07........--/--/--.....
wifiman............06/29/07..........08/05/07......08/15/07........08/25/07..... NSC > CSC

NSC claimed accomplishments for processing I-751s:
Posting date......Processing timeframe
12/14/07..........02/09/07
01/15/08..........02/10/07
02/15/08..........07/05/06 (yes, they went backwards)

Please check your data for correctness.

The USCIS Ombudsman

The Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (CIS Ombudsman) provides recommendations for resolving individual and employer problems with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). As mandated by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 § 452, CISOMB is an independent DHS office that reports directly to the DHS Deputy Secretary. The CIS Ombudsman:

Assists individuals and employers in resolving problems with USCIS;
Identifies areas in which individuals and employers have problems in dealing with USCIS; and
Proposes changes to mitigate identified problems.

DHS Inspector General

The Inspector General is responsible for conducting and supervising audits, investigations, and inspections relating to the programs and operations of the Department. The OIG is to examine, evaluate and, where necessary, critique these operations and activities, recommending ways for the Department to carry out its responsibilities in the most effective, efficient, and economical manner possible.

To get any of those people to individually act on your application is most likely not possible due to the games CIS is playing. But it may help to make them aware of the fact that there are a large number applications sitting in limbo while others with the same types of applications who filed later are getting service. That may help..

This tack (addressing the overall problem without focusing on your individual needs) would be the best right now. What we really want is what those in TSC got.. our files being moved to CSC to be adjudicated. A rational argument outling the circumstances behind out situation, outling the situation for those who have filed ater July 2007 and outlining what was done with those in the same situation going through TSC and then noting why this has not been done for those who are waiting at NSC.