I just had a look, seems you might be right Mike...also noticed someone put their phone number on there....ok guys get her!!!

That was awesome Mike, I mean, indeed, they set a date for the emergency approval for June 9th. So we have to keep an eye out for Thursday, 'cus if they do go for the emergency approval, we'll have our new form on June 9th indeed!



I think you looked at the OMB control number, no?

I think you looked at the OMB control number, no?
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there was a number at the bottom . Name was Claire somebody...

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I think you looked at the OMB control number, no?
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there was a number at the bottom . Name was Claire somebody...
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Laura Dawkins and her number is 202-272-8350

Wow, this is great information. Nice find!!!!!!!

How wonderful would that be?
Im putting Laura Dawkins number on speed dial baby...lol
Great find Mike

That's most likely accurate unless they turn the emergency approval down and don't pass it, although with all the people calling and being furious I doubt they'd do that so stay tuned folks! June 9th seems to be the new D day.

This was a GREAT find. Where did you see something about possible e-file? I guess if the approval is by June 9, the next question is how/when will they provide it to us? It's seems unlikely the person whose name is at the end would know this (since she is the internal contact for the approval of the form) but I hope someone calls her and tries to find out more!

Here is where I saw something about E-file. It is on page 2 #3.

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/for.../i-129fsupp.pdf

A fellow HCMC journey member provided me with these links, so all the thanks goes to him, his name is Tony. I just printed them out this morning and read them and when I saw the June 9th, and e-file, I got such great hope.

FANTASTIC.

For me, this is the first piece of news that gives me true hope that this mess will be cleaned up shortly.

Did anyone else notice that it *appears* as if they are going to charge another $170? I doubt they will and I really don't care of that's the case but it sure looked that way.

If all we had to do was download a form, fill it out and send it back email, that would be amazing.

I knew it! Really. I knew something good was comming today. Thanks, Mike!!!!!

As the other member I only missed the possible e-file.

If you guys think about dates, it all makes sense. February was a few days shorter. June 9th will be 180 days after the law was signed.
And they request this form to be valid from June 9th to December 9th, which is how long an emergency release can go for.

I think they will approve it. It´s not even our request.. It´s Dhs´ request!

June 9th.... I don´t even care about the World Cup anymore!

Oh, you´re right.
It says that the form was designed for e-filing.
Let´s see how will that work.
As a webdeveloper I can say it´s very easy to design and keep the data.
A good programmer manage that in within a week.

Anyways, about the fee, I think they didn´t release that information only for us who have submitted the form already, so it works for the petitioners-to-be also.

They didn´t release any statement about how we´ll have to proceed. And I don´t think they will until the form is approved. That makes sense to me..

Let´s see.
Does anyone know anything about OMB?

I guess you missed my sarcasm tag.

I saw the sarcasm tag all right...I just didn't want people in their excitable states of mind to take the sentiment out of the tag and and start a gender angst parade.

We wouldn't want to get distracted from keeping our eye on those Service Centers!

I had posted this and seen it, but I guess I was so excited that a new form already in draft form that I forgot to read the heading and went straight to what had changed.

Btw, it does seem like it will be e-fillable, which would be fantastic for us all, since we can all send them straight with no further delays waiting for Fedex or whatever.

My email from the NVC:

Dear Madam,

Thank you for your inquiry.  When the petition is received at the NVC from the U.S. Embassy, it will immediately be forwarded to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS - formerly known as INS) for processing. All inquiries and submissions of additional documentation should be directed to the CIS office that originally approved the petition.  

Regards,
National Visa Center

Not very helpful. I'm assuming that means the NVC hasn't got it back from the Embassy yet. This is really starting to piss me off. Someone has to have the damn file.

YEAH ME TOO!! I wonder if they are even tracking the damn things!! so far rlt seems to be the only one who got a definite answer from NVC about them receiving his petition. Well I am going to raise hell soon, its going to be a month this Monday since the embassy sent it back to the USA!!!

Ok guys, quick question. I WAS going to send in my 129(f) for the K-3 on Thursday....should I wait until this new form supposedly comes on 6/9?

Thanks mike for the info. sorry i woke up late coz i couldnt sleep last night i was getting anxiety attacks. i spent all day yesterday just trying to overcome it. i told my friend that i was having a hard time breathing... she asked me to calm down, i thought i was not too stressed about the whole situation. perhaps i really wasnt stressing but i get these attacks when something good or bad happens. and it turned out to be GOOD NEWS!

we will all get there, just a couple of days more... let us all keep our fingers crossed!

I contacted Vermont directly yesterday and the woman told me that our petition was there and undergoing security checks. You should try to contact the service center you went thru, and ask a live person. The automated system said nothing about my petition being returned.

At least we have a little hope now!!!!!! I am leaving on Monday to go visit my Fiancee in UK. Will be first time we have been together since March 13th 2006. Hoping to be able to give her good news by then.

I just hope these security checks are the new ones on the american citizen.
Since USCIS was clueless on the phone about IMBRA, I wonder if they considered our recalled cases not approved by Consulates and in need of more Security checks.
Those who could go for 6 months or so.

I know, I know... but I needed to say.
I´m damn scared about everything now.

I just hate that no recalled petitions got any note from USCIS.

Update----or not really, Called USCIS again, they do not have a direct number or email to contact Vermont, she said that I can write to them via snail mail
She wasnt very helpful at all really. She said there is no way to check, sometimes the system online does not get updated (this is the opposite of what they told me last time I called) I've lost all patience, something better happen soon!!!!

Since some questions/concerns about our petitions getting back to VSC. I talked to my Congressman's office yesterday and they contacted the NVC and were notified that my petition had just been forwarded that day to VSC. My letter from the German consulate on the returning of the petition was 18-May. So it took from 18-May to 6-Jun to get underway at least to VSC.

I found the '200,000 petitioners per year' number an interesting factoid. Always wondered how many K-1 petitions there were in a given year...



I'm wondering.. someone else said that they were told that the petitions were being returned visa diplomatic mail--I'm assuming that means the same as diplomatic pouch. If so, I think the posts wait until their pouch is 'full' or send once per month, whichever comes first.
If your file is coming from a lower-traffic post, that could explain the delay in seeing it get back to the US.

yes that was me, I did think about that myself.....well this is ridicilous, and that is all that I have to say!

And my congressman's district office has nothing to tell me either!!!!! They keep saying they're working on it.

FYI - Diplomatic mail (or pouch/bag) is typically sent out once a week at most embassies, irrelevant if they are full or not. (I used to work at one)

The ones from Brazil were sent back via Fedex and got to NVC in 4 days, I think.

Call this number 1-800-375-5283
press 1 pause 2 pause 6 pause 1
Enter Receipt #
press 3 pause 2 pause 1

You will be connected to Vermont

Well, now I don't know if I should even worry more If they sent it at the end of each week, Vermont should have had it ages ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bahhhh
Well the embassy assured us that there is no way that it got lost via this diplomatic mail/pouch, hence my only conclusion is that its just sitting somewhere, thats swell!!!!

Just to add my progress here, my NOA1 was March 13, NOA2 was March 16, NVC sent the petition to Manila on March 30. I received an email on May 24 from Manila stating my petition was being recalled. I e-mailed the California Service Center on a lark (even though I went through Vermont) and they seemed very helpful, stating that they contacted NVC and they still show that the petition was sent to Manila on March 30. After emailing them yesterday, I discovered they didn't actually send out the petition until June 2. Which is strange, since I've yet to read of anyone with such a late mailing date. I'm assuming now that most Philippines cases will have this timeline...I just hope that there is some kind of order kept so those with earlier NOA dates are processed first, but I realize that's not very likely.

Larry

I think they'll probably work on the recalled petitions in the order of the received forms. I mean, whoever gets their "RFE" new I-129F sent first will get their case worked on first, and they'll probably do a fast job on those that answer NO in the IMBRA question with no criminal background and send those back to the consulates and embassies in top speed, so they can go back to processing the cases not yet approved but filed before IMBRA.

ok guys here is a REAL update on my situation. First of all the method to call vermont worked thanx

At first the gentleman said that he does not see it in the system, and that they received back thousands of them and it is possible that its there and just not entered. Then I kept him on the phone with all sorts of questions. Meanwhile he had looked up my fiances A# and said that they did in fact receive my petition back on Jun 1st!!

next step:

---they are still waiting for instructions from headquarters in Washington on how to proceed with these petititions. He was optimistic that it will be soon, although he was not sure.

-- he suggested looking online to see what they are requesting from the new 129f petitions, and said it may be similar to that for us, BUT he does not know for sure.

-- in response to if our petitions will be processed in the order of the priority dates, he said he sure hopes so, but again he does not know how deep they are going to dwell on this situation, maybe they will just use their own means of running background checks and then just notify us by mail that they have forwarded the petition back to NVC for them to send to the embassy abroad.

He also said that we the petitioners probably know more than they do anyway,

Well, now there's a revelation.

Everyone should read this notice that is included with the I-129F Draft. It looks like we can Email them with our comments for the new form, in regards to the burden it puts on us. It also talks about Electronic filing.


http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01...006/E6-8206.htm

The email goes to: rfs.regs@dhs.gov.

Be sure to put: OMB Control No. 1615-0001 in your email subject line

One specific point they want comments on is:

(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses

so here is our chance to tell them that we want to be able to fill out a form online and email it back to them.

Ok, the previous notice was the second notice (30 day). Here is the 60 day notice, which states they wanted all comments before May 1, 2006. Then the 30 day notice would take effect, which would put it at June 1, 2006. The next process is the one I posted earlier today which ask for the approval by June 9, 2006. So the picture seems to becoming clearer. They are finished with the comment stage and now they are trying for the approval, which we all hope comes before Friday the 9th. My friends, everything looks like we should know something by the end of this week. So keep calling the service centers, and checking the forms section.

I hope we all have good news on tomorrow!!!!

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01...006/06-1832.htm

If this is all true, and I hope it is, they should approve the form, right?

I don´t know anything about OMB, but since DHS wrote the form it should be ok with the security needs...
So, this is ironic for me.
I should be flying (if my interview hadn´t been cancelled) on June 9th to USA.

When they cancelled I thought that would be the saddest they ever, but if we do get a good answer by then, somehow I´ll celebrate even more.

Do you think they will wait till the next minute to approve the form?

Let's hope we're interpreting things right, and that they're in fact gonna live up to what they seem to be stating.

Exactly.
But if you think about it, it does make sense.

After these 30 days they released the draft, and requested it to be approved by June 9th.

Now, all we need to know is if they will approve it.
They should, right?

They should 'cus they know how bad it will be for their reps ears if they don't.
I think they will, but you never know with this government.

They should 'cus they know how bad it will be for their reps ears if they don't.
I think they will, but you never know with this government.

They should 'cus they know how bad it will be for their reps ears if they don't.
I think they will, but you never know with this government.

Hoping an praying for us all I really want to spend our anniversary together next month but it looks like a long shot from here

Here is a web site within USCIS where forms can be e-filed. 129f fiance is not there yet, if it is going to be there.

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/formsfee/forms/e-specific.htm

Well, I found the OMB site, and placed the link here. If you click on Homeland Security, and then find the scroll to find Petition for alien Fiance(e) this is what you will find. It was received yesterday, so maybe we are on the right track.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/library/OMBPPWKP.html#DHS

DHS-BCIS OMB NO.: 1615-0001
Petition for Alien Fiance(e)
** RECEIVED: 06/07/2006
Responses: Hours: Costs (000):
Previous: 200,000 100,000 1,900
Requested: 200,000 300,000 34,000

Mike has been scavaging hunting like I was, but you had better luck this past few days.
You're being awesome!

Now I'm just wondering what does it mean exactly? That the review is done and they can see if they're gonna approve it?

Mike, you totally rock!!

yes he does....doesn;t he

Wow, nice investigative work, Mike!

The revised form seems to be moving through the bureaucracy quite quickly. I'm pleasantly surprised. Hopefully this means they will get it to us soon.

Great find!!!!!!!

I´m not even gonna start trying to understand what all those numbers mean, though..

They seem to have a lot of forms there to approve. I hope this emergency request work, because they just got that yesterday, right?

With the new I-129f form coming out, when it comes out. Do we have to file again with the new version or do we just sit back and wait for them to do there background checks? I'm very confused cause i hear of people talking about sending the new version in as soon as it is released and these people have already submitted there orignial I-129f after March 6th. Also i think we really need to organize this IMBRA forum because it's so disorganized and you just can't find anything out without spending half the time looking for the info.