Some of you know my situation - so I am not going to cover it again - my question is has anyone else had the experience of a lost petition at a service center after it has been approved???

Our K3 was denied, so our Senator was trying to get our CR1 pushed though on an expedited situation - there was an approval notice sent to our lawyer and so the lawyer's office thought the CR1 petiton was at the NVC by now. The problem is that the USCIS and the NVC both have no idea where our petition is - what another joke in the process of how the immigration system works!!

So now our petition is in investigation mode to find where it is! Are there any other experiences in this situation??

After everything you have been through, I cannot believe what I am reading. It kills me to think this can happen at any stage of this process, to anyone...let alone someone who is dealing with the return process.

What happens if they cannot find it? If they tell you to file it again, I would be having my senator contact the USCIS for expedited processing. This is just ridiculous.

I hope another member chimes in who this may have happened to before.

~Kiyah~

Thank you for your comments Kiyah - I was going ot post this on the other board, but was having problems getting logged in - I think the site was having a few bugs. Anyways, will post it later.

But you are right - talk about sending my emotions into another stream of feeling everything and anything. I really appreciate your continued support and words - it helps to know that people care because the government sure does not care about any of us or the things we go through - if it is the last thing I do - I am going to get this known to the world and get this immigration act reformed once and for all.

For those that this process goes smoothly - I am so very happy for you - I can not even begin to tell you that I would never wish this on anyone, not even my worst enemy's!!! And my heart and soul goes out to those who are fighting for their rights to love and marry the person of their choice!!!

Let's add to the insult - here is the next message I received from the Senator - you will love this one!!


"I just discovered that the CSC erroneously sent the file to the National Records Center (NRC) for storage. CSC has agreed to get the file back from St. Louis and express mail it to the NVC. This explains the delay. I should hear more from the CSC shortly and have asked them to confirm the shipment date so that I can alert the NVC for the arrival. Thanks again for your patience, and I will be in touch."

Anyone say immigration reform - do I cry or get angry - wow, what a choice!!

our paper file including all the documents we submitted with the I-130 were sent to the california service center to do the background check for the Adam Walsh Act around the first of feb. the background was noted in the computer file as complete on april 2nd. the problem is that the consulate has been requesting the paper file be returned from the CA service center since then. basically the consulate is treating it as a lost file and we had to re-submit all the original documents along with new I-130 and ds-230. i've called my senators and both have gotten no response from CA service center. according to the senator's liasons, you are lucky if you get a response in 90 days.

I am so sorry for what you are also going through! Luckily on our end the Senator has gotten response and she is not very nice about it - the post before your post has her stated message to me after she found out what they did with our file - I can not believe they actually sent it to the storage unit!!!

any idea who your senator contacted to find out about your file being sent for storage?

Sorry - I do not know the exact person she spoke with - I only know it was at the CSC.

odd, both senators office staff are telling me that CSC usually take 30-90 days to respond to a request. wonder how you senator's staff was able to speak directly with CSC.

i have been able to confirm that many of the paper files sent to Texas Service Center and California Service Center for background checks per the adam walsh act requirement, have been sent to the National Record Center for storage rather than back to the consulate where they were filed.

my senator merely called CSC. sad to say our reps dont know a lot about what goes on in different departments. perhaps you sent a email or snail mail?

chi

no, i've been speaking directly with both senators' office staff. sadly, both are very anti-immigration and basically just want to give the appearance of helping without actually doing anything. fortunetly the consulate staff has recreated all of our paperfile and we are just a few weeks from completion.