I haven't received my NOA2 like a lot of you on here who have not received it yet. I contacted USCIS today. They said it was sent 30 days ago. My arse! I haven't moved anywhere and I received the NOA1 within a week of submitting my I-129F. They even tried to convince me that my case hasn't been approved yet as a reason for not receiving my NOA2. They couldn't dispute the fact that my case is already at the Ukraine U.S. embassy and my fiancee' has her interview 08/14/2007.
With as many people here stating that they haven't received their NOA2 either, it's gotta be a damn conspiracy! To obtain a copy of the NOA2, they want you to pay $200.00 and submit the I-824 to obtain the copy. Come July 31, 2007, that amount will be increased drastically. Just a word of warning! Whatever their scheme is to obtain more money, get it done before the July 31st date. You'll need to fill out and send in I-824. Cover all the angles! Send with "Delivery Confirmation" and use a personal check which is your proof they received your I-824 and cashed your check!

I find this sooo hard to accept. I also never received the NOA2 and spoke with USCIS today who insisted my only option is to pay $200. If they are sending us documents worth $200, don't you think they should send them with a way to track them. I didn't lose my NOA2 as they are suggesting.

Is this happening to a lot of people lately? Is there anything else we can do?

The lady I spoke to on the telephone from USCIS said that I should've signed for it when it was delivered to my home. She was throwing out so many excuses to point all the fault at me! I am at my home each day whenever the mail is delivered. There has been nothing to sign for. I just sent an inquiry over to my Congressional Representitive. I'm hoping that something will derive from this angle and not pay the $200. It's ridiculous that this is happening to all of us!

You can find out who your Representitive is by going to: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

There are a LOT of people in the same boat. Scroll through this forum and read those threads about it.

Call the USCIS line again and go through the RFE prompts (there might be a whole list of prompts for that in the other threads). You want a service center employee, NOT the USCIS operators. The CSC people themselves are more understanding and try to work with you about re-generating an NOA2 for free. Don't pay the $200 yet. Next stop for us will by my congresswoman's office before I get my checkbook.

ALso, one CSC operator told me that "they" "should" accept a print out from the online portfolio at the AOS stage in lieu of the hard copy via snail mail. The way he said it implied that they don't always even though they are supposed to. I have no confirmation of this either way, but just throwing it out there, perhaps people can ask about that if they call.

WTF....seriously.... yeah…I understand…it is surely more convenient for everyone on the USCIS side to have a paper copy of the original doc right in front of their faces and not have to look stuff up on the computer. But @#*$&#($*&#()$#&*()$)#(&$)#($!!!!!!!!!!! The NOAs are of THEIR own making!! THEY generated it!!! It’s on THEIR computer systems. It’s THEIR tracking mechanism too!!! How #$*@&$@ hard is it to take 30 seconds and look it up if they don’t have it????????????

NAME APPLICATION STATUS

Joe Smoe K-1 Approved

Holy @*#@!!!!!!!! That was sooooo hard!!!!!!!!! It just amazes me. Pure laziness that’s it.

I understand why the high fee (as a deterrent), but come on….at least give 1 additional copy free or at a reasonable fee.

$200...LOL….*expletive* *another expletive*

Timsdaisy,
You are a lifesaver. I did what you said and they are now sending me another copy free of charge. The guy I spoke with said "I know why you haven't gotten it, you were approved on May 3rd." So apparently none got sent out on May 3rd due to some glitch!

Now if only they could tell the robots that answer the USCIS line to have some sensitivity and actually believe someone when they say, it never came!!!!

Jenny

That is a bunch of bull. I know for a fact that there is absolutely nothing to sign for - it's sent through regular USPS mail.

It's ridiculous that they're asking for another $200 to print out one piece of paper. How hard is it for them to look up the status of an application on their systems and verify the address that an NOA2 was sent out? I totally agree that they should have a better tracking system if it's going to cost that much money for another copy.

I can't believe this stuff about signing for an NOA2. When ours arrived is was just in an USCIS envelope. No special signing, no other requirements, etc.

I just made sure I printed the notice off the computer. It was as least my assurance that something had been done.

Joe, if your case is in the embassy in Kyiv, I'd say you don't have much to worry about. Just in case print out the one from the USCIS web site for safe keeping. They accept copies for so many darn things that you probably won't ever need the original.

Printing a copy would be nice. The only thing is that I haven't received an e-mail about it and the USCIS website says that the case was only updated on 05/23/2007. It says nothing about an approval. I'm gonna keep trying to get through the best I can. I don't want to pay $200 for something they're saying they've done.

Seriously, you would think Cali could update the call center and let them know the problem with May filers not getting the NOA2... OR reissue them! But no, that is clearly WAY too hard! Use the RFE trick, bypass the call center, they are useless and wont admit to the government making the mistake. Save the blood pressure rise and just use the RFE trick.