Ok, my husband was approved the other day for his 10-year green card. Today, we receive this email...

What the heck?? We went the I-130 route 3 years ago! Has anyone else received funky emails from USCIS??

*** DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: MSCXXXXXXXXXX

Application Type: I129F , PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Approval notice sent.

On October 27, 2004, we mailed you a notice that we have approved this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E). Please follow any instructions on the notice. If you move before you receive the notice, call customer service.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status and Processing Dates.
*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.


Sincerely,


The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Congratulations!

must be something in the water over there .. i got this email yesterday...




notice the date?

I can only guess that this was for our K3 application that we ditched after we got a RFE and our CR1 was coming along nicely so we figured the heck with the K3... We never sent anything in for the RFE for the K3 and that was in October 2004...

I came to the US with my CR1 visa on April 2nd, 2005...

October 2004?

Congrats on the I 129f approval!!

Let's see:

We should welcome your husband to the USA.

And we should congratulate you for your I-129F approval

Welcome and Congratulations!

Oh My! I've always fiqured those peeps at USCIS were smoking some good weed but it must be a LOT better than I thought!

Stuff like this needs to be forwarded to your Senators and Congressmen. They can't fix the problem unless they know about it. (Wishful thinking that they are capable of fixing it)

I have been convinced for quite some time that the USCIS Website updates and email system are corrupt and usless. They obviously have a problem with the "automatic" features of this system or at least subject to even the slightest human error that could trigger this.

My experience was similar but not so extreme when I applied for my I-485. My application was first denied due to lost mail, then reopened and finally approved. During the reopening procedure, I applied for Advance Parole and Employment authorization, because I didn't know how long the final adjucation would take. Well, a few months after I got my Green Card I received mail from the USCIS: Your Advance Parole is approved - Yeah!

Our I-129F was approved long after it became irrelevant, too (see the timeline in the signature below), but yours seems to be even worse than ours.

Clearly, the different petitions go through different offices and are handled separately on their own timelines.

Oh well, congrats on the approval!

Now this explains everything for Vermont!

Hey, congrats (and congrats on the 10 year GC too!)

The online status for my AP only switched to "Approved" last year (2 years after the fact) -- and for some reason, when I filed my I-751 app, the first thing that was "touched" was my Employment Authorization application from 2004!! I agree, stuff like this needs to be shown to the powers-that-be so that they have first-hand evidence of how incompetent the USCIS is. I actually sent a rather ranting email to my congressman and both senators a while ago (complaining about the complete ^&$* up that is the USCIS and how we are spending a fortune on a truly abysmal 'service'), and did get a really nice response back from my congressman asking if there was anything he could do to help with my current application. My reply was "not right now, but you'll likely hear back from me next year when I file my N-400 application"...

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