QUOTE(TBoneTX @ Dec 18 2007, 11:19 AM)

QUOTE(mox @ Dec 18 2007, 11:16 AM)

file must be in the "special" bin.

Rooting for you both!!
Thanx, Mox. Yea Harvard, or whomever. In violation of my own earlier recommendations, I may call the USCIS help... er, hell-line again.
(After call) Well, here we go. I first dialed the toll-free hell number and 1,2,2,6,2,4, and got a royal B*TCH who insisted on reading her script. I tried to cut her off and explain that I'd heard the script and she wasn't required to read it. "Oh yes I am," she said. She began with it again; I interrupted and asked to be transferred to an Immigration Officer. She said, "I can't do that. You must answer the questions that I am asking." I responded that she was obliged to transfer me to an ImmOff at my request. She said, "No, I'm not. You will answer my questions." I told her, "I will report you, and I will hang up in order to reach someone with an inkling of customer service," and I hung up. She is Stella, LM503.
I dialed back, this time the hell number and 1,2,2,4,2,1 and my case number. As last week, the recording said, "You must provide the evidence required." I hit 1,1 and reached a young-sounding ImmOff. He was kind, patient, and forthcoming. As with the ImmOff last week, he saw no trace of an RFE having been assigned. My file is with an officer in Division 9, which is Background Check. Files go there or not on a case-by-case basis (I didn't inquire deeply about details). The ImmOff said that it usually doesn't take very long, especially with tardy files like mine, and once Division 9 is done with it, it would probably go straight to an adjudicator instead of back on the shelf. He estimated mid-January (whoopee!) as a time frame when I might hear of any RFE. He stated that approximately 60% of K-1 files get no RFE.
I have a unique name and a clean criminal record (noncriminal?), and the fiancee got a clean Ecuadorian police certificate earlier, so it ought to be easy to research me. I am worried a little because I have crossed the Tejas/Mexico border many times in the last two years in order to collect information for my upcoming tourist book about T/M sister cities, and the U.S. Border Patrol has flagged me at crossings a couple of times but always let me go after several routine questions. The Border Patrol is a unit of the Div. of Homeland Security just as USCIS is.
The ImmOff sent an e-mail to Division 9, asking them (diplomatically) to shake it. He was absolutely the second person with USCIS who was positive to deal with, and I told him so.
What should we make of all of this? No need to requote 100% of the above.