When i saw that the US Embassy in London are now dealing with I-130's filed on Sept 18th, i was so happy because that's my date! And when the letter from the US Embassy fell on ly doormat this morning, I was thrilled- I was so sure it had been granted!

But it hasn't! Instead, they have sent a letter saying:

our application has been found incomplete for the reasons they list, and that once we have got the information required we have to 'post all the relevant documents in on submission to the London Embassy in the uK.'

The reasons listed are:

1/ I changed my surname by deed poll a while back, and although I provided them with a photocopy of the original deed poll, they are saying I have to provide a Statutory Decleration which has been executed under the Statutory declerations Act of 1835.

(We assume that means that a deed poll is not good enough and are going to a solicitor first thing tomorrow to pay for a Statutory Decleration.)

2/ My husband (the petitioner) didn't know the year his parents were born, or the cities they were born in, so he only filled in his parents names and day and month of birth. The Embassy are saying his G-325A is incomplete without his parents full details! I know he is unusual in not knowing these details but they are not close!

Anyway, we are gutted! We can get the in the next few days- asap- but we honestly expected the letter would be telling us it was approved!!

My question is this- has anyone had an experience like this when they were told they hadn't sent in everything correctly? And if so, how long did it delay everything? We are worried. Will the Embassy just pick it up as soon as we send it back in and process it, so it may only delay it a couple of weeks; or will this application be put at the bottom of the pile, meaning we have to wait another 11 weeks??


Also, should we just send in the letter with the 2 pieces of information, or should we send in the complete lot of paperwork and documents that we originally sent in?

Sob, sob

This was not the 'good news' we expected when we opened the letter today. I hope soemone can help, thanks.

Sorry about the bad news. I would think it does delay everything since your I-130 was not approved due to this lack of stuff. I think you would only need to send in the missing pieces asap, and a NEW G325A (4 copies, remember). Maybe someone else has a better idea.
Good luck, L.

As long as you return everything quickly (just what they're asking for plus the paper they've sent requesting it after you've made a copy for yourself), it will only be a couple week delay. It doesn't go back to the bottom of the pile. So don't worry too much!

I am very surprised about the second one. It should be acceptable to not know all those details. Did you leave actual blanks or did you write Unknown or N/A? A blank space would make it less strange that they returned it.

Sorry to hear that. I would definitely resubmit it all again. He may have to do some research to find their birthdates tho - it also should be on his birth certificate.

You are on hold at the embassy until the documents are returned. Be sure & give them exactly what they asked for as well.

When we got our RFE, the Embassy turned the approval around in 1 day. (See my timeline in my sig!) It took me 2 days to assemble everything and we were back on track -- given what processing times for DCF were like around then, I think we didn't lose any more than 2 or 3 days.

Also, for some reason known only to the folks at the Embassy, London only wants one copy of the G-325a from each of you, not four. Who knows why? It's one of life's great mysteries, I suppose...

You'll be fine. As everyone else has said, get the bits together, send 'em off (I used Special Delivery to make sure they got there as quickly as possible) and I just bet you'll be back on VJ at the end of next week or the start of the week following with some good news. Good luck!

The deed poll letter - Is it a long notarised letter (A4 page) stating that on this day of this year etc, you changed your name to blah blah?

I had mine changed when I was 16 and I sent this form in with my I-129F and they were fine with it?

I see this all happened early December - what happened in the end?

We got a letter yesterday asking for a statutory declaration for a name change I made to my surname.

Did you suffer a delay?

Thanks!

Daniel