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What I Have Learned About Immigration Offices

#1 Mark-n-Luz

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:24 AM

I have noticed many people posting thoughts and concerns about items such as stapling, bindings, name spellings, the items that were sent with the packet, how many chat logs, what envelopes to use, the kinds of pictures and very simple things that we all sweat it out about on this end. I even saw one about the position of the photographs on the packet. I have a friend of a friend that works sorting and reviewing petitioner packets for all kinds of visa requests and his comment is "...unfortunately the petitioner is in the hands of the individual case worker..." It is left completely within the mood and the procedure of the case worker reviewing your application and paperwork and as long as you have the correct items in that packet, they have the power within their hands to issue and RFE or not.

I know of a guy who petitioned a K1 for a girl and was completely approved without hassle -- their relationship fell apart and she returned home. He petitioned a second girl with the exact same packet of information later with just name changes and different pictures, using the same passport and was given an RFE because his divorce decree did not have a judges signature (only the state stamp). This proves to me that some reviewers are stricter than others. My acquaintance at the center also says NEVER send any pictures that are sexual in any nature and cross out all references to sexual chat in your logs. Some reviewers are very insulted by this type of material and you need to be very neutral! He said that pictures that include family and friends prove a genuine relationship.

He did say that they don't "sit" on paperwork and that everything has a date stamp as it goes through each process. Some months are busier than others and west coast receives 1/3 more applications than east coast. Patience is the answer here folks.

Good Luck --- to all of us.
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#2 Adriene H

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:28 AM

I don't think the adjudicator is being overly strict for RFE'ing a
divorce decree without all required signatures. I think he/she is
just doing their job ...
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I-130
2011-08-20 Posted
2011-08-31 NOA1
2011-09-03 Touch
2011-11-18 Sent Expedite Request to USCIS
2011-12-09 Response Received for Exepedite Request
"Wait your turn" in a nutshell
2011-12-02 Sent Expedite Request to US Representative Ed Royce
2012-01-27 Sent Expedite Request to Immigration Ombudsman
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Barbara Boxer
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Dianne Feinstein
2012-03-08 Case transferred to field office for additional processing
2012-03-23 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-05-10 Transferred to another office for processing
2012-05-14 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-06-05 Approved NOA2
2012-07-17 NVC Case/Invoice # Received

Petitioner: US Born Citizen (Wife)
Beneficiary: British Born Citizen (Husband)

Your I-130 was approved in 279 days from your NOA1 date

#3 Mark-n-Luz

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:33 AM

I don't think the adjudicator is being overly strict for RFE'ing a
divorce decree without all required signatures. I think he/she is
just doing their job ...


I agree ... but why did it pass the first time?
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#4 Adriene H

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:47 AM

I agree ... but why did it pass the first time?

Had he been married before the first girl?
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I-130
2011-08-20 Posted
2011-08-31 NOA1
2011-09-03 Touch
2011-11-18 Sent Expedite Request to USCIS
2011-12-09 Response Received for Exepedite Request
"Wait your turn" in a nutshell
2011-12-02 Sent Expedite Request to US Representative Ed Royce
2012-01-27 Sent Expedite Request to Immigration Ombudsman
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Barbara Boxer
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Dianne Feinstein
2012-03-08 Case transferred to field office for additional processing
2012-03-23 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-05-10 Transferred to another office for processing
2012-05-14 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-06-05 Approved NOA2
2012-07-17 NVC Case/Invoice # Received

Petitioner: US Born Citizen (Wife)
Beneficiary: British Born Citizen (Husband)

Your I-130 was approved in 279 days from your NOA1 date

#5 LIFE'SJOURNEY

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:47 AM

B/C it missed quality check. Why do some cars have a re-call and others don't? Same thought process.
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:48 AM

Had he been married before the first girl?

That's what it sounds like he is saying or he wouldn't have sent the divorce decree the first and second time.
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#7 EminTX

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:48 AM

Thanks for compiling this.

It seems that the average post-starter on this site is too lazy to use the search function and you have compiled what seems to me to be a summary of the titles that are started new every day.

(Each time I see yet another "chatlog/# of pix/tell me all the answers personally" message, I wanna respond with: You lazy-butt--How did you find this website or the forum in the first place? To get to the point where you are posting on VJ, you have to have looked things up at some point.)

Like in anything, the person doing the job makes or breaks the experience for the "customer" when things are in order or just shy of right.

(What gets me is when you follow instructions to the letter but get RFE'd for things not originally requested. GGgggrrrrr..... We now just expect it to occur and factor the time in for that in our minds.)
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#8 Adriene H

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:50 AM

That's what it sounds like he is saying or he wouldn't have sent the divorce decree the first and second time.

I know of a guy who petitioned a K1 for a girl and was completely approved without hassle -- their relationship fell apart and she returned home. He petitioned a second girl with the exact same packet of information

If the first K-1 girl was his first marriage, then he wouldn't have sent a divorce decree that time?
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I-130
2011-08-20 Posted
2011-08-31 NOA1
2011-09-03 Touch
2011-11-18 Sent Expedite Request to USCIS
2011-12-09 Response Received for Exepedite Request
"Wait your turn" in a nutshell
2011-12-02 Sent Expedite Request to US Representative Ed Royce
2012-01-27 Sent Expedite Request to Immigration Ombudsman
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Barbara Boxer
2012-02-02 Sent Expedite Request to Senator Dianne Feinstein
2012-03-08 Case transferred to field office for additional processing
2012-03-23 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-05-10 Transferred to another office for processing
2012-05-14 Now being processed at a USCIS office
2012-06-05 Approved NOA2
2012-07-17 NVC Case/Invoice # Received

Petitioner: US Born Citizen (Wife)
Beneficiary: British Born Citizen (Husband)

Your I-130 was approved in 279 days from your NOA1 date

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 11:55 AM

I don't think the adjudicator is being overly strict for RFE'ing a
divorce decree without all required signatures. I think he/she is
just doing their job ...

The big hint is here.

I agree ... but why did it pass the first time?


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Posted 02 June 2012 - 12:25 PM

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#11 Joshuaching

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Posted 09 June 2012 - 12:11 AM

I agree ... but why did it pass the first time?


In most cases divorce decrees do not have a judge's signature, only a stamp by the court as to when it was recorded.
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