Fiance coming next week, My mother got a letter from FBI?

[asisflyer 47]

1. FBI do most certainly leave business cards with please contact written on the back on doors at times. Not a theory. Security Clearances for friends, family, neighbors, neighbors friends, neighbors extended family, etc. etc. or otherwise questions about some matter of interest to them.

2. Stop Making it Complicated. OP should lookup and call local FBI field office and mention the note. It is normal enough that a party want to verify agency credentials.

Make a phone a call.

[kimsothe 9]

Middle eastern countries will always be under heavy scrutiny due to ISIS and many of the other terror groups. Sorry... but i guess its better they do thourough check,

[Cathi 5,610]

Middle eastern countries will always be under heavy scrutiny due to ISIS and many of the other terror groups. Sorry... but i guess its better they do thourough check,

what don't you understand about background checks already being complete by the time the visa is issued? Which it has been. ISIS has nothing to do with a random letter from the FBI being left at someone's door. They aren't going to issue a visa to someone and allow them in the country and THEN do the background checks.

Edited May 5, 2015 by mimolicious

[Ortolan 381]

Yep, just have your mom call, or you call the local FBI field office to check on the legitimacy of the letter. Simple.

[Jawaree 717]

Turn over letter to FBI after you've made a copy, the feds would put a

stop order in place so he could not leave after an approval, or question

him in secondary upon arrival.......They wont put a letter down and leave

it, the feds don't give heads up...sounds like another scam to me

[CowBoE 429]

The sequence is very illogical for FBI to be doing any type of background check

and interviews...just after they cleared the security for US visa. So I would tend to

think that it is probably just a prank or a scam.

In either case, it's important that you call FBI to confirm if they need to talk to you

or simply to report this prank/scam.

http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us

[usmsbow 795]

1. FBI do most certainly leave business cards with please contact written on the back on doors at times. Not a theory. Security Clearances for friends, family, neighbors, neighbors friends, neighbors extended family, etc. etc. or otherwise questions about some matter of interest to them.

2. Stop Making it Complicated. OP should lookup and call local FBI field office and mention the note. It is normal enough that a party want to verify agency credentials.

Make a phone a call.

This is veering off topic but:

1. Government security clearances are not done by the FBI. They're almost always done by government contractors via OPM (office of personnel management, basically the federal government's HR agency). There are a few exceptions, but those exceptions (such as the CIA) do not use the FBI.

[Mike-eeh and Odie 192]

Hey, guys!

My fiance is coming to the US on K-1 next week! My mother called me and told me that the FBI left her a letter on her door. It said something like this: Ma'am, we are contacting you in regards to a foreign person who has been granted trust with the US government. If you could contact us so we can ask you some question please contact."

Is this legit? Why would they do that if he's already approved? Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

Do not contact the phone number on the letter. Dial 411 and contact an operator to put you through to the nearest FBI branch. Then speak to a real agent to see if it's true.

[Gosia & Tito 199]

Hey, guys!

My fiance is coming to the US on K-1 next week! My mother called me and told me that the FBI left her a letter on her door. It said something like this: Ma'am, we are contacting you in regards to a foreign person who has been granted trust with the US government. If you could contact us so we can ask you some question please contact."

Is this legit? Why would they do that if he's already approved? Has anyone else had anything like this happen?

I highly doubt that the FBI would leave a letter at the door.

Either a joke, or something more serious. I'd call teh real FBI and report this.

If legit, they would let her know. Of course, don't call/contact the number left in said letter

[Ouray777 4]

Ask to see this letter yourself. I knew someone who had a relative who wasn't too thrilled about another family member marrying a foreigner, and she pulled some rather messed up stunts. This sounds very much like the sort of BS she was pulling. I doubt there was any such letter left on her door at all.

[madtownguy 164]

It might not be able to fiance, what if a neighbor is doing something. Most likely it is a scam. But if doesn't hurt to find out. Obviously don't give anyone sensitive information or money.

[Ning 619]

1. FBI do most certainly leave business cards with please contact written on the back on doors at times. Not a theory. Security Clearances for friends, family, neighbors, neighbors friends, neighbors extended family, etc. etc. or otherwise questions about some matter of interest to them.

2. Stop Making it Complicated. OP should lookup and call local FBI field office and mention the note. It is normal enough that a party want to verify agency credentials.

Make a phone a call.

It isn't complicated & it isn't about business cards. The FBI doesn't leave letter taped to doors nor use that type of language to describe the problem.

[meggy91224 1]

Hey, guys! Thanks for the help! It turned out being real but it wasn't for my fiance, it was for my brother's friend's military clearances.

[NikLR 13,220]

The military and the federal government use the FBI to do background checks on people who are seeking secret or top secret clearance and also government employment. My husband had to have a 1 hour interview with the FBI before being granted his job at the FAA. Someone else there had a 3 hour interview because people didn't mail back the questionnaires that were sent to them to verify his identity.

I'm glad someone followed up on this. It's not normally for a letter to be left like that instead of in a mailbox, but it's good to follow up even though it may have been a scam. At least that way it would have been reported as such.

[TBoneTX 43,058]

Hey, guys! Thanks for the help! It turned out being real but it wasn't for my fiance, it was for my brother's friend's military clearances.

This is certainly a relief for you -- glad to hear it.

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