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Hundreds of thousands miss out on tax rebates because of foreign spouses

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – When Maulit Shelat heard about the Bush administration’s plan to pump up the economy by sending out stimulus checks, he sat down with his wife and drew up a list of priorities: first up, remodeling the bathroom.

But Shelat is married to a foreigner who still hasn’t completed the often years-long process that allows her to apply for a Social Security number. Her not having that number makes even him ineligible for the tax rebate checks that started going out last week because they filed jointly.

He is among an estimated hundreds of thousands of taxpayers — from legal immigrants to soldiers based abroad — who won’t be getting a share of the stimulus package because of a provision aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from getting rebates.

USCIS Processing Trends Update

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

During the last year the USCIS has made many promises to improve the processing of key benefits filed at their offices. They have consolidated filing locations as well as streamlined internal procedures. Did it help? Below are a few observations that stand out from VisaJourney’s Immigration Timeline Tracking System.

For K3 Visa Holders one major issue has been the delay in receiving a first Notice of Action (NOA1). As you can see below the USCIS has indeed corrected the problem (example shows the California Service Center):

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Hundreds of thousands miss out on tax rebates because of foreign spouses

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