I751

[fallenstar_che 0]

I FILED MY I 751 LAST YR OF FEB 6/07....IM DONE WITH FINGER & BIOMETRIC... IN TOP OF IT MY 1 YR EXTENTION ALREADY EXPIRED,CALLED THE CUSTOMER SERVICE EITHER RUNNING EXTREMELY BEHIND OR OTHER EXCUSES..I WENT TO THE IMMIGRATION CENTER TODAY WITH MY EXPIRED GREEN CARD & RECEIPT NOTICE & PASSPORT...THE OFFICER WOULD NOT ABLE TO STAMP AND EXTENTION BECAUSE MY PASSPORT IS 2 DAYS EXPIRED, (OMG) SO ILL BE GOING TO MY EMBASSY TOMORROW TO RENEEW IT ,ONCE ITS DONE ,I NEED TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AGAIN SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT A STAMP ON IT.......I ASK HIM ABOUT THE 1751 IN NEBRASKI, HE SAID THEY ARE RUNNING REALLY BEHIND.....AND THERE IS NOTHING ELSE FOR ME TO DO OTHER THAN TO WAIT....

[LOU310 0]

Contact your local congressman office, ask them to put pressure on them, write to the congressman office a nice and long letter and explain them your situation, tell them you are living like your a in a jail with no fences, if you pay taxes and you work include a copy of your tax returns showing that you are paying these slackers salary and there is no excuse to make an honest working resident suffer and go through so much pain because a bunch of slackers take their sweet time using fake excuses like having too many cases ! where in the hell in 2008 with all the computerized system you need 13 month to give some one an appointment of 15 min ?? you can build a city in 13 month !! its just not acceptable and ridiculous ! you want a reaction in your case ? trigger a smart action

[James 2]

I FILED MY I 751 LAST YR OF FEB 6/07....IM DONE WITH FINGER & BIOMETRIC... IN TOP OF IT MY 1 YR EXTENTION ALREADY EXPIRED,CALLED THE CUSTOMER SERVICE EITHER RUNNING EXTREMELY BEHIND OR OTHER EXCUSES..I WENT TO THE IMMIGRATION CENTER TODAY WITH MY EXPIRED GREEN CARD & RECEIPT NOTICE & PASSPORT...THE OFFICER WOULD NOT ABLE TO STAMP AND EXTENTION BECAUSE MY PASSPORT IS 2 DAYS EXPIRED, (OMG) SO ILL BE GOING TO MY EMBASSY TOMORROW TO RENEEW IT ,ONCE ITS DONE ,I NEED TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AGAIN SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT A STAMP ON IT.......I ASK HIM ABOUT THE 1751 IN NEBRASKI, HE SAID THEY ARE RUNNING REALLY BEHIND.....AND THERE IS NOTHING ELSE FOR ME TO DO OTHER THAN TO WAIT....

The "officer" at your local field office is an incompetent moron who should promptly be fired for not knowing his job. Because you had an expired passport, he was required to give you the option of receiving an I-94 form with an I-551 stamp and your photo. Although you probably do want to get your passport renewed, you should nevertheless immediately make another InfoPass appointment, bring two passport-type photos, and ask for the I-94. Take this official CIS policy memorandum with you to make it clear you know what you are entitled to: http://www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/CRextensn120203.pdf. If you get the same officer and he refuses, ask to speak to his supervisor or "someone else who is more familiar with CIS policy and procedure."

There are a quite a number of others like you who filed in Nebraska and have been waiting over a year. They congregate in this thread: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=102349.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Contact your local congressman office, ask them to put pressure on them, write to the congressman office a nice and long letter and explain them your situation, tell them you are living like your a in a jail with no fences, if you pay taxes and you work include a copy of your tax returns showing that you are paying these slackers salary and there is no excuse to make an honest working resident suffer and go through so much pain because a bunch of slackers take their sweet time using fake excuses like having too many cases ! where in the hell in 2008 with all the computerized system you need 13 month to give some one an appointment of 15 min ?? you can build a city in 13 month !! its just not acceptable and ridiculous ! you want a reaction in your case ? trigger a smart action

there are 1000's of people who have had to wait well over 1 years to get approved for removal of conditions..... it is nothing to do with a 15 min interview... most people donot get an interview at this stage.... and how you can claim that waiting for approval is like living in a jail is beyond me.... you are able to get on with your everyday life and once the OP gets his/her passport renewed thay can have the I-551 stamp.....

Kez

[tammiandtom 0]

We are in the same boat.

[LOU310 0]

there are 1000's of people who have had to wait well over 1 years to get approved for removal of conditions..... it is nothing to do with a 15 min interview... most people donot get an interview at this stage.... and how you can claim that waiting for approval is like living in a jail is beyond me.... you are able to get on with your everyday life and once the OP gets his/her passport renewed thay can have the I-551 stamp.....

Kez

ah yeah I m curious to know how you could access these 1000 persons imigration files and their waiting time, stop talking numbers like that as if you had the USCIS data base system infront of you, for your information living in conditional residency is not a fun and happy experience, when it comes to employment employers find a lot of excuses to discriminate you because of your conditional status, (of course officially they will never tell you, your job application has been denied because of your CR status) when it comes to traveling its a nightmare, I have been kept for interrogation 5 hours after a 12 hrs flight I was almost passing out ! they gave me nothing to eat and I was treated like a criminal and then they let me go, needless to mention the whole mental and psychological stress of being in CR status and being constantly reminded of deportation etc.. even your friends and your social network look at you differently because your presence in this country is not a sure fact and you have an expiration date coming up soon !

Your post is full of nonesense Kez but its okay I m talking here on behalf of myself and a few friends of mine who went through CR status with the same conditions and trust me its not a place you wanna be !

[James 2]

there are 1000's of people who have had to wait well over 1 years to get approved for removal of conditions..... it is nothing to do with a 15 min interview... most people donot get an interview at this stage.... and how you can claim that waiting for approval is like living in a jail is beyond me.... you are able to get on with your everyday life and once the OP gets his/her passport renewed thay can have the I-551 stamp.....

Kez

ah yeah I m curious to know how you could access these 1000 persons imigration files and their waiting time, stop talking numbers like that as if you had the USCIS data base system infront of you, for your information living in conditional residency is not a fun and happy experience, when it comes to employment employers find a lot of excuses to discriminate you because of your conditional status, (of course officially they will never tell you, your job application has been denied because of your CR status) when it comes to traveling its a nightmare, I have been kept for interrogation 5 hours after a 12 hrs flight I was almost passing out ! they gave me nothing to eat and I was treated like a criminal and then they let me go, needless to mention the whole mental and psychological stress of being in CR status and being constantly reminded of deportation etc.. even your friends and your social network look at you differently because your presence in this country is not a sure fact and you have an expiration date coming up soon !

Your post is full of nonesense Kez but its okay I m talking here on behalf of myself and a few friends of mine who went through CR status with the same conditions and trust me its not a place you wanna be !

Actually, there are thousands of people who have been waiting a year or more -- people who filed petitions in either TSC or NSC in the first few months of 2007. You can see a few of their timelines in the master approval thread here: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry1699972.

You can see from that list that almost everyone who filed an I-751 in TSC or NSC 12-14 months ago still has not been approved. CIS's own statistics, which you could look up if you were so inclined, projected that each service center received about 36,000 petitions last year. That means that in the first quarter of last year, TSC and NSC received a combined total of 18,000 petitions. Even if you remove the odd and very small handful from the beginning of 2007 that for some reason were approved, you're probably still looking at upwards of 15,000 petitions that have been sitting for a year plus.

You filed at CSC, yet have been waiting for just over a year. Given that CSC has been and still is by far the fastest in issuing approvals -- anywhere from as little as two months after filing to just over four months after filing -- your petition is obviously a problematic one, which I gather from your earlier posts is a result of filing a petition alone after getting separated but before the divorce was final.

I'm sorry for your difficulties, but your experience is far from the norm for someone who filed at CSC. Those of us who filed at TSC and NSC are waiting because of those service centers' inability to get their acts together. Not so with CSC, which has handled transferred petitions from NSC that were filed in the beginning of this year and has already approved them. I only wish our petition had been sent to CSC.

As to your other difficulties, they, too, are far from the norm. I've never heard of anyone with an expired green card and extension letter being interrogated for 5 hours after returning from abroad. People who present those documents are generally whisked right through. At most, the POE officer checks the computer, talking up a few extra minutes. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I am saying there was probably something else going on as well. Ditto the work related problems.

Again, I am truly sorry your experience has been so horrid, and I do hope your problems get resolved satisfactorily, but unlike the waiting period of those "thousands" of us who filed at TSC and NSC last year, your difficulties seem less related to the incompetence of CIS and more related to your particular situation.

[winterpassing 0]

Well, rumor has it that all I-751 applications currently stuck at NSC are being transferred to CSC in a near future. Someone had heard it from their congressman who had inquired on their behalf. Let's hope it's true.