Advice please (!)

[duster 0]

Hi,

I wondered if someone could put my mind at rest (?)

I recently had my AOS interview in Tampa; the interview went very well except it transpired that I had forgotten a copy of my divorce absolute certificate from way back in the early 1990's!

The Officer said that this was not a major issue and that all I had to do was to send it to him at the Tampa Field office; we would not need to attend another AOS interview and he gave me an I-72 (not an I-797C) Request for Further Evidence with an 87 day limit to it.

Apart from feeling bloody stupid for not having it as soon as we got back in the car to return home, I immediately started making phone calls back to the UK and a very good and extremely patient friend of mine managed to track it down and had it sent to me within a couple of days. I sent it together with the I-72 and a cover letter back to Tampa for the attention of the Officer (as requested in the letter) via UPS and it was delivered at 10.30am last Wednesday, September 9th.

Does anyone have any experience of something similar? I sort of thought that upon delivery, the wheels would turn pretty fast and the website would be updated and hopefully an e-mail from the CRIS system would have been received by now!

On speaking to the help desk late yesterday, the person there told me that it was up to the individual Officer whether he/she wanted to use the website/e-mail route or just snail mail me in which case the website would not show any updates at all! I found this strange as I can not see why the infrastructure in place would be not used but I have heard of people who have had their Green cards for some time and yet the website still says that the application is pending so maybe there is some truth to that!

Not withstanding that, any idea how long this is likely to take ?

Many thanks for reading this.

Dusty

[Otto 83]

No offense, but if you were expecting to hear/see something happen in the 2 days your response was delivered, you've probably got some (too) high expectations. I'd give it a week/10-days to hear something.

[usaborn1111 0]

Hi,

I wondered if someone could put my mind at rest (?)

I recently had my AOS interview in Tampa; the interview went very well except it transpired that I had forgotten a copy of my divorce absolute certificate from way back in the early 1990's!

The Officer said that this was not a major issue and that all I had to do was to send it to him at the Tampa Field office; we would not need to attend another AOS interview and he gave me an I-72 (not an I-797C) Request for Further Evidence with an 87 day limit to it.

Apart from feeling bloody stupid for not having it as soon as we got back in the car to return home, I immediately started making phone calls back to the UK and a very good and extremely patient friend of mine managed to track it down and had it sent to me within a couple of days. I sent it together with the I-72 and a cover letter back to Tampa for the attention of the Officer (as requested in the letter) via UPS and it was delivered at 10.30am last Wednesday, September 9th.

Does anyone have any experience of something similar? I sort of thought that upon delivery, the wheels would turn pretty fast and the website would be updated and hopefully an e-mail from the CRIS system would have been received by now!

On speaking to the help desk late yesterday, the person there told me that it was up to the individual Officer whether he/she wanted to use the website/e-mail route or just snail mail me in which case the website would not show any updates at all! I found this strange as I can not see why the infrastructure in place would be not used but I have heard of people who have had their Green cards for some time and yet the website still says that the application is pending so maybe there is some truth to that!

Not withstanding that, any idea how long this is likely to take ?

Many thanks for reading this.

Dusty

Its the Gov't thats why, they never do things the smart way

[duster 0]

No offense, but if you were expecting to hear/see something happen in the 2 days your response was delivered, you've probably got some (too) high expectations. I'd give it a week/10-days to hear something.

Yep, you are probably right! I think I feel such an idiot in not having that one piece of paper that I just want to forget the whole thing as quickly as possible.

I will kick my heels for a few days then

[Otto 83]

Yep, you are probably right! I think I feel such an idiothuman in not having that one piece of paper that I just want to forget the whole thing as quickly as possible.

I will kick my heels for a few days then

Fixed..

[duster 0]

I will kick my heels for a few days then

And as if by magic....I just got an e-mail from USCIS telling me that my card has been ordered!

6 days (including a weekend)! Now that's what I call service!

[duster 0]

Card arrived yesterday, September 24th, so that was 9 days total.

Again, great service from USCIS!