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Finally my fiancee got her visa after 16 months of AP!!

By augustapplicant in Waivers (I-601 and I-212) and Administrative Processes (221g)

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HeatDeath   430

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Congratulations that she finally got it!!

To be honest, I don't understand their system either. It seems schizophrenic. One would think, the Department of Homeland Security, the USCIS and the corresponding consulate should decide on the grounds of the same information.

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Congratulations!

The system is schizophrenic. Rather literally. The split-personality between INS (now USCIS) and the Department of State over who gets to control how much of the immigration process goes back, literally, well into the 1800s.

Immigration and Naturalization Services, a section of the Department of Justice, was never terribly thrilled that the Department of State had final say over who got visas (a state of affairs that is literally as old as the country, based primarily on the inconvenient fact that Department of State builds and staffs the embassies and is therefore the only branch of the government with any real presence in other countries).

When INS got folded into the Department of Homeland Security and renamed USCIS, there was a MASSIVE turf war between DHS and State over visa granting authority. State have literally hundreds of years of tradition on their side there, so they retained the authority, avoiding having their visa sections folded into DHS. Don't think DHS was happy about that. Still aren't, I imagine.

And the third split personality in the whole mix is Customs and Border Protection, which DID get folded into DHS with INS (USCIS). Nevertheless they don't talk to USCIS much, don't seem especially conversant with USCIS procedures, and (I suspect, for the front line guys anyways) rather wish USCIS and State wouldn't complicate their jobs by giving so many people paperwork-heavy visas for them to process :)

So there you have it: Not one, not two, but THREE separate federal agencies, none of whom talk to each other, or even indeed seem to like each other all that much, all of whom must be dealt with, in their turn, by each prospective immigrants. My USC inlaws say they now understand why there is so much illegal immigration :)

DON'T PANIC

"It says wonderful things about the two countries [Canada and the US] that neither one feels itself being inundated by each other's immigrants."

-Douglas Coupland

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diamondback78   0

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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Dominican Republic
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Congrats! I am sure you are very happy this long process is over and you can finally be together!

11/10/07 married my SO

1/5/08 trip 2 DR for 10 days

7/10/08 DR for 10 days

8/23/08 mailed I-130

8/29/08 USICS in Vermont accepted

12/22/08 Case transfered to CA Service Center

12/28/09 DR for New Years and Birthday

1/28/09 Received SDO #

2/4/09 Paid AOS fee

2/20/09 Trip to DR

2/26/09 Sent Choice of Agent Form

4/4/09 IV fees paid

4/20/09 Sent DS230

5/1/09 Missing correct BC

5/5/08 Supervisor review

5/18/09 Case Completed

7/29/09 Called NVC found out about CITA

9/9/09 CITA...Placed on AR

9/13/09 Came home to the US alone :(

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Nwanyioma Rising Star

Nwanyioma   11

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Congratulations!!!!! All the best

Nwanyioma

AOS Timeline
7-23-2010 AOS package mailed priority via USPS to Chicago Lockbox (expected delivery date 7-26-2010)
7-27-2010 AOS package delivered
8-3-2010 NOA 1 AOS/EAD/AP (received hard copy NOA 1's in mailbox 8-7-2010)
8-6-2010 AOS/EAD/AP Touched
8-9-2010 AOS/EAD/AP Touched
9-15-2010 Biometrics walk-in at Alexandria,VA ASC(original appointment date 10-5-2010)
9-15-2010 AOS/EAD Touched
9-16-2010 AOS/EAD Touched
9-22-2010 EAD/AP Touched
9-22-2010 EAD card production ordered. Approved!!!!!
9-23-2010 EAD/AP Touched
9-30-2010 EAD received in mail
10-4-2010 Received interview letter in the mail
11-9-2010 AOS interview 11:00am in Baltimore, Maryland
11-9-2010 Greencard approved!!

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