RFE

[gbanga 0]

My Fiancé received the RFE email today.. Our petition has been Processing for 5 months already, throughout that time we have had no touches or any news on it at all..

Can anyone tell me if its normal to get an RFE this late? Im more than a little worried about it.. Scared that it is going to take an extra 5 months for them to look at out application again.

[katiemanny 64]

Yes! Good luck Taking an additional 5 months after responding to your RFE will however be unusual.

Your best bet now is responding to the RFE as soon as possible to cut in the waiting time.

Edited March 25, 2011 by katiemanny

[canadian_wife 1,823]

Totally normal

And no, you don't get sent to the back of the line when you respond to the RFE> about 2 weeks after we responded to our RFE we had our NOA2

Good luck

[gbanga 0]

Totally normal

And no, you don't get sent to the back of the line when you respond to the RFE> about 2 weeks after we responded to our RFE we had our NOA2

Good luck

Can i ask what your RFE was for? We thought he had everything filled out right, he had a lawyer look over it and everything.

Gosh, im so upset! lol I just thought we would have gotten the RFE so much sooner.. I mean, we are at the date of where we would be getting the NOA2 anyday now..

[amykathleen2005 441]

That is the point! If you had filed everything correctly you would have been approved and gotten your NOA2 right now. There are two major times you receive a request for more information. When you first filed if you left out something important and right when they are looking at you for approval, at that point it is approval, RFE or rarely a denial. They aren't sitting there staring at your case for 5 months. It is likely it has been getting dusty at the bottom of a box with no human contact since you got your NOA1.

Edited March 25, 2011 by amykathleen2005

[Amber & Ahmed 133]

Hi, at 5 months and 2 weeks we got an RFE, I was absolutely heartbroken. I thought " what do they want, I gave them everything!!!" After a week of sheer panic I recieved our snailmail RFE... in my rush to send out everything I forgot to sign the G325! LOL So I signed the G325 and ran to the post office and mailed it back express. Within a week we had our

NOA2! So it may be something so very simple, don't waste too much time fretting and worrying, wait for the snailmail and send off the requested evidence right away, you hopefully will just be 2 weeks behind! Needless to say after that slip of mine my husband now says to me... HONEY MAKE SURE YOU SIGN THAT FORM!!!

Good luck and best wishes!

Amber

[gbanga 0]

Hi, at 5 months and 2 weeks we got an RFE, I was absolutely heartbroken. I thought " what do they want, I gave them everything!!!" After a week of sheer panic I recieved our snailmail RFE... in my rush to send out everything I forgot to sign the G325! LOL So I signed the G325 and ran to the post office and mailed it back express. Within a week we had our

NOA2! So it may be something so very simple, don't waste too much time fretting and worrying, wait for the snailmail and send off the requested evidence right away, you hopefully will just be 2 weeks behind! Needless to say after that slip of mine my husband now says to me... HONEY MAKE SURE YOU SIGN THAT FORM!!!

Good luck and best wishes!

Amber

I hope that is all we have to worry about! Just freaking out that its gonna be some major problem. lol i need to calm down

[Amber & Ahmed 133]

Yes for sure try to calm down and relax. Really I have been there and I know how it feels, also I know the feeling of opening up that envelope and saying " really?"

Just relax as much as you can and wait on the mailman. Lol you should have seen me every day until that RFE arrived in the mail, when my mailman was walking up to my door i was already there waiting for him .... poor guy! LOL I will be praying for you and that this RFE can be cleared up so quickly and you all will be back on track soon!

[baron555 934]

My Fiancé received the RFE email today.. Our petition has been Processing for 5 months already, throughout that time we have had no touches or any news on it at all..

Can anyone tell me if its normal to get an RFE this late? Im more than a little worried about it.. Scared that it is going to take an extra 5 months for them to look at out application again.

The USCIS has a 5 or more month backlog. They only just got to your case after 5 months, that's why nothing for so long. It is the way it is. You knew that, right?

[Mykenmimo 1]

Dont worry three weeks ago i got an RFE after 5 months, i responded march first, then i got my NOA2 on march 22.....this is a good thing not a bad thing, at least they looked at your case.....Respond to the RFE and you should get your NOA2 2-3 weeks later.

[petite soleil 2]

Hey, we received an RFE email last Friday 18th and we are still waiting for the hardcopy to arrive. How long have you guys been waiting for the hardcopy?

[Amber & Ahmed 133]

Hey, we received an RFE email last Friday 18th and we are still waiting for the hardcopy to arrive. How long have you guys been waiting for the hardcopy?

From my experience and others I have seen on VJ... it takes about a week to get. Hang in there!

[petite soleil 2]

Thank you, its been already a week, so hopefully we get it soon!

[Charles-n-Erica 2]

We were at 7 months when i got the notification of RFE (of course i had to go through VSC). It took 6 days to get the hardcopy in the mail. They issued RFE because they wanted the pre-translated copy of my divorce decree. (I got divorced in Japan) So my divorce decree was originally all in Japanese. I included the translated copy in the original package; but they wanted both (guess they can read Japanese now). So, I sent in that same day of getting RFE and still waiting. It's been 15 days now....

[HeatDeath 430]

RFE's are irritating because they delay your approval by a few weeks, and that's no fun. But the nice thing about them is that they are a simple, straightforward process that doesn't confuse anybody, least of all the adjudicators.

That's what you really have to fear. When adjudicators, consular officers, CBP officers, immigration officers, or even SSA clerks get confused, bad things happen. As long as no one is confused, everything is fine, even if it's slightly delayed.