First time for everything

[rebeccajo 14]

.... have none of your congressmen or senators been able to do anything at all???

i hope that things work out for you and wes VERY soon!

That sucks!

Have you contact the senator's office again to see if they can light a fire under someone's ### or is it the same "all you can do is wait" #######?

Senator Byrd's office says they will be happy to inquire again but they have no power to resolve any issues.

Edited September 28, 2006 by rebeccajo

[KarenCee 3]

*SIGH*

So sorry to hear this. When I think I'm frustrated I remember what you and Wes are going through. I just hope something breaks soon. *HUGS*

[meauxna 15]

We are coming up on 18 months of wallowing around in this ####### they call 'legal immigration'.

<koff>ConsularProcessing<koff>

I'm sorry sweetie. I wonder if these things just get 'stuck' sometimes. Like, what would a new application do?

[Sheriff Uling 3]

That stinks.

Ditto... USCIS should implement a fee waiver for this sort of #######!!! They should benefit monetarily if the beneficiary is cleared.

Edited September 29, 2006 by Uling

[pj1959us 0]

That does really stink, Bec, and hope it all gets straightened out soon. Bad thing is, with the way your luck is going Wes will be offered a great job soon and will then have an EAD problem if it's not current!

What's next? Fingerprints expired and it's time for those again?

Breathe deeply.....breathe deeply....

[rebeccajo 14]

That does really stink, Bec, and hope it all gets straightened out soon. Bad thing is, with the way your luck is going Wes will be offered a great job soon and will then have an EAD problem if it's not current!

What's next? Fingerprints expired and it's time for those again?

Breathe deeply.....breathe deeply....

I hear ya on the luck issue!!

And I actually think that a fingerprint expiration is the only way this will get resolved. I've watched this issue for several months now and it almost always seems that the older cases don't get resolved until a new set of prints are taken.....

You know what I think I will do? If I can find one of those new laughing Elmos, I'm thinking of mailing one to USCIS with a tag around his neck........"you want HOW much more money from me to make me a LEGAL immigrant?".

[pj1959us 0]

I hear ya on the luck issue!!

And I actually think that a fingerprint expiration is the only way this will get resolved. I've watched this issue for several months now and it almost always seems that the older cases don't get resolved until a new set of prints are taken.....

You know what I think I will do? If I can find one of those new laughing Elmos, I'm thinking of mailing one to USCIS with a tag around his neck........"you want HOW much more money from me to make me a LEGAL immigrant?".

You got the right attitude, girl...if you don't laugh you gotta cry! Hang in there.

[bly 0]

I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I'm going to go against the grain on this one. I don’t find the PDF they send you at all out of line, if you look at it from their side it’s completely understandable.

I distinctly remember after 9-11 how several of the high jackers received either visa's or resident paper work that was APPROVED. Would you have liked the INS to have done their homework more on the 19 high jackers that were in the USA? I sure would have.

I know you know your husband isn't a terrorist, but if his name matches closely to a name on a list somewhere, then they are going to investigate until they are satisfied. They have to balance granting permission vs national security, surely not an easy thing to do. You must realize that Northern Ireland is considered a potential terrorist location, not directed at the USA (yet) but alas we are Britain’s closest ally.

You are together, so enjoy your life together and don't let the USCIS get you down. I know spending $180 dollars sucks, but if 1% of AOS adjusters have to spend an extra $180 dollars to allow our government more time to research each application in detail then that's what's going to have to happen. Every poster on this board would be pissed as hell if the USCIS approved another high jacker. We'd all be calling for heads to roll and looking for someone to blame for letting them in.

I get really steamed at the airport when people complain about having to take their shoes off. Last time I flew to Europe some lady was giving the officer lots of grief because they required the woman's elderly mother to remove her shoes. While I felt for the old woman I looked directly at the officer and thanked him. "Thank you for taking your job seriously, if you'll hold the rules to a nice elderly lady then I can rest assured no ones getting on my plane with their shoes unchecked.”

I'm sorry your application is being held up, but everyone has been affected one way or another since 9/11. Some of us just our shoes. Some have had trouble even getting on board an airplane including a US Senator that was on the "Do Not Fly List", to those of us going through immigration.

Cherish being together with your loved one, ignore the problems you can't control. Hope and pray our government is doing the best they can each day to check on each person entering or in the USA.

[JenT 0]

Hey 'Becca. I'm sorry that you've gotten more bad news... Last thing you really need to be dealing with right now. You have every right to to be royally peeved... I truly hope that some peace is in store for you. Perhaps with the sale of your house????

Jen

[rebeccajo 14]

I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I'm going to go against the grain on this one. I don’t find the PDF they send you at all out of line, if you look at it from their side it’s completely understandable.

I distinctly remember after 9-11 how several of the high jackers received either visa's or resident paper work that was APPROVED. Would you have liked the INS to have done their homework more on the 19 high jackers that were in the USA? I sure would have.

I know you know your husband isn't a terrorist, but if his name matches closely to a name on a list somewhere, then they are going to investigate until they are satisfied. They have to balance granting permission vs national security, surely not an easy thing to do. You must realize that Northern Ireland is considered a potential terrorist location, not directed at the USA (yet) but alas we are Britain’s closest ally.

You are together, so enjoy your life together and don't let the USCIS get you down. I know spending $180 dollars sucks, but if 1% of AOS adjusters have to spend an extra $180 dollars to allow our government more time to research each application in detail then that's what's going to have to happen. Every poster on this board would be pissed as hell if the USCIS approved another high jacker. We'd all be calling for heads to roll and looking for someone to blame for letting them in.

I get really steamed at the airport when people complain about having to take their shoes off. Last time I flew to Europe some lady was giving the officer lots of grief because they required the woman's elderly mother to remove her shoes. While I felt for the old woman I looked directly at the officer and thanked him. "Thank you for taking your job seriously, if you'll hold the rules to a nice elderly lady then I can rest assured no ones getting on my plane with their shoes unchecked.”

I'm sorry your application is being held up, but everyone has been affected one way or another since 9/11. Some of us just our shoes. Some have had trouble even getting on board an airplane including a US Senator that was on the "Do Not Fly List", to those of us going through immigration.

Cherish being together with your loved one, ignore the problems you can't control. Hope and pray our government is doing the best they can each day to check on each person entering or in the USA.

I'm not going to flame you. I am going to give you a reality check however.

Try explaining to all your friends why - after you've been here for a YEAR and your interview was 6 months ago - that the FBI hasn't issued your security clearance yet. ESPECIALLY when you are from Northern Ireland - as you so politely reminded me. Think that doesn't raise eyebrows? My husband lived in one city his entire life, at a total of two addresses. His background shouldn't be hard to check - especially amongst two modern technologically literate nations.

Try being an IT professional living in a town where the best IT jobs are with the US government - who won't hire you unless you are a citizen. And the citizenship clock doesn't start ticking until your AOS is done.

Try doing something simple like being the man of the house and wanting your income to be counted on a mortgage application, but nobody will do it because you don't have your greencard.

Then last but not least - pretend you are the USC spouse of a person whose clearance isn't done yet. Try consoling them when they have those occasional wonderings of whether or not your government might come and take them away because they have confused his or her identity with someone elses.

More to this than meets the eye, bly.

Edited September 29, 2006 by rebeccajo

[rebeccajo 14]

Oh...

The FBI has not one, but TWELVE separate databases that they sift through. TWELVE databases that they have TWICE spent millions of taxpayer dollars trying unsuccessfully to link together.

They store paper records in 263 different locations. Not the least of which is 'the cave' in Missouri where records since Ellis Island are stored.

The CIS Ombudsman himself has said that undue delays in namechecks actually HINDERS national security as it leaves any terrorist in the country TOO LONG before he is found and deported.

Edited September 29, 2006 by rebeccajo

[Neonred 3,446]

I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but I'm going to go against the grain on this one. I don’t find the PDF they send you at all out of line, if you look at it from their side it’s completely understandable.

I distinctly remember after 9-11 how several of the high jackers received either visa's or resident paper work that was APPROVED. Would you have liked the INS to have done their homework more on the 19 high jackers that were in the USA? I sure would have.

I know you know your husband isn't a terrorist, but if his name matches closely to a name on a list somewhere, then they are going to investigate until they are satisfied. They have to balance granting permission vs national security, surely not an easy thing to do. You must realize that Northern Ireland is considered a potential terrorist location, not directed at the USA (yet) but alas we are Britain’s closest ally.

You are together, so enjoy your life together and don't let the USCIS get you down. I know spending $180 dollars sucks, but if 1% of AOS adjusters have to spend an extra $180 dollars to allow our government more time to research each application in detail then that's what's going to have to happen. Every poster on this board would be pissed as hell if the USCIS approved another high jacker. We'd all be calling for heads to roll and looking for someone to blame for letting them in.

I get really steamed at the airport when people complain about having to take their shoes off. Last time I flew to Europe some lady was giving the officer lots of grief because they required the woman's elderly mother to remove her shoes. While I felt for the old woman I looked directly at the officer and thanked him. "Thank you for taking your job seriously, if you'll hold the rules to a nice elderly lady then I can rest assured no ones getting on my plane with their shoes unchecked.”

I'm sorry your application is being held up, but everyone has been affected one way or another since 9/11. Some of us just our shoes. Some have had trouble even getting on board an airplane including a US Senator that was on the "Do Not Fly List", to those of us going through immigration.

Cherish being together with your loved one, ignore the problems you can't control. Hope and pray our government is doing the best they can each day to check on each person entering or in the USA.

That's a load of #######. How long is long enough? Six months? A year? Two years? I'll bet this case hasn't seen the light of day in a long time. Long past time for someone to get off their butt and make a decision.

[rebeccajo 14]

You are together, so enjoy your life together and don't let the USCIS get you down.....

Cherish being together with your loved one, ignore the problems you can't control.....

The more I think about this type of comment - this type of thinking - well the more amazed I become at how absolutely ignorant you must be to subscribe to this line of thinking.

'Being together' isn't the be-all-and-end-all of 'cherishing' your immigrant loved one. In fact it's only a small part of it. Truly taking care of that person is making sure that they are in this country legally, free of reprisal and in possession of all their appropriate documents.

TWICE during my husband's visa process I was admonished to do this very thing. The first time was at the adjudicator's window in the London consulate, wherein I was reminded to make certain that once we were married, I adjusted his status. The second time was at the port of entry in Dublin, where the CBP officer who processed the K1 packet repeated those instructions to me again.

The instructions were given to ME. It is MY responsibility as an American citizen to make sure that my immigrant husband has been fully documented and that we have complied with the law. It doesn't behoove me to sit on my fanny and 'ignore the problems I can't control'.

Romance, flowers, candlelight and 'being together' won't help your spouse if have fallen short of your responsibility to them. It's because I do love him and want us to be together that I will continue to pursue this. It might be out of my control, but I will fully document that it was not ME or US that failed on our end to comply with the law.

[Canuck Carrie 1]

Rebecca, Wes is a very lucky man to have you in his corner. Together, you will get through it all and will come out stronger.