Has anyone ever written to their state Congress for help?

[andreamo 1]

Has anyone else tried this? I have no idea if they would be willing to help or not but I am sending letters to my state's senators and governor regardless to see if they would intervene on my husband's behalf. It can't hurt. The NVC is located in the town next to the one I am moving to, so one of my state's gov't officials must know someone who works there.

Edited November 26, 2012 by andreamo

[TBoneTX 43,390]

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[Hypnos 6,576]

Your state representatives can do nothing with regards to immigration matters; since USCIS is a federal agency only your federal elected officials will be able to help.

[Stressed Out 81]

It's true that the representative/senator has nothing in his power to "help" you, but I think most of the people on here are a bit too negative against letters from constituent departments. Like you said, it couldn't hurt you. It's worth the shot since it could possibly put a small green flag on your application with them claiming they believe it's legitimate.

I still strongly believe that my husband's visa was approved on part of them faxing in a letter for him. He's never overstayed nor broken any laws in the US or Germany, but the fact he had a terminated work visa and one denied tourist visa would means they would have questioned him a lot more than they did. They knew he had a US citizen as a wife this time (which is normally looked at as immigrant intent), but they didn't even look at his documents. I don't think the guy could've been in such a lazy/good mood to hand out a free visa to someone with a red flag like his.

However, they can't write it to a specific person working at the NVC office. The only thing possible for them to do is to fax them a letter stating they believe your case is "quite legitimate" to ask the interviewing officer to simply take a bit more care with your case. (They include your application number and passport number to verify they've been in contact with you)

Edited November 26, 2012 by Stressed Out

[Hypnos 6,576]

I think we might be at mismatched purposes here.

To me it looked as if the OP was asking about writing to her state's elected officials (which as I stated will do nothing since they have no jurisdiction over federal matters), but your reply seemed to indicate the OP was discussing their federal officials (who can actually help).

American government is unfortunately overly complex and laborious in places.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Hypnos

[Janelle2002 3,865]

It can't hurt. Trying will make you feel better. If we were to all start flooding our Representatives with emails and concerns maybe things would go faster. After all, they are paid with our tax money to help us when we need it.

[charlesandmerle 4]

Has anyone else tried this? I have no idea if they would be willing to help or not but I am sending letters to my state's senators and governor regardless to see if they would intervene on my husband's behalf. It can't hurt. The NVC is located in the town next to the one I am moving to, so one of my state's gov't officials must know someone who works there.

[charlesandmerle 4]

normally office help read all mail sent to state officials so a letter or e-mail probably will not make it to the desk of the elected official but if it makes you feel better give it a try.