Administrative Processing? Go to your local Congress!

[ShannonSayed 2]

To all of those who have been sifted off to administrative processing. If you are the petitioner, and living in the US, and your spouse's case has reach the point of administrative processing, this is what you should do.

Wherever you are living within the US, contact your local district congress. Send them an e-mail and title it "Immigration". Write your e-mail very descriptively and don't be afraid to talk about all the stress

and suffering of this long long wait. God willing, you will be contacted back by the immigration department representative. Tell them your story. Tell them if the interviewer was unfair, seemed hostile, anything at all.

All the details will help. Then they will ask for a permission to access case info. Fill out the form from your congress website and print it out. Sign it and rescan it and send it via e-mail to the rep's e-mail.

They then have permission to look into the case and find answers. They will put a stamp of "congressional interest" on your case. Doing this is a huge huge help. The immigration department in the Embassy will see this

and they won't want to deal with further badgering from congress or government entities. Then, just be patient. This is what I did. This is how I got the AP approved in less than 1 month.

You have nothing to lose! Best of luck to everyone fighting this long battle.

[Hypnos 6,576]

Members of Congress have no involvement in how long or short AP will be for any particular individual. You happened to get out of AP around the same time as your congressman enquired; this was a coincidence.

Edited March 1, 2013 by Hypnos

[MedRoni 161]

Members of Congress have no involvement in how long or short AP will be for any particular individual. You happened to get out of AP around the same time as your congressman enquired; this was a coincidence.

Completely agree!!

[together4evr 360]

Congrats!!! You did not deserve to be in ap anyhow. I agree that a congressional inquiry forces them not to sit on your file. I believed it helped my husband

[AYMAN_RINA 92]

I congratulate on winning this battle ShannonandSayed Y. very great help it really giving me a lot of hopes dealing with this in case GOD forbid I got in AP this Month After my Interview!

Edited March 2, 2013 by Alot-of-Patience

[LaVegano 12]

To all of those who have been sifted off to administrative processing. If you are the petitioner, and living in the US, and your spouse's case has reach the point of administrative processing, this is what you should do.

Wherever you are living within the US, contact your local district congress. Send them an e-mail and title it "Immigration". Write your e-mail very descriptively and don't be afraid to talk about all the stress

and suffering of this long long wait. God willing, you will be contacted back by the immigration department representative. Tell them your story. Tell them if the interviewer was unfair, seemed hostile, anything at all.

All the details will help. Then they will ask for a permission to access case info. Fill out the form from your congress website and print it out. Sign it and rescan it and send it via e-mail to the rep's e-mail.

They then have permission to look into the case and find answers. They will put a stamp of "congressional interest" on your case. Doing this is a huge huge help. The immigration department in the Embassy will see this

and they won't want to deal with further badgering from congress or government entities. Then, just be patient. This is what I did. This is how I got the AP approved in less than 1 month.

You have nothing to lose! Best of luck to everyone fighting this long battle.

Thank you very much for your feedback. Interesting.

[Ryan H 3,791]

Members of Congress have no involvement in how long or short AP will be for any particular individual. You happened to get out of AP around the same time as your congressman enquired; this was a coincidence.

I second this.

[AnitAnMohamed 0]

Thank you so much for your advice. My husband had his interview for IR1/CR1 on 12-20-2012 and we were put on administrative processing As of today when we check our case # on the administrative processing part of the US embassy Cairo web site it states " case # not found" I have e-mailed the Embassy 3 times about it and still No reply.

Edited March 3, 2013 by lanita1000

[AYMAN_RINA 92]

Thank you so much for your advice. My husband had his interview for IR1/CR1 on 12-20-2012 and we were put on administrative processing As of today when we check our case # on the administrative processing part of the US embassy Cairo web site it states " case # not found" I have e-mailed the Embassy 3 times about it and still No reply.

Can you please fill your timeline for everyone to see .It helps people to know how long it took and all that other stuff thank you so much and so sorry your waiting

[tulip07 0]

Thank you so much for your advice. My husband had his interview for IR1/CR1 on 12-20-2012 and we were put on administrative processing As of today when we check our case # on the administrative processing part of the US embassy Cairo web site it states " case # not found" I have e-mailed the Embassy 3 times about it and still No reply.

same thing happening with my husband case. he is n AP since October 2012, after his interview we checked embassy website with his case# and nothing came up. so we cant even check his AP status

[AnitAnMohamed 0]

Well i finally got a response from the US embassy in Cairo via e-mail stating that it would continue to say "case # not found ect.."' And that we are in administrative processing " which I am aware. I also checked the DOS website last night and it states our case was updated 3-6-13. I'm not sure what that means? Will have to start researching that one. I'm sorry it's taking so long!! 5 months and here i'm crying about 2 1/2 . I hope you hear some good news soon!!

[tulip07 0]

thank u anitanmohamed hopefully u'll hear some good news soon as well.

well we tried everything. We r trying to b positive about it but its getting soo hard. When my husband had his interview the embassy CO gave him blue paper nd marked "need additional processing" but now when i checked DOS website its saying "administrative processing." its so confusing. I even went to our State Senator and they called me back today nd told me the same thing. now really dont know what to do. I see so many horror story about AP.

It's getting very frustrating for us not knowing what's going on with his case.

[together4evr 360]

Additional processing is the same as administrative processing.

You need to find out if Ap is being done on the embassy level (counselor review) or if AP is at the FBI or Washington level

Be very careful on how you ask questions. They are trained to always say " Your file is at the embassy" so people get happy and think AP is done, but in reality your "file" never leaves anywhere because it is in the computer database.

Good luck

[tulip07 0]

Additional processing is the same as administrative processing.

You need to find out if Ap is being done on the embassy level (counselor review) or if AP is at the FBI or Washington level

Be very careful on how you ask questions. They are trained to always say " Your file is at the embassy" so people get happy and think AP is done, but in reality your "file" never leaves anywhere because it is in the computer database.

Good luck

i called DOS and asked them about mandatory or internal AP and she said its all the same. (which doesn't make sense) so if i have to ask abt what level his case is how specifically should i ask? can u plz tell me...

[together4evr 360]

You ask one question at a time

Ask... Am I in mandatory ap... If they say yes then you know it is fbi checks. If they say just administrative processing you ask is it internal. That means the co is doing the investigation, background check or reviewing documents