1st post former NSC adjudicator now petitioner

[payxibka 10,044]

I come from a state that elected a professional wrestler as governor, you are reading way too much into my posts...

I am not sure I could use gratuitous in a sentence, let alone understand what it is you are saying....

[HUSKERKIEV 8]

Well, you are about to become a very popular poster here! Welcome to VJ! As you can see by my member date I joined here over 2 years ago, and haven't left yet!

I filed my now-husband's I129F about 2 years ago through Vermont. We are currently in the AOS phase and stuck due to FBI namecheck. Up until this point we were 'poster children' for the way K1 immigration SHOULD work - 106 days from filing to visa approval.

Are you at liberty to say exactly what databases you checked? Did you check the same databases for every type of petition or did that vary?

Databases. Well, they all had acronym names is what I remember and thats about all I remeber except each one had a purpose. One was for criminal activity , FBI/fingerprints, one could show immigration info, interpol, national criminal database, various ones used by law enforcement, Dept of State, and some other ones.

Yes, there were standard ones we used on a routine basis in clearing an applicant. These were routine from petition to petition (ie didn't matter if it was a I-131 or I-129 or 485, 767 etc... all required checking).

I wish I could remember but I did a brain dump when I left so I could learn a entire new set of new acronyms at my new position

Sorry to hear about your slowdown.

[David-and-Mae 15]

I hope HUSKERKIEV has medical insurance that will cover for an operation if he'll get carpal tunnel syndrome Just kidding!

You are now officially the famous poster here, I see

Thanks for helpful infos... so far, you have answered most of our questions here...

[JODO 2]

I come from a state that elected a professional wrestler as governor, you are reading way too much into my posts...

I am not sure I could use gratuitous in a sentence, let alone understand what it is you are saying....

I don't have to read anything into your post, your clearly said Senator Kennedy. Anyway, I don't engage in flame wars and someone may want this thread pinned, so I'm done with this issue. I know you do goods things on the board, and I think if I recall correctly, you made a timeline update and I even looked at it.Nevertheless,I was not implying that you were always doing this,I just chose to respond when I saw this particular comment from you tonight.

[ELW 5]

WELCOME, Huskerkiev, welcome! We are really happy to have you! It has been wonderful and so interesting reading your descriptions. Good luck for a speedy visa process yourself!

I always wondered about how many petitions each adjudicator has at once? Does each person lug a boxful to their desks, take an armful of 10 or 20, or what? Because most people with NOA1 from certain dates get approved, while a few are left hanging sooo long. I always imagined a stack of files on a slow pokes desk...

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[payxibka 10,044]

Yes pin this thread but please remove my gratuitous comments

[HUSKERKIEV 8]

Thanks everyone, and if there are no further questions, I'm gonna hit the rack.

Feel free to PM me or start a tread I will do what I can to shed some light on the situation.

If you have a specific question, I have a friend/coworker (we started at the same time with BCIS) who recently left the organization and would maybe give some more current informationif I asked. Not about cases, but general info.

Again, thanks and its been a pleasure. Sorry for all the typos, I'm really not that illiterate

[rebeccajo 14]

Thanks for coming aboard. You'll probably get continually bombarded....hope you don't mind.

If your friend knows more about security checks, I think that'd be great info for this community.

[SoL. 0]

Welcome to VJ, thanks for all that great info!

[HUSKERKIEV 8]

WELCOME, Huskerkiev, welcome! We are really happy to have you! It has been wonderful and so interesting reading your descriptions. Good luck for a speedy visa process yourself!

I always wondered about how many petitions each adjudicator has at once? Does each person lug a boxful to their desks, take an armful of 10 or 20, or what? Because most people with NOA1 from certain dates get approved, while a few are left hanging sooo long. I always imagined a stack of files on a slow pokes desk...

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Thanks. There are storage shelves in each section of the building that house the boxes full of applicants files. These shelves are continuosly replenished as boxes are removed by the officers to be worked or turned in to be further processed after being approved. This resupply as it were is handled by the CIS contract employees.

So as a Adjudicator/officer I would go and get a box of case files every morning, scan/wand each file into the sytem under my user ID # (so people could track who had it) and then begin to adjudicate the cases. A box might hold 50 case or so.

They also had a rack for "expedites" which were cases whose petitioners had selected/paid for "premium processing". You were slected on a rotating bais to do "expedites". But the process was the same for these they just were staged diferently in the overall que of things, so to speak. MOved further ahead in line or something. Congressionals were pulled by the congressional office and routed to the appropriate supervisor for dissemination to his employee's to work with a short turn around time.

So, your number of files vary at any given time during the day. Officers who did the work form home I spoek about earlier would come in to the office maybe once or twice a week, scan in all thier new files (to their ID), then scan in all the approved files they were returning back into the system (from thier ID) and take the multiple boxes back home with them to work. Enough to last a few days or so.

The reason for some hanging so long could be several. One could be an RFE and while the officer is waiting for the response he is working more current dates. In other words more and more applications are getting in front of the RFE'd application. Another reason could be that the boxes that are staged on the shelves are chosen at random by the officers. For some reason a box of files might sit longer on the shelf than another. Usually not more than a day at the most though. Or the officer could be hording a box at his desk (for some strange reason) and then goes on vacation and deoesn't scan them out of his name and back into (return) them to the system so they can be picked up by someone else to work. So it sits for awhile.

Usually unless a file gets misplaced, applications are always kept in date groupings and date order. If you look in a box of files, they will all have been initially entered into the system either on the same day or within a day. That way they can work from oldest to newest in a organized fashion. They are kept that way so it will be fair to everyone waiting in line for approval.

On the rare occurance a file will be mistakenly sent to district office or other Service Center, the error will be caught when a file search is done and it shows the location of the file (there is a system code showing its physical location). The the file is recalled to its proper center or office. Very rare though.

[Mephys 2]

Welcome to VJ

Its nice really nice to know all that stuff and i agree that it should be pinned!

Mephys

[The_dip_sticks 0]

Welcome to VJ Huskerkiev, and thank you for shedding the light on what goes on behind the curtains. I think this is information that many of us have been wanting answers to for a very long time. Wishing you a smooth and fast VJ.

I hope that we did not scare you off on the first day.

[rebex05 1]

Welcome aboard and I echo what others have said in that it is nice to have a bit of an insider's viewpoint to the whole adjucation process. I can tell you that I knew little about the whole process before even reading your well spring of information. Thanks for your patience answering all the posts, as well as helpful tips.

When you mentioned contacting your congressman(woman) because the petition is not being processed in a timely manner... exactly what is meant by a timely manner? Based on the USCIS timelines or just after a few months? Just curious. Thanks.

Good luck with your process and at least you will hopefully get it right the first time with no RFEs... then again one never knows.

[Kendall_Suphee 0]

Welcome to VJ and thanks for all the wonderful information.

I wonder how many Congressmen will get letters now

Thanks again for your detailed answers and glimpses into the inner workings of the system -

[mRx 16]

Welcome to VJ huskerkiev. I pity the onslaught your email box has most definetely taken.