The blue letter for the i-601

[Pberry06 2]

Hello everyone,

We lost our blue letter that my wife received after her interview that states she is eligible to apply for the i-601 waiver. Let me explain our experience, and hopefully someone can help us with what we can do to get a copy.

**YOU CAN SKIP OUR EXPERIENCE IF YOU WOULD LIKE AND HELP US OUT WITH MY REAL PROBLEM/QUESTION AT THE BOTTOM**

My wife had her interview in Ciudad Juarez on July 25th. Apart from her quick interview (which went as expected, refused), we had a terrible experience in C.Juarez. Since her appointment was on a Monday , the only direct flight from Tijuana was the Wednesday before her interview, and that gave us enough time to do her medical exams and fingerprints.

So its Wednesday evening and we are at the Hotel Casa Grande, (good service, $350 for 7 nights, food not so good, down the street from the consulate), and we just spent it making sure everything was in order. Since her medical exams were early morning Thursday we decided we would go to the Denny's next to the consulate and next to the hospital where we were going to go for her exams. So we ordered an Uber (safest option) and went to Denny's. We arrived about 10 min before they opened. Online they said it was open 24 hours. Not the case. We sat on the bench about 3 feet from the entrance and waited. We talked about how nice the area was, looked safe and secure, well maintained.

We saw a car pull into the parking lot, a beat up car, and we both thought it was odd, I noticed the rear window was broken and that alarmed me. But it parked and a couple got out and stood in front of us, "waiting for Denny's to open". So we thought....well at 7:00 am the manager unlocked the doors and I told my wife lets let them go in first, just being courteous. Well they didn't so at that time we decided we would go in, and when we stood up, they asked us something, I didn't hear what exactly they asked, but in a second the lady and the man blocked us and pulled a gun out from a man purse he had around his shoulders. Fortunately we had brought tasers with us, flashlight that had the capacity to stun. My wife pulled hers out but couldn't turn it on and passed it to me and I started to point it at them and they backed off, unfortunately when I pushed my wife behind me and towards the door her cell phone fell. They didn't demand anything as I think they thought we were just going to hand them our wallets, but were surprised that it was a taser. Luckily we were physically okay. About 10 policemen arrived within a minute, since they were right down the street at the consulate. The rest of the week there was miserable. We tried not leaving our hotel, but we had to get food and other essentials, and on more than one occasion we felt people were following us. Everyone that we talked to said that it was just an isolated case, that type of low level crime doesn't happen anymore....well it happened to us.... . I filed a police report, at the very least it could have helped with the hardship letter I have to write.

We did go to the movies once, to the mall, which is really nice, always using Uber. We had them pick us up behind the hotel sometimes. We tried some restaurants. Since there wasn't really much else to do.

My wife's interview was like 5 minutes. She was denied, but that's what we expected, we really just went to get that blue letter they give you that lists which waiver your eligible for. We leave on Wednesday morning and head back to Tijuana.

**MY REAL PROBLEM/QUESTION STARTS HERE.... **

We are currently living in Tijuana, on Sunday night, the 31 of July, I put my backpack that had all of our immigration papers, certificates, tax returns, basically every original document they needed or could have asked for including that BLUE LETTER FOR THE WAIVER were in there in a folder. I had my laptop and hard drives and I was going to take it with me to work so I can work on the waiver packet. Well my wife needed some groceries and so the whole family went, came back in less than 20 minutes.

The next morning as I'm getting into my car to go to work, I don't see my backpack. I start to freak out. I couldn't find it. So something clicks in my head to check my car door handle. Something I read way back, and surely enough my door lock was punched out, they had broken into my truck at the store thinking they were just going to get my laptop.

Well everything is replaceable for the most part. Except for that BLUE LETTER. Do I need that blue letter in the waiver packet? Is there any new case numbers or anything I don't have already on that paper. I read the letter many times, it just says that my wife is eligible to apply for the i-601 waiver, didn't say anything about 212, i don't recall any new information. I'm sure some people have lost it in the past.

But the C. Juarez Consulate doesn't have a phone number to contact, and their online questionnaire forms take 20-30 days to receive a response. Anyone have any ideas? I really want to send this packet out, I don't want to pass the 6 months and have to return for medical exams.

Thanks guys for reading. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[rylforever 18]

hi, when i submitted my waiver, i did not include the blue sheet, nor did they ever ask me for it, so you should be fine. good luck!

[Ryan H 3,796]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Waivers forum.

[H Suarez 0]

Here is a number I have for the consulate. Use prompts 3, 2, 1 to speak to a representative.(703) 249-4628