What would you do?

[hola79 0]

Hello everyone!!

Last week I had posted about my husband and I going to an infopass appointment and being told that his name check had cleared about a week earlier but we were not allowed to see an immigration officer till after May 15th (6 months after interview date). We haven't seen any changes in our status online, not a single touch since December 2, 2006.

We're convinced that they won't do or send anything till we go there.

Do you think that if we made another infopass appointment we'd be denied from seeing an officer again? Part of me thinks that the woman didn't let us go up because it was a religious holiday and they may have been short staffed, the waiting room area was completely empty and there were less then 10 people at the windows. Maybe it's me being hopeful.

It's just why can't they just send us upstairs? The sooner they do this the sooner they get another case done.

What would you guys do? Would you make an Infopass now or wait till May 15?

Thanks for all the advice!!!

E.

Edited April 18, 2007 by hola79

[LaL 418]

if they told you to wait until May 15, why wouldnt you wait? make an infopass appt for may 15 or 16.

[Yodrak 7]

E.,

I'd make an InfoPass appointment for a date after May 15. They seem to be asking for about 6 weeks from receiving the name check results to complete the processing, not unreasonable.

Yodrak

Hello everyone!!

Last week I had posted about my husband and I going to an infopass appointment and being told that his name check had cleared about a week earlier but we were not allowed to see an immigration officer till after May 15th (6 months after interview date). We haven't seen any changes in our status online, not a single touch since December 2, 2006.

We're convinced that they won't do or send anything till we go there.

Do you think that if we made another infopass appointment we'd be denied from seeing an officer again? Part of me thinks that the woman didn't let us go up because it was a religious holiday and they may have been short staffed, the waiting room area was completely empty and there were less then 10 people at the windows. Maybe it's me being hopeful.

It's just why can't they just send us upstairs? The sooner they do this the sooner they get another case done.

What would you guys do? Would you make an Infopass now or wait till May 15?

Thanks for all the advice!!!

E.

[hola79 0]

It's just that when I first posted about this many people also questioned why we weren't allowed to go "upstairs."

Also like everyone on here I'm tired of waiting. We're told at our interview that we're apporved pending name check and 5 months later we found out that he's cleared name check but no status change on our case.

My reasoning for going is we're out of processing time, we're out of name check, what's the new hold up?

It's just I don't understand why we weren't allowed "upstairs"in the first place. You can't really agrue with them because they do somewhat hold your future in their hands.

I guess what my real question is, Why if the one thing that was holding up our case is now done why do we have to wait till after 6 months after our interview date?

[LaL 418]

i dont know the answer to your questions, obviously there does seem to be flaws in the logic of what they told you, but fact is they did tell you to wait until May 15, and I am sure they are not doing it just to make you wait longer! just be patient, you have a nugget of hope, and soon it will be over.

[hola79 0]

Yodrak,

Thanks for your reply. That explains things more then what we were told at the infopass appointment. I'd been looking for some timeline or something that showed how long after name check clearing did they send the greencard.

The woman at the infopass just said that she couldn't send us up because it hadn't been six months since the interview, that was all.

We're just going a little nuts we've started making travel and moving plans but none can be finalized till the card is in hand. It's messed up that someone can have so much control over your future.

E.

[hola79 0]

i dont know the answer to your questions, obviously there does seem to be flaws in the logic of what they told you, but fact is they did tell you to wait until May 15, and I am sure they are not doing it just to make you wait longer! just be patient, you have a nugget of hope, and soon it will be over.

Thanks lal_brandow!

I don't know how you guys do it. I hope you get your nugget of hope soon!

[Yodrak 7]

E.,

I don't understand about the six months from interview, maybe that's the local office policy given that the USCIS has no control over when the FBI report might be received - it could be weeks, it could be a year or more. Six months is probably a good average.

In any case, you wrote that at the time of the appointment the name check results had come back only 1 week prior? 1-2 weeks from receiving the FBI results to getting back to the case and completing the approval paperwork seems reasonable, then sending the approved paperwork to the appropriate SC to generate the card, then a few weeks more to generate and mail the card.

Mailings, e-mails, and updates to the online status system are not generated from the local offices, they come from the SCs. So allowing 6 weeks or so from the time FBI results are received at the local office until the time that you should be notified about something is about right. Then having allowed sufficient time for something to have happened, if nothing has happened it is reasonable to inquire again.

Yodrak

Yodrak,

Thanks for your reply. That explains things more then what we were told at the infopass appointment. I'd been looking for some timeline or something that showed how long after name check clearing did they send the greencard.

The woman at the infopass just said that she couldn't send us up because it hadn't been six months since the interview, that was all.

....

E.

Edited April 18, 2007 by Yodrak

[Amby 490]

I would wait. It would be pointless and a waste of time to go back and have them tell you the same thing again.