Duplicate of Medical RFE

[jkolom 3]

Hey, 

Me and my husband are very confused at the moment. We are currently in the process of i-130 and i-485 and had a status of our Case being actively reviewed since October 2022.

On 20th of Dec we've received RFE requesting Medical i-693 and any other additional evidence of our marriage (if applicable). We've send a package with Medical and other docs that we obtained since initial application on 12th of Jan (a week before the dead line). One of the things worth mentioning, is that this RFE came from the local office already and never appeared on my USCIS account as a status or in document section.

We were waiting for their decision or any response (but were aware that it might take up to 2 months).

BUT on 28th of Jan I've updated my USCIS status and under my i-485 it said that "Request for Initial Evidence Was Sent" as of 28th of Jan. When I looked into the document that appeared on 30th, it was 100% identical RFE (only with different dates of issue 20th of Dec vs 28th of Jan) that we received in December and responded to 2 weeks ago. But this time it does appear as a status on the website (but no physical RFE was received so far).

 

We did call their customer support and they supposedly assigned a person to our case to double check and see what we have to do with it (we haven't heard back yet).

 

So I was wondering if anyone else here faced this type of situation... and received 2 identical RFEs within 1 month pretty much? Since we are concerned if they lost our package with Medical (even though it was received based on the USPS status of the package) or it's some kind of glitch

 

 

Our timeline:

Applied (i-130, i-485 etc) - September

Biometrics - October

Medical RFE - 20th of Dec

Response to Medical RFE - 12th of Jan (Deadline was 20th of Jan)

Identical Medical RFE appeared on the USCIS website - 28th of Jan (no physical RFE received)

[Verrou 1,899]

i will just stay put especially if its identical letter. 

medical processing can take 1-2 months

[jkolom 3]

51 minutes ago, Misscloud said:

i will just stay put especially if its identical letter. 

medical processing can take 1-2 months

thank you so much.

i do hope so, but still bothered since they gave us a deadline for this new RFE by 2nd of March, so if they didn’t receive our package, we would have to rush and redo Medical, all of the notarized affidavits from family etc.

but hopefully they will get back to us with clarification this week.

[Verrou 1,899]

34 minutes ago, jkolom said:

thank you so much.

i do hope so, but still bothered since they gave us a deadline for this new RFE by 2nd of March, so if they didn’t receive our package, we would have to rush and redo Medical, all of the notarized affidavits from family etc.

but hopefully they will get back to us with clarification this week.

u still got additional 60 days from the day of the RFE on ur letter. it's the last of covid situation benefit ( extra 60 days)

[jkolom 3]

hey, quick update, just in case someone will be in the same situation as we were here.

so a week ago we did call USCIS customer support, and we were supposed to get a call back from their Tier2 manager within 72H, but it never happened.

yesterday we called them again, didn’t get much info on our case particularly, but at least they gave an info that RFEs are often being issued automatically every month, since the first one.

we were told exactly the same thing, that we just need to wait and see is they do receive our package in the next month (since we have those extra 60 days on top of the deadline).

BUT miracle did happen and that same day, status changed to "Cancellation Notice for Request for Additional Evidence". So I guess they finally got to open our package yesterday (even though it was delivered 3 weeks ago) and cancelled a second RFE after that.

 

[Sel11 0]

do you have an update for this case? did you get your gc yet?