Wishing on a Star

I am getting ready to send a letter to Washington DC to my local Representative in regards to my husband's AOS, which has been waiting at the CSC since May 25, 2012. I had sent in a service request on Feb 6, 2013 and got a letter back from them pretty much saying, "oh we'll get to it when we get to it." I think that 10 months is plenty of time to be able to adjudicate our case.

What is a good way to phrase the letter? Is there any key words that would make them more likely to take action? I know we have to give them our case number, but do they need my husband's Alien Number? I gave them his SSN as well. Technically it's my husband sending the inquiry because it's his green card application, not mine so It's ok that it's a letter from him, even though he's not a USC, right?

Oh, this is just too frustrating. I wish we would have known it was going to take this long, we didn't apply for AP, and luckily he hasn't needed to leave the country. But it would be nice knowing that we could if we had to!

Thanks for any advice as to how to write this letter!!

We pretty much have the same time line! Have been waiting 9 months as well and still no word, transferred to CSC for "faster processing" May 2012 and no word. I think we are going to call them tomorrow as both my husband and myself have off, just to see what's going on!

Don't worry about it, we're still waiting for our AOS and we applied May, 2012

283 days and counting here for AOS. Was transferred to CSC in May, 2012

Thanks!!!!

I never saw that option before

I hope that that's good for the AOS too... since they don't like to really post processing times for those. :/ I'd think 9 months was long enough to wait for those, right? lol

Just was wondering how many of us late April/ May AOS 2012 filers there still are out there??

Having any luck talking to anyone about your case? We just don't know if we should contact someone or just wait til they get around to looking at ours. The last time our application was "touched" was in December because we moved and they updated our file (why they just didn't look at it then, who knows lol)

My husband's AOS application is also still waiting at the CSC. It's been 9 months as of Feb 1st. Case transferred to CSC May 25, 2012. This wait totally sucks.

Why do they say that transferring AOS's to the CSC is for "faster processing" when ours has been sitting on someone's desk for the last 9 months?! And others that stay at the NBC, have an interview and get approved in 3-5 months? Just frustrated!

Ok, venting over

That is correct. I had to as the USC fill one out, as the sponsor.

Not a problem I know how stressful moving is and then you have to add on letting the government know where you are and filling out the forms, then getting them done and it won't go through... Hope the move went well!

Are you using Firefox as your internet browser? I use Firefox and it would do the same thing, but when we used Internet explorer it went through just fine.

yes we are still waiting too. sent in our application at the end of april/early may 2012 and was transferred may 24th 2012. seems like it is taking forever! how long before the EAD expires should we send in renewal papers if we haven't heard anything?

same here, still waiting to hear back. we filed May 1st-ish, and haven't heard a word since they transferred the case to the CSC May 24th. Still twiddling thumbs. lol

We also applied at the end of April and our case was shipped off to the CSC May 24th.... still haven't heard a word from them either. :/

You sure can get it on a weekend! I got our email/text that our I-129f was approved on a Saturday.

Yes I kind of figured that's what will happen. Fingers crossed that they don't notice though I guess I shouldn't have used the word "free" but have it included in his medical over there, since he paid for the medical anyway and just add a little more for the flu shot... instead of us having to pay additionally for seeing a civil surgeon here to fix the mistake. Oh well, we'll see what happens! Would be nice if they even looked at our case already

My husband REFUSED to get the flu shot during his Medical (for K-1) that he had last December. We submitted our AOS app in May, and it's still pending at CSC. UGH I hate worrying about that stupid flu shot! I don't want an RFE cuz of it! I wish he would have just gotten one when he could have for free! :/

You'll probably get this response a lot... but you probably shouldn't have started to make wedding plans until you have the visa in your hand. What my husband and I did was have a tentative wedding date set, he got his visa and then when he came to the States we had a private, court house ceremony to make it legal in the eyes of the government (with just a few witnesses). We plan on having our "big" wedding later next year when all our friends/family could come... just makes it soo much easier planning wise, so you don't have to run into problems of having things all booked up and then run into complications down the road regarding the visa.

we're still waiting too... la la la

Hello all my fellow VJ'ers!

My husband, who is the UK citizen has recently gotten his Wisconsin driver's license. Now he's wondering what he should do with his old, UK driver's license... does he need to write to or call to change his address on his old UK license with the UK DOT to his new American address? Just leave it alone and it expires? Just seeing what others have done with theirs

Thanks!

We're doing that... having the "big wedding" on our 1 yr anniversary, having the "first" wedding in the courthouse to make it legal. Sounds a good plan to me

Congrats on the engagement! My fiance and my K-1 visa process has taken about 7 months from application to visa approval. That is about typical for London. SO, realistically, a June wedding on a K-1 visa isn't likely. If he came here on a tourist visa and you'd get married, he'd need to go back to Scotland afterwards and you would have to file for a CR-1 visa. I don't know anything about that kind of visa. I hope that is somewhat helpful!

My fiance had his in 3 days. His interview was on a Tuesday and they delivered it on Friday. Not too bad in our case anyway

Good luck to you! I'm sure it'll go great!

He said it was pretty easy! He was there about an hour early for his appointment, and they got him in right away. He was done and out of there maybe 2.5 hours later, but most of that was waiting for his number to be called

Thanks everyone!!! It almost feels like a dream that it's been finally approved!