red731

i will share my experienced about my family's request for humanitarian reinstatement...in 1998 my father petitioned us,my father(petitioner) died in 2005,in 2010 we received a letter from NVC that our petitions(4 of us) become current and ready for visa processing,and in that letter a form of a choice of address was included,we signed the form but we also included a letter telling the NVC that our petitioner is already dead,after a month NVC said that we should send them my father's death certificate,we complied with it and after the NVC receieved my father's death certificate,NVc said that they returned our petitions to USCIS and all correspondence should be address to USCIS regarding our petitions..my brother who will be our substitute sponsor wrote a letter asking for humanitarian reinstatement,after 5 months months my brother received a reply and in that letter USCIS said that the benificiaries should be the one to make a humanitarian reinstatement request...my brother(substitute sponsor) planned to hire a lawyer in fact he consulted with a lawyer but the lawyer said that we only have a small chance of getting our petitions be reinstated and the fee is exorbitant if we would like to hire him,so we decided that we will not get a lawyer...i spent more than a year researching on how to make our HR request,i know for a fact that we will have one chance of having it reinstated,while doing my research,i never read anything about a successful HR request most of them got denied it was very frustrating,but i just continued researching,what help me a lot was the USCIS website,especially all those memos about HR,when it was time for me to write our HR request i am well informed and confident that i can make it right...our humanitarian request letters was short but precise plus i included with it all the documents needed,the affidavit of support was filled up correctly and we got a favorable response,me and my 3 brothers petitions were reinstated....

the best time to request for humanitarian reinstatement is when your petition becomes current,plus make your letter short and precise and you must have provide a complete documents,no room for mistakes,so i advise you to spend time to research and the affidavit of support should be answered correctly...thse tthings are only based on my experience...and even if you hire a lawyer,your not 100% sure that your HR request will get a favorable response,as some people told me that evenif they hire a lawyer their HR request was denied....

once you received the choice of agent from NVC,thats the best time to inform them that the petitioner died...then nvc will asked you to provide them the death certificate of your petitioner,once they received the death certificate,they will return your petition to USCIS,then you can request for HR thru mail...you will receive a decision in 3-10 months...we requested for HR last august of 2010,and we received a favorable response...