ShannonSayed

To all of those who have been sifted off to administrative processing. If you are the petitioner, and living in the US, and your spouse's case has reach the point of administrative processing, this is what you should do.

Wherever you are living within the US, contact your local district congress. Send them an e-mail and title it "Immigration". Write your e-mail very descriptively and don't be afraid to talk about all the stress

and suffering of this long long wait. God willing, you will be contacted back by the immigration department representative. Tell them your story. Tell them if the interviewer was unfair, seemed hostile, anything at all.

All the details will help. Then they will ask for a permission to access case info. Fill out the form from your congress website and print it out. Sign it and rescan it and send it via e-mail to the rep's e-mail.

They then have permission to look into the case and find answers. They will put a stamp of "congressional interest" on your case. Doing this is a huge huge help. The immigration department in the Embassy will see this

and they won't want to deal with further badgering from congress or government entities. Then, just be patient. This is what I did. This is how I got the AP approved in less than 1 month.

You have nothing to lose! Best of luck to everyone fighting this long battle.

We just found out calling the NVC that Cairo is NOT participating in e-mailed processing of IV forms or Affidavit of Support packets. JERKS!! This just cost us probably ANOTHER month! I'm so angry I could scream! UGHHH!!!

Now I will have to put the whole AOS package together AGAIN and send it by mail, wait until they get to it and THEN my husband will have to express mail me all the civil documents along with the DS-230 etc.. and I will have to send it to them after submitting the only copy we have our our stamped marriage certificate. I don't understand this. Why does Egypt have to make everything harder! Ugh.. we are both fed up. My son is already 6 weeks old today, and he still hasn't met his own father. We were hoping he'd be here by thanks giving, but THAT'S not going to happen unless there is a miracle and I'm at the point where I just doubt it. Before New Years is the new goal... Really mad. Just letting other Egyptian immigrants know the score cause you'll have to deal with this bullshizzle too. Sorry to have to be the bearer and receptor of bad news. :-/

Just to let you know, you can pay that bill online right now! All you need is a valid checking account, the case number, and the invoice number. Are you doing this by e-mail processing? You may have received an e-mail telling you the invoice number already. If you have the invoice number, go to the following site and follow the instructions to pay that bill. It will be $230.

https://ceac.state.gov/CTRAC/Invoice/signon.aspx

I will give birth and there is no way now that my husband has a chance to be here for it. We've come across another little issue concerning the birth certificate of our son. He won't be here to sign it, and I've not changed my legal name here in the US to his last name. So I will need a power of attorney to sign for him. Does anyone have any clue how to go about doing this, so that our son will receive his last name at birth? I told him the name could easily be changed after he is here but he refuses this idea and insists that we find a way to make sure that our son has his last name from birth. So I have a limited time to figure this out. Please help ASAP!

I thought that living in Rhode Island, that my I-130 petition would be sent to Vermont, being the closer state to where I live but I was THANKING GOD when I found out that it was being processed by Cali. I've got serious circumstances where I NEED my husband here ASAP. Bun in the oven. :-) And he's about to be done baking in about 1 month. Really hope they approve the expedite based on financial hardship. God knows I ain't got a dime to my name and hubby can't help me with a 6x currency exchange difference. If he sent me half his salary for a month it would only equal $150. But when he gets here, he can improve his salary as a Mechanical Engineer by probably 30 times more. lol And that means we pay lots o taxes which the US will be happy to take. :-p

Yeah... SO obviously the people who handle our lives at the USCIS don't read everything you send them, and don't connect the big red dots that explain people's address information. They just can't get it straight that you, the US Citizen, have moved back to the USA which is where your entire filing was SENT FROM according to the big fat RETURN ADDRESS that you put on the envelope, as well as stated on several documents including the cover letter. I'm not sure what kind of people are handling these cases which affect our lives in such a major way, but they are obviously not that bright. They sent the NOA1 along with an RFE to the address where my HUSBAND, the beneficiary, lives, instead of MY address which is in the US. And now I don't know how to change it so they don't make this stupid mistake again. Any advice, info, or ideas? I tried to do it online and it only gives the option to change the address from one US location to another, nothing outside the country which is in my opinion, idiotic considering how many people come back to the US before and after filing. Anyway, I'm gonna try calling them directly and seeing if they can fix this but other than that idk what else to do...

You filed June 26 as in, you mailed the I-130 and you're waiting for the NOA 1 or just received it? If that's the case, impossible. It's not happening, period.

Pregnancy isn't reason for expedite. And even if they expedite it may take long for NVC to give you an interview date within the next 2 months. Not to mention, AP is almost a given for every MENA man. My fiance took 2 weeks, if that's a relief. There again, there have been extreme cases were AP has taken months up to a year.

May I ask, why did you wait until June to file for your husband?

My recommendation is to look for a plan B.

I had to wait until then because I needed all the financial aid proofs as proof of financial hardship and the pregnancy proof from doctors to at least HELP in making them consider this. A father has every right to be there with his wife and new born child. I really hate that this country makes it so insanely difficult for something so simple to take place. I am living entirely on state aid. I can't even feed myself without SNAP benefits and could never ever afford the doctors if not for the state medical aid provided for pregnant women. But all of these things had to be in the filing in order to prove my need for expedite. I also included my husband's check stub in English with his Egyptian salary. If they have any brains, they'll know that the currency exchange rate is 6 times less in EGP compared to USD. He is a mechanical engineer and STILL couldn't afford to give me anything without being completely without an income for himself.

Filed on June 26. Son is due Sept 12. Can I get my husband here on time to see his son born? We are praying to God it's possible. We have offered plenty of valid expedite criteria both in the medical department as well as in the financial. We are hoping the people over in Chicago have a heart and push this through quickly.