nanana

Very good news and bright start of a new week, fingers crossed for all of nov and dec fillers good luck for NVC stage

So happy for you! Congrats again!!!

hi all !!
we have been approved today !!!!! YAY
I am travelling right now and my husband called me with this great news !!
I hope you are all going to join me soon !!! I an waiting for you

hi all !!
we have been approved today !!!!! YAY
I am travelling right now and my husband called me with this great news !!
I hope you are all going to join me soon !!! I an waiting for you

hi all !!
we have been approved today !!!!! YAY
I am travelling right now and my husband called me with this great news !!
I hope you are all going to join me soon !!! I an waiting for you

hi all !!
we have been approved today !!!!! YAY
I am travelling right now and my husband called me with this great news !!
I hope you are all going to join me soon !!! I an waiting for you

hi all !!
we have been approved today !!!!! YAY
I am travelling right now and my husband called me with this great news !!
I hope you are all going to join me soon !!! I an waiting for you

Hey, here you can find a letter along with email addresses that we want to send to tomorrow (Monday).
We should join this action and ask our family members to do it too.
http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/508457-lengthening-wait-times-letter/
ow. two more things, if you can think of any other places-emails we should email it - add it to the list and we need to use different subjects lines for the email so they don't take it for a spam...
are you in ??
p.s. even if you are approved at uscis you still should join, because nvc is backlogged right now too..

I only copied the list I was given. I intend to make my own list using some of the above. I certainly won't be sending to Fox News. I think this was just the list that floated round VJ last year. Everyone can choose who to send to if they want to send it at all.

Someone has written a letter suggesting we bombard the relevant agencies and media outlets over extended USCIS and now NVC wait times. We are suggesting a mass email to be sent out this week. Here is the content:
I am writing to you today as a part of a group that has been invisible. I am writing to you today to be seen. You are supposed to represent the people. I am writing to you today for help.
Each month a few hundred thousand I-130 petitions are filed with the USCIS from a US citizen on behalf of their spouse who is not a resident of the United States. These are people who have fallen in love and see no boarders in that. These are also people who trust their government and wish to go about bringing their loved ones into the country LEGALLY and do exactly as the system and government agencies ask.
We feel we are not being treated as law abiding tax paying citizens. We are being treated as if we do not matter, or even exist.
It is currently taking over one year in total to bring the spouse of a US citizen to the USA. With current laws giving priority to ILLEGAL immigrants we are being set aside. The problem is no one knows we are here. WE are hundreds of thousands of people being torn apart from our loved ones, our family, our friends and our human right to be happy. Children are forced to be separated from one of their parents. Wives are going through child birth without their spouses to witness the life they have created being introduced into the world. Some US Citizens are being forced to choose between their partner in life, and their right to live life in the country they were born in.
This is not what we were promised. This is not what we will allow to continue.
Here are some key points, questions and demands we would like to bring to your attention:
- USCIS states that spouses of US Citizens do not need to wait in line for a visa to become available and that family unity is a priority
- If US Citizens are at the top of the priority for the US government agencies why are we being set aside while ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM is being glorified and allowed special treatment?
- US Citizens are put through stress and depression and as a result poor mental and physical health since the DACA program has slowed down processing times even more than in previous years
- Thousands of dollars A DAY is being spent on ILLEGAL immigrants to be able to stay in the USA when we have to prove we can support ourselves with our own hard earned money and we are happy to do so
- When calling the phone numbers we are provided for assistance during this process we get NO understanding and certainly very inconsistent answers, if any
- We need to know why our government is spending so much money and resources on ILLEGAL immigrants and warfare and can’t provide enough employees to control a backlog for spouses of US Citizens to process their paperwork?
- Certain processing time frames at NVC and USCIS are given and not abided by and we demand for a change in this
- We demand for processing times to be controlled and fair at ALL steps of this process
- We demand to be the priority as we are choosing to do what is right and legal
- We demand to be treated more humanely
- We demand for a change in processing times for Immigrant Visas IMMEDIATELY
We want to know why we are being punished.
We need to know that we are not invisible.
WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO BE IGNORED
Sincerely,
a list of email addys:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):
To contact ICE leadership, please write to
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas S. Winkowski
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
500 12th St., SW
Washington, D.C. 20536
To contact DHS leadership, please write to
Secretary Jeh Charles Johnson
Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20528
USCIS OMBUDSMAN: OLUInquiries@dhs.gov
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) :TSA-ContactCenter@tsa.dhs.gov
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Media contacts:
John Hamill, External Affairs Office Director
E-mail: john.hamill2@fema.dhs.gov
Telephone: (510) 627-7054
Paul Laustsen, External Affairs Officer (Media Queries)
E-mail: paul.laustsen@associates.fema.dhs.gov
Telephone: (510) 627-7006
Casey De Shong, Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
E-mail: Casey.Deshong@fema.dhs.gov
Telephone: (510) 627-7785
Michael Cummings, Private Sector Liaison
E-mail: michael.cummings@fema.dhs.gov
Telephone: (510) 627-7220
Kelly Hudson, Speakers' Bureau Coordinator
E-Mail: kelly.hudson@fema.dhs.gov
Telephone: (510) 627-7079
NVC: nvcinquiry@state.gov
National Passport Information Centre: NPIC@state.gov
Link to List of Senators by State: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Link to Email Form for White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
Link to Representatives by State: http://www.house.gov/representatives/
Link to Department of State (DOS): http://www.state.gov/contact/
NY Times News Tips Email: nytnews@nytimes.com
NY TImes Publisher Email: publisher@nytimes.com
NY Times Executive VP: generalmgr@nytimes.com
FOX TV SHOWS EMAILS:
Shows
Email
America Live w/ Megyn Kelly
kelly@foxnews.com
America's Newsroom w/ Bill and Martha
americasnewsroom@foxnews.com
Bulls and Bears
bullsandbears@foxnews.com
Cashin' In
cash@foxnews.com
Cavuto on Business
cavuto@foxnews.com
Forbes on FOX
forbes@foxnews.com
FOX & Friends
friends@foxnews.com
FOX News Specials
fncspecials@foxnews.com
FOX News Sunday
fns@foxnews.com
FOX News Watch
newswatch@foxnews.com
FOX Report w/ Shepard Smith
foxreport@foxnews.com
FOX Report Weekend
foxreport@foxnews.com
Geraldo at Large
atlarge@foxnews.com
Hannity
hannity@foxnews.com
Happening Now w/ Jon Scott & Jenna Lee
happeningnow@foxnews.com
Huckabee
huckmail@foxnews.com
Glenn Beck
glennbeck@foxnews.com
The Journal Editorial Report
jer@foxnews.com
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren
ontherecord@foxnews.com
Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld
redeye@foxnews.com
Special Report w/ Bret Baier
special@foxnews.com
Studio B w/ Shepard Smith
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The O'Reilly Factor
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War Stories w/ Oliver North
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Your World w/ Neil Cavuto
cavuto@foxnews.com
FOX FROM ABROAD EMAIL: foxaroundtheworld@foxnews.com
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FOX News tips Email : comments@foxnewsinsider.com
Washington Post Senior Editor Email: martin.baron@washpost.com
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Washington Post News Tips: postnow@washpost.com
Washington Post National News Tips: national@washpost.com

Please tell us what you've learned!!!

Not necessarily. There was a Q&A session page with ex USCIS officer on this site. I do not have the link at the moment. Anyway, according to him every issue with security check needs to be resolved by an additional review from a dedicated team that handles all that. He also mentioned that USCIS has a phrase library from where you can just add phrases to the letter or response you are sending out to petitioner. Which makes sense, since they cant honestly type out each and every single letter out of 1000s they send out every day. So with that theory, your case could be pending due to security check issues but a person who replied to your service request borrowed an "additional review" phrase from the library than a "security check" phrase. Just my 2 cents based on the facts I read from that Q&A session.

We don't have any prior engagements with the USCIS, and been waiting since December 9th. Same story with "additional review"

so we got our SR response and it says "... we have to perform additional review on this case and this has caused a longer processing time. If you do not receive a decision or other notice of action from us within 6 months from this letter, please call customer service at the number provided below. "
great ! Nebraska is the best in sending meaningless full of c r a p messages.
i am not waiting 6 months before contacting them again...
how are you guys, anyways ? It is super hot in Poland

you're right.
sometimes people have it if they have applied before for permanent residency or for example the petitioner is green card holder hence , he/she might have the A# already assigned in the past in previous petition. and etc.
it is a standard form, if something doesn't apply to you - put n/a or none.

I am not sure what should you do, I would think that you need to translate everything , but I don't really know what the household registry is so maybe ask in your china subforum ? http://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/94-china/

"If you do not receive a decision or other notice of action from us within 6 months from this letter, please call customer service at the number provided below." ... I'm not sure if I want to laugh or cry.
"We hope this information is helpful and appreciate your continued patience." ... Oh it's comedy? I guess I'll laugh then.

It's a new week here in Decemberland. Let's see some approvals!

Did USCIS notify you that they sent your file?
If not, your case might just still wait in Nebraska.
We were approved June 5th and they sent out our case June 13th only and NVC recieved it June 25th. Then they assigned a number to our case July 11th and we could pay AOS fee right away.
So it took more than a month after NOA2 to have a case assigned in NVC.
All this process is a joke.
We wrote a letter to Obama end of May. Not to ask about our case, but so that he changes the delay for family reunion for his citizens. Telling him if it is a question of budget we would be more than glad to pay a bit more to have the whole process completed in weeks not months. Because during the separation our spending is more than double (two households and air tickets)
We just received an answer, summarizing our immigration timeline... Things we already knew!
We are definitly going to write him again...waiting more than 6/7 months just to have some guys checked what you sent is ... There are no words for that.

I don't like to be passive, I know that we have nothing to say when it comes to our lives and that some random dude is going to decide if I can be with my husband and when, but still I need to do something, do some action..
I hate living in a limbo.
it is not cool to be treated like that. I haven't seen my husband since February and probably won't till I am in us (if I ever get there ) nvc takes these days 3to5months plus interview, so we are looking at another 7months of this process, another 7 months being apart and in the limbo..
it is not easy to stay positive all the time when I know what is waiting ahead, but I am trying
I still have hope everyday to be THAT day.

hi guys,
too all of you still waiting - I think you should try to put a Service Requests if you haven't done it yet, if it doesn't work, contact your senators or congressmen and after this steps write to ombudsman, white house and all other "important" people.
We can't let them to forget about us.
it is outrages what is going on !

I have hope to see approvals soon !
hang in there.

And people post under the wrong forum all the time. No reason to get snippy with someone who was trying to make sure they gave accurate input.

sorry axs but that is BS only a small percentage of cases in any given month have this problem. We were told that our case was pending background checks, when that 'cleared' we were told that we were in additional review, it is just another excuse to buy more time. I have visited the US several times on my VWP since I married my husband 8 yrs ago, never been questioned about my stay, never had any problems.
Basically it is just a way for them to say hey, we do what we want when we want in the order that we want. There are several cases 3 to 4 numbers either side of mine that have still not gotten approval, do you really believe that we all have hits on our names, or that we all have something in our case that needs additional review.
NSC is so backlogged, they had to move on to January in order to help them meet their averages. A clear indication is the fact that they have started transferring cases to other centers.
They had this crazy backlog not too long ago, they did good for like two months and now they are in the same problem. Thank you f***ing DACA!!!!!!

You can learn more about NVC process by reading the NVC Wiki Saylin created: http://www.visajourney.com/wiki/index.php/NVC_Process
It's usually taking 30days to get case# assigned.
Here's where you can read more from other VJ Members going through NVC:
http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/503660-nvc-filers-july-2014/
Hope this is helpful.
Also A BIG CONGRATS to all December Filers that recently got NOA2!!!

POE at Newark went well, and my husband is (finally!) here! Thank you everyone for all of your well wishes and help through out this entire process!