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My own two cents (speaking as a fed government employee, but with no connection whatsoever to USCIS or anything immigration related):
1. Regular mail is much more effective than e-mail in making an impresssion. For one thing, e-mails are easily ignored and deleted. As I'm sure many of you know from your own jobs, even on a slow day one can receive over 100 emails. Secondly, letters show the reader you are more invested and dedicated since you put that much more effort into it. Congressional offices count letters more heavily than e-mails too (for example, one snail mail letter=represents 10 constituents while 1 e-mail=5 constituents).
2. Strength in numbers definitely works when sending to a fed agency employee. Don't just send it to the director of the service centers, but send it to everyone above him if possible. Perhaps he's trying to fix things but his supervisor is a road block for whatever reason (ignorant, stubborn, who knows what). Or if he is the road block, then pressure from above certainly can help (and lots of letters would be a good way to get that pressure to be applied). Making one embarrassed or look bad can do wonders!

My own two cents (speaking as a fed government employee, but with no connection whatsoever to USCIS or anything immigration related):
1. Regular mail is much more effective than e-mail in making an impresssion. For one thing, e-mails are easily ignored and deleted. As I'm sure many of you know from your own jobs, even on a slow day one can receive over 100 emails. Secondly, letters show the reader you are more invested and dedicated since you put that much more effort into it. Congressional offices count letters more heavily than e-mails too (for example, one snail mail letter=represents 10 constituents while 1 e-mail=5 constituents).
2. Strength in numbers definitely works when sending to a fed agency employee. Don't just send it to the director of the service centers, but send it to everyone above him if possible. Perhaps he's trying to fix things but his supervisor is a road block for whatever reason (ignorant, stubborn, who knows what). Or if he is the road block, then pressure from above certainly can help (and lots of letters would be a good way to get that pressure to be applied). Making one embarrassed or look bad can do wonders!

My own two cents (speaking as a fed government employee, but with no connection whatsoever to USCIS or anything immigration related):
1. Regular mail is much more effective than e-mail in making an impresssion. For one thing, e-mails are easily ignored and deleted. As I'm sure many of you know from your own jobs, even on a slow day one can receive over 100 emails. Secondly, letters show the reader you are more invested and dedicated since you put that much more effort into it. Congressional offices count letters more heavily than e-mails too (for example, one snail mail letter=represents 10 constituents while 1 e-mail=5 constituents).
2. Strength in numbers definitely works when sending to a fed agency employee. Don't just send it to the director of the service centers, but send it to everyone above him if possible. Perhaps he's trying to fix things but his supervisor is a road block for whatever reason (ignorant, stubborn, who knows what). Or if he is the road block, then pressure from above certainly can help (and lots of letters would be a good way to get that pressure to be applied). Making one embarrassed or look bad can do wonders!

My own two cents (speaking as a fed government employee, but with no connection whatsoever to USCIS or anything immigration related):
1. Regular mail is much more effective than e-mail in making an impresssion. For one thing, e-mails are easily ignored and deleted. As I'm sure many of you know from your own jobs, even on a slow day one can receive over 100 emails. Secondly, letters show the reader you are more invested and dedicated since you put that much more effort into it. Congressional offices count letters more heavily than e-mails too (for example, one snail mail letter=represents 10 constituents while 1 e-mail=5 constituents).
2. Strength in numbers definitely works when sending to a fed agency employee. Don't just send it to the director of the service centers, but send it to everyone above him if possible. Perhaps he's trying to fix things but his supervisor is a road block for whatever reason (ignorant, stubborn, who knows what). Or if he is the road block, then pressure from above certainly can help (and lots of letters would be a good way to get that pressure to be applied). Making one embarrassed or look bad can do wonders!

My own two cents (speaking as a fed government employee, but with no connection whatsoever to USCIS or anything immigration related):
1. Regular mail is much more effective than e-mail in making an impresssion. For one thing, e-mails are easily ignored and deleted. As I'm sure many of you know from your own jobs, even on a slow day one can receive over 100 emails. Secondly, letters show the reader you are more invested and dedicated since you put that much more effort into it. Congressional offices count letters more heavily than e-mails too (for example, one snail mail letter=represents 10 constituents while 1 e-mail=5 constituents).
2. Strength in numbers definitely works when sending to a fed agency employee. Don't just send it to the director of the service centers, but send it to everyone above him if possible. Perhaps he's trying to fix things but his supervisor is a road block for whatever reason (ignorant, stubborn, who knows what). Or if he is the road block, then pressure from above certainly can help (and lots of letters would be a good way to get that pressure to be applied). Making one embarrassed or look bad can do wonders!