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57 minutes ago, fitleo said:

Congrats! 

 

I still haven't received anything.  Pd June 2nd

 

 

The last thing I did was to send letters CMRR to Donald Neufeld & Mark Hazuda. Letters were received a week before approval. Might be just a coincidence. Hopefully you get approved soon!! 

Finally approved on March 3, 2017. PD June 21, 2016

What visa type do you have in Mexico? Some visa types have a family unity provision where you can bring your wife over and apply at one of the field offices.

On 1/23/2017 at 7:47 AM, Madge said:

Hello Community,

 

I'm a naturalized US Citizen living in Mexico City. I went to the USCIS Mexico City office in person to submit the I-130 to petition my Mexican spouse on November 18, 2016 and received an approval letter on November 22, 2016. To date, we have heard nothing from the Consular Section in Juarez.

 

So far, I have the PDF version of the approval letter, which came to my (petitioner) email address and a hard copy of the same letter that came to my physical address signed 'for' Rodolfo P Nuñez, Field Office Director. There was no NOA, there was no receipt number and the Beneficiary A number appears as A000-000-000 on the letter I have.

 

Action so far:

 

• I have been in touch with USCIS Mexico City by email. They have responded to all emails and gave me Juarez' official telephone number, 01 (656) 344-3003, and the website to lodge an inquiry.
• I have lodged an online inquiry here -  https://mx.usembassy.gov/public-inquiry-form-immigrant-visas-residents/ (It takes 20-30 days for a reply)
• I have tried , in vain, to contact the  the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez on 01 (656) 344-3003 (This leads to is a never-ending merry-go-round of recorded messages.)
• I have successfully spoken to an immigration officer in the US who was able to access my file in the system and could see my green card and naturalisation history there but no evidence of me having filed an I-130 recently. (I called the US National USCIS office on 1800-375-5283)

 

Should I be worried? USCIS Mexico City said we should hear from Juarez within 2 months (66 days have passed). We have no case number and no apparent way of tracking our case. I can see from this forum that most people are able to track their case using a receipt number. I have never received one, no I-797 nor an official NOA.

 

Should we continue to be patient? Is it time to get a lawyer?

 

Best regards,

 

Annette 

 

@Madge @MXcompadre  Quick question for you guys. What proof did they ask for Mexican residency?

Hello, 

Has anyone recently filed their I-130 at the Mexico City field office? I was wondering what their residency requirements were. I called CDJ, they need 6 months utilities and Monterey is happy with a cell phone bill. Also does anyone know of the extension/dial sequence to get to USCIS?

13 minutes ago, sandiego2013 said:

Visit visa? What's MTRV

It's short for Mexico Temporary Resident Visa, sort of like a Mexican Green Card allowing you to stay longer than 6 months. The USC is usually able to get this relatively easily and get it for their family as part of the family unity provision. 

https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/sanjose/images/PDFs/temporaryresidentvisa.pdf

It's a bit of an involved process, but basically the USC applies for it at their local Mexican Consulate. Each consulate has slightly different requirements. I live in San Jose and was able to get in the consulate here with 6 months of pay slips and bank statements. I told them that I was interested in buying property. Took all of 30 minutes. I read somewhere that the one in San Diego can be a little tougher.  Pakistan doesn't have a Mexican consulate, so we'll be visiting a 3rd country which has one. The consulate there has agreed to give my wife the same visa.   In your case, since the beneficiary is already in Mexico, it's possible to convert the tourist visa to TRV.   It's a bit of a bureaucratic mess and in a language I don't understand; a facilitator is strongly recommended. 

18 hours ago, sandiego2013 said:

Im visiting my wife and kids in Tijuana Mexico and they living with me here since Oct, but the thing is my current status here will be finished in two month. And by the way when I mentioned we can't live our life like this I meant the instability in matters, being together not everything, there's a lot of other facts should be considered as part of life than just be together. Of course I'm glad I am able to see them and being around my family but the only thing is the embassy doesn't give about people's life.

 

What kind of visa do you have in Mexico? Have you looked into the MTRV? 

On 2/16/2017 at 2:17 PM, fitleo said:

260 days and nothing yet

 

I don't know what to do

Fitleo, I'm right there with you at 250 days. I talked to a few lawyers and here's my plan of action. 

1. At the 1 year mark, I'm going to file a Writ of Mandamus. At this point it wouldn't do any good, but I'm building a case for it. (Be warned the WOM isn't cheap)

              a. 3 SRs, 4 Infopasses and every single congressperson and senator have been contacted. Every time the service center dates update, I followup with my reps. I used the ombudsman case assistance tool and even sent in an expedite request. 

              b. Went to an FBI channeler and got my fingerprints taken; FBI responded with a "No records found". Got my spouses fingerprints on an FD-258 form and sent those in as well. In her case, it'll take a couple of months.  Similarly requested records for every state I've lived in. In addition, I sent in FOIA/FOIPA requests to the FBI for us. 

            c. Tuesday, I'm sending in a request for case status updates to the leadership at USCIS/Nebraska. CMRR. I'm going to assume no response and followup in a couple of weeks. 

           d. I've also been doing some digging on Justia.com to find compelling WOM cases ( and perhaps find the lawyers for the plaintiffs). I'm focusing on the 9th District. 

           e. The first week of March, I'll retain a lawyer affiliated with AILA. Apparently there's an USCIS-AILA liaison, and this relationship has helped (sometimes). 

           f.  If none of this has worked, the lawyer sends a letter to USCIS counsel, setting a deadline by which a WOM will be filed. 

           g. By the 1 year mark, the WOM is filed.  From what I've seen on justia, most lawyer filed WOMs have been sufficient to push USCIS to approve. The ones that weren't successful were either Pro-Se or included a criminal history. 

2. I've also been exploring a second "hack". Apparently, US citizens residing in Mexico can file at one of the USCIS field offices IN Mexico, if they have a residency permit. 

3 hours ago, amistry18 said:

Hello everyone,

 

How long it takes USCIS to work on General Inquiry on a case?

Roughly 15 days

20 hours ago, Kattikiarash said:

would you kindly please tell me where did you get this information from? im an October filer, would like to check my situation if possible....

Thank you

Go here: http://www.mycasetracker.org/index.php?dest=rd
Assuming you’re using Chrome (if not, download it), right click where it says “I-140” and click on inspect.  You’ll see a line of code like this: <option value="I140">I140</option>.  Change that to
<option value="I130">I130</option>. Then put in your PD and hit Submit. Sometimes data is a little stale. In that event , click on the “Job Submission” button and submit your number rounded up to 100k. Enter 20 blocks and hit submit. Come back and check in a day or two. Hope this helps. 
 

On 2/7/2017 at 3:19 PM, Napkin34 said:

so guys already i  have b1-b2 tourist/business visa and i can visit my wife but i have doubt maybe they wont let me in u.s. And after i have to come back all the way to my country if you have b1-b2 visa it dosent mean you can enter in usa so flight ticket is so expensive for myself almost 700$ so what is chance for entering? Do you have any idea? Should i try? And i am a muslim from turkey pls advice thanks 

See if you can fly through Dublin. They have US pre-clearance so if you do get denied, it won't be too long of a journey back. Also, WOW air flies from Dublin as well. I don't know what your destination is, but RT DUB-SFO ~$400 on some days. Too hell with Trump and his *&^%, meet your loved ones!

PD June 21. No NOA2 so far. Requested help from Congresswoman and got this response today:

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A review of USCIS records indicate that your constituent’s Form I-130 case has been forwarded for additional review. We cannot move forward on this case at this time.  We will make every effort to make a decision on this case as soon as the reviews are complete. 

A more ominous sounding version of my SR response. 

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) records show that your case is currently pending adjudication. However, we have had to perform additional reviews on your case, and this has caused a longer processing time.

PD June 21. No NOA2 so far. Requested help from Congresswoman and got this response today:

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A review of USCIS records indicate that your constituent’s Form I-130 case has been forwarded for additional review. We cannot move forward on this case at this time.  We will make every effort to make a decision on this case as soon as the reviews are complete. 

A more ominous sounding version of my SR response. 

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) records show that your case is currently pending adjudication. However, we have had to perform additional reviews on your case, and this has caused a longer processing time.

3 hours ago, agripa said:

Nebraska's is "officially" processing application as of June 2, 2016 right now. So technically, he's not past the normal processing time yet.

July 2nd now 

166 days on mine (PD June 27th) and nothing.....

Is there ANYBODY else left without answer yet? Are Dre876 and I the only ones?

June 21st PD. Still waiting

Single device, just on my phone. I batched them, 500 at a time.

June 6 PD does have ~2000 I-130 records. As of 2 days ago, about 500 had been approved, with 60 sent to the SD. ~1000 Transfers and ~150 still untouched.