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11 minutes ago, Transborderwife said:

I see you're willing to fight tooth and nail on this.  I wouldn't be worried at this point.  I still disagree with you.

I won't. We will see details tomorrow and in coming weeks. 

3 minutes ago, Transborderwife said:

Right but that's not what they're discussing here.  They do not want anymore bills to keep certain illegal immigrants here.  No personal interest bills.

"A separate bill from Goodlatte on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services could restrict lawmakers’ ability to influence cases by barring “preferential treatment” or sharing information with elected officials and stakeholders on individual cases"

2 minutes ago, missileman said:

There is a LOT of spin in that article IMO.

Fake news you mean?

Just now, Transborderwife said:

 

Reading far too much into it.  That explains exactly what I said 

I personally know people who had to ask for intervention from somebody from Congress because for example they didn't hear from Uscis for over 2 years even though it was USC sponsoring a parent and it wasn't a case about keeping people here and prevent deportation. 

10 minutes ago, Transborderwife said:

That's not what you think it means. They're trying to keep representatives senators etc from being allowed to have bills keeping individuals in the country and not deported.

"Democratic aides interpreted the measure as meant to prevent members of Congress from intervening in cases"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigration-bill-republicans_us_591b4563e4b05dd15f0bf674

13 hours ago, nightingalejules said:

Is anybody else worried that the new USCIS Ombudsman - the person who is tasked with assisting immigrants having difficulties with USCIS (petitions that are taking too long or have been improperly rejected) - was previously the executive director for the Foundation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which is a non-profit whose aim seems to be to ban all immigration to the US except for spouses and minor children of US Citizens? 

 

I understand that this administration has already been seen to be very anti-immigrant, but to put someone who ran an anti-immigration non-profit in charge of helping immigrants negotiate their way through USCIS? Really?

 

I am. I also read today that they working on new bill that would prevent people from outside like Congress to have influence/demand answers on any case.

I guess people who has their cases closed don't bother to worry about such things. 

20 hours ago, Avia said:

I received RFE.

I need help please. Do i need to appoint lawyer now or i should wait for uscis to interview me and then instruct lawyer?

i sent all the evidences i could. I filed waiver with spouse death but we didnt spend much time together and he passed away less than 1 year together. 

We didnot have any children. I was housewife so we had separate account which he made for me to spend. We dont have any lease deeds or mortage in both names. The only thing i can send is the 2015 tax documents to show that we filed as married filing jointly though he passed away in middle of 2015. I sent photos, 2014 tax and affidavit by 3 people. They ask for affidavits too now i dont know who to ask for affidavits. 

Maybe you can get affidavits from priest or landlord, neighbors. Somebody here said they asked for notarized affidavits. Maybe that is what they want.  

13 minutes ago, khushi_05 said:

Thank you for you reply. So I will have biometric appointment first and then they will give me CR89 number from which i can check my status, is that right? 

The CR number (to check the status of your case) and biometrics appointment is on the same piece of paper. Just need to wait few weeks. 

1 hour ago, olga t said:

Hi, do you have any ideea, how can i cancel an infopass? I tried but is not working on their website. Sometimes is very frustrating when you try to do something, but you get just bugs.  i wished they're repair their website, because for some people take at least 2-3 hours of drive till an office field. 

I know they're very busy in this period and they have to deal with so many changes and I understand is hard for them, but having hard time resolving something online, makes things harder for everybody. For example: if i can cancel my appointment online, someone else could take that hour that i just cancelled , or the employee can focus on something else in that time, or, why not, they can have a 10 minutes break.  It will be a constructive time for everybody.  

Did you try to call to cancel it? I don't know if you can do it but I would try it.

Have you considered contacting your Senator? 

You need to check on what visa you entered. If J1 than don't worry about travel ban. But they still may refuse to give you visa. If your partner and you would be married, and his job would do a paperwork, than there is slight chance you get a visa but it depends on person who review or interview your application.  I would contact an attorney to figure out the best way.

3 hours ago, Avia said:

Rfe received.

They ask for more evidence 

Does the letter say what exactly they want? What did you send them initially? 

5 hours ago, VoiceOfReason said:

Let me say this before I start, I don't mean to downplay anyone's situation or frustration, waiting can be frustrating, I've been in this great country for 17 years and finally close to getting naturalized and the process is long and frustrating at times but it's worth it and I'm proud to say I did it all the right way and legally and I don't regret any of it one bit and I don't complain because I've seen the rest of the world. People tend to forget some rights we take for granted here can get you killed in other parts of the world. I've seen this sense of entitlement getting worse over the years. Before you take to your torches and pitchforks realize no one is forcing us to become a citizen, this country doesn't owe any of us anything, we're free to go to some other country that'll treat us better. Please do not disrespect the laws and processes of the country you so desperately want to become a citizen of even before you become one. End rant.

I don't think anybody here is disrespecting law and processes but you need to remember that we pay a lot of money for those applications to be processed so don't be surprise that people are frustrated. 

39 minutes ago, MissSixty said:

Hello all, 

 

i was following this thread closely and i would like to update you all that we got approved today. Here are my details

 

i751 receipt 6/14/2016

biometrics 7/11/2016

approval: 5/11/2017 

now waiting for my card to be mailed

 

good luck to all of you

 

We are not in the spreadsheet but you can add us. 

 

Congrats!! Did you file at VSC or CSC?

On 3/22/2017 at 9:24 PM, aparis1983 said:

Hi,

So, I married my ex-wife in July of 2011 but we were divorced (no-fault divorce) in September of 2012. Before the 2-year conditional residence was to expire I applied for a change of status to permanent resident using an I-751 waiver proving a bonafide marriage. It was approved pretty quick as I submitted a tower of evidence proving our marriage was legitimate. 

Now, after 5 years and 4 months as a resident I'm about to submit my N-400 application. Under the list of documents and evidence to submit it states that if "applying for naturalization on the basis of marriage to a US citizen" I must submit marriage certificates, joint bank statements, leases, etc, etc.

My question is whether I'm applying on the basis of marriage to a US citizen or not. Since I now have a 10-year green card that I got after the I-751 waiver I'm actually applying on the basis of being a resident for 5-years, right? I don't need to resubmit all of the documents I submitted as evidence for my I-751?

thanks!

I know it was long ago but could you make a list of that "tower of documents" that you submitted with I751 waiver?

2 hours ago, observatorka said:

I had an InfoPass appointment today.
Processing time of I-751 is extended to 1.5 year because of amount of applications they process. It's more likely to get an interview. No updates on my case, nobody even touched it.

It took about 20 minutes to issue a stamp. They checked my passport and did their paperwork related to an extension of my status for another year. They also took my expired green card, the stamp is an equivalent, so they don't want you to carry two documents. 
The officer told me that I can submit N-400 as soon as I'm eligible. 
 

Funny, they call untouched laying papers in some warehouse processing . 

So did they tell you about interviews? 

8 hours ago, mindthegap said:

I haven't heard from them either!

Why don't you contact them again (Ombudsman) as well as Congressman? You could also file N-400? Why didn't you do that? Sorry for questions, I don't want to sound rude, I am just curious.

It looks like CSC is actually working but on I-129f K1 filers. Last 15 entries was approved only by the end of last week. They waited just 3 months. 

July 28th 2016 in Santa Ana is a processing time of I-485. Are you sure you were talking about the same petition?

1 hour ago, Zombie69 said:

No updates, no nothing. Has USCIS come to a full stop??

I think so. I even started a thread to ask who recently got approved and only one guy said he did on April 17th but it was I-130.

44 minutes ago, observatorka said:

I know, I was freaking out ... but I was finally able to schedule an Infopass.

Don't you think that USCIS is going to shoot itself into the foot or already did? They will have even more work when eligible PRs will submit N400s!

 

They already have over 1 million pending N-400. 

I also moved after receiving temporary card and change address TWICE on the website just to make sure it went through and guess what... The letter regarding removing conditions was sent to the old address, why? I called USCIS and spoke to tier 2 officer and she told me that since my case was closed update wasn't recored on my case. 

2 hours ago, Zombie69 said:

A May appplicant is still waiting, if we go by the individual cases, it will drive us crazy. We just have to keep waiting.

Honestly it drives me crazy and I am only close to 2 months waiting. In 2015 it was 3 months( processing time). Now they saying 1-1.5 year. 

11 minutes ago, Ben&Zian said:

If you are checking timelines only on this site there may not be anything happening or any noticed approvals because people haven't updated there timelines possibly.

What other website you suggest? That's why I create new topic about it, so even if people didn't update their timeline maybe they will post it here. I checked a lot of threads and I only see VSC action.