Daniel Littleton

UPDATE: I have spoken to the staff of our local congressman and have filled out forms with the info needed to have them contact the USCIS asap and see what they can do. We also have a meeting with a lawyer tomorrow.
 
Surprisingly most lawyers have been unhelpful in our case as they did not start the I485 submission process. Funnily enough the lawyer is also British. I am quite disappointing by US lawyers at present and their willingness to accept such a straightforward case.
 
We are also scheduled for a USCIS infopass meeting on the 9th of March (25th is when I290b needs to be with them as our last resort). We hope that one of these two avenues is viable before sending off a 290b and $700. We are WELL on the case people!

A motion to reopen is when you ask USCIS to make a new decision based on facts not previously submitted.
 
A motion to reconsider is when you ask USCIS to make a new decision based on their misapplication of law or policy.
 
In this case, if it comes down to it, you would be asking for a motion to reopen on the basis of new facts they were unaware of (namely, that you hadn't received their interview notice because they screwed up).

Interesting that its very rarely. I wonder now why we would have been singled out? We never had any issues with paperwork and such... seems very odd... Maybe a routine one