jawi876

Hi everyone!
I posted a few weeks ago about my K-1 fee being returned by my bank as NSF (long story about my job not paying me for Short term disability). Well, I was waiting for the case to be returned. Instead, I got an email update that stated that my petition had been placed in a suspended status, and a letter with detailed information was mailed on Feb 12th. I called USCIS, and spoke to a Customer Service rep that told me how to resolve the issue before the letter arrived.
I called the Burlington Finance Center (BFC) at 866-233-1915, and the rep took a credit card payment for a total of $485 (I-129f $455 fee and NSF fee $30). This center does not have case status info, and cannot correct an error of sending the wrong amount for the fee. Nor will they process a refund request. They only resolve things such as NSFs or payments that will not clear for whatever reason.
All this to say, that the days of old when they rejected the entire petition for NSF are no longer. You also have 14 days from the date of the invoice to remit the payment. If you cannot resolve it in that timeframe, they will send the entire petition back and void any case status info.
I hope this helps someone.

THANKS! We got them in the mail Saturday, and you are spot on about adding 1 to the number on the back of the check. The other two were not consecutive numbers with the one for the i485. We are officially waiting on the red tape process now. LOL