Oban

LOL! Okay... just got home...

No NOA1 but the ASC Appointment Notice for Bio. So great... now I have something in my hands, but still nothing that will satisfy my Employer.

Hmpf.

Btw, Bio letter is dated 01/14/2010, the Bio Appointment itself is on 02/01/2010

Still no NOA, nor any sign of Bio Letter.

I hope I am not missing my Bio because I have not received anything yet. My assumption is that if I miss the Bio the application gets rejected right away?!

USCIS told me that VSC needs currently around 30 days to issue NOAs, but my concern is that this is their standard answer anyway.

Guys,

I understand that they sometimes need a little longer. What makes me crazy is the evidence that speaks against this.

If I look in the December 2009 filer thread and I see people who send their paperwork on or around the same time as the USCIS received mine, nearly all of them already have a NOA date and a lot also a Bio date.

It just makes me crazy and so worried that apparently so many have their response already, but me. Because the feeling I got from reading all the threads is that the NOA is send out fair quickly after they received the paperwork and the check is cashed. Based on the December filer thread the NOA usually has the application date + 2 to 4 days as a date of printing.

A lot of my co-workers here went to New Orleans for their Bio and to Atlanta for their Interview (for E-2 Visa Extensions or N-400). I am the only one running through the ROC here.

Quick question though... me and my co-worker tried to decypher the case number on the check... is it usually build up the following way?

A = Stand for a Letter, 0 = Stands for a Number

AAA0000000000AAAAAA0 ?!

In my specific case I believe that I can read

EAC??09600614VTS???8

The "?" are the missing pieces. Dies this make sense somehow???

Jesus...

There is a number written on the check, but it is so hard to read. If I would have an example of how a case looks like, this would help. Not sure if it is secure if I post a partial picture of the check here...

That is a great idea to look at the check for the case number.

My problem is: I will need some sort of proof that my status is extended prior to 02/23... otherwise I will run into trouble with my employer!

Hi all,

After the USPS screwed up and I sent the package again, USCIS received it on 12/31. They cashed the check 01/06. But still no NOA. I feel like a child on Christmas Eve. Every evening I go to my mail box, hoping to find a NOA, but last Thursday... nothing. Last Friday... nothing. And to my surprise, last Saturday... nothing either!

How do they send it? By mule? Can't take that long from VT to AL?!

Am I simply doomed? Unlucky? Punished by nature? Everybody else who submitted their stuff around the same time got their NOA already.

Anything I can do? Besides, when they cashed the check, this means that they accepted my package, right?

Regards,

Oban

you forgot to add another option - they have to review the packages of the people who send 500 pages and that holds things up

Glad I only sent 160 pages :-)

So....

Resend the package yesterday. This time the postage will be sufficient... believe me. Should arrive in VT on Thursday.

why does it say return to sender "St. Albans, VT"??? that's not the sender, maybe they just wrote the wrong thing.

hope everything works out for you

This is just the location where the entry was entered. Meaning that it is being return to the sender FROM St. Albans, VT. Given that it started to travel back to me on December 22 I hope to have it on Saturday the 26th. Tomorrow the USPS is closed for Christmas, but on the 26th they work on schedule.

As soon as I have it back I will be at the post office...

Now, even if the postage is wrong, USPS are the idiots because they are supposed to weigh the package and inform the sender of the correct postage. I don't think the OP would treat something this sensitive without paying enough attention!

Well... I used a flatrate envelope. The weight doesn't matter. You all probably know the commercials "if it fits it ships" on TV... so, postage is $4.95. The USPS clerk put a $4.95 stamp on it...

All very confusing.

According to the USCIS website your address is wrong. It SHOULD be:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Vermont Service Center

75 Lower Welden St.

Saint Albans, Vermont 05479

as per their "direct mailing address" link: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00048f3d6a1RCRD

And as per http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-751instr.pdf I am right and you are wrong. So? Let's face it, we both are right. USCIS is not a very competent organization.

However, I have seen street address and PO box on the same address many times. A lot of companies use this address format, and technically there is nothing wrong with that. Nevertheless, it is disturbing that even the government issues various addresses for the same facility.

Yikes, the OP needs some anger management. So someone made an error, it will get sent to you and you can square it away. Take a chill pill with all the freakings and f--- and #######'s. Is this why your wife filed for divorce?

Cute :-)

One phrase: Unskilled Labor.

Believe me, I am working in purchasing, dealing with 7 figure contracts. Unskilled labor is such a biggy here in the US.

Okay.... here it goes:

I talked to the Postmaster in Vermont. It is back on the way to me, left their facility at 2:30 pm yesterday. Reason: not enough postage.

WHICH IS BS!!!! It is a flatrate letter envelope for $4,95, plus $0.70 for delivery confirmation. I went to a postal office in person and they gave me the exact stamp!!!

So... let us hope it will come back to me. And if it does: I will put ###### $50 in stamps on it... and they better deliver it. Freaking ideots.

Looked exactly correct to me too - my guess is, it is there (got there yesterday) and you'll likely get a NOA in the near future to confirm that.

But can I be sure? I mean not really....

I guess I need to go to Vermont and deliver it in person!!! Freaking incompetence.

I triple checked the address. I even printed the label twice, one for the package, one for my records. Just compared it to the address stated in http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-751instr.pdf

It is letter by letter, number by number correct. Absolutely, 100%

I could just kill someone right now.

But I mean what the fu..k????

IT IS A FREAKING GOVERNMENT FACILITY!!!!

I even put a PRINTED label on it, no hand writing:

USCIS Vermont Service Center

75 Lower Welden Street

P.O. Box 200

St. Albans, VT 05479-0001

?!?!?!?!?!

I don't have time for this #######.

And what worries me most: will I EVER get it back??? I mean I had ORIGINAL affidavits in there!!!!

Dear all...

In a different thread I was worried about my package arriving... USPS updated the status online and now it says:

- Return to Sender, December 22, 2009, 2:48 pm, SAINT ALBANS, VT

- Processed through Sort Facility, December 17, 2009, 9:55 pm, MOBILE, AL 36602

- Acceptance, December 17, 2009, 10:25 am, CALVERT, AL 36513

"Your item was returned to the sender on December 22, 2009 because it could not be delivered as addressed."

RETURN TO SENDER????

WHAT THE HELL???

First of all, I have NOT gotten anything back. Second of all, WHAT IS THE ISSUE HERE??? Are they kidding me? I am going freaking insane!!!!!!!!!!

What the freaking hell do I do???

Regards,

Oban

I hope you are right!

I am getting kind of nervous...

I send of my stuff on the 17th with USPS priority mail. It should technically take the package two days from AL to VT based on the times I got from USPS.com... okay, now there was a weekend in between, however, USPS.com still shows:

- Processed through Sort Facility, December 17, 2009, 9:55 pm, MOBILE, AL 36602

- Acceptance, December 17, 2009, 10:25 am, CALVERT, AL 36513

We have now the 22nd... I seriously hope this is only a mistake in the online tracking. I hope they did not loose it!!!!

Panic?!?!?!

Regards,

Oban

Added Oban to the list.

Thanks... just wanted to do it.

Wow is that pages of stuff you sent at the end? goodluck!

Yes, 159 pages total.

However, I am still not sure that this will fly... I am worried as hell!!!!

So what is next? I will get a NOA, then what? Bio appointment?

How quick or slow is VSC currently?

Hi all,

Just sent my package of to VSC. USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. I certainly hope it will all work out, given that I am filing under a waiver.

Below my final document index of what I sent:

Description - Page Number

Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence................................................1-2
Copy of Permanent Resident Card.......................................................................3
List of Addresses Resided.........................................................................
....4
Bank statement 08/30/08 to 09/30/08 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......5-10
Bank statement 10/01/08 to 10/31/08 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......11-16
Bank statement 11/01/08 to 11/28/08 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......17-22
Bank statement 11/29/08 to 12/31/08 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......23-34
Bank statement 01/01/09 to 01/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......35-44
Bank statement 01/31/09 to 02/27/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......45-56
Bank statement 02/28/09 to 03/31/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......57-68
Bank statement 04/01/09 to 04/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......69-78
Bank statement 05/01/09 to 05/29/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......79-92
Bank statement 05/30/09 to 06/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint ownership and residence.......93-106
Travel documentation, showing joint trip to San Francisco, CA, 08/25/08 to 08/31/08...................107-110
Travel documentation, showing joint trip to Honolulu, HI, 03/27/08 to 04/08/08........................111-114
Financial statement from Bay Area Physicians for Women, dated 05/01/09, showing joint residence.......115
Claim report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 04/09/09, showing joint residence..........116
Claim report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 04/02/09, showing joint residence..........117
Claim report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 02/12/09, showing joint residence..........118
Claim report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 02/05/09, showing joint residence..........119
Transcript of joint tax return 2008 from the Internal Revenue Service (double sided print)............120-123
Copy of joint credit card with Bank of America, showing former spouse as authorized user..............124
Copy of joint car insurance with Safeco, 12/08/08 to 06/08/09.........................................125-126
Copy of joint car insurance with Safeco, 06/08/09 to 12/08/09.........................................127
Copy of joint Alabama car insurance identification cards..............................................128-129
Copy of joint property lease for [ADDRESS REMOVED], Mobile, AL 36609..................................130-140
Copy of new debit card sent to former spouse, showing joint residence.................................141
Copy of ID card of fomer spouse for the University of Southern Alabama Hospital Volunteer Program.....142
Affidavit of [NAME REMOVED], M.A., stating information about joint marriage counseling sessions.......143
Affidavit of [NAME REMOVED]........................................................................
...144
Affidavit of [NAME REMOVED], Ph.D.....................................................................145
Copy of divorce decree..........................................................................
......146-148
Copy of joint rental agreement for furniture..........................................................149
Voided check, showing joint residence in Bremerton, WA................................................150
Copies of various personal checks from joint bank account, signed by former spouse....................151-154
Various Photos with captions........................................................................
..155-159

WISH ME LUCK!!!!

Hey everyone,

Thanks for your replys. I included the joint tax return in the list above.

The idea with the criminal record might help. I could to that also.

What about a letter of employment?! I mean it does not really have to do with my status here, but should I submit one as well?

And should I really write an affidavit also? That seems kind of weird. What weight does my affidavit has? They could assume that I would say whatever it takes of course, so does it really makes sense?

Regards,

Oban

Hi all,

I am putting together my I-751 application on this rainy Saturday. Currently I am writing the index and the cover letter. I would like to get some opinions on what I have gathered so far.

Please keep in mind that I will be going to file under the divorce waiver. Is it a sufficient package?

Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence

Copy of Permanent Resident Card

List of Addresses Resided At

Bank Statement 08/30/08 to 09/30/08 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 10/01/08 to 10/31/08 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 11/01/08 to 11/28/08 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 11/29/08 to 12/31/08 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 01/01/09 to 01/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 01/31/09 to 02/27/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 02/28/09 to 03/31/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 04/01/09 to 04/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 05/01/09 to 05/29/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Bank Statement 05/30/09 to 06/30/09 (double sided print), showing joint residence

Travel Documentation, showing joint trip to San Francisco, CA, 08/25/08 to 08/31/08

Travel Documentation, showing joint trip to Honolulu, HI, 03/27/08 to 04/08/08

Financial Statement from Bay Area Physicians for Women, dated 05/01/09, showing joint residence

Claim Report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 04/09/09, showing joint residence

Claim Report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 04/02/09, showing joint residence

Claim Report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 02/12/09, showing joint residence

Claim Report from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, dated 02/05/09, showing joint residence

Transcript of Joint Tax Return 2008 from the Internal Revenue Service (double sided print)

Copy of joint Credit Card with Bank of America

Copy of joint Car Insurance with Safeco, 12/08/08 to 06/08/09

Copy of joint Car Insurance with Safeco, 06/08/09 to 12/08/09

Copy of joint Alabama Insurance Identification Cards

Copy of joint Property Lease

Copy of Letter with new Debit Card sent to Ex-USC Spouse, showing joint residence

Copy of ID card of Ex-USC Spouse for the University of Southern Alabama Hospital Volunteer Program

Letter from [NAME REMOVED], M.A., stating information about joint marriage counseling sessions

Affidavit of Ex USC Spouse

Affidavit of a Friend

Pictures / Photos

Divorce Decree

So... am I good to go, or am I missing something?