Hi everyone, we are filing an I-130 petition for my wife and her son. We are using an attorney in Colombia. The attorney filed the petition electronically and sent me the case number which says it is being reviewed. I never received a copy of the receipt notice in the mail and at the time I could not get ahold of our attorney. By the time he replied, apparently he had a medical emergency, I had already sent an inquiry to uscis about not receiving a notice in the mail. It is their reply that has me a bit concerned.
On 03/01/2022, you or the designated representative shown below, contacted us about your case. Some of the key information given to us at that time was the following:
Caller indicated they are:
-- Applicant or Petitioner
Attorney Name:
-- Information not available
Case type:
-- I130
Filing date:
-- 11/01/2021
Type of service requested:
-- Non-Delivery of Approval Notice
The status of this service request is:
We have received your service request. Our systems indicate that you are not the applicant, petitioner, or attorney of record for the receipt number provided. Therefore, we cannot release any information to you regarding this case.
The Privacy Act, 5 USC Sec. 552a, prohibits release of information to someone other than the affected party. The affected party is typically the petitioner, applicant or attorney of record. Disclosures of processing times and general procedures relating to certain form types do not fall under the Privacy Act. However, information given to someone other than the affected party, such as the beneficiary, which relates to the specific processing or adjudication of a particular petition or application is prohibited by the Privacy Act and Service policy.
In addition, only the petitioner or applicant may request a change of address or other changes be made to the record. We cannot process changes requested by the beneficiary or a third party.
We hope this information is helpful to you.
There is a few other things in the email that I omitted case number etc but basically it seems like they are saying my name was not on the petition?? Is something off here ? I double checked the case number was correct and it was what my attorney sent me. Also as of now I have seen a photo of the paper notice but for whatever reason my attorney has not mailed it to me as I asked him to do.