celldoc

If I could I'd give you a gold star sticker to put on the print-out

Hi all, congrats to my fellow refugees who have received their NOA2.
For the sake of our friends who are still waiting for approvals, please consider asking your NVC-related questions in the thread titled "CSC to TSC to NVC: the Saga continues" thread.
As you know, prior to approval it can be extremely frustrating to see other people getting advanced to the next level and you're still stuck in the black hole. Repeatedly asking non-TSC-CSC questions here, specifically regarding the NVC, AOS, etc., in my opinion is in bad form, and inconsiderate towards our friends who are still waiting.
Please do think about this and take your questions to the "CSC to TSC to NVC: the Saga continues" thread.
To those of you still waiting, we're all rooting for you, keep the Faith!!
Put it on your fridge!

CONGRATS to all who are moving along!
I'm still praying for my fellow refugees who are stuck in limbo... keep the Faith!! You're almost there!

Don't worry, it's been happening to a lot of us

I agree! We're all in this together

Bro, I think you may have misinterpreted Rachel's comments. Up till now, we've all been in the same boat, and we're all here to vent and more importantly, share helpful information and support one another.
Just my 2 cents

Bro, I think you may have misinterpreted Rachel's comments. Up till now, we've all been in the same boat, and we're all here to vent and more importantly, share helpful information and support one another.
Just my 2 cents

Hi WaitingonLord, maybe you can find the address you're looking for in one of the prior posts on this thread.
Your daughter is in my prayers, I really hope people like you and Wade who have legitimate health issues, especially when it comes to kids, get through this mess first.
In the meanwhile, do take some time and write your story on Wade's blog - find it at http://uscisfiasco.blogspot.com

Unbelievable!!!!
I could literally just scream!
I cannot imagine what you must be going through, I sincerely hope some super good karma comes your way in lieu of this clusterf*#@ of a ride you and the rest of us are going through.
I'm afraid I may joining the "my file was lost" club as well... just get that feeling.

WOW this is supposed to be a helpful forum where we call all encourage each other and express our frustrations with the systems. If we didn't have this forum we wouldn't have anyone to lean on and offer advice during this process. You received your NOA2 in 173 days and many of us have been waiting a lot longer than that. If all you're going to do is berate the frustrated people on this forum, maybe you should just move on since this forum means nothing to you. Why don't you go on your broken english, psychotic rants in an NVC forum.
We don't need your negativity, THANKS.

Ok so are you saying you had their petition numbers and all other info to tell to those people so they are approved faster? Sorry but total BS! Or are you saying they came here to this thread, READ it and then approved? Just looking at nicknames??? hahaha that is even a bigger BS

If my sister was working at DHS, I wouldn't wait 6-months then send an email to somebody at USCIS in DC. That's just me though. I'm not buying any of this tomfoolery.

I second that

Has anyone heard of the website zzi.net?
They've published an article on the TSC that begins with the following:


The American Immigration Legal Association (AILA) recently distributed to its members an update of various issues after a meeting with USCIS officers at the Texas Service Center ( TSC ) in November 2009. The meeting covered multiple areas of concern including TSC processing times, EB-1 adjudication standards, denial without RFEs, separated derivative applicants, among other issues.

I'm trying to believe that the USCIS had good intentions when they had transferred us to TSC. Like you and a few other are saying though, the lack of approvals from a center that had been thought to get things expedited is disconcerting to say the least. Especially for the July filers.
Something that we need to remain cognizant of however is that we on this thread probably, and likely, represent a very minute fraction of people out there who had been transferred from CSC to TSC. Therefore it's hard to assess if there is a statistically significant trend with such few known numbers of us- all we have are a handful of people in the same boat, with no information on what's happening to the rest of the transferees out there.
What would argue towards there being a chance that something terribly went awry with the transferees is if hindustani24 meant to say that CSC applicants are not having any issues getting to and through the NVC component.

Thanks for the follow-up!
Normally I would think that this is good news for the July filers who are still in limbo, but taking into consideration the apparent lack of any coherent trend, I'm not entirely sure how to process the info you were given- especially because I would bet you if you were to phone again, you may very well be given different information. As in my case, you may even be told by one officer that the other officer had given you completely incorrect information
Either way, let us hope for the best.
And I'm still looking into what options we may have as a group, just as a few others on this thread are doing.
Cheers

That sounds encouraging, thanks so much for sharing.
Also, it was very kind of you to mention how other transferees are currently in the same situation as you.
Cheers

ditto
Wow Dan... I'm truly speechless. I read and re-read your letter several times, and I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.
Unfreakinbelievable.

I agree- the more calls made by affected individuals to the USCIS regarding issues, the higher the likelihood that something may be looked into, and who knows, someone might even try and resolve such recurring issues.
It's too easy to say "oh nothing will happen, the USCIS is this and the USCIS is that". The point is, without action it is a certainty there will be no reaction; at least with some action, there's even a glimmer of hope of there being some type of (hopefully positive) reaction.

I second what you're saying, although I can't say I agree with the "illegally circumventing the law" thing, at least not without proper legal documentation.
I bet you I know who has all the answers-
WIKILEAKS!!!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

For what it's worth, I'm still here!
I just haven't been saying much because I have the same sentiments/concerns/frustrations as you guys who are actively posting. Needless to say, my thoughts/prayers are with all of us.

Created a spreadsheet for you guys: https://spreadsheets...9UTnY4dWc&hl=en
Included the person's name, type of visa, country of beneficiary, NOA1 date, and date of transfer.
Taken from people who posted in this thread. I'm sure there's others out there that got transferred, but I don't feel like hunting them down on other threads. *lazy*
I'll continue to add names and edit the spreadsheet as more people post.
Analyze away!

After having read what some of you guys have written, I thought I'd call our friends up at the USCIS to have a chat.
I specifically inquired about my I130 being in the "Post-Decision" phase. The tier 1 representative was nice enough to escalate me to tier 2 after I thoroughly and petiently explained my concerns. The operative word here is "patient"- you should at least sound patient. Remember folks, these people don't have to escalate your call unless your specific case necessitates it- so being outwardly polite will, without a doubt, get you farther along in this conversation, as opposed to verbally expressing whatever anger you may be experiencing.
Mr. Tier 2 explained that workload can be moved around from one service center to another- as we all are well aware of by now. In our case, our files had obviously been transferred to TSC.
Mr. Tier 2 then mentioned that TSC, for the past few years, has been used to processing only employment and refugee-related submissions. They had stopped, for whatever reason, processing I130s some time ago, at least for the past 3 or 4 years. With that in mind, TSC then received our batch of I130 applications (hundreds, thousands?).
So Mr. Tier 2, in an indirect manner, basically said that those of us who received emails/texts/snail mail letters stating that we were in the "Post Decision" phase were in all likelihood victims of some peoples' incompetence- also euphemistically referred to as there being a "training issue" with some folks. This is an issue they are "looking into".
Even though my I130 status on the USCIS website states that I am in the "Post Decision" phase, I was clearly told by Mr. Tier 2 that my application had never left TSC, and furthermore, still hadn't been looked at! -Which is fine, I suppose, since I haven't hit the 5 month mark. It just sucks that I had unnecessarily- and apparently needlessly- gotten excited thinking some sort of decision had been made in regards to my I130. Wishful thinking.
In sum, Mr. Tier 2 suggested to call back 90 days after the CSC-TSC transfer date- for all of us, that would be early-February. He did add however, without offering any substantial proof, that my application, just like the rest of yours, may be looked at sooner than the 90 day period ends. I suppose that there may be some truth to that because, if I were in their shoes, and I had hundreds to thousands of applications to go through, I would deliberately give a very lengthy grace period (like say, 90 days), as opposed to giving a more "realistic" yet shorter grace period, knowing it really wouldn't take me that long to do the processing, simply to avoid getting irate phone calls from people saying they hadn't heard anything within their allotted timeframe.
I didn't get around to inquiring about the reason(s) behind other August/September filers getting approved- I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten any specific coherent answer.
That's all the news I have for now.

After having read what some of you guys have written, I thought I'd call our friends up at the USCIS to have a chat.
I specifically inquired about my I130 being in the "Post-Decision" phase. The tier 1 representative was nice enough to escalate me to tier 2 after I thoroughly and petiently explained my concerns. The operative word here is "patient"- you should at least sound patient. Remember folks, these people don't have to escalate your call unless your specific case necessitates it- so being outwardly polite will, without a doubt, get you farther along in this conversation, as opposed to verbally expressing whatever anger you may be experiencing.
Mr. Tier 2 explained that workload can be moved around from one service center to another- as we all are well aware of by now. In our case, our files had obviously been transferred to TSC.
Mr. Tier 2 then mentioned that TSC, for the past few years, has been used to processing only employment and refugee-related submissions. They had stopped, for whatever reason, processing I130s some time ago, at least for the past 3 or 4 years. With that in mind, TSC then received our batch of I130 applications (hundreds, thousands?).
So Mr. Tier 2, in an indirect manner, basically said that those of us who received emails/texts/snail mail letters stating that we were in the "Post Decision" phase were in all likelihood victims of some peoples' incompetence- also euphemistically referred to as there being a "training issue" with some folks. This is an issue they are "looking into".
Even though my I130 status on the USCIS website states that I am in the "Post Decision" phase, I was clearly told by Mr. Tier 2 that my application had never left TSC, and furthermore, still hadn't been looked at! -Which is fine, I suppose, since I haven't hit the 5 month mark. It just sucks that I had unnecessarily- and apparently needlessly- gotten excited thinking some sort of decision had been made in regards to my I130. Wishful thinking.
In sum, Mr. Tier 2 suggested to call back 90 days after the CSC-TSC transfer date- for all of us, that would be early-February. He did add however, without offering any substantial proof, that my application, just like the rest of yours, may be looked at sooner than the 90 day period ends. I suppose that there may be some truth to that because, if I were in their shoes, and I had hundreds to thousands of applications to go through, I would deliberately give a very lengthy grace period (like say, 90 days), as opposed to giving a more "realistic" yet shorter grace period, knowing it really wouldn't take me that long to do the processing, simply to avoid getting irate phone calls from people saying they hadn't heard anything within their allotted timeframe.
I didn't get around to inquiring about the reason(s) behind other August/September filers getting approved- I'm sure I wouldn't have gotten any specific coherent answer.
That's all the news I have for now.

CONGRATS!