Henykat

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Seems if everyone called it the same thing as USCIS it might be a little less confusing and it's not more effort to type it out. Even if it wasn't confusing, at least then everyone could be answering questions about a different word. Mix it up....add some spice to the forums.

Strange because NVC thinks they do

"Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Certificates

Available. Certified copies of these documents may be obtained by applying to the Bureau of Acts of Civil Status (ZAGS) of the locality having custody of the records."

My wife is nervous about sending her original birth certificate and our marriage certificate through the post. Have any of you had experience with obtaining certified copies of those at ZAGS? I've read here that the police certificate doesn't need to be translated. Just curious if that is still the case since it is a 3 year old post. Thanks for the help!

i cant say the same,there are two easy options for this problem A) adding employees,which would be easy considering there are thousands of people in need of a decent job or B) adding " gates " so to speak.

its not a short term matter,it has been going on for so long,people just tend to move on after their case gets done with CSC.

It is easy to say spend more money on employees and resources, but I would be willing to wager a lot of money that the majority of people in the USA don't want any of their tax dollars spent on more employees to offer immigration benefits and in the end what the majority of the people want is usually the thing that occurs.

there are options to make the wait more pleasant,going through it according to numbers ,as in the person who got in the line gets the order ( in other words,going through petitions based on the exact date,these lucky draw things that they do are honestly disappointing,i am a july first filer,two people off my month on VJ have gotten their noa 2s,why?hell if i know )offering other options on the menu ( adding service centers and making choosing them optional )getting more experienced staff OR shutting the whole thing down and starting a job that doesnt take much effort,time or money

I think part of the problem is that we can only see one very minute portion of what is taking place. Think about how much paper is involved with 650,000 petitions in one month. How can it possibly be done sequentially? I'm surprised it is even as close to sequential as it is now. To logistically be able to do this would just make your wait even longer. Can you imagine an airport with 650,000 planes operating with one gate? If there was no VJ and you didn't know about any other approvals do you think some of this dissatisfaction might not be occurring and maybe you'd be happy if you get your petition approved in 5 months? I'll be happy if mine is.

ANYWAYS

im freakin nervous about the interview,is it normal?

I'm not even going to be there and I'm nervous

I want my petition approved just as much as the next person. I just don't think it's practical to expect someone to be able to tell you exactly where your stack of papers are in amongst the other 650,000 stack of papers and to require that an already overburdened agency be able to do this sure won't make it more efficient. Do we want approvals or be able to be told exactly what date our petition will be adjudicated? If it requires you having to wait another 2 months because of allocating extra resources and logistical changes to allow you to know the exact date your petition will be adjudicated, would it be worth it? We are talking about thousands of envelopes stuffed with a lot of paper that have to be physically handled. These aren't messages on a forum that can be perused in an instant.

Truth, the other option is to be complacent and just accept anything... You are OK with getting bad service, some of us aren't. The high standards of this country are what should drive every single government office to serve citizens the proper way.

No, I'm not okay with bad service. I don't agree that the service is bad. I don't think the wait is too much considering the high volume of petitions and the more demanding requirement of the citizens of this country that we are careful enough to do our best to detect fraudulent petitioners.

Here's the problem, if I own a burger joint and I can't fulfill my customers' needs, they walk away and go to the next one. USCIS has the luxury of not having competition, we have no option but to go to them. Evertyhing you are saying is truth, but that doesn't mean that is right.

This isn't intended to sound nationalistic by any means, but there are other countries to choose from with a lower demand if you want choices.

of course,but then again,they are professionals and its their job,i understand what you mean when you say that there are 1.5 million petitions,but keep in mind,they dont process that much in one month,its the pile of paper that got that big from them not working properly

There are 1.5 million pending petitions. In August they received about 650,000.

Okay...let's use an analogy. If you own a McDonald's and you can make 50 hamburgers in an hour and you have 100 hamburger orders in an hour, would your system of hamburger making be faulty and your workers all of a sudden be lazy because the customers had to wait for their burger?

http://dashboard.uscis.gov/

You can see here that the number of outstanding petitions has been decreasing until February. And then there is a rise in the months after of petitions being filed. I know we all want to think our petition is the only type that matters, but USCIS has to adjudicate all of them. Making one person happy just makes another person disgruntled.

When we married or proposed to our SO, we got in line at McDonald's. Some people can't place their order correctly to be understood; some people take a long time to pull their change out to pay; some of us are in line with a cashier that is being trained and last but not least, there are only 4 burgers left and the person in front of you just ordered 10.

i have 39 days left to my five months mark,and according to henykat and the folks,i will get a noa by then,ill let you know how it goes henykat,i hope youre right,and i hope your trust in system is correct and worth it.

I don't trust any government system to do anything extraordinary. I just happen to think that this one works fairly well considering the security measures that US citizens demand and the high volume of petitions being made. I sure as hell wouldn't want to try to manage that pile of papers.

If I used your excuses at work I would get fired

If it was your job to adjudicate petitions, and it wasn't to answer 5,000 calls a day about a question that couldn't be answered, I doubt you would be fired.

Clearly stated? Where? I see references to "timeframes", "averages" and "goals" in the USCIS website. That doesn't seem like a clear statement to me. At any rate, I payed for a service and I am now beyond the "clearly stated" 5 months.

Okay, I suppose when you read those things it was unclear and you expected 2 weeks. Hey, I'm waiting just like everyone else. Hope you get a notice soon.

what we were told was that it CAN take up to five months,not that it necessarily is a five months process.

when you contact CSC for past five months notice,they tell you to expect a decision in the next 60 days,doesnt that mean the amount of time needed to dig up a case say from june,study it and make a decision is 60 days?

again,i would have had no problem with waiting IF CSC operators would have been ordered to be more specific per case.do you see my point?

Not really. There are of 1.5 million cases pending. Do you really think there are resources available to go and look at an individual case every time somebody calls and then be able to tell with any kind of accuracy how far behind the preceding petitions it is?

so true.

plus,no one is trying to make CSC employees job look easy,but this is what they were trained and hired to do,and they do what they are told to do,so,im sorry,we paid for service,we expect service.volume is not an excuse.

You paid for a service that is clearly stated to take 5 months. Is this what you expect?

it is accurate but is it correct to keep a petitioner with a record clear as snow waiting for five months for whatever reason they are ?

lets face it CSC and immigration system over all as far as service centers goes are far from ideal,who enjoys waiting?

There isn't a separate box for "clear as snow" petitions. USCIS is receiving close to 500,000 petitions a month so which one of the "clear as snow" petitioners gets to go first? If you want to find a more accurate target for your frustration, it would be all of the rest of us petitioning for visa benefits. Personally, I think a 5 month wait when there are 1.5 million pending petitions is acceptable. Good luck with your NOA2. Maybe it will be in one of the more productive adjudicator's queue.

After 26 years he should be able to read the sign!

My parents had their green card interview 18 days ago at the US Embassy in Moscow. It went well, but one of the document translations was missing (we sent it with the rest of the paperwork, but somehow it got lost along the way). They were asked to email the missing translation when they got home, which they did. They were told they would have their passports back in a week. It's been over two weeks and they still don't have their passports. What's worse, we're not even sure if the missing translation has been received. I can't get a direct answer because I can't get in touch directly with the visa services department at the embassy - I think they're running all of their correspondence through a russian mediator company, which doesn't seem very informed. My parents need to get their passports back asap for work and I don't know what else we can do.

What we've done:

Emailed the missing document per interviewer's request to 'consulmo' address (proper format, case number/name/dob) - no response

Emailed it requesting confirmation - the response we got was "thank you for the information. your case is being processed" - not sure if that means they have it or not

Called the visa services number, spoke with the russian mediator company who said the translation was still missing

Faxed it to the visa services number

Called the US citizens help line and they told me to try a different email address - emailed translation to 'moscowwarden' address - no response

Any ideas of what else we can try?

Anyone had a similar experience having to send additional documents after the interview? Timeline?

Where do I go for outside help? Secretary of State Department? US Senator?

Thanks in advance!

I would contact both senators and your congressman if I were you. Their communication system is not good at all at that embassy. If they told your parents a week, then they should have returned them in a week.

she had her ears and nose cut off by her husband and his brother and was made to sleep in the stables.. I think the US soldiers are the LEAST of Afganistans troubles.. I think its called the taliban and if they would knock off antics like this, we could easily leave.. give it a rest. The taliban is killing unicef workers every day and disfiguring women and you wanna bash the usa army. Why the hell did you move here hot guy?

Because he's too hot for Egypt!

yes, you get your orginals back.

Is there a way to get documents back from USCIS or will they forward anything to NVC?

This whole conversation is silly. Different people behave differently no matter where they are. But, I do think HIV positive persons will have some negative thoughts about natural functions without any added propaganda.

No, kiddin'

Get reading and check for yourself how many couples are suffering years of separation. You'd think the country where the institute of marriage is crumbling would do more to promote and support those who work to preserve it. It's been over 1.5 years since I've seen my husband. Instead of having children we're having forms! and more forms! And on top of that, times and things we treasure have now become 'evidence', gathering of which is only comparable to some psychosis. I think that even when it's all over, I would not believe that I've endured it. And don't even get me started on going broke over that Moscow trip...

Not trying to hijack the thread, but it appears you are using the same consulate as I am. What are you sending to NVC as opposed to waiting for your interview to show? Do they require the police certificates, etc. or are you waiting for the interview to present those?

A solid reason to lock down your security settings on any social site. Don't create a VJ id here which could match your personally identifiable info

Why? I hope they do read mine

Of course there are. But the VJ statistics I linked to regarding I-130s in my previous post in this thread relate to only I-130s for spouses. My only point is that makes the statistics I was discussing different (a smaller subset) than the USCIS statistics about I-130s that Geode was discussing.

Good luck with your application(s)!

Good luck with yours too!

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/monthly_filers.php?visa=3&form=2&scenter=1&option=3&sortby=2

This link references I-130's filed at CSC. Where can you refine the search to include only spouses?

As for the I-130 information from USCIS, my understanding is that USCIS is presenting any and all I-130s, which can be used for other family members, not just spouses. So the USCIS information includes all these applications, while the VJ stats to which I provided the link involve I-130 applications only for spouses.

There are members here filing I-130's for people other than their spouses.

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I'm not gonna send any checks