backlog petition to congresspersons

[rajum]

Hi All,
Please post your details if your RD is 90 days before the published date in your service center.
I will post the details of the letter shortly. Please don't use this thread for regular messages. I am giving the URL of this thread in the letter.

I am going to post my details shortly. Please consider it as a template to post your details.


thanks,
rajum

To be removed: Couples of weeks back, I started a thread and planned to start a fax campaign. Some friends advised to wait till Presidential elections as most congresspersons and the whole nation was in the midst of elections and our petition may not be noticed.
Let us start faxing to Congresspersons from this Thursday.

[rajum]

To,
xxxxx
Congress member
Arizona 6th Dist

Subject: High randomized processing of USCIS despite appreciable efforts for backlogs

Dear Sir,


We appreciate your support to the immigrant community through your letter on DATE(TBA) to USCIS (formerly known as INS) to reduce the immigration backlogs. Your support on behalf of immigrants gives us a sense of hope and sense of belonging to this great land of opportunities.

ImmigrationPortal.org is a non-profit organization to voice their concerns and help contribute towards legal immigration reform in the United States of America.

Off late, USCIS is sincerely displaying great efforts to reduce the backlog. California Service Center (CSC) moved the processing date to Jan.2004 from Jan.2002 in a span of 4 months. Similarly, Vermont Service Center has moved the processing date to June 2003 from Feb 15, 2002 in a span of four months. More or less the other two centers are showing the same statistics. It is indeed a laudable effort considering the fact that these Service Centers moved processing date by only four to five months in two years prior to this. Some people think that the published dates does not reflect the real processing dates.

However, we would like to bring to your attention the randomization that has crept into the System. USCIS has yet to process cases dating back to Oct’ 2001. Please see the following site for a sample list of unadjudicated cases.
http://www.immigrationportal.com/sho...689#post965689

Prior to this, the gap between the non-adjudicated cases to the published processing dates use to be two to three months. For ex: if the published date is say December 2002, this means for all the cases which was filed in October 2002 use to be adjudicated except a case here and there and that unadjudicated cases uses to be minority . This used to help a lot in tracking the cases. Now this gap has increased to two years creating lot of confusion and the published date cannot be used as a barometer.

Along with the above, we want to bring other facts which are relevant in this regard

i) USCIS indicated numerous times that it need to conduct multiple security levels. However, its senior officers in their disposition to a court case (please see the appendix A) and also before Congress sometime back indicated that for more than 90% of the cases it takes couple of minutes. Even the highest security check with FBI should complete within 45 days.
ii) In some cases, USCIS may require additional documentation and issues Request for Further Evidence (RFE) which might take 87 days more. Please refer to Appendix B for additional info)


iii) The productivity of the adjudicating officer is measured in terms of adjudications/hour. (Please see appendix C)

Considering the above three facts, we believe that the reasonable time frame for a non-adjudicated case beyond the published date should be within 90 days. However, now that time frame looks like two years.

iv) Finger Printing (FP) lapses every 15 months. USCIS has this rule for administrative convenience as it is expected that USCIS adjudicates the case within 15 months and storage of FP for longer period might cost extra computer resources. Now, some people are waiting for third fingerprinting. Their two FP’s lapsed resulting in further delays.

Against the above four facts, the whole process is reducing into a Kafkaesque trial. We are submitting to you some letters from the candidates who cases has not been adjudicated for long explaining their stories. How the delay is affecting their day-to-day life and their American dreams.


We laud your efforts and also USCIS efforts in reducing the backlogs. With this confidence in your sense of fairness and with extreme faith in American System, we appeal you to intervene and ensure that all the cases get fair treatment.



Regards,




General Secretary,

[rajum]

Here is the format:

PD: 05/19/2000
Labor Approved: 08/31/2000
I-140 approved: 06/04/2001

My file is suppose to transfer to NVC and INS lost the petition.

duplicate I-140 : 11-28-2001
I-485 RD: 03-26-2002
Ist FP : 05-21-2003

Employment RFE replied on : 10-23-2003
Ist FP expired : 08-23-2004

No Second FP, No Approval

Contacted VSC(presently known as USCIS) innumerous times in 2001 and early 2002.

Current List of efforts to contact USCIS in 2004

i) Senator Lautenberg office --------01/08/2004 --------No resources
ii) Senator Lautenberg office --- -----03/08/2004 ------- No resources
iii) Senator Lautenberg office --------06/15/2004---------In the FP queue(FP has not lapsed and valid till 08/23/2004)
iv) Congressperson Frank pallone office--- 08/2004 -------- Reason is that the petition is in FP queue despite valid FP.
v) Expedite request --------- 08/08/2004---------Rejected
vi) In person at Vermon Service center--- 08/23/2004-------last day of FP expiration.
v) Info pass at Newark--------09/03/2004------No use
vi) Ombudsman office---------09/10/2004 ------because of backlogs

vii) Status enquiry ----------10/2004 ------------ No result


If you want to find out more details, please contact me at : 732-648-4039

To the best of my belief, the above facts are true.

thanks,
rajum

[dsatish]

Hi Every one,
We are going to provide a link to this thread in our letter to the congress persons complaining about the random processing. So all the VSC I485 applicants with receipt date of March'2003 and before, may please post your details here. This serves as as a proof (though not an accurate one) for our complaint that CIS is adjudicating the cases randomly.

[jish]

485 Receipt Date : Mar-28-03
________________________________________
No approval yet.

[kvpt_mm]

Here are my details of the pending I485 case at VSC :

PD: 08/01/2001
I-485/I140/I765 RD: 03-05-2003 (EB3 Category)
I-485/I140/I765 ND: 03-26-2003

I-140 approved:07/09/2003

Ist FP : 05-20-2003
2nd FP: 09-11-2004

Employment RFE/NOID replied on : 07-02-2004 and online status updated on 9/27/2004 response received

Contacted VSC(presently known as USCIS) on I485 status on Sep 1st and received a reply through FAX on Sep 2nd saying " Case is under review , you will hear shortly from the office".

Current List of efforts to contact USCIS in 2004

i) Senator Carl Levin's office ---------09/10/2004 -------- case in Adjucation area.. wait for 60 days

ii)Case Status enquiry by calling National Customer service ----------10/22/2004 ------------ No response yet


To the best of my belief, the above facts are true.

thanks,
kvpt_mm

[skotha]

[rhinohere]

I have contacted congressman of my area.

[dsatish]

All we need is I485 Receipt Date. For example, if my I485 is still pending , i would have posted te following message in this thread :

I485 Receipt Date : Ocotber'2002.
Case is still pending


That's all we need from all those people having RD of March'2003 and before. Congress men and INS will then understand that a lot of people with March'03 and before are still not approved where as the official processing date is June'03.

[skotha]

I485 Receipt Date : March 25 th 2003.
I 485 Notice Date : April 03 rd 2003


Case is still pending

[waiting!]

My 485 RD is 11/02 and notice date is 12/02.

[needhelp1]

Our Details:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dependent ( Spouse ):
I485 Receipt Date : Dec 23 nd 2002
I 485 Notice Date : Jan 27 th 2003

Primary:
I485 Receipt Date :Jan 27th 2003
I 485 Notice Date :Mar 6th 2003.

Hope this is enough. If you need more information, please send me a P.M.

[dsatish]

Any more people with I485 Receipt Date prior to March'2003 ?

[imramesh]

I-485 Rd 04/10/2002

[CS001]

RD: 03/12/2002

case still pending...

Any more people with I485 Receipt Date prior to March'2003 ?

[lovensing]

no news at all....

[fams]

Coount me in please.
RD :March 11th-no interview date yet
fams

[coolmoon]

I485 RD jan 22 2003

[rk4gc]

I'm encoraging other Service Center members also to post their details at this thread, so please include your service center when you post your details. We need more members to signup for this campain to be successful. Talk to your friends in the same situation and ask them to signup. Its outrageous that the service centers move JIT date leaving behind so many cases without approval. Lets bring CSCs cover up on JIT dates to the light.

A possible format for details could be.

ID,
RD
ND
Service Center

History

[Waiting_May2002]

Count me in.

California Service Center
485 Pending
WAC-02-184-xxxxx
RD: 05/13/2002
ND: 05/14/2002
FP2: 06/14/2004

NO RFE

[talkative]

talkative
12/2003
CSC
140, 485, 765, 131 all pending
No RFE

[Sumanta]

I will be there even after all you guys are done !

Labor Applied ( Priority Date ) : July, 1999

I-485 applied ( ND & RD ) : Sept 2002

FP1 : Nov, 2002
FP2 : Sept 2004

Initiated Status Enquiry.

Pursuing case with Local Congressman.

[Sumanta]

Hi All,
Please post your details if your RD is 90 days before the published date in your service center.
I will post the details of the letter shortly. Please don't use this thread for regular messages. I am giving the URL of this thread in the letter.

I am going to post my details shortly. Please consider it as a template to post your details.


thanks,
rajum

To be removed: Couples of weeks back, I started a thread and planned to start a fax campaign. Some friends advised to wait till Presidential elections as most congresspersons and the whole nation was in the midst of elections and our petition may not be noticed.
Let us start faxing to Congresspersons from this Thursday.

Your efforts are commendable; but I think, from a pragmatic standpoint,
nothing's gonna come out of it.

[approve-me-2002]

WAC-02-172-xxxxx
I-485 RD: 4/2002

[dsatish]

It's good that we have more than 15 people coming forward to post their status. I guess that we have hundreds of people with receipt dates of 2002 and early 2003 (before March'03). I request all of them to come forward and post their receipt dates here .
THIS IS A SERIOUS EFFORT FROM US. WE ARE GOING TO SEND THIS LETTER TO 40 CONGRESS MEN IN THIS WEKEND.

[vijrek]

1485 RD: 03/21/03
VSC


NO NEWS YET

[gg9456]

Count me in

I-485 , RD 12/13/2002, ND 01/17/2003

[OneMoreStupid]

Mine is pending. For Details see the signature.

[mzgcbl]

I'm still here

I-485 Receipt Date: March 2002

Case is still pending

Vermont Service Center

[Sumanta]

Dsatish & Rajum,
Apart from a generic mass broadcasting of mail,
is there anything else we can do ?

I have some rapport with two of my Local Congressman ( one for my
previous address and one for the later and more recent one ); and if
we have a substantial count, I can try to arrange for us as a group to
meet them. It can raise the seriousness level of the effort by a notch, for
sure.

Again, if you are all willing.