I agree
Rohit Sharma, I completely agree with Rajiv Khanna. Anyway, here is the case of Chalbe2001 that I was talking about. he lurks around rupnet.com
Chalbe2001 story
"My saga began with me and my wife filing I-485(EB2) at VSC in November of 2001 (immediately after 9/11). I got two EAD's and one advance parole without any problems until after July of 2003 when everything became a nightmare.
VSC stopped approving my EAD and AP applications. I got couple of interim EAD's valid for two months each at my local philadelphia office. Even that was stopped for a month and I had to go unemployed for a month. All this in the name of security.
For a month, I was without a job, without work authorization and dealing with CIS which was proving to be extremely un-cooperative. I tried various options including the senator, tried various letters from my employer and myself to VSC and FBI but that did not yield any results.
Then I decided to sue the CIS for their actions. I filed a mandamus case agaianst US attorney general, VSC and CIS director and Philadelphia CIS Director in the Philadelphia federal district court in Aug / Sept 2004. Within two weeks I started getting EAD's from my local CIS office but they were again only valid for two months. I got back on my old job. I had to go regularly to local CIS office to get these two months EAD's and all the time getting even this was a nightmare and had very hard time with the CIS officials who turned me back many times. In total I got almost 10 interim EAD's.
CIS took two months to respond to my case and asked the judge for more six months to complete name / security check and the time was ganted because my lawyer agreed to it. (I think this was a stupid move on my lawyers part as we have been waiting for three years).
Then after the six months my lawyer did not get in touch with the court for another two months partly because he lacked experience dealing with the federal court. Then I hired another lawyer with lot of experience dealing in federeal district court cases. He gave few tips to my old lawyer who had filed the case. Finally all the parties were on a conference call and the judge very bluntly gave CIS two weeks to adjudicate / approve my and my wife's cases. I was surprised by the Judge's order and re-enforced my faith in the judicial system of this country.
In two weeks I got two approved EAD's, two advance paroles, two fingure pritning notices. Then My interim EAD was expiring so I went to philadelphia CIS and they gave me the interim with all the apologies (my actual EAD had not come in mail). They said they cannot wait that long for fingure prints so they gave me an emergency fingure prints notice to take to the FP office and we got our prints done the same day. CIS officials told me that they were trying to approve my case immediately. In three days after the PF our cases were approved and I got the approval in mail. Me and my wife got our passports stamped yesterday. Finally it is over, just waiting for my card. My case might give some direction in case you are in similar situation. I have been on rupnet and regularly read and contributed to the topics floating around. My thanks to all and goodluck with your GC endevours.
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-Piece of advice-
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If your case hastaken very long, approach the court and sue the CIS.
Hire a lawyer which has good experience dealing with federal district court.
Don't be afraid, take action. When you have not done anything wrong you should not be afraid even of God."