A day at the Congressman's Office

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norfesept01

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I'd had enough of it (actually had had enough of it for a long, long time) and decided to invoke, well, if not divine, then certainly extraneous intervention from a higher being. Walked into the Congressman's office with my sob story about how after 25 1/2 months of waiting I was still no closer to approval, and to boot, no closer even to a second fingerprinting, or an RFE.

The Congressman's Constituent Liaison person got right on the horn with the BCIS and I learnt that the BCIS had placed my wife and myself in a queue for re-fingerprinting on, would you believe it, 10/23/03 !!! The name checks for all of us were good too. We should expect to get a notice from the BCIS in 6-8 weeks for fingerprinting.

The "reason" for the delay? The BCIS said that they had just received notice of change of address on 10/23/03. That is as fishy a story as ever there was one, because my I-485 was filed from this address on 9/13/2001 and we have lived, if not happily ever after, then at least in body, mind and spirit at the very same location from before the I-485 was filed.

Oh well, no point crying over spilt milk. I guess every silver lining has a dark cloud, but for me this seems as silver a lining as ever there was one.

All ye fellow sufferers, consider making a trip to your Congressman's office. You have nothing to lose but a half day's vacation.
 
Originally posted by norfesept01
.... BCIS had placed my wife and myself in a queue for re-fingerprinting on, would you believe it, 10/23/03 !!! The name checks for all of us were good too. We should expect to get a notice from the BCIS in 6-8 weeks for fingerprinting.

The "reason" for the delay? The BCIS said that they had just received notice of change of address on 10/23/03. That is as fishy a story as ever there was one, because my I-485 was filed from this address on 9/13/2001 and we have lived, if not happily ever after, then at least in body, mind and spirit at the very same location from before the I-485 was filed. ....
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The response seems to border on the asinine. Are you sure the congressman's liaison was able to get through the pachydermal outer layer of INS's customer service line?
 
Members of congress have access to dedicated phone numbers to the USBCIS and to other branches of government that are not accessible to the general public.
 
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Yes, Sankrityayan

I am as sure as can be. The person at the other end read out my address, gave dates of FBI and name check clearance, fingerprinting dates for spouse, self and daughter and I was quite satisfied that there was a real person at the other end. Unless, of course, the Constituent Liaison was clairvoyant, a la Ajmeri Baba and Syed Peer Saheb.
 
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What I was trying to insinuate all along was that the BCIS guy probably put us in the fingerprinting queue while he was on the phone and then invented the cock and bull story about having received the address change information on 10/23/03 so as not to look more asinine then he (on second thoughts, she, as the Congressman's staffer addressed her as Mary) actually was.
 
Originally posted by Rafiq
Members of congress have access to dedicated phone numbers to the USBCIS and to other branches of government that are not accessible to the general public.
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I am aware of that. I was intersted in knowing if the constituent liaison called them on the dedicated line or the customer service line. Clearly, no dedicated access to the real status was available, it appears! They are making up fictitious address changes in response to a congressman's inquiry. That can be regarded as contempt of congress and I am not sure if a real INS congressional liaison at the service center would make things up like that.:eek:
 
Re: Yes, Sankrityayan

Originally posted by norfesept01
I am as sure as can be. The person at the other end read out my address, gave dates of FBI and name check clearance, fingerprinting dates for spouse, self and daughter and I was quite satisfied that there was a real person at the other end. Unless, of course, the Constituent Liaison was clairvoyant, a la Ajmeri Baba and Syed Peer Saheb.
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Thanks; I did not see your response when I made the preceding post.

Good-luck.
 
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