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How do I contact my Congressman or USCIS Ombusdman. Can I email them? If so where do I get this info.
 
First find out who the congressperson is for your area. Next go to their website and follow their link for immigration inquiries.
As for the Ombudsman, you can open a case problem via their website if you've experienced excessive processing times and have already exhausted service request and Infopass inquires.

http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/editorial_0497.shtm
 
while we are on this topic, which politician is more helpful (powerful) if running into problem with federal agency like the USCIS, the congressman or the Senator (one of my state's US senator has pretty high seniority in the Senate)?
 
xxhwx said:
while we are on this topic, which politician is more helpful (powerful) if running into problem with federal agency like the USCIS, the congressman or the Senator (one of my state's US senator has pretty high seniority in the Senate)?
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A senator is a congressperson. You likely meant senator vs representative. As to which one is more helpful depends on the contacts/liaisons that congressperson has with USCIS.
 
^^^I thought you're from New York. I can't imagine Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand helping people out with immigration cases. I think a Representative can help you out better as they have a smaller constituency as opposed to the whole state.
 
USCIS and even Canadian Immigration (and perhaps any immigration process) would usually say that making inquiries into one's case may delay it further. There really is nothing one can do but play the waiting game with them otherwise go crazy. I applied for my green card in early 2005 and got it issued in September 2007. Talk about delay. I really did not bother checking on it, I was just glad I was able to work, school, and be productive, etc. Finally able to file the N400 now simply makes my case no different than a 5yr application because that is really how long I have waited if you total all the waiting period from filing my green card till now. Try the suggestions you get, they may or may not help, you may simply still have to wait.
 
ZeusNero said:
^^^I thought you're from New York. I can't imagine Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand helping people out with immigration cases. I think a Representative can help you out better as they have a smaller constituency as opposed to the whole state.
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Actually, it may not have much to do with who the senator is. I do not think the senators personally get involved just because you write to them. But have their staff handle constituents issues. And without knowing the reality, I would think that if the senator has higher rank or if the senator is from a more populous state, then they might have more staff to deal with constituent issues and hence might be able to help better.

Anyway, does not hurt trying through both senate / house route.
 
jayoa said:
USCIS and even Canadian Immigration (and perhaps any immigration process) would usually say that making inquiries into one's case may delay it further. There really is nothing one can do but play the waiting game with them otherwise go crazy. I applied for my green card in early 2005 and got it issued in September 2007. Talk about delay. I really did not bother checking on it, I was just glad I was able to work, school, and be productive, etc. Finally able to file the N400 now simply makes my case no different than a 5yr application because that is really how long I have waited if you total all the waiting period from filing my green card till now. Try the suggestions you get, they may or may not help, you may simply still have to wait.
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if you care to look at green card section of forum for employment based categories, I am sure you will find lot of people waiting for GC anywhere from 4-6 years (if not more). This waiting does not count towards citizenship. Senate/representative offices do have liasions to help/assist constituents with immigration related issues. In most cases than not, congress person liasion have been proved to be of help. I am sure when one is waiting for green card approval (be it may 6 years or more), they need to be more productive to keep job and keep green card hope alive. Please do some research to be more infomred. No two cases are same. :)

as to OP, since it is 3 months (about 90 days), start with congressperson (Senator or representative). This being election year, in my opinion congress person will be willing to assist as much as possible and may be able to provide you with reason for delay.
 
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olddude said:
if you care to look at green card section of forum for employment based categories, I am sure you will find lot of people waiting for GC anywhere from 4-6 years (if not more). This waiting does not count towards citizenship. Senate/representative offices do have liasions to help/assist constituents with immigration related issues. In most cases than not, congress person liasion have been proved to be of help. I am sure when one is waiting for green card approval (be it may 6 years or more), they need to be more productive to keep job and keep green card hope alive. Please do some research to be more infomred. No two cases are same. :)

as to OP, since it is 3 months (about 90 days), start with congressperson (Senator or representative). This being election year, in my opinion congress person will be willing to assist as much as possible and may be able to provide you with reason for delay.
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My green card application was marriage-based, not employment. And I know that the wait for a green card does not add up to the total of the wait period of naturalization. I simply used my case of waiting for my green card with nothing I could do as an example of the waiting game. And I also sarcastically added up my green card wait in total with the citizenship for a total of 5 years, I know the green card wait does not apply to citizenship. Any marriage-based application is usually of priority, so it should not have taken that long to deliver my green card and of course employee-based is known to take much longer as it is not on USCIS top priority. So not that I don't know these things, you just need to know what I mean or perhaps I'm doing a bad job in my description.
 
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Well, at least you know you ll get an oath letter possibly near future. Try an IO like mine, did not even bother to tell me his decision. I dont know if I m gonna get one.
 
sent request over fax

so finally got the website of the congressman and have sent a fax with the details for the inquiry. Hoping to hear back in a day or 2 about the decision.
 
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