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Apart from signing on online petition, we have to do few more things to make it grand success. Our aim is Texas Service Center (TSC) has to receive many inquiries/requests from all the corners of the immigration community. So that TSC will realize about the impact of the problem and try to fix it at the earliest.
I kindly request you all to pass this link to your friends and ask them to pass it others and finally we could see more participation in this program and we could make it a grand success one. Many people don’t know or do not visit these immigration discussion forums. If we can not do it successful this time, we would never make it next time. Please do remember that we are doing for ourselves.
The tasks to be done:
1. Sign online petition at: www.immigration.com/common/rsk/petition_texas.html
2. Send fax to INS Commissioner : 202 - 514 –3296
3. Send fax to Immigration Services (INS HQ) : 202 - 514 – 8853
4. Send fax to TSC Director : 214 - 489 – 4012
5. Send e-mail to AILA: advocacy@aila.org
6. Ask your attorney to take the issue to TSC
7. Contact your local Congressmen/Senator to report this problem to TSC.
****** Beginning of the letter to be faxed/e-mail *************
Subject: Randomly Generated Finger Print Notices by Scheduler at INS-Texas Service Center
We wish to bring to your notice about the unexplained delay we the applicants are facing when our I-485 Adjustment of Status, has been pending with Texas Service center for more than a year. Adjustment of Status is the final stage of processing before, we become a Permanent Resident. We are especially concerned about the scheduling of the Finger Printing.
Finger Printing is the first step of the process of Adjustment of Status of an Employment Based Immigration application. Depending on the applicant’s resident city and availability of facilities or time slots at a particular Application Support Center, the National Scheduler generates the Finger Print Notices in the order in which INS received the I-485 applications. But, at present, the FP notice is being generated randomly not following any order. Thousands of people have been affected by this randomness. A considerable number (25-30%) of applicants are getting their fingerprinting notices within 10 days to 2 months from the I-485 Receipt date. So it is taking only 4 to 8 months for them to receive the I-485 approval. There are many unlucky applicants who have been waiting for the last 17 months for their FP Notices. Consequently, it is taking more than 2 years for the latter group to get their approval. We feel that the typical time taken for I-485 approval would be 16 to 17 months if the FP notices were to be generated in the order of the receipt dates. Once finger printing is completed the applicant can expect the I-485 approval in the next 1 to 5 months. There seems to be no effort to clear the backlog of long waiting applicants, before generating FP notices for the recent applicants.
It seems like this flaw in the National Scheduler existed from the time of its installation in May 2001. Some applicants who have filed their I-485 in Jun ’02 have got their approvals! Some applicants who have filed in late Aug ’02 have received Finger Print Notices already!
We have sent many letters /fax to The Director, Texas Service Center about this problem. So far the system does not seem to be improving. Everyday many applicants, who have been waiting for their FP notices, are calling the INS about their FP notice status. All they hear from the Immigration Information Officers’ are that it is the scheduler, which is causing this randomness. They express their inability to override the scheduler, which is managed by a private agency/contractor. Texas Service Center is not aware of this randomness problem. Unless this is fixed soon, bulk of the applicants have to undergo undue and unfair suffering.
The processing times at all other Service Centers have improved and they are taking 8 to 11 months to approve a I-485. But Texas Service Center is taking 2 years to adjudicate on a I-485 application. Unless there is a miracle, TSC can not achieve the 6-month processing time for Green Cards by 2004 as promised by our President, with the current resources and facilities.
Could you please help us in resolving this issue? If it could be fixed, thousands of applicants will be benefited by your intervention. Thank you very much for sparing your valuable time.
Yours Sincerely,
**** End of the letter to be faxed/e-mail ******************
I kindly request you all to pass this link to your friends and ask them to pass it others and finally we could see more participation in this program and we could make it a grand success one. Many people don’t know or do not visit these immigration discussion forums. If we can not do it successful this time, we would never make it next time. Please do remember that we are doing for ourselves.
The tasks to be done:
1. Sign online petition at: www.immigration.com/common/rsk/petition_texas.html
2. Send fax to INS Commissioner : 202 - 514 –3296
3. Send fax to Immigration Services (INS HQ) : 202 - 514 – 8853
4. Send fax to TSC Director : 214 - 489 – 4012
5. Send e-mail to AILA: advocacy@aila.org
6. Ask your attorney to take the issue to TSC
7. Contact your local Congressmen/Senator to report this problem to TSC.
****** Beginning of the letter to be faxed/e-mail *************
Subject: Randomly Generated Finger Print Notices by Scheduler at INS-Texas Service Center
We wish to bring to your notice about the unexplained delay we the applicants are facing when our I-485 Adjustment of Status, has been pending with Texas Service center for more than a year. Adjustment of Status is the final stage of processing before, we become a Permanent Resident. We are especially concerned about the scheduling of the Finger Printing.
Finger Printing is the first step of the process of Adjustment of Status of an Employment Based Immigration application. Depending on the applicant’s resident city and availability of facilities or time slots at a particular Application Support Center, the National Scheduler generates the Finger Print Notices in the order in which INS received the I-485 applications. But, at present, the FP notice is being generated randomly not following any order. Thousands of people have been affected by this randomness. A considerable number (25-30%) of applicants are getting their fingerprinting notices within 10 days to 2 months from the I-485 Receipt date. So it is taking only 4 to 8 months for them to receive the I-485 approval. There are many unlucky applicants who have been waiting for the last 17 months for their FP Notices. Consequently, it is taking more than 2 years for the latter group to get their approval. We feel that the typical time taken for I-485 approval would be 16 to 17 months if the FP notices were to be generated in the order of the receipt dates. Once finger printing is completed the applicant can expect the I-485 approval in the next 1 to 5 months. There seems to be no effort to clear the backlog of long waiting applicants, before generating FP notices for the recent applicants.
It seems like this flaw in the National Scheduler existed from the time of its installation in May 2001. Some applicants who have filed their I-485 in Jun ’02 have got their approvals! Some applicants who have filed in late Aug ’02 have received Finger Print Notices already!
We have sent many letters /fax to The Director, Texas Service Center about this problem. So far the system does not seem to be improving. Everyday many applicants, who have been waiting for their FP notices, are calling the INS about their FP notice status. All they hear from the Immigration Information Officers’ are that it is the scheduler, which is causing this randomness. They express their inability to override the scheduler, which is managed by a private agency/contractor. Texas Service Center is not aware of this randomness problem. Unless this is fixed soon, bulk of the applicants have to undergo undue and unfair suffering.
The processing times at all other Service Centers have improved and they are taking 8 to 11 months to approve a I-485. But Texas Service Center is taking 2 years to adjudicate on a I-485 application. Unless there is a miracle, TSC can not achieve the 6-month processing time for Green Cards by 2004 as promised by our President, with the current resources and facilities.
Could you please help us in resolving this issue? If it could be fixed, thousands of applicants will be benefited by your intervention. Thank you very much for sparing your valuable time.
Yours Sincerely,
**** End of the letter to be faxed/e-mail ******************
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