Bad stamping experience in SFO

[pathapati]

Yesterday we had been to SFO INS Office for my wife's GC stamping in passport.

Reached Samson street around 10.30 am, there were 10 people before us {there were at least 30 people in Washington street line} Requested guard is it right line to PP STAMPING and got answer "yes" FROM HIM. But inside guard said we should stand in Washington street line, but let my wife go in when argued that outside guard told her to stand in that line.

There are another 20 to 25 people in line to get token. Finally around 11.15 they announced no more tokes for day.


Nobody bothered to call our series token no {Of course nobody in cubical for 2 hours} when my wife complained about nobody there in cubical, some body shown up in cubical but she took at least 30 min for each person.

Finally around 4.20 we got call for stamping. Totally it took 6 hours for just stamping.

Funny thing was I saw any given time at least 4 INS Employees were outside of Ins building for smoking or chitchat.

One messenger/employee {file mover} she was out side for 2 hours and 15 min not going in to Office with files. Now I have first hand experience why we have this much backlog.

suggestion is better to stand in washington street for stamping.

Pathapati
022165XXXX {pending}

Spouse
020665XXXX
rfe dec7th,2003
rfe responded on dec24, 2003
Approved on Feb 4th, 2004
Received notice on 7th.
pp stamping on 9th, 2004

 

[140_takes_4ever]

Hardluck! Glad you got it finally though, now hopefully the GC comes in the mail quickly and you can forget about INS for some time atleast in your wife's case.

 

[phoenixsaint]

pathapati,

I sympathize with your suffering 100%.
The INS worker is not the well-educated person. They are most probably under-educated and come from the lower rung of American society.

So firstly, they'll take a break from work any chance they see because of their poor work ethic.

Secondly, I believe they see it as being "patriotic" to stick it up to immigrants, that is, by not working hard and even slacking off, they see that as a patriotic thing to do. Maybe even INS policies and attitudes/moods that are implicitly communicated from the top mgmnt encourage this.

Thirdly, they may feel a relative superiority (not justified at all) by procrastinating in their work which is basically providing services to immigrants. This is highly ironical and unjustified because they are being paid by the American taxpayers to do good work.

But the bottom line is, immigrants want to come here, and they have no power to get the service they deserve, or the minimum amount of courtesy and respect.

Phoenix Saint.