BCIS Experiment

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jlsbr

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Ladies and Gentleman,

I decided to do an experiment to see who is going to give up first me or BCIS.
Here is the deal, I am going to force them to get their hands on my files each 3 months from know on.
Back in March I asked for AP for my wife, not answer yet. This week I am going to ask for an AP for myself. After 3 months of my AP receipt I am going to ask for a new EAD for me. Then after 3 months I am going to ask for EAD for my wife, and so forth.
They may get tired of me and make my approval in the mean time.
I never bugged them before coming to this forum. Back in April when I started to visit this forum I got my finger prints by calling the old number as many of us did. Unfortunatly that number no longer work, and the 800 does not worth anything.
It will be my second AP and my third EAD. I never used those because I still have my H1B valid and I have been working for the same company since I came to the US. I use those just as a safety feature in case something happen at the company.
However I need to find a way to get my approval by the end of the year because the situation at the company is not any good now. May be it will improve, but who knows? The horizon is very gray there. I cannot afford the risk some thing goes wrong after all this years of waiting.

Priority Dater Sept 18 2000
Received Date July 18 2001
Notice Date Aug 31 2001


Best regards,

JLBR
 
I think I-485s are not adjudicated by the same group of IIOs that would do EADs and APs.

Also I don't think they would pull your I-485 file just to adjudicate your EAD or AP. The building that they store your I-485 files in, is 25 miles away from the people who adjudicate the files, so it would be way to expensive to pull your I-485 files every time and ship them to the building other building, just to do an EAD.

These articles (although old) give you an idea of how disorganized they are to begin with.

http://www.usvisanews.com/memo1607.html
http://www.usvisanews.com/memo1610.html
http://www.usvisanews.com/memo1612.html
http://www.usvisanews.com/memo1616.html

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The one thing that I did not see was officers working on H-1B, I-140s, and all the other petitions that we send to the TSC. The reason? The building that I visited, the one located in St. Augustine Road, is only one half of the TSC operations. The St. Augustine Road facility is there to receive mail, sort out mail, categorize cases, store cases, and send correspondence. The facility at North Stemmons Freeway is the one that houses the INS officers who review the files and make decisions on the cases. That there are two facilities should have been obvious for we know that there is an address at North Stemmons Freeway and one at St. Augustine Road. However, what is not so obvious, and what I did not know, is that the facilities have such distinct duties and that they are 25 miles apart!

That is right, folks. The St. Augustine Road facility is the mail room and storage part of the operation but it is not just down the hall or down the street from the other building. The facilities are a good 30 minutes away from each other if the traffic is perfect. Those of you who live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area know that traffic is anything but perfect.

When a given case arrives at the mail docks at St. Augustine Road, it is sorted and a file is opened. That file is later transferred to the North Stemmons Freeway facility when its time comes for adjudication. Once the officer at North Stemmons Freeway either decides to send a Request for Further Evidence (RFE) or approve the case, the file is actually shipped back to St. Augustine Road. If we are dealing with an RFE, when the RFE response arrives at St. Augustine Road, the response is matched with the file and then sent back to North Stemmons Freeway for the officer to consider. When the officer decides to approve or deny the case, the file is sent back to St. Augustine Road where a decision notice is then generated and sent to us, the public.

For any of you who have ever wondered where the files are stored while priority dates are becoming current or where files are stored pending an RFE response, I had an opportunity to see the room. Just imagine a large warehouse with aluminum metal shelving about six feet high and stretching over the length and width of a football field. Then imagine boxes with cases and mail being handled with forklifts and you pretty much have the picture.

Before Monday, I was truly baffled at how TSC could lose or misplace a file. Today I am not amazed at the fact that files are lost or misplaced; frankly, I am amazed that MORE files are not lost or misplaced. I am also no longer intrigued as to why it is that if I send an RFE response via Airborne for delivery tomorrow morning, a decision will not be made tomorrow, or the next day for that matter. It is one thing to talk about the raw number of petitions and mail processed at TSC, which I knew and will discuss below, but it is quite another to see it in person and appreciate it with your own eyes.

My mind is still blown away by the fact that these thousands of files are ping pong balls struck back and forth over a distance of 25 miles. By the way, that also explains why it is that if we ever send additional information on a particular file at a time when INS has not requested it, it has little chance of actually being matched up with the file
 
Maybe sending a RFE reply help

How about sending a RFE repoly without it being asked by TSC. For example, just send you r medical records or birth certificate by mail to TSC. :D .....I am just kidding...do not take this seriously
 
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