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Hello everybody,
After trying continously since the past 3 days I was finally able to talk to an IIO. Contrary to past experiences talking to IIO\'s this person was very friendly. She mentiontioned that my case is on Company Charge Hold (these are cases associated with Company restructuring, name change etc). Though my case has been with an officer since Dec 2000 and I have called IIO\'s several times since then this is the first time they told me that my case is on hold (I know that people have posted since the past few months that cases associated with company name change is on hold). I did have a long conversation with the IIO and the following is the gist. Apparently companies which did do name change etc contacted INS several months back mentioning that they do not want to file a 140 redo for name change cases especially in light of the new law which was passed in Oct 2000. Following that INS HQ decided to put all such affected cases on hold. The IIO told me that VSC has nothing to do with this hold and this can only be lifted once INS HQ issues the new regulations and the IIO had no idea when the regulations would come out but our best bet is to contact all lawmakers including Senators, Congressmen/Congresswomen to put pressure on INS HQ (not VSC) to issue the regulations. I guess we all have to double our effort in writing to as many Senators, Congressmen/Women, Attorney General, INS Commisioner etc and bring it to their attention that INS HQ has still not come out with the new regulations (for a law which was passed in Oct 2000) which has affected many of us in different ways