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contacting senator or congressman
- Thread starter lucky1234
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gcoptimistic
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Steps to contact congressman/senator
Doesn't matter democrats or republicans
Here are the links:
http://www.house.gov/
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/
Steps to contact congressman/senator
1- first find out who serves your area.
2- Call their office and ask how they prefer to receive documents and requests for Federal Casework Inquiry. If they have their casework coordination offices in Washington DC then send fax to avoid delays
3- Fax/Mail them a letter explaining your situation (personal hardship, BSIC incompetence, you paying taxes for many years, law abiding contributor to your community, looking forward to become a voting citizen, blah blah blah)
4- Make sure you include all information: EAD #, Alien #, SSN, type of application, NAMES, Address with INS, when filed, RD, ND, RFE, Fingerprinting dates, etc, etc, anything and everything (politicians love documentation, so kill a few trees, it can only help)
5- ask them to "advise you on how to obtain the adjudication status of the application. You have contacted BCIS several times and the information on the website is very vague and estimates keep changing etc."
6- Do not ask them to help approve the application, because they dont do that. They are smart, they know what you are looking for, so they will use their "Political" means to pursuade the application process. Just be gentle and kind in your letter, write with a tear jerking tone, ask for advice
7- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: You have to write a PRIVACY disclaimer in your letter stating that you authorize their office to look into all aspects of your case and in accordance with the Privacy Act, you (SIGNED below) are authorising them the use of the included information you are providing to conduct any research necessary to research the status and processing information about your application" This will avoid you from writing another letter with signed authorization.
good luck.
Following is a sample letter.
============================================
Dear Senator,
We are writing this letter to request your office's help in finding the status of our employment based adjustment of status(I-485) applications, pending with Nebraska Service Center for over two years. We had filed our I-485 applications in December 2001(RD: 12/11/2001, ND: 12/14/2001) with Nebraska Service Center, Lincoln, NE. We were finger printed the first time on 4/11/2002. After waiting for over 19 months, we received a request for further evidence on 7/11/2003 in which the following items were asked to submit. 1) Primary applicant's employment verification, 2) Clear copy of birth certificate for the dependent applicant and 3) Birth affidavits for both the applicants from parents or relatives. We promptly responded to this request and sent all the required documents that were received by INS on 7/30/2003. The status query website of INS was updated to reflect this the day received these documents. Subsequently, we received a notice for the second finger printing as our original finger prints expired by this time. We were finger printed on 9/12/2003 and I had called FBI who confirmed that the results were sent to the INS the same day.
Since then, we haven't heard anything back from INS and are desperately waiting for our cases to be approved. We have already renewed our work permits (EAD) twice and currently hold our third EADs. We have no clue why the adjudication on our cases is taking so long while the cases filed much later than ours are routinely being approved. It has been more than 5 months since we responded to the rfe and don’t understand why it is taking so long for the INS to look into our cases. We have plans to visit India in May this year and are in a dilemma whether to apply for the travel documets(advance parole) or to wait for the approvals. We never applied for our advance paroles till now in the hope of getting our cases approved by now.
We would like to request the help of your office to find out what exactly is going on with our cases and if possible push for a faster adjudication. We'd highly appreciate any help that your office can provide in this matter.
Sincerely,
XXXX
XXXX
Here are more details of our cases:
Primary applicant: XXXX(Receipt No: XXXXX)
A# XXXXX
Beneficiary: XXXX(Receipt No: XXXXX)
A# XXXXX
Receipt Date: 1/11/2002
Notice Date: 1/14/2002
1st Finger Print: 4/11/2002
RFE Issued: 7/11/2003
RFE response received by INS 7/30/2003
2nd FP: 9/12/2003
Doesn't matter democrats or republicans
Here are the links:
http://www.house.gov/
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/
Steps to contact congressman/senator
1- first find out who serves your area.
2- Call their office and ask how they prefer to receive documents and requests for Federal Casework Inquiry. If they have their casework coordination offices in Washington DC then send fax to avoid delays
3- Fax/Mail them a letter explaining your situation (personal hardship, BSIC incompetence, you paying taxes for many years, law abiding contributor to your community, looking forward to become a voting citizen, blah blah blah)
4- Make sure you include all information: EAD #, Alien #, SSN, type of application, NAMES, Address with INS, when filed, RD, ND, RFE, Fingerprinting dates, etc, etc, anything and everything (politicians love documentation, so kill a few trees, it can only help)
5- ask them to "advise you on how to obtain the adjudication status of the application. You have contacted BCIS several times and the information on the website is very vague and estimates keep changing etc."
6- Do not ask them to help approve the application, because they dont do that. They are smart, they know what you are looking for, so they will use their "Political" means to pursuade the application process. Just be gentle and kind in your letter, write with a tear jerking tone, ask for advice
7- THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT: You have to write a PRIVACY disclaimer in your letter stating that you authorize their office to look into all aspects of your case and in accordance with the Privacy Act, you (SIGNED below) are authorising them the use of the included information you are providing to conduct any research necessary to research the status and processing information about your application" This will avoid you from writing another letter with signed authorization.
good luck.
Following is a sample letter.
============================================
Dear Senator,
We are writing this letter to request your office's help in finding the status of our employment based adjustment of status(I-485) applications, pending with Nebraska Service Center for over two years. We had filed our I-485 applications in December 2001(RD: 12/11/2001, ND: 12/14/2001) with Nebraska Service Center, Lincoln, NE. We were finger printed the first time on 4/11/2002. After waiting for over 19 months, we received a request for further evidence on 7/11/2003 in which the following items were asked to submit. 1) Primary applicant's employment verification, 2) Clear copy of birth certificate for the dependent applicant and 3) Birth affidavits for both the applicants from parents or relatives. We promptly responded to this request and sent all the required documents that were received by INS on 7/30/2003. The status query website of INS was updated to reflect this the day received these documents. Subsequently, we received a notice for the second finger printing as our original finger prints expired by this time. We were finger printed on 9/12/2003 and I had called FBI who confirmed that the results were sent to the INS the same day.
Since then, we haven't heard anything back from INS and are desperately waiting for our cases to be approved. We have already renewed our work permits (EAD) twice and currently hold our third EADs. We have no clue why the adjudication on our cases is taking so long while the cases filed much later than ours are routinely being approved. It has been more than 5 months since we responded to the rfe and don’t understand why it is taking so long for the INS to look into our cases. We have plans to visit India in May this year and are in a dilemma whether to apply for the travel documets(advance parole) or to wait for the approvals. We never applied for our advance paroles till now in the hope of getting our cases approved by now.
We would like to request the help of your office to find out what exactly is going on with our cases and if possible push for a faster adjudication. We'd highly appreciate any help that your office can provide in this matter.
Sincerely,
XXXX
XXXX
Here are more details of our cases:
Primary applicant: XXXX(Receipt No: XXXXX)
A# XXXXX
Beneficiary: XXXX(Receipt No: XXXXX)
A# XXXXX
Receipt Date: 1/11/2002
Notice Date: 1/14/2002
1st Finger Print: 4/11/2002
RFE Issued: 7/11/2003
RFE response received by INS 7/30/2003
2nd FP: 9/12/2003
Thank you very much, gcoptimistic!
This is the perfect example of what a good people are here on this forum.
One more question: How to start letter to Congressman?
Dear Congressman? Dear Congressman Such-and-such?
Respected Sir? - Nothing doesn't sound good for me.
What do you think?
Thanks again.
RD: 04/18/2002
FP2: 05/20/2004
LUD: 06/16/2004
This is the perfect example of what a good people are here on this forum.
One more question: How to start letter to Congressman?
Dear Congressman? Dear Congressman Such-and-such?
Respected Sir? - Nothing doesn't sound good for me.
What do you think?
Thanks again.
RD: 04/18/2002
FP2: 05/20/2004
LUD: 06/16/2004
I had found this letter somewhere here only.. I modified a bit to suit my situation.. feel free to use/modify as you want ...lucky1234 said:Could anyone out there share a sample letter for contacting senator or congressman? Thanks a lot!
Respected Senator,
RE: My Pending I-485 (Adjustment of Status i.e. Green Card) application at Vermont Service Center of USCIS case ID EAC0xxxxxxxx.
I am a current resident of xxxxxxxxx,state and working at xxxxxxx as a Software Engineer in their Enterprise Software Group.
My Employment based I-485 application for adjustment of status was filed on xxxDate in Vermont Service Center. On xxxDate I received second finger print appointment notice for XXXDate. We both (me and my spouse) did the second fingerprint in the USCIS office in xxxxx. We been told from the local USCIS officer that they will be sending the fingerprint results to USCIS Vermont center on next business day i.e. xxxxx. Although the online status for my case still shows the last fingerprint received date of xxxx, 2002 when we did our first fingerprint. It has been well over a month now from the second fingerprint, and I have received no update on my case. Overall it has been over xxx months since my I-485 was filed.
USCIS say on their website that they are still processing applications pending from April 17, 2002. Which does not seem to be the case since many people are receiving their approval at random even though they might have been filed after our date as much later as June 2003. I can show you many community boards on the internet where people are posting their approval messages.
This wait for the I-485 to be approved has been excruciating to say the least. I and my family have been living in constant dread and insecurity for the last few years. Under the current provisions, there is no way I can progress in my job responsibility, so my professional growth has effectively been thwarted. I have also been unable to make any important decisions in my life, including - investing for my son’s college education, investing for our retirement or enrolling in college for higher education - due to the uncertainty of the I-485 process.
For being a rule-abiding, tax-paying member of the society, and hopefully an American Citizen in the future, this is a painful way to be welcomed to the "land of opportunity". And I am saddened by the fact that, not just me but thousands others are caught in the quagmire of the current immigration process.
I plead you to urge USCIS to take action on my case or at least help us to understand as what is the status of our application. Any assistance that you provide will be appreciated and remembered.
Sincerely,
xxxxxxxx
(Resident xxxxxxx State)
Address
Ph: xxxxx