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[Sm1smom]

@Sm1smom and @SusieQQQ sorry to trouble you all. Any idea about this?

I don't know of any policy memo or guideline that specifically addresses what you're asking. You're stressing over a non issue IMO, that is why I ignored your original post. I don't even recall the singular case you're referring to as a matter of fact.

 

[Ahmedaboesawy2020]

Honestly speaking, I’m tired of trying to providing you with guidance. I ask you questions, you either refuse or selectively answer. I recommend you do something, you move ahead and do something else which made sense to you. You don’t provide any update on what you’re doing until you have another negative encounter. Not sure why you keep asking for my help when you clearly don’t follow what I recommend in the first place.

Dear SM1SMOM
Thank you for your patient With me
I will send you copy of my file via email,
You asked me to call many times to schedule infopass, I did that on august 31 and on September 2 my infopass denied . Today I called uscis and spoke with tier 2, she is aware of the deadline of physical year and she told me we scheduled bio for you on September 21, I told her that’s still so far, she said that’s the nearest available appointment at ASC, she state my file is still at NBC, I told her again about my worries to miss the deadline she said nothing we can do now
Your file in the process
Shall I contact ombudsman man ?

 

[Molly77]

I had my interview today. But my case wasn’t approved but held for review. What do you think this mean? He said to wait for one week. but I know for some people they gave answer very fast. Is it possible to get rejected at this point?
Thank you,

 

[Ahmedaboesawy2020]

I had my interview today. But my case wasn’t approved but held for review. What do you think this mean? He said to wait for one week. but I know for some people they gave answer very fast. Is it possible to get rejected at this point?
Thank you,

Fingers crossed

 

[gma8]

I had my interview today. But my case wasn’t approved but held for review. What do you think this mean? He said to wait for one week. but I know for some people they gave answer very fast. Is it possible to get rejected at this point?
Thank you,

Just be patient you will hear back pretty soon, specially if you just had the interview today. Mine took few days after the interview, specially I did bio at the same time with the interview.

 

[txoutback]

My FO is Albany, NY.
I am only applicant in this year as far as I know.
I did speak to Tier-2 to make service request last week. but the reply from FO came back, saying still in review. No interview date provided.
I also asked Senator’s office to follow up my interview date, but no response yet.
Since I am stuck here, I started USCIS ombudsman inquiry this week.

Mom,
Thanks for your help as always.
I have a couple of questions.
Since my case has been stack before interview, my friend introduced his lawyer in Albany, NY to me.
I explained the situation and status to the lawyer and he said his office can contact director of FO and management team at FO directly. They sometimes contact them to request something if the cases are stalled.

1) Do you think it is a good idea to let lawyer call some management of FO to inquire my case directly?

2) Tier-2 told me this morning that the only way to reach out to office is to write a letter. I don’t think this is not a good idea, but what do you think?

 

[Gata2203]

I like your husband already - he's so aware of how often I had to remind you to breathe and take a step back . Congratulations on successfully completing the process. All the best!

That is SOOO true He likes you too even though he doesn't know you . Thank you, we really appreciate all your help. And yes, we're quite serious about sending gifts

 

[asm_dv]

I don't know of any policy memo or guideline that specifically addresses what you're asking. You're stressing over a non issue IMO, that is why I ignored your original post. I don't even recall the singular case you're referring to as a matter of fact.

Thanks @Sm1smom. Btw I called KCC and they said that my FO requested the KCC file on 17th August (day my wife did her bio) and the file was sent on 18th August.

I guess it is going as usual. One more week until interview.

 

[Sm1smom]

Mom,
Thanks for your help as always.
I have a couple of questions.
Since my case has been stack before interview, my friend introduced his lawyer in Albany, NY to me.
I explained the situation and status to the lawyer and he said his office can contact director of FO and management team at FO directly. They sometimes contact them to request something if the cases are stalled.

1) Do you think it is a good idea to let lawyer call some management of FO to inquire my case directly?

2) Tier-2 told me this morning that the only way to reach out to office is to write a letter. I don’t think this is not a good idea, but what do you think?

1. I’m guessing the lawyer isn’t making this call for free, or is he?

2. Not a bad idea, doing so wouldn’t hurt. Send it by next day delivery. You gotta do whatever you can to get things moving for you I suppose.

 

[txoutback]

1. I’m guessing the lawyer isn’t making this call for free, or is he?

2. Not a bad idea, doing so wouldn’t hurt. Send it by next day delivery. You gotta do whatever you can to get things moving for you I suppose.

Mom,
thanks for your precious reply as always.

1. The Lawyer charges based on hours to spend. They don’t charge fixed fee for my case since we have submitted all the paper work. I told him to follow up with FO for interview specifically.
2. Thanks for your reply. Since I already made a document for Senator’s inquiry, I can use the same format. Let me think about it.

 

[txoutback]

Mom,
thanks for your precious reply as always.

1. The Lawyer charges based on hours to spend. They don’t charge fixed fee for my case since we have submitted all the paper work. I told him to follow up with FO for interview specifically.
2. Thanks for your reply. Since I already made a document for Senator’s inquiry, I can use the same format. Let me think about it.

One thing I learned from Tier-1 agent on service request.
We cannot submit the similar service request within 15 days. She was kind enough to find the category to send my request again, but she found such a rule. 1st service request Was on filing question.
Another possible category was processing time outside of normal time, which was not applied to me.
I don’t know this is the case for Tier-2. Will try out tomorrow.

BTW, Today, I was able to find two helpful Tier-1 and Tier-2 for some reason.

 

[Sm1smom]

Mom,
thanks for your precious reply as always.

1. The Lawyer charges based on hours to spend. They don’t charge fixed fee for my case since we have submitted all the paper work. I told him to follow up with FO for interview specifically.
2. Thanks for your reply. Since I already made a document for Senator’s inquiry, I can use the same format. Let me think about it.

So how do you verify the lawyer made the call as promised?

 

[txoutback]

So how do you verify the lawyer made the call as promised?

it is good question. I will request them to provide me the dialog or copy of the email after their action.
I have not signed anything yet. I will make sure the things before the decision.

 

[asm_dv]

Thanks @Sm1smom. Btw I called KCC and they said that my FO requested the KCC file on 17th August (day my wife did her bio) and the file was sent on 18th August.

I guess it is going as usual. One more week until interview.

BTW found the previous forum post about similar situation.

From their experience (Principal Selectee not from country of charge-ability, wife is. Just like my case. I am selectee but chargeability based on wife's birth country. So, now I am planning to take bunch of pictures since we met all the way to wedding just in case.

https://forums.immigration.com/threads/dv-2018-aos-only.336256/post-2477508

Spouse is F1 Stem OPT, and passport only have one US VISA(F1), which expired on 2016. IO question this might be OOS since Visa expired on 2016 and now it's 2018, so 2 yrs from 2016 till 2018 considered OOS. We politely ask IO if IO can check with Sr. IO or supervisor, IO replied supervisor was off vacation but he/she will check when it's available. We then explained we talked with immigration attorney before about Visa and Status; Visa on passport is for entry US with support doc; Status is the I20 or i797A those to show what is current status. IO said Status is the one on passport(IO pointed the sticker-Visa) We found out there is some conflict here, but could not align with IO. IO lastly ask is there any question? We brought two; 1st is our background check cleared? 2nd asked IO very politely could IO follow-up with supervisor on the Status concern, we brought up this is DV GC it is timely urgent.

 

[val94]

@Alex USA your case was approved on August 6th, hav you received your green card yet?

 

[Nyankosensei]

Hi everyone.
I want to hear your opinion...
I called USCIS and later I got a call from FO Santa Ana last Friday. That was about my interview schedule. He said he was going to send emails with appointment letters but I haven't received anything yet. I'm wondering if I should call USCIS hotline again. Should I wait until next week? My interview appointment is September 15. So next Tuesday is a week before my interview.

 

[Reiden]

Update: Since completing the biometric on Aug 19, My case was transferred for processing and interview scheduling to local FO on Aug 31st. Does anyone know how long it usually takes the officer to write the interview notice?

 

[sam12345]

Hi everyone.
I want to hear your opinion...
I called USCIS and later I got a call from FO Santa Ana last Friday. That was about my interview schedule. He said he was going to send emails with appointment letters but I haven't received anything yet. I'm wondering if I should call USCIS hotline again. Should I wait until next week? My interview appointment is September 15. So next Tuesday is a week before my interview.

I think you can just wait. In my case they did not send me an email or any letter at all. They simply called and told be that my interview was scheduled after a week. In the day of iterview, I simply showed up and phoned the officer who called me.

 

[Nyankosensei]

I think you can just wait. In my case they did not send me an email or any letter at all. They simply called and told be that my interview was scheduled after a week. In the day of iterview, I simply showed up and phoned the officer who called me.

Thank you for your reply!

Glad someone here who has some experience like me .
Did the office ever tell you he would send you emails or mails ?
Sounds like I should just wait. I heard that I have to have appointment letters with me when I go to interview.

 

[Sero1033]

Thank you for your reply!

Glad someone here who has some experience like me .
Did the office ever tell you he would send you emails or mails ?
Sounds like I should just wait. I heard that I have to have appointment letters with me when I go to interview.

I would call tier 2 and ask if interview notice was sent or not. If yes, I would just wait the letter, you have plenty of time to receive it by the day of the interview. If not, see if you can reach to the person you spoke with, but I doubt you can... maybe tier 2 can help you with that...

In any case you must show up at the office on the day and time of your interview (with or without notice on hand)