green card in 3months in dallas

EricNeesGC · Apr 30, 2006

Thanks Dallas_Newbie. I hope mine is cleared soon. Its getting to a point that I am getting really frustrated.

Butterfly_Azul · Apr 30, 2006

What will happen??

To Eric and those of you who like my husband have been waiting forever! I am very worried with all these things going on lately with immigration. I'm afraid that if they approve that illegal immigrants receive some kind of legal document that our cases will be held back even longer. I feel like USCIS will just put our cases in the back burner!! This worries me sick. It is sooo frustrating. I hope and wish that they will first finish up all of our cases before they try to take on this new project. Anyways I just had to vent out a little bit. Good day to you all and best of luck.

EricNeesGC · May 1, 2006

Butterfly_Azul said:
To Eric and those of you who like my husband have been waiting forever! I am very worried with all these things going on lately with immigration. I'm afraid that if they approve that illegal immigrants receive some kind of legal document that our cases will be held back even longer. I feel like USCIS will just put our cases in the back burner!! This worries me sick. It is sooo frustrating. I hope and wish that they will first finish up all of our cases before they try to take on this new project. Anyways I just had to vent out a little bit. Good day to you all and best of luck.

You are right Butterfly_Azul. I had the same feeling and conveyed it to my congressman when I last called his immigration department. I was told that there is nothing they can do with name check process but they can get me an AP or EAD within 24 hours if I provide proof of the urgency...heck I can do that myself. While discussing different scenarios with the immigration department at my congressman's office, she let out that the congressman has told her strictly to not get involved with FBI and that is the reason she is not following up with FBI. According to her, the congressman does not like to push FBI to clear a potential suspect or terrorist.

This means that the congressman's office can follow-up with them but refuse to do so because to avoid M. Atta's kind of situation. My last fall back (which I had avoided so far for moral reasons) is my uncle who contributes over $100,000 each election year to this congressman's election campaign. I will ask my uncle to have a talk with the congressman. Lets see if the shine of gold makes him work for me

tony_023 · May 1, 2006

I have a question to anyone in this forum. I would like to know if it's possible for your information to never get updated online and get approved for a GC without notification?

sunny_27713 · May 1, 2006

DORA cases that have not been approved in 90 days

Here is some information that might be helpful..from our lawyer..

Wonder how long more we will have to wait! since we were approved in DORA on 11/2005! Does anyone have any idea?

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When the Dallas District office sends a letter stating they cannot process the DORA cases within the proposed 90 day time frame (70 day letter), it then falls under their normal processing time. You will not be able to inquire until they are beyond the processing time of when your case was filed. According to the website, they are currently processing I-485's as of February 2005.

You can check processing times by visiting; https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/officeProcesstimes.jsp?selectedOffice=24

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EricNeesGC · May 2, 2006

sunny_27713 said:
Here is some information that might be helpful..from our lawyer..

Wonder how long more we will have to wait! since we were approved in DORA on 11/2005! Does anyone have any idea?

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When the Dallas District office sends a letter stating they cannot process the DORA cases within the proposed 90 day time frame (70 day letter), it then falls under their normal processing time. You will not be able to inquire until they are beyond the processing time of when your case was filed. According to the website, they are currently processing I-485's as of February 2005.

You can check processing times by visiting; https://egov.immigration.gov/cris/jsps/officeProcesstimes.jsp?selectedOffice=24

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What is your source of information that if DORA cases are not approved in 90 days, the case falls under normal processing times? Since most of the people are filing through DORA in Dallas now, the regular filed cases will never surface. Furthermore, DORA cases are already processed. They are just waiting for FBI name check to be clear. Once that is done, the decision should come in a couple weeks. There is no processing on USCIS side then why would the case fall under "normal processing"?

sunny_27713 · May 2, 2006

EricNeesGC said:
What is your source of information that if DORA cases are not approved in 90 days, the case falls under normal processing times? Since most of the people are filing through DORA in Dallas now, the regular filed cases will never surface. Furthermore, DORA cases are already processed. They are just waiting for FBI name check to be clear. Once that is done, the decision should come in a couple weeks. There is no processing on USCIS side then why would the case fall under "normal processing"?

Eric,
This is what our lawyer advised us when we asked if we could make an enquiry since it has been 6 months since our DORA application has been filed and since we have got the 70 day letter, we are anxious to find out when we could expect our GC.

k1_visa · May 2, 2006

I had my DORA interview on Agoust 2005. Received the 70th letter and get the AP and EAD in novemeber of that year. Since then, I went 3 times to the N. Stemmons Office to ask about my case. The answer was always the same: Your Name Check is still pending and there´s nothing we can do.

I have a question for those who are waiting the results of the Name Check:
Do you have a common name? If not, what could be the reason for this delay. I dont get it.

thanks

pprcp · May 2, 2006

mine its takes almost a year to get my green card.

EricNeesGC · May 3, 2006

pprcp said:
mine its takes almost a year to get my green card.

My last name is VERY British, however, my dad and my first names are from one of the FBI most wanted list. I doubt that is the issue because even then, our names are VERY common and furthermore, my dad got his citizenship ok. So, I don't know what the problem is...its just frustrating.

k1_visa · May 3, 2006

EricNeesGC said:
My last name is VERY British, however, my dad and my first names are from one of the FBI most wanted list. I doubt that is the issue because even then, our names are VERY common and furthermore, my dad got his citizenship ok. So, I don't know what the problem is...its just frustrating.

Ok Eric but there´s must be some reason for us waiting the NC to be complete and I am trying to find out what are the reasons for this delay.

As far as I know, and correct me if I am wrong, the mayority of the people who are stuck are:

(1) From a group of countries ( I don´t remember all of them) or/and
(2) With common Names

I havent seen many europeans/canadians/ australians stuck in the Name Check.

perrysallas · May 3, 2006

I guess most of the asian(indian,pakistan,chinese), middle east and russian citizans get stuck in name check.For then the process may be different and strict. they say name check is cleared with in 3 days in 80% cases and with in 30 days in 92% cases . and with in 6 months for 98% cases . so i dont know whaats the reason for delay.

perrysallas · May 3, 2006

yessssssssssssss

Just a moment after i posted previous post i received an email from uscis saying my case was approved and green card wil be mailed soon.it has been only 60 days.
my timeline

dora interview 3/3/06
NOA 3/13/06
FP 3/16/06
LUD chnged:3/12/06 , 3/14/06 , 3/18/06
approved 5/3/06

tony_023 · May 4, 2006

congrats perrysallas! I hope you get your green card soon. I have the same timeline as you and hopefully I will be next.

DORA filed: 3/9/06
NOA: 3/15/06
FP: 4/14/06
still waiting....

anti-climacus · May 4, 2006

tony_023 · May 4, 2006

perrysallas, did they update your info on the web for FP reciept?

EricNeesGC · May 4, 2006

perrysallas said:
I guess most of the asian(indian,pakistan,chinese), middle east and russian citizans get stuck in name check.For then the process may be different and strict. they say name check is cleared with in 3 days in 80% cases and with in 30 days in 92% cases . and with in 6 months for 98% cases . so i dont know whaats the reason for delay.

It could be true but I don't want to believe it because they assure that they do not discriminte based on country of citizenship or religion. I have seen several cases from my country with very suspicious names getting cleared in 6 months or less. Oh by the way, congratulations on your approval.

almandi · May 4, 2006

perrysallas · May 4, 2006

hi tony
they never changed my lud after 18th march.my fp was done on 16th but i guesss the change lud was reflecting my application transfer(from MSC to Dallas local office) after that my lud was same as was online status.i guess name check depends on the duration of stay in usa i hav been here just a yr before so i have 'no records' in name check.If a lot of people with same name found then it will show 'Popular Indices'.If any agency has done inquiry regarding u with
fbi before then it will show 'HIT'. This is the most crucial point for name check process. It may take months to years to resolve a HIT.

p3ac3fu! · May 5, 2006

perrysallas,

congratulations on your gc.

I have a question.

Do DORA applications get transferred from MSC to Dallas local office ?

I thought they would be in dallas since they interviewed us here.

here is my experience with DORA and the reason for my asking.

I had DORA interview on Nov8, 2005 fp on Nov 29 2005.

I had one more 485 application pending thru employment since Mar 2004 at nebraska service center. Since priority dates for employment based gc are retrogressed to 2001 , we applied for family based gc thru DORA.(thought it would be faster )

Got a letter on 70 th day saying processing wont be done in 90 days.

The officer at the window on my 70th day letter said that the background checks are complete, and the app should be completed soon. It had been 3 months from that day, so I recently enquired with congressman on the status . He said they are waiting for my original file transfer from Nebraska Service center to Dallas.

I called 800 number and enquired about the file transfer, they said it usually takes 2 months (yeah, right..). IT already had been 6 months for me.

We wrote to senator again requesting him to get the status on my file transfer , within a week after that i got a request for additional evidence on my employment based petition from Nebraska. Talked to a lawyer , he asked me to withdraw employment based petition . He said, even though i send the additional evidence, the app would take forever to get current priority date.

In the same letter he asked me to request them to transfer my file to Dallas (with a copy of my i-485 & i-130 receipt from MSC ). I am now worried my application would get lost somewhere ...( MSC possibly)

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