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June 2003, Starting Point for New Imigration Benefits Processing Procedures
June 2003 will mark the starting point for centralization and electronization of immigration benefits applications processing by BCIS. For instance,
Family-based immigration applications will be filed with the National Benefits Center;
Starting from EAD application and plastic green card replacement application by electronic filing on May 29, 2003, the BCIS will gradually expand electronic filing of other petitions and applications; and
Current telephone information system of the four Service Centers will be cut off and telephone inquiry will be accepted, beginning from June 1, 2003, only by National Consumers Service Center 800 number.
Between now and the end of May, it is anticipated that the telephone inquiry lines of the four Service Centers are expected to experience a heavy traffic because everyone wants to make a live inquiry with the information officers at these offices before the phone lines are cut off. From June 1, the NCSC will continue to take inquiries but will not be able to give answers to individual case questions. They will pass it onto the relevant Service Center, which will then respond to such inquiry "by mail." People know what this means. It can take days or even months! That is why people want to make the phone inquiry before June 1 just even to hear the breath of live officer on the phone line talking about his/her case. This is the downside of on-going change.
www.immigration-law.com
June 2003 will mark the starting point for centralization and electronization of immigration benefits applications processing by BCIS. For instance,
Family-based immigration applications will be filed with the National Benefits Center;
Starting from EAD application and plastic green card replacement application by electronic filing on May 29, 2003, the BCIS will gradually expand electronic filing of other petitions and applications; and
Current telephone information system of the four Service Centers will be cut off and telephone inquiry will be accepted, beginning from June 1, 2003, only by National Consumers Service Center 800 number.
Between now and the end of May, it is anticipated that the telephone inquiry lines of the four Service Centers are expected to experience a heavy traffic because everyone wants to make a live inquiry with the information officers at these offices before the phone lines are cut off. From June 1, the NCSC will continue to take inquiries but will not be able to give answers to individual case questions. They will pass it onto the relevant Service Center, which will then respond to such inquiry "by mail." People know what this means. It can take days or even months! That is why people want to make the phone inquiry before June 1 just even to hear the breath of live officer on the phone line talking about his/her case. This is the downside of on-going change.
www.immigration-law.com