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My FP letter issued on Sep\'00 was lost by my incompetent lawyer. I only found out about it when I received an RFE in Mar\'01. Turns out my lawyer had filed a photocopy of the FP letter, and the original was missing.
Of course, I was in a panic. The RFE explicitly said that my FP time has expired and they wanted an explanation. I got myself a new lawyer who told me to sit and wait while he wrote to Vermont and requested another FP notice.
In the meantime, time was ticking away. But no response came back from Vermont. I called the IIO and they said they are unlikely to send another FP letter. So I just took the photocopy of the original, and went to the nearest FP center, explained my problem to them and they were nice enough to let me through. I was almost a year late, was in a different state (since I had moved) and was using a photocopy. But it worked out!!