Has anyone ever filed an I-140 at the TCS, and requested the USCIS to contact the BEC directly for a certified duplicate of the LC and gotten the I-140 approved?
After 6 long years and 1 re-filing later, my labor cert was finally approved in Oct 2006. But...they lost it. I have tried many times either by myself or through my local congressman's office, to contact the PBEC for a copy. Surprisingly, they were being very nice about it, and kept on telling us that it's not a problem, they will send a certified duplicate out asap. Well, it turned out that these fine folks at the PBEC were nothing more than a bunch of bureaucratic liars.
They don't flat out tell you that they won't send it out, and you should just file without the LC and let USCIS contact them directly, instead they gave you the run-arounds, and the false hopes that it may be in your mail box within a week or so. Well, months have gone by, finally in mid-December 2006, I just couldn't wait any longer. So at the recommandation of my lawyer, we filed the I-140 with the TCS without the LC. If I had known that I will never receive my LC, I could have filed back in October. I checked with my lawyer on Jan 10, just out of curiosity, whether my LC has EVER arrived, like PBEC had promised; it hasn't.
I don't know if the PBEC is set up to handle individual requests for LC copies, all I can hope is that there is a procedure in place to handle official USCIS requests, I hate to see my I-140 pending forever because the PBEC also flaked on USCIS in sending out the LC.
After 6 long years and 1 re-filing later, my labor cert was finally approved in Oct 2006. But...they lost it. I have tried many times either by myself or through my local congressman's office, to contact the PBEC for a copy. Surprisingly, they were being very nice about it, and kept on telling us that it's not a problem, they will send a certified duplicate out asap. Well, it turned out that these fine folks at the PBEC were nothing more than a bunch of bureaucratic liars.
They don't flat out tell you that they won't send it out, and you should just file without the LC and let USCIS contact them directly, instead they gave you the run-arounds, and the false hopes that it may be in your mail box within a week or so. Well, months have gone by, finally in mid-December 2006, I just couldn't wait any longer. So at the recommandation of my lawyer, we filed the I-140 with the TCS without the LC. If I had known that I will never receive my LC, I could have filed back in October. I checked with my lawyer on Jan 10, just out of curiosity, whether my LC has EVER arrived, like PBEC had promised; it hasn't.
I don't know if the PBEC is set up to handle individual requests for LC copies, all I can hope is that there is a procedure in place to handle official USCIS requests, I hate to see my I-140 pending forever because the PBEC also flaked on USCIS in sending out the LC.