santhu - exactly my point
Ms Walker is our last hope, she is AILA lisasion person for Dept. of State, most lawyers would first talk to her and she in turn would tak to DOS. I have been trying to impress these to our other friends that we need to some how reach and she in turn might take up or case, otherwise FEB interivew is completely ruled out.
Her email which I found using google is :
kwalker@kempsmith.com.
I havent yet heard back from her. Here is what I sent to her, please re-draft in your own words and send e-mail to her and post on this forum :
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Madam,
I along with a group of other people (atleast another 10 people) have landed in a unique situation due to the current "Anthrax" situation. We had opted for Consular Processing during the time we applied for our I-140\'s. On approval, our papers where forwarded on to NVC in New Hampshire. Eventually our "Original Petition" was sent to Chennai via diplomatic pouch on 10/15 for some of us and 10/22 for the rest. These papers never made to Chennai. Our interviews where originally scheduled by Chennai on various dates in January but later cancelled as they did not have our "Physical" petition from NVC.
Some of us followed up with NVC and put a trace on our cases, NVC gave us FedEx tracking No\'s, which proved that our papers where delivered to Immigration Visa Unit, Department of State, Sterling VA 20166, from where they are further delivered through Diplomatic Pouch. On further investigation and talking to authorities in Sterling VA mail facility we where told, that these mails are still waiting to be fumigated and could take anywhere from 1-6 months.
At this time we are in a complete "Fix" as Chennai says that unless they receive our papers "Physically" they cannot proceed and NVC says they have sent our "Originals" and they can only re-send it electronically. Also it looks like this problem is there only with Chennai and not with Mumbai or Delhi. We are unable to make contact with any consulate officer in Chennai other that the Front Desk person, couldnt the consualte process our case based on the electronic case information they have from NVC ? As such already I had to cancel my air-tickets and my approved vacation and this additional uncertainity in these un-certain times is worrying us.
We would really appreciate if you could help us in some way by following up with the concerned authorities regarding this situation. You are our only hope at this stage.
Regards,