Guys Please Please take action. Contact your senators/congressmen to let them know about the issue, who knows who might pursue this till it get resolved.
You can go to the follwing websites to get the contact information.
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/
Also please check the following thread for some contact information.
Thanks to mogaram(http://www.immigrationportal.com/WebX?13@@.ef19319/67) for the contact information.
Here is a sample letter that I prepared, feel free to modify to reflect your situation. FYI: I just faxed my letter to Sen. Sam Brownback I also contacted few other senators.
But please note that it is the COLLECTIVE WILL that holds out in situation like this.
Please don\'t forget post your message to this thread after you contact, just to keep this thread active and encourage other people to do the same.
Sample Letter:
Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: INS GUIDELINES - REQUEST FOR HELP
Let me first thank you for taking time to read this letter. My name is XXXXXXX and I am from YOUR STATE NAME. I am writing to you about an INS Guidelines issue that is keeping my self and several people like me in a state of uncertainty and anxiety. I believe this particular issue affects several hundred people (Going by my observation of Internet News Groups/Message Boards).
The issue is related to Permanent Residency through employment. As you know, because of the severe backlog, it is already taking years to go through the complete cycle of getting permanent residency. Lately most of the cases are being put on hold because the sponsoring company’s name has changed since filing of I-140/I-485. I believe most of the INS Service Centers are not clear on how to proceed with these cases, especially INS Vermont Service Center (VSC), where I filed my I-485 application.
For the last several months, every time we call VSC, to get the status on our cases, we get the same answer that VSC is waiting for guidelines from INS Head Quarters on how to handle this type of cases. VSC doesn’t even know when the guidelines are expected.
In simple terms VSC would keep any I-485 application on hold if the applicant’s Company Name changes for any reason e.g. acquisition/merger or even a simple name change. VSC is currently processing cases filed in March/April 2000 while holding the cases filed long before that. In my case I applied in MONTH, YEAR. I have heard cases filed even before that are also on hold. It is a frustrating experience to wait for so many years only to see the cases on hold without knowing when they will be processed, while cases filed at a later date are being processed.
I request your kind attention to this issue and use your good offices to pursue INS HQ/VSC to come up with guidelines to handle these “Company Name Change Cases”.
Once again, thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
PS: I-140 -> Petition of an Immigrant Labor
I-485 -> Application for Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident
Sincerely,
NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION
You can go to the follwing websites to get the contact information.
http://www.senate.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/
Also please check the following thread for some contact information.
Thanks to mogaram(http://www.immigrationportal.com/WebX?13@@.ef19319/67) for the contact information.
Here is a sample letter that I prepared, feel free to modify to reflect your situation. FYI: I just faxed my letter to Sen. Sam Brownback I also contacted few other senators.
But please note that it is the COLLECTIVE WILL that holds out in situation like this.
Please don\'t forget post your message to this thread after you contact, just to keep this thread active and encourage other people to do the same.
Sample Letter:
Dear Sir,
SUBJECT: INS GUIDELINES - REQUEST FOR HELP
Let me first thank you for taking time to read this letter. My name is XXXXXXX and I am from YOUR STATE NAME. I am writing to you about an INS Guidelines issue that is keeping my self and several people like me in a state of uncertainty and anxiety. I believe this particular issue affects several hundred people (Going by my observation of Internet News Groups/Message Boards).
The issue is related to Permanent Residency through employment. As you know, because of the severe backlog, it is already taking years to go through the complete cycle of getting permanent residency. Lately most of the cases are being put on hold because the sponsoring company’s name has changed since filing of I-140/I-485. I believe most of the INS Service Centers are not clear on how to proceed with these cases, especially INS Vermont Service Center (VSC), where I filed my I-485 application.
For the last several months, every time we call VSC, to get the status on our cases, we get the same answer that VSC is waiting for guidelines from INS Head Quarters on how to handle this type of cases. VSC doesn’t even know when the guidelines are expected.
In simple terms VSC would keep any I-485 application on hold if the applicant’s Company Name changes for any reason e.g. acquisition/merger or even a simple name change. VSC is currently processing cases filed in March/April 2000 while holding the cases filed long before that. In my case I applied in MONTH, YEAR. I have heard cases filed even before that are also on hold. It is a frustrating experience to wait for so many years only to see the cases on hold without knowing when they will be processed, while cases filed at a later date are being processed.
I request your kind attention to this issue and use your good offices to pursue INS HQ/VSC to come up with guidelines to handle these “Company Name Change Cases”.
Once again, thank you for your kind attention to this matter.
PS: I-140 -> Petition of an Immigrant Labor
I-485 -> Application for Adjustment of Status to Permanent Resident
Sincerely,
NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION