CTN400 - sorry i stopped looking at this board for a while. just get depressed going through these posts.
i have tried everything -
- written to senator lieberman two times.
- written to and spoken to congressman shays' office two times
both their offices were very courteous and nice and sent very nicely written letters (same exact letter sent back every time i wrote to them), but they can't do anything because of the FBI name check. but yeah - they must have heard this sorry tale so many times from us folks, they have a standard response that they send out. doesn't look like the senators/congressmen even want to bother reading the letters sent to them. their clerks do that job - and they could care less. they weren't the ones elected to help people. one thing is for sure, i ain't voting for any of these folks if i ever do become a citizen. at least have the friggin' courtesy of personally looking into the cases - at least once in a friggin' while. yeah whatever. have they even given more than 1 second of thought on the subject of fbi name check? have they read the ombudsman's report on this subject? do they agree with what the ombudsman says? they don't? take a stand, man! do something!
then i wrote to the first lady, as suggested by other posters here, and that didn't help either. i didn't expect much from there anyway. it's not her problem that my parents named me wrong.
i have stopped calling the 800 number as they just make me feel like a worthless piece of sh*t. don't remember how many phones i must've broken after speaking to those buggers
the infopass people are nice though (at least not overtly obnoxious and rude as the 800 number people), but no point making infopass appointments because if you're stuck in name check, as i am, there's nothing that they can do. if the name check is not done, the file's not even in hartford. and if the file ain't in hartford, the infopass guys don't know about us!
but yeah, the 800 number people don't even bother being courteous.
in any case, don't think anyone really cares about our plight. don't think any senator/congressman wants to touch this name check issue because they may be seen as "weak on national security". if we get stuck in name check, we MUST be guilty. tough sh*t!
we are all guilty until proven otherwise, so the story goes..
..it doesn't matter that if you've been in this country almost all your adult life, followed and obeyed every law, been a good citizen, a good human being. none of that matters. you're just reduced to being a worthless nobody who has no rights - NO RIGHTS AT ALL - when it comes to the fbi name check. no decency in the process at all. it's as if as soon as you get stuck in the fbi name check program, the authorities get the excuse to start treating you like sh*t, slap you around senseless and refuse to explain to you what it is that you may have done wrong! i've had a person from the office of a congressman tell me that because of your background (ethnicity), it'll take time - deal with it! at least she was being honest.
sorry for the rant! this whole thing is ruining my life in a way i could have never imagined!
p.s. - i am not advocating that people stop trying. these experiences are mine alone. others may have had better luck. we should try all possible avenues available to us. write/call/e-mail anyone you can.
