Originally posted by Beverley
Thank-you Vipsha for your help - much appreciated. Like most of you I am really frustrated - started immigration proceedings in January 1998, was advised by my lawyer it would take approx. 2 years. Final papers for AOS went in February 2002. As of 5 months ago it looked as though I would receive my green card in 1 year. After so long I desperately want to visit family in England. All my plans had to be cancelled because of the incompetence of CIS. My WAC # 02113953XXX Cannot apply for AP as remained here illegally.........
Beverley, do you have a h1b visa or some visa of some kind? That should be enough for visiting england, but sane advice from silly man, DON'T. I mean, you don't know what issues the dude @ port of entry might give you, why take the risk. Better way out, get your family here to visit you here instead if you can.
Anyway, you asked how to read your WAC#, here it is,
WAC # 02113953XXX <--- means.
WAC -> California
02 -> Year # (right now we are in #03)
113 -> The day of the year .. year begins oct 1st.
rest of it -> Sequence number (all kinds of cases in this).
And I really don't want to add to your frustrations, but looking at how fast/slow the INS is going .. 113 is probably in for a long wait. But I hope I'm wrong.
Do british citizens have any sort of protected status like NAFTA and all?
Regards, what JIT means, JUST IN TIME REPORT. AILA (
www.aila.org), sort of way back muscled INS into being more responsive. So INS started giving AILA a JIT report, which basically tells AILA, what kind of cases have been assigned to officers till what date. Assigned doesn't necessarily mean approved. Usually it takes 30 days after assignment before you can expect approval or RFE or whatever. However, CSC has been lying in it's JIT lately .. (long story .. stick around u'll know).