RD Sept 19, 2002, still waiting
RD Sep 19, 2002
Approval: Still waiting.
I am also outside the US since Oct 24, 2002. I am curious as to what I should do, if the re-entry permit takes more than a year to come. Should I visit the US just to be sure that I don't exceed the 1 year limit or should I just relax and wait for the re-entry to come before returning back.
BTW: the BCIS website is giving icorrect dates for the I-131 (re-entry permit) processing time. Here is another post:
Re-Entry Permit Receipts
Giving Wrong Processing
Time
Cite as "Posted on AILA InfoNet at Doc. No. 03032420
(Mar. 24, 2003) ."
Recently members have received re-entry permit
receipts from the
NSC with a 900+ day processing time. This is not
accurate. Reentry
Permits are actually taking about 180 to 190 days. The
confusion
stems from the fact the NSC must choose one of five
categories
under which to place the I-131 for the purpose of
generating the receipt notice, it is using the HRIFA
category. This category does, in fact, take over 900
days. The NSC "defaulted" to the HRIFA
category for generation of receipt notices because it
experienced some problems with the production
of Reentry Permits.