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RFE for I-485 today: Contains an useful Perl Script

My computer paged me that my I-485 online status has changed. I found that it was RFE on 1/7/2004.

Talked to my company attorney, and she said the firm had started to receive RFEs around Chrismas. Mostly for employment verification and some for evidence of maintaining valid status in US.

I hope my turn of approval is coming soon. God bless!

RD 5/7/01
ND 8/10/01.
 
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Originally posted by king1999
My computer paged me ......
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Your Computer Paged YOU !! ?

R U running a background script which checks the status of your case every xx minutes ??
Please let us know .
I am tired of checking status of my cases every 10 mins !!

Hopefully you will get approved soon !
 
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What is your SRC

I am just curious if mine is close too
RD 05/2001
ND 08/17/2001
and my src is SRC-01-246-xxxxx.
Does your SRC also have the same five numbers.

THANKS
GOOD LUCK
 
Re: What is your SRC

Originally posted by ukr
I am just curious if mine is close too
RD 05/2001
ND 08/17/2001
and my src is SRC-01-246-xxxxx.
Does your SRC also have the same five numbers.

THANKS
GOOD LUCK
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Mine is SRC-01-240-xxxxx
 
Re: Re: RFE for I-485 today

Originally posted by eb2_I485_RD0901
Your Computer Paged YOU !! ?

R U running a background script which checks the status of your case every xx minutes ??
Please let us know .
I am tired of checking status of my cases every 10 mins !!

Hopefully you will get approved soon !
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I have ADSL at home, so I wrote a Perl script which invokes a program called cURL to check online status every hour. If something has changed, the script will send an email to my cell phone.

I believe others have done the same with VB, which could be simpler. But I don't like VB :D
 
I have the same rd and nd as you and the same five digits of src number. Hope we get our approval soon, but I doubt it. May be another six months or so.

Good luck.



ukrs posting ------------------------

I am just curious if mine is close too
RD 05/2001
ND 08/17/2001
and my src is SRC-01-246-xxxxx.
Does your SRC also have the same five numbers.

THANKS
GOOD LUCK

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The script is here

To make it work, you need the following:

1. Perl for http://activeperl.com/
2. cURL and openSSL from http://curl.haxx.se/

I set it up on Windows 2000 but it should work on Linux or other platforms with some simple changes.

The portions of code you need to customize are enclosed with lines of "#########".

On Windows you can use "Scheduled Tasks" to set up automatic runs, and on Linux you have cron.:cool:

Hope this helps, good luck!
 
Re: I love Perl too :-)

Originally posted by poongunranar
King1999:

I love Perl too and it is a wonderful tool for home automation.
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Same here. heyu, xtend, bottlerocket and a few CGI perl scripts with Apache on Linux, you can control all your lights from around the world :D
 
nice

Hi,

Nice script. Works fine on Linux after converting dos->unix text and changing the file locations. That's another one for the crontab ;-)

Note: I first missed that there are two places to put the email address, and one of them still seems to be your pager addres... You may want to edit your posting to take that out of the script, that is unless you don't mind being paged with other people's status... ;-))
 
Nah. The number for tmobile SMS email address is random, not my own number. I put it there as an example for setting up paging.

I found that there was a minor error in the script:
If you want to have a readable time stamp in the status result file,
$t = time();
should be
$t = localtime(time);

The line:
rename $status_file, $old_status_file.localtime(time).".html";
should be
rename $status_file, $old_status_file.time().".html";
 
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king1999,

Your script works fine ! but how do I get the mail because my ISP does not have a mailserver ( I have never used it )

#################################################################
# put your ISP information here

$name = "YourName";
$from = "youraccount\@bellsouth.net";

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailserverxxx.bellsouth.net');
#################################################################


Could I use my Hotmail / Yahoo server to "send" a SMS ?
 
Originally posted by eb2_I485_RD0901
[B#################################################################
# put your ISP information here

$name = "YourName";
$from = "youraccount\@bellsouth.net";

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailserverxxx.bellsouth.net');
#################################################################


Could I use my Hotmail / Yahoo server to "send" a SMS ? [/B]
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eb2:

You ISP should have a mail server (called SMTP server) if they provide email service to you. Check with them.

If you are using free Hotmail or Yahoo accounts, you can't do SMTP. But if you have a subscription with them (paying 20-40 bucks a year), they should provide you SMTP service.

You can also search the Net to find some free relay SMTP servers, but they are getting fewer and fewer because of SPAM.
 
more eye candy

To make the emails a little more convenient, I added some clickable url's in the mail: Around line number 133:

Last status check: $t
<p>
<A HREF="https://egov.immigration.gov/graphics/cris/jsps/caseStat.jsp">USCIS Case Status Search Page</A><p>
<A HREF="http://www.immigrationportal.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=40">I485 Forums at ImmigrationPortal.com</A>
</body>
</html>
EOF
 
Hi alsowaiting,

Can you post your script modified for Linux please? I tried but getting some syntax errors. Thanks.

sg_rg2
 
Here it is.

Note that I added a 'chdir()' command, so that I can use local names for the file locations. I put the script in $HOME/tools/uscis myself, and all temporary files of the script are put in there too.

So, you need to fill in your name, twice an email addres, an smtp server, a SRC number (or edit more to include more SRC numbers), and a directory where you want the temp&status files.

I have curl version 7.10.8 and perl 5.8.2 (Debian Sid).

Make sure you put the temp files somewhere where there are correct write permissions regarding the crontab entry you made for it..

Ths is the line that I added to my user crontab ('crontab -e', assuming user=alsowaiting) to make the script run every hour at 15 minutes after the hour:

15 * * * * /home/alsowaiting/tools/uscis/inquire_bics.pl
 
Attachment didn't work

So I'm trying again with a different filename (ending in .txt) ...

(I can't edit the post to add an attachment).

The attachment box empties itself when you preview a posting. Strange. I hope this time it gets through though...
 
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