Security Check, comments from Ron Gotcher!

dreamingtobe

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Hi Guys,
Below are the comments posted by Ron Gotcher, Attorney at law regarding security check! I am posting it just for information sake not for scaring any one and ofcourse these are just comments
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Topic: Security Check for all petitions by INS (1 of 3), Read 6 times
Conf: Adjustment of Status Issues
From: dreamingtobe
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002 08:02 AM

Hi Ron:
I heard about security check for all petitions by INS. What does it mean? Do you think it would delay processing of 485 applications further. Comment please.
Thanks
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Topic: Security Check for all petitions by INS (2 of 3), Read 5 times
Conf: Adjustment of Status Issues
From: Ron Gotcher
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002 09:06 AM

Honestly, I don\'t know what effect, if any, this will have on INS processing. I do know that the INS has a perfectly horrible record when it comes to performing background checks. In the past, they seemed utterly unable to run a simple background check on adjustment applicants. In the end, they just stopped doing them. They got caught by Congress a few years ago and the result was a ten month suspension of adjustment of status processing.

I don\'t mean to suggest that the same thing might happen again, and I certainly don\'t want to be the source of any crazy rumors about definite new processing slowdowns. My point is that the INS has a history of being unable to perform their required duties. Given that this new requirement seems to encompass not only adjustment cases, but ALL matters filed with them except citizenship matters, I have to think that it will have an effect on their production.

To give you some idea of how miserably incompetent they are, contrast the adjustment of status production of the four INS service centers with the immigrant visa work done by the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez Mexico. The post at Juarez not only handles more immigrant matters each year than the four INS service centers combined, but does it with about one tenth the staff. Also, Juarez handles mostly family based cases, which are incredibly messy (with all of the affidavit of support issues), where the INS service centers handle employment based cases (where the interviews are waived). What does that tell you about the INS?

Who knows? Given that they are supposed to be reorganizing, perhaps they will find a way to actually get their work done.

Ron Gotcher
The Gotcher Law Group, PC
Attorneys at Law
15300 Ventura Boulevard., Suite 507
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Tel: 818-990-4922
Fax: 818-990-4964
e-mail: JRG@Gotcherlaw.com

Notwithstanding any express or implied comments in the body of this message, nothing herein should be construed as legal advice, solicitation of legal services, or the creation of an attorney-client relationship. If you have a complex problem, you should seek individual legal representation from a competent immigration lawyer.

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Topic: Security Check for all petitions by INS (3 of 3), Read 1 times
Conf: Adjustment of Status Issues
From: dreamingtobe
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:43 AM

Thanks a lot Ron for your comments! of course I am really scared by hearing about INS\'s track record! Let us just keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best!
Thanks
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My lawyer said the same thing

My company lawyer told me to hold my horses and
get ready for anything.
 
Did anyone talk to IIO as when will they resume 485 processing?

Did anyone talk to IIO as when will they resume 485 processing?
 
Here is the story about 2nd security check:
2 of my friends applied for their Citizenship application.

1st friend:
Interview date: Feb 05, 2003
Oath Date: Feb 28, 2003
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2nd friend:
Interview date: Feb 12,2003
Oath Date: Feb 28, 2003
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While my 3 other friends are still waiting for last 7 months for oath ceremony because their security check did not finished yet.
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My question is , how come 2 friends got oath letter so early passing the security check whereas other 3 friends are still waiting??
 
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