U.S. House-Senate Conference on Sen. Levin’s amendment on FBI Name Check

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In Mid-October 2007, U. S. Senate has approved an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., to improve oversight of the FBI National Name Check Program, which faces a substantial backlog. The program is used to run background checks on people, including these applying for immigration benefits (such as F1 visa, J-1 visa, H1b work visa, green card application). But the amendment is too general to have any affect on FBI name check efficiency. Like all other immigration bills, Sen. Levin’s amendment must go through U.S. House-Senate conference (or called Congressional delegation) to survive. U.S. House is currently setting up a group of conference members to negotiate Senate’s amendment. Right now we have an immediate opportunity to express our concerns to U. S. House conference members and therefore will possibly solve the name check delay. Currently, Legal Immigrant Association (LIA: www.legalimmigrant.net or www.legalimmigrant.org) is running a campaign to push the revision and improvement of Sen. Levin’s amendment. The House Representatives in the House-Senate conference will decide if Levin’s amendment needs a significant change. We need name check stories (including your suffering Name Check experience) from you folks. Please send your Name Check suffering stories to LIA’s lobbyist, Mr. Paul Donnelly: pauldonnelly@ medialever. com, and CC: renhao09@yahoo. com, ASAP.
Please include the following information in the name check story:
1. Your name:
2. Your current location (city, state, zip code):
3. Type of application (F1, H1b, EB1~3, citizenship etc.) :
4. Submission date:
5. Name check pending since (if known):
6. Name of your local congressman/ women (available at:
http://www.census. gov/geo/www/ maps/cd108n/ FF_cd108n_ maps.htm):
7. Your work title/position:
8. Briefly describe your suffering experience from the name check delay:
9. Briefly describe what effort you have taken to deal with the name
The House-Senate Conference will start as early as next week. So this is URGENT
 
Let us give it a shot!

Just heard that all immigration amendments have been ruled out of a appropriation bill. But the name check issue is about national security. Let us give a shot!!!
 
Please see my new article under the following title:
"The best chance to reduce FBI Name Check Delay this year"
 
Your case is surprisingly delayed. I have seen in this forum most people who frequent it are EB3s or best EB2s. There are very infrequent EB-1A getting stuck. It seem you might be stuck in NC. Hope you get out of it soon. You must write to FL or COngressman so that FBI remove dust off your file and reply to FL and send a copy to USCIS and you. This will allow USCIS to quickly approve your case.

There is no other way to get out of NC well / hell.


Muhin said:
I support LIA too. I've sent my story already.
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mogambo1 said:
Your case is surprisingly delayed. I have seen in this forum most people who frequent it are EB3s or best EB2s. There are very infrequent EB-1A getting stuck. It seem you might be stuck in NC. Hope you get out of it soon. You must write to FL or COngressman so that FBI remove dust off your file and reply to FL and send a copy to USCIS and you. This will allow USCIS to quickly approve your case.

There is no other way to get out of NC well / hell.
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Thank you for your suggestions. My case was stuck in NC. I will send a letter (someone suggested a certified letter) to First Lady.
 
Thanks, I have already sent letters to
1) Congresswoman (March 2007)
2) FL (April 2007)
3) Senator (June 2007)
4)TSC Director (September 2007)

I received response to FL request from FBI with standard "in process" reply.
I get regular e-mails from my Congresswoman's office with "pending due to namecheck" response. The lust update was given a month ago. That makes me think that dust is still on the top of my file.


mogambo1 said:
Your case is surprisingly delayed. I have seen in this forum most people who frequent it are EB3s or best EB2s. There are very infrequent EB-1A getting stuck. It seem you might be stuck in NC. Hope you get out of it soon. You must write to FL or COngressman so that FBI remove dust off your file and reply to FL and send a copy to USCIS and you. This will allow USCIS to quickly approve your case.

There is no other way to get out of NC well / hell.
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Muhin said:
Thanks, I have already sent letters to
1) Congresswoman (March 2007)
2) FL (April 2007)
3) Senator (June 2007)
4)TSC Director (September 2007)

I received response to FL request from FBI with standard "in process" reply.
I get regular e-mails from my Congresswoman's office with "pending due to namecheck" response. The lust update was given a month ago. That makes me think that dust is still on the top of my file.
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You are having some LUDs these days. Hopefully, you are very close to getting an approval notice. Good luck.
 
LIA and LIA's lobbyists suggested the "Supervisory review upon request" which should be included into the bill to improve Sen. Levin’s amendment.

The following is the details.

Appendix: “Supervisory review upon request” to reduce FBI name check delay

Background Check Review Process--Legislative Language

SEC.___. PROCESSING OF BACKGROUND AND SECURITY CHECKS BY U.S. CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES—At the end of the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act, Pub. L. 106-313, Title II (114 Stat. 1262, October 17, 2000), add the following—

“Sec. 205. Processing of Background and Security Checks.

“(a) With respect to the processing of background and security checks and fraud investigations conducted pursuant to any provision of law related to immigration benefits, the Secretary shall establish a procedure for supervisory review of delays in the concluding of such checks and investigations which shall:

“(1) Be available if the duration of the check or investigation has continued for longer than 180 days;

“(2) Be conducted if requested by a petitioner or applicant for any such immigration benefits;

“(3) Be conducted by supervisory personnel designated by the Secretary;

“(4) Determine the cause of the failure or inability to complete the check or investigation within 30 days of the request and project the likely time required to achieve completion;

“(5) Provide to the requesting petitioner or applicant the cause of the failure or inability to complete the check or investigation and the projected date of completion within 45 days of the request; and

“(6) Permit the petitioner or applicant to obtain a further supervisory review if the check or investigation remains pending after the projected date of completion.”

“(b) The Secretary shall publish a report within 90 days of the end of each fiscal year which shall itemize by type of immigration benefit sought:

“(1) The number of background and security checks and the number of fraud investigations (separately stated) that have been pending as of the end of such fiscal year for periods of 90 days, 180 days, 270 days, one year, two years, and more than two years; and

“(2) The numbers of supervisory reviews requested for each such type of immigration benefit and a statistical summary of the proportion of such checks and investigations completed within 30, 60, 90, and longer numbers of days after the request for supervisory review was filed.”
 
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