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I have sent a fax to Mr. Mathews of www.immigration-law.com about randomly generated finger print notices by National Scheduler and I have requested him to take the issue to INS.
He took just a day to reply it.
Here is exact copy of the reply from him:
Hi, I have received and reviewed your fax inquiry. I do not believe that any Service Centers schedule fingerprint "randomly." The way I understand the situation is as follows: Two factors have affected the fingerprint scheduling. One is that there was a transitional period which started May last year with initiation of "national computer scheduling" of fingerprint. During this period, consumer experienced a number of problem, one of which was double scheduling of fingerprint which has already been completed. Our office has also witnessed that when it is scheduled by a computer, irregularity of scheduling took place, some cases being schedule in less than a month and some cases taking over one year. This problem is expected to be corrected once there is a government reorganization. This problem takes place not only for the customers for TSC but also other Service Centers because it appears that there is a flaw in the national scheduler. I will certainly bring this issue up when I visit one of the Service Centers. The other factor that causes a vicious circle is that fingerprint is good only for 15 months. TSC was processing and adjudicating mostly year 2000 backlog cases, which obviously created a tremendous fingerprinting problem because under the policy these cases needed to schedule refingerprinting in conventional mode. Accordingly, once the fingerprint expires before the file reaches the "adjudicator," they have to schedule a reprinting before the office can adjudicate the case. However, overall, this second problem has disappeared because of the reduction of processing times, but some cases still suffer.
We will try to address the problem through the AILA resources as well. It is unfortunate that you and your colleagues have been suffering from the problem. Believe me, you are not alone. This creates a very serious "fairness" problem.
I am sorry that I cannot give you a precise answer. We'll try to solve the problem together. This kind of interaction between the alien community and the lawyers is very important to deal with the INS problem. Thanks again.
Regards, Matthew
The Oh Law Firm
325 Cedar Street, Suite 812
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Tel: 651-293-1152
Fax: 651-293-9123
E-mail: ohlaw@immigration-law.com
Web: www.immigration-law.com
He took just a day to reply it.
Here is exact copy of the reply from him:
Hi, I have received and reviewed your fax inquiry. I do not believe that any Service Centers schedule fingerprint "randomly." The way I understand the situation is as follows: Two factors have affected the fingerprint scheduling. One is that there was a transitional period which started May last year with initiation of "national computer scheduling" of fingerprint. During this period, consumer experienced a number of problem, one of which was double scheduling of fingerprint which has already been completed. Our office has also witnessed that when it is scheduled by a computer, irregularity of scheduling took place, some cases being schedule in less than a month and some cases taking over one year. This problem is expected to be corrected once there is a government reorganization. This problem takes place not only for the customers for TSC but also other Service Centers because it appears that there is a flaw in the national scheduler. I will certainly bring this issue up when I visit one of the Service Centers. The other factor that causes a vicious circle is that fingerprint is good only for 15 months. TSC was processing and adjudicating mostly year 2000 backlog cases, which obviously created a tremendous fingerprinting problem because under the policy these cases needed to schedule refingerprinting in conventional mode. Accordingly, once the fingerprint expires before the file reaches the "adjudicator," they have to schedule a reprinting before the office can adjudicate the case. However, overall, this second problem has disappeared because of the reduction of processing times, but some cases still suffer.
We will try to address the problem through the AILA resources as well. It is unfortunate that you and your colleagues have been suffering from the problem. Believe me, you are not alone. This creates a very serious "fairness" problem.
I am sorry that I cannot give you a precise answer. We'll try to solve the problem together. This kind of interaction between the alien community and the lawyers is very important to deal with the INS problem. Thanks again.
Regards, Matthew
The Oh Law Firm
325 Cedar Street, Suite 812
St. Paul, Minnesota 55101
Tel: 651-293-1152
Fax: 651-293-9123
E-mail: ohlaw@immigration-law.com
Web: www.immigration-law.com