What's the procedure to contact Senators?

Contacting

Hi,

Thank you for joining us in doing this.

Each Senator has a web page, and that will provide you with information on how and where to contact them. Two tips: first, don't send snail-mail to their Washington DC offices. After the anthrax letters, nothing gets through to them there very quickly. Better off picking their state office.

Second, sign the privacy release form. All the congresspeople House and Senate have these forms on their websites. Without signing this release (to let them use your information) they can not act on your behalf.

Some of the letters that I've written are around on older threads. If you search for my posts you'll come across them.

I wish you luck with writing. It took me three goes with all of them, but I was successful. If you have time, energy, and live in San Francisco area, you're very lucky in California. Both Senators have their main CA offices in the city. I've visited both in person. I've been able to talk to people like the director of constituent services by showing up on a Tuesday afternoon (I recommend a slow work day--perhaps not Monday or Friday).

becky
 
Hi Becky,

If the JIT date is not 1 month over your RD, does an inquiry either through the senators or by directly contacting CSc produce any results. Most of the time looks like the response is pretty standard Mine is wac-02-145. Should I wait till the JIT moves to end of APR or send one even earlier. My concern is if there is a frequent inquiry about a case it might get ignored. Would appreciate your comments on this. Thanks.
 
Staycool

I'm not really sure. I'm WAC 02 124 5XXXX which means that the JIT is one day before my receipt date (March 2). So, I've gotten to talk to them, and gotten them to tell me that things are getting better, and one has faxed the CSC on my behalf and that generated a classically useless fax (the CSC said that they weren't processing cases with my date--implying they were processing ones before me, while happily processing their usual random selection).

So, I don't have my approval.

But, that said... I've been shooting for something else with some of my activities, which is to get them to explain to a US citizen about why that citizen should vote for them when they can't fix this situation. So, I've been trying for another type of success. Here's what I think I might have done... I might have made them feel slightly more uncomfortable about the state of I485 processing generally.

More specifically, I've opened up large files with my name on them in a number of offices. My plan is to wait for the JIT date to pass and then send the next letter to each person. At that point they'll have a large fat file of my information and I hope that that means that they decide that because I'm polite and because I'm consistent, that something will happen.

Somewhere in the past I wrote about what makes a successful letter. I think that flattering their intelligence and writing about policy matters (one phrase that people really like that I use is "the INS is over mandated and under funded" -- they seem to like that because it's really snappy and a concise summary of the problem).

Well, this is my opinion... like everything else in this sorry "service" we're constantly having to make our best guesses...

becky
 
Becky,

Please forward the formats you sent to senators/congressman to inquire on your. Since the JIT is now beyond 30 days from my RD I will try my luck and see what kind of repsonse I will get.


WAC-02-103-XXXX
 
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