Los Angeles EAD Renewal fiasco
Hello all. My husband (UK Citizen) and I (USC) left our home at around
midnight, drove 3-1/2 hours down to the Los Angeles INS office last Thursday, to get in line at 3:30am or so (behind more than 50 other people who got there at who knows what unearthly hour), to wait for more than five (5) hours, to be summarily dismissed for renewal of his EAD because our paperwork was in San Francisco. (grrrrrr...) Seems that when my husband went to Los Angeles the first time to get his original EAD card the paperwork was in San Francisco - an error made by the INS, not us! - but the Los Angeles folks managed to get him his EAD card despite this little problem. Not so with renewing it. They would not "bend the rules". The supervisor just kept saying that the rules would not allow them to renew the EAD without having the paperwork right there. The original EAD should not have been given out, I guess, but my husband got lucky. This time, not so lucky. Why they couldn't just pick up the phone and have one INS agent affirm everything to another INS agent right then and there is beyond me. They wouldn't tell us anything at all. We don't even have the "receipt" number that would help us to check on the status of our case. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Why our paperwork is in SF is beyond me. We filed in Los Angeles and are correctly in the Los Angeles district. They actually asked my husband if he got his original card in **Las Vegas**?!!! (No, all done in Los Angeles) Missed sleep, missed work, long drive...for nothing. They "promise" they will call us when the paperwork has successfully been transferred back to Los Angeles so we can do it all again. What a dismal horrid process. So disappointing and, well, icky. Like the worst DMV or unemployment office nightmare you've ever had, times 10, then run through the mills of hell a few times just for kicks. Bored looking, lobotomized clerks; grey walls, nothing works (the clerks just yell out the names or numbers of who should go where, "number 976, window 12" etc.) it's so archaic. I'm surprised they don't still use stone tablets and chisels, or maybe abacuses to work out all the details of each case. They might as well... My husband said that if American citizens had to do anything like that on any kind of regular basis they'd never put up with it. But the fact that foreign nationals are bottom rung folks in the power structure, they just accept it and put up with it and the system never changes. It's really sad. Anyway, we think our paperwork isn't really in SF at all, but got shredded in the Laguna Niguel/Santa Ana fiasco. Harumph. Thanks for letting me blow off steam. --Beverly Leaney married to UK citizen Jan. 02 AOS filed Feb. 02 fingerprinting and EAD March 02 nothing since then...still waiting...never got the infamous "receipt" either... |
Re: Los Angeles EAD Renewal fiasco
Originally posted by Beverly Hello all. My husband (UK Citizen) and I (USC) left our home at around midnight, drove 3-1/2 hours down to the Los Angeles INS office last Thursday, to get in line at 3:30am or so (behind more than 50 other people who got there at who knows what unearthly hour), to wait for more than five (5) hours, to be summarily dismissed for renewal of his EAD because our paperwork was in San Francisco. (grrrrrr...) Seems that when my husband went to Los Angeles the first time to get his original EAD card the paperwork was in San Francisco - an error made by the INS, not us! - but the Los Angeles folks managed to get him his EAD card despite this little problem. Not so with renewing it. They would not "bend the rules". The supervisor just kept saying that the rules would not allow them to renew the EAD without having the paperwork right there. The original EAD should not have been given out, I guess, but my husband got lucky. This time, not so lucky. Why they couldn't just pick up the phone and have one INS agent affirm everything to another INS agent right then and there is beyond me. They wouldn't tell us anything at all. We don't even have the "receipt" number that would help us to check on the status of our case. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Why our paperwork is in SF is beyond me. We filed in Los Angeles and are correctly in the Los Angeles district. They actually asked my husband if he got his original card in **Las Vegas**?!!! (No, all done in Los Angeles) Missed sleep, missed work, long drive...for nothing. They "promise" they will call us when the paperwork has successfully been transferred back to Los Angeles so we can do it all again. What a dismal horrid process. So disappointing and, well, icky. Like the worst DMV or unemployment office nightmare you've ever had, times 10, then run through the mills of hell a few times just for kicks. Bored looking, lobotomized clerks; grey walls, nothing works (the clerks just yell out the names or numbers of who should go where, "number 976, window 12" etc.) it's so archaic. I'm surprised they don't still use stone tablets and chisels, or maybe abacuses to work out all the details of each case. They might as well... My husband said that if American citizens had to do anything like that on any kind of regular basis they'd never put up with it. But the fact that foreign nationals are bottom rung folks in the power structure, they just accept it and put up with it and the system never changes. It's really sad. Anyway, we think our paperwork isn't really in SF at all, but got shredded in the Laguna Niguel/Santa Ana fiasco. Harumph. Thanks for letting me blow off steam. --Beverly Leaney married to UK citizen Jan. 02 AOS filed Feb. 02 fingerprinting and EAD March 02 nothing since then...still waiting...never got the infamous "receipt" either... Something is wrong somewhere and I'm not sure where it is. What county do you live in? |
Re: Los Angeles EAD Renewal fiasco
Folinskyinla wrote in message news:...
> Hi: > > Something is wrong somewhere and I'm not sure where it is. > > What county do you live in? We live in Santa Barbara County. This is, as far as I know, under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles office. Even a little farther north in San Luis Obispo County is still under the LA district's area. I think after that, everything north of there goes to SF. --Beverly |
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