Los Angeles EAD Renewal fiasco
Feb 18th 2003, 8:59 pm
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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...
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...
Feb 18th 2003, 11:03 pm
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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...
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?
Feb 19th 2003, 5:07 pm
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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
> 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
