Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Feb 7th 2008, 9:25 am
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Name-check backlogs being cleared?
I've heard that CIS now has a new policy - if name checks have not cleared within six months, they may approve the adjustment application, provided this is the only reason causing the hold-up.
Anyone here heard of this or has any further information?
Anyone here heard of this or has any further information?
Feb 7th 2008, 11:16 am
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Info on memorandum just came out today.
Memo reads that if an I-485 matter is otherwise approvable and background checks have been delayed by more than 180 days, adjudicator may approve case and order issuance of green cards.
You can find memo at:
And on news section of our home page at <<snip>>
Regards,
Andrew M. Wilson, Esq.
Serotte Reich Wilson, LLP
<<snip>>
Memo reads that if an I-485 matter is otherwise approvable and background checks have been delayed by more than 180 days, adjudicator may approve case and order issuance of green cards.
You can find memo at:
And on news section of our home page at <<snip>>
Regards,
Andrew M. Wilson, Esq.
Serotte Reich Wilson, LLP
<<snip>>
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Feb 7th 2008, 12:50 pm
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Yes, a LIMITED memo has come out to that effect. It is limited to the FBI fingerprint and name checks ONLY. It does not appear to cover the IBIS checks. Also, I wonder what is to be done if the FBI prints are more than 15 months old -- do new fingerprints have to be taken?
I think this is a big improvement -- but I've had many Immigration Officers tell me one day that IBIS clean, FBI pending and three moths later FBI cleared and there is a hit on IBIS.
Feb 7th 2008, 1:50 pm
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Is your son still stuck in name check limbo?
Feb 8th 2008, 2:41 am
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Thanks
Fahad
Feb 8th 2008, 2:54 am
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
CIS has nothing to do with that. It is limited to adjustments before CIS. It does NOT cover adjustments before the immigration court.
Also, many people waiting outside the US for immigrant visas have never been in the US.
Feb 11th 2008, 4:04 pm
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Also on the same page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters
and they filed just before the deadline.
Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters
and they filed just before the deadline.Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
Feb 11th 2008, 4:09 pm
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Also on the same page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters and they filed just before the deadline.
Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters
and they filed just before the deadline.Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
Course he can ..a GC is a GC ...
Feb 11th 2008, 8:32 pm
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Also on the same page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters and they filed just before the deadline.
Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Sorry if this has been here before, but Christ that fee change was so uncalled for.
We've still not filed for ROC (we are now in the 90 day window) and I'm wondering how long it will take. Another Dutch-American couple we know here in Texas got their application kicked back and asked for affidavit letters
and they filed just before the deadline.Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
LPR's cannot get advance parole. Why would he want it? Travel on the LPR status is permitted.
RFE for affidavits? How bad was their case?
Feb 12th 2008, 12:27 am
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
Also on the same page:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18immig.html?fta=y
Does anyone know if a 2-year GC holder who is in the middle of ROC to a 10-year card, can travel outside the country, or do they need AP? Don't recall whether AP is bundled with ROC or not.
Yes as Ray says its not a problem. They send you an interim letter saying your GC is extended a month, just take that when you leave the country and show it to immigration on the way back in.
Feb 12th 2008, 12:36 am
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Re: Name-check backlogs being cleared?
As good as it gets, they had known each other eight years and she'd applied for him to live in NL... only you cannot have a joint sponsor there so she could not qualify on her own income... boss gave her a raise only to have NL immi come back and say the income requirement had gone up!
So he lived temporarily in NL, they have oodles of pictures and joint bills and joint names on lease, you name it. He filed for her via DCF, don't know if that's good or bad, but she had LPR status upon entering the country.
One of the people who knows us best is .... my ex-husband! He's been in far more regular contact with the both of us because of shuttling the kids back and forth. Wonder what they'd think of that. Alternately the CO could just pop round for a cuppa and see straightaway that we're "bona fide."
So he lived temporarily in NL, they have oodles of pictures and joint bills and joint names on lease, you name it. He filed for her via DCF, don't know if that's good or bad, but she had LPR status upon entering the country.
One of the people who knows us best is .... my ex-husband! He's been in far more regular contact with the both of us because of shuttling the kids back and forth. Wonder what they'd think of that. Alternately the CO could just pop round for a cuppa and see straightaway that we're "bona fide."
