DawnA

I have noticed posts from people who got their congressperson to contact BCIS on their behalf regarding K-1 petitions.

I would appreciate it if anybody could tell me who exactly the congressperson contacts - is it the same 800 number we use, or are they able to contact individual centres directly?

Thank you

DawnA

dwaarf2

our congress liason contacted nebraska (our service centre ) itself she went stright to the top guy Terry Way on our behalf , i suppose some of the lazy ones ring the automated line but most people i have talked to said they talked to NSC itself ,
hope this helps

saidsgirl

They have secret Batman-lines that lead them to the offices, and the Congressional liasons, directly. They have email addresses and fax numbers that the public does not have access to.

DawnA

Thank you for replying!

Did the Congress Liaison input help your petition, dwaarf2?

DawnA

saidsgirl

Dawn.....

Let me tell you about my case. It is not too wonderful.

I requested via my congressmans office that my case be considered for an expedite due to a service error on the part of the TSC. (NOA 1 said 60-90 days, waited over 125 days before I spoke to congressmans office). Well, because I did that, my case sat and sat and sat at TSC, AFTER IT WAS APPROVED, for nearly 6 weeks.
Apparently, it had to go through a series of "re-routings" because I made that request and therefore it was "in transit" within TSC for the above mentioned time.
I wrote a letter to Eduardo Aguirre and several other people in Washington DC. Almost immediately thereafter, I was sent a new, updated approval notice and then the case appeared at NVC 2 days later.

I personally feel that because I made waves, because I wrote a letter to my congressman about the extremely poor "service" offered by the TSC, that my file was "placed" to the side. I am not a paranoid person by nature, but this situation has put me completely on the defensive. I think it is because of the absolute helplessness that you feel, being at the mercy of the system.

At any rate, I do suppose that writing to your congressman can make you feel better about your wait, but in the end I don't see that it will make any significant dent in the amount of time you will have to wait. Waiting is simply the nature of this beast and it is something that we must deal with.

Peace,
~kristine

DawnA

Kristine,

I'm sorry to hear about the problems you had. The waiting in itself is hard enough, without added complications.

I didn't intend to write to a congressman, or request an expedite.

Congratulations on getting your approval - finally - and I'm sorry you had such a rough time.

Thanks again for the information.

DawnA

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I tend to disagree a little bit when we believe that INS officials would
revenge back to the applicants.
I too had onctacted one of senators for an upgrade because we felt that the
case was dragging. On all occasion, I was wrong, the replies from our
senator's office and the information from BCIS were only a few days
different. The answers were exactly the same thing.

We need to be more patient toward the case load that they have. I'm pretty
sure that those case workers would do anything possible to expadite the
applications by going through normal work as they have been doing for a very
long time. What can you expect from the fed?


"DawnA" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Kristine,
    > I'm sorry to hear about the problems you had. The waiting in itself is
    > hard enough, without added complications.
    > I didn't intend to write to a congressman, or request an expedite.
    > Congratulations on getting your approval - finally - and I'm sorry you
    > had such a rough time.
    > Thanks again for the information.
    > DawnA
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