Q & A Janurary 26, 2005

Q & A 1.

Q&A 1.

When returning requested evidence to the U.S.C.I.S., no receipt is provided.

Wen reader asks:
I came to US in August 2003 under K1 visa. I married an US citizen in 9/03 and successfully received working permit, social security card. In 2/04, I received the interview notice for the conditional green card. I was interviewed on 3/04 at New Orleans, Louisiana. At the time of interview, the examiner told me that my background check has not been completed and it might be completed by June. We did not bring all the required documents at the time and was told to submit them within 80 days. The immigration center in New Orleans received our additional documents on 5/7/04(the post office’s return receipt is the proof). As of today, I have not received any information from immigration. Is my case’s process normal? Should the CIS send me a receipt when they received the additional documents?

Dear reader:

Immigration officers are busy and many times cannot return to pending cases for a long time. That is because their job on most days is to continue interviewing a number of new cases every day. They need to have time off the calendar for interviewing before they can return to already interviewed cases. Also examiners take vacations, are given special assignments, or leave the interviewing unit. I suggest that if you have not already heard from the examiner by the time that this letter appears in print, you or your attorney should inquire concerning the status of your matter to the examiner or the examiner's supervisor. Such can be done by arranging an InfoPass appointment at the local office. When returning requested evidence to the U.S.C.I.S., no receipt is provided. Receipts are normally provided for monies paid at the time of filing.

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