Immigration/Citizenship

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those fraudulent visas back home don't even cost this much and to pay this amount for something legit:(((

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Welcome to New America :jhanda:

Sifarish Welcome!

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Its time to file a lawsuit. I suggest you do it yourself instead of hiring a lawyer.

Here are steps you need to take

  1. Contact your Federal District Court and ask for a Civil Case Pro Se package.
  2. Read it and follow the instructions.
  3. Prepare a lawsuit on Microsoft word. Print it and sign it.
  4. Get a Civil Cover sheet and fill it out.
  5. Call the court and ask to speak to the clerk…explain your situation and listen for advice.
  6. Either mail in or drop off the papers [complaint (with exhibits if any) + cover sheet]
  7. The court will send you a summons with your case number.
  8. Make copies of the summons and your complaint. (one for each defendant and an extra copy for the US attorney in your district)
  9. Put the case # on all copies.
  10. Serve the complaint + summons + exhibits if any via CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED on all defendants and the US atty office. Call the US ATTORNEY and get their address and the right department you should send your complaint to. (read the memo called whom to serve in my first post)
  11. Wait for the return receipt. The 60-day count starts from the date shown on the receipt received from the US atty.
  12. File the return receipt with the court, and send a copy to the US atty office.
  13. From here, everytime you file something with the court, send a copy to the US attorney and file a Certificate of service with the court. (see p.10 of this thread for an example)
  14. 2 weeks before the expiration of the deadline, call the US atty, introduce yourself, and ask about your case.
  15. Hopefully the name check will be cleared, and you’ll be a citizen within 2 to 3 months of filing the suit.

Please read the following thread for more information:

http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=194681

This contains a huge amount of information for the situation exactly like the one you are in.

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^ bravo Asif sahab... Information worth of $5K-$10K

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Same here:biggthumb:biggthumb

I need a bakra :(
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welcome to the forum
and happy solutions, we have some brilliant ppl here with advices on almost every thing.

but,
no one welcomed me a month ago :frowning:

i guess i dont have a green card, thats why :konfused:

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May be its your nick :stuck_out_tongue:

j/k :wave:

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You can file the lawsuit yourself. And may be it will work. The few examples I have seen where people had prepared the law suit themself, during the middle of the process they finally gave up and decide to get a lawyer, and paid as much anyway. Filing the lawsuit is the easy part, presenting your case in the court, and then when USCIS sees that you are not represented by a lawyer, things can get really tricky. This process involves negotiations, and unless you are an accomplished negotiator and know the legal issues involved, go for it.

However, don't be penny wise pound foolish. Its an important issue.

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I went through the same thing. Did the interview and waited two years for the letter to arrive for the oath. As Faisal pointed out it is with the FBI. If it is not urgent, than just wait. I will not waist money on the lawyers at all. No matter what they tell you, they cannot move the FBI machine any faster.

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Faisal, and dont just get any lawyer, look around, talk to ppl, get some recommendations and check teh lawyer experience and record on such items.

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write to your city mayor, congressman, and/or senator.. explain them the whole situation and request them to send an inquiry for your case. Usually, it does help a lot....

It's election time, hopefully they will process your request quick.

PS: you can also send an email inquiry to USCIS at [email protected], be sure to include your husband A#, Full name, date of Interview, officer name (if you know it), and the dates on which you made the phone calls or visited your local USCIS office.... let's see what their response is.

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Oh and BTW, i am just amazed over how stupid and freak USCIS can get, they call for the citizenship interview after the biometrics appointment and after making sure that FBI has given its clearance.... and i mean biometrics appointment is months before the citizenship interview date. How come did they call you guys for the interview before and without any FBI for-whatever-clear-records assurance....

i now have an even stronger belief that most of the USCIS people are crack heads and they don't do their homework at all.

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They used to call for interview before the background check until May of 2006. They changed this when people sued USCIS over this based on the letter that you get at the time of interview that says the OATH letter will arrive within 3 months.

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I have not heard of a single positive response from contacting politicians in this matter. Technically, its a national security issue, and no one will want to subvert the process of background clearance (esp. for a Pakistani) and have something come back to bite them later.

The only way forward I have seen work, is a law suit. Simple. Pricey, yes. But effective. Of course, you can chose to wait. You may get lucky, like Kaleem, and suddenly a letter will arrive in your mailbox.

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Here is some information on contacting the FBI for the name and finger print checks:

FBI Fingerprint Status (304) 625-2000
FBI Name Check Status (Main Line) (202) 324-3625
FBI NNCP Public Inquiry Voice Line (202) 324 2399
FBI Name Check Inquiry Fax (202) 324-3367 (Mention Name/DOB/A#/Ph#/Addr#/Email/Fax)
FBI NNCP Analyst Diane Berger – (202) 324 0680 (Do not nag the analysts)
FBI NNCP Supervisor Renee Morton – Call the FBI main line and ask for this person.
FOIPA Contact Person Debbie Beatty (202) 324 6182
FOIPA Fax Inquiry (202)-324-3752

William L Hooton
Assistant Director, Records Management Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Room 11703
935 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W
Washington DC 20535-0001

http://foia.fbi.gov/privacy_request.pdf
FBI NNCP (National Name Check Process) email address..
[email protected]

Here is the state department contact information:

To get an update on your case on AR, call the State Dept Visa Office at 202-663-1225. After hearing message, press 1,1,4,1,0…you will speak to an operator who will ask for your case #.

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Is swearing an oath obligatory in the states when getting a visa? Just a matter of interest?

I am from the UK.

Also, what is said in the oath?

I need a bakra :(
I need a bakra :(
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First,

You said you had seen a "State Senator". You are probably much better off with your local Congressman, than a Senator. Congressmen cover much smaller areas, and have a local staff to assist you. Second of all, write, but also call and ask for an appointment at your local office.

Here is how you do this. First, each Congressional office has a line of authority. The Congressman is the top, the AA or Administrative Assistant is the key advisor, the Legislative Assistant, generally deals with specific issues, and every one else is clerical or "constituent services". Try to get a personal appointment with the highest level person you can.

Each branch of Government has a key person or people called "Congressional liaisons". These are usually people who are very experienced within the department, and they do nothing all day but answer questions from Congressional offices. These people are usually given a very high priority with all internal resources. For example, a Congressional liaison can fix a problem with a citizens passport in 48 hours where the normal process might be months. Why is this so? Well, each agency wants to look capable and competent to the congressmen who approve their budgets!

So, if you are able to set up a personal meeting with a staff member, and you can convince that staff member to call the congressional liason at ICE, you may be able to accelerate things greatly. You have an enormous advantage, in that you are already a citizen. Be prepared to "sell" yourself a little, you are a hard worker, a concerned parent, active community member, political contributor, almost anything to make you and your family seem like the kind of people that this government wants to have in this country. (By the way, the FBI also has a congressional liasons, and the process can be sped a long quite a bit with the right phone call) . You can always sue later, but until you have exhausted this method, you should probably save your money, and see if this works.

Good Luck.

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OG is right, when we had issues working with DHS and US consulate in Casablanca, we were scarmbling until we had someone from Dennis Hastert's office get involved, you will not believe the speed at which things happened, to augment we had Bararck Obama's office ake some calls, and then for some state issues with the birth certificates we had a state senator get involved.

aside from hastert's office to which I went using some contacts in GOP. others got involved just because I reached out to them.

no harm in trying

to give u an idea of how they helped, I will nto bore you with details but illustrate 2 examples

we needed some specific information from the consulate and they kept dicking around, even the local DHS liason wrote to them and got jerked around. One call from Obama's office and they becamen super responsive. at the same time hastert's office had reached out to the congressional liaison.

secondly, DHS was sending some authorizations to teh consulate using the inter agency system which is standard procedure, even per the consulate but last minute they claimed they wanted actual hard copies notarized by national visa center..the DHS official and our contact from Hastert's office called NVC told them when they were getting the froms, gave them a 24 hour turnaround target. surprisingly NVC still managed to lose our file and then got a further ass kicking for Hastert's office and got it out the very next day.

I have not written details about some of this stuff, but if you can get some help get it.

I need a bakra :(
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Does anyone have a number to the USCIS office? I need it ASAP.
I'm not talking about: 1-800-375-5283; I tried that but I need to get in touch with a PERSON, it's only a machine speaking at the above number.

And could anyone please tell me how long does it take to get a Certificate of Citizenship if you are already a citizen of the US?

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Lyna hy kiya green card:aq:

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