Comments on: Denied! Part I: Department of Homeland Security v My Wife http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eddie http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html/comment-page-1#comment-17978 Eddie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html#comment-17978 <p>All this just serves to heighten my paranoia regarding our fiance visa request in the pipeline... I hope that somehow you can talk to someone (perhaps via your school?) who can set this straight because you never know when letting a gov't snafu stand will come back to haunt you in the future.</p> All this just serves to heighten my paranoia regarding our fiance visa request in the pipeline… I hope that somehow you can talk to someone (perhaps via your school?) who can set this straight because you never know when letting a gov't snafu stand will come back to haunt you in the future.

]]> By: Brendan http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html/comment-page-1#comment-17976 Brendan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html#comment-17976 <p>Hot damn! If you can't appeal... what does that leave? Reapplying?</p> Hot damn! If you can't appeal… what does that leave? Reapplying?

]]> By: Mystery Meat http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html/comment-page-1#comment-17977 Mystery Meat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html#comment-17977 <p>No appeal? Sheesh. You may have to get your Congressman's office involved. The gov't is so stupid sometimes. Rejecting applications is the path of least resistance for someone with a large backlog of cases to complete. Too bad some terminally lazy doofus was handling your wife's case. Good luck!</p> No appeal? Sheesh. You may have to get your Congressman's office involved. The gov't is so stupid sometimes. Rejecting applications is the path of least resistance for someone with a large backlog of cases to complete. Too bad some terminally lazy doofus was handling your wife's case. Good luck!

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html/comment-page-1#comment-17979 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/09/11/denied-part-i-department-of-homeland-security-v-my-wife.html#comment-17979 <p>Brendan,<br /> <br /> We snuck the first application under the deadline, so it only cost us $180. The new fees are $300+. Assuming processing time takes as long the second time around, the OPT visa would come at about the same time as the permanent residency. *sigh*<br /> <br /> Mystery,<br /> <br /> I wonder about the bureaucracy... We had contacted Congress just a bit ago. [1] Part of me wonders if this was a "go over are heads, will you" retaliation by some punk bureaucrat...<br /> <br /> Eddie,<br /> <br /> Get a lawyer. Everything we have used our lawyer [2] for has either gone through or, when some paperwork was lost by USCIS, he sent it back in right away. The OPT was the only thing we trusted UNL with, because they handle it all the time. Ha!<br /> <br /> One irony of all of this is if not for the 1-week dead paper time (between the envelope being received by USCIS and processed), we would have been under their imaginary deadline.<br /> <br /> [1] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/08/27/constiuent-services.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/08/27/constiuent-services.html</a><br /> [2] <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/07/18/last-of-the-paperwork.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/07/18/last-of-the-paperwork.html</a></p> Brendan,

We snuck the first application under the deadline, so it only cost us $180. The new fees are $300+. Assuming processing time takes as long the second time around, the OPT visa would come at about the same time as the permanent residency. *sigh*

Mystery,

I wonder about the bureaucracy… We had contacted Congress just a bit ago. [1] Part of me wonders if this was a “go over are heads, will you” retaliation by some punk bureaucrat…

Eddie,

Get a lawyer. Everything we have used our lawyer [2] for has either gone through or, when some paperwork was lost by USCIS, he sent it back in right away. The OPT was the only thing we trusted UNL with, because they handle it all the time. Ha!

One irony of all of this is if not for the 1-week dead paper time (between the envelope being received by USCIS and processed), we would have been under their imaginary deadline.

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/08/27/constiuent-services.html
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/07/18/last-of-the-paperwork.html

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