I just need to vent. (Atlanta office)
We filed (marriage based) in July 2017, wife got her EAD/AP in October 2017 but it had her name misspelled. It took until January for them to issue an EAD card with her name correctly spelled (and it wasn't even some natural misspelling, her last name is Florez and it said Flroez).
Whatever, everything takes a while in government work.
So we FINALLY get our interview for July 2018. We go have the interview, the girl interviewing us says I definitely believe the marriage is real, but your medical form is expired. We submitted the medical form on July 17, 2017 and our interview was on July 18, 2018 (or something like that), so her medical was expired by ONE DAY because THEY DIDN'T BOOK THE INTERVIEW WITHIN A YEAR. She also is not satisfied that my wife has no outstanding SPEEDING TICKETS like are you kidding me? She says she has to send an RFE. I asked her how long before we would get it and she said "I'm going to send it out today". I reiterated that my wife's EAD expires October 10 and she says oh you'll be fine.
Two weeks later I get the RFE. In the mean time my wife has gotten her medical exam again (more $$ out the door), and her speeding tickets are in like rural Alabama so she gets a copy of her driver history and all info she has on her tickets and we send it off the first week of August.
We FINALLY get an alert that someone has finally received and reviewed our RFE response on September 15. Nothing since. I got an infopass appointment and we went today and all they said was "there's nothing we can do to make the officer move faster"
All the while, my wife is a doctor who has clients who rely on her for weekly therapy sessions.
And before you tell me to send a request to expedite, I already did, and the supervisor I spoke to today basically said: welp, IDK if we even got it and basically led me to believe those do not even work.
Our next step is to file ANOTHER EAD request to renew, pay the $400+ filing fee, and wait 4-6 months to get it, or we can just wait for the incompetent immigration officer to tell us that we need even more proof that my wife has not even had a parking ticket or something.
I'm just so pissed off right now. My wife is pregnant and we are trying to save $ for her maternity leave and yet she's going to lose her ability to earn money and her ability to drive a car because they took so long. Oh and getting an infopass, at least in Atlanta, does basically nothing because even the supervisor says "I'm not doing moving anyone's priority up at all".
/end rant
We filed (marriage based) in July 2017, wife got her EAD/AP in October 2017 but it had her name misspelled. It took until January for them to issue an EAD card with her name correctly spelled (and it wasn't even some natural misspelling, her last name is Florez and it said Flroez).
Whatever, everything takes a while in government work.
So we FINALLY get our interview for July 2018. We go have the interview, the girl interviewing us says I definitely believe the marriage is real, but your medical form is expired. We submitted the medical form on July 17, 2017 and our interview was on July 18, 2018 (or something like that), so her medical was expired by ONE DAY because THEY DIDN'T BOOK THE INTERVIEW WITHIN A YEAR. She also is not satisfied that my wife has no outstanding SPEEDING TICKETS like are you kidding me? She says she has to send an RFE. I asked her how long before we would get it and she said "I'm going to send it out today". I reiterated that my wife's EAD expires October 10 and she says oh you'll be fine.
Two weeks later I get the RFE. In the mean time my wife has gotten her medical exam again (more $$ out the door), and her speeding tickets are in like rural Alabama so she gets a copy of her driver history and all info she has on her tickets and we send it off the first week of August.
We FINALLY get an alert that someone has finally received and reviewed our RFE response on September 15. Nothing since. I got an infopass appointment and we went today and all they said was "there's nothing we can do to make the officer move faster"
All the while, my wife is a doctor who has clients who rely on her for weekly therapy sessions.
And before you tell me to send a request to expedite, I already did, and the supervisor I spoke to today basically said: welp, IDK if we even got it and basically led me to believe those do not even work.
Our next step is to file ANOTHER EAD request to renew, pay the $400+ filing fee, and wait 4-6 months to get it, or we can just wait for the incompetent immigration officer to tell us that we need even more proof that my wife has not even had a parking ticket or something.
I'm just so pissed off right now. My wife is pregnant and we are trying to save $ for her maternity leave and yet she's going to lose her ability to earn money and her ability to drive a car because they took so long. Oh and getting an infopass, at least in Atlanta, does basically nothing because even the supervisor says "I'm not doing moving anyone's priority up at all".
/end rant
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