221g white paper

[imirza]

Try not to think too much about it

They are playing with our emotions. They really dont care at all. How many times I look for the status update on their website every day... I am tired now.

Not sure, how Mirza and Mask and others are handling the situation.

I try not to think too much about it as it is not in my hands to change the situation. I take satisfaction in the fact that I have done nothing wrong and my case is 100% genuine. The worst that can happen is my employer may get impatient and ask me to take an indefinite personal leave OR for whatever reason my visa maybe denied. So what? It is not the end of anything. There is saying I heard from my elders "jiska rizzaq jahan likha hai wo wahin rahega" (one stays where his/her bread-earning is written).

This of course does not mean I don't check the status everyday or I am not following this forum for updates... what I mean to say is be aware but don't be overly concerned.

-Mirza

[Lowkey]

Human error

i have looked into different sources (official and non-official) about what goes on during this administrative processing, and I have found that there is no good reason for any case to be pending for more than 120 days.This 120 days limit is for those people whose case has either been returned to USCIS for re-evaluation of the petition or for people with an extremely common name that gets multiple hits. For people that fit neither of these criteria, there is just no reasonable excuse for their case to be extended beyond the average processing time, which is about 30 days. So if anybody's case has been extended for a long time, that almost certainly means some kind of error was involved. This error could be 1) the consulate just doesn't send the case to DOS (knowingly or unknowingly?) and thus the processing actually never even starts, 2)the consulate does not provide enough information about the case to the DOS and other relevant bodies, 3)there is an error in the communication between different bodies of the government and the cases essentially gets lost. The worst part is that there doesn't seem to be a system in place to check if such errors have been made. So, if somebody is unlucky then their case is just rotting around somewhere and noone even knows about it to do anything about it unless months or years have past. I suppose that's why the whole process is non-transparent, just so their mistakes aren't caught by the applicant??

Also, looking at the trend by which cases are solved, I feel like they don't really operate on strictly 'first come first serve basis.' I feel like they work on a certain number of cases from a certain day and then start working on cases from a latter day even though cases from previous day are still untouched. If you look to Chennai's trend of cases solved, you'll see that almost all the cases between June 11 and June 15 were issued within a week while none or very few cases between this period and May 20 are solved. How did that happen? Somebody just decided to skip directly to June 11-15 without first working on earlier cases?

Sorry for the long post. I am just very frustrated at this point and am trying to do the one thing that helps me while I wait, find out more about this process! Noone (especially innocent people that form the majority of administrative processing victims) deserves to be treated like this. Your future and career depends on someone else doing their job.

Actually after some time you become numb to the entire situation. I am not expecting them to resolve all pending cases in the next couple of days but in the last few days I have found out about some human errors from their end. Maybe that is not COMPLETELY the reason why I am still stuck, but I am very sure that if they fix some of those mistakes at least the case will continue to move forward. I found out from DOS that my case is incorrectly listed under 214b instead of 221g. They mentioned that this mistake happened just a few weeks back. I have contacted the US consulate in HYD to fix this error 4 times in 2 days and they keep telling the same thing....case is pending under 221g etc etc.....just yesterday I called DOS to confirm if maybe the US consulate fixed the issue and just didnt want to admit their error, but nope....DOS said its still showing under 214b category/queue or whatever.....FYI as per VISA guidelines H1B's and their dependents are excluded from 214b!!

Have sent them another email today.....I have already gone crazy!!!

Does anyone have the US consulate Contact # WITH OPTIONS so I can maybe call and speak with a live person? I do not find any options that fit my case and never end up talking with someone...just get kicked back to the "main menu" and dialing "0" doesnt take you to a representative either.

[mask728]

They are playing with our emotions. They really dont care at all. How many times I look for the status update on their website every day... I am tired now.

Not sure, how Mirza and Mask and others are handling the situation.

Actually after some time you become numb to the entire situation. I am not expecting them to resolve all pending cases in the next couple of days but in the last few days I have found out about some human errors from their end. Maybe that is not COMPLETELY the reason why I am still stuck, but I am very sure that if they fix some of those mistakes at least the case will continue to move forward. I found out from DOS that my case is incorrectly listed under 214b instead of 221g. They mentioned that this mistake happened just a few weeks back. I have contacted the US consulate in HYD to fix this error 4 times in 2 days and they keep telling the same thing....case is pending under 221g etc etc.....just yesterday I called DOS to confirm if maybe the US consulate fixed the issue and just didnt want to admit their error, but nope....DOS said its still showing under 214b category/queue or whatever.....FYI as per VISA guidelines H1B's and their dependents are excluded from 214b!!

Have sent them another email today.....I have already gone crazy!!!

Does anyone have the US consulate Contact # WITH OPTIONS so I can maybe call and speak with a live person? I do not find any options that fit my case and never end up talking with someone...just get kicked back to the "main menu" and dialing "0" doesnt take you to a representative either.

[tahersub4t]

They Dont care

3 days gone this week, no update still...
really frustrating...

They are playing with our emotions. They really dont care at all. How many times I look for the status update on their website every day... I am tired now.

Not sure, how Mirza and Mask and others are handling the situation.

[srk76]

3 days gone this week, no update still...
really frustrating...