L1b Visa Denial Confused - Need Urgent Reply

[sane]

Hi

We Applied L1b Visa for Husband and L2 Visa for myself on 03/06/2014.
Received RFE for L1 and L2 on 04/15/2014.
L2 RFE replied on 05/23/2014.
L1 RFE replied on 06/16/2014.

On same day of 06/16/2014 for L1 Application USCIS website status changed to denial notice and within 48 Hrs the status again changed to Initial Review and says "On June 18, 2014, we received your correspondence for your I129, PETITION FOR A NONIMMIGRANT WORKER . You will receive a notice in the mail when further action is taken on this case."

Still the L2 visa on RFE response review status..

meanwhile our attorney received the hard copy of denial notice which is dated June 16. Now we are in confused state of the application result. our attorney called USCIS and registered the query.. USCIS informed that they will reply for the query by 07/10/2014.

My question is in this scenario our stay in USA will become unlawful ? will it affect any of our further application ??

Please guide us in urgent manner ..

[raghvi]

Seems odd that the denial was generated without a RFE response review. When was the L1/L2 RFE response due? What did the denial notice say?

Irrespective, if you have received a denial notice, appealing against it goes into a undefined long wait mode. Depends upon what kind of response/query was submitted to USCIS and what additional evidence is submitted.

I also dont understand the date 10-Jul-2014 as an appeal or MTR doesnt normally have a timeline and can take Months.

I feel a denial, even if appealed against, doesnt allow you the validity to continue working and getting paid in US.

Would request you to seek guidance from experienced attorney.

This is my opinion not legal advice.