kkimm

True, this tax cut is out-rageous, one restriction I heard over the news is that you have to have an income more than 26,000 last year in order to get a refund for your child...what about those being laid off and have a family to support ?

Clearance completed 5-6-03, here is the timeline of my case: 11-16-02 1st submission 3-13-03 2nd submission ON-HOLD was told 3-18-03 Cleared 5-6-03 Email received same day from GZ! Fax from DOS received last week 5-14-03 notifying cleared! I think in the past months, I made enough noise to be on one of their list...hopefully everything will go well from now on... Good luck to everyone who's been on-hold!

"ON-HOLD" is something that the CA office has to tell you. The DOS info line or your case status seen by GZ or others will only show as "PENDING". FBI is setting up their camp in China, why cannot they allocate one person to take fingerprints for namechecks? I agree with you Owen 100%. But I believe this whole "namecheck" thing should only be treated as business/executive decisions, nothing to do with technical probability or accountability. My view of a democratic gov't of the US's, ironically, has been changed by themselves. I would suggest they add themselves to the Human Rights Whitebook they publish each year

everyone needs a holiday and i think GZ has been really working hard for everyone here. They need a good rest and come back to work again. I really respect them because they are working while GZ is filled of SARS disease I agree with you on this, GZ is not the one to blame in any cases, even if they make mistakes, the roof of all this is because of some executive order on the "namechecks"...i believe they would rather get rid of us asap, too.

LisaP's letter is more symbolic than actual help. I will just make a follow up communication with LP's letter attached.

This is better, I am re-posting this as a list for "Attackee-of-the-week" GZ is at the end of the food chain, we probably should go up the ladder and try: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committee...ittees_home.htm 1. DOS Head Colin Powell 2. Congress - Judiciary Comittee 3. Subcommittee of Judiciary for Immigration 4. Comittee on Foreign Relations (very active) 5. Maura Harty & CA 6. GZ

GZ is at the end of the food chain, we probably should go up the ladder and try: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/committee...ittees_home.htm 1. DOS Head Colin Powell 2. Congress - Judiciary Comittee 3. Subcommittee of Judiciary for Immigration 4. Comittee on Foreign Relations (very active)

I have stopped calling them a long time ago...it's a waste of time and money

Can we file a class action suit again the fed gov't if there are enough evidence/difficulty both financially & emotionally

we should keep asking no matter what, here is next schedule, that's today: And please join us for future online discussions as the "Ask the White House" forums continue. Tomorrow, Mark Forman, Administrator for Electronic Government, will be available online.

Here is what I received in the mail today: Dear Mr. XXXX: This is in response to your facsimile of March 31, 2003, to Secretary Powell conveying a copy of your letter to Senator Hatch regarding the time it is taking to process your immigrant visa by the Consulate General in Guangzhou. The immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires all aliens coming to the US to have a visa appropriate for the purpose of entry into the U.S.. The procedures required to obtain each type of visa, whether non-immigrant or immigrant, are designed to ensure that the applicant is in fact entitled to the visa. In the case of individuals desiring to live in the U.S., they must have an immigrant visa. People coming to live in the U.S. clearly must undergo a more thorough process to determine eligibility than those merely coming, for example, for study (e.g. an F-1 or J-1) or temporary work (e.g. an H1- B ). The application procedures for immigrant visas therefore are more complex, and perforce lengthy, because of the need make certain an applicant meets the eligibility requirements specified in the INA for obtaining legal permanent residency. ... We hope this information is helpful. Sincerely, signed by Lisa Piascik Director Office of Public and Diplomatic Liaison Visa Services ------------------------- Here is the linke to the law I found at INS website: http://www.immigration.gov/lpBin/lpext.dll...ame.htm#slb-act I sent a fax to Senator Hatch (Chairman of Judiciary Committee) and cced the fax to Mr. Powell's office 2 weeks ago. I will make a follow-up tomorrow. Please pin this for a few days so everybody get to know about this INA stuff, first time I've ever heard about that. A quick read points the background check to FBI (Act 105)

They have new menu system, the sequence is: 1 then 0 to speak to an operator.

I will call too

After some thinnking, this is probably something we should do or ask, since KC says they are doing everything they can, and they cannot trace individual cases during that process... 1. what they can do, as a category, for "on-hold" cases? and what they've done? 2. as a standard procedure, they could at least issue a memo requesting infomration from that government agency and they should get a response not matter what. 3. To move up the food chain, we should contact Colin Powell, or the Congress Judiciary committee...

My most recent email to Harty sent yesterday, I will write another one before the end of this week. Dear Ms. Maura Harty, I am writing again with regard to my case that has been put on hold as of most recent email dated XXXXX. I understand that at this point, my case might be in the hands of a government agency that is out of the control of your office. Previously I have request for a meeting (last week) but did not get any answer. Up to now, there has not been much infomation on "cases" that were place on-hold. I am not looking for why my case was put on hold, however, I do eager to find out how much longer this process is going to be or how much impact it is going to have on the processing time. Also, I would like very much to know, that to the best of your knowledge, if there is any "on-hold" cases being cleared in the past few months. This would give me, at the least, some comfort that my case could be just needing some more examination... With best regards,