1st draft

[markimwaiting]

December 30, 2002

 

 

Dear Mrs. Harty,

 

We would like to tell you what a wonderful job you have done to clear up the backlog issue. Thank you very much.

 

As you, and many of us, are aware of, there is still a major problem with lost, misplaced or just not completed name checks for a small group of July and August interviewees.

 

Knowing this, we the undersigned are asking for a provisional exception to the standard process of resubmitting after the 90-day waiting period. The entire August group has already waited over 180 days for a name check clearance.

 

We are asking you personally, to please contact the appropriate office or offices to find these cases and have them expedited.

 

Here is a very recent response from the consulate in Guangzhou for one of the August interviewer's

 

Surely, we should not be asked to wait another 90-days as implied in this letter.

 

 

As you may know, the past practice concerning namechecks was that

visa-issuing posts were permitted to print an applicant's immigrant

visa if the Department of State had not responded to the namecheck

request within ten (10) business days. Beginning July 22, 2002, the

State Department initiated the change that has now become so

infamously long. The IV Unit must now wait for the Department of

State to respond before an applicant's visa can be issued. IV Unit

staff had submitted namecheck requests in the June-July timeframe for

applicants coming for interviews in August and September. Once the 6-

8 week period had turned into 2+ months of waiting, the State

Department initiated two changes where namechecks were concerned.

The first is that the consulate had to reformat namecheck requests.

Now, each applicant over the age of 16 is on a separate namecheck

request; in the past, the consulate would send as many as 50 names

per request. The second change is that each namecheck request that

had not been responded to within the past 90 days had to be resent.

xxxxxxxxx's namecheck was resent November 16; the consulate, as of

this writing, still has not received the go-ahead from the State

Department to print xxxxx xxx's visa.

 

As soon as this consulate is in receipt of the approval to print xxxxxxxxx's visa, our staff will mail her a notice to come to the

consulate with her passport at her soonest convenience. She will need

to present her passport and the letter between 9am and 10am. She will

be able to pick up the visa at 4:30 the same day.

 

Regards,

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Immigrant Visa Unit

U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou

 

 

 

 

 

Please help with the following list of August interviewers

 

Sincerly

the list

[PJ]

Mark,

 

I deleted one of your two "first draft" posts, since they seemed to be identical. Figured you might have just clicked "submit" twice by accident and I didn't want people to get confused.

 

Could you please take a look where you quote the letter from the Consulate in Guangzhou ... I do not know if you saw my response, but you still have the beneficiary, Ms. Ting's name. You might want to blank that out.

 

Thanks,

 

P.J.

[AZwolfman]

Looks fine, Mark. But I did notice 2 spelling errors.

"implied"

"response"

[markimwaiting]

Mark,

 

I deleted one of your two "first draft" posts, since they seemed to be identical.  Figured you might have just clicked "submit" twice by accident and I didn't want people to get confused.

 

Could you please take a look where you quote the letter from the Consulate in Guangzhou ... I do not know if you saw my response, but you still have the beneficiary, Ms. Ting's name.  You might want to blank that out.

 

Thanks,

 

P.J.

I will get rid of that

[markimwaiting]

Roger Adkins, who was responsible for the AP article, had his interview July 30. The least you can do is mention July and August. We are also not concerned about the interviewers. Hope they drop...well, I'll be nice. Interviewees. response in not reponce. comma after you, and us, comma after personally, implied not implyed

James,

thank you,

let me get to work on it

[Joseph-1]

Excuse me Dear. What fax number are you sending these delightful letters to?

[markimwaiting]

Excuse me Dear. What fax number are you sending these delightful letters to? 

This will go to Harty's office

[markimwaiting]

Looks fine, Mark.  But I did notice 2 spelling errors.

"implied"

"response"

I fixed them, thanks.

[Joseph-1]

Excuse me Dear. What fax number are you sending these delightful letters to?  

This will go to Harty's office

Well AAhh Thats nice but what is her fax number?

[Joseph-1]

Nix that last request. I got it from another source.

[markimwaiting]

Nix that last request. I got it from another source.

well I have it somewhere, but i cant find it.

can you give it to me?

[Guest David]

Please help with the following list of August interviewers

 

Sincerly

the list

Mark, instead of saying "Please help..." maybe you should say something like:

 

 

"We respectfully request that you afford July and August interviewees (sp?) the special attention that they deserve.

 

Sincerely,

 

"

 

 

Mark, I hate to say this, but you might need to hand this over to a native-English speaking proofreader before it goes out. There are more than a few mistakes.

[markimwaiting]

 

Please help with the following list of August interviewers

 

Sincerly

the list

Mark, instead of saying "Please help..." maybe you should say something like:

 

 

"We respectfully request that you afford July and August interviewees (sp?) the special attention that they deserve.

 

Sincerely,

 

"

 

 

Mark, I hate to say this, but you might need to hand this over to a native-English speaking proofreader before it goes out. There are more than a few mistakes.

I agree, im no genius at this stuff, I only know what needs to be said.

[Joseph-1]

Nix that last request. I got it from another source.

well I have it somewhere, but i cant find it.

can you give it to me?

The number is 202-647-0341 and you can call to confirm reciept at

202-647-7948.

[Joseph-1]

Mark,

 

You are not beggin her to help the interviewers again! They can help themselves!  

Hello Mr.Grinch We Love You Too.