Sources to Get Help With Your Case

[ravn from blah]

Effing Amazing!!!

So update, i apparently had a RFE on my account since May 2014!!! That the SR in July never picked up, figured out or mentioned anything!!!!! These idiots have their shit messed up! My advice to anyone who is still waiting!! Call-in and demand for Level 2 and RFE!!!!!

Use all available options. You can pursue all of these in parallel.

• Open a Service Request with NCSC: You already did this and I am not sure if there is a point in opening another SR at this point. I opened 3 SRs - No update on the SRs from July and August (not sure why NCSC opened an SR in August when the July SR was open). I opened another SR on the morning of 9/2/2014 just to see if it helps. It was closed within an hour stating request cannot be expedited. I called NCSC and the L2 rep was very rude. She said 2 SRs are still open and that I am delaying my case by calling NCSC and by opening SRs

• InfoPass: https://infopass.uscis.gov/ I doubt if this will be useful at all. I had an InfoPass appointment on 8/28/2014. I didn't get any new information and was told that they cannot move the case. In fact, I was told that the case was not ready to be adjudicated

• Seek assistance of Ombudsman: http://www.dhs.gov/case-assistance After speaking to NCSC L2 I was so mad that I wanted to kill someone but that would make me a permanent resident of a different kind. So I submitted a DHS 7001 Request with on 9/2/2014.

• Seek assistance of your Congressman: Senator or House Rep. Some people opine that Senator is more effective but I have no proof for this. Either way, I chose a senator who was up for re-election this year and the House Rep for my area. I contacted their offices and faxed them the Immigration Privacy Release forms and documents - I-140 approval, I-485 receipt notice and RFE response bundle. Both offices told me it will take at least a week and could take up to a month.
  Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contac...nators_cfm.cfm
  House Representatives: http://www.house.gov/

I didn't work all day yesterday and I am not sure if any of these helped but I got a bunch of emails about an hour ago that my I-485 has been approved. So whatever...

[venkat]

This was really helpful - thanks for putting this together. In my case SR and Congressman were the two sources that were helpful.
I was lucky with my Congressman route because the staff at their office were very good. They didn't hesitate to follow-up when I requested them.

Infopass just read out what was there in the system, I was almost close to using Ombudsman but I got my CPO at the nick of time!!!

ALL THE BEST for those who are waiting!!!