"wait for our office to contact you regarding your visa application"

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 22 Oct 2002 19:25 PDT

As with skermit-ga, I do not understand the question.

Do you want to know what your status is while you wait for the INS
office to contact you?

Do you want to know how long it might take for the INS office to
contact you?

Or do you want to know what, if anything, you should do while you
wait?

Please let us know -- then, hopefully, we can provide some information
for you.

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Clarification of Question by ganji-ga on 22 Oct 2002 20:02 PDT

My wife applied for H4 visa at chennai consulate, India.
Consulate,did not give visa, and sent one letter with the following
quote
"[] WAIT FOR THE OFFICE TO CONTACT YOU REGARDING YOUR VISA
APPLICATION.YOUR APPLICATION REQUIRES ADDITIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE
PROCESSING BEFORE ANY FURTHER ACTION CAN BE TAKEN."

It has been more than 6 weeks since we received any communication from
the
consulate regarding my wife's H4 visa application.

I appreciate if you can let me know the status of her application and
what I can do to expedite the process. Also, I would like to know if
she needs to reapply? how much time it will take to get visa.

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 22 Oct 2002 22:18 PDT

ganji,

I regret to tell you this, but...

My husband's department has been waiting for a husband (full-time) and
his wife (part-time) to start working for them for several months now.
They were supposed to begin working on July 1, but they have been
waiting for their visas, for which they applied at the end of April.

The wife finally got her visa approved and started work last Monday
(October 14). The husband is STILL waiting for his visa to be
approved, almost 6 MONTHS later.

While not all visas experience this extreme of a delay, the
information this couple has been getting (through their attorney) from
the INS is that most of the INS branches are several months backlogged
right now.

Your best bet is to get an attorney specialising in immigration and
visa beaureacracy, if you don't have one already. These professionals,
if experienced, will know their way around the system, and should be
able to help speed the process along. Do your homework: ask around to
any other people you know in the area who had to go through the visa
process; check the telephone Yellow Pages, and any local papers or
websites run by immigrants for ads of attorneys with this specialty.
When you find some possible attorneys, ask them for client references,
then call those clients and ask for their opinions of their attorney's
performance.

I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Good Luck!

Um... what's the question?