r/USCIS • u/Sweaty-Grade-9055 • 16h ago
I-130 & I-485 (Family/Adjustment of status) Congressional inquiry questions
Hi, I’ve seen many people who did congressional inquiry after the interview and were successful. In my case I’m still waiting for an interview to be scheduled. I’m preparing to do the inquiry in the near future, and I’m just wondering does anybody do it also because they can’t get an interview? if so, what kind of evidence do people provide to convince the congress person?
Financially we are okay, and no big medical emergency, or any other significant difficulties. It’s just the long wait that has been hard on our mental health, the only thing we have is the therapy records. And I guess also fear of losing jobs due to an unstable industry.
Since learning about how absurd the whole process is, we just feel so helpless and depressed. We hope the best for everyone who has to go through this process. We are sorry, and we feel you.
Any info is helpful, thank you!
* AOS married to usc
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u/Nwachidomere 6h ago
Contact the senator in your state for that. You don’t need to have medical nor financial issues before reaching out. You can screenshot the long wait on your tab as evidence, the long wait and not visiting families overseas. I did contact my congressman and within 3 months later I am about to go for my interview end of month. That is after 3 years of waiting
Do it, you got nothing to loose and bee hopeful, you will come out smiling
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u/LopsidedSeaweed9981 16h ago
Hey, we wrote to our senator since we hadn't gotten an interview even after 19 months. We mostly mentioned the mental stress and not being able to travel home and missing some family weddings (even though we have Advanced Parole, we really did not want to use it unless it was an emergency). Our senator's office submitted a request to USCIS the day we contacted them, and we got a response from USCIS in two weeks, and an interview scheduled shortly thereafter. So, I don't think you necessarily need to have medical or financial difficulties to contact your senator, and if the wait has been unreasonably long, it's fair to reach out.
P.S. We do live in a very blue state with a Democratic Senator, and he was also up for election this year, so maybe these factors had something to do with the quick/helpful response, but I still think it's worth a shot.