K-3 Denied Pending Onsite Investigation

[UMELO2B]

My husband and I were married in Lagos, Nigeria May 25, 2006. We have been in 221G pending an onsite investigation since 01-05-07. I email this embassy everyday with no replies. I called several times and finall spoke with a supervisor who said our case had never been touched due to lack of funding and no manpower. I have been told by some of my Nigerian friends that that is a sutle way of asking for a bribe!

The consular was a mean spirited young man who took pleasure in terroizing
the people he interviewed.

My point is my case was never sent back to USCIS or NVC. I spoke with the State Department and was given this fax number in order to file a compliant with Public Affairs (202) 663-3899. The lady was real nice and actually the first person to tell me that they get tons of compliants on Lagos. My case
has never been touched for any security checks after 9 months of just sitting on a shelf somewhere. I faxed 6 pages and used much of the information I found on this site on revocation of petitions to support my case!

Is there such a thing as an onsite investigation? We gave them all the evidence requested. I am pissedoff!

[blueblue]

There are onsite investigations done, usually people report them making home visits, visiting neighbors, etc. What they are actually doing in your case, I can't be sure. It is certainly strange they would tell you they have done nothing for 9 months and the reason is lack of funding.

Have you gotten your Congressman/Senator involved?

[UMELO2B]

They are powerless. They both hesitate to get deeply involved as well. The senator's office liaison has been doing this for 25 years and could not understand the details behind an K-3/K-4 visa. The young man in the congresswoman's office is just young but willing to help. The problem is he does not know enough to deal with this monster. I feed him all the information I can find on forums like this one. I am told that no one has the power to do anything. That these people can hold my husband forever if they want to. I may have to move to Nigeria next year if this is not resolved soon.

[UMELO2B]

Thank you Blueblue for your response to last post. Maybe you or someone out there on this forum can can shed some light on this situation as well. I was given the name of a Mrs. YXXXXXXX BXXXXX & her ext. at the Lagos Consulate by the State Department, but everytime Lagos ask my name I am told she is "not around" to call back. (they must know I am making these calls around 2am my time). They claim she has no email address or voice mail. I have made numerous calls and can never get to her. My Texas Senator and Congresswoman's representatives are getting pretty much the same treatment via email, but they are not allowed to actually make phone calls to Lagos which pretty much limits their power.

About one hour later 3am after I called (10/10) my time they did email me that my case was not being treated any differently from any other case and that we were told this case could take 6 to 12 months to process up front. Remember this is the ninth month and the case has never been touched for any type of process at all due to "lack of funding" per the supervisor I spoke with in the Fraud Unit.

I shot an email back that that would be great if they were actually doing something with our case. They have three months to do what they could not do in 9 months? 6 to 9 months means they should be actively "processing" our case, correct? Or not?

I personally feel that it puts the petitioner in a bad situation when their net worth is revealed in these petitions. There should be some way for USCIS to approve the Affidavit of Support & submit the approval of that document to the consulars without actually revealing what the petitioner actual salary is.