What does this U.S.D.H.S receipt tell me?

[hinke]

Hi,

Got this receipt more than a month ago. I just don't really know what it means? Does it mean that Cleveland will process my case or will they send my case to Nebraska? Wherever I turn I get no answers. Anybody know?

http://www.engerts.net/images/receipt.jpg

[kitkat1]

Nebraska doesn't process 212s. The receipt is only proof of payment - it doesn't indicate where it will be adjudicated.

[emt103c]

Did they send this to the USC or to the applicant (If they are out of country?)

[hinke]

I am the one who applied for the I-212. I am the one that has a warrant for deportation which resides in Cleveland. I have filed from Sweden since that is what the embassy in Stockholm told me to do. They told me to send the I-212 with all the proof that I was not living in the US at the time of deportation. This receipt was mailed to us from the US to Sweden. Only the receipt was in the envelope...nothing else.

Nebraska does process I-212, but they require you to send the I-212 to the local field office first. The field office can decide to send it to Nebraska if they want to. Cleveland does not have a timeframe for I-212's.

Cleveland does not seem to answer my question that I sent to them by mail 3 weeks ago...maybe they won't answer, but I want to get my 13 digit number so I can track my application online. I guess I can't contact anyone until the 15 weeks have passed since my application was filed, to figure out what is going on.

The only good thing for us now is that we are living together in Sweden (my USC wife and child). I have read so many stories about families that are apart, horrible.

[Pinkpig]

but I want to get my 13 digit number so I can track my application online.

Your receipt states that you paid with a check. Have you checked the back of your check? Many times they put your 13 digit number on the back of the check when they prepare it for bank deposit.

[hinke]

Your receipt states that you paid with a check. Have you checked the back of your check? Many times they put your 13 digit number on the back of the check when they prepare it for bank deposit.

We created a check at our bank in Sweden, but we don't get the check back from what I know. It is some cooperation between our bank and Chase Mahattan. I have no idea how that works. We don't use checks in Sweden.

[hinke]

Does everone get a receipt like the one I have received? I mean, I know the offices in the US are swamped with work to enter the applications into their system, but do you guys think my case has already been entered in the system and I just don't know about it since I have no idea on how I can get the check back with this 13 digit number?

The reason I want this number is to track the application since we are going on a 3 month long trip at the end of this year to travel the world.

[Pinkpig]

Does everone get a receipt like the one I have received? I mean, I know the offices in the US are swamped with work to enter the applications into their system, but do you guys think my case has already been entered in the system and I just don't know about it since I have no idea on how I can get the check back with this 13 digit number?

The reason I want this number is to track the application since we are going on a 3 month long trip at the end of this year to travel the world.

To my knowledge once you get to the waiver process only a very few places have on-line sites to check and see where your waiver application is. The only ones that I know about track the I-601 waiver in Canada through the Vermont Service Center, London and Rome.

No other countries have a way to check the status on-line and the ones that do only have it for the I-601 waiver.

When you are going through the process of filing the I-130 and I-129f you can check your status on-line.

Did you only file the I-212, or is it related to an I-130?

[hinke]

To my knowledge once you get to the waiver process only a very few places have on-line sites to check and see where your waiver application is. The only ones that I know about track the I-601 waiver in Canada through the Vermont Service Center, London and Rome.

No other countries have a way to check the status on-line and the ones that do only have it for the I-601 waiver.

When you are going through the process of filing the I-130 and I-129f you can check your status on-line.

Did you only file the I-212, or is it related to an I-130?

We are not filing a I-601.

We filed the I-130 in march of this year. We did not know about my status at that time. We were approved and we had our interview 25th of July 2007 at the embassy in Stockholm. This is where they discovered my peculiar situation. A judge in Cleveland had apparently issued a warrant for my deportation and this deportation needs to be lifted. I used to have a Green Card, got it in early 2000, but we left the US 5 months after I got the Green Card and we never told them that we were leaving the US which was a big mistake. We entered the US on my green card one year later for vacation. I then decided to surrender the green card and did so 2003 at the embassy in Stockholm. I have since then entered the US as a tourist 2 more times without any problems. The reason for this might be that they misspelled my name on my last Green Card.....I never corrected it since we were going to move anyway. It's just big mess.

So you are saying that I might not be able to track my application at all?

[Pinkpig]

We are not filing a I-601.

We filed the I-130 in march of this year. We did not know about my status at that time. We were approved and we had our interview 25th of July 2007 at the embassy in Stockholm. This is where they discovered my peculiar situation. A judge in Cleveland had apparently issued a warrant for my deportation and this deportation needs to be lifted. I used to have a Green Card, got it in early 2000, but we left the US 5 months after I got the Green Card and we never told them that we were leaving the US which was a big mistake. We entered the US on my green card one year later for vacation. I then decided to surrender the green card and did so 2003 at the embassy in Stockholm. I have since then entered the US as a tourist 2 more times without any problems. The reason for this might be that they misspelled my name on my last Green Card.....I never corrected it since we were going to move anyway. It's just big mess.

So you are saying that I might not be able to track my application at all?

To my knowledge there is no way to track your I-212 waiver application on-line. I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong.

[cindy101]

I tried to do an info pass apt. in Cleveland to ask some general immigrations questions before I found this sight. I got a lot of blank stares, so I wish you good luck there.

Hint. The immigration liaison that works for US Senator Voinovich (R) Ohio is awesome in terms of getting answers for constituents and helping to move cases along in a timely manner.

Good luck!

[emt103c]

Your receipt states that you paid with a check. Have you checked the back of your check? Many times they put your 13 digit number on the back of the check when they prepare it for bank deposit.

13 digits would be the 3 letter office prefix and 10 numbers right??

I'm looking on the back of my district office I-212 canceled check trying to figure out if they left me a number.

It has a ten digit number on it, and the prefix BUF written elsewhere.

[Pinkpig]

13 digits would be the 3 letter office prefix and 10 numbers right??

I'm looking on the back of my district office I-212 canceled check trying to figure out if they left me a number.

It has a ten digit number on it, and the prefix BUF written elsewhere.

I don't know of anywhere you can check the status of an I-212 online. I would think that if you had your 13 digit number you would be able to call and check.

[hinke]

I tried to do an info pass apt. in Cleveland to ask some general immigrations questions before I found this sight. I got a lot of blank stares, so I wish you good luck there.

Hint. The immigration liaison that works for US Senator Voinovich (R) Ohio is awesome in terms of getting answers for constituents and helping to move cases along in a timely manner.

Good luck!

The problem is that we are not moving back to Ohio, we are moving to Texas, but can I still use the US senator and ask them for help? Do I just email them or does it help to give them a call?

I called the general USCIS 1-800 number a few weeks ago to try to see if they could figure out what is happening to my application, but they said I had to wait the 90 days since my application was filed.

Why should you not be able to track the I-212 online? If you get the 13 length number (3 letters and the rest digits), it should be the same as the rest of the applications.

[emt103c]

You would have to contact the senator from your home state...You will probably need to give them a zip code before they help you, mine checked before letting me access the information on line

[cindy101]

Maybe try the Cleveland office direct since they are the one's who received it and are the initial touch point, if you don't get an answer in a few days, go to the Senator, Ohio would be MUCH more helpfull than TX..

I'm not a big fan of 800#s

Mark Hansen
District Director, D.H.S.
Cleveland, OH
Inquiry.Cle@dhs.gov

Good luck!

[hinke]

I will contact Cleveland with the information you gave me. Thanks. I have contacted them via snail mail 4 weeks ago without an answer.

After that we will contact the senator. We were going to fax them today, but we'll give Cleveland another try.

We are not residing in Ohio, we are currently in Sweden, both of us.

Ohio has been our home state. This is where my wife was born and the state where we met and lived for a few years.

[hinke]

mine checked before letting me access the information on line

What exactly do you mean?

[hinke]

Hi,

Tried the email address: Inquiry.Cle@dhs.gov

Got an answer back:

"This E-mail address is for attorneys only, not for the general public."

Hopefully I have not made them mad or anything. I just did not know the address was only for attorneys...

Strange that they can reply so fast to the email I sent them, but never to my regular mail I sent them.

So, I will now contact the senator of Ohio and see if they can help me. Maybe I am just too impatient, it's just that we don't really know what we are supposed to expect to happen next.

[emt103c]

What exactly do you mean?

I misstated, the Senator's website asks for your zipcode to make sure that you are a constituent before they let you access the contact information. They also request your address on most of the inquiry consent forms.

You need to be able to provide an address that shows that you are one of their constituents. (like if you still have family in your home state you can use that as your address for the Senator.)