Immigration Forum / USA Marriage Base / June 2006

Hi:

I'm writing from San Antonio, Texas where the 55th Annual Texas Square
Dance and Round Dance Convention is currently being held.  As part of
the AILA National Conference, there was an open forum with officials
from USCIS this afternoon.  This included Steve Bucher, Acting Director
CIS Servivce Center Adjudications and Don Neufeld, Acting Director,
Field Operations, USCIS.

It was announced that RFE's are NOW being issued on the I-129F's subject
to IMBRA requesting the information now needed.  These are "boilerplate"
being issued in "batch processing".  In response to a question from the
moderator on how long it will take to complete this issuance -- the
answer was succint and to the point -- "shortly."

A specific request was made to NOT submit the required information in
advance of receiving the RFE.

It was further noted that these RFE's are limited to the IMBRA
information and will not foreclose a second invidualized RFE after the
IMBRA response is made.

[BTW, the AILA conference usually overwhelms most conference facilities
-- we are in a back corner of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
and we are knocking around.  The Square Dance people have three times as
many people and they sure dress better.].