Hey guys, in this video we're gonna talk about what you should do if your I one 30 is still
pending. After your interview, you've been interviewed by the government, perhaps with
your spouse, and it's like crickets. Nothing has happened and you've been waiting for a very long
time. What in the world could be going on behind the scenes that's causing your I one 30 family
petition to be held up so long, particularly if this is a marriage case? The issues that I'm going
to raise in this one are the typical scenarios that we see at our firm at McBean Law. And this
doesn't apply to everyone, of course. Most cases usually go extremely well with no drama, uh, other
than a a little delay here and there. At the end of this video, I will share with you how
we help people in these very scenarios. The first thing that you need to think about
is that, well, one of the reasons why you haven't heard anything from them yet is
because perhaps they're reviewing new evidence that you shared with them during the interview.
Maybe you gave them a divorce decree that they didn't have before, and so now they need to do
some due diligence to look into it to make sure that it's authentic and other things like that.
If you've given them new evidence at the interview that they couldn't easily make
a decision on to determine the authenticity of the document or whatever the case may be,
then they're gonna slow down your case so that they could review it and verify some things. The
other thing that typically happens is this, well, during the interview, particularly in a spousal
case, your spouse may have said something completely different from you, right?
During the interview, what happened? How are the responses consistent or inconsistent? And did
they give you an opportunity to clarify, uh, some things? Right? Did you reconcile the differences?
What happened during that interview? Because if your question, your answers are inconsistent,
it could very well be a fraud alert on their end. And so they're gonna slow down the case and
review the record again, and then they're going to respond to you. The other thing that happens
commonly at interviews for cases that become really complex is perhaps you were blindsided by
something that came up during the interview and you just didn't know how to respond to it. You
froze, or you may have said something completely wrong. For example, and this is again from cases
that we've worked on, uh, husband and wife goes in for a Green Card interview, and at that interview,
the officer begins to query the beneficiary wife asking her whether she knows that her spouse has a
criminal record and the extent of the record. And in fact, it's a very serious record. Everyone
Is blindsided by this issue because they didn't think it was gonna come up. And of course,
things just spiraled out of control after that point. So did something like that happen at your
interview that caused you guys to be blindsided and maybe you didn't respond properly? The other
thing that could certainly be slowing down the case at this point after the interview is if
the fraud unit has, is now involved in the case, if your case was moved over to the fraud unit of
the agency, well, they're gonna take their sweet time to investigate things. And for some people,
depending on the state that you're in or the city or county, you may or may not
get a visit at your home by officers from the fraud unit investigating things. So,
um, the fraud unit could be involved. Again, these are cases that we see.
We work on the complex side of things with immigration. And then the other thing that
could be slowing it down is perhaps the person who interviewed you is working
on a request for evidence or a notice of intent to deny your case, which is very common. And if
you get an R F E or annoyed, you have a much shorter time to respond to it now,
now that the flexibility policy is no longer in place. So keep that in mind. So that's, that could
be happening in the background. Maybe they're just writing up your annoy. The other thing is this,
uh, if you had received an R F E or annoyed and you've responded to it, certainly they're taking
their time to review your responses and then they'll make a decision after that. Now, how
we help people in these various scenarios is, you know, it really depends on what's going on.
We like to investigate ourself. We like to obtain your record and see what's going on, and get
some sense of why the government has decided to slow this down. So we bring clarity number one,
and then number two, if you get a second interview notice for maybe a Stokes interview,
which is a very, very serious proceeding, then we prepare our clients for that. And,
um, we appear with them at their interview. Uh, the other way that we help people is if they've
received an RFE request for evidence, we re we take those incredibly seriously, serious,
right? And we respond to them. Also, if they receive the annoyed, the notice of intent to deny,
we like to respond to those as well. If the case was denied, we consider whether we should
appeal the decision or whether there should be a refiling. And we handle both scenarios. So guys
take it very seriously. The issues that, um, I've discussed in this video, uh, for other people,
maybe they have none of these things going on with their case. Maybe their case is just
slowed down because of a backlog At a sur at a field office in the city
where you're located, it could very well be that as well. But if any of these triggers happened
at your interview, right, you were blindsided or you presented a, uh, new piece of evidence
that will take time to review and verify. Or if there were inconsistent responses,
then guys, uh, speak with a lawyer, speak with an immigration lawyer about your next steps and
how you can gear up to fight whatever is gonna happen next in your case, I hope you found this
helpful. Be sure to share it with other people, and I will see you in the next one. Bye-bye.