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I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

245 points proberts | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source

I'll be here for the few hours and then again at around 1 pm PST for another few hours. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won't have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers. Thanks!

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1. jnsaff2 ◴[18 Oct 24 05:34 UTC] No.41876609[source]▶
Is it true that there has been an uptick in unreasonable and poorly written RFE's? We got one that has a ton of inconsistencies and sometimes contradicts itself and moreover completely redefines some of the requirements.

What would be the best strategy to counter these?

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2. proberts ◴[20 Oct 24 21:50 UTC] No.41898771[source]▶
It's really impossible to say because it's all anecdotal but the options - particularly if the petition was filed with premium processing - are to point out the errors, inconsistencies, etc. in an email to a premium processing supervisor and ask that the RFE be reissued (or the petition approved) or simply to respond to the RFE and in the RFE point out the errors, inconsistencies, etc. and note how this makes it difficult/impossible to respond to the RFE and that if USCIS is inclined to deny the petition, it should issue a better, clearer second RFE first.