Hi Guys,
just wanted to share something. Today I received GM notes. Just a reminder that my mom got passport request on Nov 15, 2012 requesting passport to be sent to Moscow.
Weeeell, few things that I found interesting on the notes.
1. Visa Office is listed as Seattle (on last notes, it was Moscow). There is note that a client requested to switch to Seattle on Oct 15, 2012. True. I did send them a fax to request to switch to Seattle (in September) as my mom was here. However, they ignored their own notes and still requested passport to be submitted to Moscow. Interesting. This tells me that they are completely bogged down with the number of cases and often mis-place or just miss their own info.
2. As of Nov 11, 2012 (as per the notes) Security check was not being started yet. Again, only 4 days from that date my mom already got a passport request! E-cas said that they started the process on Nov 14! I guess it took them 1 day to do security OR they don't update their database.
Hope this info will help you. Don't get discouraged if the notes show that security not started.