I-526 denials

I-526 immigrant petitions are submitted to California Services Center (CSC). Their goal is to try to adjudicate I-526 petitions within 5 months. One obvious way to avoid RFE in I-526 is to anticipate potential areas of RFEs before you submit your I-526 petition and just submit enough documents to establish the requirements: in other words, do not submit all kinds of unnecessary documents that have nothing to do with the I-526 requirements.

Most RFEs can be overcome, but sometimes, RFE issues that involve the regional center program or project (as opposed to the investor issues) may not be so easy to resolve. If these issues cannot be resolved through RFE channel, it may be better to just withdraw I-526 petition and refile rather than fight CSC via MTR and/or AAO appeals.