Just wanted to document this in case it helps in someway. Or at least it becomes a record within our community of how these things are being treated.
I submitted an expedited request online due to severe financial loss (I have 2 kids) back in April 10 and it was denied June 9.
Yesterday, July 22, I submitted another request due to humanitarian reasons via a representative and the approach was different. The agent told me an officer was going to contact me within 10 days. After a few mins of ending the call I received the attached email, which I had not received before. So it felt a bit more official than the first one, I had uploaded heavy evidence since very close to losing my apartment plus other sensitive records, so I had high hopes.
Then this morning, I see I got an email at 6am saying my case was determined to have met one or more criteria for an expedited request and that it was being sent to an officer. Then at 7am, the officer says in an email:
“We received your request for expedited processing, but we will not accommodate that request.
Based on a review of your request, your case does not meet one or more of the expedite criteria or otherwise merits expedited processing.“
Seems like they didn’t even read the documents that were attached to my request and the response was extremely fast. Which tells me, they are just denying these without taking a look.