Surprise Immigration Changes: Green Card processing backlog disappears? [Vanity]

USCIS ^ | 6/18/2007 | me

[SoCalPol]

Thanks Ali for the ping as I hit my head on the wall a few dozen times.

Cneck this out.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/upload/wm_1509.pdf

[CHEE]

Take a look at this: http://michellemalkin.com/

[Old Professer]

It’s called, “gaming the system.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!

U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121

U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121

White House comments: (202) 456-1111

Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep

Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[AuntB]

I’ve tried researching all the visas and how their issued. Some Homeland security does, some the State Dept issues, no one can tell you much. And yes, I think they’ll push through to clear the back log. Last year they issued thousands of green cards to people they admitted they lost the files for...NO vetting.

Here’s some more on all that.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/04/day-in-life-of-uscis-is-this-any-way.html

“A Day in the Life of USCIS”- (Is this any way to protect our nation?)

Letter from Mike Cutler, former INS agent

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2007/01/bush-admin-issues-thousands-more-h1b.html

Bush Admin. issues Thousands more H1B Visas than allowed by law!

http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-many-h1-b-visas-government-wont.html

How many H1-B visas? The government won’t tell you!

[Nailbiter]

ping

[doc30]

Thanks for the links. My post was for employment based permanent immigration visas (i.e. the EB series), not the H1B temporary visas.

[doc30]

The decrease in processing time from years to months is too immediate to be other than suspicious and questionable...

Just got an e-mail from my lawyer on this. By making the numbers current, more people can apply. This means she is very, very busy now that many clients can apply that had been waiting for years. But she suspects that the March 2007 processing date for applications will retrograde (i.e. be pushed back) and won't advance due to the great volume of applications being submitted at this time. There is also talk that USCIS want's as many people as possible to file so they can get a lot of revenue from the higher applicaiton fees that just kicked in. USCIS is funded from application fees and not from tax dollars. So it may just be a case of follow the $$.

[ASA Vet]

Today the I-129F's have been added back on the CA processing center.
They advanced the date by one month, which still is meaningless since it doesn't reflect where they really are.

[doc30]

I saw the revised pages today, too. Everything makes more sense now. But the processing dates listed are useful. USCIS says to contact them if the current processing dates are past your priority date.

The only thing that bothers me is this business of a cut off date in the new immigration bill. Anyone with an application, employment or family based, that was submitted after this date will have to restart the process with the new system and be mingled with all the illegals applying. This cut off date is in 2005 with a pending amendment to change it to January 2007. I will be ticked if I get stuck having to reapply with illegal immigrants. The backlog expected from all the illegals applying is 8-12 years. I’ll be near retirement by the time I could get a green card with the way Congress is playing stupid with immigration!

[ASA Vet]

But the processing dates listed are useful.

Your situation is much different than mine. I can see why you're frustrated.
The dates I'm seeing for the I-129F say they're processing those received in Dec 06.
My petition was received in Feb 07 and has already been approved and sent to the Embassy.
The site date is wrong by a few months, so is useless in my much shorter duration case.