Letters to Congress

[Rick in VA 0]

I just want to share the types of letter that I have been sending to my Senator and members of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration. Although, only the office of Senator Cornyn has responded thus far. This is the seventh letter that I have sent - I am hoping that at least this is starting to get someone's attention, other than my senator...

Anyway - if anyone has comments or suggestions, send them along. Also, if anyone wants to copy and paste and send to their representative please feel free - maybe enough squeaks and something may get changed....

Senator Webb:

I received your letter containing the response from USCIS dated 12 February 2009..

The response was a convoluted non-answer to the questions. It took USCIS nearly three weeks to tell me that they are having issues. With the billions of dollars that go to DHS why do they have a computer system that cannot track statistics??

Point of reference: While in the US Air Force at any point in time the Chief of Staff of the Air Force has access, in real-time, to any unit to find out what it's mission capabilities are. My last assignment was with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). DLA does over $6 billion a year in support of the military services. Yet, at any time the status of parts, fuel, food, uniforms, etc. are available in real-time.

This has the appearance of a very serious and severe shortfall. Where is the accountability for this? What is being done to correct this problem?

But, I am forced to go back to this very basic question which has still not been answered by USCIS: Why are foreign workers allowed into this country and have their visa applications approved in two months or less? Why are spouses required to wait seven to nine months or possibly longer? What about the L.I.F.E. Act, isn't this in direct conflict?

With unemployment already over seven percent, and climbing towards ten or eleven percent, why aren't the priorities shifted from approving foreign workers to approving spouses. Who is responsible for determining the processing priorities?

Last two questions:

Why, after three months, isn't my I-129F (EAC-09-XXX-XXXXX) viewable on line? When I call USCIS I have been told that "it takes a couple of weeks" to "you do not need to worry about it". THREE MONTHS - Ridiculous and absurd!!

Why are K-3 visa applications in the California Service Center being processed with dates of November 2008 and ones from the Vermont Service Center with dates of August 2008? Why is there such a glaring difference? This data is based on actual Notices being processed and sent; not the three month old data that USCIS proves.

I anxiously await your response to my questions.

[LoveMyTico 999]

I just want to share the types of letter that I have been sending to my Senator and members of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration. Although, only the office of Senator Cornyn has responded thus far. This is the seventh letter that I have sent - I am hoping that at least this is starting to get someone's attention, other than my senator...

Anyway - if anyone has comments or suggestions, send them along. Also, if anyone wants to copy and paste and send to their representative please feel free - maybe enough squeaks and something may get changed....

Senator Webb:

I received your letter containing the response from USCIS dated 12 February 2009..

The response was a convoluted non-answer to the questions. It took USCIS nearly three weeks to tell me that they are having issues. With the billions of dollars that go to DHS why do they have a computer system that cannot track statistics??

Point of reference: While in the US Air Force at any point in time the Chief of Staff of the Air Force has access, in real-time, to any unit to find out what it's mission capabilities are. My last assignment was with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). DLA does over $6 billion a year in support of the military services. Yet, at any time the status of parts, fuel, food, uniforms, etc. are available in real-time.

This has the appearance of a very serious and severe shortfall. Where is the accountability for this? What is being done to correct this problem?

But, I am forced to go back to this very basic question which has still not been answered by USCIS: Why are foreign workers allowed into this country and have their visa applications approved in two months or less? Why are spouses required to wait seven to nine months or possibly longer? What about the L.I.F.E. Act, isn't this in direct conflict?

With unemployment already over seven percent, and climbing towards ten or eleven percent, why aren't the priorities shifted from approving foreign workers to approving spouses. Who is responsible for determining the processing priorities?

Last two questions:

Why, after three months, isn't my I-129F (EAC-09-XXX-XXXXX) viewable on line? When I call USCIS I have been told that "it takes a couple of weeks" to "you do not need to worry about it". THREE MONTHS - Ridiculous and absurd!!

Why are K-3 visa applications in the California Service Center being processed with dates of November 2008 and ones from the Vermont Service Center with dates of August 2008? Why is there such a glaring difference? This data is based on actual Notices being processed and sent; not the three month old data that USCIS proves.

I anxiously await your response to my questions.

I love it!

Nobody knows what is going on at VSC.

I went for an infopass appt last week. I was late by a few minutes. They were rude and turned me away at the door. They told me " Too bad, we're closed... You'll have to make another appointment"

I am the USC. I only wanted info on my petitions. They couldn't take 5 minutes to look my case up on the computer and tell me why I have been waiting 238 days for an approval?

I am a June Filer. People from late August are getting approvals. Some are from high fraud countries... #######?

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