New Letter Campaign

[thedude6752000 360]

Since no letter went out last month and no effort seems to have been taken this month, I took the liberty of dashing off a letter for us to send next week. It's very rough, too long, and needs a lot of work. Let me know how we can improve it! I would like to send it off before the end of next week, earlier if possible.

Letter:

To: The Honorable Bob Goodlatte – Chairman House Judiciary Committee

Subject: Priorities of the USCIS Hurting US Citizens

Date: 14 February, 2014

Mr. Chairman:

Subsequent to my letter of December 20 expressing concerns regarding I-130 petition processing time, the US has updated their processing times for November, and now officially declares that they are adjudicating petitions which were submitted during or after March 2013.

Although moving the processing date a whole month was a welcomed change to the one day change witness during the month of December, I wish to direct the Chairman’s attention to the following press release by USCIS on November 20, 2013: “Furthermore, USCIS expects the processing of these Forms I-130 to be increasingly timely in the ensuing weeks, culminating in the return to an average processing time of five months for these Forms I-130 by May 2014.” The current processing dates of the USCIS service centers, which range from 6 March 2013 to 20 March 2013, now indicate an 11 month processing window. If the processing date continues to move ahead only one month at a time every month, simple mathematics dictates that USCIS’s processing goal of 5 months will never be met. In point of fact, USCIS will have to move their processing date up by at least 4 months each month for the rest of the year until May if they are to reach the stated 5-month processing goal by May of this year. In addition to this troubling trend of slowly moving processing dates, it should also be noted that, despite USCIS’s assurance that it “is ever-mindful of the need to process a U.S. citizen’s immediate relative Form I-130 carefully and expeditiously” the Nebraska service center, according to USCIS’ own data, only adjudicated 6,040 petitions in November while more than 52,000 (!) waited in its backlog. The Vermont Service Center only processed 939 I-130’s in November while over 14,000 waited in its backlog. Again to refer back to basic arithmetic, such a rate will result in more than a 14 month (!) wait for an I-130 petition for a US citizen, a far cry from USCIS’ stated goals. It is hard to believe with numbers like that the USCIS is taking this problem seriously or investing the proper resources into resolving it; it rather appears that their words were just that, words with no intent of action behind them.

As the issue of immigration reform once again rises to be debated in the US House of Representatives, I would also direct the Chairman’s attention to the current law of the land, the Immigration and Naturalization Act, as well as to the immigration reform proposals so far laid out by both the President and the Speaker of the House, which all highlight “family unity” as a high priority for any reform. Family unity must indeed be a priority for reform, however intentions of reform ring hollow when the already existing legislation promoting family unity is blatantly honored in the beach.

Since the start of the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Provisional Waiver programs (all brought into being unconstitutionally, without the express permission of the Congress of the United States whose job it is to draft such measures) the wait times for I-130 petitions of US citizens for the spouses and children have skyrocketed to the current 11 month waiting time while unlawful immigrants have seen their paperwork quickly and efficiently adjudicated, with few if any rejections, in less than 6 months. While I appreciate the compassionate intent of the President’s programs and the necessity of handling the problem of unlawful immigrants which is addressed by the Speaker’s proposals, it must be admitted that making the spouses and children of US citizens pay for the violations of immigration law by foreign nationals in the form of longer wait times to see their loved ones is beyond outrageous. The Chairman and his committee are requested to take immediate action to induce USCIS to handle quickly and promptly what the law says is its most immediate priority—the family unification of law-abiding US citizens— and to also ensure that any reform of the immigration system under discussion include measures to lessen the wait times for US citizens—not only Legal Permanent Residents, but the US citizens by whom, for whom, and of whom this government supposedly exists— not be punished for the immigration violations of foreign nationals. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and God bless.

Sincerely,

thedude6752000

USCIS Customer

CC:

Senator John Cornyn – Ranking Member U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Senator Chuck Schumer – Chairman U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Alejandro Mayorkas – Director USCIS

Lori Scialabba – Deputy Director USCIS

Maria M. Odom – Ombudsman USCIS

Brandi Blackburn, Assistant Center Director for NBC Division 8 in Overland Park, KS

Nancy W. Guilliams – Director Office of Administration-USCIS

Rand Beers – Secretary DHS

AILA

USCIS Public Engagement

[Kaylara 814]

That last paragraph is problematic. I would remove "(all brought into being unconstitutionally, without the express permission of the Congress of the United States whose job it is to draft such measures) " and other such wording. Personally, I would focus on the actions of the USCIS, and not mention the actual applicants aside from acknowledging that they broke the law and should not have been put ahead of those who are following the law.

[naam_2013 72]

Since no letter went out last month and no effort seems to have been taken this month, I took the liberty of dashing off a letter for us to send next week. It's very rough, too long, and needs a lot of work. Let me know how we can improve it! I would like to send it off before the end of next week, earlier if possible.

Letter:

To: The Honorable Bob Goodlatte – Chairman House Judiciary Committee

Subject: Priorities of the USCIS Hurting US Citizens

Date: 14 February, 2014

Mr. Chairman:

Subsequent to my letter of December 20 expressing concerns regarding I-130 petition processing time, the US has updated their processing times for November, and now officially declares that they are adjudicating petitions which were submitted during or after March 2013.

Although moving the processing date a whole month was a welcomed change to the one day change witness during the month of December, I wish to direct the Chairman’s attention to the following press release by USCIS on November 20, 2013: “Furthermore, USCIS expects the processing of these Forms I-130 to be increasingly timely in the ensuing weeks, culminating in the return to an average processing time of five months for these Forms I-130 by May 2014.” The current processing dates of the USCIS service centers, which range from 6 March 2013 to 20 March 2013, now indicate an 11 month processing window. If the processing date continues to move ahead only one month at a time every month, simple mathematics dictates that USCIS’s processing goal of 5 months will never be met. In point of fact, USCIS will have to move their processing date up by at least 4 months each month for the rest of the year until May if they are to reach the stated 5-month processing goal by May of this year. In addition to this troubling trend of slowly moving processing dates, it should also be noted that, despite USCIS’s assurance that it “is ever-mindful of the need to process a U.S. citizen’s immediate relative Form I-130 carefully and expeditiously” the Nebraska service center, according to USCIS’ own data, only adjudicated 6,040 petitions in November while more than 52,000 (!) waited in its backlog. The Vermont Service Center only processed 939 I-130’s in November while over 14,000 waited in its backlog. Again to refer back to basic arithmetic, such a rate will result in more than a 14 month (!) wait for an I-130 petition for a US citizen, a far cry from USCIS’ stated goals. It is hard to believe with numbers like that the USCIS is taking this problem seriously or investing the proper resources into resolving it; it rather appears that their words were just that, words with no intent of action behind them.

As the issue of immigration reform once again rises to be debated in the US House of Representatives, I would also direct the Chairman’s attention to the current law of the land, the Immigration and Naturalization Act, as well as to the immigration reform proposals so far laid out by both the President and the Speaker of the House, which all highlight “family unity” as a high priority for any reform. Family unity must indeed be a priority for reform, however intentions of reform ring hollow when the already existing legislation promoting family unity is blatantly honored in the beach.

Since the start of the President’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Provisional Waiver programs (all brought into being unconstitutionally, without the express permission of the Congress of the United States whose job it is to draft such measures) the wait times for I-130 petitions of US citizens for the spouses and children have skyrocketed to the current 11 month waiting time while unlawful immigrants have seen their paperwork quickly and efficiently adjudicated, with few if any rejections, in less than 6 months. While I appreciate the compassionate intent of the President’s programs and the necessity of handling the problem of unlawful immigrants which is addressed by the Speaker’s proposals, it must be admitted that making the spouses and children of US citizens pay for the violations of immigration law by foreign nationals in the form of longer wait times to see their loved ones is beyond outrageous. The Chairman and his committee are requested to take immediate action to induce USCIS to handle quickly and promptly what the law says is its most immediate priority—the family unification of law-abiding US citizens— and to also ensure that any reform of the immigration system under discussion include measures to lessen the wait times for US citizens—not only Legal Permanent Residents, but the US citizens by whom, for whom, and of whom this government supposedly exists— not be punished for the immigration violations of foreign nationals. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and God bless.

Sincerely,

thedude6752000

USCIS Customer

CC:

Senator John Cornyn – Ranking Member U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Senator Chuck Schumer – Chairman U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

Alejandro Mayorkas – Director USCIS

Lori Scialabba – Deputy Director USCIS

Maria M. Odom – Ombudsman USCIS

Brandi Blackburn, Assistant Center Director for NBC Division 8 in Overland Park, KS

Nancy W. Guilliams – Director Office of Administration-USCIS

Rand Beers – Secretary DHS

AILA

USCIS Public Engagement

DHS Secretary and Director USCIS are not those people anymore; I will work on finding you the current names and fax number / email.

Also, I suggest we send this letter on Tuesday, like we have done before; so how about 2/18, since we just started this thread, I do not think we will get a lot of momentum in next 4 days (Tuesday, 2/11).

[thedude6752000 360]

Good call naam, Tuesday it is.

[bdrew612 1,071]

Lori Scialabba is the acting Director of USCIS until a new Director has been sworn in. Right now, Leon Rodriguez (head dude at Office of Civil Rights right now) is rumored to be the favorite.

[thedude6752000 360]

Should we make reference to this article in the letter?

http://www.nytimes.c...rs.html?hp&_r=1

[bdrew612 1,071]

I think we should. Too bad the NYT piece didn't name names at USCIS...

[Collie 122]

Too bad they didn't mention the number fudging...adjudication of petitions out of chronological order.

[Kaylara 814]

We can add those to the letters we send. I'm sincerely hoping that this article will make more people take notice, and that will put the amount of pressure we need to accomplish some real positive changes.

[anuspras 65]

Guys, its awesome news that we made it to New York Times. However in order to make this effort a success and garner maximum attention from all ends, this is the best time to step up the pressure.... Now that we have got the necessary media attention, we need to send out our new letter earliest by next week, before the heat of the situation dies out...

We need to make sure that our letter covers all points that has been left out in the New York Times publication.... I mean the number fudging by USCIS, adjudication of petitions out of chronological order, un necessary RFE's to buy time, blatant lies and arrogant dont care attitude replies to our enquiries etc etc.... All theses needs to go into the letter... Basically the content in our letter should focus on adding 'fuel to the fire' that has been created by this New York Times publication.

So lets focus on getting this letter going by next week itself guys... 'We need to make hay while the sun shines'

[anuspras 65]

Guys, its awesome news that we made it to New York Times. However in order to make this effort a success and garner maximum attention from all ends, this is the best time to step up the pressure.... Now that we have got the necessary media attention, we need to send out our new letter earliest by next week, before the heat of the situation dies out...

We need to make sure that our letter covers all points that has been left out in the New York Times publication.... I mean the number fudging by USCIS, adjudication of petitions out of chronological order, un necessary RFE's to buy time, blatant lies and arrogant dont care attitude replies to our enquiries etc etc.... All theses needs to go into the letter... Basically the content in our letter should focus on adding 'fuel to the fire' that has been created by this New York Times publication.

So lets focus on getting this letter going by next week itself guys... 'We need to make hay while the sun shines'

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Yeah definitely mention the letter, it shows that we have the ability and organisation to get our campaign into the mass media and this is much more likely to make them take us seriously.

[aditya3245 113]

While I appreciate the compassionate intent of the President’s programs and the necessity of handling the problem of unlawful immigrants which is addressed by the Speaker’s proposals, it must be admitted that making the spouses and children of US citizens pay for the violations of immigration law by foreign nationals in the form of longer wait times to see their loved ones is beyond outrageous.

WHY are we appreciating this ? What the heck ?

IN WHAT ANOTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH, are you supposed to be compassionate to those who broke the law ?

Holder of passports of other nationality being given US citizenship.

Just like that ? really ?

In the great state of Israel, they put you in prison for 3 YEARS for entering without inspection/without a visa .

In Canada, 65% of those polled in 2014 wanted illegal immigrants to go home.

The "necessary handling" of the problem does not and should not entail giving away American passports (over a period of 13 years) to those who are already here.

I should not have to have a liberal heart so Nancy Pelosi can become the speaker of the house and Richard Trumka can become "relevant" again.

[thedude6752000 360]

Israel is a borderline fascist state these days, I don't think that's a good comparison to use. In any event we don't want to turn the letter into some type of rant against illegals or an all-out attack on "liberalism." Remember the goal is to get our petitions processed fasted, not to hurt the illegals or the "liberal agenda."

[aditya3245 113]

Israel is a borderline fascist state these days, I don't think that's a good comparison to use. In any event we don't want to turn the letter into some type of rant against illegals or an all-out attack on "liberalism." Remember the goal is to get our petitions processed fasted, not to hurt the illegals or the "liberal agenda."

Australia no longer allows legit refugees that arrive on its shores to settle permanently.

Its immigration site is literally called "Skillsoft" - because they prefer those can contribute to the tax receipt for their states not become consumers of the welfare state.

Europe is asking minorities from sub-saharan africa who suffer persecution because of their LGBT status to "be discreet" and they are being forced to go home instead. No european country allows foreigners without any status to obtain EU passports.

Countries like Argentina and Brasil have felony punishments for those who arrive illegally.

We're america.

We're supposed to vet would-be immigrants.

We're supposed to chose the best of the best --- and prioritize family of course.

These people are devaluing american citizenship every day and getting away with it.

Edited February 9, 2014 by aditya3245