Still Waiting for CSC

[daddeus 0]

This is probably the worst time of year and year for K1s. We are hit by:

1. H1-B April 1st onslaught - 165000 applications for 85000 slots

2. Election 2008 Naturalization Pressures - need to have those citizens to vote for Obama/Hillary

3. Gonzalez Stepping Down - when the cats away, the government workers slack off

Its a Triple Whammy...even the VSC is hit.

The only hope there is is that whoever replaces Gonzalez wants to impress and kicks someones butt.

[aravis227 1]

Maybe we should pick a campaign (doesn't matter which one, as long as it's all to the SAME one) and send them a petition and letters promising that all of the USCs will vote for them, but ONLY if they get CSC caught up with VSC by the end of July.

[JeroenAndMichelle 28]

2. Election 2008 Naturalization Pressures - need to have those citizens to vote for Obama/Hillary

Like someone else also said.. what about the K visa petitionares votes? They don't want them? lol

[steveinsandiego 0]

This is probably the worst time of year and year for K1s. We are hit by:

1. H1-B April 1st onslaught - 165000 applications for 85000 slots

2. Election 2008 Naturalization Pressures - need to have those citizens to vote for Obama/Hillary

3. Gonzalez Stepping Down - when the cats away, the government workers slack off

Its a Triple Whammy...even the VSC is hit.

The only hope there is is that whoever replaces Gonzalez wants to impress and kicks someones butt.

The USCIS director is appointed by the President, so I'm not sure I understand the reasoning that they pushing for Democratic votes.

You are correct, Igor's stats show a slow down at the VCS also. Could be they've shifted personal to process other types of applications and they will be shifted back to K1 and K3's later.

[daddeus 0]

2. Election 2008 Naturalization Pressures - need to have those citizens to vote for Obama/Hillary

Like someone else also said.. what about the K visa petitionares votes? They don't want them? lol

Not enough of a voting block to matter to them, there were only 33,190 K1s issued last year.

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/FY07Annual...rtTableXVIB.pdf

See near top of page 2.

[daddeus 0]

And I was being sarcastic about the Obama/Hillary thing. I'm sure that there is a ton of pressure to push through as many naturalizations as possible in order to allow these people to vote this year, whichever way they vote. Our fiances cant vote, so its lower priority. My point on the director is that, when the boss is out, the workers tend to slack as well. Plus, they will just say - well these delays will help test the strength of the relationships, a further test that they are "real". Course if the director really is appointed by the President (although he works for Chertoff) then thats a 4th reason, Bush may not wish to appoint anyone so close to an election, and they might throw in an "interim" director, who will see no benefit in kicking butt.

-D