USCIS Press release on case transfers

[sukimi 0]

Here's the press release:

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffair...ns_072606PN.pdf

[Sheriff Uling 3]

DAHAMN!!!! Did you write 22,000? Somebody pull out the whiskey and moonshine cuz I need a drink! LOL!

Edited July 28, 2006 by Uling

[JenT 0]

Brilliant. That's just what the CSC needs. More work.

And how will THEY be prioritized, I wonder...

Sorry for those I-130 VSC'ers who thought it was a GOOD thing to be at VSC....

Sigh.

[iceyspots 0]

I didnt think CSC needed anymore work..

[sunandmoon 450]

those were for i-130's. still doesn't CSC have enough cases already?

[zyggy 9]

Actually this is not a surprise... The USCIS is moving their service centers from a system where petitions are processed at a particular service center based on geography to a system where certain service centers process different workflows.

I-130's from NSC and TSC have been transferred to the CSC for months. It's no surprise that VSC has done the same thing...

The same has been happeining for I-129F's for K-1 petitions. The other two have been sending them to the CSC and now VSC has as well.

It all makes for a fairer process. Now there will be no more quibbling aboout why did someone from the VSC get processed on X time while I have to suffer and wait because of where I live. Now everyone is in the same boat.

[aussiewench 9]

Mostly the transfer of cases in the past has not been a bad thing and happens periodically

Edited July 28, 2006 by aussiewench

[phatmadame81 0]

Thatnks forthe heads up,

I must say though that being transfered to CSC was not a bad thing, I was approved in about 2 weeks.

Edited July 28, 2006 by desperatewife

[NorthernGirl 0]

Perhaps the USCIS is acting on the ombudsman's recommendation to "process I-130 as soon as they are received." (Whoah, that's a dream!)

From Prakash Khatri's Annual Report:

Pending I-130 Petitions

As of April 2006, USCIS had 1,129,705 pending I-130s, Petitions for Alien Relative, with most pending for many years. However, over the last few years, completion rates per hour for these petitions have decreased, despite stated successes in backlog reduction and the increased use of technology. As explained above at section II.A at p. 9, USCIS excluded most of these pending I-130 petitions from its backlog count.

Three factors appear to be responsible for increased Form I-130 processing times. First, in May 2002, USCIS began requiring Interagency Border Inspection Systems (IBIS) name checks for all Form I-130 petitioners and beneficiaries. The IBIS check added time to the I-130 adjudication process, yet USCIS did not allocate additional resources or change its processing methods to offset this additional processing step. Second, with processing delayed, customers are more likely to have moved but USCIS cannot, or did not, update addresses across all relevant databases.37 Finally, the Ombudsman learned in March 2006 that at least one service center was issuing blanket RFEs for certain long pending I-130s regardless of the completeness of the file. As a consequence, USCIS spent additional resources to respond to inquiring customers who did not understand the nature and requirements of these RFEs and sent in duplicate documents.

RECOMMENDATION AR 2006 -- 03

The Ombudsman recommends that USCIS process I-130 petitions as soon as they are received. This would prevent the substantial cost involved in storing and retrieving the applications as well as the resources expended for follow-ups, customer inquiries, address changes, etc.

More for your reading pleasure:

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/edit...torial_0890.xml