If you could as a USCIS IR-1/CR-1 processing person a question, what would it be?

[jajaju 33]

Ok, here are mine..

• How do you personally feel about the situation with backlog of Spouse Visas (especially in contrast to K1 visa processing trends)? Do the processing officers know of the scale of frustration by thousands of couples? Do you talk about it amongst yourselves?

• What actually is the problem? As others on Visa processing forum websites have said, cashing IR-1/CR-1 fee money takes less than 48 hours, but 9-12 months for (claimed to be) 20 minutes work?

• Is it purely a revenue raising reason that people currently living in the US illegally are being processed ahead of IR-1/CR-1 applicants? Do you have any insight as to why they chose the Spouse visa processing centres to take on that workload and not the Fiance visa processing departments?

• Why isn't there something done about the issue - Thousands of people are requesting congressman intervention, the people affected by this are very passionate and aggressive when filing complaints, so why is there seemingly no plan to speed it up?

• There is buzz about the opening of Overland service centre. Will this help processing times at all? There is also talk of USCIS processing centres closing. What is really going on?

• Finally, is there anything we collectively as frustrated Spouse visa filers can do to affect change? Does our requests for congress intervention do anything, or are we wasting our time. The media is not interested in the issue, as a USCIS worker, what do you suggest we do to push for change?

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[Khal_Drogo 50]

How do you feel working for an unconstitutional bloated bureaucratic agency whose only job is to make trouble for law-abiding citizens and their families?

And then I would patiently wait for a response.

Edited September 21, 2013 by Khal_Drogo

[CaizLurol 36]

How do you feel working for an unconstitutional bloated bureaucratic agency whose only job is to make trouble for law-abiding citizens and their families?

And then I would patiently wait for a response.

They aren't making trouble for law-abiding citizens. They are helping your spouse and you be reunited. Show a little more gratitude.

[Khal_Drogo 50]

They aren't making trouble for law-abiding citizens. They are helping your spouse and you be reunited. Show a little more gratitude.

By first keeping us separated? And then being forced to prove we love each other? And then being forced to prove we're not criminals? Sorry, my graditude is reserved for those who respect my liberties, freedoms, and privacy. I am a law-abiding citizen and will follow the rule of law, but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't cheer if I saw the entire thing abolished. I've written enough e-mails/letters/petitions to my Congressmen that my keyboard bleeds.

I'm a libertarian lol; I'm too fargone at this point.

[scienceworks 64]

If you are asking a Tier1/Tier2, those questions are above their pay grade. They work for 25-40K. In your workplace there can be many things that are not fair for employees and customers. If you are not the management team, then there is no reason to blame you.

Similarly, tier1 and tier2 are not management. They are trying to make a living based on what they are told to do. They don't make management decisions. Giving preference to Dream Act applicants is good politics and voting gathering technique. How many citizen actually vote? The voter turn out is typically 50%. So the politicians make laws to affect and please that 50%?

Edited September 21, 2013 by scienceworks

[Hollyday 122]

Ok, here are mine..

• How do you personally feel about the situation with backlog of Spouse Visas (especially in contrast to K1 visa processing trends)? Do the processing officers know of the scale of frustration by thousands of couples? Do you talk about it amongst yourselves?
• What actually is the problem? As others on Visa processing forum websites have said, cashing IR-1/CR-1 fee money takes less than 48 hours, but 9-12 months for (claimed to be) 20 minutes work?
• Is it purely a revenue raising reason that people currently living in the US illegally are being processed ahead of IR-1/CR-1 applicants? Do you have any insight as to why they chose the Spouse visa processing centres to take on that workload and not the Fiance visa processing departments?
• Why isn't there something done about the issue - Thousands of people are requesting congressman intervention, the people affected by this are very passionate and aggressive when filing complaints, so why is there seemingly no plan to speed it up?
• There is buzz about the opening of Overland service centre. Will this help processing times at all? There is also talk of USCIS processing centres closing. What is really going on?
• Finally, is there anything we collectively as frustrated Spouse visa filers can do to affect change? Does our requests for congress intervention do anything, or are we wasting our time. The media is not interested in the issue, as a USCIS worker, what do you suggest we do to push for change?

This made me wonder if there's an agenda behind collecting a list of questions. Is there? Do you actually have anyone to ask those or is it purely hypothetical?

I wouldn't ask them about the feelings about the backlog, personally. As scienceworks says, this is above their level really, handling this issue. They're doing their job and the backlog is more about resources and the process itself, they just do what they're told to.

More than that, i think all your questions target someone at a higher level than an actual adjudicator. It would be interesting to ask them those questions, yes. I wonder if there's some way to actually contact the NBC head/deputy head and ask them.