USC Green Card Petitioners' Committee

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/pelosi-votes-are-there-pass-immigration-reform/

Some posters shared their own stories of how the country’s immigration laws have hurt them, especially the year-long wait for illegal immigrants to move to the U.S. to be with their spouses and children.

“This is a perfect example of why we need comprehensive immigration reform. One of the key goals of our bipartisan bill is to reunite families. We do this by including provisions that reduce family visa backlogs,” Ms. Pelosi wrote.

Huh? Typo?

Kat XXXXXX Current immigration reform is focused on helping individuals who are already in the country illegally, but no attention has been paid to the immediate relatives of US citizens who are trying to immigrate legally. The standards at USCIS are slipping; currently there is a year long wait projected for approval of immediate relative visa petitions (I-130), instead of the 5 month goal time posted at uscis.gov. Throughout the entire process, which may last years, citizens must be separated from their spouses and children. When will the USCIS meet its commitment to American citizens seeking to legally reunite with their family members?

Nancy Pelosi Kat XXXXXX This is a perfect example of why we need comprehensive immigration reform. One of the key goals of our bipartisan bill is to reunite families. We do this by including provisions that reduce family visa backlogs.

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[Smitten 5]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/pelosi-votes-are-there-pass-immigration-reform/

Some posters shared their own stories of how the country’s immigration laws have hurt them, especially the year-long wait for illegal immigrants to move to the U.S. to be with their spouses and children.

“This is a perfect example of why we need comprehensive immigration reform. One of the key goals of our bipartisan bill is to reunite families. We do this by including provisions that reduce family visa backlogs,” Ms. Pelosi wrote.

Huh? Typo?

Kat XXXXXX Current immigration reform is focused on helping individuals who are already in the country illegally, but no attention has been paid to the immediate relatives of US citizens who are trying to immigrate legally. The standards at USCIS are slipping; currently there is a year long wait projected for approval of immediate relative visa petitions (I-130), instead of the 5 month goal time posted at uscis.gov. Throughout the entire process, which may last years, citizens must be separated from their spouses and children. When will the USCIS meet its commitment to American citizens seeking to legally reunite with their family members?

Nancy Pelosi Kat XXXXXX This is a perfect example of why we need comprehensive immigration reform. One of the key goals of our bipartisan bill is to reunite families. We do this by including provisions that reduce family visa backlogs.

That's got to be a typo. If they are an illegal immigrant, they're 1) not overseas (thus they wouldn't be neither illegal nor immigrants), and 2) not waiting for anything to happen in order to enter (they're already here).

Edited October 31, 2013 by Kathryn41
to remove personally identifying/sensitive information

[Kaylara 814]

I wrote to complain and now I'm going to call them and demand a retraction.

[Kaylara 814]

I called the editor, wrote on the actual page that there is a mistake, and I wrote the author on twitter as well. Can other people come and back me up at that article, please.

[Smitten 5]

I called the editor, wrote on the actual page that there is a mistake, and I wrote the author on twitter as well. Can other people come and back me up at that article, please.

Done!

[BOS_LHR 829]

The article was fixed. It now reads:

Some posters shared their own stories of how the country’s immigration laws have hurt them, especially the year-long wait for immigrants to move legally to the U.S. to be with their spouses and children.

[Karmalicious 60]

Yea! Thanks for your efforts guys.

[Kaylara 814]

You can add the Washington Times to the list of people contacted.

[lucybelle 453]

Yay! Glad it got fixed!

[Hiwatari 9]

I wrote to complain and now I'm going to call them and demand a retraction.

Done!

The article was fixed. It now reads:

Some posters shared their own stories of how the country’s immigration laws have hurt them, especially the year-long wait for immigrants to move legally to the U.S. to be with their spouses and children.

Yea! Thanks for your efforts guys.

Yay! Glad it got fixed!

Just so you know, read the immigration reform passed by the senate... NO WHERE does it have a provision for US Citizens to get their spouse here any faster. Only for Pernament Resisdents does it help and Illegal immigration cases. Also there is I believe a 18 Month Wait time before anything will go into effect AFTER it becomes a law. This immigration reform will do nothing for us. I am not saying it is a bad thing the immigration reform, just stating it will not effect US citizens filing I-130's.

I also posted a complaint on Ted Cruz's Facebook page asking why K-1 Visa's for Pernament Residents are being processed faster than K-3 and I-130's.... Ugh Government fail.

Being a Texas Resisdent I called the senator office for help, Not knowing who Ted Cruz was, at first I thought he was better than the other old guy.... UGH my mistake.... I was told that He will do nothing to help with this injustice about why K-1 Visa's have faster processing times.

I wish I went the K-1 route... but I Wanted to have a traditional Javanese wedding with my wife my new family in Indonesia...

[lucybelle 453]

I wrote both my senators last week and my congressman for the third time two weeks ago. Haven't heard from them yet.

[BOS_LHR 829]

I sent letters +release forms to my congressman and one senator last week as well. I have no expectation that it'll make a difference, but for my own sanity I need to know I've explored every avenue. Hopefully some info will come out from the AILA tomorrow or Friday -- I would guess there'll be a lag before Q&A posts to uscis.gov, but with luck the liaison will respond to my email within a day as she did before.

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[Beeeebs 19]

The "illegal" was no mistake. People who are filing those I-601 waivers and people out of status who are adjusting their statuses are getting processed faster than the rest of us I-130 filers waiting in line and doing it the right way.

[Beeeebs 19]

How do I sign this petition that's going around?

[Kaylara 814]

I don't think for one second it was a mistake. There's no way you could mistake what Kat and I said as to be talking about illegal immigrants. None. And even though they corrected it, it still implies that they're talking about LPR's or illegal immigrants instead of American Citizens.

Here is what I just posted in the comment section there:

For the sake of clarity, here are the two posts that were referenced discussing the impact that the problems with the USCIS has on families. Please tell me how one can possibly misconstrue them as speaking about illegal immigrants? After re-reading them myself to see if I could figure it out, I have to believe that either the author has no reading comprehension, or she was lying on purpose in order to support the claims in the rest of the article. It appears now that the article has been changed to remove the word 'illegal' but the phrasing still implies it. But you can read the actual statements and make up your own mind:

Kat XXXXX: "Current immigration reform is focused on helping individuals who are already in the country illegally, but no attention has been paid to the immediate relatives of US citizens who are trying to immigrate legally. The standards at USCIS are slipping; currently there is a year long wait projected for approval of immediate relative visa petitions (I-130), instead of the 5 month goal time posted at uscis.gov. Throughout the entire process, which may last years, citizens must be separated from their spouses and children. When will the USCIS meet its commitment to American citizens seeking to legally reunite with their family members?"

Jessica XXXXX: "Mrs. Pelosi,
I am a current petitioner with the USCIS for my husband of 7 1/2 years, and have been waiting for any action on my petition since March 20, 2013. I have been advised that as of this point (over 7 months into the process) that I will probably need to wait another 8 months just to have my case adjudicated and moved to the NVC. The USCIS can provide no concrete answers about my case to me except to tell me to keep waiting. The target approval time is 5 months, but the national average for this process currently sits at 16.6 months, and I have been made to understand that they are not adjudicating K-3 visas because they deny there is need for it. My question is this, what will immigration reform do for us, the US Citizens, who have followed the law, but are not being processed in a timely manner and have no recourse through the USCIS? A forced separation of 2+ years is unreasonable to me. My understanding is that there are over 300,000 US citizens currently in a similar situation to my own. I have read that fiance visas are being processed in under 3 months, and for Legal permenent residents to bring their spouse to the US it's taking about 5 months. Why are US Citizens being put on the backburner? What can be done to fix this problem and ensure that petitions will not have to face this in the future? What are your plans to insert some recourse to petitioners, so that the USCIS can't just change the rules instead of fixing a problem that they, themselves, created?

Thank you,
Jessica XXXXXXX"

Edited October 31, 2013 by Kathryn41
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