**IMMIGRATION EVENT TAKING PLACE TOMORROW - READ TO GET INVOLVED!

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The info is in this thread towards the last few pages but basically tomorrow USCIS will be receiving thousands of faxes and emails to bring awareness how fed up we are with waiting for our petitions to be approved. USCIS is currently holding at LEAST $230 million of YOUR money right now and not doing a damned thing about it. LETS GET SOME ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/454000-i-130-march-2013-filers-nbc/page-181#entry6653923

This email is what I am sending to my local news station. Feel free to copy and paste.

Dear Fox News,

I wanted to make you aware of an event that will be taking place tomorrow across the US with regards to immigration.

On November 19th, US citizens who have a pending I-130 (petition to bring an immediate relative to the US), will be emailing and faxing the following list of significant parties:

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

Randy Beers - Secretary DHS

Washington Post

AILA

Fox News (Sean Hannity)

This is being done in an effort to bring awareness of the increasing backlog of petitions that are not being processed in a timely manner. The USCIS national goal is 5 months, however the current national average in 11 months, although there are petitions in the system from 2012 that have still not been processed.

According to the most recent USCIS I-130 Petition Performance report, the National Benefits Center completed the processing of only 2,755 petitions in the first two quarters of the 2013 Fiscal Year (October 2012-March 2013). In the same reporting period, the National Benefits Center received 254,890 petitions and has now accrued a backlog of 523,874 pending cases2. I believe the few petitions that the National Benefits managed to process to be limited to expedited cases. Despite announcements of USCIS efforts to dedicate staff to process I-130 petitions in Overland Park, KS, USCIS has failed to train or re-assign staff needed to process this caseload in a timely manner3. After a year of indecision, the I-130 workload is only now being transferred from the National Benefits Center to regional service centers4.

This personally affects me as I petitioned to bring my parents from Northern Ireland in March 2013. We just received a letter this past weekend stating our case was being transferred to Nebraska, where the national average is 11 months before it will be further processed.

The cost of time that I am missing out on where my parents are missing seeing their grand-daughters growing up is irreplaceable.

I urge you to join the network of News stations that will be broadcasting this issue tomorrow and to bring awareness and hopefully action.

With the back log of petitions and the cost of just one petition, this means that the USCIS currently is holding $230,504560. This is a very rough estimate as many people will have paid for more than one petition. This total may be double or even triple. Surely with the amount of money going into USCIS should bring justification to hire more staff and speed up petitions?

Thank you for your time and if you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me by email or by phone.

Regards,

Kat Nicholl-Basye