solution to delays: close TSC, NSC ; increase CSC workforce three times.

[friendlyusa 37]

We can suggest to NBC the following solution to resolve ongoing delays:

close down TSC & NSC ; and increase CSC workforce by three times.

Because, only CSC has the capability to work efficiently on i130 petitions.

[aditya3245 113]

Previously i-130s were done only at VSC and CSC - which are larger and have staff trained AND EXPERIENCED to handle i-130s.

NSC and TSC usually handled other non complicated kinds of petitions etc - prior to all this transfer business.

They're not poorly resourced - i HIGHLY doubt that they have horrible adjudicators ( like the movie "horrible bosses" hahahah)

Its the fact that they probably haven't done this large of a volume of petitions - and there's national security concerns and fraud removal issues that must be handled before i-130 approval. CSC can do all that faster because they have been doing it forever.

The new SCs are not experts when it comes to i-130.

Or if they're experts - they're not experts who can handle ridicuosly high intake

[BOS_LHR 829]

Without knowing why CSC is so much more efficient, it's difficult to propose a working solution. My guess is that the staff at CSC are better trained and/or have a lighter workload, or perhaps more of the staff there is dedicated to I-130 processing than at the other centers. Adding new staff to CSC would require hiring and training, or else relocating individuals who are already trained. Either of those options would take quite a while to execute in addition to being prohibitively expensive.

[Kaylara 814]

Previously i-130s were done only at VSC and CSC - which are larger and have staff trained AND EXPERIENCED to handle i-130s.

NSC and TSC usually handled other non complicated kinds of petitions etc - prior to all this transfer business.

They're not poorly resourced - i HIGHLY doubt that they have horrible adjudicators ( like the movie "horrible bosses" hahahah)

Its the fact that they probably haven't done this large of a volume of petitions - and there's national security concerns and fraud removal issues that must be handled before i-130 approval. CSC can do all that faster because they have been doing it forever.

The new SCs are not experts when it comes to i-130.

Or if they're experts - they're not experts who can handle ridicuosly high intake

This is not the first time that all of the service centers have been adjudicating I130's. They are not novices at it. This volume is also not ridiculously high. They *created* this issue, and now they are having to deal with the consequences of holding hundreds of thousands of applications for months at a time. And I don't think that they're devoting the kind of resources required to clear this backlog in a reasonable amount of time. (The K1 backlog was smaller, and when they wanted to actually clear it, they did in a fairly short amount of time.) I don't believe that there is any sense of urgency in fixing the problem. And they won't get serious about clearing it until there is enough pressure from outside to do so.

[friendlyusa 37]

As for the expense is concerned , we i130 filers have paid USCIS with our petitions : $100000000

Went can't they use this money in an efficient way. It's ridiculously huge amount. Where is that money going?

Without knowing why CSC is so much more efficient, it's difficult to propose a working solution. My guess is that the staff at CSC are better trained and/or have a lighter workload, or perhaps more of the staff there is dedicated to I-130 processing than at the other centers. Adding new staff to CSC would require hiring and training, or else relocating individuals who are already trained. Either of those options would take quite a while to execute in addition to being prohibitively expensive.

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Progress Reports to USCIS Service Centers forum.

[Darnell 8,478]

Actually, TSC is the most efficient of them all, for I-130s .

However, they don't do it continuously,

and

it takes 2 to 4 months to ramp up, training adudicators.

However, once they are in the groove, TSC is super-duper fast.

So, I'll counter with -

HEY ! Keep all adjudicator desks at TSC staffed 100 percent year-round.

Edited January 14, 2014 by Darnell

[thedude6752000 360]

Or how about this, build out another NVC center and send all I-130 straight to the NVC for adjudication. File the AOS papers etc. all at the same time, cut the USCIS out of it so that they can take care of important stuff (like illegal immigrants!) and cut the wait time in half for spouses (and hell why not I-129f's too?).

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

USCIS have known about the backlog since summer so they could have been training new staff all summer/autumn to deal with this. Our user fees pay for the staff after all. I appreciate that there will be peaks/troughs in demand which will take time to respond to but they have really done very little to mitigate the problems. Call me a cynic but could the big problem be that they used the workforce our user fees paid for to fast track the DACA applications while not increasing their staffing to keep the costs of DACA down and we have all been paying the price for that?

K1's have been flying by in a ridiculously short amount of time (I've seen non expedited filers with NOA1-NOA2 times of a month or less), common sense would suggest that some of the USCIS adjudicators were moved from 1-129's to I-130's until the situation with I-130'S improved. Everyone talks about training staff and "experts", but they are merely running checks on people and putting biographic data into a computer, it's not rocket science and won't require months of training!