IR1/CR1 Backlog makes the NY Times!

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Have not been browsing VJ so much as I've been travelling and visiting my wife. Any news on planned activities?

[angeldaemon13 42]

I don't know what happened. Once transfers were coming, approvals started coming in, the fight seems to have tapered off.

[vkrishn 97]

USCIS might get busy with DACA again.

http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-process

[Al422 221]

USCIS can flip all the nice catch phrases around that they want, but it all adds up to failure.

Some parts work OK, but some like this one, are hopelessly mired in failure.

We will never stop illegal aliens from sneaking in here as long as we reward them for doing so and at the same time make legal immigration difficult if not impossible. Hasn't this simple fact of life occurred to anybody in Washington, or have they spent so much time in their ivory towers that they have forgotten what the sun looks like?

Four years ago, during the Haiti earthquake victims TPS program, the ENTIRE burden of the backlog caused by the TPS program was unceremonously dumped on K-1 applicants in Vermont. Suddenly approvals which used to take 30 days were taking 7 months. And nobody in Washington cared. The USCIS director actually went as far as to go on national television and proclaim that USCIS does not have a backlog. Wow! That whopper was right up there with someone in Washington proclaiming that the US does not have a deficit.

I don't disagree with the goals of the Haiti TPS program. Surely we should not be forcing Haitians to go back home while their land was ravaged by an earthquake. But DON'T dump the entire burden on K-1 applicants in Vermont. Spread the wealth (as in the whole nation, as in hire more adjudicators).

Now they are doing it again. CR-1s are getting dumped on. And for what? Needy people who have escaped a devastating disaster in their homeland? NO! This one is for those who snuck across our border, knowing they were thumbing their noses at our laws. They get the reward while those who do it legally get dumped on. Yeah, this is a good way to get people to come here legally!

Yeah, we need immigration reform, but not the one Obama envisions. We need one that seals off the border, stops all illegals from getting any benefit or job or bankiing or drivers license or anything else, and gives those who want to get a visa, work hard, obey our laws and learn our language a chance to do so within 3 to 4 months processing time.

Edited April 12, 2014 by Al422

[tim131 14]

What else can we do? My wife and I would love to help...