Only Two Percent of Americans Who Voted for Trump Regret It

[CaliCat 3,957]

Just now, Mr&Mrs G. said:

Unfortunately not too long ago

 

Mar 15 - I-130 Mailed to Chicago Lockbox

Mar 20 - I-130 Received in Chicago 

Mar 24 - Case assigned to Nebraska Serv

 

It should move quickly from now on. The timeline estimate is fair. You may be landing before the year is out. 

 

Back to DACA, I can promise you that anyone on DACA would love to trade places with you. It doesnt make your situation any better, but DACA fails to provide the beneficiaries with any of the privileges and right you'll have once you're in the US. 

 

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

 

It should move quickly from now on. The timeline estimate is fair. You may be landing before the year is out. 

 

Back to DACA, I can promise you that anyone on DACA would love to trade places with you. It doesnt make your situation any better, but DACA fails to provide the beneficiaries with any of the privileges and right you'll have once you're in the US. 

 

 

Of course I will be in a much better position than any DACA recipient, but I feel with any program like this they should have left the normal immigration centers alone and used new offices. Apparently it's self funding so why place it directly in the hands of USCIS when they were already playing catch up. Setting it up as a stand alone entity or even a separate branch within USCIS would have been better.

[CaliCat 3,957]

59 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

 

Of course I will be in a much better position than any DACA recipient, but I feel with any program like this they should have left the normal immigration centers alone and used new offices. Apparently it's self funding so why place it directly in the hands of USCIS when they were already playing catch up. Setting it up as a stand alone entity or even a separate branch within USCIS would have been better.

 

There is an inroad in the system, and your visa category (IR1) is the fastest lane there is. As a IR1 there is no wait for your visa to be issued once your process is completed. The DACA applications put a burden on the system, although you can't measure it. But equally, your application moved someone in a lesser category one position further back, because some visa categories depend on yearly quotas. The USCIS has been understaffed for quite a while, but timeliness is not the only parameter deciding how long your visa will take.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

11 hours ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

 

Of course I will be in a much better position than any DACA recipient, but I feel with any program like this they should have left the normal immigration centers alone and used new offices. Apparently it's self funding so why place it directly in the hands of USCIS when they were already playing catch up. Setting it up as a stand alone entity or even a separate branch within USCIS would have been better.

Ok sure lets do that, but do you want your uscis fees to cost more?  It's completely self funded the government doesn't contribute.  

[Mr&Mrs G. 903]

2 hours ago, Transborderwife said:

Ok sure lets do that, but do you want your uscis fees to cost more?  It's completely self funded the government doesn't contribute.  

USCIS are already processing DACA applications and the fees for other visa types went up last year. So if DACA is self funded by application fees why would it increase prices more? Surely it's using USCIS staff that were already employed before DACA was created.

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

fees increase over time. back when we were preparing to go through the k1 - the fees increased right before we began. such is life.

but it is always fun to blame bad things and minor inconveniences on illegal immigrants, specially those made illegal by no fault of their own..

[CaliCat 3,957]

12 minutes ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

USCIS are already processing DACA applications and the fees for other visa types went up last year. So if DACA is self funded by application fees why would it increase prices more? Surely it's using USCIS staff that were already employed before DACA was created.

 

 

 

That is possible, but there's no way to check if/when impact was experienced. USCIS caters for a variety of immigration-related issues. 

[Transborderwife 4,666]

1 hour ago, Mr&Mrs G. said:

USCIS are already processing DACA applications and the fees for other visa types went up last year. So if DACA is self funded by application fees why would it increase prices more? Surely it's using USCIS staff that were already employed before DACA was created.

 

 

Uscis is self funded, that's what I'm saying.  Your petition is no different than their DACA status to them.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

1 hour ago, CaliCat said:

 

That is possible, but there's no way to check if/when impact was experienced. USCIS caters for a variety of immigration-related issues. 

I think that what people in immigration need to realize sometimes is that there's always a bigger fish and envy somewhere.  AOS from tourist visas must have an interview and gripe about that, k1's gripe about having to wait longer for greencards, cr1's the separation period etc

[TBoneTX 45,301]

On April 24, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Mr&Mrs G. said:

This is my main problem with DACA, these cases were loaded on to the USCIS with instructions to process them quicker. It over loaded the offices and backlogged a lot of applications.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/421247-i-129f-delay-at-the-csc-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-the-data/

 

The above is validation of the Backlog claim.

[CaliCat 3,957]

2 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/421247-i-129f-delay-at-the-csc-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-the-data/

 

The above is validation of the Backlog claim.

 

It may have been in 2013 - Unless I am looking at the wrong place, the date on the post is 2013. Most of the backlog would have been cleared by now. So the backlog is probably long gone.

[TBoneTX 45,301]

Yes, from 2013.  People here from that timeframe still acutely remember the awful delays, which took a surprisingly long time to start to resolve.

[CaliCat 3,957]

14 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Yes, from 2013.  People here from that timeframe still acutely remember the awful delays, which took a surprisingly long time to start to resolve.

 

Thanks for clarifying. I though you were talking about current backlogs.

[yuna628 9,676]

58 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

It may have been in 2013 - Unless I am looking at the wrong place, the date on the post is 2013. Most of the backlog would have been cleared by now. So the backlog is probably long gone.

CSC has been breezing by for years since that backlog was cleared and there's no sign yet of too much slowdown. Then of course there was the backlog at TSC, after that period, who couldn't seemingly manage to cope with the volume of cases while strangely, CSC still could after the 2013 backlogged was corrected. Thanks to asking the former President directly and he kindly obliging, TSC kicked the bucket for I-129F, that backlog was cleared and CSC continues to manage still pretty well as the sole handler for K1 cases. So while the analysis in 2013 seems pretty sound, and may have led to some evidence that DACA back then may have slowed things down, what changed exactly now?

[TBoneTX 45,301]

Dunno, except that USCIS adjudicators are apparently told to concentrate on processing certain petitions ahead of others, on a rotating basis; see Gary's old pinned threads on that subject.  There was a large influx of N-400s in the months before the election, for example.