ALL Nebraska I-130 Filers -- Part 4

[Daniela b Michels 0]

On 4/30/2019 at 10:41 AM, durdana said:

Anyone with P.D 05/25 waiting ? 

Hi, my Noa1 it's May 30 and I waiting for Noa2... 

11 Months already 🙁

[durdana 11]

18 minutes ago, Daniela b Michels said:

Hi, my Noa1 it's May 30 and I waiting for Noa2... 

11 Months already 🙁

11 months already for me too... I hope we all get our Noa2 soon. 

[Jo&Ro 106]

23 minutes ago, Daniela b Michels said:

Hi, my Noa1 it's May 30 and I waiting for Noa2... 

11 Months already 🙁

That's absolutely freaking ridiculous! Good luck to us all...😔

[GAMAJM 320]

31 minutes ago, Jo&Ro said:

That's absolutely freaking ridiculous! Good luck to us all...😔

Yes..and this response from USCIS is no consolation... as they don't even acknowledge the "suffering" of families in this response.  

 

Download and read the entire document. Focus on page 8 (last page) Nebraska may get help soon but I am sure we won't see any changes. 

 

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/whats-happening-in-congress/congressional-updates/uscis-responds-to-letter-from-86-house-members

 

 

[Jo&Ro 106]

"We're working on making it more efficient by the fiscal year 2020."....HAHAHAHA! A-holes... All I got from that was bla bla bla, wait longer, just like the responce from the out of normal time request. 

Sorry about the bad attitude guys...😏  Knowing we still have to go through this BS all over again to get her kids here when she ever makes it is REEEEALLY putting us in bad spirits. 

[IndiaAnnie 163]

4 hours ago, Jo&Ro said:

Knowing we still have to go through this BS all over again to get her kids here when she ever makes it is REEEEALLY putting us in bad spirits. 

Ugh!! That part makes me feel relieved that my husband opted to have the twins stay with the family (and birth mother) while they finish their education through tenth standard. They'll be tri-lingual and ready for college if/when they come join us in 8yrs. Until then, we travel back and forth annually. It was a hard decision but the right one for our family.

 

I'm so sorry that you have to do it all over again and I hope all of the electronic and case balancing procedures are in place by then.

 

The one that got me was the reallocation of budget from USCIS to ICE...whether it happened or not...was very telling of the agency priorities. 😡

[Team A Forever 59]

I've written a few letters to the Congressmen in my area, this is the response I received via email, just a short while ago. I think I'm more annoyed that this non-response doesn't even address anything remotely relating to anything in the letters I've sent.

 

[Kimi31 126]

34 minutes ago, Team A Forever said:

I've written a few letters to the Congressmen in my area, this is the response I received via email, just a short while ago. I think I'm more annoyed that this non-response doesn't even address anything remotely relating to anything in the letters I've sent.

 

Is be responding to thatbstayin thanks for not actually reading my initial letter, sending a copy and asking for the actual issues you raised to be looked into

[JMPM 507]

11 hours ago, GAMAJM said:

Yes..and this response from USCIS is no consolation... as they don't even acknowledge the "suffering" of families in this response.  

 

Download and read the entire document. Focus on page 8 (last page) Nebraska may get help soon but I am sure we won't see any changes. 

 

https://www.aila.org/advo-media/whats-happening-in-congress/congressional-updates/uscis-responds-to-letter-from-86-house-members

 

 

Love how they answered #4. Two different charts to answer the question. They didn't mention what the completion rate. 

And it's sad they don't have metrics for performance that they have to 'reintroduce' them. It's easy to introduce.  

"Hey guys by the end of this month we want you to process 2 per hour, and we are going to be working to 5 per hour by the end of the year. So step it up. And Cathy that chatting time at the watercooler with Kim and Jim needs to end today no one cares what your cats did last night."

I know they have work at  home adjudicators too they should have higher standards like yes you must definitely hit X per hour because there shouldn't be any distractions at home.

Gov't agencies need to have more transparency weekly and monthly reports should be auto generated to show progress. And all that user fees should stay within the USCIS not being diverted to ICE. It should be run as a business. More demand more fees more staff.. less demand lower fees let go staff. maintain goals and keep it going. Keep a reserve but it shouldn't be generating profit, or profit for another agency. 

 

12 hours ago, Daniela b Michels said:

Hi, my Noa1 it's May 30 and I waiting for Noa2... 

11 Months already 🙁

Hey they just lowered the processing time.. send a message about it being out of processing time take advantage before they raise it back  

Edited May 2, 2019 by JMPM

[gonzolux 82]

12 hours ago, JMPM said:

 

 

Hey they just lowered the processing time.. send a message about it being out of processing time take advantage before they raise it back  

Has anyone ever seen an outside of processing time request that got a real response? My response was wait 60 days then you can send us another one of these. I'll be at 11 months this weekend. (PD June 6, 2018)

[Jo&Ro 106]

1 hour ago, gonzolux said:

Has anyone ever seen an outside of processing time request that got a real response? My response was wait 60 days then you can send us another one of these. I'll be at 11 months this weekend. (PD June 6, 2018)

That was exactly the responce we got also. 

[AbbyD 10]

According to the Facebook group, someone got an email from Nebraska saying that they are taking an average of 12 months right now, even though that's not what they report online.

[gonzolux 82]

1 hour ago, AbbyD said:

According to the Facebook group, someone got an email from Nebraska saying that they are taking an average of 12 months right now, even though that's not what they report online.

I didn't see that (I'm in a Nebraska Filers Facebook group), but when I talked to USCIS yesterday I asked why the times posted were inaccurate. And their standard answer is "each case is different" which I think is because they don't listen to our anecdotal evidence that I don't know anyone with an approval in less than 11 months now. Like we can only talk about our own cases officially which prevents us from using the fact they are behind for almost everyone else in our favor if that makes sense. 

Edited May 2, 2019 by gonzolux

[Scott001 128]

22 hours ago, Team A Forever said:

I've written a few letters to the Congressmen in my area, this is the response I received via email, just a short while ago. I think I'm more annoyed that this non-response doesn't even address anything remotely relating to anything in the letters I've sent.

I got the same basic canned response form my House Rep and one of my senators. However, I got this gem of a response from Mazie Hirono today:   

 

Dear Scott,

 

Thank you for contacting me regarding President Trump’s national emergency declaration and his border security and immigration enforcement policies. These efforts are part of the Trump Administration’s broader anti-immigrant agenda and are deeply concerning to me. I appreciate hearing from you about these important issues.

 

As a candidate, Donald Trump stoked anger and fear against immigrants with harmful rhetoric and campaign promises that included building a wall at the southern border and making Mexico pay for it, and banning Muslims from entering the country. These policies, combined with the Administration’s indiscriminate immigration enforcement and abandonment of prosecutorial discretion, which divert limited resources to further Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, have fueled great anxiety and undermined public safety in communities nationwide.

 

Recently, President Trump held federal government employees hostage in a 35-day partial government shutdown to get funding for his border wall. When he failed to secure funding, he circumvented Congress and declared a national emergency in order to divert billions of dollars away from previously approved military construction projects for his vanity wall.

 

While the President has declared a fake emergency, he has largely ignored the humanitarian concerns at the border, including those that he created. For example, the Trump administration has failed to fully reunite the thousands of parents and children it separated since 2017, including under its morally reprehensible zero-tolerance policy. The Trump administration has also detained thousands of children and parents in family detention centers. In addition, there have been multiple reports of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities failing to meet basic standards of care and lacking proper medical care. Last December, two children – seven-year-old Jakelin Caal and eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo – tragically died in CBP custody, and many more will likely face a lifetime of trauma. 

 

I strongly believe that we should do everything we can to keep our communities safe, but the Trump administration’s border wall and anti-immigrant policies are not about public safety. Instead of addressing the humanitarian concerns that continue to endanger the lives of thousands of asylum seekers, President Trump has focused on separating families, blocking asylum claims, and deploying approximately 5,000 troops to the southern border to install wire fencing and barriers and increase mobile surveillance. Redirecting federal resources to fund the border wall, which will cost tens of billions of dollars and deploying military troops to the border, among other measures, are ineffective and a wasteful misuse of taxpayer money.

 

On February 26, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.J. Res. 46, a resolution of disapproval to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration. I joined a bipartisan group of Senators in supporting this resolution, which passed the Senate on a 59-41 vote. As expected, on March 18, the President vetoed this resolution.

 

The Trump Administration's policies of separating families and improperly turning away refugees and asylum seekers are inconsistent with American values. That's why I took to the Senate floor to speak out against the President's unconscionable policies. During the 115th Congress, I also cosponsored legislation, such as Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) Keep Families Together Act and Senator Tina Smith's (D-MN) HELP Separated Children Act, to reunite children with their parents and end the cruel policy of separating families at the border. Additionally, I introduced several bills to ensure that immigrant children receive the care and resources they need from the time they enter our custody to the time their cases are adjudicated—the Child Trafficking Victims Protection and Welfare Act, the Fair Day in Court for Kids Act, and the Immigration Court Improvement Act.

 

Instead of pursuing the costly, ineffective, and morally objectionable policies of the Trump administration, Congress should pass comprehensive legislation to reform our broken immigration system. The U.S. Senate did this in 2013 when it passed the bipartisan Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, which would have made important improvements to federal immigration policy. Unfortunately, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to consider the bill, and it did not become law.

 

I remain deeply disappointed by the President's failure to provide real leadership on these important issues, and his pursuit of an extreme, anti-immigrant agenda. Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind as the immigration debate continues.

 

Again, thank you for contacting me. If you would like to stay in touch with me on this or other issues of importance to you, please visit my website at: http://www.hirono.senate.gov. Please do not hesitate to contact me again in the future if I may be of assistance to you in any way.

Aloha,

 

Mazie K. Hirono
United States Senator

[bel044 49]

I also got the same kind of response from my congressman (but he was talking about how he supported Trump's hostile immigration policies) and was so angry!  Here's how I responded:  (a little salty, but I'm not sorry)

 

Dear Congressman Graves,

 

If you (or a staff member, or who ever sent this automatic, impersonal reply) would have read my message, you would have seen that I emailed you about LEGAL immigration backlogs, nothing to do with illegal immigration, and definitely nothing to do with building a wall on the border.  

 

My spouse is trying to immigrate LEGALLY and is facing an unwarranted backlog and extreme processing times at the Nebraska Service Center.  I firmly believe in rule of law, so that is why we are doing this legally.  The LEGAL immigration system is broken that honestly no wonder why people are trying to completely circumvent it and come in illegally.  I disagree with doing this, but just possibly if we fix legal immigration, it could have an effect on decreasing illegal immigration as well.

 

I would appreciate if you would have actually read my concerns and address them personally.  You were elected to represent me, and I, and hundreds of other Americans whose spouses are also going through the same hellish experience all over the country, need your help to make the legal immigration system better.  

 

Respectfully,

Edited May 2, 2019 by bel044
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