Trump ramps up scrutiny of legal immigrants

[RandB 156]

Article here.

 

USCIS is now going to try to deport naturalized citizens who may have lied on their application.

 

They are also going to start denying immigration applications instead of sending and RFE if there's missing information.

 

"The Trump administration is stepping up efforts to curb legal immigration, taking a series of actions in recent weeks that could lead to deportation for people already granted citizenship.

 

The director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — an office established in 2003 to process immigrant applications for visas, work permits, green cards and citizenship — told The Associated Press recently that the agency is hiring dozens of lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who are suspected of having lied to officials during the naturalization process.

 

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The agency said last week that starting Sept. 11 its adjudicators will have the ability to outright deny applications that are missing information. That’s a departure from an Obama-era policy of sending requests for more evidence or issuing a warning of their intent to deny the application."

[Loren Y 2,755]

Good,  Why not start tomorrow. This will benefit many if you read the article. Gets rid of placeholders I think they are called.

[mushroomspore 3,044]

The RFE thing gives officers more DISCRETION into whether or not they should deny an application that is missing substantial paperwork. I read the official memo on it and it excludes minimal errors. From a discussion on another site, I gathered that this policy is for cases that have omitted something like the I-864. Even then, the policy isn't that officers can deny right away. Just that they have more power in deciding if they WANT to deny right away or not.

[LarryHickman 181]

It’s good it gets rid of the fraud applications

Edited July 22, 2018 by LarryHickman

[RandB 156]

35 minutes ago, mushroomspore said:

The RFE thing gives officers more DISCRETION into whether or not they should deny an application that is missing substantial paperwork. I read the official memo on it and it excludes minimal errors. From a discussion on another site, I gathered that this policy is for cases that have omitted something like the I-864. Even then, the policy isn't that officers can deny right away. Just that they have more power in deciding if they WANT to deny right away or not.

That's good to hear.

[shumway1756 304]

Wow, some people were apparently weaned in a dill pickle as a child. Relax everyone, civil discussion will make your point far more effectively than obnoxious rants.

 

No policy is perfect, but this one has the marks of a good change in my opinion. Blatantly incomplete applications should absolutely be rejected. This has nothing to do with missing a checkbox, it’s about applications with major components missing. I know the media wants to get everyone riled up about everything (fear sells), but overall this is a much needed change.

[mushroomspore 3,044]

Just now, RandB said:

That's good to hear.

Yeah I freaked out when I heard it too. However I think I unfortunately jumped to an "extremist" interpretation of the policy. Personally I think it was worded in such a way to incite such reactions from intending immigrants. However upon closer inspection, the policy is not saying they are getting rid of RFE's and NTA's altogether. While I do think it will be good for weeding out certain kinds of cases and applicants, it remains to be seen how this will unwittingly and negatively affect some genuine intending immigrants because that is bound to happen due to humanity and our errors.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

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