USCIS Prepares to Decrease Staff by 70% (13 Thousand Workers)

[Akrapovic 31]

9 minutes ago, PhillyNatz said:

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USCIS Final Letter 7 21 20.pdf

Promising news!

[Frider 7]

Posted a few hours ago:

https://vermontbiz.com/news/2020/july/21/projected-uscis-surplus-leahy-calls-postponement-planned-furloughs
 

[Scandi 4,173]

1 hour ago, aperson said:

Wow thanks for sharing! 
Key takeaways:

- USCIS actually has sufficient funding for the remainder of the FY2020(through9/30) so they are urging USCIS leadership to take actions and not furlough till then, and 

- For FY 2021(starting 10/1), they are committed to have bailout $ put into the next coronavirus package for USCIS

 

 

FY 2021 is likely also when USCIS will raise the fees they have talked about doing since last year. 

[sarac4479 5]

Here are the two men listed as the recipients for this furloughs at USCIS issue:

 

Twitter account for the USCIS Deputy Policy Director  - Joseph Edlow https://twitter.com/USCISJoe 

Twitter account for the Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf - https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf 

 

Let's make them hear our voices! 

[fromsweden 197]

3 minutes ago, sarac4479 said:

Here are the two men listed as the recipients for this furloughs at USCIS issue:

 

Twitter account for the USCIS Deputy Policy Director  - Joseph Edlow https://twitter.com/USCISJoe 

Twitter account for the Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf - https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf 

 

Let's make them hear our voices! 

Joe has zero activity so didn't bother. Tweeted at Wolf pleading to postpone the furlough.

[aperson 44]

USCIS now has a response to the letter posted above.

 

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/07/homeland-security-moves-forward-13000-furloughs-despite-its-improving-financial-situation/167081/

[IBE2CA 34]

7 minutes ago, aperson said:

USCIS now has a response to the letter posted above.

 

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/07/homeland-security-moves-forward-13000-furloughs-despite-its-improving-financial-situation/167081/

This is so political. We are all just pawns in the big November chess match. Do they really think we are to believe that at one moment they are broke and then the next they have a surplus? Who is the CFO forecasting and managing those accounts? We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars. What a freaking sideshow.   Mark my word, Nov 4th. 70% of our countries problems will change 180 degrees.  

[millefleur 5,047]

30 minutes ago, IBE2CA said:

This is so political. We are all just pawns in the big November chess match. Do they really think we are to believe that at one moment they are broke and then the next they have a surplus? Who is the CFO forecasting and managing those accounts? We are talking hundreds of millions of dollars. What a freaking sideshow.   Mark my word, Nov 4th. 70% of our countries problems will change 180 degrees.  

Well, supposedly they only have a surplus for FY2020, which ends October 1st. I agree that it's ridiculous they weren't more upfront about that but if they end up receiving fewer applications, there will be less revenue, which means staff have to be laid off. But the logical part is, fewer applications = lighter workload? So, what is the need for the staff then? Yes, it's terrible to be laid off, but this is what I'm not getting. I wonder if USCIS just wanted to avoid laying people off altogether so they concocted this story to avoid that. Very weird. We're they bluffing about the August furlough to get more money, in order to keep on all staff despite a drop in work? That's what it seems to me.

[Scandi 4,173]

(FRIDAY, July 24, 2019) – Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Friday announced the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agreed to postpone its scheduled furlough of more than 13,000 public servants through Aug. 31.  The action affects 1,109 Vermonters who earlier had received furlough notices effective Aug. 3.

 

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/leahy-announces-that-uscis-is-postponing-furloughs-of-13000-public-servants

Edited July 24, 2020 by Scandi

[Akrapovic 31]

Thanks for sharing! Finally some positive news for the weekend 😃 Now lets get those Biometrics appointments scheduled for everybody and make people at the USCIS more relaxed by providing funding for the rest of the year 😜

[aperson 44]

3 hours ago, Scandi said:

(FRIDAY, July 24, 2019) – Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Friday announced the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agreed to postpone its scheduled furlough of more than 13,000 public servants through Aug. 31.  The action affects 1,109 Vermonters who earlier had received furlough notices effective Aug. 3.

 

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minority/leahy-announces-that-uscis-is-postponing-furloughs-of-13000-public-servants

I just noticed the date on this article is in 2019, must be a typo

[millefleur 5,047]

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