USCIS *LIED* About Financial Situation and Furlough Need?! (merged)

[Ermehgerdd 172]

 

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

 

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

glad to see someone is calling them out on this.

[Venus201320 143]

Wow it appears that USCIS LIED about a deficit and they actually have a surplus! Wonder what else they have been lying about? 🤔
 

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

 

[yuna628 9,676]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

 

Looks like some employees need to get their masked and socially distanced bodies back to playing candy crush work. 

[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! 

[mvasantos 67]

1 hour ago, Venus201320 said:

Wow it appears that USCIS LIED about a deficit and they actually have a surplus! Wonder what else they have been lying about? 🤔
 

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

 

I wonder who and why would want to slow down immigration, even though POTUS just signed a bill about undocumented immigrants out of the census. 

[laylalex 7,284]

There's a thread about this in Current Events and Hot Social Topics already -- perhaps an organizer can merge these?

[Ope & Toni 2]

 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

4 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

 

Looks like some employees need to get their masked and socially distanced bodies back to playing candy crush work. 

Yeah right... You wouldn't believe how many people are playing this whole thing up just to work from home. It is legit crazy.... Some people have flat out said that they won't come back until the curve is flattened or their is a vaccine. While other people (like my boss) is still "quarantined" because her daughter keeps going out in public with no mask on with her kids, then dropping them off at my boss's house. So she has been quarantined for 3 weeks now. Not to mention we have a new division chief coming in in 2 weeks from Germany and he isn't quarantining and people are already saying that they will stay home for 2 weeks to make sure he is good to go

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

47 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

Yeah right... You wouldn't believe how many people are playing this whole thing up just to work from home. It is legit crazy.... Some people have flat out said that they won't come back until the curve is flattened or their is a vaccine. While other people (like my boss) is still "quarantined" because her daughter keeps going out in public with no mask on with her kids, then dropping them off at my boss's house. So she has been quarantined for 3 weeks now. Not to mention we have a new division chief coming in in 2 weeks from Germany and he isn't quarantining and people are already saying that they will stay home for 2 weeks to make sure he is good to go

Mass fear is essential to success.  

[millefleur 5,046]

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[yuna628 9,676]

DHS Ombudsman released some info today basically saying because of the furloughs, the USCIS claims of ''running out of money" which we now know is a lie, and the USCIS firing the printing contractor, green cards and EAD printing will continue to be severely backlogged for the future. They estimate this will increase if the USCIS does indeed go forward with nearly a complete shutdown with furloughs. They suggest making Infopass appointments for stamps, but we all know the difficulties with that. The Ombudsman will continue to update on the situation.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

My wife has been waiting since last November for her Global Entry ID.  Normally takes a couple of months.  Now unlikely she will get it this year.  It's not just immigration that is being messed up so badly.

[Rearviewmirror 397]

16 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

My wife has been waiting since last November for her Global Entry ID.  Normally takes a couple of months.  Now unlikely she will get it this year.  It's not just immigration that is being messed up so badly.

Does she have her membership/TSA Pre number? If so you can use it without the physical card. Non-US citizens never get a card.

[ultrasoul 51]

On 7/22/2020 at 1:41 PM, yuna628 said:

DHS Ombudsman released some info today basically saying because of the furloughs, the USCIS claims of ''running out of money" which we now know is a lie, and the USCIS firing the printing contractor, green cards and EAD printing will continue to be severely backlogged for the future. They estimate this will increase if the USCIS does indeed go forward with nearly a complete shutdown with furloughs. They suggest making Infopass appointments for stamps, but we all know the difficulties with that. The Ombudsman will continue to update on the situation.

Here's a good article for those who want to know about the green card and EAD card printing backlog fiasco that started in mid-June. Current backglogs are running around 20-30 days after case status being sent to card production ("Card is Being Produced') from the past normal of 1-2 days- https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-trump-administration-is-turning-legal-immigrants-into-undocumented-ones/2020/07/09/15c1cbf6-c203-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html