USCIS has no competition and no legal requirement to do their job efficiently and in a timely manner

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We need to develop political initiates to get congress to pass laws to enact oversight over the USCIS to ensure ;

 

timely processing 

 

a transparent rules-based approach 

 

competition for performance improvements 

 

competition for lower fees 

 

 

 

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

1 hour ago, godspeed said:

competition for performance improvements 

 

competition for lower fees 

They already use contractors for some processing.  Fees have been too low for years (they report), but that is going to change soon.

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It’s all good but no effort will be successful until they get the media attention on this. No one really cares.

[Dashinka 24,483]

1 hour ago, godspeed said:

We need to develop political initiates to get congress to pass laws to enact oversight over the USCIS to ensure ;

 

timely processing 

 

a transparent rules-based approach 

 

competition for performance improvements 

 

competition for lower fees 

 

 

 

Since USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security there is already Congressional oversight in theory. 

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I honestly wish they had processing centres in each state that handle K1 and CR1 cases….. but one can dream 😂

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2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Since USCIS is part of the Department of Homeland Security there is already Congressional oversight in theory. 

That’s what my attorney told me too.

 

and they aren’t required to do a good job the entire centralization scheme is UN-American 

 

I'm sure a private company could blow them away 

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10 minutes ago, godspeed said:

I'm sure a private company could blow them away 

The immigration process is much too complex to hand off to a private company, imo.   This isn't the same as delivering the mail.

Edited April 14, 2023 by Crazy Cat

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1 minute ago, Crazy Cat said:

The immigration process is much too complex to hand off to a private company, imo. 

They already spy on everything we do and keep a unified database.. this is about making you pay for the illusion of privacy…

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12 minutes ago, godspeed said:

They already spy on everything we do and keep a unified database.. this is about making you pay for the illusion of privacy…

As far as I can see, it has absolutely nothing to do with privacy.  As I said, it is very complex.

Edited April 14, 2023 by Crazy Cat

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12 minutes ago, godspeed said:

They already spy on everything we do and keep a unified database.. this is about making you pay for the illusion of privacy…

What does that have to do with USCIS?

[Dashinka 24,483]

1 hour ago, godspeed said:

That’s what my attorney told me too.

 

and they aren’t required to do a good job the entire centralization scheme is UN-American 

 

I'm sure a private company could blow them away 

I don’t think the issue is just with USCIS pushing paper, there are a lot of other tentacles involved such as NARA, the FBI, state and local LE, DoS when it comes to visa applications, etc.  Add to that they are responsible for handling asylum applications as well that has recently ballooned.  I am not making excuses for USCIS as the job they do for the most part is pretty inefficient, but we are talking about an inefficient federal bureaucracy.

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1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

What does that have to do with USCIS?

they do not connect to the databases that are used by the CIA, NSA, FBI. And require you to communicate between agencies for them.

 

their attitude is that they are providing a benefit that you have to pay for at every step

 

when tax money has already paid for it

 

as for the USCIS, the CATO institute did a study which said that COVID was not a valid excuse for the present situation - not that the wait times were acceptable before COVID

 

any institution without legal requirements to perform and without competition 

 

will likely be as slow and painful as the USCIS 

 

The wait times cause harm to families and individuals… and the processes need to be completely spelled out and transparent so that they can’t be abused by agents due to their emotional whims 

Edited April 14, 2023 by godspeed

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57 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I don’t think the issue is just with USCIS pushing paper, there are a lot of other tentacles involved such as NARA, the FBI, state and local LE, DoS when it comes to visa applications, etc.  Add to that they are responsible for handling asylum applications as well that has recently ballooned.  I am not making excuses for USCIS as the job they do for the most part is pretty inefficient, but we are talking about an inefficient federal bureaucracy.

Yeah that’s very true - definitely can’t put all the blame on USCIS. 

[Crazy Cat 41,814]

1 hour ago, godspeed said:

they do not connect to the databases that are used by the CIA, NSA, FBI. And require you to communicate between agencies for them.

 

their attitude is that they are providing a benefit that you have to pay for at every step

 

when tax money has already paid for it

 

as for the USCIS, the CATO institute did a study which said that COVID was not a valid excuse for the present situation - not that the wait times were acceptable before COVID

 

any institution without legal requirements to perform and without competition 

 

will likely be as slow and painful as the USCIS 

 

The wait times cause harm to families and individuals… and the processes need to be completely spelled out and transparent so that they can’t be abused by agents due to their emotional whims 

I'm not sure you have a proper grasp of the actual process.  Good luck in your journey. 

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25 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

I'm not sure you have a proper grasp of the actual process.  Good luck in your journey. 

How they choose to process

 

is based on their attempt to portray the illusion of privacy

 

when in reality they could connect to the intelligence databases and verify our information