Trump admin immigration changes? [merged threads]

[Aluvaboy 66]

1 hour ago, JeanneAdil said:

the cost of sending 11 million illegals home is something we can not afford  so that Trump statement is rediculous

If the government enforces random checks of employers and start  penalizing employers and people who employ illegals, this can be implemented without spending a dime. When the income source dries up, most will leave voluntarily. 

1 hour ago, JeanneAdil said:

 

Edited November 6 by Aluvaboy
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[igoyougoduke 1,656]

2 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

No,

Melania Trump obtained US citizenship on a visa reserved for immigrants with "extraordinary ability" and "sustained national and international acclaim", according to a report in the Washington Post.

 

he bought most of his hotel workers here on a work visa

he bought ? were they on sale in mexico ?

Edited November 6 by igoyougoduke

[igoyougoduke 1,656]

9 hours ago, steve-phuket said:

my predication is he'll massively cut funding for USCIS resulting in waiting times going from months and years, to decades. what do you all think?

1) Expect delays as checks will get extended

2) Illegal immigration will be priority 

3) More Scrutiny on applicants for immigrant visas 

 

All of this will take time ?

[Californiansunset 336]

11 hours ago, steve-phuket said:

my predication is he'll massively cut funding for USCIS resulting in waiting times going from months and years, to decades. what do you all think?

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. 

Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).
 

[steve-phuket 10]

16 minutes ago, Californiansunset said:

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. 

Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).
 

that's crazy. i think we can all guess where USCIS staff will be redeployed this time around

[Melancholic Mage 107]

3 hours ago, Californiansunset said:

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. 

Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).
 

 

I would rather my case take longer if it meant possibly saving American lives. 

[Sarge2155 4,587]

I think that notorious form I-944, Declaration of Self-Sufficiency, that caused so much grief was a Trump brain child. I'd look for that or something like that again! I think once things get put into place it's not going to be a cake walk for folks submitting forms for immigration benefits (unless of course you got big business or big money). Just my thoughts considering the last Trump administration. As what was said by another VJer, better get it in now whatever you are going to file before all this starts, as it is better to already have it in than to submit it when these programs start!

[randomstairs 303]

10 hours ago, MDP said:

Didn't Trump have to file an I-130 to get Melania here? Just saying....

Nope. She got the EB1A. 

[powerpuff 6,697]

1 hour ago, Sarge2155 said:

I think that notorious form I-944, Declaration of Self-Sufficiency, that caused so much grief was a Trump brain child. I'd look for that or something like that again!

Good grief, I forgot about that form. I got fortunate that it was discontinued right before I came to the US. But the I-485 form under him went from like 6 pages to 20 so that was fun…

Edited November 7 by powerpuff

[Dashinka 24,487]

16 hours ago, JeanneAdil said:

the cost of sending 11 million illegals home is something we can not afford  so that Trump statement is rediculous

There is a lot of stuff the federal government does that it cannot afford, and yet they still do it.

[Dashinka 24,487]

10 hours ago, Californiansunset said:

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. 

Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).
 

More than likely it is a volunteer opportunity offered to USCIS employees.  Maybe the employee that had your case actually wanted to go and help with disaster relief rather than push paper in an office.  You make it sound  like Trump came into the office and personally selected people to go do something else.  We have similar volunteer opportunities in my office, and many take up the call.  Of course in the private sector we still have to get our regular jobs done, but that does not appear to be the case for government employees.

9 hours ago, steve-phuket said:

that's crazy. i think we can all guess where USCIS staff will be redeployed this time around

Aren't a lot of them already being re-deployed to handle all the asylum cases with our open border?

[P055UM 281]

15 hours ago, Aluvaboy said:

If the government enforces random checks of employers and start  penalizing employers and people who employ illegals, this can be implemented without spending a dime.

That sounds like government work, and government work costs money. 
 

As for the more general theme of this thread, it’s reasonable to assume that timelines are going to shift with the shifting priorities of the new administration. Guessing which parts are going to be most impacted is tricky, though I’d expect people coming into the country to be more affected, in general, than those already here. And those here under less established/executive programs will be more affected than than those here on the more traditional work/marriage programs. But honestly, my gut tells me that it is unlikely to become any easier for anybody.

[KMG 125]

12 hours ago, Californiansunset said:

Last time Trump was in power he would use USCIS staff to get sent to disaster areas within the U.S. to help with rebuilding which resulted in slow case processing for some field offices. The USCIS officer who had my Greencard application at the San Diego field office was sent to Texas to help with the rebuild after hurricane Harvey. My application was essentially locked in his desk and wasn’t processed. I scheduled an appointment at my field office to check in why my case was taking so long and another officer told me my case was with his co-worker who belonged to the staff that was sent to Texas. He ended up breaking into the desk to get my application (and apparently a couple others) out so someone else could take care of it. My case had been locked in there for a while. The person who originally had my case apparently was for 60+ days in Texas to help out there. 

Now that I am reading here that USCIS is fee based though, I wonder how the Trump administration could just decide to take USCIS resources away and decide that the staff needs to help with disaster areas. I swear I’m not making this up though. When I was talking to the USCIS officer that told me all of this, I was speechless and mad (that immigration is the first thing they will take staff from… something that affects people’s life tremendously).
 

I would blame this more on the USCIS officer than Trump.  He should have informed his supervisor and coworkers that pending cases needed to be finalized.  You don't just leave your office responsibilities with no plan for completion.  I am a teacher and a substitute can walk into my classroom and know what needs to be done.

Edited November 7 by KMG

[Bill Hamze 89]

I'm assuming none of this affects LPRs/green card holders when they file N-400 for naturalization and getting their citizenships? Maybe minor delays due to staffing?

 

Asking because my wife is coming up on 3 years the summer of 2025, when she'll be eligible to file.

Edited November 7 by Bill Hamze

[PGA 240]

OMG, everybody needs to turn off MSNBC or whatever propaganda media you're watching and take a deep breath. 

 

First, I've been watching/using this site for a long, long time and what I noticed over the years is that when Trump was President, with many people going through this process during that time, if their process was like one day late, they were all like "Trump this!" or "Trump that!" During the Biden Administration, I never heard any of that same sentiment; complaints about the delays sure but never direct blame to Biden even when the process was taking not days longer but months longer. 

 

My personal experience: we applied in the last year of Trump's presidency and the initial process for us was super fast. Thereafter, Biden came in and the remainder of the process seemed to slow to a snail's pace. Biden's fault? I can't say; however, it seems to me when you open the borders to a flood of people who claim "asylum," suddenly all of those agents who were working on a regular flow of activity (ie, the cases of the people on this very site) are dealing with an unprecedented amount of asylum applications.   

 

Just my personal opinion for what it's worth.