Processing times what is going on????????????

[traveler]

Ok, to all the bright sparks on the forum. Can someone please explain why the the 1st category for family sponsored petition shows a priority date of 1997 when it was on April 21st for over a year????? This is absolutly ridiculous!

Thanks

[traveler]

Ok, to all the bright sparks on the forum. Can someone please explain why the the 1st category for family sponsored petition shows a priority date of 1997 when it was on April 21st for over a year????? This is absolutly ridiculous!

Thanks

[boyan]

Thats right and it will get worse if congress doesn't pass a bill. The answer to your question "what is going on" is: we have a dysfunctional immigration system regardless whether you are talking about legal or illegal immigration.

[Antifascist1]

It's not 'dysfunctional'.

It's a deliberate process of decreasing/slowing all kind of immigration.

[macyuhoo]

My inside source at USCIS told me that processing time depends on what person you are. If your name sounds ethnic especially arabic, it takes forever. If it sounds European, it's treated as priority.

[Antifascist1]

PD/I-130 has nothing to do with 'namecheck'during AOS (if that's what you hint at), you ****sterhead.

PD depends on allocated quotas/CAPs and number of people applied for Immigrant Visas (speed of processing is secondary to the above 2 factors in case of 'family preference' processings).

And let's be honest about it:

situation will only get worse - as long as House of Representatives is not taken back by Democrats.

Prior to 1994 Democratic loss of Congress Immigration was a breeze.
Reagan would not ever be able to sign 1986 Reform Act if not for the Democrat controlled House that actually passsed the Bill.



Good luck to all,

IE

[macyuhoo]

PD to me means Post Dated and I always issue post dated checks a long as one to two years in advance. Then, I borrow money or put a stop payment on my checks upon maturity dates.

[Adam]

macyuhoo, your inside source I think is correct/right.

My friend who has become a USC in May 06, she upgraded her petitions filed in May 2000, for unmarried son/daughters over 21 since then they have only received a letter from USCIS as soon as visa numbers become availabe they will approve this I-130.
According to June 06 uscis was processong April 01 and this I-130 should have been approved.
The names do sounds ethnic but they are not Arabs. At the same time one other national's children's I-130 was approved.

Like "Antifascistl, said USCIS deliberately slowing the process for USC.

[SonofMichael]

THE new IMBRA law has caused massive delays; ALL visa processing will be slowed down by an additional year or more

[Antifascist1]

Like "Antifascistl, said USCIS deliberately slowing the process for USC.

No, I didn't say that.
What I said was that it is a deliberate process aimed at reduction/slowing the immigration.
And the party responsible for it is the House of Representatives, which since 1994 obviously doesn't favor immigrants..
1994 ! Ditto !

[AliBA]

What you're overlooking, AF, is that since 1994 or thereabouts, Congress has favored "immigrants", or rather guest workers. We've seen large increases in both programs such as H1-B, as well as in family-based immigration from those who were amnestied in 1986 and who started to become eligible for citizenship in the 1990s (and could therefore sponsor THEIR relatives). The simple fact is, Congress has not changed the existing laws to accommodate heavy demand for immigration here--and whether they should or not is a big part of the current immigration debate.

[Antifascist1]

No, ****sterhead, this is not so.

1. H-1B legislation was due to extraordinary boom of IT and there were tons of MS and High-Tech hired lobbyists , walking the corridors of the House of Reps and Senate day and night, begging for increase in H-1 numbers.
That was NOT a favor to immigrants, that was a favor to INDUSTRY and the result of lobbying efforts of the same.

Today no such interest, no such lobbying effort exist on behalf of immigrant families who are suffering from LOW CAP that results in 10-20 years waiting time and the House of Reps that we have nowdays is such that it won't do anything for anyone unless there are very big connections, very big interests and very big resourses involved.

No wonder that FAMILY CAP beneficiaries suffer most of all under such legislature - not even 'hot dog and candy commerce' "industries" are to vouch for them.


2.

well as in family-based immigration from those who were amnestied in 1986 and who started to become eligible for citizenship in the 1990s (and could therefore sponsor THEIR relatives).

D u m b a s s, it is true that as the consequence of the laws that were enacted and pre-existed before 1994 more people became eligible to legally immigrate to US.
You yourself confirm it (by reference to 1986 amnesty reform and 1990 immigration act), while you also contradict yourself by implying that credit for the "favorable" consequences (overall increase of former immigrant USCs) of those laws belong to post-1994 Congress.

You see, demographics is all that ever gets into your head.
But I am not talking here about NUMBERS.
I am talking about the SUFFERINGS AND STRESS CAUSED TO FAMILIES WHO ARE FORCED TO EITHER SEPARATE FOR ALMOST A DECADE (due to CAP that is not being adjusted under circumstances) OR HAVE ONE MEMBER LIVE ILLEGALLY IN SHADOWS -BEFORE HIS/HER PD BECOMES CURRENT..

The only thing that post-1994 Congress has, in relation to such immigrants, is liability.

When CAP was set in 1990 noone could imagine 6-10 year wait time for spouses of LPR , for CAP was then set at almost twice the size of THEN current F2A immigration.

But ever since backlogs , in all categories, grew ridiculously long - the House deliberately refused to act/do anything to the effect of relieving the immigrant's hardships.

As I noted above, no surprise there.

This House of Reps. doesn't care about regular folks, but only if you have someone like Abramoff and able to tip $10 mil. the likes of him, so Tom De Lay may hear what you need and then, oh, THEN you get ANY legislation you want in a snap of the finger !


3.

fact is, Congress has not changed the existing laws to accommodate heavy demand

No , d u m b a s s, you don't equate the accidentally or deliberately caused stress and hardship and subsequent need to correct the situation to a "demand" on behalf of victims to accomodate them.

When tens of thousands of nuclear families are forced to separate, caused all kinds of imaginable harship and stress - well, it's no longer a "demand" on part of aggreived, but it is the liability of Congress to attend to the disaster, just as you attend to natural disasters.

You don't spend 12 years thinking if you should send a resque team to help earthquake victims, you don't call it "heavy demand" on part of victims to be resqued, you don't make it a 'BIG QUESTION' whether those people should be resqued or not, and you don't shake the ground and deliberately make the conditions worse so more victims can be buried under the debris.

But House of Reps. - after 1994 - did all of the above when it came to IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANT FAMILIES.

US born children and grandchildren of these immigrants will remember all.

[4now]

AF

really.. what is the matter these days. Aliba has always been a professional and intellectual poster and gentleman on this board.

Unsavory namecalling does not look good on you by friend. Aliba does not deserve that kind of disrepect. Come on now.. be nice stick to ****ster.



P.s. I agree with Aliba. doesnt matter if it were lobbyists or what. "guestworker" increased massively. bottom line.

[Antifascist1]

Buh.. 4now lecturing me on good manners !
This must be something