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[Mr Geminian 691]

Btw just saw this...hope it helps anyone

Texas - Houston Field Office

 *** ALERT: The Houston Field Office will be closed to the public from Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2017 through Friday, Sep. 8, 2017. Interviews will be rescheduled. ***

[Mr Geminian 691]

1 minute ago, Frage said:

No on a visitor visa. 

ok....your husband will definitely have a interview 

[Frage 67]

Just now, Aviinashh M said:

ok....your husband will definitely have a interview 

I know I just wonder if our wait will be even longer or stay the same. 

[Mr Geminian 691]

3 minutes ago, Frage said:

I know I just wonder if our wait will be even longer or stay the same. 

We have similar timeline with just a few days difference....so basically he should be getting his EAD by end of November and hopefully interview in December of January 

[ddtenor2 80]

10 hours ago, Aviinashh M said:

That's one good research you did there. I understand that there's a difference between a AOS case from NYC to other small time city and I really appreciate the amount of workload the IOs go through everyday. Good things take a lot of time and if we want all this then we got to wait. 

 

Even if we don't want this we will all have to wait.  Reminds me of Ronald Reagan's quote:  "Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem"

[geowrian 22,335]

13 hours ago, Going through said:

with thousands of more applicants needing interviews each year, that means more hiring of IOs, too.

Or extending the processing time. Hiring IOs takes time and money, and they aren't getting any more in fees to do so. Even if they were to increase fees, that won't go into effect for a while. USCIS has no problems making people wait...

 

Personally, I don't see the gain by significantly increasing the occurrence of an interview for an employment-based green card. The goal is to find and stop fraud/abuse, right? I'm not sure how an in-person interview does much here over reviewing the documents. But that's my $0.02.

[Going through 5,668]

18 minutes ago, geowrian said:

Personally, I don't see the gain by significantly increasing the occurrence of an interview for an employment-based green card. The goal is to find and stop fraud/abuse, right? I'm not sure how an in-person interview does much here over reviewing the documents. But that's my $0.02.

The employment interview would be different than the marriage interview of course, and probably more of just a formality rather than scoping out a fraudulent application.  I've read in another article that this is in part due to Trump's executive order  that "directed federal agencies to implement uniform screening and vetting standards for all immigration programs."  Guess it's his way of making it more "the same criteria" for each type of visa approval?

[geowrian 22,335]

9 minutes ago, Going through said:

The employment interview would be different than the marriage interview of course, and probably more of just a formality rather than scoping out a fraudulent application.  I've read in another article that this is in part due to Trump's executive order  that "directed federal agencies to implement uniform screening and vetting standards for all immigration programs."  Guess it's his way of making it more "the same criteria" for each type of visa approval?

Possibly. And yeah, the interviews would probably be more of a formality. To me, it just seems like a waste of (very limited) resources.

[Mr Geminian 691]

3 hours ago, ddtenor2 said:

 

Even if we don't want this we will all have to wait.  Reminds me of Ronald Reagan's quote:  "Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem"

I totally agree to that

[Mr Geminian 691]

1 hour ago, Going through said:

The employment interview would be different than the marriage interview of course, and probably more of just a formality rather than scoping out a fraudulent application.  I've read in another article that this is in part due to Trump's executive order  that "directed federal agencies to implement uniform screening and vetting standards for all immigration programs."  Guess it's his way of making it more "the same criteria" for each type of visa approval?

I agree i dont think there might find a lot of fraudulent applications because their  primary visa was employment and am sure USCIS have already done a lot of background checks when they were approved a H1B or L1 etc... and after working for a XYZ company, the company wants to keep that best employee with them so they apply for a green card so frauds will be less compared to a lot of tourist visa or other visa where some people come here just for a green card... 

[David & Diana R 1,005]

17 hours ago, Going through said:

 

This part I like.

I like it too!

[Murph4865 597]

19 hours ago, xillini said:

So I did some calculations. 

There are roughly 86 USCIS field offices across the nations. 

Big assumptions: 

1) All USCIS's field office has the same demand for Employment-based interviews (of courses, definitely it is different demand, but just to make it simple observations) 

2) In 365 days, excluding holidays and weekend (Sat-Sun), an average USCIS officers works around 200 days who has authority to perform interviews (365 *5/7 = 260 days plus 10 holidays = 250 days, but all federal employees can enjoy 2-3 weeks of PTO (until 3 years of work experience, 2 weeks, after 4th year, it increases to 3 weeks) and 1 week of Sick Leave (21 - 28 days), so that is already 220-230 days plus there must be training seminars per each quarter, and temporary assignments, so technically I am quite sure average days per calendar year that USCIS officers can perform the interview is around 180 days (out of 365 days), but let's be optimistic and be generous that 200 days an average USCIS officer can work per each year. 

3) In fiscal year, roughly 140,000 EB cases can be granted by US immigration laws (This does not include Oversea consular processing)

 

Now, doing some calculations, 

calculations 1) 

The amount of EB cases that each USCIS field office has to deal per year

140,000 / 86  = 1628 cases per year in each USCIS's field office

calculations 2) 

1628 cases / 200 days = 7 or 8 cases to interview per each day at each USCIS's field office. 

 

So, 7-8 cases to be done by an USCIS's officer on each day, which doesn't sound a lot (Again, it is the best-case scenario with generous assumptions that each USCIS officers has 200 working days to solely the interview, which would be around 180 days, reaslitically speaking, and therefore almost 9-10 cases per each day in each field office) but there are some other factors that needs to be taken into account

 

1) Unlike family-based immigration petitions, where USCIS officers just need to confirm and be convinced that all documents are authentic, the factual relation is correct such as bona-fide marriage, Employment-based petitions are complicated in a way that myriads of check-lists to do such as prevailing wages, relations between employers and beneficiary, and the PERM process (well I am not savvy about EB process, but this is roughly what I can tell). So each interview will, at least, take more than 30 minutes and probably around an hour. 

So this means in every USCIS's field office, one USCIS officer is tied to exclusively conducting the interview every day and all-day long basis, assuming that they work 8 hours per day. 

 

2) It is not clear that USCIS officers doing Family I-485 interviews can conduct EB I-485 interviews. I do know some senior officers can conduct citizenship interviews as well as Family I-485 interviews, but I do not clearly know if all citizenship interviewing officers can be compatible to conduct I-485 interviews, so it will create some issues that all other I-485 as well as citizenship interview may be significantly delayed. 

 

3) As USCIS's field offices are interviewing all applicants, there will be some cases with RFE and delayed decisions, which will start to create bottleneck processes. So, 7-8 cases are ideally the best-scenario cases, but after an year or so, it will start to build up until applicants are starting to be reduced, which we do not know when (assuming many people still want to come to USA and work here). 

 

4) Now to break the big assumptions, some field offices have high demand for immigration cases, while others not. For instance, the number of I-485 cases in NYC field offices can not be the same as Alabama's field office because immigrants tend to live in metropolitan areas and around the West/East coastlines. So this will create significant timeline difference between one applying to I-485 in NYC and another applying to I-485 in Midwest small town. 

 

But on the  mean time, this can indeed serve America's national interests if more skilled immigrants are lured into rural/countryside due to the expectation that faster processing timeline is what it encourages them to find employment in rural areas, which started to be obsolete and no business going on

 

At this point, it is not even clear that how USCIS is gonna conduct the all EB I-485 interviews, let's just wait. In the end of the days, USCIS is sub-division of DHS under President's White House, who is ordering "just do it, or you are fired". 

Ever thought about writing a book on MATH and USCIS

[Mr Geminian 691]

By the way what are your thoughts on the latest decision about DACA ?

Edited September 6, 2017 by Aviinashh M

[dawning 212]

8 hours ago, ddtenor2 said:

 

Even if we don't want this we will all have to wait.  Reminds me of Ronald Reagan's quote:  "Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem"

I suppose if we didn't have any governments people could just migrate around to different continents and decide to live where they like... seems improbable however.

[DECKKAM 0]

Pls I need a help..jus filling out my form..am confused on dis barcode issue..cld only find barcode at d bottom of jus  i-864 form..any other form wit a barcode...