Lawsuit against USCIS

[The Robinsons 0]

Hi everyone,

I'm just curious to know if anyone else read the USA TODAY article on people sueing USCIS because of the long delay for citizenship? I can't say I blame them.

Does anyone know of people sueing for the long delays to get conditions removed? And have anyone had any luck getting their senators involved?

Thanks

[bettenan 1]

Hi everyone,

I'm just curious to know if anyone else read the USA TODAY article on people sueing USCIS because of the long delay for citizenship? I can't say I blame them.

Does anyone know of people sueing for the long delays to get conditions removed? And have anyone had any luck getting their senators involved?

Thanks

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

I've seen that folks (here) have contacted their Senators but it does not appear that it is much help, which surprises me. As someone who was in a position working for Fed, that dealt with Senator's & Congressman's offices, I know those issues ALWAYS got results.

[KarenCee 3]

Hi everyone,

I'm just curious to know if anyone else read the USA TODAY article on people sueing USCIS because of the long delay for citizenship? I can't say I blame them.

Does anyone know of people sueing for the long delays to get conditions removed? And have anyone had any luck getting their senators involved?

Thanks

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

I've seen that folks (here) have contacted their Senators but it does not appear that it is much help, which surprises me. As someone who was in a position working for Fed, that dealt with Senator's & Congressman's offices, I know those issues ALWAYS got results.

That's the crux of the issue....they aren't much help in cases like this IMHO. They can, and have, initiated a look into cases...ours did for us when my husband's AOS was beyond the normal processing time but was only able to tell us we were stuck in FBI namecheck. We were informed that there was nothing else he could do on the matter. IMHO I think there are SO MANY cases that have been filed lately that trying to speed up or investigate a few just isn't worth their time right now. I just wonder if a class action lawsuit really would do any good. They take forever to be processed...the ROC and/or Citizenship would be obtained by the time the lawsuit is finished and settled.

Just my opinion though...

[utopiacowboy 0]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

[KarenCee 3]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

I beg to differ with you. I am a US Citizen and I am very intelligent. Generalized judgments such as this will only serve to show one's own immaturity.

I assume you are here because you are engaged/married to a US Citizen?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

Now that's classy.... NOT.

[iansig40 1]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

I beg to differ with you. I am a US Citizen and I am very intelligent. Generalized judgments such as this will only serve to show one's own immaturity.

I assume you are here because you are engaged/married to a US Citizen?

You won't get to much approval from most of us with that fantastic idea to go ahead and waist another $600 filling N-400. Aren't you just feed up submitting all these applications and having to wait years to be processed ?

I said it before only a lawsuit will wake them up.

I feel that we're dealing with a bunch of retards that think is ok to just drag this BS for years and years

As for being a US Citizen ….good for you !!!!!!

[Peter T 0]

I'm just curious to know if anyone else read the USA TODAY article on people sueing USCIS because of the long delay for citizenship? (...) Does anyone know of people sueing for the long delays to get conditions removed?

I want my conditions removed, but I would agree that the citizenship application should receive absolute priority before a reasonable date before the general elections. To delay those applications smells like voter disenfranchisment.

[Illinois 0]

But, aren't the naturalization papers processed by the disctrict offices, and not at service centers? So, unless USCIS has fired several of their agents, I fail to see how they are so backlogged on all fronts. Even with the increased number of applications, how come several of these offices seem to have come to a screeching halt?

Certainly, this does not exlain the NSC processing times for I-761s. Chicago, where naturalization would be processed for us (should we have a mind to do that) is processing July 2007. Seems reasonable to say that naturalization of folks in Illinois is not affecting removal of conditions of IL residents.

I am starting to think that USCIS is many times more inefficient than the government agencies of the so-called third-world countries!!

[utopiacowboy 0]

I beg to differ with you. I am a US Citizen and I am very intelligent. Generalized judgments such as this will only serve to show one's own immaturity.

I assume you are here because you are engaged/married to a US Citizen?

I am a US citizen and believe me, I know all too well what idiots my countrymen are. How else would you explain the USCIS? A long time ago it was H.L. Mencken who said, ""No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

[joelunchbox 0]

I beg to differ with you. I am a US Citizen and I am very intelligent. Generalized judgments such as this will only serve to show one's own immaturity.

I assume you are here because you are engaged/married to a US Citizen?

I am a US citizen and believe me, I know all too well what idiots my countrymen are. How else would you explain the USCIS? A long time ago it was H.L. Mencken who said, ""No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

How dumb are US citizens? How many times have you heard the "she is only coming for a green card statement"? Last week I actually had someone say to me, "I have never talked to someone who is going to be "boinking" a girl from Uzbekistan". I was and am speechless. If anyone comes away from the K1 or whatever visa operation without a very jaded view of the american public--you are either extremely lucky or blind.

US citizens would prefer that someone else do our thinking for us so we can just spew vitriole back out. That is what I read at the US Today article--no thinking, just spewing. Great.....

[Scalpel 14]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

I'm sorry to say, but only idiots and dumwits make sweeping generalizations like this.

[utopiacowboy 0]

"I'm sorry to say, but only idiots and dumwits make sweeping generalizations like this."

Well, I am a US citizen so I guess I fit the description.

[surasak_oregon 0]

I just found the article Immigrants sue to speed citizenship applications and was not surprised but still annoyed by the over 500 (mostly ignorant) reader comments that followed the story...I guess it's a sad commentary on the USA Today readership....or maybe the popular in general (?).

The citizens of the US are as dumb as dirt.

Most, not all (I wonder how many of the 'intelligent U.S. citizens know for a fact that the mess in the Middle East is entirely our fault and it started in 1953).

Another case in point: the paranoia since 9-11 and the fact that we have allowed our government to usurp so many freedoms in the name of 'security' and 'protecting the people.' Illegal wiretaps, detention in secret facilities with no charges and no right of habeas corpus. Invasions of sovereign countries to plunder resources.

One of the pleasures now of travelling overseas is the fact that I don't get treated like a criminal automatically in every foreign country I visit. No customs forms, no random harassment of my self or my belongings, I can carry lighters, large bottles of drinks, etc. on planes, etc. and no bullshit accusations of 'Why were you over there, Mr J?'

For God's sakes it was an hour of grilling, etc. just to bring my freaking stepdaughter through immigration at the POE last week into the U.S. What kind of threat does a little girl pose to the United States?

I was greatly ashamed and embarassed for her.

Edited February 26, 2008 by surasak_oregon

[utopiacowboy 0]

You're right, Surasak_oregon. Maybe the simple minded US citizens would do well to remember what Ben Franklin said, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Of course I am sure that our patriot ancestors are rolling over in their graves to see what a travesty the nation they founded has become.

We are truly living in an Orwellian world when a law that violates our constitutional rights is labeled the "Protect America Act". I despise these fascists far more than any of Osama's terrorists.