sue uscis?

[Cassie 8]

A couple of months ago a couple of people in the Removing Conditions forum were all gung-ho on filing a big ole class action lawsuit.

Funny how I rarely, if ever, see them now participating on VJ, let alone continuing on with that idea since they were approved.

Edited May 17, 2008 by Cassie

[JaEnglishGirl 34]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

I can relate to the editorial like thousands of other applicants. I applied for my Adjustment of Status ( Green card ) in January 2006. Department of Homeland Security's ( DHS ) application form indicates that Green card application based on family sponsorship should not take more than 6 months. It has been more than one and half year.

It is not like I was an illegal before I got married to an American Citizen. I went to College in MN. Graduated with honors. I was never out of status for a single day. I am a computer Programmer with a well paid job. Very very clean IRS record. Absolutely have no criminal background. I have just one speeding ticket that I got early this year.If DHS takes 2 years to verify my background, you can imagine the plight of other applicants.

— Hasan Mir, Rochester, Minn.

This is from the NY Times:

November 27, 2007

Editorial

The Citizenship Surge

About the only point of agreement on immigration in this country is that newcomers who play by the rules — fill out their forms, pay their fees and wait their turn — are welcome. But that great American dogma is being sorely tested by the inability of the federal government’s feeble citizenship agency to deal with a flood of applications that arose this summer.

The agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, is telling legal immigrants that applications for citizenship and for residence visas filed after June 1 will take about 16 to 18 months to process. The agency was utterly unprepared for the surge, and so tens of thousands of Americans-in-waiting will have to keep on waiting. Many, gallingly, may have to sit out next November’s election, even though that civic act was what prompted many of them to apply in the first place.

This was not supposed to happen. The director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Emilio Gonzalez, promised this summer that the era of bad, slow service was over. He said a whopping increase in fees that took effect July 30 — an average of about 66 percent across the board, with naturalization now costing $675 per person, up from $400 — was about to make his agency fit for the 21st century. Speaking to newly naturalized immigrants, Mr. Gonzalez promised immediate results.

One immediate result was entirely predictable: people rushed to get their paperwork in. The agency received nearly 2.5 million naturalization petitions and visa applications in July and August, more than double from those months last year. But Mr. Gonzalez’s spokesman, Bill Wright, told Julia Preston in Friday’s Times: “We certainly were surprised by such an immediate increase.†Surprised and swamped. The agency’s processing center in Vermont is only now acknowledging naturalization petitions that came in by July 30.

It’s telling that we need to explain that this backlog is distinct from the other backlogs that plague the citizenship agency. This is not the visa overload that causes people in some countries, like the Philippines and Mexico, to wait decades to enter legally. Those backlogs are caused by visa quotas that no one has seen fit to adjust. Nor are they the chronic delays in conducting criminal background checks that have kept thousands of immigrants in limbo for months, even years.

Many of those immigrants have given up on the agency and sought redress in the courts. There has been a spate of decisions by judges who found that delays by the Federal Bureau of Investigation are unreasonable — three years is too long to wait to have the government decide if you are a criminal — and have ordered the bureaucracy to do its job. Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the Federal District Court in Boston became so fed up last month with a delayed background check that he simply gave a plaintiff, Ahmed Dayisty, the oath of citizenship.

It should never have come to that. The country should summon the will, the resources and the basic administrative competence to carry out one of its most vital functions, the making of new citizens. Mr. Gonzalez’s agency says that the new revenue will allow it to eventually add 1,500 employees to its work force, an increase of about 10 percent, and that staff members have volunteered to work overtime to handle the latest backlog.

The agency has made such vows before, and the volunteerism doesn’t cut it. This is not a benefit car wash or a canned-food drive. Turning immigrants into citizens demands better than platitudes and broken promises.

This link provides lots of info in depth.......

Hope it helps:

http://www.ailf.org/lac/pa/mandamus-jurisd...-24-07%20PA.pdf

This is regarding CITIZENSHIP, not AOS

I think some countries get a raw deal since their names can be similar to ones on the 'bad' list....

[motu 5]

Judge Nathaniel Gorton of the Federal District Court in Boston became so fed up last month with a delayed background check that he simply gave a plaintiff, Ahmed Dayisty, the oath of citizenship.

I love that judge. A lot of hatred of foreigners (both legal and illegal) have led to all these laws and delays - unfortunately the intended purpose has been achieved - delaying immigration and denying immigration on the smallest of actual or perceived non-compliance - this is one of the few processes where it seems that you are guilty of violating the US immigration laws unless you prove yourselves innocent. Maybe one day the tide will turn but for now - we are stuck in this mess.

Captain Tom stuck in a tin can

[shadtov 0]

Even with the February memo things aren't super fast. We hit the 4 year waiting mark this past April 1st. Our case has been on an officer's desk in Seattle since March 14 and we haven't heard. We were told in late April that we would have a decision within 90 days. That message came through our Senator's office.

I think there may be further delays for those of us who applied for AOS through our local offices rather than through the Chicago lock box. I don't remember when that change was.

dunno... It's a world of waiting...

[Shakil 4]

Hey.. are you still waiting or did you file a mandamus?

[Eric-Pris 1,602]

Read this post: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=152745

[don2008 0]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

are you kidding?? sue the USCIS. i almost fell out of my chair!! you are not even a citizen yet, and not even a resident yet too, im pretty sure your rights are kinda limitied now. you cant vote unitll you become a citizen so i would guess you can NOT sue them too..

[tanyaru 3]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

Here, check this out http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=152745

[LaL 418]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

are you kidding?? sue the USCIS. i almost fell out of my chair!! you are not even a citizen yet, and not even a resident yet too, im pretty sure your rights are kinda limitied now. you cant vote unitll you become a citizen so i would guess you can NOT sue them too..

Many people have sued via Writ of Mandamus against USCIS and won. Your guess is wrong.

[sara..... 371]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

are you kidding?? sue the USCIS. i almost fell out of my chair!! you are not even a citizen yet, and not even a resident yet too, im pretty sure your rights are kinda limitied now. you cant vote unitll you become a citizen so i would guess you can NOT sue them too..

Many people have sued via Writ of Mandamus against USCIS and won. Your guess is wrong.

gogo sued for his noa2 and won im thinking of doing the same thing

Edited September 25, 2008 by estadia

[don2008 0]

i ve been waiting for my gc year and half since i applied and my interview was in july 2007 and i was approved and no update in my case till now!!!

i m thinking about sue the uscis how can i sue them ?and what is the conditions???

thank you for all ur answers

are you kidding?? sue the USCIS. i almost fell out of my chair!! you are not even a citizen yet, and not even a resident yet too, im pretty sure your rights are kinda limitied now. you cant vote unitll you become a citizen so i would guess you can NOT sue them too..

Many people have sued via Writ of Mandamus against USCIS and won. Your guess is wrong.

kinda lame that people can sue our government being a non citizen. wonder if i can sue china for making such crappy merchandise and selling it here....something to think about...

oh BTW i think your sig is funny as heck! that pic really makes osama, i mean obama, look like an anti-chirst!! EXACTLY what i picture when i think about him..

Edited September 25, 2008 by don2008

[Shakil 4]

Again, you are not fighting with the USCIS. You are just asking for help from the court to order USCIS to adjudicate this application. 99% cases don't even go to court. They get resolved like ours before the court date.

[LaL 418]

oh BTW i think your sig is funny as heck! that pic really makes osama, i mean obama, look like an anti-chirst!! EXACTLY what i picture when i think about him..

Aren't you just a shining ray of idiocy. Thanks for your thoughtful, on topic reply!

[don2008 0]

oh BTW i think your sig is funny as heck! that pic really makes osama, i mean obama, look like an anti-chirst!! EXACTLY what i picture when i think about him..

Aren't you just a shining ray of idiocy. Thanks for your thoughtful, on topic reply!

well you THOUGHT it was a good idea to have the anti-christ as your sig, did you really think it would not get brought up?? thanks for FORCING us to look at propaganda. it bad enough the media OVER advertises him. this is VISA journey not POLITIC journey. i will be sure to add you to the twit list...

Edited September 25, 2008 by don2008

[LaL 418]