"A day in the life of USCIS"

[Y's_habibitk 2]

http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...fe_of_uscis.pdf

The first sentence will give you an idea of the bang up job they believe they do. Maybe they do, and it's just Vermont dragging the numbers down eh?

Opener

"Each day USCIS fulfills its promise to provide

accurate and useful information to our customers"

Enjoy!

Lisa

[cjgator 2]

Honey, if their promise is to "mislead, confuse, and continually disappoint" all of the US taxpaying customers who ask for competent service from this agency, then it is a job well done.

-CJ

http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments...fe_of_uscis.pdf

The first sentence will give you an idea of the bang up job they believe they do. Maybe they do, and it's just Vermont dragging the numbers down eh?

Opener

"Each day USCIS fulfills its promise to provide

accurate and useful information to our customers"

Enjoy!

Lisa

[mkg265 2]

"Additionally, USCIS responds to 41,000 phone inquiries daily"

40999 of those requests receive made up answers that further complicate the situation. The other call is a wrong number.

[JoBri 545]

What a crock of do do. I wish I could give them a piece of my mind about THAT without jeapordizing our K3 petition.

Thumbing my nose at that fantasy land garbage... << (best I could do for thumbing my nose... hehe )

Hey, how do I get a pic to appear here permanantly every time I send a response, without having to add it each time? Thanks... hehe

[Laura+Tom 2]

You can post it in your signature.

[e-migra 4]

"USCIS provides dynamic, efficient service"

[andreea 0]

so dont laugh now, but I couldnt help but try a roughly calculation of the amount of work they have to handle, to see if all these delays r understandable. I mean they say they receive 6 milion petitions every year, and that sounds like a huge amount of work and is meant to shut anyone's mouth, if u think to complain. but... lets say the 6 mil petitions r split between the 4 service centers. vsc and csc would take like 2 mil each, and the other 2, who dont handle family based immiigration, like 1 mil each. we care about vsc and csc, so we stick with those 2. i calculated for 200 working days,as a minimum. 260 would be if i only cut off weekends, and i cut off 60 more days for holidays, which i know is way too much, but lets keep it at minimum. so if we give 2 mil petitions to 200 working days in vsc, we get 10 000 petitions daily to process. if a work day is 8 hours, and a file to be looked at needs 30 mins (which again i think is too much, considering is just first step, where they only see if u have all papers needed to go forward. tis step only says if u r acomplish all conditions required to ask for a visa). so this would mean 1 worker can handle 16 files daily. now if one worker would handle 16 files, and they have to handle 10 000 in a day, they would need 600 workers to have no delays, and be up to date. and honestly i think they have more than that, if i think that uscis hired 1500 more just one time. ofc is for all centers, but gives u an idea about the number of employeees they already have-many. so in these conditions, id just say they r not overworked, id say would be possible to work with some delay in busy times of the year, but in general with lil delay or no delay. my conclusion, they r just very lazy. probably get a bunch of files on their desk and play solitare all day.

ofc this is roughly aproximated, and i might be deeply wrong, but is how it looks to me

[notime4haterz 0]

16,000 employees process 30,000 applications a day... that's less than 2 a day (1.875)... F-them! No wonder it's taking freaking forever!

6 milllion applications a year divided by 16,000 employees is 375 applications a year per employee. That's about 1.02 applications a day if they really are now starting to work Saturday/Sunday (like they claimed).

F-them again!

Accurate information my a$$...they tell people "We're processing Nov 2007 applications" and when we tell them "your website says Feb 26th" they say "oh yeah"...

[Y's_habibitk 2]

so dont laugh now, but I couldnt help but try a roughly calculation of the amount of work they have to handle, to see if all these delays r understandable. I mean they say they receive 6 milion petitions every year, and that sounds like a huge amount of work and is meant to shut anyone\'s mouth, if u think to complain. but... lets say the 6 mil petitions r split between the 4 service centers. vsc and csc would take like 2 mil each, and the other 2, who dont handle family based immiigration, like 1 mil each. we care about vsc and csc, so we stick with those 2. i calculated for 200 working days,as a minimum. 260 would be if i only cut off weekends, and i cut off 60 more days for holidays, which i know is way too much, but lets keep it at minimum. so if we give 2 mil petitions to 200 working days in vsc, we get 10 000 petitions daily to process. if a work day is 8 hours, and a file to be looked at needs 30 mins (which again i think is too much, considering is just first step, where they only see if u have all papers needed to go forward. tis step only says if u r acomplish all conditions required to ask for a visa). so this would mean 1 worker can handle 16 files daily. now if one worker would handle 16 files, and they have to handle 10 000 in a day, they would need 600 workers to have no delays, and be up to date. and honestly i think they have more than that, if i think that uscis hired 1500 more just one time. ofc is for all centers, but gives u an idea about the number of employeees they already have-many. so in these conditions, id just say they r not overworked, id say would be possible to work with some delay in busy times of the year, but in general with lil delay or no delay. my conclusion, they r just very lazy. probably get a bunch of files on their desk and play solitare all day.

ofc this is roughly aproximated, and i might be deeply wrong, but is how it looks to me

Honestly?

I dont think they are lazy... I just think that family immigration applications are not priority. They dont get a \"ataboy\" for pushing out k3\'s. heh

inefficient and mismanaged, yes..

Edited December 11, 2008 by Y_habibitk

[andreea 0]

what do u think Lisa? seems Narina didnt wake up in good modd today. me neither, but when my husband saw me grumpy, he composed a letter (and I have to say he was being way to sweet, so I made him add some decent acid into it) about our case. now we just have to think whom to adress it. congresman, senator, mothership, all of them together, frame it and keep it as memory, etc....I know is probably useless, but while u r writting it, feels better. even if it doesnt work, u kind of put yr frustration on paper. is like therapy. so we had fun with writting the letter, and day became better. Ill keep u informed if letter brings any news.have a good day

[4Lifer 0]

My experience with government is that at least half of the 16,000 are managers, directors, commissioners, executive assistants, etc. That leaves 8000 workers. At least 10% of the 8000 are administrative support(including IT support) and another 2% are custodial, engineering and ground maintenance. That leaves roughly 7000 of the 16,000 staff to actually approve petitions. You can do the math from there.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

what do u think Lisa? seems Narina didnt wake up in good modd today. me neither, but when my husband saw me grumpy, he composed a letter (and I have to say he was being way to sweet, so I made him add some decent acid into it) about our case. now we just have to think whom to adress it. congresman, senator, mothership, all of them together, frame it and keep it as memory, etc....I know is probably useless, but while u r writting it, feels better. even if it doesnt work, u kind of put yr frustration on paper. is like therapy. so we had fun with writting the letter, and day became better. Ill keep u informed if letter brings any news.have a good day

You know.. I LOVE writing letters to congress, or to anyone who will listen. You are so right, it makes me feel better..very cathartic. heh

Im in a particularly sh*tty mood today also

Lisa

[notime4haterz 0]

LOl Actually I'm in a good mood today

No, I was just pointing out that they're a bunch of bull$hiters, that's all.

They can do better if they wanted to.

[notime4haterz 0]

My experience with government is that at least half of the 16,000 are managers, directors, commissioners, executive assistants, etc. That leaves 8000 workers. At least 10% of the 8000 are administrative support(including IT support) and another 2% are custodial, engineering and ground maintenance. That leaves roughly 7000 of the 16,000 staff to actually approve petitions. You can do the math from there.

Big deal, it brings it to 4 applications...in an 8 hour shift. How long does it take to read a 1-2 page application? It's not like they're the ones reviewing all the information. That's done at NVC. Their only job is to check the application, make sure it's complete, and check the marriage documents or birth certificate.

The bigger job is with NVC which have to go through several pages of applications, a million other supporting documents, etc. Yet NVC (if the package is complete and turned in correctly) only takes a few weeks to complete their job.

Nope, I think they're a bunch of lazy people that just don't care, because USCIS is basically accountable to no one.

And I don't see why half of the 16,000 would be titled people that don't work. I can see maybe 1/4, but not 1/2.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

My experience with government is that at least half of the 16,000 are managers, directors, commissioners, executive assistants, etc. That leaves 8000 workers. At least 10% of the 8000 are administrative support(including IT support) and another 2% are custodial, engineering and ground maintenance. That leaves roughly 7000 of the 16,000 staff to actually approve petitions. You can do the math from there.

Big deal, it brings it to 4 applications...in an 8 hour shift. How long does it take to read a 1-2 page application? It's not like they're the ones reviewing all the information. That's done at NVC. Their only job is to check the application, make sure it's complete, and check the marriage documents or birth certificate.

The bigger job is with NVC which have to go through several pages of applications, a million other supporting documents, etc. Yet NVC (if the package is complete and turned in correctly) only takes a few weeks to complete their job.

Nope, I think they're a bunch of lazy people that just don't care, because USCIS is basically accountable to no one.

And I don't see why half of the 16,000 would be titled people that don't work. I can see maybe 1/4, but not 1/2.

oh quit it with your bad mood! lol kidding

I agree, it really doesnt matter how you break it down...they can do a better job, we have a GLARING comparision with a little center in CA. USCIS answers to no one when it comes to family based petitions. They can brag about naturization processing and look really efficient. Thats where their efficiency ends nowadays. There was a time long long ago in a galaxy far away when VSC was indeed faster than CSC.