In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site

[Jason F 0]

The full title from the website is:

In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site that will, for the first time ever, allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online.

Here is a link to the page:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

What I don't understand is, you could do this for a long long time. Getting your status online and getting emails about it. Looking at what else they are doing, there is a bunch of new stuff, but from what the president said, they already do those things...

Anyone know anything else about this? From the timeframes they are talkign about, looks like end of september for the new site. I heard an interview on the CNET Buzz out Loud podcast last week (Monday I think) with a guy who's high up in IT in the government about making changes to the site.

-Jason

[cjblack 0]

Hmm.. but half the fun is jumping through hoops to log on to USCIS website every day just to see that my case hasn't been updated or touched in 4 months! If they will alert me via text msg, then that takes all the fun out of it!

[rsn 135]

The full title from the website is:

In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site that will, for the first time ever, allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online.

Here is a link to the page:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

What I don't understand is, you could do this for a long long time. Getting your status online and getting emails about it. Looking at what else they are doing, there is a bunch of new stuff, but from what the president said, they already do those things...

Anyone know anything else about this? From the timeframes they are talkign about, looks like end of september for the new site. I heard an interview on the CNET Buzz out Loud podcast last week (Monday I think) with a guy who's high up in IT in the government about making changes to the site.

-Jason

My wife read about this recently as well. I wouldn't be surprised if this was akin to an old house that has rotted through and through on the inside with a brand new paint job on the outside.

A lot of companies take a similar approach: why bother fixing what's broken when we can give everyone the impression that everything has been fixed by making the UI new and shiny. I hope I'm wrong here.

Edited August 10, 2009 by rsn

[SuperDuper! 230]

The full title from the website is:

In the next 90 days, USCIS will launch a vastly improved Web site that will, for the first time ever, allow applicants to get updates on their status of their applications via e-mail and text message and online.

Here is a link to the page:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

What I don't understand is, you could do this for a long long time. Getting your status online and getting emails about it. Looking at what else they are doing, there is a bunch of new stuff, but from what the president said, they already do those things...

Anyone know anything else about this? From the timeframes they are talkign about, looks like end of september for the new site. I heard an interview on the CNET Buzz out Loud podcast last week (Monday I think) with a guy who's high up in IT in the government about making changes to the site.

-Jason

Great info, Jason.

I wasn't able to log in with the above link, maybe a technical problem on my end. But I found this one with the same info as well.

http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=29663

Edited August 10, 2009 by itzallgood

[edp333 9]

Nice info. My quesion is; since the bugs were never corrected on Case Status Online (CRIS), when or will the bugs be worked ot of the new website?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Any little thing they do will be an ' improvement ' .