Interesting

[sbgwolf1 0]

If I could pay $500-$1000 and have a decision within a week I would do it and I am willing to bet there are enough of us that would be willing to do that the government could fund a small section to process things much more quickly. As long as there were a money back garuntee if they did not keep up their end of the bargin.

My only problem is that history has proven that the government tends to screw up a process no matter how poorly or well it is funded.

Paul/Anna

Yea, you are not the only one that would pay that. Unbelievable, people say 'money talks'...hmm, wish I could make it in this one instance (not like I have a lot, but its definately worth it).

[hockeygal 1]

They report to a career feminist who wonders why anyone would want to marry a foreigner anyway. Besides, they are too busy granting visas to Saudi men, and to Mexicans that they can hire to maintain their yards.

~yawn~

Edited August 10, 2006 by hockeygal

[meauxna 15]

What you have are a bunch of affirmative action hires, who cannot be fired except for gross incompetence or criminal behavior on the job (crack convictions on their own time is ok, they get a LOA, I know, folks at the IRS in Ogden don't get fired for felony drug convictions). You also have these offices run by folks who think CYA is Job 1, 2, 3, and 4. They report to a career feminist who wonders why anyone would want to marry a foreigner anyway. Besides, they are too busy granting visas to Saudi men, and to Mexicans that they can hire to maintain their yards.

The result is typical govt incompetence.

You're nasty.

I'm a career feminist who married a foreigner.

[onyxrev 0]

I think it has much to do with the fact there´s thousand of us, plus other immigration petitions, plus employment visa petitions, plus citizenship petitions, etc.

So why not hire more people? If everyone's so freeking busy busy busy and if it's been this way for a long long long time, then whoever is running these places needs to be fired fired fired and get someone who's not afraid to stop wasting people's lives in charge.

It's one of the most rudimentary of management concepts. Christ.

[meauxna 15]

I think it has much to do with the fact there´s thousand of us, plus other immigration petitions, plus employment visa petitions, plus citizenship petitions, etc.

So why not hire more people? If everyone's so freeking busy busy busy and if it's been this way for a long long long time, then whoever is running these places needs to be fired fired fired and get someone who's not afraid to stop wasting people's lives in charge.

It's one of the most rudimentary of management concepts. Christ.

er, why do you think they *want* to move any of it any faster?

Also, all the budget for the CIS comes from user fees.

[kitkat1 5]

What you have are a bunch of affirmative action hires, who cannot be fired except for gross incompetence or criminal behavior on the job (crack convictions on their own time is ok, they get a LOA, I know, folks at the IRS in Ogden don't get fired for felony drug convictions). You also have these offices run by folks who think CYA is Job 1, 2, 3, and 4. They report to a career feminist who wonders why anyone would want to marry a foreigner anyway. Besides, they are too busy granting visas to Saudi men, and to Mexicans that they can hire to maintain their yards.

The result is typical govt incompetence.

You're nasty.

I'm a career feminist who married a foreigner.

I *think* Spartacus was saying that the woman who runs CSC is a career feminist who doesn't understand why anyone would want to marry a foreigner. Meaning - she, the director, has NO clue about anything and neither do any of the people who work for her.

Clearly it's an extremely poorly run organization filled with incompetent employees who will never be fired (as opposed to what we have heard about the tightly ship run by the director of VSC) .

Regardless, anyone waiting for CSC to process anything is apparently in for a grueling wait.

[AndyMisiu 0]

I think the whole visa process is set up for relationship failure. I mean, whats a better way of controlling immigration than making it almost impossible. They want us to quit! to give up! and to end our relationship. Ultimately this helps control immigration. That's just my two cents.

[pnd629 0]

What you have are a bunch of affirmative action hires,

We don't have Affirmative Action in California.

Haven't for several years.

[andy_k1 0]

They control the processing to a "very slow" speed showing people that if you want to marry a foreigner, that is the time you have to wait.

[Robor007 0]

They control the processing to a "very slow" speed showing people that if you want to marry a foreigner, that is the time you have to wait.

Bingo!

[Yodrak 7]

Spartacus,

The USCIS does not grant visas. To anyone.

And processing petitions from USCs who want to marry foreigners, although there are many of them to process, is but a small fraction of the total workload.

Yodrak

What you have are a bunch of affirmative action hires, who cannot be fired except for gross incompetence or criminal behavior on the job (crack convictions on their own time is ok, they get a LOA, I know, folks at the IRS in Ogden don't get fired for felony drug convictions). You also have these offices run by folks who think CYA is Job 1, 2, 3, and 4. They report to a career feminist who wonders why anyone would want to marry a foreigner anyway. Besides, they are too busy granting visas to Saudi men, and to Mexicans that they can hire to maintain their yards.

The result is typical govt incompetence.

kitkat,

Accepting for the sake of discussion that it's true the director of the CSC does not understand why a USC would want to marry a foreigner, how does one deduce from that that the woman does not understand "anything"?

Even limiting the scope of "anything" to the work of the CSC, USC's marrying foreigners is a very small part of that work. It may be 'everything' to you and other VJers, but it's you - not her - who has no clue about the tasks facing a USCIS Service Center.

Yodrak

I *think* Spartacus was saying that the woman who runs CSC is a career feminist who doesn't understand why anyone would want to marry a foreigner. Meaning - she, the director, has NO clue about anything and neither do any of the people who work for her.

Clearly it's an extremely poorly run organization filled with incompetent employees who will never be fired (as opposed to what we have heard about the tightly ship run by the director of VSC) .

Regardless, anyone waiting for CSC to process anything is apparently in for a grueling wait.

pnd,

The CSC is subject to federal - not California - hiring practices.

Yodrak

What you have are a bunch of affirmative action hires,

We don't have Affirmative Action in California.

Haven't for several years.

[kitkat1 5]

kitkat,

Accepting for the sake of discussion that it's true the director of the CSC does not understand why a USC would want to marry a foreigner, how does one deduce from that that the woman does not understand "anything"?

Even limiting the scope of "anything" to the work of the CSC, USC's marrying foreigners is a very small part of that work. It may be 'everything' to you and other VJers, but it's you - not her - who has no clue about the tasks facing a USCIS Service Center.

Yodrak

Gosh thanks for that clarification.

I never said that she doesn't undertand why a USC would want to marry a foreigner and I couldn't care less what she thinks.

How does one deduce from statement that she does not understand anything? Well it's not possible to to come to that conclusion based on that statement - which I didn't.

What I do know is that they did not send out RFES based on NOA1 date and they are not processing by NOA1 date. If I chose to come to the conclusion that she knows nothing based on these facts, so be it - I'm entitled to have my opinion.

I never implied that I know about the tasks facing a USCIS service center. It's not my job to understand what tasks they face. My job is to provide them with the correct and complete information to process my paperwork.

If they had the common sense to send an email out to petitioners in the beginning of this fiasco enlightening us about the tasks they face, I would be better informed. But until they provide me some information, I have no way to understand the tasks they face and frankly, at this point, I don't really care. I provided all the correct information, I paid the fee, and I am watching people who filed petitions three months after me with approvals.

I believe I am entitled to be more than a little pissed off.

[AndyMisiu 0]

Amen, Kitkat!!

[stevea 0]

kitkat,

Accepting for the sake of discussion that it's true the director of the CSC does not understand why a USC would want to marry a foreigner, how does one deduce from that that the woman does not understand "anything"?

Even limiting the scope of "anything" to the work of the CSC, USC's marrying foreigners is a very small part of that work. It may be 'everything' to you and other VJers, but it's you - not her - who has no clue about the tasks facing a USCIS Service Center.

Yodrak

Gosh thanks for that clarification.

I never said that she doesn't undertand why a USC would want to marry a foreigner and I couldn't care less what she thinks.

How does one deduce from statement that she does not understand anything? Well it's not possible to to come to that conclusion based on that statement - which I didn't.

What I do know is that they did not send out RFES based on NOA1 date and they are not processing by NOA1 date. If I chose to come to the conclusion that she knows nothing based on these facts, so be it - I'm entitled to have my opinion.

I never implied that I know about the tasks facing a USCIS service center. It's not my job to understand what tasks they face. My job is to provide them with the correct and complete information to process my paperwork.

If they had the common sense to send an email out to petitioners in the beginning of this fiasco enlightening us about the tasks they face, I would be better informed. But until they provide me some information, I have no way to understand the tasks they face and frankly, at this point, I don't really care. I provided all the correct information, I paid the fee, and I am watching people who filed petitions three months after me with approvals.

I believe I am entitled to be more than a little pissed off.

Kitkat,

You most certainly have every right to be upset! I do not blame you one bit. This seemingly endless delay has driven nearly everyone to the brink of madness and disaster!

Spartacus,

I happen to be a federal government employee. It would be very easy for me to take great umbrage at your comments, however I do realize you are venting and have every right to be cranky. I manage the computer network for a large government-owned hospital in Chicago. Mind you, I am not saying that there are NO lazy government workers, but I can tell you from experience that it is a miracle that the federal government, yours and mine, is able to function at all, let alone as well as they do given the precious few resources most federal workers have to do their jobs with.

In the hospital where I work I have never seen one "lazy government worker". Each person must deal each day with too little support, too little training, too little supplies, too much stress. Why is that, you ask? Because you and I do not want any more of our hard-earned dollars going towards federal income tax. If money were no object, I am certain the wait would be very short, indeed for our K-1 visas, but alas, that is not the case. I am not making excuses for the unbelievalby slow pace of approvals, only please do not toss all government workers into the "lazy, good-for-nothing government worker" bucket.

I could earn significantly more money with my IT skills in private industry than I do working for the Veterans Administration. However as a service-connected, disabled veteran myself, I want to give back to those who were willing and many times did give more to their country than theyever should have been asked to give. Yes, each day, I have to "make do" with not enough computers, little or no training, not enough staff, hardware, etc, etc.... so that veterans are able to receive the highest level of health care available.

I am off my soap box now. Thanks for allowing me to "have my say". B)

[TomLena 0]

If I could pay $500-$1000 and have a decision within a week I would do it and I am willing to bet there are enough of us that would be willing to do that the government could fund a small section to process things much more quickly. As long as there were a money back garuntee if they did not keep up their end of the bargin.

My only problem is that history has proven that the government tends to screw up a process no matter how poorly or well it is funded.

Paul/Anna

I'm surprised that something like this hasn't been implemented already. Higher fees for expedited processing of government forms isn't a new concept. Remember when you got your passport and there were various options for various turn-around times?