Sick and Tired of Just Waiting? Calling All VJ'ers to Action

[thedude6752000 360]

How long can the USCIS this month spend processing last year's October I-130's? Sounds almost like a Chinese riddle.

The USCIS has lied to us. Our country has betrayed us. We followed the laws, but the law breakers got to stay while we got to pay.

To quote the famous founding document of this country "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Well, I don't know about you, but I am not in the mood to overthrow the US government, and if I were I certainly would not be saying so on a public internet forum. I am, however, in the mood to shake things up. "A long train of abuses and usurpations" seems a little bit too close to home to ignore. Our government has wronged us, our government has broken and ignored its own laws to the benefit of foreign illegal aliens at the expense of citizens.

So who will make them pay like we have paid, are paying and continue to pay for every day of USCIS incompetence, lies, and screwed-up priorities? Certainly not the President's own party, nor the majority of Americans who now find the slant of the Republican party too much to bear even when the President is fairly unpopular. And as to the Republican party, even stalwart conservatives have illusions left that it is an organization dedicated solely to the benefit of this country and its citizens. So who will address our grievances? Who will save us from this "absolute despotism" of family separation?

The USCIS thrives in the dark. It is the one agency of the federal government which derives most of its revenue from the people it "serves" and it is an agency most Americans (they don't know how lucky they are) never have to deal with. What does a cockroach fear more than shoes? More than traps? More than predators?

It fears the light. In the corners, the dark places, hidden away, preying on defenseless morsels of human consumption, it is safe. Exposed to the light, it is the easy prey of larger predators and angry humans. We need to expose the USCIS. We need the country to know what it is doing to us.

How many times have you told shocked, unbelieving friends, acquaintances, and coworkers that you won't be seeing your spouse for years? How many times have you had to explain the arduous process? How many times have you had to listen to people who don't know their proverbial bottoms from a hole in the ground on immigration tell you that it will all be alright if you just hire a lawyer, call some representative, or get a tourist or other non-immigrant visa for your loved one?

People don't know. They don't understand. But if they did, there would be an uproar. If they did, Obama would have to take a few minutes of the time he spends worrying about the illegals in this country to focus on us, the legal and law-abiding citizens of this our country.

We, the USC Green Card Petitioner's Committee, are putting together a video series for Youtube, and we need YOU. We need your spouse. We need to you to tell your story. We need America to hear your story. Alone, we are nothing against the bureaucratic weight of the USCIS, but like fingers closing into a fist, together we are strong. Let's close our fingers, make our fist, and smash the USCIS, the US government, their lies and their love of illegal aliens!

If you interested in taking an active part in the struggle in the fight to reunite our families, if you're ready to take the fight to them, send me a PM. Please provide me with your real name, email address, and some form of phone contact. Let's get this thing done. Let's show America the truth.

[JA_Martinez 81]

Pardon the intrusion on your overzealous rant but you JUST sent your petition in three days ago. If anyone else joins you on this rant, they're foolish. You should put your anger back in your pocket and give up on this process now before you destroy every opportunity you have to get your spouse here with you. If you're this angry now and you havent even gotten in to the line yet, by the time you have more work to do and/or have to communicate with the government to finalize paperwork, what the hell kind of crazy will you be by then. You really should calm down and wait like all the rest of us. You sure as hell arent hoping with that that youre going to get any special favors. Good grief. If anyone else on VJ subjects their real self and their spouses identity to you and puts themself in this firestorm you're trying to start, your spouse and theirs will never get thru the interview and you'll be in line for longer than the rest of us. Just sayin. You wont hear back from me again. Hope you get the old heeve ho here by VJ. Good.luck.

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

Well, we have the support of quite a few others from the US Green Card Petitioner Committee thread:

Another volunteer! That brings us to 16:

alaskafan, Kaylara, Blueberry Pancake, bobby299, AnnaTaka, Jayr&Kirstine, lucybelle, ShamoLisa, en-oh-eh-to now, thedude6752000, Ana&Sean, Macau PDX, r060106, londonwalker, YulingZhu, Kurt and Rose, and YOU*

We must get the word out. There are hundreds of thousands of others like us!

*Yes, you. Quit hoping for USCIS to move. Make us stronger.

[100JH 129]

Are you not "the dude" who said...

******

"I hate it so much when people ask me "You got married? Why didn't she come back with you to the States?" Idiots, no one knows how completely useless, lazy, and badly-run the USCIS is! And no one understands that we have the worst immigration system in the world! If my wife was from a developed country I would never even think about bringing her to this rotting cesspool we call America!

Seriously I have no idea why someone married to a German, Canadian, or British citizen would want to bring their spouses to live here, this country sucks. If I could get work over there I would move in 1 second and never come back."

******

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/463001-whats-wrong-with-uscis/

I AM SORRY. I WILL NEVER SUPPORT SOMEONE, NO MATTER HOW BAD THEIR SITUATION, WHO SPEAKS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY IN THAT MANNER. YES YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT, BUT I WOULD NEVER ALIGN WITH SOMEONE WHO CALLS OUR COUNTRY A "ROTTING CESSPOOL" AND THAT "THIS COUNTRY SUCKS".

Edited November 15, 2013 by 100JH

[thedude6752000 360]

I AM SORRY. I WILL NEVER SUPPORT SOMEONE, NO MATTER HOW BAD THEIR SITUATION, WHO SPEAKS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY IN THAT MANNER. YES YOU HAVE THAT RIGHT, BUT I WOULD NEVER ALIGN WITH SOMEONE WHO CALLS OUR COUNTRY A "ROTTING CESSPOOL" AND THAT "THIS COUNTRY SUCKS".

Well I am sorry you feel that way. For my part I bear no ill will against the guy who started throwing all types of "America love it or leave it" attacks/insults at me personally (and whom the mods never saw fit to edit in any way).

I am not going to defend what I said because I feel it would only make you more angry with me. I am just going to say that if you put your feelings about a post I made while I was in a highly emotional state and a very bad place, in large part because of the stress of this terrible process, above your family and your wish to reunite with them than there is nothing that I can or could say to dissuade you. I worked for Obama's campaign as a field organizer and I consider myself a die-hard leftist. Despite this I am more than willing to work with the Republican party and affiliated interest groups because they are the ones who are safeguarding my interests and the interests of my family. When it comes to my wife, there are very few people with whom I would not make common cause to secure our reunification. I would just advise you to take the same view I do, and if you do not, good sir/ma'am, then you to are entitled to your opinion which I do respect. God's speed and hopefully you'll get your spouse's visa soon.

[En-oh-eh-to now 147]

Pardon the intrusion on your overzealous rant but you JUST sent your petition in three days ago. If anyone else joins you on this rant, they're foolish. You should put your anger back in your pocket and give up on this process now before you destroy every opportunity you have to get your spouse here with you. If you're this angry now and you havent even gotten in to the line yet, by the time you have more work to do and/or have to communicate with the government to finalize paperwork, what the hell kind of crazy will you be by then. You really should calm down and wait like all the rest of us. You sure as hell arent hoping with that that youre going to get any special favors. Good grief. If anyone else on VJ subjects their real self and their spouses identity to you and puts themself in this firestorm you're trying to start, your spouse and theirs will never get thru the interview and you'll be in line for longer than the rest of us. Just sayin. You wont hear back from me again. Hope you get the old heeve ho here by VJ. Good.luck.

This is not only to benefit his family, or the others who take part.This will benefit all I-130 petitioners who feel that they system has failed them miserably. Look around this place enough and you'll see it. What part of this do you not agree with? The word choice? At what point would you stand up to reunite with your family? How long of a wait would you endure before doing something about it? Would you wait indefinitely? At what point would it no longer be foolish to pursue this?

Take a good hard look at our situation: our petitions have again shifted to other locations, and the adjudication rate is still not even fast enough to keep up with incoming petitions. Adjudications are just getting started on March, and they're already starting to send April files over. Something needs to happen, and soon. We all keep thinking next week USCIS will surely start getting a move on, but another week passes with only a trickling-in of approvals. USCIS responds to pressure, but nobody is going to apply it for us unless we are convincing.

It seems that you have already resigned yourself to wait, and that is your choice. Inaction is easy, but it comes at a price. How long of a wait would you endure before doing something about it?

[Darnell 8,479]

Things have been f'ed up since DACA apps were allowed to go through, circa 15 AUG 2012.

[Blueberry Pancake 311]

thedude and en-oh-eh-to now YOU GUYS ROCK!

We have a solid proof it's all because of DACA. To those who haven't seen it

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/464883-i-130-workload-transfer-linked-to-daca-foia-finding/

From: Dooley, Sharon V

To: # SPM ISO

Subject: FW: Message to Field Offices on NBC Workloads & Modified Processes

Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 2:07:45 PM

Attachments: image001.jpg

Importance: High

Please see the following information which describes the workload shift from the NBC to the field. NBC is seeking to bring on additional staff to assist with their increased workload due to DACA. As they gain more staff, the NBC will resume its current case preparation processes and take back the adjudication of the stand-alone IR I-130 petitions. The timeframe that they will resume this work is unknown at this time.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

Sharon Dooley

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

Pardon the intrusion on your overzealous rant but you JUST sent your petition in three days ago. If anyone else joins you on this rant, they're foolish. You should put your anger back in your pocket and give up on this process now before you destroy every opportunity you have to get your spouse here with you. If you're this angry now and you havent even gotten in to the line yet, by the time you have more work to do and/or have to communicate with the government to finalize paperwork, what the hell kind of crazy will you be by then. You really should calm down and wait like all the rest of us. You sure as hell arent hoping with that that youre going to get any special favors. Good grief. If anyone else on VJ subjects their real self and their spouses identity to you and puts themself in this firestorm you're trying to start, your spouse and theirs will never get thru the interview and you'll be in line for longer than the rest of us. Just sayin. You wont hear back from me again. Hope you get the old heeve ho here by VJ. Good.luck.

Well yes the OP clearly needs to calm down but do you seriously think sitting on your ### and waiting for an interminable amount of time without any reaction is the right way to deal with the current situation? People need to feel like they have some action open to them whether it is appealing to their political representatives, petitioning the White House or maybe making this video. It's their choice and feeling like you are doing something and not completely powerless is much better for everyone's mental health. USCIS don't give a damn about our petitions, and the only way to make those at the top respond is if questions start being asked by the press and politicians. I don't even mean processing applications faster, I mean providing information on what they are actually going to do to respond to the backlog instead of the daily conflicting information being provided to individual callers. Getting that information is perfectly possible if the right people are asking questions. How long will you and your spouse have to wait before you start caring? Another 6 months, a year?

[clairegie 265]

What exactly are you suggesting USCIS to do to make the whole process more efficient? I am all for wanting a better & faster process, but I also want to know specifics, and not just pointing out whats wrong, but also having concrete & feasible suggestions.

[bigdog 377]

You filed on the 11th., what about the others before you? DACA Rules under this administration.

[irwinahyee 5]

Theres a lot of people filed I-130 that is not a VJ member... Probably 100,000 plus a month and theres only 100 plus a month that a VJ member.. I always think that if there is one vj member got approved in a day theres probably 10 approvals that is not a VJ member...

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

What exactly are you suggesting USCIS to do to make the whole process more efficient? I am all for wanting a better & faster process, but I also want to know specifics, and not just pointing out whats wrong, but also having concrete & feasible suggestions.

The problem isn't the speed of the process itself it's that they need to actually start processing the applications instead of hoarding them and shifting them around! So potential solutions would include hiring more staff using the fees we pay, reallocating resources from K1 to CR1 (K1's are ridiculously fast at the moment) or making the DACA people wait in turn which is only fair. Are these feasible enough for you?

[justojai 53]

Do people still provide their real info over the internet? Maybe over secure servers.

[JA_Martinez 81]

Listen, i got on board with the letter that was supposed to be going out this past Tuesday. And I agree with you all on a need for our voices to be heard. But I am NOT at all interested in providing mine and my spouses personal information to someone like "thedude" who has viamently spewed his anger and threats and voiced his disdain about the US here, then apologizes for having a bad day. Thats just a wee bit unstable behavior for someone trying to lead the charge on good intentions. I have no interest whatsoever in adding myself and spouse to a video, letter, thrashing to the govt, etc in this context and risking someone, perhaps "thedude", skewing my intentions when he ramps back up and all of this looks like crazy just took over, and then my application getting flagged for national security reasons because crazy horse there had another bad day and I signed something that said I agreed with him. I agree with the reasoning behind this movement...its not about the reason or the cause...its "thedude" who has already set himself up for question by those of us on VJ who clearly as frustrated and disappointed but arent angry participants. Good luck to thosenof you who follow his lead...be cautious or you'll be sitting in line another year from now while the govt scrutinizes your applications because of guilt by association. Just bizarre behavior for someone who's chosen to get in the system to petition for their spouse and three days later is a timebomb. I cant risk my application, my wait time or my spouses opprtunity to be here with me because I made a bad judgement call. After all the reason we have this tight of an application process in general if because of people who made bad choices for our country who were angry at our govt and went beyond idol threats. Feedom of speech is our right for certain but I choose not to be associated with threats and bad mouthing my country...and the stupidity of doing so while stamping a petition asking to be granted imigration passage in to the same country. Like i have this visual of "thedude" standing in front of this group being all cheerleader with his fingers crossed behind his back. Thats all I'm sayin. Not interested in getting on board this crazy train.