Sick of the USCIS and Their Policies? They want to hear about it

[thedude6752000 360]

The USCIS apparently wants to hear your ideas, and it's set up a new website just to do so.

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/ideafactory.do?id=24738&mode=hot&discussionFilter=active

The site is fairly new and the "hottest" idea now has only 28. I have taken the liberty of posting an idea, which I think most here will agree with:

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Give-US-Citizen-I-130-1-129f-Petitions-Proper-Priority/461024-24738

"Give US Citizen I-130 & I-129f Petitions Proper Priority

The USCIS handles millions of petitions and applications for this country each year--an honorable and needed task. Even the agency's most ardent critics will readily admit that the workers of this agency face a daunting and serious challenge in speedily and fairly adjudicating all of these application while at the same time protecting this country and its laws.

What no one understands is how the agency decides to prioritize the adjudication of this massive workload. That some petitions and applications will have to wait longer than others is a given; that the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens should have the longest wait times is a proposition more than a bit harder to understand. For the past two years, first thanks to the President's extra-Constitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and then for his also extra-Constitutional Provisional Waiver program, the immediate family members of US citizens have been made to bear the burden of increased USCIS Service Center workloads (all, it might be added, to the benefit of people who broke US immigration law to come here and have been retroactively given psuedo-status by Presidential executive order, without the express permission of the US Congress to do so). The first victims of these programs were I-129f filers for K-1 fiance(e) visas. The wait time for these petitions ballooned from 3-5 months to over a year in 2012, while DACA filers were granted speedy approvals (almost never refusals) in less than 5.

In January of 2013, the wheel turned and I-129f filers began to see 3 month processing windows. To compensate for this, and for the President's new Provisional Waiver program for unlawful immigrants filing from inside the US (not approved by the Congress of the United States of America), filers of I-130 petitions for US spouses and alien children (!) were simply stored and delayed for almost 10 months, until a backlog of over 400,000 of these petitions had accrued. The USCIS is now working to end this backlog, but this tremendous backlog has resulted in wait times in excess of 10 months for an I-130 petition, and this for a visa which must face two more lengthy steps, the National Visa Center step and the US embassy step, in addition to any additional administrative processing which results from a US visa interview, before it can be granted.

Asking the spouses and parents of aliens to wait for something approaching two years (or more, depending on the additional Administrative Processing the embassy in question decides to take) to see their loved ones while unlawful immigrants are quickly and efficiently granted permission to reside here and even legal status is unacceptable and, what's more, unlawful, since the Immigration and Naturalization Act mandates US authorities to give first priority to the immediate family members of US citizens. The USCIS must in the future give priority to the applications for legal entry to this country of the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens. The USCIS must dictate that each month it will adjudicate a certain percentage of US citizen relative and fiance(e) petitions, as this is the priority which the law demands these petitioners be given.

Thank you and God bless the United States of America.

CXXXXXX AXXXXXXXX CXXXXXXXX

USCIS Customer and I-130 Petitioner"

IF you agree, please uplike my idea or post your own! Since 28 likes is the number to beat, I think we should be able to beat that!

Edited January 13, 2014 by Kathryn41
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[AdnanS 82]

Done. I added my comment and voted.

[thedude6752000 360]

Thanks!

[aditya3245 113]

Just added the 16th vote !!

[thedude6752000 360]

Well, it's been moved to "Off-topic" but it's still there. Please be sure to upvote and even add your own ideas!

[joanderson 17]

I can't up vote it!!! I just can't see the option, now the comments of the post do have the option but the main topic doesnt seem to have the option

[thedude6752000 360]

Feel free to copy and repost under your own name. Be sure to correct the mistake in the title, id est "I-129f" not "1-129F"

[Kat&Abhi 42]

yeah you can't vote for it anymore and if I try to search it by 'i-130 spouse backlog' (the tag that is on the idea) it says "no ideas found"

seems like they moved it to some dusty shelf to die already

[thedude6752000 360]

That really pisses me off. I vote for civil disobedience. Let's spam them with I-130 petition "ideas" till that get the point that we're hopping mad and we want our ideas to be heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thedude6752000 360]

I just reposted it. Let's keep at it till they get the point!

[Hotter Otter 1,211]

So basically they want ideas, but can't stomach the fact that the users who pay for it's services want improvements and wish to have some input on the process. Good work USCIS!

[thedude6752000 360]

I reposted it here. Please upvote or, better yet, spam your own "idea!"!!!!

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Give-US-Citizen-I-130-I-129f-Petitions-Proper-Priority/461079-24738

[thedude6752000 360]

Since the USCIS moved my idea to a portion of the website where it could not be upvoted, I saved them the trouble of having to move it back by going back and reposting it:D

Please upvote it as quickly as possible before they do the same thing again!

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Give-US-Citizen-I-130-I-129f-Petitions-Proper-Priority/461079-24738

Give US Citizen I-130 & I-129f Petitions Proper Priority

The USCIS handles millions of petitions and applications for this country each year--an honorable and needed task. Even the agency's most ardent critics will readily admit that the workers of this agency face a daunting and serious challenge in speedily and fairly adjudicating all of these application while at the same time protecting this country and its laws.

What no one understands is how the agency decides to prioritize the adjudication of this massive workload. That some petitions and applications will have to wait longer than others is a given; that the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens should have the longest wait times is a proposition more than a bit harder to understand. For the past two years, first thanks to the President's extra-Constitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and then for his also extra-Constitutional Provisional Waiver program, the immediate family members of US citizens have been made to bear the burden of increased USCIS Service Center workloads (all, it might be added, to the benefit of people who broke US immigration law to come here and have been retroactively given psuedo-status by Presidential executive order, without the express permission of the US Congress to do so). The first victims of these programs were I-129f filers for K-1 fiance(e) visas. The wait time for these petitions ballooned from 3-5 months to over a year in 2012, while DACA filers were granted speedy approvals (almost never refusals) in less than 5.

In January of 2013, the wheel turned and I-129f filers began to see 3 month processing windows. To compensate for this, and for the President's new Provisional Waiver program for unlawful immigrants filing from inside the US (not approved by the Congress of the United States of America), filers of I-130 petitions for US spouses and alien children (!) were simply stored and delayed for almost 10 months, until a backlog of over 400,000 of these petitions had accrued. The USCIS is now working to end this backlog, but this tremendous backlog has resulted in wait times in excess of 10 months for an I-130 petition, and this for a visa which must face two more lengthy steps, the National Visa Center step and the US embassy step, in addition to any additional administrative processing which results from a US visa interview, before it can be granted.

Asking the spouses and parents of aliens to wait for something approaching two years (or more, depending on the additional Administrative Processing the embassy in question decides to take) to see their loved ones while unlawful immigrants are quickly and efficiently granted permission to reside here and even legal status is unacceptable and, what's more, unlawful, since the Immigration and Naturalization Act mandates US authorities to give first priority to the immediate family members of US citizens. The USCIS must in the future give priority to the applications for legal entry to this country of the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens. The USCIS must dictate that each month it will adjudicate a certain percentage of US citizen relative and fiance(e) petitions, as this is the priority which the law demands these petitioners be given.

Thank you and God bless the United States of America.

USCIS Customer and I-130 Petitioner

Edited January 14, 2014 by thedude6752000

[Ryan H 3,790]

Since the USCIS moved my idea to a portion of the website where it could not be upvoted, I saved them the trouble of having to move it back by going back and reposting it:D

Please upvote it as quickly as possible before they do the same thing again!

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Give-US-Citizen-I-130-I-129f-Petitions-Proper-Priority/461079-24738

Give US Citizen I-130 & I-129f Petitions Proper Priority

The USCIS handles millions of petitions and applications for this country each year--an honorable and needed task. Even the agency's most ardent critics will readily admit that the workers of this agency face a daunting and serious challenge in speedily and fairly adjudicating all of these application while at the same time protecting this country and its laws.

What no one understands is how the agency decides to prioritize the adjudication of this massive workload. That some petitions and applications will have to wait longer than others is a given; that the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens should have the longest wait times is a proposition more than a bit harder to understand. For the past two years, first thanks to the President's extra-Constitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and then for his also extra-Constitutional Provisional Waiver program, the immediate family members of US citizens have been made to bear the burden of increased USCIS Service Center workloads (all, it might be added, to the benefit of people who broke US immigration law to come here and have been retroactively given psuedo-status by Presidential executive order, without the express permission of the US Congress to do so). The first victims of these programs were I-129f filers for K-1 fiance(e) visas. The wait time for these petitions ballooned from 3-5 months to over a year in 2012, while DACA filers were granted speedy approvals (almost never refusals) in less than 5.

In January of 2013, the wheel turned and I-129f filers began to see 3 month processing windows. To compensate for this, and for the President's new Provisional Waiver program for unlawful immigrants filing from inside the US (not approved by the Congress of the United States of America), filers of I-130 petitions for US spouses and alien children (!) were simply stored and delayed for almost 10 months, until a backlog of over 400,000 of these petitions had accrued. The USCIS is now working to end this backlog, but this tremendous backlog has resulted in wait times in excess of 10 months for an I-130 petition, and this for a visa which must face two more lengthy steps, the National Visa Center step and the US embassy step, in addition to any additional administrative processing which results from a US visa interview, before it can be granted.

Asking the spouses and parents of aliens to wait for something approaching two years (or more, depending on the additional Administrative Processing the embassy in question decides to take) to see their loved ones while unlawful immigrants are quickly and efficiently granted permission to reside here and even legal status is unacceptable and, what's more, unlawful, since the Immigration and Naturalization Act mandates US authorities to give first priority to the immediate family members of US citizens. The USCIS must in the future give priority to the applications for legal entry to this country of the spouses, children and fiance(e)s of US citizens. The USCIS must dictate that each month it will adjudicate a certain percentage of US citizen relative and fiance(e) petitions, as this is the priority which the law demands these petitioners be given.

Thank you and God bless the United States of America.

USCIS Customer and I-130 Petitioner

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[thedude6752000 360]

Reposted! Please like and comment!

http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Give-US-Citizen-I-130-I-129f-Petitions-Proper-Priority/461116-24738?submitted=1