I-751 Completion Rates - 1.30 hours/Completion

[Philly2017 35]

Looking more into the biennial DHS review, on page 39 it is reported that the I-751 completion rates are projected at 1.30 adjudication hours per case (on average) across all service centers.

 

As stated, Completion rates reflect what is termed “touch time,” or the time an employee with adjudicative responsibilities actually handles the case. This does not reflect “queue time,” or time spent waiting, for example, for additional evidence or supervisory approval.

 

Links can be found below:

 

 

[Pitaya 2,577]

I can't believe that they publish this kind of glad-handing, back-slapping worthless nonsense. Try to push this rubbish to the couples that have been waiting years for some action on their immigration petitions. All this is is an attempt to put lipstick on a pig.

 

YMMV.

[Philly2017 35]

It’s a required biennial review open to the public.  The more submitted suggestions, the more pressure on USCIS to use its resources more efficiently.

 

DHS invites you to participate in this rulemaking by submitting written data, views, or arguments on all aspects of this proposed rule. Comments providing the most assistance to DHS will reference a specific portion of the proposed rule, explain the reason for any recommended change, and include data, information, or authority that supports the recommended change.

Instructions: All submissions should include the agency name and DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0010 for this rulemaking. Providing comments is entirely voluntary. Regardless of how you submit your comment, DHS will post all submissions, without change, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov and will include any personal information you provide. Because the information you submit will be publicly available, you should consider limiting the amount of personal information in your submission. DHS may withhold information provided in comments from public viewing if it determines that such information is offensive or may affect the privacy of an individual.

 

You may submit comments, identified by DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0010, by one of the following methods:

•  Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.  Follow this site’s instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Samantha Deshommes, Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, Office of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Mailstop #2140, Washington, DC 20529-2140. To ensure proper handling, please reference DHS Docket No. USCIS-2019-0010 in your correspondence. Mail must be postmarked by the comment submission deadline. Please note that USCIS cannot accept any comments that are hand delivered or couriered. In addition, USCIS cannot accept mailed comments contained on any form of digital media storage devices, such as CDs/DVDs and USB drives.

[Philly2017 35]

Above links now merged with the below thread:

 

 

[xillini 71]

In fiscal year of 2019 so far, 3 quarters (1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarters), 145,937 cases were approved by all USCIS offices (including field service such as CSC, VSC, TSC, LIN, Potomac as well as 50+ local USCIS office that performs either in-person interview for I 751 or concurrent adjudication of both I 751 or N400. This is equivalent of total of 218905.5 hours (145,937 multiplied by 1.5 hour/case). 

 

In typical days, USCIS employees are required to work 8 hours, and therefore, 27363 employees (218905.5 hrs divided by 8 hours) are necessary to adjudicate those I 751, which would take only 1 day.

 

This gives another meaning result that if 1,000 USCIS employees are solely dedicated to I-751 in a full time 8 hours shift per day, then it would have taken 27 business days to adjudicate the 145,937 cases (which is around 5 weeks), but in reality, this same amount of work has taken USCIS for 195 business days (365 * 3/4 (because the data I provided is only 3 quarters, not 4 quarters) * 5/7 (5 business days per week).

 

Now I mentioned if 1,000 USCIS employees are dedicated to I 751, then it would take 27 business days, but the reality is it has taken them 195 business days. So in basic math formula...

Total work done by USCIS = 1000 * 27 

So dividing by 27,000 / 195 = 138.5

 

In other words, there are only 138 USCIS employees across its entire agency (of 17,000 employees per wikipedia) adjudicating I 751 in full time basis.  

 

Note #1: I do understand USCIS employees need training, PTOs, and etc, which is not taken into calculation due to lack of their data. 

Note #2: I did not take into account for denials, which would play favorably to USCIS. 

 

For instance, per Lee's summit city council's data of top employers in the area, (where MSC is located), there are 3,000 USCIS employees (not all of whom are qualified to adjudicate I-751 and some of them are contractors), but is it too much asking USCIS to dedicate 500 USCIS employees to fully focus on I-751 when the total agency employees are 17,000, which is only 3% of their employees? 

This would speed up I-751 3 times faster than what the current speed is. 

 

Just to give some ideas and heads-up, if anyone has chance to speak with congressman or congresswoman to deliver the I 751 delaying issue, this is interesting question that USCIS have to explain.... (such as specifics of how they measure their employees performance) 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2019 by xillini

[geowrian 22,337]

1 hour ago, xillini said:

is it too much asking USCIS to dedicate 500 USCIS employees to fully focus on I-751 when the total agency employees are 17,000, which is only 3% of their employees? 

This would speed up I-751 3 times faster than what the current speed is. 

One would need to know the makeup of the employees. Many of them are contractors, office workers, support personnel, mail room workers, etc. How many of the workers are full time versus part time? Having the FTE would make calculations more accurate, not just # of workers. Only a fraction of the entire workforce are actual IOs.

For those 500 employees to do so, what other work would have to pay the price? N-400s? I-485s? I-129/I-129F/I-130/I-140/I-360s? I-765s/I-131s? Changing priorities has consequences.

 

I'm not doubting by any means that they are understaffed to handle the backlog, but just pointing out that moving employees to other tasks has consequences. One would need to weigh the pain associated with waiting for ROC versus waiting for the other benefits, such as couples living apart longer, or having no work or travel authorization, etc.

[Philly2017 35]

@xillini Good catch!  Probably that number becomes even lower (121.6) if you use 1.3 adjudication hours in your formula.  

 

I assume that it has to do with the fact that I-751 is a low priority petition and the agency is trying to allocate its resources to higher priority applications.  Apparently, they are not doing a very good job so far, but to their defense, lately they’ve been dealing with various changes in immigration laws and regulations which does not work in their favor, as far as the back log is concerned.

 

As far as employee performance evaluation, that is an issue that definitely needs to be addressed.

[Pitaya 2,577]

Here is a gem from CISOMB to USCIS that I still don't think has been implemented by USCIS. This is a posting that I made back in 2015, about the malarkey that USCIS is still trying to peddle to its customers, only the names and dates have changed, and not to protect the innocent. 

They needed more lipstick to put on this bunch of feral hogs....