I'm a flight attendant. You spend a lot of time flying and away from family and mostly in hotels however you fly everywhere and get the perks of flying free. Some people love the job or hate it. I'd say go to school... Flying will always be there even if you decide down the road to do it part time.
I know right I feel so dumb when I keep tellin people "oh my husband will soon be here".. Then the petition just keeps collecting dust.. This distance is not healthy for any marriage! ?
So, now that I am back in a healthy mental state I and the numbers for this month are good and out (boo!) I feel the need to get the ball rolling so to speak.
Long story short, we're losing. Despite their promises the USCIS is not significantly increasing their approval rate, certainly not enough to get the wait time to 5 months by May. Currently they're in March of last year and at the end of this week it's going to be February. The USCIS will have to move their processing date up by 9 months by the middle of May to meet their goal. At the rate their going, it's not going to happen any time soon. In the meantime the Congress is soon going to start discussing a general amnesty for illegal immigrants, which if passed would be absolutely disastrous for the legal immigrant community, judging by the effects of the DACA and Provisional Waiver programs. If an amnesty is passed without provisions to reduce USC I-130 wait times those of us currently waiting from late last year and new USC I-130 filers could be facing wait times of more than 1 year just for an I-130. This cannot be allowed to happen.
They need to feel the heat. We need to remind them we are here, and we won't be ignored.
This was a good example of the actions we need to take:
http://uscisconnect.ideascale.com/
After removing my letter three times, eventually USC I-130 petitions, their spouses and supported voted the letter to the #2 place on the site (we were only 1 vote away from #1) and downvoted all of the other "ideas" in their "conversation" to oblivion. In response to this, the USCIS was forced to end their "discussion." The people in charge of this surely took note.
We need more actions like this, more civil disobediance. The USCIS hosts nation-wide teleconferences on obscure issues like O visas for artists and the usage of the Creole language for USCIS services, subjects that address a rather small minority of the USCIS's "customers." While I myself believe that art and language are important and don't have any objection to addressing them by the USCIS ipso facto, I DO take umbrage to them holding so many events on obscure issues like this when there are HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of US citizens waiting to see their loved ones again or exiled from their native land, and the USCIS refuses to hold a teleconference for us or to even address us with anything but lies.
In Occupied Territories of Palestine, the IDF engages in a number of practices which it calls (forgive me if I err as my Hebrew is really rusty) "lehargish etzmukha" or "making yourself (your presence) felt." Soldiers are sent out to map and take pictures of areas that have been mapped many times before, the IDF breaks into houses in the middle of the night, blindfolds and shackles the men, and rides them around the village in circles before releasing them, IDF soldiers go on midnight patrols through villages and throw glow sticks through the windows of Palestinian houses. What does throwing a glow stick into someone's house do to them? When the Palestinians wake up in the morning, the know the IDF has been there, they remember that they are a conquered, occupied people. As much as I oppose this terrorism against the Palestinians, it has been extremely effective: despite the continued building of settlements and the tightening of marshal law there's been no significant acts of armed resistance in the West Bank for more than 5 years. Why? Because the Palestinians know that the IDF is there 24/7, and this keeps them cowed and afraid, "on their best behavior."
I feel saddened that I am calling for such a strategy against my own government, but they way things are going I feel it is necessary. The USCIS needs to "feel our presence." Everytime they hold one of these events we need to call in and let the USCIS know that we, too, are waiting for our teleconference. Everytime they open up an idea on their website we need to flood it about the I-130 issue. I no longer think that monthly letters are enough. We need to send them letters on a weekly basis, and then if that doesn't work it needs to be daily. We need to increase our media outreach, starting with the local papers first. We need to release our long-talked about video campaign. We need to make them hear us, we need to make sure that this time the House does not forget about us in the immigration bill.
I think we have reached a point where just posting a thread is not enough. We need to be a real committee, and we need members to take responsibility for certain projects.
I would suggest that the positions should be a general chariman/woman, a video campaign coordinator, a letter campaign coordinator, a media specialist/liason, and someone in charge of making our presence felt at the USCIS outreach events. And we need people who are comitted to solving this problem once and for all--after you're in you're in, even if your I-130 gets approved. Even if we get out of this, we need to remember those who will come after us.
Thank you and God bless.
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