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To: jmangaliman@mercurynews.com
Subject: ImmigrationPortal.Com Lawsuit updates
Hi, Jessi,
Thanks for your having introduced our I-485 litigation against USCIS:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...on/7651311.htm
1) ImmigrationPortal.Com activities
We have been contacting Congressional members since last summer.
We are planning the following activities in March:
a) 3/13/2004 Congressman Pete Stark (D CA 13) Town Hall Meeting in Fremont
About a dozen of members will attend the meeting
to discuss about Immigration issues.
A lot of members are faxing a letter to Congressman's office.
b) 3/17/2004 Preview of "New Americans" in San Jose
Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D CA 16) and Congressman Mike Honda (D CA 15)
will also attend this event.
We are planning something to demonstrate our litigation.
If you are interested in our activities, please contact me.
Also, we are planning other events in April.
2) CSC Director Don Neufeld and CSC's ugly performance
When I filed my I-485 application in 2002,
the California Service Center (CSC) was the FASTEST service center
among 4 service centers nationwide.
However, the USCIS has updated CSC I-485 processing date only once
by only one month from 11/16/2001 to 12/16/2001 at the report of 9/1/2003
for last 14 months since 1/15/2003.
Now, the CSC is shamefully the SLOWEST service center.
Can you write an article about these issues ?
I provide the following information.
a) Don Neufeld's excuse and promise on I-485 backlog at CSC
My representative Anna Eshoo (D CA 14) wrote to CSC Director Don Neufeld
in November 2003, and he responded to her on 12/22/2003 as attached:
> As we make progress in completing the older background checks,
> the processing time for I-485's will begin to improve.
> However, because of the competing need to adjudicate approximately
> 60,000 El Salvadoran applications for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
> prior March 9, 2004, we do not anticipate assigning any additional staff
> to process I-485s until the latter half of this fiscal year.
> We do plan to significantly increase resource allocations to I-485
> adjudications beginning April 2004. Based on current workload projections,
> our goal is to reduce the processing time for Adjustment of Status
> applications to 12 months or less by the end of September 2004.
According to USCIS Press Release of 3/4/2004:
http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffa...D_03_04_04.pdf
> The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) today announced
> it has completed processing renewal Employment Authorization Document (EADs)
> for more than 238,000 Salvadorans who have re-registered
> for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
This means the competing need that Don Neufeld mentioned has disappeared.
If he would keep his promise to reduce I-485 backlog from 27 months
to 12 months by 9/30/2004, it's really great news, isn't it?
Could you have an interview with CSC Director Don Neufeld
about his actual specific plan ?
b) Just after getting Don Neufeld's above letter in January 2004,
about 50 members had sent e-mail to Don Neufeld to ask him his specific plan,
however, he had totally ignored more than 50 customer's voices.
c) Anna Eshoo was not a only Congressperson to ask Don Neufeld,
but he just excused and promised an uncertain plan to all Congresspersons.
On the other hand, the Texas Service Center (TSC) had been infamous
as the slowest service center for a long time, however, in January 2004,
our colleagues at ImmigratoinPortal.Com contacted Congressman Lamar Smith,
who talked to TSC Director, then the TSC actually started I-485 process
from February 2004.
Considering the CSC's bad performance and Don Neufeld's acts,
I believe Don Neufeld should resign from CSC Director
unless he cannot keep his promise beginning April 2004
within a month from now on.
If you can interview with him and write an article on him,
I'd appreciate it a lot.
Thanks,
(my name)
(my contact information)
