Can we act ourselves to reduce the backlock?

[zhang102]

I write to see anybody would be interested to paticipate in the effort to reduce the backlock in the I485 application. I talked to the ISN, and they suggested that I put the message here to see how many people would be interested on the proposal.
It looks
>like the process for I485 is taking forever, with
>increased spending in Iraq, I would not be surprised
>to see further delays in the process. I am wondering
>if we can do anything more specific to help ourselves.
>One way is to lobby the congress. If the major problem
>is lacking of funding for I485 proessing, can we ask
>congress to do the following?
>1). Increase the filing fee for I485, and use the
>extra money to hire more people to reduce the backlog
>of I485 processing. 2). Set up a process of premium
>processing, just like H1Bs, speed up the application
>for whom that are willing to pay a fee
>(1,000$-5,000$).
> Please post mesage in this thread whether you believe this would be a good idea.
>Sincerely,

 

[cinta]

Originally posted by zhang102
I write to see anybody would be interested to paticipate in the effort to reduce the backlock in the I485 application. I talked to the ISN, and they suggested that I put the message here to see how many people would be interested on the proposal.
It looks
>like the process for I485 is taking forever, with
>increased spending in Iraq, I would not be surprised
>to see further delays in the process. I am wondering
>if we can do anything more specific to help ourselves.
>One way is to lobby the congress. If the major problem
>is lacking of funding for I485 proessing, can we ask
>congress to do the following?
>1). Increase the filing fee for I485, and use the
>extra money to hire more people to reduce the backlog
>of I485 processing. 2). Set up a process of premium
>processing, just like H1Bs, speed up the application
>for whom that are willing to pay a fee
>(1,000$-5,000$).
> Please post mesage in this thread whether you believe this would be a good idea.
>Sincerely,

Please join us in the VSC threads. We need a LOT of people like you!

 

[Edison]

Re: Re: Can we act ourselves to reduce the backlock?

Originally posted by cinta
Please join us in the VSC threads. We need a LOT of people like you!

ZHANG102,

Please follow the following threads at I-485 VSC forum, We are working on various petitions. We need interested people like you.


Petition / Press, Tv, Radio
http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96952

Petition / Follow up / More activities
http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=97122

New Petition to CONGRESS MEN + SENATORS
http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96876

Employment based immigration backlog petition
http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=94080

 

[lycos_999]

Lobbying the Congress is o.k

Regarding Funding how does it effect the current backlogs.

Do you mean if we pay additional $1000, the current case will be expedited or Is this for future applications?

 

[thukralrk]

Premium processing; I doubt it will have any effect.

If BCIS introduces such a process, everybody will file in PP and we'll have same backlog and WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIT



Just pray to almighty GOD to help ....

 

[kilaru]

Yes you are right thukralrk, even after premium processing again waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttttt

 

[andy2000]

I think its not gonna work..with so much security problems...bcis is not going to listen at all..

 

[peace_of_mind]

Premium processing for H1 says in 15 day you will get an approval or an RFE, most of the time it is RFE..... Do you want to see an RFE on 485 and no action later on...., then why pay more. Also all this backlog is due to security clearance etc...

When a discussion comes up, people always talk about funding....
I am very innocent regarding these funding matters, please excuse me...
Every EB 485 application has a Fee attached. where is all this money going. 1,300,000 applications pending at NSC. $255.00 per application or (160 per child). Assuming on an average $200 per application, it amounts to $260 million, just with 485 appli.....
Where is the question of no funds...

Let me do one more simple calculation
$260 million and 260 working days roughly, including 10 paid holidays, implies $1 million expenditue per day.
let us assume that $2000 per day expenditure per IIO incl. salary
( I am including support staff salary including bosses + infrastructure + telephone + mailing as expenditure on IIO),
it boils down to $1 million / $2000 = 500
Are there 500 IIO's working on 485 applications alone, I dont think so.

Let me do a different calculation:
Let there be 2000 485 applications each day so $400,000
suppose each iio can clearoff 10 appli, to have no backlog bcis need 2000/10 = 200 iio's.
so $400,000/200iio = $2000 expenditure on each iio (boils down to my assumption in my previous calculation)

Either way it says at least 200 iios could be employed just for EB I-485 processing with no profit no loss....... Since BCIS is no charitiy organization, we are paying processing fee..
I am really frustrated with this wait.......

 

[thukralrk]

Impressive math ..., I guess with the money that BCIS receives as filing fees for various Forms and processes, BCIS should not worry about funds at all. Rather, these guys should be in a position to help offset several other DHS ventures.

My thought is that DHS is using BCIS as a revenue generating org. and in turn does not allocate sufficient funds back, and hence this backlog. More so you have to factor in the human laziness, unwillingness to work, and red tapism, which is prevelent in BCIS.

 

[Sankrityayan]

This should come as no surprise....

The fees that BCIS collects goes into the US general fund and is not earmarked for application processing. Congress is responsible for appropriating all federal revenues. A bit of source-use analysis will throw up interesting conclusions, one of which is the fact that revenue generated from application fees is diverted to other functions like border enforcement. So, the next time we see some poor Mexican lying dead in the Sonoran desert, we can all feel proud that some of our dollars were indirectly responsible.

 

[Edison]

Re: This should come as no surprise....

Originally posted by Sankrityayan
The fees that BCIS collects goes into the US general fund and is not earmarked for application processing. Congress is responsible for appropriating all federal revenues. A bit of source-use analysis will throw up interesting conclusions, one of which is the fact that revenue generated from application fees is diverted to other functions like border enforcement. So, the next time we see some poor Mexican lying dead in the Sonoran desert, we can all feel proud that some of our dollars were indirectly responsible.

Sankrityayan,
Even I'm aware that our application fees are used for Immigration enforcement. I'm looking for some reliable source to substantiate this so that we can include this in our petition to law makers and also in our communication to media. Could you provide some reference?

Thanks.

 

[Sankrityayan]

Check this link:

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2004/sheets/fct_1.xls

Money is fungible, so it is not easy to figure out the flows and establish sources and uses. Fees collected in the name of immigration in 2002 and 2003 amounted to $1,852 million and $2,583 million (forecast) respectively. How much of that do you think was spent on processing applications?