CSC Success Story- They were able to get a written reply from the CSC director

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CSC folks have been relentless in following up with the congressperson’s office to get a response from the CSC Director. Please take this as the motivation and contact your congressperson to get a response from your respective area as well. Here is the response

Donald Neufeld's (CSC Director) letter to Anna Eshoo (Congresswoman)

December 22, 2003

The Honorable Anna Eshoo
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Congresswoman Eshoo;

Thank you for your recent letter seeking information about the backlog of employment based Adjustment of Status applications (Form I-485) at the California Service Center (CSC).

I want to assure you that the CSC continue to adjudicate adjustment of status applications despite the slow progress of our published processing time. In fact, our records reflect that we have approved, denied, or relocated for interview more than 86,000 such applications since January 2002.

Unlike most other applications, I-485's are not necessarily adjudicated in receipt date order. Adjudication can only occur after all background checks have been conducted, relating files located, and underlying petitions retrieved from file strage, including those of family members. With the added safeguards that were mandated after September 11, 2001, most applications required additional background checks before they could be properly adjudicated. As response times in conducting these checks varied greatly from case to case, these additional checks further disrupted the chronological processing of applications and significantly delayed the overall adjudication process. Even though we continued to adjudicate thousands of applications as checks were completed, our published processing time remained "frozen" while the background checks remained pending for many of the oldest cases.

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.

I hope I have adequately addressed your concerns. I would be happy to discuss this further should you or someone on your staff wish to contact me by telephone. I may be reached at (949) ***-****.

Sincerely,
(Don Neufeld's signature)
Donald W. Neufeld

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The post can also be found at
http://boards.immigration.com/showthread.php?threadid=107866&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

If you scroll down below to Kashmir’s post you will see this posted.
 
Important thing missing in TSC - Willing Congressperson

I have so far haven't read a post about any co-operating congress man with TSC. I have sent faxes , mails but no one responded. From what I read about in the posts with Town hall meetings - Local congressman are not at all sympathetic or don't want to get involved in this issue. That is a big difference between California and Texas.

My 2 cents
 
Re: Important thing missing in TSC - Willing Congressperson

Originally posted by narl
Local congressman are not at all sympathetic or don't want to get involved in this issue. That is a big difference between California and Texas.
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That is why we should vote for democrats one day, not sure when that will happen :confused:
 
I have so far haven't read a post about any co-operating congress man with TSC.
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About 8 months ago I sent an email to the Florida Congresswoman, Katherine Harris. I got absolutely no response, not even an acknowledgement. I intended to send the law suit to her, but there was a glitch in the advocacy software and her contact wasn't added.
 
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Here are the steps as I see:

1) Visit your congressperson’s office and have a face to face conversation with a congressional office person and ask them to get a reply from the TSC.
2) Find the willing congressperson (I am sure there might be a few pro immigrants among the tens of congresspeople in the TSC area)
3) Follow up with the congresspeople until a written response from TSC is delivered (atleast this way we will know that TSC knows about our problems and are acting on it).

As far as I know from the TSC area we have had only a handful (single digits) of folks who have done 1). Those single digits were not able to find a willing congresspeople (step 2).

If more people were to act from the TSC area and spend a few minutes of their time in contacting and pursuing congresspeople (an action which has no negative repercussions and only positive things) I am sure we will get there. It took CSC folks about 3-4 months.
So folks if you have not done so already please go to the congressperson’s office personally and request this. In my experience I did not need an appointment to do this. I just walked in and requested and I was welcomed.

ps: Several congresspeople don’t do townhall meetings at all so it is best to be proactive.

On the points which say: I sent an email, mail but I did not get a response back.

Yes the congressional offices have to respond back but in reality does everyone have the time to open all their mails and respond to them. If you go in person they will give you a contact number etc. where you can call later.
 
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Tru and others
I have noticed the unhelpful attitude at TSC. Especially if you are in Irving, Mardi chez, the immigration liasion at Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office is least helpful.

I found that Jane Loomis at John Cornyn's office (Senator-TX) is pretty receptive. So the forum users could use this office to voice their concerns and increase the priority our situation deserves.

I have faxed our Litigation to her office. And asked her to get a written response from TSC, which her office has said they would.

I am not sure forwarding our law suit to her office would be effective? They might say since you have filed a lawsuit just wait for USCIS to respons.

But, we can use the latest report from GAO office to highlight that even other Federal agencies are critical of USCIS processing times.

Has anyone in this Forum had any luck with Sen Kay Hutchison's office??

Also, Tru if you attended the Conf call with Mr. Khanna on Sunday, could you post the outcomes.
 
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Ayansgp should have attended the conf. call with Mr. Khanna on Sunday. I have tried Sen. Hutchinson's (Texas) office before, neutral results. The lady Carolyn Kobey is the one who takes care of INS issues. I will try again to see if I can get a reply.

You are correct in saying that when you contact the congressional/senator's office we don't mention the lawsuit issue and highlight the backlogs and GAP report.
 
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