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

DN:cm


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.

 

[cinta]

POINTS

I guess "success" is only in getting a response.

The answer proves two points:

1: Discrimination between I-485 applicants and other applications, in this case El Salvadorian TPS in this case and any other category in the future and,
2: Security checks, name checks which again have a dicriminatory nature and are being used as an excuse. Not to mention that they are being carried by the same people who are supposed to adjudicate applications.

Bottom line: See the latest GAO report and mention in GovExec.com: Even with more money, the backlogs increased. Why? Because the mandate and will is not there. As the USCIS said in Canada recently " the right applicant will receive the right benefit in the right amount of time" and "lawsuits do not threaten us". We will see.

The correspondents with CSC should follow up and prove all these to Congress as well as to the CSC director. See also Ric Keller in Fl and Sentinel.

 

[sen_gc]

Why should a Security Check take some much time

Are the doing the security check and name check manually???!!!. My life got screwed because of this GC process. I would have been much much happier; if there were no GC’s at all and if there is a rule that everyone should go back to their country after temporary stay.

 

[cat&mouse]

I don't understant the meaning of "security check"!!!!!

If you run fingerprint result againt FBI database, what else do you need.

For more, they can run credit history.. how much more time do they need@#$@#$%@#%$@#

 

[Rustam]

I think it is all B.S.

It is just a standard answer to congressman's letter not the actual reason, which I understand is that they want to discourage people from applying for immigration. But, no body wants to admit it openly.

I hope the immigration plan by Mr. Bush should get enough propoganda and critisism from the media which is favoring the people who broke the law and getting immigration quicker then people who followed the lawful path.

I am hoping this critisim helps all the people on this form waiting for their green card.

thanks.

 

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reply

With the new USVisit system it takes 12-15 seconds to see whether the person is good or bad (from the news). From what CIS is portraying it sounds as if it were a mountain of a task to do this. So is CIS is really telling the truth or is there some hidden agenda for these delays?

 

[rrao]

Can anyone explain the process?

Once I am finger printed the FBI sends its report to INS. From what I hear most times the report is in within a week of fingerprinting. Now what other clearence is required before approval. Can anyone familiar with the process please clarify.