GC backlog on NPR

listened to it this morning

They said that the backlog is because of security check; they have do it twice, once at the beginning of the case, another one at the time before approval. And another factor is during last year they have to stop all the immigration benefit processing in order to finish the special registration, which turned out to be useless. The USCIS director insisted that they do not need increase the staff number working on the cases, and they can still achieve the goal of 6 months processing time by 2006. What a nonsense! I hope we can hold him responsible if he can not keep his promise!
 
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Originally posted by jat
Today, 3/18/04 at 6:44 AM CST, National Public Radio (NPR) ran a story on chronic backlog at USCIS and how it is affecting people lives. The story was covered by NPR’s award winning Washington correspondent Jennifer Ludden who covers Department of Justice, immigration and immigrant issues:

http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/jludden.html

The story though did not cover the plight of EB based applicants (it covered one case about violence against women type green card) but needs to be commended for bringing forward the issue of backlog in the media. It tells how the lives of green card aspirants have been put on hold because of the delays. It talked about the need of every year renewable EAD’s for work, applicant’s inability to travel outside the US, mismanagement at USCIS, fee increase, and of course ever increasing backlog. The lady being covered in the story had ailing father in Caribbean. I think this story would be available on NPR’s audio archives by the end of the day. Visit their site and search for the story later in the day.

I would suggest that we should individually thank Jennifer by sending an email to the morning edition (the program which aired her story) morning@npr.org (I could not find her email address). When you write to her, please mention all/some of the hardships that are being faced by EB Green Card petitioners and especially the I-485 lawsuit. However, please be brief in your emails.

Please keep posted any response from the NPR. Once again many-many thanks Jennifer and NPR's morning edition.
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