Gonzalez Address to Congress Immigration Sub-Committee Hearing on Backlog

[geetha1]

Hey, we cannot say they are not hiring. They are hiring on some stupid anti-fraud unit that is probably proud of turning out cases like this:

http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/070313elpaso.htm?searchstring=denaturalize

Waste of good taxpayer money if you ask me.

Every day I think more and more that this "forecasting" backog problem is political, as in Republicans want to delay naturalizations and Democrats like to speed them up.

It gets tiring to hear that they will never sacrifice the security checks, and use that as justification on not speeding up processing. The problem is that the security checks add an unbound time to the application processing, as we have seen with name checks. I think they should be smarter than that and either use some random checks instead of checks for everyone, and whenever an application gets stuck on name check it should be reviewed by an experienced IO to determine if the delay is justified or not. If the applicant appears to be low risk I would adjudicate the application instead of waiting forever.

My 2 cents.

What I said/meant about hiring was "they should have hired sometime before they increased fees took into affect."
Not decide to hire afterwards. Even afterwords they should have been prompt in hiring an adequate number.
They should have known from past experiences that there will be a deluge of applications as people try to beat the fee increase.
They should have planned it before. It is very hard to believe they did not know that.

 

[r00724]

This is so frustrating... the more I read the more I get depressed. As a matter of fact, this is effecting my relationship with my future inlaws. I cant have my fiancee wait for so long my citizenship to get done so I can file for her I-130 or K-3. I am going through a very tough time these days dealing my in laws and satisfying them that it will be done soon.

Oh GOD please help me!

 

[Inlineagain]

roo724

It must be very difficult to be in a situation like yours - I sympathise.
Your in-laws probably have no idea how frustrating USCIS can be, and how little control we have over our applications - actually we have none at all!

Hang in there - your time must be coming up soon.

 

[LolaLi]

Also keep in mind that this is just the beginning as far as the inquries are concerned. I think Gonzalez was trying to defend his decisions to Congress. However, this delay in naturalizations is not going to die down any time soon and USCIS will have to make some movement - whether they like it or not. The fact that he was asked to show his Agency's efforts is a positive one. USCIS is scrambling to catch up and in all honesty, they have just started to work on applications as all personnel was focused on data entry from July - early December.

Just my two cents.

 

[z350]

Well, since Gonzalez completely ignores Name Check problem those 1.5K new employees won't do any difference. He's like stuck record player keeps singing same song about us, who stuck in name check, as threat to national security. I hope republicans will lose.