I'm happy for them but what about us?

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jubilee

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I'm happy for the hard working illegal immigrants... to have new chance to became a legal residents.
but what about us...did the increase of application gonna slow down the processing time for all immigration petition?
I worry about the situation because we wait as asylee long time before we been adjusted ...and as asylee we do need a new identity : American citizens.
 
jubilee said:
I'm happy for the hard working illegal immigrants... to have new chance to became a legal residents.
but what about us...did the increase of application gonna slow down the processing time for all immigration petition?
I worry about the situation because we wait as asylee long time before we been adjusted ...and as asylee we do need a new identity : American citizens.
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Hello Jubilee,

They do not yet have a "new chance" to become residents. The Senate passed the bill this evening, but the bill now faces a very uncertain fate in the House of Representatives.

However you did raise a very valid point. The USCIS has been the least efficient agency in American history. In the past few years they have made some improvements. Now if Congress asks the USCIS to process 11 million legalization applications and a guest worker program, the hard-won gains in efficiency could be lost. This would translate into excecssive delays in the processing of our adjustment and citizenship applications.
 
nasrmobin said:
Doesn't this bill encourage people to come to the United States illegaly?
A week ago one person got shot by Mexico border. They did not find anyone in his car, but they are saying the guy used to smuggle people in.
If they did hard job which it was their choice, I worked hard too. What if they first clear up this seperation between famileis and then move to other subjects. Even though by making all the illegals legal, USA would benefits a lot.
We are all popets. we have these poor asylees which came legally with all this documents and deal with this crap all the time and they worked hard and they have not been adjusted.
I know I am screaming in an empty countainer.
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I do not disagree with your above views (note the double negative).
 
thankful said:
Hello Jubilee,

They do not yet have a "new chance" to become residents. The Senate passed the bill this evening, but the bill now faces a very uncertain fate in the House of Representatives.

However you did raise a very valid point. The USCIS has been the least efficient agency in American history. In the past few years they have made some improvements. Now if Congress asks the USCIS to process 11 million legalization applications and a guest worker program, the hard-won gains in efficiency could be lost. This would translate into excecssive delays in the processing of our adjustment and citizenship applications.
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It's true..before President Bush can sign any reforms into law ,the house and the senate will have to negotiate an agreement...but this time the failure is not option.
I don't know how USCIS can handle 20 million applications espically if the DHS wanna go thourgh the name check program and criminal background check..the situation gonna create chain of reaction into endless delays .
 
jubilee said:
It's true..before President Bush can sign any reforms into law ,the house and the senate will have to negotiate an agreement...but this time the failure is not option.
I don't know how USCIS can handle 20 million applications espically if the DHS wanna go thourgh the name check program and criminal background check..the situation gonna create chain of reaction into endless delays .
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I was holding that opinion before. But if you think about it, as we go through different stages of immigration process, our own sense of priority changes: when applying for asylum, we thought asylum office should be given much resources; when waiting for GC, then I-485 processing is the most important; after getting GC, how about our spouses and children? The fact is that a lot of asylees (probably most of asylees) have had been here illegally and we were the lucky ones because the government extended its protection. I think even if there is delay I would have no problem (for now :) )

On the other hand, don't be so sure yet. President Bush clearly said in his speech that illegals should wait behind legal ones, to be fair. Quite a few senators, probably in an attempt to derailed the bill, mentioned the huge backlog in USCIS (5 million applications pending) as a reason for their doubt. I wouldn't be surprised if the final bill includes some sort of assurance that legal's petition will be handled first. There is a 56 billion funding for this program, so it may be good for us.

Just my couple cents.
 
jubilee said:
It's true..before President Bush can sign any reforms into law ,the house and the senate will have to negotiate an agreement...but this time the failure is not option.
I don't know how USCIS can handle 20 million applications espically if the DHS wanna go thourgh the name check program and criminal background check..the situation gonna create chain of reaction into endless delays .
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To me, it doesnt make sense to background check illegal immigrants anymore. They are already here illegally, if the background check fails, they can just be illegal again and maybe make some other names right ?
 
the Good news is ...we may save another year before applying
for US citizenship.
the bad news is...the USCIS gonna be overheated for a while...
 
jubilee said:
the Good news is ...we may save another year before applying
for US citizenship.
the bad news is...the USCIS gonna be overheated for a while...
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Is this info accurate enough. The one about saving a year for citizenship.
 
jubilee
What about us? We're gonna be screwed again, as usual! :mad: No matter how hard the polititians try to avoid the word 'amnesty', it's exactly what's happening now. Corporatins need cheap labor!
 
thankful said:
Correct. I do not understand what you wrote.
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I guess he asked if we gonna benefit from the new law by saving one year before we can apply for neturalization. In stead of 3 years 9 months we would have to wait 2 years and 9 months before applying for citizenship.
 
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Minsk said:
I guess he asked if we gonna benefit from the new law by saving one year before we can apply for neturalization. In stead of 3 years 9 months we would have to wait 2 years and 9 months before applying for citizenship.
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Thanks Minsk for rephrasing. That is exaclty what I meant.
 
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