Increased Funding for this year

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Excerpt from a bulletin:

Immigration Services


The CIS budget includes $1.8 billion, a 9% increase ($143 million) over FY 2003 to support further improvements in application processing as well as the processing of projected volume. The $1.8 billion is comprised of $236 million in appropriated funding and approximately $1.6 billion in projected fee revenues.
The CIS budget supports the President's five-year, $500 million initiative, begun in FY 2002, to attain a universal six-month processing time standard for all immigration benefit applications, and provide quality service to all legal immigrants, citizens, businesses and other CIS customers. The third $100 million installment of the President's five-year plan consists of $20 million from revenues generated by the Premium Processing Service fee and $80 million in appropriated funds.


[143 million can employ a lot of IIOs. Hope that the money is not
wasted.]
 
Re: money is not the issue

Originally posted by tombaan
if it was they could have raised fees and got stuff done
Click to expand...

Not true. The fees go to US government, not an individual department, even they receive it. They can get money only out of the funding/bugetting.
 
money is partly the issue

It takes a lot more than $200+ charged per I485 adjudication.
The fee is not at all enough, given the fact that the money has to be
shared with the mailing department, FBI, CIA, IIOs, management,
card issuers, etc. The government takes the money and gives
only a small fraction to the service centers. No one can ask for
more money outside the regulations or funding. So the service
centers' hands are tied. Besides we have the scary zero-tolerance
policy and so on. As a result, the whole adjudication operation is
a poorly-funded and poorly organized government business.
Ultimately the prospective immigrants suffer.
 
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