Is this old info ?

This excerpt was very interesting by the BCIS director?
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I am very encouraged knowing that my vision for CIS is shared by many people; not just here in this room but across the country, and that includes the White House. As President Bush stressed in his blueprint for reforming America’s immigration system, “This Administration believes that legal immigrants should be greeted with open arms, rather than endless lines. We must be responsive to those who seek to immigrate to this country by legal means, and to those who have emigrated and now seek to become U.S. citizens.”
The President put his words into action by launching a five-year, $500-million initiative aimed at providing high-quality service to all legal immigrants. It incorporates a universal six-month standard for processing all applications for benefits. I am eager to do my part by leading Citizenship and Immigration Services in fulfilling the President’s
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Not very old news. We are yet to see the "open arms". We have seen too many assholes who made I-485 process miserable.
 
This was interesting too. This is what they consider important ???
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Of all the possible projects identified, eight were selected as having the greatest potential to produce a major improvement, and they are now under intensive study. These initiatives are:
1) Streamlining the family-based adjustment of status process;
2) Pre-certifying businesses that file petitions on behalf of employees;
3) Eliminating self-imposed requirements that inhibit processing or that create more work, such as the one-year limit on Employment Authorization Document validity;
4) Improving processes leading to immigration benefit documents or cards by collecting biometrics at Application Support Centers and redefining adjudication of applications for certain benefits documents to institute verification of identify;
5) Reducing lines are our local offices;
6) Implementing the Child Citizenship Act;
7) Streamlining Naturalization Quality Procedures; and,
8) Implementing batch processing for Employment Work Authorization applications (I-765).
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EAD validity beyond a year is something that we also asked for .
 
Not EB-485 specific. 3) is of some relevance. Hope our petition will lead them to add more "important" issues especially EB I-485 backlogs!
 
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