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06/05/2004: USCIS/ICE/BCP Hiring Freeze or Slowdown to Continue Until 09/30/2004
Report indicates that these components of the DHS overexhausted this FY's budget and there has been a hiring freeze in place since March 2004. The DHS confirmed that the hiring freeze or slowdown, whichever one may call it, would continue until the end of this FY. Considering the fact that in the case of USCIS, a substantial portition of the works, including adjudication, are done by temporary employees and private contractors, the hiring freeze may not affect critically, but it may still affect the agency's plan to reduce the backend backlog one way or another because of its inability to recruit new adjudicators
Read on : http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0604/060404d1.htm
Source: www.immigration-law.com
Report indicates that these components of the DHS overexhausted this FY's budget and there has been a hiring freeze in place since March 2004. The DHS confirmed that the hiring freeze or slowdown, whichever one may call it, would continue until the end of this FY. Considering the fact that in the case of USCIS, a substantial portition of the works, including adjudication, are done by temporary employees and private contractors, the hiring freeze may not affect critically, but it may still affect the agency's plan to reduce the backend backlog one way or another because of its inability to recruit new adjudicators
Read on : http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0604/060404d1.htm
Source: www.immigration-law.com