New York Times article about delays in processing Visa. "Kansas City - rapidly overwhelmed"

[AU.Dan]

New York Times article about delays in processing Visas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/program-benefiting-some-immigrants-extends-visa-wait-for-others.html?hpw&rref=us

"A Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman, said the agency had seen “a temporary increase in processing times” for the citizens’ green card applications because of the deferrals program and “the standard ebb and flow” of visas."

"Last year, officials said, the agency detected the problem and tried to speed up the green cards by spreading them out to three processing centers. In November, the agency reported it had reduced waits to 10 months, calling that a “significant step forward.” Officials said they hoped to reduce waits to five months, but not before this summer.

"An immigration service center near Kansas City assigned to handle both the green card applications and many of the deferrals was rapidly overwhelmed, officials said. But although the agency is financed by fees and does not depend on congressional appropriations, no new employees were brought on at that center, because of “unanticipated hiring difficulties,” officials said, without elaborating."

 

[TonyJP]

Thanks for posting this AU.Dan. Although the article is about a different Green Card category, maybe it helps explain why the case numbers in the DV category are progressing so slowly this year. I'll post the link the Australian thread of this forum too.

 

[rigateika]

The slow processing times in CIS may impact only DV winners doing AOS which counts to 1,500-2,000. Most of DV winners are doing Consular Processing which is Department of State.
So this article is irrelevant to the most of DV winners.

 

[SusieQQQ]

The slow processing times in CIS may impact only DV winners doing AOS which counts to 1,500-2,000. Most of DV winners are doing Consular Processing which is Department of State.
So this article is irrelevant to the most of DV winners.

I don't know if even those are affected, it seems the backlog is processing I130s. Those looking for K1 seem worst affected judging by other forums.

 

[del0175]

I also read the article and it seems that when Obama launched the DACA program for so called illegal DREAMers everyone in the Administration wanted to move the process fast so that when candidates were getting their fingerprinting appointments, letters of acknowledgements, and eventually approvals (hopefully before the 2012 elections), there would be a lot of excitement in the legal Latino community (a lot of Hispanic households are mixed status -- meaning both illegal and legal members) and they would go and vote for Democrats. It definitely worked for the Dems but at the cost of causing problems for citizens and legal immigrants. It seems that almost all types of applications were delayed and based on what I am hearing from the illegals, their cases are still moving much faster than those of legal aliens and citizens (do not forget that the 2014 elections are almost here and the Dems want a repeat of the 2012 elections now that comprehensive immigration reform is dead).