Quota/CAP abolished?

[floyd]

Question for all, specially SAMIRD

I occassionally see posts that state the quota has been abolished. As a very recent applicant, I fervently believe (hope/pray) that CIS is working for backlog elimination but the only fact I find is about the additional 31,000 over 3 years.

That is nowhere near quota abolishment. Any pointers to any authorative reference about the quota/cap being abolished will be much appreciated.

Thanks

F

 

[samird]

Hi floyd,

I have been looking into their monthly newsletters they just started last month:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/uscistoday.htm

So in each edition, they have an update about 'backlog elimination efforts'. If you take a look into the last edition there is a table:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/USCISToday_August_05.pdf

Date Number of Backlog Cases
February 1,269,392
March 1,172,288
April 1,093,114
May 1,053,902
June 993,910

So for each one month period they have processed :

(97,104 + 79,174 + 39,212 + 59,992) / 4 = 68, 870

cases more then they have received.

There are 15 more months before Oct 1st 2006.

Assuming they continue to reduce the backlog at the same pace, the total number of cases that they will process (in addition to the ones received) would be:

1,033,057 which is well above current backlog - 993,910

So in theory, not only that they can reduce the backlog to 6 months, they can actually be current with all the cases as of the date of file.

Now, there are claims on this forum, that asylees will be left-out which I would not comment.

If you read the following:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/statistics/Asylees.htm

you can find how many asylums have been granted per fiscal year.

Then if you observe current events, namely, that we are seeing adjustments for NDs of 2001, you can conclude that CIS processed roughly 20K asylum adjustments in last 4 months ( I would say at least).

Given the same pace, they can easily eliminate the full asylee backlog which I read somewhere to be ~180,000 (actually was before they started with all this).

I hope I answered your question.

 

[floyd]

Hi floyd,

I have been looking into their monthly newsletters they just started last month:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/uscistoday.htm

So in each edition, they have an update about 'backlog elimination efforts'. If you take a look into the last edition there is a table:

http://uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/USCISToday_August_05.pdf

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Given the same pace, they can easily eliminate the full asylee backlog which I read somewhere to be ~180,000.

I hope I answered your question.

You did.. thanks a lot.

Here's keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[LolaLi]

Yes, the asylee cap has been removed by the Real ID Act. Although I must admit that samird's calculations are formidable, I would caution anyone from being too optimistic. There are currently 180,000+ asylee cases pending and to believe that all of this would be processed by Oct. 1, 2006 is unrealistic. I do believe that CIS will try to eliminate the backlog and will definitely be adjusting more than 10,000 cases per year. As for the 2001 cases being processed, this is not indicative of the number of cases CIS has actually approved. I say this because it is apparent that many cases from 1999 and 2000 have not been approved. As usual, CIS is not adjudicating cases on a first-come-first-served basis.

I wish you all luck, and I hope samird is correct in his calculations.