Well my friends, I have read most of the postings about how gruesome and horrible this whole immigration process is and I cant blame not a single one of you for this. One thing I noticed is that you, including myself, keep forgetting that as far as immigration process goes, not a single US citizen cares for immigration. Yes, we see Lou Dobbs and his fans yelling at the immigration situation. We have seen immigration proposals being offered to the congress and all of them failed. But if you pay a close attention to it, you will notice no one ever talked about legal immigrants like us. It was all about illegal immigration and why people jump waiting lines to come to this country while in reality there is no line or organization in place.
No one ever talked about people waiting for 6 or more years to get their permanent residency and how their whole lives are on hold. How foreign workers do not have the same wage bargaining tools as US counterparts because their residency is dependant on employer’s willingness to sponsor. I for one, have come to the conclusion that everyman is for themselves because USCIS is not really accountable to anyone who actually cares.
To me working in immigration is like getting a welfare check. They don’t have to do much and they still get the same paycheck. There is no checks and balances in this department. When you get denied, you can appeal. But AAO and Board of Appeals decisions are mostly aligned with the original decisions made by USCIS. You don’t believe me; take a look at their statistics.
This post started by mentioning some use shortcuts. Well, FLASH NEWS PEOPLE, there is no such a thing as shortcut other than marrying a USC (and even that doesn’t guarantee a fast result). If you call or email or ask a senator to write a letter, it doesn’t mean your approach worked. It simply means the IO was feeling generous and for some odd reason your were the first to take advantage of his/her good moods. Now, I do realize they are human being and they work, eat and sleep like the rest on this planet. However, their job is effecting someone’s life and they should make decisions accordingly.
What I want to see from immigration is consistency. So here is some very basic questions for USCs to ask their senators and congressmen;
Why would they deny an I-140 for company with millions of dollars of net profit while a company with a $1000 net profit gets approved?
Who is looking after over 100,000 lost applications and who is accountable for it?
Why the heck visa bulletin has been changing like stocks on NYSE?
Why can’t they get a simple change of address right?
