Got an update from TX-21 district, congressman Lamar Smith’s office (Shiela Brown from his Austin office called). Lamar is a member of the immigration subcommittee which is a group of politicians overlooking what the CIS does. She mentioned that after the start of sessions on Jan 20th Smith has been talking to his immigration subcommittee colleagues and other congressional folks about the “unacceptable” backlogs. He has also spoken to the TSC officials specifically and the CIS folks to reduce the backlogs.
Shiela from Lamar’s office was enquiring to see if TSC actually had started working on the backlogs. I mentioned to her that in the past few weeks TSC has started working on these cases aggressively and wished that it continues to do so.
Folks I think this deserves an email to Lamar, not only to say Thank you but also to say that there are so many of us who know what is going on and the government dealing with this backlog situation is very important for us.
Here is the link for Lamar Smith to send an email. It will just take two minutes of your time.
http://lamarsmith.house.gov/contact.asp
Here is a sample of what I sent
Dear Mr. Smith:
Thank you very much for your help in speaking with other elected officials and USCIS to address the severe backlog situation.
I have noticed the 485 approval rate of TSC increase considerably in the past two weeks. Through yours and others support we hope that this backlog will continue to decrease from the current level of 33 months to 6 months or less.
I am a member of immigrationportal.com which has several thousand immigrants (mostly legal immigrants) as members and I will inform them of your help.
Please post your name in this thread after you send the email.
Thank you.
Shiela from Lamar’s office was enquiring to see if TSC actually had started working on the backlogs. I mentioned to her that in the past few weeks TSC has started working on these cases aggressively and wished that it continues to do so.
Folks I think this deserves an email to Lamar, not only to say Thank you but also to say that there are so many of us who know what is going on and the government dealing with this backlog situation is very important for us.
Here is the link for Lamar Smith to send an email. It will just take two minutes of your time.
http://lamarsmith.house.gov/contact.asp
Here is a sample of what I sent
Dear Mr. Smith:
Thank you very much for your help in speaking with other elected officials and USCIS to address the severe backlog situation.
I have noticed the 485 approval rate of TSC increase considerably in the past two weeks. Through yours and others support we hope that this backlog will continue to decrease from the current level of 33 months to 6 months or less.
I am a member of immigrationportal.com which has several thousand immigrants (mostly legal immigrants) as members and I will inform them of your help.
Please post your name in this thread after you send the email.
Thank you.
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