wantmygcnow
Volunteer Moderator
The USCIS is going through an AUDIT..This is through my lawyer as I had no knowledge about it.
As most of you may not know but Government agencies are audited by the Government itself to see how they are using the processes. This usually happens at the start of the fiscal year to set forth the goals of USCIS & the budget($$$) allocated....This is internal stuff which gets rarely released to the public...
USCIS has announced plans to conduct an agency-wide inventory of all
pending cases. The apparent purpose is to determine the dollar value of these cases, so that the correct amount can be withdrawn from the "processing fee account" and be put toward processing the case
backlog. The audit will involve opening each file and counting each form. This may interrupt processing for at least a month at all the four Service Centers.
If the money is correctly allocated and the USCIS can hire more adjudicators, or provide for overtime of their employees to adjudicate pending petitions, then perhaps future processing will speed up.
As most of you may not know but Government agencies are audited by the Government itself to see how they are using the processes. This usually happens at the start of the fiscal year to set forth the goals of USCIS & the budget($$$) allocated....This is internal stuff which gets rarely released to the public...
USCIS has announced plans to conduct an agency-wide inventory of all
pending cases. The apparent purpose is to determine the dollar value of these cases, so that the correct amount can be withdrawn from the "processing fee account" and be put toward processing the case
backlog. The audit will involve opening each file and counting each form. This may interrupt processing for at least a month at all the four Service Centers.
If the money is correctly allocated and the USCIS can hire more adjudicators, or provide for overtime of their employees to adjudicate pending petitions, then perhaps future processing will speed up.