USCIS Revenue for FY 2005

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Kartoshkin

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Take a look at the pie chart on that page. The portions marked in red are the fee revenues they are making mostly as a result of processing delays. It's actually a quarter of their revenue. Usually, if a business is not efficient it fails, but if you are a federal agency you can make extra $300 million a year if you are slow enough. Interesting, isn't it? I have a conviction that it's actually their internal policy - to delay processing by all means, if it generates so much revenue. After all, they are not new to market economy, if they came up with this I129 premium processing fee bull shit. So when they tell you your case is still under security check, maybe it's a little marketing trick ;) ? I wonder what the pie for FY 2006 would look like. I bet it's even more red. :eek:

http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/CISOmbudsman_AnnualReport_2006_II-F-Name_Checks.pdf
 
This is the part I am amazed about. FBI claim it's less than 1% chance your name check will suffer long delay, and CIS
claims they have 235,802 names pending at FBI. In other
words, if both are claiming the truth, there are more than
23 million new immigrants coming to the US over the last 4-5 years? That's ridiculous.


Kartoshkin said:
Take a look at the pie chart on that page. The portions marked in red are the fee revenues they are making mostly as a result of processing delays. It's actually a quarter of their revenue. Usually, if a business is not efficient it fails, but if you are a federal agency you can make extra $300 million a year if you are slow enough. Interesting, isn't it? I have a conviction that it's actually their internal policy - to delay processing by all means, if it generates so much revenue. After all, they are not new to market economy, if they came up with this I129 premium processing fee bull shit. So when they tell you your case is still under security check, maybe it's a little marketing trick ;) ? I wonder what the pie for FY 2006 would look like. I bet it's even more red. :eek:

http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/CISOmbudsman_AnnualReport_2006_II-F-Name_Checks.pdf
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If money is all USCIS wants

Kartoshkin,

Thanks for your post! Here is my idea: If money is all that USCIS wants/needs, and a fee increase (double or triple of the current fee) could shorten the I-485 processing time, I would be more than happy to pay more. :)


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04/01/05, I-140 EB-2 NIW Filed (NSC; Korean citizen).
07/29/05, I-140 Approved.
08/19/05, I-485 Receipt Date.
02/01/06, Code-3 Fingerprinting (LUD:02/02/06 with no message change).
07/21/06, Called USCIS to ask about I-485 status (NSC is processing applications received on Nov.1, 2005).
07/23/06, FOIPA sent.
07/31/06, Got a letter from USCIS that mentions “pending officer review”.
 
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Freemann said:
Kartoshkin,

...I would be more than happy to pay more. :)
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Me too. But for them this would mean the obligation to do the work; right now they don't do anything and still reap the cash. Really, what do they do? Cash the checks, print out EAD's and AP's and send the mail to the wrong addresses.
 
the most profitable organisation

seems like they collectd $1.36 billion last year. not sure what their expenses are but i am sure they are making shit load of money.
 
The only victim of the processing delays is us the applicants. Other than that the economics of the whole situation is very well figured out by the involved parties.

Like you guys said USCIS makes plenty of money by delaying adjudication (the ombudsman clearly points this out in his latest report to the congress). FBI too makes money since they charge USCIS for each namecheck case and, if they sit on them for a little longer, they too can charge even more for the cases that USCIS wants expedited (usefulness of the delayed namecheck in light of the nation's security is questionable, like the Ombudsman mentions in his report). The lawyers in the middle are happy too since more delay means they get more work (filing for EADs, advance paroles, status checks, writs of mandamus, etc).

As most Americans lump legal and illegal immigrants into one generally disliked category of "immigrants", we do not have much popular support to get any meaningful legislative action against the delays. In employment based green card and work visa categories, I think employers do have some incentive to minimize the delays and can lobby for us. But I suspect in employment based green card categories an employer would rather have a worker whose immigration process is in limbo and generally at the employer's mercy than one who can change jobs at free will.

So the bottom line is we are screwed until that shiny new US passport arrives in mail. But, hey, we can't complain. Afterall didn't we all know what we were getting ourselves into when we boarded that first plane to the good old US of A?
 
FBI Name check aging report

I am trying to locate the FBI Namecheck Aging Report mentioned on foot note of page 24 of ombudsman report but not luck so far, anybody has been able to locate this report as it will give interesting insight into the name check POS ?
 
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