USCIS to Take Action to Address Asylum Backlog

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https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-take-action-address-asylum-backlog

Release Date: Jan. 31, 2018
Agency Will Focus on Processing Recently Filed Applications

WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that the agency will schedule asylum interviews for recent applications ahead of older filings, in an attempt to stem the growth of the agency’s asylum backlog.

USCIS is responsible for overseeing the nation’s legal immigration system, which includes adjudicating asylum claims. The agency currently faces a crisis-level backlog of 311,000 pending asylum cases as of Jan. 21, 2018, making the asylum system increasingly vulnerable to fraud and abuse. This backlog has grown by more than 1750 percent over the last five years, and the rate of new asylum applications has more than tripled.

To address this problem, USCIS will follow these priorities when scheduling affirmative asylum interviews:

  1. Applications that were scheduled for an interview, but the interview had to be rescheduled at the applicant’s request or the needs of USCIS;
  2. Applications pending 21 days or less since filing; and
  3. All other pending applications, starting with newer filings and working back toward older filings.
Additionally, the Affirmative Asylum Bulletin issued by USCIS has been discontinued.

“Delays in the timely processing of asylum applications are detrimental to legitimate asylum seekers,” said USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna. “Lingering backlogs can be exploited and used to undermine national security and the integrity of the asylum system.”

This priority approach, first established by the asylum reforms of 1995 and used for 20 years until 2014, seeks to deter those who might try to use the existing backlog as a means to obtain employment authorization. Returning to a “last in, first out” interview schedule will allow USCIS to identify frivolous, fraudulent or otherwise non-meritorious asylum claims earlier and place those individuals into removal proceedings.

For details on how we will schedule interviews, go to our Affirmative Asylum Interview Scheduling page.
 
Oh my goodness !!! That is going back what USCIS stopped doing back in 2014 When backlogged system was a mess and staffing was another problem
 
Clearly what is happening is people are taking advantage of the current backlog and filing asylum claims that they know won’t be successful but in the meantime they get to live and work in the US, so uscis is trying to weed those out first and get them out the system and I presume discourage others from doing the same. It’s definitely not ideal for those genuine cases in the queue though who now go further back.
 
Clearly what is happening is people are taking advantage of the current backlog and filing asylum claims that they know won’t be successful but in the meantime they get to live and work in the US, so uscis is trying to weed those out first and get them out the system and I presume discourage others from doing the same. It’s definitely not ideal for those genuine cases in the queue though who now go further back.
They will go to court after that so it does not matter
They can live here work here untill court make a deportation
 
They will go to court after that so it does not matter
They can live here work here untill court make a deportation
As I know once they denied your case from the asylum office and transferred your case to the court you not allowed to work anymore and they will refuse to issue you a work permit again. Unless you won and got your asylum case approved by the court.
Guys, please correct me if I were wrong.
 
As I know once they denied your case from the asylum office and transferred your case to the court you not allowed to work anymore and they will refuse to issue you a work permit again. Unless you won and got your asylum case approved by the court.
Guys, please correct me if I were wrong.
You are wrong. They can work
 
As I know once they denied your case from the asylum office and transferred your case to the court you not allowed to work anymore and they will refuse to issue you a work permit again. Unless you won and got your asylum case approved by the court.
Guys, please correct me if I were wrong.
They can work if their asylum is pending for more than 180 days!
 
They can work if their asylum is pending for more than 180 days!
That’s obviously why they are doing it this way. To deny them and put them in deportation proceedings as soon as possible after the application, trying to do it before the 180 days. As above they are starting with those pending 21 days or less. Get them sorted and deported ASAP.

(Also if it is denied it is obviously not “pending”)
 
That’s obviously why they are doing it this way. To deny them and put them in deportation proceedings as soon as possible after the application, trying to do it before the 180 days. As above they are starting with those pending 21 days or less. Get them sorted and deported ASAP.

(Also if it is denied it is obviously not “pending”)
I think so, so many applicants who are not eligible for asylum are filing asylum claims just to extend their stay! It will take years for them to get final notice and they also can appeal the decision which will take more years. This is why so many people who are eligible for asylum have to wait years and years.
 
I think so, so many applicants who are not eligible for asylum are filing asylum claims just to extend their stay! It will take years for them to get final notice and they also can appeal the decision which will take more years. This is why so many people who are eligible for asylum have to wait years and years.
Well, it will no longer take them years, apparently. hopefully once they’ve shipped out these guys it will be faster for the genuine applicants.
 
Any benefits of requesting USCIS to expedite the interview, date of original application is Feb 2016, I feel I was almost close to being interviewed now God only knows how long the wait would be ?
Applied in Chicago feb 2016
Transferred to sfo in July 2017
 
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