感谢JWE的指点,我正在恶补历史!根据著名移民律师Jamese Ronald Gotcher的说法,
可见奥本的工作性质和我们的移民要求在很大程度上有重合之处,都是希望最大化利用
移民配额。真正的瓶颈是移民局(USCIS)。我们的敌人是USCIS的低效率和官僚作风和
对我们的痛苦的漠视。
Jamese Ronald Gotcher:: Reason behind July 2007 Fiasco?
First, I have to object to the use of the term "fiasco." That is a CIS term.
To them it was a fiasco, but one that was prompted by their incompetence.
For everyone else, it was a welcome slap in the face of the CIS that forced
them to get their act together and start doing their job.
The CIS did not then and does not now have anything at all to do with
setting Visa Bulletin cutoff dates. The cutoff dates are managed by the
State Department. That agency is responsible for allocating visas each year
and, more importantly, seeing to it that visas are not wasted under the
quota. According to the USCIS Ombudsman, prior to 2007 the INS and the CIS,
through their incompetence, had wasted more than 600,000 visas in the 1995-
2006 interval. They did this by failing to approve enough adjustment of
status applications each year to use up the quota. If visas are not used in
the year in which they are allocated, they are lost forever.
In 2007, the State Department saw that the CIS was on pace to approve about
85,000 adjustment applications. That would have resulted in at least 40,000
visas being wasted. To prevent that from happening, the State Department
decided to make everyone "current" in the month of July. That allowed
overseas consular posts to issue visas to people who had opted for consular
processing and those additional visa issuances would have then exhausted the
quota. It also acted as a humiliating slap in the face to the CIS and
forced them to start approving cases at a faster rate.
When the State Department made everyone current, the CIS tried to defeat the
move by ordering 55,000 visas on July 2nd. That had the effect of
exhausting the quota. Of course, there was no way that the CIS would have
used all of them and a huge number would have been wasted. Legal actions
were filed immediately following July 2nd. There were a lot of negotiations
over the next two weeks and then the CIS threw in the towel and gave up.