w*n
2 楼
今天看到的一天新闻报道，报道了我们其实已经知道的事情，就是所有绿卡类别处理速
度大范围变慢，和川普共和党移民局最近一系列“新政”，和EB类强制面试有直接关系
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/u-s-citizens-applying-green-cards
-noncitizen-spouses-see-growing-n912946
“With so many announcements of proposed changes to our immigration laws,
it’s had a chilling effect on many immigrants," an immigration lawyer said.
by Chris Fuchs / Oct.03.2018 / 5:32 AM PDT
The San Francisco Bay Area couple — Andrew a research scientist and U.S.
citizen, and Nang a journalism student from Myanmar — met online, became
good friends and, in December 2016, married.
Around a half-year later, they filed paperwork for Nang, now 30, to apply
for a green card through their marriage, according to the couple’s attorney
, Kalpana V. Peddibhotla.
Then they waited.
“It’s just emotionally straining, like we have no idea what was going on,
” said Nang, who together with her husband spoke with NBC News about their
case on the condition that only their first names be published out of fears
of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Nearly a year and three months later, Andrew and Nang finally got their
green-card interview in San Francisco on Aug. 15, said Peddibhotla, who was
with them that day.
Peddibhotla, an attorney for nearly two decades who has practiced
immigration law for 13 years, said Andrew and Nang’s wait time was longer
than normal.
“These cases are often interviewed many times around the six-month mark,
but certainly before a year,” she said.
Delays nationwide
Andrew and Nang are not the only ones experiencing delays. Other immigration
attorneys in the U.S. have reported similar holdups in processing times,
and not just for marriage-based green cards.
Anastasia Tonello, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
, said she believes Trump administration policy changes are responsible in
part for fueling delays by creating more work for immigration officers.
Among those changes is the phasing in of interviews for employment-based
applicants who are filing to register for permanent residence or adjust
their status.
“These local offices have the same number of officers, but now it’s just
instead of interviewing family-based applicants, they now have to interview
all employment-based, really everyone getting a green card,” Tonello said
in an interview. “And that includes the spouses and the families. So you’
ve got hundreds of thousands of more people coming through the immigration
offices, and so that’s taking time as well.”
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A spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
Michael Bars, said in an email that the agency had received a “surge of
family-based green card applications in recent years.”
Bars said the agency received nearly 366,000 family-based green card
applications in fiscal year 2017 — a nearly 34 percent increase from FY
2012 — which he said significantly exceeded agency projections. The number
of adjudication officers, meanwhile, grew by 38 percent from 2012 to 2017,
according to the USCIS.
Data published on the USCIS website confirm that national processing times
for some applications have indeed increased in recent years.
This is true for the two that Andrew and Nang had to file for Nang to
receive a green card: the I-130, used for petitioning an immediate relative,
and the I-485, to register permanent residence or adjust status.
From fiscal year 2014 to 2016, the time to process an I-130 actually dropped
to 6 months, from 6.8 months, figures show. But it shot up to 7.7 months in
fiscal year 2017, and to 9.6 months in fiscal year 2018, for which the data
runs until June 30.
Meanwhile, the national processing time for family-based green card
applications (I-485) has nearly doubled since fiscal year 2014, from 5.7 to
10.9 months in 2018.
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USCIS said it decided to expand the types of cases requiring interviews
after assessing how it uses in-person interviews to detect issues of
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The agency said it will continue to add interviews and update business
processes so that USCIS can interview all employment-based adjustment cases,
around 130,000 annually.
“USCIS is committed to adjudicating all petitions, applications and
requests fairly, efficiently, and effectively on a case-by-case basis to
determine if they meet all standards required under applicable law, policies
and regulations,” Bars said.
‘The moment I met him, I felt safe’
Nang came to the U.S. at the end of 2013 on a student visa to study media
and communications. She said she graduated with an associate’s degree in
journalism from De Anza College, in Cupertino, California, and later
transferred to San Jose State University to finish a four-year degree.
Nang had met Andrew, now 34, online in July 2015. The couple stayed friends
for about a year before they began dating.
“The moment I met him, I felt safe,” Nang recalled.
The two tied the knot in December 2016, holding a small ceremony in Illinois
with Andrew’s family. On May 30 of the following year, they filed their I-
130 and I-485, the first step toward getting a green card, Peddibhotla said.
Nang said they began collecting evidence, such as photos and documents
showing that they lived together, to prove their marriage was legitimate.
She also applied for temporary work authorization and “advanced parole,”
which allows immigrants to legally leave the country while their green card
applications are pending.
Nang got those interim benefits last September, Peddibhotla said.
But even with them, Nang had not returned to her native Myanmar, where she
and Andrew wanted to have a wedding ceremony with her family.
“With so many announcements of proposed changes to our immigration laws, it
’s had a chilling effect on many immigrants, including Nang and her U.S.
citizen petitioner, by not knowing whether the law is changing,”
Peddibhotla said.
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To be sure, Peddibhotla said the law “hasn’t principally changed.” But
the uncertainty, she said, has made immigrants unwilling to “take any
action that might upset the apple cart,” like traveling outside the U.S.,
out of fear that they might not be allowed back in.
The interview
At the San Francisco USCIS office, where Andrew and Nang interviewed in Aug.
15, the current processing time for a green card application was 10 to 17
months. Theirs took around 15 months.
The interview itself lasted around 45 minutes. “The interview started on
time, the interviewer was very professional and friendly, and I think
everything went well,” Andrew said.
Peddibhotla said last Monday that the government granted lawful permanent
resident status to Nang on Aug. 20 and said she has received her green card.
But Nang said that being a journalism student has made her want to speak out
about the long wait she and Andrew experienced.
“If we have an easy case and it’s taking forever,” her husband added, “
then people who have slightly more complicated cases are really putting
their lives on hold and really feeling like they’re just rolling the dice
on this.”
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度大范围变慢，和川普共和党移民局最近一系列“新政”，和EB类强制面试有直接关系
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/u-s-citizens-applying-green-cards
-noncitizen-spouses-see-growing-n912946
“With so many announcements of proposed changes to our immigration laws,
it’s had a chilling effect on many immigrants," an immigration lawyer said.
by Chris Fuchs / Oct.03.2018 / 5:32 AM PDT
The San Francisco Bay Area couple — Andrew a research scientist and U.S.
citizen, and Nang a journalism student from Myanmar — met online, became
good friends and, in December 2016, married.
Around a half-year later, they filed paperwork for Nang, now 30, to apply
for a green card through their marriage, according to the couple’s attorney
, Kalpana V. Peddibhotla.
Then they waited.
“It’s just emotionally straining, like we have no idea what was going on,
” said Nang, who together with her husband spoke with NBC News about their
case on the condition that only their first names be published out of fears
of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Nearly a year and three months later, Andrew and Nang finally got their
green-card interview in San Francisco on Aug. 15, said Peddibhotla, who was
with them that day.
Peddibhotla, an attorney for nearly two decades who has practiced
immigration law for 13 years, said Andrew and Nang’s wait time was longer
than normal.
“These cases are often interviewed many times around the six-month mark,
but certainly before a year,” she said.
Delays nationwide
Andrew and Nang are not the only ones experiencing delays. Other immigration
attorneys in the U.S. have reported similar holdups in processing times,
and not just for marriage-based green cards.
Anastasia Tonello, president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
, said she believes Trump administration policy changes are responsible in
part for fueling delays by creating more work for immigration officers.
Among those changes is the phasing in of interviews for employment-based
applicants who are filing to register for permanent residence or adjust
their status.
“These local offices have the same number of officers, but now it’s just
instead of interviewing family-based applicants, they now have to interview
all employment-based, really everyone getting a green card,” Tonello said
in an interview. “And that includes the spouses and the families. So you’
ve got hundreds of thousands of more people coming through the immigration
offices, and so that’s taking time as well.”
Related
News
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seeks legal status
A spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
Michael Bars, said in an email that the agency had received a “surge of
family-based green card applications in recent years.”
Bars said the agency received nearly 366,000 family-based green card
applications in fiscal year 2017 — a nearly 34 percent increase from FY
2012 — which he said significantly exceeded agency projections. The number
of adjudication officers, meanwhile, grew by 38 percent from 2012 to 2017,
according to the USCIS.
Data published on the USCIS website confirm that national processing times
for some applications have indeed increased in recent years.
This is true for the two that Andrew and Nang had to file for Nang to
receive a green card: the I-130, used for petitioning an immediate relative,
and the I-485, to register permanent residence or adjust status.
From fiscal year 2014 to 2016, the time to process an I-130 actually dropped
to 6 months, from 6.8 months, figures show. But it shot up to 7.7 months in
fiscal year 2017, and to 9.6 months in fiscal year 2018, for which the data
runs until June 30.
Meanwhile, the national processing time for family-based green card
applications (I-485) has nearly doubled since fiscal year 2014, from 5.7 to
10.9 months in 2018.
Related
News
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stopped
USCIS said it decided to expand the types of cases requiring interviews
after assessing how it uses in-person interviews to detect issues of
national security while adjudicating cases.
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The agency said it will continue to add interviews and update business
processes so that USCIS can interview all employment-based adjustment cases,
around 130,000 annually.
“USCIS is committed to adjudicating all petitions, applications and
requests fairly, efficiently, and effectively on a case-by-case basis to
determine if they meet all standards required under applicable law, policies
and regulations,” Bars said.
‘The moment I met him, I felt safe’
Nang came to the U.S. at the end of 2013 on a student visa to study media
and communications. She said she graduated with an associate’s degree in
journalism from De Anza College, in Cupertino, California, and later
transferred to San Jose State University to finish a four-year degree.
Nang had met Andrew, now 34, online in July 2015. The couple stayed friends
for about a year before they began dating.
“The moment I met him, I felt safe,” Nang recalled.
The two tied the knot in December 2016, holding a small ceremony in Illinois
with Andrew’s family. On May 30 of the following year, they filed their I-
130 and I-485, the first step toward getting a green card, Peddibhotla said.
Nang said they began collecting evidence, such as photos and documents
showing that they lived together, to prove their marriage was legitimate.
She also applied for temporary work authorization and “advanced parole,”
which allows immigrants to legally leave the country while their green card
applications are pending.
Nang got those interim benefits last September, Peddibhotla said.
But even with them, Nang had not returned to her native Myanmar, where she
and Andrew wanted to have a wedding ceremony with her family.
“With so many announcements of proposed changes to our immigration laws, it
’s had a chilling effect on many immigrants, including Nang and her U.S.
citizen petitioner, by not knowing whether the law is changing,”
Peddibhotla said.
Related
News
Can't immigrants get citizenship through marriage? For undocumented, it's
tough odds
To be sure, Peddibhotla said the law “hasn’t principally changed.” But
the uncertainty, she said, has made immigrants unwilling to “take any
action that might upset the apple cart,” like traveling outside the U.S.,
out of fear that they might not be allowed back in.
The interview
At the San Francisco USCIS office, where Andrew and Nang interviewed in Aug.
15, the current processing time for a green card application was 10 to 17
months. Theirs took around 15 months.
The interview itself lasted around 45 minutes. “The interview started on
time, the interviewer was very professional and friendly, and I think
everything went well,” Andrew said.
Peddibhotla said last Monday that the government granted lawful permanent
resident status to Nang on Aug. 20 and said she has received her green card.
But Nang said that being a journalism student has made her want to speak out
about the long wait she and Andrew experienced.
“If we have an easy case and it’s taking forever,” her husband added, “
then people who have slightly more complicated cases are really putting
their lives on hold and really feeling like they’re just rolling the dice
on this.”
Follow NBC Asian America on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr.
by Taboola
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f*u
3 楼
请pm shutter数和价格 ：）
l*a
4 楼
的确是老川带来的问题，可是还是有人看不穿这个。。。
s*2
5 楼
总统说了要整顿移民。非法的移民局没法搞，什么记录没有，就是去大街抓也是警察和
其他人干的。但移民局总得做事情，那只有拿捏合法的，减缓进度提高标准，表示我们
确实在干活。
其他人干的。但移民局总得做事情，那只有拿捏合法的，减缓进度提高标准，表示我们
确实在干活。
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