Bills, Rules & Politics

[idliman]

Axios
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and his acting deputy Ken Cuccinelli are ineligible to be serving in their positions, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) decided in a report released Friday.

What happened: GAO found that the administration did not properly follow federal law governing how certain leadership vacancies in federal agencies can be filled.

There are articles in WaPo, WSJ and Hill on the same issue. Schumer calls for Wolf, Cuccinelli to step down after watchdog says their appointments violate law. Republicans are keeping mum.

[Turbulent_Dragonfly]

If any charges are brought on them, obviously they will already have a get out of jail card ready and printed. If they are asked to testify, they will refuse to do so and ignore all subpoenas and if compelled, they will sit at the hearing and read the same statement over and over again. The House is a toothless chamber as it has been proved over and over again in the past couple of years.

[getsaby]

The other/dark side of democracy abused to the fullest by the current administration!

[usvisas]

Leahy again calling on USCIS to delay furlough - https://www.appropriations.senate.go...USCIS81820.pdf

[alpha0]

Leahy again calling on USCIS to delay furlough - https://www.appropriations.senate.go...USCIS81820.pdf

I hope USCIS listens this time as well. I was reading the letter and senator mantioned "unintended consequences" where as many feel that those are the intended consequences and achieving those consequences may be the most important driver for furloughs.

[texas_]

It is clearly mentioned in the letter that USCIS will still be in surplus going into FY21 without the Furlough

[EB2IndSep09]

I hope USCIS listens this time as well. I was reading the letter and senator mantioned "unintended consequences" where as many feel that those are the intended consequences and achieving those consequences may be the most important driver for furloughs.

Let us keep aside whether it is Intentional or Unintentional for a moment.
The senator has quoted the facts with enough data in his letter, now it is the obligation for the receivers to either deny the information or provide the rationale why furlough is still necessary.
God bless you senator! people like you still keep hope alive.

[qesehmk]

Of course these are deliberate actions designed to stifle immigration. The political appointees of current administration are driving these forces.

Sen. Leahy (D) is being civil and trying to keep the agency apolitical which is the right thing to do.

[oraclept]

The filing dates for both EB2I/EB3I will go very deep in 2010 or beyond in Oct-Dec 2020 quarter. USCIS can collect a lot of fees(updated fees starting October. 50% increase for I-485 AOS.) through filings and will help them to alleviate some financial pressure for FY2021. How much they move their FADs are a different issue altogether but filing dates will move for both categories.

they will simply say we cannot process dates.. its so much injustice. they can make money... by just moving the dates.... no one will ask..
Atleast we know nazism is bad on face.. USCIS and their junta.. do things.. hurt immigrants and especially indians...
I think priority will be to process current cases rather than backlogged cases which depends on spillover....

[alpha0]

Year 2020 is ending up with a disappointment for EB2I and to EB3I (to a lesser extent). EB1I had a lottery year courtesy of COVID. EB2I had lot of promises, but had an anti-climatic finish (courtesy of the Political appointees & other villains). So what can we expect in the beginning of 2021 (Oct 2020 VB)? With the political appointees are still ruling, what is the minimum movement required by INA for EB2I / EB3I?

From approval trends, almost all of pre-adjudicated cases in NSC should clear (EB2I / EB3I) before October. TSC may end up with about 1000 or less applicants still remaining in pre-adjudicated queue (EB2I / EB3I).

Every year will be a disapointment till country quota is removed. If we rely solely on spillovers for movement, then we will be disappointed again and again. Dont we see that it almost took a decade to clear 2009 and it is still not clear for eb2+3? This year there was a very good chance due to Covid situation but they chose to waste 25k (or may be more) majority of which would have benefitted EB India. As Q said, it is a systematic bias against India.

[Turbulent_Dragonfly]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

Still trying to digest this and determine if this is old news or what but it just got published.

[vsivarama]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

Still trying to digest this and determine if this is old news or what but it just got published.

Maybe they just realized that their best laid plans to curb legal immigration has not worked as well as they had hoped and hence now trying the scare tactics as law is not on their side. Unemployment among the IT folks is between 3-4% far lower than the national unemployment rate. This is their way of festering doubt and hate by obfuscating the facts.

[EB2IndSep09]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

Still trying to digest this and determine if this is old news or what but it just got published.

Unable to digest this b.s
QUOTE
The economic reality is that India’s population of 1.3 billion is so huge and poor that it produces roughly 20 million new workers each year — including millions who are willing to work in the United States for 30 years at low wages to get green cards. India’s government, U.S. investors, and the Fortune 500’s staffing companies are trying to get many of those workers into the U.S. labor market. UNQUOTE

[Justmyself]

Wait..a couple of yrs back didn’t the same guys write about us being the highest income earners in the country and how much they hated us buying expensive cars?

[vsivarama]

Wait..a couple of yrs back didn’t the same guys write about us being the highest income earners in the country and how much they hated us buying expensive cars?

Why go back a couple of years back. They could have written about us being high income earners and the very next sentence how we work for low wages and their readers will believe it. I have noticed that logical reasoning is a seldom used skill among conspiracy theory seekers. If they go by average wages by Perms filed per country, India is be consistently ranked among the top 10 countries (Meaning Indian Diaspora usually work in high paying fields.)

[idliman]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

Still trying to digest this and determine if this is old news or what but it just got published.

With this kind of hatred, I would think the movement will be bare minimum that is required by INA in2021. The rest of the regular and spillover GCs will be wasted in 2021, unless there is a strong oversight of USCIS. A change of leadership is required for the full utilization of FB to EB spillover.

[srimurthy]

With this kind of hatred, I would think the movement will be bare minimum that is required by INA in2021. The rest of the regular and spillover GCs will be wasted in 2021, unless there is a strong oversight of USCIS. A change of leadership is required for the full utilization of FB to EB spillover.

The 16K FB spillover numbers from 2019 were not included until Aug in the EB number calculations. So next year if the 100K (as most are predicting) spillover from FB 2020 to EB2010, that information may not be available until Aug and then it may be too late to use or allocated all those in a couple of months. So we will see the dates in EB2 and EB3 India moving at the regular pace only.
If with Eb2 pre-adjudicated cases available from 2012 onwards in the queue and they still could not move the dates in the last three months or so, I see no reason to be optimistic that we will clear 2009 for EB2 and EB3 next year.

[usvisas]

Union leader battles to avoid USCIS furloughs


https://www.samessenger.com/essex/ne...fa73aa4e0.html

[gs1968]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

[AceMan]

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-workers-2021/

Without even checking, I can assure you it will be written by Neil Munro. Just wait and watch when he follows his old boss who cheated his followers. And yes, I confirm it was written by him.

[gs1968]

Without even checking, I can assure you it will be written by Neil Munro. Just wait and watch when he follows his old boss who cheated his followers. And yes, I confirm it was written by him.

It just came across on my social media feed and I thought it would be useful to post it. Absolutely no new information and in fact Spec and Q have given us far more details on the calculations and timelines without having to endure the fear mongering in that article. Many people in this thread have already commented on how unrealistic it is to expect that kind of processing power from the USCIS to use up all those numbers. Sen.Leahy whose state has one of the 4 processing centers is obviously working hard to avoid the furloughs but I don't see much support from the other Senators.More focus on the USPS than the USCIS I presume. Unless the funding situation/administrative mindset changes dramatically it is going to be a slow crawl to the end of the year which will include the 1st quarter of FY21.
Litigation to fully use the 250K is always an option but it is unclear what the standing is to enforce. The law states that the unused FB visas are available for use in the next year's EB quota and that worldwide a minimum of 140K green cards are to issued annually. As long as the USCIS can prove that there is no wilful holding back of visa issuance and they are working to the best of their capacity to meet the 140K goal it is unlikely that the courts will take punitive action.

[idliman]

gs1968, I understand that without an admin change things will crawl to a stop. In case the 46th president is taking oath on 20JAN21, what can be the positive implications for backlogged folks? I assume that CO will remain in the same position. Maybe they he & USCIS will try to process most of the spillover with a supportive admin? Can a repeat of 2012 happen?

[srimurthy]

gs1968, I understand that without an admin change things will crawl to a stop. In case the 46th president is taking oath on 20JAN21, what can be the positive implications for backlogged folks? I assume that CO will remain in the same position. Maybe they he & USCIS will try to process most of the spillover with a supportive admin? Can a repeat of 2012 happen?

If you can mess up the vote and count and USPS, and the fundamentals of the democracy messing up USCIS is not a big deal.

[jimmys]

gs1968, I understand that without an admin change things will crawl to a stop. In case the 46th president is taking oath on 20JAN21, what can be the positive implications for backlogged folks? I assume that CO will remain in the same position. Maybe they he & USCIS will try to process most of the spillover with a supportive admin? Can a repeat of 2012 happen?

Repeat of 2012? Remember the same supportive admin retracted the filing dates in 2015. So be realistic in your expectations even if there's new a President. If there's a new admin, their priority would be Family Immigration. Employment Immigration may come sometime later (or not at all).

[vedu]

gs1968, I understand that without an admin change things will crawl to a stop. In case the 46th president is taking oath on 20JAN21, what can be the positive implications for backlogged folks? I assume that CO will remain in the same position. Maybe they he & USCIS will try to process most of the spillover with a supportive admin? Can a repeat of 2012 happen?

One benefit of the new administration taking oath in Jan 21 is hopefully it will be too late for them to steal our cheese worth 100,000 and give it back to FB. Then they will have 9 months left in the year and if they don't process all that cheese for EB, then you can pin the blame on them. Current administration will be nowhere to be blamed then!