Posted on 03/13/2019 6:24:59 AM PDT by hapnHal
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is preparing to close down its 21 overseas offices, and shut down its international division entirely, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The move was announced by USCIS director Francis Cissna in an email to staffers.
“The goal of any such shift would be to maximize U.S.C.I.S. resources that could then be reallocated, in part, to backlog reduction efforts,” a UCIS spokesperson told the New York Times. The move has yet to be fully approved by the State Department, according to the Post.
The USCIS typically handles everything from work visa and asylum requests, to citizenship applications. According to Cissna, closing the international division offices is to “better leverage our funds to address backlogs in the United States.” However, USCIS staffers explained to the Times, shuttering the offices could impede efforts from people applying to immigrate while abroad, and make it more difficult for people already in the U.S. to bring over family members.
This sounds good.
But a little tough to understand.
Is it good?
The only logical way to handle the backlog. As long as illegal immigration is swamping the system there can be no legal immigration.
Why have them overseas when all the ‘applicants’ are already here?..................
Makes sense.
and make it more difficult for people already in the U.S. to bring over family members.
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Sounds like a great idea to me.
No. It is bad. Legal immigration will be compromised in order to facilitate the backlog of illegal aliens.
Once again, law abiding people who try to play by the rules get the shaft while criminals get priority.
In other words, fewer of the type of immigrants we should want... and more people whose first decision upon arriving at our border is to break the law.
'USCIS staffers explained to the Times, shuttering the offices could impede efforts from people applying to immigrate while abroad, and make it more difficult for people already in the U.S. to bring over family members.'
Awesome! We need to stop ALL migration for a long, long time. The only purpose of legal immigration is to reduce the prevailing wages of working Americans and to get new Democrat voters. Lose - lose
Frankly, I’d like a 25-year moratorium on all immigration. We have 330 million people. We don’t need more. We need to use the US citizens we have. Some folks want to import neurosurgeons from Switzerland, or wherever. I do not.
We need to assimilate the people we have. We need to train up American workers to do the jobs we need done in America.
I oppose legal immigration almost as much as I oppose illegal immigration.
“sorry, we’re closed”
Hear hear!
NOTICE: alloc: /USA file system full no space left on device
LOL
I used to be a UNIX guy but that was a while ago. Good stuff.
Wanna impress me..?
Deport H1b spouses who come up poz for pregnancy.
Best would be to discontinue citizenship by birth.
Rumor has it that ANCHOR BABIES are out. No longer qualify for citizenship......wait and see?
Why cant existing state department personnel working in embassies perform those tasks. Having whole groups that do 1 thing and 1 thing only is wasteful.
Almost my question. Why in the world would we have an international division... and overseas? It’s not like we’re just dieing to have people immigrate. I don’t know why we have to make it so dam easy for the world to come here.
But if this had happened ten years ago, I would not have a lovely Filipina wife, now citizen .... I would be ex-patted to the Philippines.
I intend to research this report.
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