DMV has nothing compared to Immigration/Naturalization civil servants.
“My brother-in-law’s immigrant visa application took just short of 10 years to get approved.”
And THIS is the heart of the problem. It’s unconscionable to have a legal immigration system that is this pathetically slow. We claim to welcome immigrants and actually have a reasonably “generous” policy in terms of the annual number we permit, but then we put them through a bureaucratic meatgrinder that simply encourages people to skip the hassle and arrive as illegals.
I don’t know how other countries handle this, but I can’t understand why this process of becoming a legal resident couldn’t be done in say, 6 months, rather than over years or a decade. American citizen sympathy for illegals would plummet if we had a speedy process and all illegals were perceived as trying to jump ahead in a 6-month line etc.