USCIS expands premimum processing

[Grumpy]

http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/publicaffairs/newsrels/PremProc081806NR.pdf

[floridapete]

I'm sorry - but I just don't get this Premium Processing thing ! Isn't it just another money-spinner for the US Government ?

If they have only a finite labor force involved in considering and adjudicating these visa applications, how can they suddenly expand the premium processing facility without employing legions more officials, which they seem not to have in order to already process the non-premium applications in a timely manner ?

Doesn't it just mean that the people who are willing to pay the extra premium get the quicker turn around while the people not willing to be suckered into doing so get pushed further and further back down the line - because they just don't have the staff to cope with them all ?

Isn't it all just a money-making, cash-cow con by the US government ?

[DavidL]

I'm sorry - but I just don't get this Premium Processing thing !
Isn't it all just a money-making, cash-cow con by the US government ?

How cynical of you Peter!

........but I agree. With EB3 categories under retrogession at the moment and the earliest priority date is Mar 2002 (last time I looked) and so why pay the $1000 buckaroonies when on current dates it will be far more than the average 'regular' processing time before you can file AOS (adjustment of Status - I-485).

Perhaps you are correct.

[Grumpy]

Hi

It seems this immigration lark is just about money nothing to do with family reunfication, compassion

You want to live in the USA, you pay.

[Kitty]

Hello Peter

Yes definatley a money spinner

Also the more cases that get lost in the system, the more we have to pay to get a new application processed .

Makes you wonder if sometimes cases get deliberatley lost in the system. This serves two purposes redusces all the backlogs and keeps the immigration service funded

[Bobby]

Yes Peter. Very true.

I think USCIS are working from capitalist blueprints forged by the Disney and Anheuser-Busch corporations:

"getting on that coaster is your own choice, but once you're on, you can expect to go through a few G's and it will throw you loop to loop. If you pay more for your ticket you can go straight to the front of the line, of course."

How else would this Mickey Mouse outfit make enough money to be able to employ people that do nothing else all day but twiddle their fingers.

The roller coasters of immigration and theme parks seem to run in tandem: Increase the prices. If they keep coming, keep charging more.

We feed it ourselves. Nobody else to blame.

Bobby

[Kitty]

It is my view that the true reason we are exculded from the visa lottery is that the Brits can afford to buy their way into the USA so why give us a free ticket?

[Sharon]

Hi

Well I think they should do away with the lottery and allocate these 50,000 visa's to people like Susans son who have been waiting in a queue for years to be with their close family members

[Grumpy]

Hi Sharon

Quite right too