{"id":1776,"date":"2022-07-14T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2022-07-14T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T09:08:29","slug":"uscis-and-its-massive-case-backlog-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.h1btransfersusa.com\/blog\/uscis-and-its-massive-case-backlog-what-comes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS and Its Massive Case Backlog: What Comes Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Massive Case: The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS<\/strong>) has an aggressive goal this year. Its essential goal is to lessen the backlog of cases and its effect on Immigration Services<\/strong>. This previous year, USCIS has felt the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong>. The pandemic transformed what were already significant processing delays <\/strong>into unprecedented backlogs across the whole system. In fact, as of 2022, numbers are extremely high, with a backlog approaching 5.2 million<\/strong> cases and roughly 8.5 million<\/strong> pending cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Massive Case Backlog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This starkly contrasts with July 2019, when the backlog was around 2.7 million<\/strong>. With the increase of millions of cases in a couple of years and the unavoidable delays it has caused in immigration processing<\/strong>, this new improvement could carry the long-anticipated good news to numerous candidates who have been waiting for delayed periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phyllis A. Coven, the seventh Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman (in that role, she distinguishes issues in the immigration system<\/strong> and makes suggestions to USCIS on how to resolve these issues), said the worst backlog of all is USCIS\u2019s affirmative asylum backlog, which remains at more than 430,000 cases<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asylum: Defensive vs Affirmative<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Asylum is a form of protection that allows a person to stay in the United States instead of being eliminated from a nation of feared persecution. There are two ways to asylum in the U.S.: the affirmative asylum process <\/strong>for people who are not in removal proceedings, and the defensive asylum process for people who are in removal proceedings. 8 USC 1158<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Affirmative Asylum?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

An individual who isn’t in removal proceedings may proactively apply for asylum with the USCIS. A candidate might file an affirmative <\/strong>for asylum if he or she currently holds a valid immigration status. (For example, a visitor or student visa <\/strong>or Temporary Protected Status). Their status has lapsed or expired (except for Visa Waiver Program <\/strong>entrants). Or even if he or she holds no immigration status (for instance, assuming the person entered the country without examination).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To get asylum through the affirmative asylum process<\/strong>. The candidate should be actually present in the United States and apply for the affirmative asylum process,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USCIS Affirmative Asylum\u2019s Current Massive Case Backlog<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned, USCIS’ existing asylum system <\/strong>can’t essentially lessen its backlog, not to mention stay up with approaching applications. This delay is having a devastating impact on asylum seekers and their relatives. They are losing crucial time in their immigration process<\/strong>, their jobs, livelihoods, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the organization is thinking about ways to deal with work on the quality and productivity of asylum adjudications<\/strong>, leading to a more successful and effective system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Waiting time for employer-sponsored green cards rises<\/span><\/a>]<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

USCIS proposes the following solutions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Recruit more than 4,000 employees<\/strong> by the end of this calendar year and set new, more forceful aggressive \u201ccycle time\u201d goals for fiscal 2023<\/strong>.<\/li>
  • Identify and group cases to increase efficiencies in interviews and adjudications and prioritize asylum candidates<\/strong>. It requires quick security, and deprioritizing of non-priority candidates, for example, those with different types of relief available.<\/li>
  • Think about specialization, interview waivers<\/strong>, and simplifying final decisions. To increase case completions while supporting the welfare of officers and candidates.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    While ideally these suggestions will assist immigration processes<\/strong> and lighten the backlog<\/strong>, asylum is still incredibly challenging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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