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星期三, 1月 10, 2018

REP LIEU URGES USCIS TO RECONSIDER ONEROUS NEW IMMIGRATION CASEWORK REQUIREMENTS

REP LIEU URGES USCIS TO RECONSIDER ONEROUS NEW IMMIGRATION CASEWORK REQUIREMENTS

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D – Los Angeles County) led a letter co-signed by 11 Members of Congress from Southern California urging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to reconsider its new onerous submission requirements for congressional offices inquiring on behalf of constituents. These changes create considerable barriers for congressional offices working to process immigration casework in a timely manner.
In the letter, the Members write:
“Immigration cases comprise some of the most challenging, voluminous and time sensitive casework handled by congressional offices throughout our nation.  As congressional representatives serving Southern California, home to one of the largest immigrant populations in the United States, our district offices handle a significant amount of immigration cases, working with USCIS staff in local and regional offices to assist our constituents. 
By requesting that immigrants provide a full translation of all documents into English by a certified translation service, USCIS would delay the ability of our constituents to submit privacy release forms to a congressional office and would require that these applicants incur additional costs beyond the costly USCIS application fees they pay to process applications.  By requiring that our offices secure additional privacy releases from constituents for previously opened and active cases, it creates further barriers for our offices to assist in processing cases in a timely manner.  When applications to petition for an alien relative, to request asylum or to obtain permanent residency can last for months and years at a time, requiring further release forms from a constituent for long active cases would add unnecessary barriers for offices to assist our constituents.
At a time when USCIS is struggling with significant backlogs in processing immigration applications and congressional offices are receiving increasing volumes of immigration casework, we cannot support these changes to the USCIS casework process.  As such, we call on USCIS to reconsider these changes and to work with our offices to agree to procedures that do not hamper the already challenging immigration application process.”
 READ THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER HERE
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Congressman Lieu is a member of the House Foreign Affairs and House Judiciary Committees.   Mr. Lieu is also a Veteran, an Assistant Whip for the Democratic Caucus, and a Colonel in the Air Force Reserves.

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