In fiscal year 2021, due to a large backlog of cases caused by the epidemic and a far greater number of work visa applications than before, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service was unable to process all green card cases, resulting in more than 66,000 employment-based green cards that were not issued in time and were wasted. .
Compared with the 262,000 green card cases in fiscal year 2021, the USCIS faces 280,000 green card applications in fiscal year 2022. In response, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service said it is ready to issue all available visas before the end of the fiscal year on September 30.
The epidemic has caused the closure of US Immigration Service offices across the country, and fingerprint collection cannot be carried out smoothly. This has caused the progress of many green card applications to be stalled. As of the end of fiscal year 2021, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service has finally issued only 180,000 green cards.
The U.S. Immigration Service:
Strive to issue 280,000 green cards before September 30
The U.S. Immigration Service is facing a greater workload this year - a quota of 280,000. Can the outcome of fiscal year 2022 be rewritten?
The US Immigration Service stated: All quotas will be processed before September 30.
A USCIS official said: The problem last fiscal year was that there were huge obstacles before green card applications could begin to be processed. Those hurdles include large "front desk records" of unopened applications and a backlog of appointments to collect fingerprints and applicants' photos during the pandemic.
In the .28 million quota, there are now more available places in the EB-1 and EB-2 categories than the number of pending trials. Among them, EB-1 has announced the cancellation of the schedule starting in April 2021. Therefore, U.S. immigration The Bureau recommends: If conditions permit, try to apply for the EB-1 and EB-2 categories.
In 2021, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services finally issued more than 180,000 employment-based green cards, which was more than in a regular year, but still lower than the total green card quota.
This year, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has not released the data on green cards issued so far this fiscal year, but an Immigration Service spokesperson said: As of mid-June, the number of visas used by the Immigration Service has increased significantly compared with the same period last year, and the number of visas issued per week is Twice that of the same period last year!
In order to speed up the processing of double the quota of previous years, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service is working at full capacity to issue green cards:
"Large-scale recruitment activity"
The immigration director said that The US Citizenship and Immigration Service is launching a "large-scale recruitment activity" with the goal of Fill 95% of vacancies by the end of the year to increase efficiency and reduce backlog.
Reallocate manpower to improve issuance efficiency
The Immigration Bureau has transferred some human resources from other immigration service departments to processing green cards, and has also reallocated applications to various offices in order to more reasonably distribute the workload and improve issuance efficiency.
New mailing address
Establish a new process and dedicated single mailing address for receiving requests from employment-based adjustment of status applicants.
Simplify the application process
Simplify procedures such as interviews for low-risk applicants, require applicants to prepare documents such as medical certificates in advance, or recommend that some applicants switch application categories (Interfiling), etc.
With less than 3 months left in the fiscal year, USCIS said "At the end of fiscal year 2022, we are committed to ensuring that as many employment-based employment-based green cards as possible are used."
Even though the USCIS With all 280,000 available visas issued, it would still only provide a slight relief from the backlog imposed by annual country limits. According to statistics from the CATO Institute, as of fiscal year 2021, approximately 875,000 applications are being queued due to country limits.
Let us wait and see whether the US Citizenship and Immigration Service can achieve its ambitious goal of issuing 280,000 employment-based green cards this fiscal year. In any case, the green card quota for employment-based immigrants has doubled, and the Immigration Bureau strives to "make the best use of everything", coupled with the continuous release of favorable policies, all reminding prospective immigrants: The United States is in urgent need of a large number of immigrants with talent and financial resources to "transfuse". Act early, get approval early, and benefit early.
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