LOWER USCIS/US EMBASSY PROCESSING TIMES TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS


LOWER USCIS/US EMBASSY PROCESSING TIMES TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS
The Issue
Please restore our faith in legal immigration. We are US citizens claiming our family members legally. The wait times are increasing more every day and we don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. A process that would take 1 year or less to be with our spouse and immediate family members is taking more than 1 year just in the USCIS stage and in some cases up to 3. In my example, it is one year in USCIS and 2 years to wait for an interview to be available in the US embassy of Guyana for my husband. Amy Temitope is also a US citizen with a story on her experience "Many of us are single parents with kids, healthcare workers and also students while working and to worsen everything, we are being mandated at work every other day. I am a single mother of 2 little kids. I’m a cardiac monitor tech, full time nursing student with a full time job (night shift). I get mandated at work 2 to 3 times a week unexpectedly and this makes the babysitters so mad because my mandation at work disrupts their plans for the day, so I always lose babysitters. if I had my fiancé here with me, I will finish my nursing school with ease and also go to work without fear of how the babysitters will treat my kids because they are upset. I’m also battling serious health issues too. Please, we need our immigration visas including K1 visas to be given immediate attention." We are spending thousands of dollars by visiting our families, instead of having more financial help at home we are short one person that can be contributing to the household and the country, we are apart from the ones we love most, all these things bring so many problems to our relationships, our finances, and our mental health. We paid our fees and it is our right as citizens to be able to bring our families legally in a reasonable time. We need for this process not to take so long. We shouldn't have to wait 3 years to be together by taking the legal route when people are crossing the border and are able to be together right away by illegal immigration. We all feel like the government is rewarding illegal immigrants and punishing their own citizens that are doing things right. When will this change? How will it change? Someone needs to provide answers.

The Issue
Please restore our faith in legal immigration. We are US citizens claiming our family members legally. The wait times are increasing more every day and we don't see the light at the end of the tunnel. A process that would take 1 year or less to be with our spouse and immediate family members is taking more than 1 year just in the USCIS stage and in some cases up to 3. In my example, it is one year in USCIS and 2 years to wait for an interview to be available in the US embassy of Guyana for my husband. Amy Temitope is also a US citizen with a story on her experience "Many of us are single parents with kids, healthcare workers and also students while working and to worsen everything, we are being mandated at work every other day. I am a single mother of 2 little kids. I’m a cardiac monitor tech, full time nursing student with a full time job (night shift). I get mandated at work 2 to 3 times a week unexpectedly and this makes the babysitters so mad because my mandation at work disrupts their plans for the day, so I always lose babysitters. if I had my fiancé here with me, I will finish my nursing school with ease and also go to work without fear of how the babysitters will treat my kids because they are upset. I’m also battling serious health issues too. Please, we need our immigration visas including K1 visas to be given immediate attention." We are spending thousands of dollars by visiting our families, instead of having more financial help at home we are short one person that can be contributing to the household and the country, we are apart from the ones we love most, all these things bring so many problems to our relationships, our finances, and our mental health. We paid our fees and it is our right as citizens to be able to bring our families legally in a reasonable time. We need for this process not to take so long. We shouldn't have to wait 3 years to be together by taking the legal route when people are crossing the border and are able to be together right away by illegal immigration. We all feel like the government is rewarding illegal immigrants and punishing their own citizens that are doing things right. When will this change? How will it change? Someone needs to provide answers.

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Petition created on January 29, 2022