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The really long waits aren't processing backlogs they are quota backlogs, either global (because the total annual cap in a category is or was recently lower tha
by dragonwriter 1y ago
The really long waits aren't processing backlogs they are quota backlogs, either global (because the total annual cap in a category is or was recently lower than the annual nuber of applicants, so there it takes a period of years for quota space to be available globally) or on a per-country basis (because in each category, only 7% of the annual quota can go to applicants from one country, regardless of the distribution of applications.)
Though the processing times are also ridiculously and inexcusably long, in most categories.
- pandaman 1y agoConsidering that there are over 2M immigrants per year and the USCIS staff is about 20K, it's actually pretty quick. If all USCIS did was just immigration it would still be ~100 immigrants per year per employee or about 2 workdays per immigrant. Even considering that some of those are dependents on the same case, it's still pretty fast. But USCIS also handles all the non-immigrant stuff: CoS, AoS, asylums, etc so they don't dedicate their whole workforce to the immigration and the actual caseload is higher than this estimate.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Considering that there are over 2M immigrants per year and the USCIS staff is about 20K, it's actually pretty quick. The highest number of immigrant visas issued in a year was 612,258 in FY 2024.
- pandaman 1y agoIt is not, the number you present is the number of immigrant visas issued at foreign service posts from here https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/AnnualReports/FY2024AnnualReport/Table%20I.pdf https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual... There are immigrant visas issued in the country too.