Immigration that Even USCIS Sees as Troublesome
By David North on June 14, 2021
While the government, in immigration category after immigration category, says “yes” to aliens about 90 percent of the time, there’s one situation in which the aliens are told “no” more than 70 percent of the time, on average.
The program is a small one, involving only a few hundred grants of green card status a year, and deals with a minor class of aliens — those who claim that their adult, citizen children have mentally or physically abused them. Most of the parents claiming this status are in their 40s or above, most are here illegally, and USCIS, which is usually so welcoming, turned down 75.7 percent of the applications in FY 2019. The comparable figure in FY 2020 was 65.0 percent.
During the two years for which we have the most data, FYs 2019 and 2020, we note not only the low percentage of approvals, but also (these were Trump years) an apparent decision on the part of USCIS to not make decisions at all. In those two years, the agency received 3,734 applications filed by “abused” parents, and acted on only 990 or them, leaving close to three-quarters of the petitions (in those years) in the pending file.
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