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about how case processing times have
slowed down you don't want to miss this
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today so USCIS which is the agency that
processes petitions and applications for
immigration benefits they recently
updated their chart right that tells us
how long they're taken on average to
process petitions and applications and
Friends it had things have slowed down
we are in a different phase right now
things have slowed down and we're going
to talk about some of the major
petitions and applications in this video
and what the average wait time is now if
you go on USCIS website and you hit
check case processing times and then you
scroll down to the middle of the page
where it says other case processing
times resources and then you just look
down further you're going to see
historical average processing times and
that's the table that you'll need to
pull up that tells you it's basically
comparing it
a comparative chart right comparing data
from 2016 to where we are now in 2018
and so what you're gonna see from the
comparison is that things have really
slowed down so let's talk a little bit
about that so for example the i-130
which is the family petition with jump
starts the immigration green card
process for family based petitions in
2016 on average it took us C is about 6
months to process these petitions now as
of august two thousand eighteen it's now
taken nine point seven months now
what you need to know about the data in
this on this table and the data
obviously that I'm speaking about in
this video is that it combines all of
the data from all of us CIS s offices ok
so some offices work faster than others
right so it this is all on average now
let's look at the i360 petition the i360
petition is used for those who are
seeking humanitarian pathway right to a
green card so for example of our
petitioners will use the uses the i360
petition religious who are seeking a
religious based visa ministers right
they also use this petition among this
is basically for the special immigrants
this is the special immigrant petition
this is really alarming friends because
back in 2016
it took us see is on average four point
eight months to process this petition
now it's taken thirteen point two months
that's significant that is a huge
slowdown and this is we're talking the
humanitarian pathways here to a green
card that's what those are the people
who petition on the i360 mainly let's
talk about adjustment of status here the
i-485 for family based petitions not the
employment based petitions but family
based
back in the day in 2016 it took us CIS
six point eight months in 2017 it took
them eight point four months now it has
taken 11.1 months let me just save this
for the i-485 the adjustment of status
application in New York for example the
New York field office it does take much
longer than eleven point one months in
New York it takes on average between
seventeen months to thirty four point
five months to process the adjustment of
status application okay and they are now
up to receipts that or applications that
were received as of May 2016 that's the
New York office every office have
different processing times and so the
data that I shared with you just a
little while ago is based on the average
of all of the offices so I want you to
know and be clear on this that in New
York
it does take longer than 11.1 months now
let's look at the i-765 which is for the
work permit or the employment
authorization document now back in 2016
it took us see is only two point six
months on average now it's taken four
point one months typically what I tell
my clients here in this area it's
usually between one to three months but
again on average all of us see is these
offices combined it takes 4.1 months now
let's look at the i-751 which is to
remove conditions on the two-year green
card right for marriage based petitions
in 2016 it took us CIS 9.1 months then
in 2017 eleven point eight months and
now sixteen months on average it has
taken a long time a long time to process
these I 750 ones that's one of the
reasons I think that it's taken so long
is because the level of scrutiny is
intense when you're talking about
marriage based petitions because fraud
is a major problem in our system as
you've heard me talk about now
ask let's look at the end 400 which is
the application for naturalization
believe it or not friends this one has
is now it's taken a while to process the
citizenship applications back in 2016 it
took five point six months
then in 2017 eight point one months and
now it is up to ten point four months so
that's a long time but what you want to
do though friends you want to narrow
this wait time down to your field office
you've got to go back on USCIS this
website and do a search for this
application and then based on your field
office that's the information you really
should go with because in some
jurisdictions it does take less time to
process the n400 and in other
jurisdictions it may take longer take a
look at all of that and just educate
yourself on the period of time that it
is likely to take your petition or
application to be processed and you just
gotta wait you got to go through the
process you've got to go through your
biometrics fingerprint right you've got
to go on your green card interview all
of that happens during this time that
USCIS is processing your application or
petition and you just have to wait now
because they are flooded they are
flooded with applications things have
slowed down internally they're right
it's not as if they just doubled in
staff yes they're they've been hiring
more people to do very specific things
like investigations right to weed out
fraud and some other things right a lot
of resources have been shifted to ice to
the border wall to a number two
Detention building more detention
centers and so resources are flowing
into immigration agencies but as it
relates to processing these applications
and petitions they they're very slow now
things they've slowed down friends and
so unfortunately we just have to wait
things out but here's our one tip that I
would like to leave you with if you find
that you've been waiting longer than
than the normal processing times
you can go ahead and submit a request
online to them letting them know you're
outside of the normal processing time if
you don't get anywhere with that you try
to make an info past appointment and go
visit with them in person if you don't
get anywhere with that you may need to
then engage a lawyer to help you push
things through right because sometimes
our applications and petitions get lost
in this big deep black hole and you
don't want that to happen to you friends
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