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Hey, YouTube family. How are you? Saturday night session. Join me for this breaking news
that I just became aware of moments ago during a live session on Facebook with the Facebook
family, Facebook family. If you're joining me, um, watch this video as well, because
I have some new things to share with you in this one. Friends. Join me, chime in, uh,
give me some thumbs up. I see that people are now watching. Good to see you guys. I
have some breaking news that I am going to share with you on this Saturday night. How
are you Diego? Good to see you. And if you guys were watching me live on Facebook about
a half an hour ago, stick around because I have some new information to share with you
in this YouTube live session. So if you were in the Facebook session tonight on McBean
immigration, uh, laws page on Facebook, stick around, I have new things to share with you
tonight.
It's really nice to see many of you tonight. Um, Z. Great to see you. So breaking news,
breaking news, it literally just happened, um, just moments ago, uh, too, as you guys
know, USC, I S in this video, I should say in this session, I'm going to talk about the
U S CIS furlough issue and what just happened on Capitol Hill tonight. And it's exciting
news, but I want to narrow it and share with you what it means. Okay. USC I S furlough
issue is still very much on the table. Okay. Although there's some exciting breaking news
that just happened on Capitol Hill. I want you guys to keep in mind that, um, it's not
over yet, but we're getting closer. Okay. So this is exciting. So if you're with me
and you, um, you're excited about hearing what I have to share. Give me some thumbs
up.
Now. U S CIS is slated to furlough its staff on August 30th. They're threatened into furlough
13,400 employees on that day. They have not pulled back on that threat yet. They have
not. It's still on the table. Members of the Senate, uh, appropriations committee, Senator
Leahy, vice chairman of the Senate appropriations committee called them out, called out us CIS
and the DHS just a few days ago, letting them know that, Hey, you still have this threat
of furlough on the table, but you're planning on ending this fiscal year with a ma with
the surplus. And in fact, you have money to take you through to December. Okay. So why
are you doing this? You should not be furlough in those people. So Senator Lee, he has that
letter out to DHS for them to respond to, and to explain to this vice chairman of this
very committee, why they're still planning on pursuing this major action.
Okay. So that's, that's one thing that's going on. The other thing that's going on is that
just tonight, the house of representatives passed by unanimous consent, a bill that would
basically stop the furlough, halt the furlough. Okay. And I'm going to share my screen with
you guys. And I'm going to read an article, just a little bit of a wall street journal
article that was published tonight at 9:02 PM that says house passes, emergency bill
to halt immigration agency cuts. All right. And so let me do this. Let me, um, so this
is the article. You guys can pull it up for yourself. And in this article, it talks about
the fact that tonight, when the house voted to give 25 billion to us postal services,
it then also by unanimous consent approved a bill that says that representative Zoe left
Gran has on the table. Okay.
And so let me share with you, give me a moment here. This is an emergency stop gap, an emergency
stop gap. It's called emergency stop gap. USC I S stabilization act. And what this does
guys is it looks for it's providing additional revenues to USC. I S to avoid the, um, furlough.
And it says here under bill description, that it plans on increasing premium processing
fees from 1442. Uh, what is it? 2,500. Okay. So it's providing additional fees to USC.
I S through that Avenue. And then secondly, it says that the bill further increases us
CIS revenue by expanding the availability of premium process into certain new petitions
and applications. Okay. So this is a bipartisan bill that representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced
and it now, and it has passed the house of representatives. And so that's an important
new, um, where am I? That's an important new development.
Okay. Important new development. So it passed the house of representatives and it's, it's
adding additional revenues to, uh, us CIS. Now, is this enough to stop the furlough?
No, because as you guys know, the Senate must weigh in Senate must say something about it
and also approve it. And so the Senate is out of session these days. And so, um, the
threat is still very much still on the table on fortunately, but we are keeping a close
eye on it. And this was still a very positive development tonight. It was just by unanimous
consent that this was approved. And so it provides that additional revenue that USC,
um, claims that it needs to avoid the furlough. So that's the latest furlough news. And in
fact, I just did a video about the five, my five tips on how you can move your case forward.
If there is a furlough of USC, I S staff.
And even if the furlough doesn't happen, these are five tips that you can still do to move
your case forward. So I'm going to publish that video shortly on YouTube. The folks on
Facebook just got it live. You guys will get it shortly. So stay tuned. Watch that part
too. That, that video. Um, uh, so again, if you're just joining tonight's broadcast. Welcome.
Welcome. Welcome. It's so nice to see you guys. And, um, in this, in this session I
shared with you that the furlough is still on, um, until, um, uh, until USC makes the
decision to pull it. That's really what it comes down to here. They have the power to
say, okay, let's wait, let's wait, let's wait. And so we're still waiting for them to make
that decision and say that they have the power to do that because they have enough money
to pay it, to pay their staff until December.
So this great urgency that they're creating, some members of Congress are saying, this
is not necessary. And it's creating a lot of stress and burden on a lot of people who
are trying to go through immigration services. So USC has that power now to say, okay, senators
or, okay, let's wait. Let's wait until September to see what happens when Congress comes back
and stimulus talks pick up, maybe we can get our $1.2 billion that way, or let's wait and
see what happens with the bill that just passed tonight. And, um, and if, if, if the Senate
takes up that bill and they pass it as well, then, okay, no, for a alone. Um, you know,
so they have the power. So this is some positive development. There's a lot of support now
for us. Um, there's support for USC. I S I should say, I don't know about a lot.
I don't know if it's a lot of support because as you guys know, um, immigration is a hot
political issue. This pole, this, this year. And so not a whole lot of Republican members
rally behind these U S CIA U S C I S initiatives. It's just the bottom line. It's a political
issue, immigration. And so let's see what happens on the Senate side, which is controlled
by the, um, by Republicans. So guys, I will keep you posted on this. If you are in the
Facebook live session a few minutes ago, um, I shared your information with you about tonight
emergency bill to halt immigration, to help the furlough. So you're going to want to watch
this video again. Okay. I'm going to breathe now. It's been a long night guys. It's, it's
nice to see you on this, Mary. Thank you. Uh, great, great news.
Thanks ms. McBean, uh, Jesus or Hey Seuss. Hey, Susan's watching from, uh, the Philippines.
Thank you so much, Larkin. Thanks for watching from, um, from, uh, Massachusetts, Vanessa.
It's nice to see you. Um, as USDA is still accepting applications for green card, Vanessa.
Yes, yes, yes they are. And this whole premium process and issue, although this is where
this bill that passed tonight focuses on premium process. And we still don't even know whether,
um, is if there is a furlough is premium processing going to be accepted by us. CIS, we don't
know that they, it may, it may not. I don't know. So, um, but yes, they are still accepted
green card applications. Absolutely. So you should file if you're eligible. It's nice
to see you, Nick. Hell from Ghana. Nice to have you guys. Okay. So I'm going to log off
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