Musings on Immigration

Have you ever heard of CARRP?    Most people have not, but you should definitely educate yourself if you are an immigrant to the United States coming from an Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim or South Asian background.  CARRP stands for the C ontrolled A pplication R eview and R esolution P rogram, and it is meant to delay and deny naturalization, green card, and other applications without proper legal authority.   If you have attended numerous InfoPass appointments and the only response you ever receive is that your application is still awaiting “standard” background checks, think again.  Your application may very well be subject to the CARRP security program simply based on your national origin, religion, or affiliations.  A report on the findings of the CARRP program was released August 2013, and can be found HERE . The question is then,  what can be done?   How can an applicant force USCIS to adjudicate and approve an a...

In October 2009, I wrote a blog talking about the disastrously long waiting lines for legal immigration to the United States. In Get In The Line? What Line? The Tragic Tale of Employment Based Immigrant Visa Delays , I stated that: This delay in legal, employment based immigration is a crisis for America. If you are an intending immigrant, and your immigration option is employment based, do you have the patience the wait 15 years for your green card? Can you do better in Australia, Canada, or even back home in our home country? What is the cost to our future competitiveness of a broken legal immigration system? What is the cost to U.S. innovation? The Department of State just released its annual numbers for cases received by the National Visa Center, awaiting issuance of an immigrant visa at a consulate. The report says this: The following figures have been compiled from the NVC report submitted to the Department on November 3, 2009, and show the number of immigrant visa applicants on...