Emergency measures cut USCIS revenue

The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is the entity in charge of receiving, reviewing and responding to all immigration requests.

This entity receives its monthly income mainly from the fees that applicants must pay when starting an immigration process.

During the past few months, due to the health crisis caused by the global Coronavirus pandemic, the USCIS has suffered a considerable downturn in its income.

The measures implemented by the government

It is important to remember that the current administration of the US has always tried to reduce immigration at all costs.

Due to the massive outbreak of Coronavirus and the alarming number of people infected in the country, President Trump implemented emergency measures that affected USCIS.

Let’s see some of them:

• Asylum and refuge applications were suspended for more than two months.
• Green Card applications, which are in fact the largest source of USCIS income, have been suspended for more than two months as well.
• USCIS offices were closed from late March through early June, 2020. Thus, there were no face-to-face appointments available, hearings were delayed, and biometric data could not be updated.
• There is a reduction in the number of work visas issued by USCIS to specialized foreigners in certain areas of the American market.

Multiple critics around the country have claimed that Trump’s government is using the health crisis to meet its agenda with the immigration policies of the US.

With the USCIS offices reopening, it is too late to counter the revenue downturn it has suffered.

Thus, USCIS is going through a difficult time due to immigration policies and restrictions arbitrarily imposed by the Trump government during the current health crisis.

Most likely, USCIS will decide to increase application fees to balance revenue.

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What could have been the solution to avoid this situation?

The current administration of the US has been strongly focused on reducing immigration, therefore, with the arrival of the nouvelle Coronavirus, it was possible to restrict the entry of immigrants to the country.

However, what the government did not analyze were the repercussions that various government entities and local companies would suffer.

By restricting immigration, the government:

• Created an income downturn for its own immigration agency (USCIS) and its employees.
• Threatened the economy of local companies that benefit from the work of specialized foreigners.
• Endangered third world countries in Central America, South America and the Greater Antilles with the express deportations during the pandemic.

Thus, the government could have better analyzed the results of its emergency measures before thinking only about reducing immigration in the country.

We are here to help you!

Despite the economic downturn USCIS is going through, it is the right time to submit your immigration application.

Due to the accumulated work of the last few months, USCIS employees are speeding up the processes and the results have been more effective than before.

There has not yet been an official statement regarding the price increase for the applications. You can take advantage of that and file your immigration case as soon as possible.

If you have any questions about an immigration issue or relating to a case you may have currently in progress, then please don’t hesitate to contact us for a FREE Phone Consultation with one of our expert immigration attorneys.

Simply call Motion Law today at: (202) 918-1799.