Dear Editor:
I believe processing of immigrant benefits should be paid through a combination of user fees and general taxpayers funds, so I don’t agree with your editorial comment that all immigration benefit processing fees should be abolished and that they be substituted entirely with general taxpayer funds.
However, it would be interesting to know how much of the user fees already being paid are diverted away from actual processing of the immigrant benefits would be used to improve service. This in fact did happen in the early years, but now fees are being higher yet service is much worse before the increased fees were imposed in the early 1990s.
It would also be interesting to know the story behind having Adjudication Support Centers as a separate organization or located in a different site from district offices. Recently, I took a client mid-morning on a week day to our local ASC to request an earlier fingerprint appointment. Our local ASC office was and has always been more than accommodating so I don’t want to say bad things about the office. But my client was the only person there to get fingerprinted while 11 ASC employees were sitting around reading the paper, watching TV, chatting, etc. It would seem these employees getting paid from our $50 fingerprinting fee could also be given additional immigrant benefit processing tasks (e.g. Check on name check security clearances, etc.) but I guess the USCIS district offices have no jurisdiction over ASCs.
Jimmy Go
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