Do trust me when I say a lot of us would LOVE to just close out stuff in a timely manner. A lot of us feel for the applicants. We get it’s a struggle with your life on hold.
But for every honest person out there, we have serious shit applicants, or management fucking us. They eat into our time. Then you get cases where an employee who was insufficiently trained approves someone they shouldn’t have but did it all because management just cares about numbers.
But who gets fucked in the end?
Many applicants are not represented by an attorney. They are filling out forms on their own, following pages and pages of instructions that, even when simplified, are hard to understand, and that’s even if they are literate in a language that the forms and their instructions come in. When I was in the immigration clinic at school, our first application bounced because despite our diligent efforts, we missed a few empty boxes to write “N/A” in (a stupid ass trump era rule that I hope has been dumpstered). We drilled our client for hours and hours in the week leading up to the asylum interview. We produced a brick of supporting exhibits over 500+ pages long and a brief 50+ pages long, just for an affirmative asylum application. That’s a well-represented application. For every well-represented applicant, there are 50 pro se, figuring it all out on their own, or getting scammed by bad attorneys who promise the moon and get them thrown into removal proceedings. And, every week, we’d hope the AG, BIA, or SCOTUS wouldn’t reinterpret the INA or IIRIRA to make the process and the standards even more impossible to surmount.
USCIS a) doesn’t belong in DHS b) needs more resources c) needs a stable law to apply
I believe that Trump-era policy was dropped. There was only one Trump-era policy I think even his staunchest haters actually appreciated within the agency.
And, again while not knowing much about the asylum side of things, I do know we offer our application instructions in multiple languages. Then again, I full-on admit I could be thinking about naturalization only. I have to look again.
It really is frustrating we haven’t come up with a way to actually handle this effectively for all involved.
I don’t deal with the Asylum side of the house, but from ISOs I know who worked at the worst office known nationwide, many of them have PTSD and it wasn’t from the applicants.
Like right now, my side of the house has a lack of interpreters. Asylum, however, has four different contracting agencies they can use for interpretation so that applicants aren’t kept waiting forever. We don’t have that (and we don’t know why).
Also, yes I feel like USCIS should be under the DOJ. We’re constantly ignored for ICE and CBP anyways.
Do trust me when I say a lot of us would LOVE to just close out stuff in a timely manner. A lot of us feel for the applicants. We get it’s a struggle with your life on hold.
But for every honest person out there, we have serious shit applicants, or management fucking us. They eat into our time. Then you get cases where an employee who was insufficiently trained approves someone they shouldn’t have but did it all because management just cares about numbers.
But who gets fucked in the end?
Many applicants are not represented by an attorney. They are filling out forms on their own, following pages and pages of instructions that, even when simplified, are hard to understand, and that’s even if they are literate in a language that the forms and their instructions come in. When I was in the immigration clinic at school, our first application bounced because despite our diligent efforts, we missed a few empty boxes to write “N/A” in (a stupid ass trump era rule that I hope has been dumpstered). We drilled our client for hours and hours in the week leading up to the asylum interview. We produced a brick of supporting exhibits over 500+ pages long and a brief 50+ pages long, just for an affirmative asylum application. That’s a well-represented application. For every well-represented applicant, there are 50 pro se, figuring it all out on their own, or getting scammed by bad attorneys who promise the moon and get them thrown into removal proceedings. And, every week, we’d hope the AG, BIA, or SCOTUS wouldn’t reinterpret the INA or IIRIRA to make the process and the standards even more impossible to surmount.
USCIS a) doesn’t belong in DHS b) needs more resources c) needs a stable law to apply
I believe that Trump-era policy was dropped. There was only one Trump-era policy I think even his staunchest haters actually appreciated within the agency.
And, again while not knowing much about the asylum side of things, I do know we offer our application instructions in multiple languages. Then again, I full-on admit I could be thinking about naturalization only. I have to look again.
It really is frustrating we haven’t come up with a way to actually handle this effectively for all involved.
I don’t deal with the Asylum side of the house, but from ISOs I know who worked at the worst office known nationwide, many of them have PTSD and it wasn’t from the applicants.
Like right now, my side of the house has a lack of interpreters. Asylum, however, has four different contracting agencies they can use for interpretation so that applicants aren’t kept waiting forever. We don’t have that (and we don’t know why).
Also, yes I feel like USCIS should be under the DOJ. We’re constantly ignored for ICE and CBP anyways.
1. The form policy was a blatant effort to bureaucratically grind all kinds of immigration applications to a trickle for no other purpose than to frustrate the implementation of immigration law
2. I know the instructions come in multiple languages, but even for the careful reader, there are ambiguities and things that get missed. I’m pretty damn fluent in English and I spent a day at least making sure every thing on the 1-589 petition was perfect, and it bounced anyway
3. We always suspected the thing that would fuck our client wasn’t a shitty AO but a good AO’s shitty supervisor. Especially in trump times, there was a huge risk that even the best officers were minded by vicious apparatchiks. But that’s not limited to trump’s USCIS. These people are lifers.
i'm totally gutted by this depiction of divorce. both are kind and supportive to the other. and then personal experience makes the premise, the 'i just fell out of love, you did nothing wrong' thing sting even more. what an unexpectedly dark turn, given the first half season was generally so lighthearted
Immigration forms are (imo) deliberately onerous and difficult to work through, even for native language speakers...and that's assuming the form's even available in your language. I've done some pro bono work with asylum-seeking kids, and more than once those of us on the lawyer side of the desk had to pause and try to figure out wtf was being asked in a form. Granted I'm not an immigration attorney, but still.
If I were straight I’d have probably sent you a dick pic years ago and single-mindedly hit on you
Weirdly enough, I do actually like dick pics.
I get why people hate unsolicited ones, but I know women who don’t want them from even their partners. They want abs or arms. I’m like “fuck that, show me the D”
Immigration forms are (imo) deliberately onerous and difficult to work through, even for native language speakers...and that's assuming the form's even available in your language. I've done some pro bono work with asylum-seeking kids, and more than once those of us on the lawyer side of the desk had to pause and try to figure out wtf was being asked in a form. Granted I'm not an immigration attorney, but still.
The level of detail and consistency you need to produce in corroborating documents is also above and beyond anything clients have ever had to document, and that’s not even getting to the trauma you have to ask them to relive
There’s a lot of confusion based on how much detail from 10 years ago you need them to absolutely get correct and make sure not to accidentally contradict in the interview in the hopes that they don’t come off as noncredible even though if you asked the very officer conducting the interview “what color were the walls in the room you were assaulted in in 2002” it would be absurd to expect them to remember consistently
Immigration forms are (imo) deliberately onerous and difficult to work through, even for native language speakers...and that's assuming the form's even available in your language. I've done some pro bono work with asylum-seeking kids, and more than once those of us on the lawyer side of the desk had to pause and try to figure out wtf was being asked in a form. Granted I'm not an immigration attorney, but still.
The level of detail and consistency you need to produce in corroborating documents is also above and beyond anything clients have ever had to document, and that’s not even getting to the trauma you have to ask them to relive
There’s a lot of confusion based on how much detail from 10 years ago you need them to absolutely get correct and make sure not to accidentally contradict in the interview in the hopes that they don’t come off as noncredible even though if you asked the very officer conducting the interview “what color were the walls in the room you were assaulted in in 2002” it would be absurd to expect them to remember consistently
Yeah, it's pretty unreasonable, even cruel at times, especially when an inconsistency or a typo could result in deportation and actual, credible threats to their lives.
edward i held the door for a guy tonight. i was wearing a mask and he wasn't. he was very handsome. as soon as i finished thinking he was handsome, he smiled and said 'thanks for keeping me safe'
which was probably a shitty trumper comment about me being a lib cuck. seems overwhelmingly likely. but his looks massaged my brain and i choose to interpret it as 'i forgot my mask in the car, thanks a bunch for going masked in my stead'
edward i held the door for a guy tonight. i was wearing a mask and he wasn't. he was very handsome. as soon as i finished thinking he was handsome, he smiled and said 'thanks for keeping me safe'
which was probably a shitty trumper comment about me being a lib cuck. seems overwhelmingly likely. but his looks massaged my brain and i choose to interpret it as 'i forgot my mask in the car, thanks a bunch for going masked in my stead'
Ok but it's better now so they should be paying the bored security guard a million dollars
Alternatively the security guard was not bored but was in fact doing a performance piece demonstrating how capitalism is the true death of art so they should pony up a million dollars for the security guard
this is your annual reminder that the Monster Group is a feature of math so fundamental that it only relies on a handful of axioms (ie: it only needs what people generally call "logic" to prove)
its not even a feature of "our universe". if the laws of physics in the universe were entirely different the Monster would still be there
i'm totally gutted by this depiction of divorce. both are kind and supportive to the other. and then personal experience makes the premise, the 'i just fell out of love, you did nothing wrong' thing sting even more. what an unexpectedly dark turn, given the first half season was generally so lighthearted
Be ready for it to get much darker. S2 is pretty unhappy and deals with some heavy mental health stuff (on top of COVID production challenges)
i'm totally gutted by this depiction of divorce. both are kind and supportive to the other. and then personal experience makes the premise, the 'i just fell out of love, you did nothing wrong' thing sting even more. what an unexpectedly dark turn, given the first half season was generally so lighthearted
Be ready for it to get much darker. S2 is pretty unhappy and deals with some heavy mental health stuff (on top of COVID production challenges)
Damn
Maybe I should hold off. I’m not exactly hardened against emotional turmoil rn
i'm totally gutted by this depiction of divorce. both are kind and supportive to the other. and then personal experience makes the premise, the 'i just fell out of love, you did nothing wrong' thing sting even more. what an unexpectedly dark turn, given the first half season was generally so lighthearted
I love how that show punches you in the emotional gut out of nowhere. It happens to me several times over the 2 seasons. The "lows" make the highs so much higher, imo.
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I believe that Trump-era policy was dropped. There was only one Trump-era policy I think even his staunchest haters actually appreciated within the agency.
And, again while not knowing much about the asylum side of things, I do know we offer our application instructions in multiple languages. Then again, I full-on admit I could be thinking about naturalization only. I have to look again.
It really is frustrating we haven’t come up with a way to actually handle this effectively for all involved.
I don’t deal with the Asylum side of the house, but from ISOs I know who worked at the worst office known nationwide, many of them have PTSD and it wasn’t from the applicants.
Like right now, my side of the house has a lack of interpreters. Asylum, however, has four different contracting agencies they can use for interpretation so that applicants aren’t kept waiting forever. We don’t have that (and we don’t know why).
Also, yes I feel like USCIS should be under the DOJ. We’re constantly ignored for ICE and CBP anyways.
Au revoir château neuf de papes.
Hopefully one day things stop sucking for all involved
Except
You know
Sexual suckings
1. The form policy was a blatant effort to bureaucratically grind all kinds of immigration applications to a trickle for no other purpose than to frustrate the implementation of immigration law
2. I know the instructions come in multiple languages, but even for the careful reader, there are ambiguities and things that get missed. I’m pretty damn fluent in English and I spent a day at least making sure every thing on the 1-589 petition was perfect, and it bounced anyway
3. We always suspected the thing that would fuck our client wasn’t a shitty AO but a good AO’s shitty supervisor. Especially in trump times, there was a huge risk that even the best officers were minded by vicious apparatchiks. But that’s not limited to trump’s USCIS. These people are lifers.
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If I were straight I’d have probably sent you a dick pic years ago and single-mindedly hit on you
Weirdly enough, I do actually like dick pics.
I get why people hate unsolicited ones, but I know women who don’t want them from even their partners. They want abs or arms. I’m like “fuck that, show me the D”
ON HIS FIRST DAY
The level of detail and consistency you need to produce in corroborating documents is also above and beyond anything clients have ever had to document, and that’s not even getting to the trauma you have to ask them to relive
There’s a lot of confusion based on how much detail from 10 years ago you need them to absolutely get correct and make sure not to accidentally contradict in the interview in the hopes that they don’t come off as noncredible even though if you asked the very officer conducting the interview “what color were the walls in the room you were assaulted in in 2002” it would be absurd to expect them to remember consistently
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I'll go pee and then sleep and hope it was here all along.
Pretty safe to say that tomorrow's going to be a write off
Yeah, it's pretty unreasonable, even cruel at times, especially when an inconsistency or a typo could result in deportation and actual, credible threats to their lives.
I almost had a threesome with my best friend and her boyfriend (now husband)
It’s as close as I’ve come!
which was probably a shitty trumper comment about me being a lib cuck. seems overwhelmingly likely. but his looks massaged my brain and i choose to interpret it as 'i forgot my mask in the car, thanks a bunch for going masked in my stead'
You're a fake museum story!
hmmm what was the intonation like
i'm already absolutely certain what at least 3 of them should be. if i'm wrong about any of them, i'm hitting dislike on the video. clicking play now.
Also good lord the AI upscale on Chrono Cross is barf inducing
don't @ me
Holy whoa.
it had the three i wanted (lurtz, witch king, mouth of sauron)
it also included the two bullshit legolas moments
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
It should just be Denethor getting kicked onto the pyre and then plummeting from Minas Tirith five times.
one for the brave grape tomato that he gnashed
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Finally, he scrammed, but there was a standoff
The insolence
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Ok but it's better now so they should be paying the bored security guard a million dollars
Alternatively the security guard was not bored but was in fact doing a performance piece demonstrating how capitalism is the true death of art so they should pony up a million dollars for the security guard
its not even a feature of "our universe". if the laws of physics in the universe were entirely different the Monster would still be there
Be ready for it to get much darker. S2 is pretty unhappy and deals with some heavy mental health stuff (on top of COVID production challenges)
Damn
Maybe I should hold off. I’m not exactly hardened against emotional turmoil rn
ymmv, of course