CalGreenCard wrote:It could happen again if a new immigration amnesty is passed by Congress and USCIS must devote its attention to 12 million newly legalized former illegal immigrants--and all other types of cases take a back seat.
What they were talking about is eliminating most of the family-based preference categories if in fact they did have an amnesty (third and fourth would no longer exist and second would be narrowed), which is in fact not an amnesty as you would have to leave to apply in one of the new work-related categories and pay a fine to get a waiver so you could apply, although you could also stay on an annual "Z" visa after paying several thousand dollars (so who would leave?)
The idea is that the staff freed up from family-based categories would go to work on the Z-category applications and the new employment-based categories, but personally I think it would simply be a total nightmare because family-based categories are easy to do, all you have to do is prove the relationship whereas with employment-based they have to check your qualifications, work history and so on.
Anyway it's not going to happen, the unions oppose it so the Democrats won't support it and they control Congress. Although I noticed that the AFL-CIO were starting to warm up to the idea of the Z-category because of all the ICE enforcement lately, and it turned out that AFL-CIO have a lot of illegal immigrants who are members.
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