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Originally Posted by: Mike in VT  Originally Posted by: XFed77 Originally Posted by: Mike in VT Originally Posted by: XFed77 Originally Posted by: Akash32 Im hoping that there will be opportunities next year. They rescinded my offer 2 months ago, thought it would just be on an indefinite hold but circumstances changed it seems. Hoping for the best. Once Trump, Stephen Miller, and Cuccinelli are gone, USCIS will regroup and start slowly getting back to where they were, including being able to use the fees they collect from applications to fund themselves and not have them diverted to ICE, Border Patrol, and CBP. It didn't help that the Trump Administration was Anti-Immigration and tried to dismantle USCIS as they tried with USPS. I expect Mass Hirings for ISOs in a couple of months or more. There's a huge backlog of applications from qualified applicants, (including many that paid premiums), and the Biden Administration promised to create a path to citizenship for more than 11 million undocumented aliens, DACA eligible applicants, and TPS. There's gonna be a lot of hiring and overtime once the new administration gets situated and the COVID vaccinations are distributed. I'd pump the brakes just a bit on the "mass hiring" part. With the continued cost-cutting measures that the agency is expect to utilize over the next few months, I don't see active recruitment and hiring for quite some time. Also, when it comes to the "everyone becomes a citizen" approach that the new administration is touting, we don't know yet if these will generate fees, permitted fee waivers or if this will be another freebie application. We will only know once Biden is sworn in, won't we? Don't be such a Debbie Downer. Maybe it's your "wishful thinking" that it doesn't improve? I can see you are biased by using the terms: "everyone becomes a citizen" and "freebie application". It would not make sense to go through all the work of creating a path to citizenship for 11 million people without charging them fees. What would be the point? A few thousand dollars from each adds up and would be a significant influx of funds to the Agency after the Trump Administration and especially Stephen Miller and Cuccinelli decimated it. You are biased to think that all these undocumented aliens can't pay for the fees or are seeking "freebie applications", like if they were living here off the government and not working, when no undocumented alien qualifies for any kind of public assistance It's sad to think there are current employees of the USCIS that could be making decisions based on their ideologies... I think you're reading a bit too much into what I said. I bet you'd be surprised who I voted for, but it seems you already made up your mind. For example, based on what appears to be your sensitivity level, I bet you stand on a particular side of the aisle, but I won't assume that. I'm not being a Debbie Downer, merely being a realist based on experience. Definitely not wishful thinking on my part (again, you're assuming things). I want this agency to prosper. I wish we could go back to the way things were. PERSONALLY, I've always thought DACA is both a smart and moral idea. Again, don't assume things. Regarding fee waivers and 'freebie' applications...it's not a matter of 'can an applicant afford the petition', but are they willing to pay and not skirt around that issue. In the past, I worked with someone who was once a private immigration attorney and told me stories of applicants who could afford the fees, but would apply for a fee waiver just because it's available. That's the part I have concern with, not the ability for someone to qualify for it. But don't other applications have fee waivers also? Why are you focused on fee waivers for this specific group? I worked as an ISO 1/2 in the past, at a Service Center and a Field Office, and there were waivers, yes, but not for the majority of applicants for a specific application. And just like any other application for any agency in the US, I have worked and currently working in another Agency, people are going to try to get the fee waivers, whether Americans, LPRs, or the undocumented. I have seen rich Americans trying to get fee waivers as I saw in my early youth see rich americans not paying taxes, See POTUS, or apply for Welfare, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and nowadays, rich americans who have ongoing businesses who have not been affected by COVID, like Jared Kushner, applying and getting millions in PPP and EIDL loans from the Small Business Administration. So... my statement is that you can't specifically criticize one group of people when many other groups of are doing the same thing... I believe in the power of positivism and I'm optimistic that by getting rid of the Anti-Immigration activists in the Trump Administration it will only get better for the USCIS.
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