WASHINGTON —U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced a regulatory change to provide greater flexibility…
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U-visa applicants can sue over processing delays – 6th Circuit
According to this article on REUTERS, by Daniel Wiessner
“(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday revived claims that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has unreasonably delayed in placing four applicants for U visas on a waiting list and attaining deferred-action status that would protect them from deportation.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected USCIS’ argument that its delays in the four consolidated cases were due to a backlog of roughly 160,000 applications for U visas, which are granted to victims of serious crimes, and were in line with the current five-year average waiting period.
“We find it unhelpful to fixate on the average snail’s pace when comparing snails against snails in a snails’ race,” Circuit Judge Karen Nelson Moore wrote.”