Deferred Action for Illegal Aliens Causing Extended Wait Times for Legal Immigrants

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Deferred Action for Illegal Aliens Causing Extended Wait Times for Legal Immigrants

 posted on NumbersUSA

According to new data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, nearly 50,000 more illegal aliens were granted deferred action through the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, but the New York Times is reporting that the good news for illegal aliens means bad news for foreign citizens trying to come to the United States the legal way. According to the Times, thousands of green cards for foreign spouses or other immediate family members of U.S. citizens have been delayed while USCIS processes DACA applications.
USCIS agency officials told the New York Times that they've been ordered to shift resources and attention to the DACA program.
"U.S. citizens petitioning for green cards for immediate relatives are a high, if not the highest, priority in the way Congress set up the immigration system," Gregory Chen, director of advocacy for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told the Times. "This is a problem that needs to be fixed quickly."
According to the Times, spouses, children, or parents of U.S. citizens could typically get a green card in five months or less before DACA. But now, waits are as long as 15 months. The story includes antecdotes from U.S. citizens who talk about the added stress the delays have put on their families and lives.
Officials at USCIS told the Times that they discovered the problem last year and have been trying to take steps to fix it, but in the meantime, the agency continues to dole out approvals for illegal aliens who qualify for DACA. Since the program started in 2012, 521,815 illegal aliens have received deferred action.
"You end up seeing a steep decline in approvals for people like me who followed the law," said Forrest Nabors who teachespolitical science at the University of Alaska and has a foreign-born spouse.
For more information, see the New York Times.