關於DC CIS Office 新程序的內容

Summary of New Procedures for DC CIS Office Memo: Summary of New Procedures for DC CIS Office From: Leslie Dellon, Chair of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), DC,Chapter Date: June 15,2004 1. For now, office hours are expected to be 7:30 am-2:30 pm. The first Thursday of each month, the office will be closed to the public for staff training. 2. An appointment will be required to enter the building, except for an emergency and for an as yet undetermined procedure for receiving interim EADs. (InfoPass, through which appointments will be required, will be implemented some time after the move. People will be able to make appointments through the internet or at two terminals in a “weather vestibule” at the new office. We will provide you with more details when they become available.) People with appointments will be directed to the second floor, where there will be a reception desk. A staff member will take the appointment notices instead of the old system of dropping the notice into a slot. People with appointments are supposed to be told when they arrive approximately how long they can expect to wait. If an appointment for adjustment, the applicant will have the I-89 done before the interview. If an appointment for naturalization, the applicant will take the test, under supervision, before the interview. There are public restrooms and a play area for children right near the reception area. 3. Director Howard has developed a new system for handling cases at the new office. There will no longer be separate units such as naturalization or adjustment. Instead, there will be 4 supervisors, each of whom will supervise at least 7 DAOs. At this time, she expects that the supervisors will be Billy Ingram, Sylvia Welch, Robert Schofield and Kay Kang. Director Howard also will be getting a Deputy who will assist her with the implementation and operation of this new system. 4. “A” files will be kept in a mail/file room. The current plan is for an examiner to handle either 8 adjustment interviews or 15 naturalization interviews per day. At the end of the day, the files will go back to the file room. 5. It will be the supervisor’s responsibility to keep a case moving. A case will not remain with the examiner who conducts the interview. The supervisor will review the files and take one of the following actions: If an adjustment is approved, the file goes into a box to be sent to the VSC for card issuance. Although not discussed, presumably if a naturalization application is approved, the file will be given to the person responsible for scheduling the swearing in ceremony (assuming no name check issues). If a case is continued, the file will go to a “call up” system, maintained by a staff member, not by the individual examiner, to make sure that the case keeps moving. One person will manage continued cases and on a daily basis, 1-3 supervisors will be working with that manager. If a case was continued for submission of documents, for example, and those documents are received within the time required, the manager will tell the supervisor(s) that an examiner now needs to be assigned to adjudicate the case. A file will not automatically be returned to the examiner who conducted the interview. A supervisor will assign a continued case to an examiner depending upon that day’s work schedule. If a supervisor decides that an examiner requested documents that are not necessary for decision or the examiner has gone off “on a tangent,” the supervisor will refer the case back to the examiner for a decision. If a case has been properly denied, the file will go to the denial unit. Examples were someone who clearly is not eligible for the benefit or someone who has abandoned the application. By removing the cases from the individual examiners, and making the supervisors responsible for moving the cases, Director Howard expects to eliminate three major areas of complaint: (1) delay in scheduling a swearing in ceremony following approval of naturalization, (2) rescheduling cases after a “no show,” and (3) scheduling employment-based cases following transfer from VSC. 6. Handling of I-72 (request for additional evidence) – If the applicant is given 30 days to submit documents, they must be submitted within 30 days. Since it will not be possible to enter the building without an appointment (except for an emergency and an as yet undetermined system for interim EADS where there would not be an appointment scheduled), the response to the I-72 should be submitted by certified mail, return receipt requested, Express Mail or other overnight courier system. Director Howard maintains that submissions will get to the files timely because the files will be kept in the mail room/file room and not with a particular examiner. Mr. Schofield has stressed that if an attorney believes, during the interview, that the examiner is improperly issuing an I-72, such as where the examiner already has the documents or the issue is already supported by evidence in the record, the attorney needs to ask for a supervisor before the interview ends. He stressed that the mind set of just satisfying this particular examiner’s demands needs to change because the case will not remain with that examiner. The supervisor needs to be involved at the earliest possible point to eliminate unnecessary requests by examiners. Similarly, if the attorney feels an interview is not being conducted properly, ask for the supervisor. 7. If an interview is taking too long, the examiner either will have to reschedule it or arrange for another examiner to continue the interview. 8. A staff member will be responsible for checking whether fingerprint results have come back. If cleared, the staff member is responsible for moving the file to a “cleared” shelf. The SDAO must check the “cleared” shelf and then assign the case to an examiner for adjudication. 9. Denials are currently being reviewed by an attorney from the General Counsel’s office to make sure that they conform with the applicable law. This procedure will continue when the office moves to the new location. If you have received a denial that you know is incorrect as a matter of law (either because the law was applied incorrectly or was ignored), notify Mr. Schofield. --------------------------- 本文由範毅禹律師事務所提供 本律師事務所精辦各類勞工應聘及專業移民申請 (包括H-1，L-1，EB-1，EB-2，NIW，勞工卡，綠卡等申請)。所有申請由多位美籍律師及擁有15年經驗的範毅禹律師親自處理，我所並特設中英移民網站。內有最新移民新聞資訊及由律師主持的移民問答集，歡迎讀者流覽查詢。 www.Fan-Law.com CALIFORNIA : Fan & Fitzpatrick, P.A. 260 S. 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