Immigrants, employers, and lawyers facing hurdles in the legal immigration system will lose a key option for assistance with the dismantling of an office designed to help resolve their problems.
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced reductions that sideline nearly the entire staff of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office. The move cuts off an avenue of recourse for those facing erroneous petition rejections, mail delivery problems, delays, and other snafus related to immigration benefits from USCIS, which handles some 10 million legal immigration cases a year.
“Things fall into cracks, things fall into bureaucratic black holes,” ...