A federal judge has ordered USCIS to pay attorney Kip Evan Steinberg $25,000 in legal fees after the lawyer's client sued the agency to force it to complete processing in an adjustment of status green card case. USCIS tried to point the finger at the FBI for delays in the name check process, but the judge wasn't buying. The judge found the 151 hours the lawyer put in to the case to be reasonable. So 151 attorney hours were wasted, an individual waited years unnecessarily and America's taxpayers are out $25,000. Think the judge was trying to send a message?
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July 17, 2008
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Some body must sue USCIS for making false promises . WOM + False promises. Double whammy!
May 2008
Process all name checks pending more than three years
July 2008
Process all name checks pending more than two years
Nov. 2008
Process all name checks pending more than one year
Feb. 2009
Process all name checks pending more than 180 days
June 2009
Process 98 percent of all name checks within 30 days and process the remaining two percent within 90 days
Posted by: | July 17, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Greg,
What is considered "reasonable time"? For instance, if its already been 1 year since one applied (and PD has been current for that whole time) but USCIS keeps pushing back processing time, will this be a case for WOM?
Posted by: lagniappe | July 17, 2008 at 09:56 AM
First time I heard USCIS been asked to pay for losing a case....is this usually happening?
Posted by: Dan | July 17, 2008 at 08:45 AM