Third Letter to USCIS Ombudsman
Hon. Prakash Khatri
Ombudsman
Office of the Ombudsman
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services
Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
Re: End the Government’s Immigration Bias against America’s Small Businesses
Dear Mr. Khatri:
This is the third in a series of open letters outlining suggested changes in the practices of United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS). My letters to you are intended to put a flashlight on the behavior of USCIS – an agency that all too often remains mired in the worst practices of legacy INS. I write this time to ask that you examine and remedy several practices at the USCIS Regional Service Centers (RSCs) that hurt America’s entrepreneurs and small businesses.
This third letter asks you to intervene and cause USCIS to halt its unannounced practice of applying different, more-demanding, and wholly unlawful standards of eligibility for immigration benefits to America’s small businesses than the agency applies to large companies.
(To view this letter in its entirety click here)
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Dear Angelo:
My unreserved commendations for your letters to Mr. Prakash Khatri. They are timely and terse, yet detailed enough to make the reader, I mean a reasonable reader with a dose of sanity, think and think again. I know Mr. Khatri is one such reader, but I certainly hope there are at least some within the upper hierarchy at CIS, AAO, etc., who would fall in that category. I also hope that your loud pronouncement is not the proverbial cry in the wilderness. Nonetheless, you have said what needs to be said from the rooftop, and said it remarkably well. Please keep up the good work. As a Jewish saying goes, “From Your Mouth to God’s Ears.” With regards,
PJ Patel
Comment by PJ Patel — 1/7/2005 @ 4:36 pm
As a member of AILA, and constantly on the firing line of many small business RFEs and NODs, I was immensely pleased with and wholeheartedly embrace the nuances of the Third Open Letter To USCIS Ombudsman by Angelo A. Paparelli posted on ILW.COM today. Please kindly keep up with and maintain this great blog!
Comment by Donald R. Hidani — 1/7/2005 @ 4:39 pm