Raising Fees Won't Fix the Visa Process

USCIS has proposed hiking fees for nearly every category of immigrant to solve its budget problems, despite the fact that its dysfunction is a result of bureaucratic bloat, not lack of revenue; the agency's immigration forms have ballooned from a total of 193 pages in 2003 to 701 in 2022, which has resulted in longer processing times, contributing to an application backlog while it will take about 10 million man-hours for USCIS adjudicators to work through the backlog, and these proposed measures will deprive the US of talented foreigners by essentially increasing the cost of applying for legal status while increasing the paperwork burden.

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