Good news for beneficiaries who have been waiting for several months. The U.S. Immigration Service has announced new measures to reduce the backlog of applications. A new service has been announced by the U.S. immigration agency.
The Humanitarian Service, Adjustment, Removal of Requirements and Travel Documents (HART) Center will be dedicated specifically to the humanitarian visa program, better known as the Biden program.
This is the “sixth service center within the Service Center Operations Branch, and the first to focus on humanitarian and other cases,” said USCIS, which boasts of the potential benefits of this new measure that will improve “the quality and efficiency of humanitarian case processing. These applications and benefits involve vulnerable populations, and this center will have a positive impact on the quality and scope of our humanitarian processing capabilities,” USCIS wrote on its twitter account
Since the launch of the humanitarian parole program, thousands of people have been waiting for their applications to be processed. This includes applicants from the month of January, according to a survey conducted by the Institute of Immigrant Family Services (IFSI) which counted, in less than two days, more than 30 thousand cases of people who submitted their application since January without receiving any response from the U.S. immigration service.
While U.S. authorities have announced new measures to speed up the processing of applications, they are still slow to address the problem posed by the CBPOne application.
Some applicants say they have spent more than a month before being able to submit their photo and other documents required under the humanitarian visa program.
Some immigrant rights organizations are speaking out about discrimination against people of color who are the biggest victims of the CBPOne application.
USCIS had announced corrective measures, but the problem persists.