I'm So Excited! I'm a U.S. Citizen.

[Amaris]

U.S.C.I.S. has more than enough important sounding letters to become it's own television show. I say we get right on it.

 

[Namikaze]

As I consider myself British.

Holdfast, based solely on the merit of your witty posts, your love of ties and other wardrobe finery and keen knack of making sarcasm insightful, you've joined the short list of British people I like.

I'd give the entire list, in no particular order, but it is off topic. ^_^

 

[Deckerd]

Are you calling us short?

 

[Namikaze]

Are you calling us short?

Hardly, as it'd be like the pot and the kettle.

 

[Amaris]

Are you saying we have to put the kettle on?
I'm not British by the way, though I realize the accent in my text makes it seem like I am.

 

[ITL]

Are you saying we have to put the kettle on?
I'm not British by the way, though I realize the accent in my text makes it seem like I am.

True, dat. I could have sworn you were this bloke:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP0HHX4Ur9g[/yt]

Or this bloke:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPiGJBHVadA[/yt]

 

[Amaris]

I'm glad somebody recognizes my distinctive sotto voce!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

U.S.C.I.S. has more than enough important sounding letters to become it's own television show. I say we get right on it.

I'm learning immigration law right now. The following is accurate:

In order to get an H1B visa, an employer needs to file an LCA with the DoL. After LCA is approved by the DoL, it needs to file an I-129H with USCIS (which is part of DHS). Then the beneficiary can take the approved I-129H and arrive at the consulate and receive his H1B. Then he can immigrate and seek entry with I think ICE, but it might be USCIS.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

U.S.C.I.S. has more than enough important sounding letters to become it's own television show. I say we get right on it.

I'm learning immigration law right now. The following is accurate:

In order to get an H1B visa, an employer needs to file an LCA with the DoL. After LCA is approved by the DoL, it needs to file an I-129H with USCIS (which is part of DHS). Then the beneficiary can take the approved I-129H and arrive at the consulate and receive his H1B. Then he can immigrate and seek entry with I think ICE, but it might be USCIS.

Coming in under a tarpaulin sounds more appealing.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

On last Friday I went for an interview to become a U.S. citizen and I pass with a flying color. The INS officer even expressed to me how good I am. I'm going back on the 23 to be sworned in on line a... Yippeee! Now I can vote.

Okay, I have to give you a hard time about this, because the INS doesn't exist anymore. It's ICE now. I'm just amused that a freshly-minted US citizen would make a mistake like that.

But welcome to our country! The more the merrier!

Actually, he never would've dealt with I.C.E. to become a naturalized citizen. The I.N.S. Agency split into two branches. I.C.E. Deals with inforcement and prosecution of offenders breaking laws related to immagration, and smuggling/traffic threats to our boarders (whether human or contraband).

The agency responsible for lawful immigration and naturalization of a citizen is U.S.C.I.S.

And they, like the I.R.S., love their fees and paperwork... Bleh.

Alidar Jarok beat you to it. I stand corrected. But hopefully everyone in this thread is now aware that INS doesn't exist anymore.

 

[pigletsgiblets]

Congratulations!

 

[RJDiogenes]

U.S.C.I.S. has more than enough important sounding letters to become it's own television show. I say we get right on it.

I'm learning immigration law right now. The following is accurate:

In order to get an H1B visa, an employer needs to file an LCA with the DoL. After LCA is approved by the DoL, it needs to file an I-129H with USCIS (which is part of DHS). Then the beneficiary can take the approved I-129H and arrive at the consulate and receive his H1B. Then he can immigrate and seek entry with I think ICE, but it might be USCIS.

Are you sure that's not a Monty Python sketch?

 

[Holdfast]

As I consider myself British.

Holdfast, based solely on the merit of your witty posts, your love of ties and other wardrobe finery and keen knack of making sarcasm insightful, you've joined the short list of British people I like.

I'd give the entire list, in no particular order, but it is off topic. ^_^

Thanks...

U.S.C.I.S. has more than enough important sounding letters to become it's own television show. I say we get right on it.

I'm learning immigration law right now. The following is accurate:

In order to get an H1B visa, an employer needs to file an LCA with the DoL. After LCA is approved by the DoL, it needs to file an I-129H with USCIS (which is part of DHS). Then the beneficiary can take the approved I-129H and arrive at the consulate and receive his H1B. Then he can immigrate and seek entry with I think ICE, but it might be USCIS.

For a highly advanced and often genuinely efficient capitalist economy, when it comes to the various branches of the Federal Government the USA retains a surprisingly large number of arcane bureaucratic systems. Dealing with them involves considerably more paperwork and delays than dealing with the British Government, for example.

I don't quite know why this ends up being the case but the form-filling is almost always more time-consuming and complex with more cross-referenced forms and intermediate stages. I know we have only about one fifth the population, but theoretical complexity of the tasks in question (and therefore the required complexity of the processes) is more dependent on the nature of the economy rather than the size of the population, and that's not all that different really. I'm not saying the UK government is efficient; it certainly isn't. But it's considerably less-inefficient that the US Federal Government in my experience.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I'm not British by the way, though I realize the accent in my text makes it seem like I am.

Me mates keep telling me that. Bugger them, that's a load of bollocks.