Thread: THOUSANDS Of Immigration Green Cards Have Disappeared

Posted By Kathryn Watson On 5:02 PM 11/21/2016

Thousands of green cards are missing because U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials apparently sent them to the wrong addresses, jeopardizing national security, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (IG) report made public Monday.

“It appears that thousands of green cards have simply gone missing,” DHS Inspector General John Roth said in a news release. “In the wrong hands, green cards may enable terrorists, criminals, and undocumented aliens to remain in the United States. It is vital that USCIS ensure better tools and procedures are in place to mitigate such risks.”

The USCIS in the last three years received more than 200,000 reports from approved applicants claiming their cards were never delivered, the IG found. Monday’s audit — a follow-up to a March IG report saying USCIS officials sent hundreds of green cards to the wrong addresses — revealed “the problem was far worse than originally thought,” the IG said.

But the actual number of missing cards is unknown, as USCIS relies on reports from applicants, the IG said.

The number of reports about missing cards increased from 44,519 in fiscal year 2013, to 67,247 in fiscal year 2014, to 92,645 in fiscal year 2015, partly because of technical problems with the agency’s immigration database and partly due to U.S. Postal Service issues, according to the IG.

The IG also found USCIS produced at least 19,000 cards with incorrect information or were duplicates. USCIS, in addition, gave cards with 10-year expiration dates to 2,400 immigrants approved only for two-year conditional residence status. USCIS hasn’t recovered the majority of those incorrect cards.

The IG blamed most of USCIS’s errors on the “flawed design and functionality” of the agency’s Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). The IG has issued previous reports on the cost overruns and delays in updating the agency’s immigration database, but USCIS hasn’t fixed all of those issues.

The USCIS agreed with the IG’s recommendations to correct design and functionality problems with ELIS, create internal controls to make sure USCIS officials detect green cards early in the production process, develop a standardized process for recovering incorrectly issued cards and find a way to make sure unrecoverable cards aren’t used.

The USCIS questioned the fairness of the IG’s finding on cards sent to the wrong addresses, claiming USCIS uses the last known address of the applicant and the 200,000 figure includes people who call multiple times for service.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/21/th...e-disappeared/

Honestly, the USCIS requires an internal investigation. I believe there are numerous illegal aliens and rogue immigrants working for this entity who are on the take with immigration lawyers flooding this country will immigrants we do not need and do not want. Shut it down. Investigate. Stop this stupid "fees" pay to play scheme and impose a 10 to 20 Year Moratorium on All Immigration until we can figure what in the hell has been going on. STOP IT ALL. We are overpopulated with more people than jobs, money or natural resources to sustain our own population. We've known this was a major problem since the 70's and instead of doing the right things to maintain ourselves, our stupid treasonous governments at all levels if you ask me have done the complete opposite. And it's not the fault of just open border Democrats, it's anti-family planning Republicans as well.

Get your heads out of your bums and smell the crap you've created with nonsensical self-destructive policies and crooked corrupt politics.

I had a guy from Sri Lanka helping me a few years ago who had a green card. He actually came from a prosperous educated family. His main rationale for staying in the states was simply that he earned more monetary value---even at simple temporary jobs his net earnings were more than he could expect to make back home.

Look at how the US dollar is moving up. People sending remittances to Mexico can now see their money (or really OUR money) going twice as far as a few years back. So as long as people can somehow get their hands on US dollars and send a lot of them out of the US, and back to relatives, I guess green cards will be in high demand.

It sounds like corruption rather than sloth at the USCIS.

Yes, it's definitely corruption in USCIS. No doubt about it.

Until they are all found...stop issuing Green Cards!