Government so slow it's still processing visa requests from the early '90s.

[celedhring]

I processed a work VISA while I was there too, and it was also quite reasonable (don't remember exactly, but it was less than 3 months). But as hinted these disparities are probably caused by their priority system.

[Josquius]

That's just crazy. How much must life have moved on from the original application...

[Syt]

In the early 00's I was flirting with the idea of moving to the U.S. of everloving A.

My sister (then a resident alien thanks to her being married to an USian) asked her immigration officer/case worker/whatever-the-correct-term-is what the easiest way would be for me to get a permanent residence.

Reply by the immigration officer: come over with a tourist visa, find a job, and have your employer vouch for you.

[celedhring]

In the early 00's I was flirting with the idea of moving to the U.S. of everloving A.

My sister (then a resident alien thanks to her being married to an USian) asked her immigration officer/case worker/whatever-the-correct-term-is what the easiest way would be for me to get a permanent residence.

Reply by the immigration officer: come over with a tourist visa, find a job, and have your employer vouch for you.

That's how it works in the end, to be frank. I was there under a student visa and got a job and a sponsor to go with it. You don't get permanent residency with that though, it's just a work visa tied to your job, that's why I came back to Blackhole Spain after my contract expired.

[grumbler]

This is a seriously stupid article, and Timmay is seriously stupid for having fallen for it.

The US isn't "still processing" 23-year-old applications, it simply hasn't granted some 23-year-old applications because those apps didn't win the lottery yet and haven't qualified for acceptance under other provisions.

Now, the issue of the applicant "aging out" is a separate one, and the administration's stance on this baffles me, but the courts seem poised to rectify that.

Seriously, Tim:  did you even think about this for a second before you made your claim that the government was "so slow" that it couldn't get an application out of an in-basket for 23 years?  This isn't even you being gullible; the article nowhere makes the claim that this case is about the government being "so slow it's still processing visa requests from the early '90s."  That was just you being dumb.