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“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

― Oscar Wilde

By saying "no, we don't want your money"? Really not seeing the application of that quote here.

The money you pay barely matters to USCIS. However this move directly helps those who are importing cheap labor.

Okay, but where is the expansion of the bureaucracy for its own sake? Or any expansion at all?

Wasn't it obvious that USCIS has not utilized modern technologies to boost efficiency, but use its own inefficiency to boost its size?

Any decent large corporation of this size should handle a large number of customers with ease. That number, I guess, would be orders magnitude more than USCIS' incoming requests. You may argue the case for USCIS is more complicated. Granted that, I still think the amount of work is much larger than USCIS.

[1] "USCIS consists of 19,000 federal employees and contractors working at 223 offices around the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Citizenship_and_...

> The money you pay barely matters to USCIS

It's literally how they fund 99% of their expenses.

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