The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced the opening of a new center that will focus on humanitarian cases.
“USCIS is pleased to announce the opening of the Humanitarian Affairs, Adjustments, Removal of Conditions and Travel Documents (HART) Service Center, the sixth within the Directorate’s Service Center Operations (SCOPS) and the first to focus on humanitarian cases and others .” they shared via Facebook.
According to the information provided, the new center will facilitate cohesion between operations, “and its staff will improve the quality and efficiency of our handling of humanitarian cases.”
“These workers will continue to receive the specialized training currently offered to staff processing these forms,” the statement said.
They also reported that “the opening of this service center will have a positive impact on the quality, capabilities and scale of our humanitarian processing capabilities.”
Several immigration journalists, consulted by journalist Mario J. Pentón, assured him that the new center will speed up some procedures such as permanent residency, which is “very slow”.
“For this new center, it is also clear from the statement that it will work on lifting the conditions for temporary stays, which are internal processes and must also include probation procedures,” the reporter reported.
In general, he saw it as “something very good, very positive, that’s going to speed up all these very slow immigration processes.”
User Raydel González Herrera stated that this is “very good news. Thank you for taking care of such sensitive issues; Let’s hope this new center will help process I-134a applications faster,” he wrote.
In the same vein, Guillermo Lima expressed that “they applied for an I134 A for the new parole on humanitarian grounds on January 16 and we still don’t have an answer. We hope this new center will help check residues.”