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Is the US Visa Process a "Patchwork of Pathways"?

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I was reading an article recently, I will get to it here in a moment, but I saw this phrase this "Patchwork of Pathways" when talking about the Immigration system and I just thought that was so well put because that really is what it feels like. It is sort of like in Super Mario Brothers where you had the pipes where they could go into the pipes and warp to another world and do all this stuff, it just kind of feels like the Immigration system is like that. I don't mean to laugh because it is serious and right now the Immigration system could be in a lot better shape as I will get to in a moment. But yeah there is this kind of element of it being a "patchwork of pathways", I really like that. 

This article is from Yahoo that's, yahoo.com, the article is titled: More than a million could die waiting for green cards as U.S. Immigration buckles amid COVID. "It has been more than three decades since Congress approved a major overhaul to the U.S, Immigration System, which involves a patchwork of pathways spread across multiple federal agencies depending on factors including a person's country of origin, family ties and profession. The Trump Administration implemented time-consuming changes - longer application forms, requests for additional evidence, more scrutiny for renewals that extended existing backlogs to unmanageable levels at every step." Yeah, I don't generally like to get into like partisan stuff here and this really isn't a partisan thing it just is what it is. The Trump Administration really truly did, I am just going to quote that again: "implemented time consuming changes - longer application forms, requests for additional evidence." – Yeah, the RFEs coming out of immigration apparatus right now we get them sometimes. It is like "Really? Literally we gave this to you already!" - "more scrutiny for renewals that extended existing backlog to unmanageable levels at every step." Yeah, there has just been a lot of increasingly Byzantine bureaucratic processes sort of added to the overall Immigration process and "patchwork of pathways" is definitely a good way to look at it. There are multiple different Federal Agencies you are going to be dealing with throughout the process and multiple different sort of sub Departments within a given Government Agency when you are dealing with the Immigration system.

I have said for a long time, I am very much in favour of comprehensive Immigration reform; I would very much like to see some major changes to kind of bring America's Immigration framework kind of up to date with modern times. I don't know if it is politically possible. It seems like there is so much polarization politically, that it may not be possible. We may just have to kind of bumble along and do the best we can moving forward but yeah unfortunately that "Patchwork of Pathways" is a lot more Byzantine and difficult to deal with than it was some five, six years ago.