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2016年4月，IIUSA（EB-5行业机构）在华盛顿举办的行业大会上，有邀请到了移民局IPO（EB-5办公室）Julia Harrison副主任发言。
在会上，Julia谈及了由于IPO搬家致使2012-13年间递交的2000多件的I-526申请遗失，在发现后被找回并进行了审批。但是，对于EB-5签证分配而言，13-14年间没有排期时未能为这些申请发放签证而浪费当时的年度配额，回过头来却占用了15-16年年间紧俏的签证配额。移民局的乌龙，致使排期形势更加严峻，可能达半年左右。
参考阅读：SEC、移民局、签证与排期 ｜ IIUSA大会第1.5天。
这篇微信文章，不知道为何Julia的发言已经不能收听，今天，特此再发一遍，并请当时在现场录音的业内朋友小龙，根据录音整理了就此问题的现场发言：
Julia Harrison on April 22nd, 2016 at IIUSA Condference in Washington D.C.
(11:42) Kind of what happened when we moved from CA to Washington, and started up this new office. As you can imagine, moving an entire workload across the country is not an easy thing to do. They started up IPO for great reasons, and it was a great idea and we have a great program. But that was not an easy job to move that workload from CA to Washington, particularly because they were in a temporary office. When IPO first started up they were in a temp office in our headquarters, and about a year or so later they were moved to a more permanent office. In that amount of time, the receipts for applications that we received has gone up so much that by the time we moved into that new office, we were already out of space in our file room. As a matter of fact, they just recently finished building us an additional file room that adding up to the original one. So that’s good news in the sense that there is so much interest in the program. That’s great. But it's bad news in the sense that it created chaos that we are still little bit dealing with. We are almost there.
关于我们之前提到的从加州（办公室）搬到首都华盛顿，并且开设了新的办公室。你们可以想象，把整个办公室包括文件从美国的一边搬到另外一边可不是那么轻松。他们设立IPO有很好的理由，也是很好的想法，而且我们确实有很好的项目。但是说的容易做起来难，从加州搬到首都华盛顿，特别当IPO还在用临时办公室的时候。因为IPO刚成立的时候，在我们（移民局）总部用的是临时办公室，大约一年多后他们才有了了相对固定的办公场所。在那段时间，我们收到的申请实在是太多了，当我们要准备搬到新办公室时，文件室已经没有空间了。正因为如此，他们刚刚为我们增加了额外的文件室。从另一个方面说也是好事，说明（对EB-5项目）感兴趣的人越来越多。这很好。当然这也带来了很多的混乱。我们快处理完这堆烂摊子了。
One thing that particularly notable happened during that time, we’ve lost a bit control over the flow of cases thrown at our office. We do have a lot of stakeholders coming to us saying what is happening? I filed my application two years ago, and it’s still sitting there. And this guy filed three months ago, and it’s already out of the door. So we took a really hard look at that, and went through all of the files in our office. And we were able to identify that actually (13:22) we have a little more than 2000 cases filed in 2012 and 2013, that has just gone lost on the shelf like that. So as is a challenge to our officers to get those done and focus all of our hearts to get those done, and make sure we don’t adjudicate later filed applications before we got those done. And we are happy to report that, even though they are not 100% done, it’s done under 300 of those lost cases. And we also put something in place to make sure that won’t happen again.
另外一个特别值得注意的事情在那段时间发生，就是我们在搬离中丢失了一部分的案子。我们有很多的利益相关方找到我们，说什么情况？我两年前递交的申请，现在还没结果。但是另外一个申请人三个月前递交的，已经审批到了。所以我们很认真地对待这个事情，检查了所有的文件。我们能够确认的是：我们丢失了2000多个案子，是在2012和2013年递交的。这对我们的审案官来说是很大的挑战，因为比较要全力投入地审批这些案子，并且保证在不审理完这些案子之前，我们不会审理后面的案子。我们很高兴地告诉各位，虽然（这2000个丢失的案子）还没有100%审理完，但是我们目前只剩下300份不到了。而且我们也在改善流程和机制，确保类似的时间不再发生。
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