Sec. 6. Immigration functions
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Section 478 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 298 ) is amended to read as follows: It is the sense of Congress that— the quality and efficiency of immigration services rendered by the Federal Government should be improved after the transfers made by this subtitle take effect; the Secretary of Homeland Security should undertake efforts to guarantee that concerns regarding the quality and efficiency of immigration services are addressed after such effective date; and the Secretary of Homeland Security should not assign a processing time goal (as such term is defined in section 203 of the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 ( 8 U.S.C. 1572 )) that is longer than a maximum processing timeframe set forth in section 202 of the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 ( 8 U.S.C. 1571 ), except that the processing time goal for employment authorization documents should not be longer than 90 days.
The Secretary shall make publicly available on the website of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the process by which a person with a pending immigration benefit application (as such term is defined in section 203 of the Immigration Services and Infrastructure Improvements Act of 2000 ( 8 U.S.C. 1572 )) may inquire about such application after the processing time goal (as such term is defined in such section 203) or the median processing time for such type of immigration benefit application, whichever is sooner.
The process developed pursuant to this subsection shall include— a requirement that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides a substantive response to each person who inquires about an immigration benefit application pursuant to such process; and an additional process for a person to escalate such an inquiry in the case that a substantive response described in paragraph
(1)has not been provided. . Section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended in the table of contents by striking the item relating to section 478 and inserting the following: Sec. 478. Timely provision of immigration services. .
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