ACLU sues FBI and USCIS for Excessive Citizenship Delays
ACLU sues FBI and USCIS for Excessive Citizenship Delays
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:22 AM
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The ACLU filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the USCIS on behalf of four
immigrants who feel it's taking too long to process their citizenship
applications. ACLU staff attorney Ranjana Natarajan said that these immigrants
lives are stuck "in a bureaucratic black hole." The FBI claims that there have
been delays because they haven't been able to clear the complainants for
security reasons, but of course national security concerns wouldn't matter
much to the ACLU. Please note that one of the immigrants is from Iran!
Listed below are the names of the four immigrants who are listed as
complainants:
Abbas Amirichimeh, Iran, electrical engineer Jim Moorhead, England, scrap
metal business Alex Lee, South Korea, emigrated with family Miguel Valenzuela,
blackberry picker and farm worker
Based on what I have read, Amirichimeh is the most likely of the group to have
obtained an H-1B based on the fact that he came to the U.S. in 1993 to study
electrical engineering. At some point he would have had to convert his student
visa into an H-1B visa or a EB green card. Just a guess, but it sounds like
all four of them currently have Green Cards, although Amirichimeh could have
managed to stay using extensions on his H-1B while applying for a green card
and citizenship. Unfortunately the available information is very sketchy so
it's difficult to pin things down better.
The link below goes to the court docket for Abbas Amirichimeh and the group
complaint. Unfortunately to get more information you have to be a lawyer or a
paying member that has access to the PACER system. If any of you out there
have access to this system I would appreciate if you could get the documents
for Abbas and the other three complainants. With those documents it would be
possible to find out a lot more about their backgrounds and how they got to
the U.S.
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-8:2007cv00107/case_id-382361/
Plaintiff: Abbas Amirichimeh
Defendant: Michael Chertoff, Emilio T Gonzalez, Jane E Arellano and Robert S
Mueller Case Number: 8:2007cv00107
Filed: January 29, 2007
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-cacdce/case_no-8:2007cv01394/case_id-402464/
Plaintiffs: Mansour Bavi, Abbas Amirichimeh, Kwang Ho Lee and James Moorhead
Defendants: Michael B Mukasey, Michael Chertoff, Emilio T. Gonzalez, Jane
Arellano and Robert S Mueller, III Case Number: 8:2007cv01394
Filed: December 4, 2007
Some of you that get this newsletter have attempted to file lawsuits because
you felt you were discriminated against in favor of H-1Bs. If you are
wondering why the ACLU didn't rush to your aid, perhaps you should call them
up and ask. The ACLU doesn't seem very eager to help US citizens but they pull
no stops when it comes to helping citizens of other countries.
Materials provided below
http://www.aclu-sc.org/News/Releases/2007/102697/
Groups Sue to Stop Excessive Citizenship Delays
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/story.php?storySection=Local&sid=51459
Waiting for U.S. citizenship
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/us/05immig.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Federal Suit Is Seeking to Expedite Citizenship
http://www.apalc.org/pressreleases/2007/NaturalizationLitigation1207.pdf
ACLU of Southern California press release
http://www.immigrateusa.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1343&Itemid=48
Lawsuit filed to Speed Up FBI Name Checks in Natz Cases
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/100/756
Bio of Abbas Amirichimeh
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http://www.aclu-sc.org/News/Releases/2007/102697/
Groups Sue to Stop Excessive Citizenship Delays
FBI Name Checks Disrupt Lives, Stall Naturalization Process for Thousands
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 printer version
LOS ANGELES -- Many immigrants who have satisfied the requirements to become
U.S. citizens are left in limbo for months or years due to slow processing of
FBI name checks, according to a class-action lawsuit to be filed in federal
court. The delays violate time limits in the law that are meant to reduce
naturalization backlogs while ensuring national security.
On Tuesday, December 4, the ACLU of Southern California, the National
Immigration Law Center, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the law
firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson will ask a federal judge to enforce the time
limits on name checks for people in the naturalization process. The lawsuit,
Bavi v. Mukasey, names Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the FBI, which
conducts the checks, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS),
which oversees the naturalization process.
"People s lives are on hold because they are in a bureaucratic black hole.
They can t travel abroad without worrying they will be blocked at the border.
They can t vote. They can t get business or school loans,"
said ACLU/SC staff attorney Ranjana Natarajan.
An FBI name check is a routine part of every naturalization application, along
with fingerprint and background checks. The name checks are particularly prone
to cause delays because similar names result in many false "hits" that are
time-consuming to resolve. The checks can slow the scheduling of
naturalization interviews as well as delay final approval of naturalization.
The USCIS ombudsman found that the FBI name check backlogs have grown worse
over the past few years, and that the name checks themselves may have little
value in identifying persons who pose a threat.
"The current USCIS name check policy may increase the risk to national
security by extending the time a potential criminal or terrorist remains in
the country," the report noted. View the report online (pdf).
Thousands of Americans nationwide have been forced to go to court to unblock
the delay of their naturalization cases. The government routinely fights or
settles these cases rather than fix the underlying problems with name checks.
The plaintiffs in Bavi v. Mukasey include Alex Lee, 26, who was born in South
Korea and emigrated with his family in 1998. He applied for citizenship in
December 2006. Last Friday he watched in frustration as his parents and
brother took the oath of citizenship -- even though they filed their
applications months later.
Another plaintiff, James Moorhead, was born in England and has lived in the
U.S. for 30 years. He has awards from Congress and the city and county of L.A.
for foiling an armed robbery. Despite his positive record, he has been waiting
more than a year since his immigration interview was abruptly canceled last
year.
Bavi v. Mukasey is one of several similar lawsuits that are pending around the
country, and the first to address backlogs both for people who have had their
naturalization interviews and for those who have not.
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http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/story.php?storySection=Local&sid=51459
December 10, 2007
Waiting for U.S. citizenship
Some immigrants in Santa Cruz County have been waiting for more than a year
Tom Ragan SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
WATSONVILLE -- Thousands of immigrants with ambitions of becoming U.S.
citizens have been waiting for months, in some cases years, for their
background checks to be completed by the FBI.
Although the backlog has been growing since the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center in September 2001, the list has gotten longer in the past year
for a variety of reasons, including last year s hike in citizenship fees.
In Santa Cruz County since early fall, an estimated 10 people per week are
being red-flagged by the FBI for background checks, which puts their
citizenship applications on hold in what Doug Keegan, program director of the
Santa Cruz County Immigration Project, describes as a "black hole.
"Some of our applicants are cursed with having common last names," Keegan
said. "So when the FBI runs a check of them, their names surface in connection
with something they never did, and then their applications just sit. It s
frustrating."
Some citizenship applications have been delayed as long as three to four years
while others have only had to wait a few months, Keegan said. The entire
application process isn t supposed to take more than 120 days.
Miguel Valenzuela, a Watsonville resident for more than three decades, has
been waiting more than a year to become a U.S. citizen.
He says he has no criminal record in the United States, and that he became a
legal resident in the early 1990s, a highly coveted status that shields
immigrants from the stigma of being illegal while allowing them to collect
Social Security and unemployment, a system many have paid into.
"Each day," says the soft spoken 57-year-old Valenzuela, a farmworker by
trade, "each day, I wake up and hope that the day will bring good news. But so
far it s yet to happen, and I keep getting the same letters in the mail."
The letters generally go like this: "The processing of your case has been
delayed. A check of our records establishes that your case is not ready for
decision."
Last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming
the FBI was taking too long to finish background checks -- something that, in
theory, is supposed to take no more than an hour in cases where there are no
problems or criminal history.
In that litigation, some of the applicants for U.S. citizenship had last names
that were Arabic in nature -- like Abbas Amirichimeh, a microchip designer
living in Irvine who has been trying to become a citizen for more than four
years.
Amirichimeh is one of four immigrants living in Southern California on whose
behalf the ACLU filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
Amirichimeh came to the U.S. from Iran in 1994, submitted his application for
citizenship in May 2003, and had his interview and passed his examination the
next summer.
More than three years later, his case still isn t resolved because his name
check has not been completed.
In its defense, the FBI has said that it deals with an estimated 3 million
background checks a year, with nearly half of the names coming from U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Service, said Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman.
While Bresson could not comment on Valenzuela s case or any other individual
case, he said the FBI is doing a good job, given the high volume of
applications.
"I ll tell you this," he said, "90 percent of the names we get, we turn them
around in 60 days. If we we re running a business, we d be doing OK."
As for Valenzuela, he has appealed his case to Congressman Sam Farr, D-Carmel,
but even longstanding politicians can t usurp the powers of the FBI, and that
has left Valenzuela in the lurch, according to the Santa Cruz County
Immigration Project.
A picker of blackberries these days and a father of four, he says if he ever
becomes a U.S. citizen, he d like to move to Illinois with his wife, Rosa, and
live with his son and daughter, both of whom work in factories there.
Although he could make the move now, he s not ready.
He wants to be a U.S. citizen when he sees them next, a status they all
obtained by virtue of being born in Watsonville.
"I was hoping it would happen before this Christmas," he said. "But that s
life."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/us/05immig.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
December 5, 2007
Federal Suit Is Seeking to Expedite Citizenship By JULIA PRESTON A federal
lawsuit was filed yesterday in California against immigration authorities,
seeking to help legal immigrants whose petitions for citizenship have been
held up by delays in background checks performed by the F.B.I.
The lawsuit, a class action, was filed in federal court in Santa Ana, on
behalf of four immigrants who have lived legally in the United States for many
years and are eager to become citizens. After filing naturalization petitions,
each has waited a year or more without being approved because the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has not completed a required criminal record check.
They have received no explanation for the delays, according to the suit.
"I want to be assimilated into the system here; I want to vote for the
president," said Abbas Amirichimeh, a 41-year-old immigrant from Iran who has
been living legally in the United States since 1994 and is a plaintiff in the
suit.
Mr. Amirichimeh applied for citizenship in May 2003, and has been told only
that his petition is delayed because the background check is not complete.
"I m just getting a runaround and nobody really cares," he said in a telephone
interview yesterday.
Backlogs of F.B.I. background checks from past naturalization petitions are
dogging the Citizenship and Immigration Services agency at a time when it is
swamped with 1.4 million new petitions from aspiring citizens in the past
year. In a report in June, Prekash Khatri, the ombudsman of the immigration
agency, said the F.B.I. checks "may be the single biggest obstacle to the
timely and efficient delivery of immigration benefits" by the agency.
Christopher Bentley, an agency spokesman, acknowledged a backlog but said the
cases were a relatively small part of the overall workload of background
checks. Of more than 1.5 million checks the agency ordered from the F.B.I. in
the year ending Sept. 30, 90 percent cleared within six months, he said.
Of about 300,000 name checks waiting to be completed, Mr. Bentley said, about
half have been hung up in the system for more than six months.
Mr. Bentley and F.B.I. officials would not comment on the lawsuit, saying it
was pending litigation. It was filed by the National Immigration Law Center, a
public interest law group in Los Angeles, and the American Civil Liberties
Union.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is in charge of deciding
naturalization petitions, contracts with the F.B.I. to carry out the
background checks. Basic checks against the bureau s roster of criminals are
computerized and go quickly, officials said.
But because of policy changes in 2002 as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks, the
F.B.I. must check not only the name of the applicant but also any references
to that name in its files, officials said. The reference files are not all in
computer databases and some must be searched manually, Richard Kolko, a
spokesman for the bureau, said.
Those files include names of people who committed no crimes, including victims
and witnesses, F.B.I. officials said. They said they had been consolidating
and modernizing the databases. The lawsuit seeks to force Citizenship and
Immigration Services to impose deadlines for completing all the checks and
challenges the expanded searches. The lawsuit is the first to include
citizenship applicants who have not already passed the required civics
examination administered by an immigration officer. By law, the agency is
required to decide on naturalization petitions within 120 days after the
candidate passes that test.
Lawyers said the likelihood was small that legal immigrants who applied for
naturalization would have a criminal background because any record was a legal
bar to becoming a citizen.
Jim Moorhead, 56, another plaintiff, is a British citizen who said he had
lived as a legal immigrant in the United States for 30 years. In 1991, Mr.
Moorhead was named a citizen hero by Los Angeles County when he captured an
armed robber. A name check delay has held up his citizenship petition for two
years.
"I ve given 30 years of my life to America," he said, "and now I can t even do
the right thing by becoming a citizen."
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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/12/05/news/nation/16_47_4712_4_07.txt
ACLU suing federal government over FBI 'name check' backlog
By: KEITH ST. CLAIR - Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- The American Civil Liberties Union sued the federal government
Tuesday, claiming the FBI is taking too long finishing checks on immigrants
applying for U.S. citizenship.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has 120 days to grant citizenship
after the applicant has met all requirements, been interviewed and passed a
basic citizenship test.
Until last year, it was during this period the USCIS would send the
applicant's name to the FBI for a "name check."
The FBI, which contracts to do such checks for 70 agencies, said it goes
through about 70,000 names a week. About half those are from the USCIS, said
Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman in Washington.
"We run the name to see if a person has been the subject of or connected to a
criminal or terrorist organization," Bresson said.
"If there's no information, and usually there isn't," such a check can take as
little as an hour, Bresson said.
But, if there's a "hit" on a name, he said, "we have to go to that field
office and pull the record to see if the individual is the same one."
An ombudsman for the USCIS says the backlog is worsening, with 329,160 name
checks pending as of May 2007 -- up more than 98,000 over the previous year.
Although the USCIS says 90 percent of its name checks are resolved within six
months, the ombudsman drew a different conclusion. In a June 2007 report, the
ombudsman found that nearly a third of the checks had been pending for more
than one year.
Such is the case for Abbas Amirichimeh, a microchip designer living in Irvine
who has been trying to become a U.S. citizen for more than four years.
Amirichimeh is one of four immigrants living in Southern California on whose
behalf the ACLU filed the suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court. It seeks class-
action status on behalf of the four and "all other persons similarly
situated."
Amirichimeh came to the U.S. from Iran in 1994, submitted his application for
citizenship in May 2003, and had his interview and passed his examination the
next summer.
More than three years later, his case still isn't resolved because his name
check has not been completed.
"Is it the FBI or USCIS that's not doing their job?" Amirichimeh said. "I
can't understand it. I'm in limbo."
Amirichimeh said he was unable to visit Iran after the deaths of his father
and other family members because he feared he would not be allowed back in the
U.S.
He at least had his citizenship interview and exam. In April 2006, the CIS
distributed a memo saying "cases will not be scheduled for interview" until
the agency receives the results of the fingerprint check and the FBI name
check.
As a result, many applicants no longer have recourse for delays in getting
name check results because the clock doesn't start ticking on the 120-day time
limit until after those results are in.
Chris Bentley, a spokesman for the USCIS, said the policy switch came "out of
an abundance of caution."
Meanwhile, Jim Moorhead waits for his citizenship interview. A North Hollywood
resident who works in the scrap metal business, Moorhead is another of the
plaintiffs in the ACLU suit.
He came to live in the U.S. in 1976 from the United Kingdom. He said Tuesday
that he applied for citizenship in January 2006 and the FBI received his name
check request the following month.
Moorhead still hasn't had his citizenship interview and test, nor have the
results come back on his name check.
Despite countless inquiries to numerous government agencies, he is still
waiting to find out why.
"Everything they tell you is wrong," Moorhead said. "At best, wrong. At worst,
lies."
Other suits have been filed to hold the government to the 120-day time limit
to rule on citizenship cases.
But attorneys involved with the ACLU suit say this is the first to include
people such as Moorhead, for whom that window does not yet apply.
"We're hopeful that eventually we'll get a court ruling that the name check
system isn't working and we'll get it fixed," said the ACLU's Ranjana
Natarajan.
The suit, Bavi vs. Mukasey, names as defendants Attorney General Michael
Mukasey, Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, and officials from the
FBI and the CIS.
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http://www.apalc.org/pressreleases/2007/NaturalizationLitigation1207.pdf
For Immediate Release
December 3, 2007
MEDIA AVAILABILITY
Tuesday, December 4, 11 a.m.
ACLU of Southern California
1616 Beverly Blvd., LA 90042
Groups Sue to Stop Excessive Citizenship Delays FBI Name Checks Disrupt Lives,
Stall Naturalization Process for Thousands LOS ANGELES -- Many immigrants who
have satisfied the requirements to become U.S.
citizens are left in limbo for months or years due to slow processing of FBI
name checks, according to a class-action lawsuit to be filed in federal court.
The delays violate time limits in the law that are meant to reduce
naturalization backlogs while ensuring national security.
On Tuesday, December 4, the ACLU of Southern California, National Immigration
Law Center, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the law firm of Munger,
Tolles, & Olson will ask a federal judge to enforce the time limits on name
checks for people in the naturalization process. The lawsuit, Bavi v. Mukasey,
names Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the FBI, which conducts the checks,
and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), which oversees the
naturalization process.
Plaintiffs and attorneys will be available to speak to reporters at 11 a.m.
Tuesday,
December 4, at the ACLU of Southern California, 1616 Beverly Blvd., L.A.
90042.
"People s lives are on hold because they are in a bureaucratic black hole.
They can t travel abroad without worrying they will be blocked at the border.
They can t vote. They can t get business or school loans," said ACLU/SC staff
attorney Ranjana Natarajan.
An FBI name check is a routine part of every naturalization application, along
with fingerprint and background checks. The name checks are particularly prone
to cause delays, because similar names result in many false "hits" that are
time-consuming to resolve. The checks can slow the scheduling of
naturalization interviews as well as delay final approval of naturalization.
The USCIS ombudsman found that the FBI name check backlogs have grown worse
over the past few years, and that the name checks themselves may have little
value in identifying persons who pose a threat.
"The current USCIS name check policy may increase the risk to national
security by
extending the time a potential criminal or terrorist remains in the country,"
the report noted.
View the report at:
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/CISOMB_Annual_Report_2007.pdf
Thousands of Americans nationwide have been forced to go to court to unblock
the delay of their naturalization cases. The government routinely fights or
settles these cases rather than fix the underlying problems with name checks.
The plaintiffs in Bavi vs. Mukasey include Alex Lee, 26, who was born in South
Korea and emigrated with his family in 1998. He applied for citizenship in
December 2006. Last Friday he watched in frustration as his parents and
brother took the oath of citizenship -- even though they filed their
applications months later.
Another plaintiff, Abbas Amirichimeh, was born in Iran and came to the U.S.
in 1993 to
study electrical engineering. He is now a highly trained designer working for
chip-maker Broadcom in Irvine, California. Despite that, he has waited more
than four years for a response to his naturalization application, which he
filed in May 2003.
The ninth of 10 children, he was unable to travel to Iran after the deaths of
his father, aunt, uncle and grandfather because he feared he would be stopped
when he returned. "By training, I believe that if there is a problem, we
should come up with a solution," he said. "I feel as if my life is floating."
A government official he spoke to on the phone recently confirmed that the
only thing holding up his naturalization was a name check and suggested he
seek a lawyer.
Bavi v. Mukasey is one of several similar lawsuits are pending around the
country, and the first to address backlogs both for people who have had their
naturalization interviews and for those who have not.
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http://www.immigrateusa.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1343&Itemid=48
Lawsuit filed to Speed Up FBI Name Checks in Natz Cases
Written by Jordana Hart
Wednesday, 05 December 2007
Many immigrants who have satisfied the requirements to become U.S. citizens
are left in limbo for months or years due to slow processing of FBI name
checks, according to a class-action lawsuit to be filed yesterday in federal
court in Los Angeles. The delays violate time limits in the law that are meant
to reduce naturalization backlogs while ensuring national security.
The ACLU of Southern California, the National Immigration Law Center, the
Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and the law firm of Munger, Tolles &
Olson yesterday asked a federal judge to enforce the time limits on name
checks for people in the naturalization process. The lawsuit, Bavi v.
Mukasey, names Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the FBI, which conducts
the checks, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), which
oversees the naturalization process.
"People's lives are on hold because they are in a bureaucratic black hole.
They can't travel abroad without worrying they will be blocked at the border.
They can't vote. They can't get business or school loans," said ACLU/SC staff
attorney Ranjana Natarajan.
An FBI name check is a routine part of every naturalization application, along
with fingerprint and background checks. The name checks are particularly prone
to cause delays because similar names result in many false "hits" that are
time-consuming to resolve. The checks can slow the scheduling of
naturalization interviews as well as delay final approval of naturalization.
The USCIS ombudsman found that the FBI name check backlogs have grown worse
over the past few years, and that the name checks themselves may have little
value in identifying persons who pose a threat. "The current USCIS name check
policy may increase the risk to national security by extending the time a
potential criminal or terrorist remains in the country," his report noted.
In a Dec. 3 email communication to the American Immigration Lawyers
Association (AILA), USCIS stated the following: "U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are
working together to process name checks as quickly as possible without
compromising security or public safety. To this end, we have examined the
existing name check system and acted to address the problem through two
strategies:
First, USCIS and the FBI conducted a joint risk assessment which resulted in
process improvements that permit us to focus on cases of concern.
Second, USCIS and FBI have allocated additional resources to the process.
Over the next year, USCIS is planning to commit a total of $15.5 million to
address the backlog of FBI name checks. Please note, however, USCIS continues
to require FBI name checks for the same categories of applications and no case
will be approved without a cleared name check. We will continue to work with
the FBI to reduce waiting times; but not at the expense of national security
and public safety."
Thousands of Americans nationwide have been forced to go to court to unblock
the delay of their naturalization cases. The government routinely fights or
settles these cases rather than fix the underlying problems with name checks.
The plaintiffs in Bavi v. Mukasey include Alex Lee, 26, who was born in South
Korea and emigrated with his family in 1998. He applied for citizenship in
December 2006. Last Friday he watched in frustration as his parents and
brother took the oath of citizenship - even though they filed their
applications months later.
Another plaintiff, Abbas Amirichimeh, was born in Iran and came to the U.S.
in 1993 to study electrical engineering. He is now a highly trained microchip
designer in Irvine, California. Despite that, he has waited more than four
years for a response to his naturalization application, which he filed in May
2003. The ninth of 10 children, he was unable to travel to Iran after the
deaths of his father, aunt, uncle and grandfather because he feared he would
be stopped when he returned. "By training, I believe that if there is a
problem, we should come up with a solution," he said. "I feel as if my life is
floating."
A government official he spoke to on the phone recently confirmed that the
only thing holding up his naturalization was a name check - and suggested he
seek a lawyer. Bavi v. Mukasey is one of several similar lawsuits that are
pending around the country, and the first to address backlogs both for people
who have had their naturalization interviews and for those who have not.
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Abbas AmirichimehSr. Principal Design Engineer, SATA/SAS IP R&D and Project
Management - Enterprise Networking Group, Broadcom Corp.
Greater Los Angeles Area
Current Sr. Principal Design Engineer, SATA/SAS IP R&D and Project Management
- Enterprise Networking Group at Broadcom Corp, Past Group Manager, Signal
Integrity and Advanced IC Packaging Group at Broadcom Corporation Principal
Design Engineer at Broadcom Corp.
Staff Design Engineer at Intel corporation Technical Director and Business
Partner at Final Engineering see less...
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Education University of California, Los Angeles The University of Texas at
Arlington Recommended 6 people have recommended Abbas Connections 58
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Abbas Amirichimeh s Summary
Looking for new challenges in project management, designing more complex and
faster SoC's, and staying at the cutting edge of the state of the art in high
speed/low power custom circuits and layout design
Abbas Amirichimeh s Specialties:
Project Management, IP Developement, Custom Circuit Design, High speed
Analog/Digital Circuits, RF and MMIC Circuit Design, Signal Integrity and EM
Abbas Amirichimeh s Experience
Sr. Principal Design Engineer, SATA/SAS IP R&D and Project Management -
Enterprise Networking Group Broadcom Corp, (Public Company; 1001-5000
employees; BRCM; Telecommunications industry)
September 2006 -- Present (1 year 4 months)
Sr. Principal Design Engineer, SATA/SAS IP Developement and Project
Management, custom circuits and layout for 10G+ SerDes and Fiber Channel;
ASICS and SOC
Group Manager, Signal Integrity and Advanced IC Packaging Group Broadcom
Corporation (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRCM; Telecommunications
industry)
April 2005 -- September 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Established the centralized Signal Integrity Group, created unified flows and
methodologies for on-ship, package, and system level signal integrity
analysis, measurement apparatus, verification and debug.
Principal Design Engineer
Broadcom Corp.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BRCM; Telecommunications industry)
November 2000 -- May 2005 (4 years 7 months)
Principal Design Engineer, custom circuits and layout for 10G SerDes, ASICS,
Fiber Channels
Staff Design Engineer
Intel corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
January 1996 -- November 2000 (4 years 11 months)
Staff Design Engineer at Intel Corporation Pentium 4 CPU Team, Custom circuits
and layout
Technical Director and Business Partner
Final Engineering
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 1988 -- December 1993 (5 years 8 months)
Custom circuits and systems
Abbas Amirichimeh s Education
University of California, Los Angeles
Extended Studies, Electrical Engineering, 2002 -- 2004
The University of Texas at Arlington
M.Sc.EE, Electrical Engineering, 1994 -- 1995
Additional Information
Abbas Amirichimeh s Honors:
Intel MD-6 Division Award for High quality 3GHz+ Fireball circuit design
and timing convergence beyond C-step in A-step tapeout
Intel MD-6 Department Quality Award for high frequency cells library
development (3GHz+)
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