Deputy Commissioner Chris Sale, the second highest ranking official at the Immigration and Naturalization Service submitted her resignation to INS Commissioner Dorothy Meissner in June. Sale, the highest ranking civil servant in the INS, said she was leaving to pursue “alternative career opportunities.” While the INS reports Sale left of her own accord, the Associated Press reports that anonymous congressional sources said that Sale was being held accountable for “persistent management failures within the INS.” Some of the failures stem from the highly publicized flaws in background checking in citizenship applications.
Sale as Deputy Commissioner is charged with day-to-day management of the INS. The impact of her position remaining vacant is not entirely clear, but the fact that Commissioner Meissner has five vacancies at top positions at the agency has drawn criticism from some in Congress.
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