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USCIS Backlog as on March 31, 2008

Naturalization Applications  – 958,663
I-140 Applications             – 46,092
I-485 Applications             – 762,938
I-765 Applications             – 158,565
I-130 Applications             – 1,387,045

For more details see USCIS Website

Unites States Citizenship and Immigration Services has recently revealed that the agency has a backlog of Naturalization cases that will take around three years to clear. The Agency attributes this to a surge in application noted since June 2007.
The surge was most probably a combined result of the Agency’s decision to almost doubling the [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has declared that the agency has cleared almost 99% of the labor certification backlog, a few cases are pending for slow employer responses.

As evident from the Visa Bulletins published on January 2007 and February 2007, the Employment Based Third Preference quota (EB-3) has become completely stagnant as backlogs continue to grow, fuelled by increasing demand against the comparatively nominal cap allowed. For nationalities like Indians and Chinese, the waiting period might exceed five years, unless the [...]