As our regular readers will know, we had recently reported that the Naturalization Backlog will not clear before 2010. As detailed in the article, by the end of FY2007, there was more then 140,000 Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker (FORM I-140) petitions awaiting their fate. Due to the lack of adequate resources to deal with [...]

The United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has sped up the processing time for some of the I-485 Applications to Adjust Status petitions which were delayed because of Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) name-check system. On February 4, 2008 USCIS issued an interoffice memorandum with the subject “Revised National Security Adjudication and Reporting Requirements.” [...]