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Immigration Wait
Decreased
WASHINGTON (By Sergio Bustos, Republic Washington Bureau)
September 24, 2004 - Bush administration officials said Thursday that they have
trimmed wait times for millions of people wanting to become U.S. citizens or
legal residents by reducing a staggering backlog of immigration applications.
The announcement comes only four months after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, the agency charged with serving newcomers to the United States,
launched an aggressive strategy to reduce the backlog.
The average wait time for residency applications has decreased to 11 months
from 20 months while citizenship applications are now processed in about six
months, down from 30 last year, agency Director Eduardo Aguirre said. In
Phoenix, which has had one of the nation's slowest processing rates in the
past, the wait is about 27 months for residency applications and about eight
months for citizenship. In 2000, the wait times were 46 months for residency
and 42 months for citizenship.
Aguirre credits more efficient management and better use of technology with
reducing the backlog of immigration applications to 1.5 million at the end of
month from a historic high of 3.8 million in January.
Speaking at a news conference, Aguirre acknowledged that almost half of the
2.3 million backlog decrease, about 1.1 million applications, is the result of
a new accounting method used by the agency.
Each year, Congress sets annual limits on a country-by-country basis on the
number of immigrants permitted to settle in the United States.
Aguirre said his agency is ahead of schedule toward a goal of eliminating the
backlog and limiting the wait time to six months for all types of
applications, including work permits and replacement green cards, by September
2006. President Bush promised the improvements during his 2000 campaign.
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