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Keep 'em coming! :) __________________ Federal Lawsuit Seeks Decision on Citizenship Applications Delayed for Years Luis F. Perez | South Florida Sun-Sentinel 8:16 PM EDT, June 4, 2008 The Florida Immigration Advocacy Center filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday accusing the...

New processing dates are now posted. NYC July 16 LA June 2 Miami April 20 Newark July 7 So much for retrogression.

Our dear Emilio Gonzalez is now CEO for U.S. operations of Indra Sistemas, a Spanish defense systems company. See the press release below. ***** Indra reinforces its position in the United States The company reinforces its structure in the country and studies new business...

See the ad below from http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/digest/2008,0514.shtm (also on USAJOBS). This is absolutely outrageous. On April 2, 2008, Michael Chertoff testified to congress that the new fee schedule had enabled USCIS to hire 1,500 immigration officers to improve processing times...

It's been nearly a year since USCIS announced the fee increase. In retrospect, it's pretty funny reading, particularly the Q&A. May 29, 2007 USCIS Sets Final Fee Schedule to Build an Immigration Service for the 21st Century U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today...

These have now been posted: http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/N-400%20NATURALIZATION%20BENEFITS_Mar08.pdf Good news, for the most part. The situation is improving, if slowly. Total cases processed (approved + denied) in March was 93,583, up from 82,594 in February and under 70,000 in...

ICE takes another blow on the "moral character" front... http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=4614851&page=1 Report Blasts Immigration Halloween Party Employee in Dark Makeup, Dreadlocks, Prison Outfit Warrants Inquiry, Panel Finds By JACK DATE and JASON RYAN April 8, 2008 The...

NYC, despite being bogged down with the July backlog still, has seen some oddly fast timelines for more recent applicants--three December applicants that we know of have interviews. We've speculated that this is possibly due to peculiarities of queuing or staff assignments. Yesterday ladka...

I guess they're going public with the 13-15 month figure Chertoff gave yesterday. USCIS Updates Projected Naturalization Case Processing Time Agency To Complete 36-percent More Naturalization Cases Than Last Year WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced...

February stats are now up on the USCIS website: http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/N-400%20NATURALIZATION%20BENEFITS_February08.pdf The bad news: - Total cases pending still over one million The good news: - As has been the case for a few months, receipts are about half what they...

Not an April Fools joke! See below: Immigrants' Rights Advocates And ACLU File Lawsuit To End Illegal Delays In Processing Citizenship Applications (4/1/2008) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org PHILADELPHIA - Many immigrants who have satisfied the...

My apologies if this was already posted. It's from March 20, but I don't recall seeing mention of it here. I hope the good senators get the data they're asking for, and that it is ultimately made public. KENNEDY, SCHUMER, LEAHY URGE ACTION ON PENDING NATURALIZATION APPLICATIONS...

I just saw this on the USCIS website. It's the first real sign I've seen that they've actually increased adjudicator staffing to deal with the naturalization backlog. I will gladly take my interview Sunday morning at 3am!! Naturalization Interviews to be Conducted on Saturdays, Sundays...

An Agent, a Green Card, and a Demand for Sex By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: March 21, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/nyregion/21immigrant.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card...

Excellent Op-Ed in the Times today on Gonzalez's legacy. I couldn't agree more. Editorial Citizenship, Thwarted Published: March 19, 2008 The director of the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, Emilio Gonzalez, is stepping down next month, leaving behind a...

This is from today's Times: Latinos Seek Citizenship in Time for Voting By JULIA PRESTON A lawsuit filed Thursday in a federal court in New York by Latino immigrants seeks to force immigration authorities to complete hundreds of thousands of stalled naturalization petitions in time for...

Yesterday (March 5), Michael Chertoff gave the following testimony to the House Judiciary Committee: "As you know, USCIS has faced a challenge keeping pace with unprecedented levels of citizenship applications. During Fiscal Year 2007, USCIS received 1.4 million requests for citizenship...

The following just came out from the Migration Policy Institute: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/FS21_NaturalizationBacklog_022608.pdf It's yet another report on the backlog. What's interesting is that they appear to have received statistics on naturalization receipts from USCIS that...

My apologies if this has already been posted, I saw it in another forum. Should be required reading for anyone worried about namecheck issues: http://www.bibdaily.com/pdfs/Mocanu%202-8-08%20LEXIS.pdf Basically, the ruling (by US District Court for Eastern PA) rules in favor of the...