bigbang2001
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With supposedly 12 people in the department they will take a long time to reach the name.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/nationalnamecheck.htm
From the above URL ,
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Many times, the delay associated with the processing of the remaining name checks is not the actual time it takes to process a name check, but the time it takes for an analyst to get to the name check request in order to process it. This is due to the constant volume of name checks, several million each year, combined with the FBI's current work on processing residual name checks from a batch of 2.7 million requests submitted by USCIS in December 2002, as compared to the NNCP's limited resources. Less than one percent of the requests are identified with a file containing possible derogatory information.
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So, it may not be the actual investigation, but the time it takes for analyst to reach the hit information.