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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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NIJC client Rodrigo Alvear would be a model citizen. For 30 years he has served the U.S. government, first in the U.S. Army and then as an employee of the U.S. Postal Service. He is active in his church, and dreams of doing missionary work abroad. He is the type of person many Americans would be proud to call their own. But his quest to naturalize has been stymied by government delays. Five years after passing his citizenship exams and interview, he is still waiting for a final decision from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released the questions and answers for a redesigned naturalization test that will be administered starting October 1, 2008. The agency rewrote the test to focus more heavily on U.S. civics and history.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
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The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday on the thousands of would-be citizens who are caught in the U.S. government's backlog of naturalization applications.
The newspaper reports:
Nearly 320,000 people were waiting for their name checks to be completed as of Aug. 7, including more than 152,000 who had been waiting for more than six months, according to the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. More than 61,000 had been waiting for more than two years.
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