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Citizenship Caught in a bureaucratic black hole | Caught in a bureaucratic black hole |
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| Monday, 10 September 2007 | |
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Applicants seeking U.S. citizenship languish for years as the FBI conducts cumbersome records checks. Lawsuits are a result.
Anna Gorman of the Los Angeles Times reports on the background check backlog that has kept nearly 320,000 naturalization applicants in limbo for months or years.
"It is not a check of your name," said Chuck Roth, the National Immigrant Justice Center' litigation director. "It is a file review of anywhere your name happens to appear. It has just created a giant bureaucratic mess."
Read the story here. |
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