Judge Could Soon Order Clearing of Big Immigration Backlog - August 6, 2008 - The New York Sun
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By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, Staff Reporter of the Sun | August 6, 2008
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/judge-could-soon-order-clearing-of-big/83289/
A federal judge in Manhattan will decide, as early as tomorrow, whether to force the federal government to process a backlog of tens of thousands of citizenship applications in time for Election Day.
The backlog is partly attributable to a spike in applications last year prompted by an announcement of fee increases. It is also due to a bottleneck in the naturalization process related to FBI reviews of its investigative files for adverse information about applicants. Such reviews — which were made more comprehensive after it was discovered that the federal government in 2002 had naturalized a person with ties to Hezbollah — are at the heart of a class action in Manhattan on behalf of as many as 55,000 immigrants in the New York region who have citizenship applications that have been pending for more than half a year.
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