Today's @nytimes highlights the worsening barriers that now confront #immigrants seeking to become naturalized U.S. citizens. Citing the @chooseboundless #naturalization report, @mirjordan reveals how wait times have doubled over the past 2 years:
nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/…
The wait time for a #citizenship application is now >10 months, but that's a national avg. It's much worse in some cities. #Immigrants in Twin Cities must wait ~2 years, and just since we released our report, Las Vegas max wait time ballooned to 31 months!
boundless.com/american-citiz…
USCIS says: "Despite a record and unprecedented application surge workload, USCIS is completing more citizenship applications, more efficiently and effectively — outperforming itself."
Hard data undercuts these claims.
Past workloads were much bigger & effectively processed!
Imagine you run a company and get orders for 1 million widgets, two years in a row. Great news! But customers start complaining that their widgets haven't been shipped. You call up your factory & the manager says, "We shipped 800k/year—a 5-year record for us! You're welcome!"
If some customers wait 3 years, that's not "overperforming." USCIS can fix this. Unlike ICE & CBP, USCIS gets most of its money from application fees, not from Congress/taxpayers. Instead, USCIS recently asked for permission to transfer $200M over to ICE!
src.bna.com/Fy0
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