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Posted Notice by USCIS
USCIS Meets Another Milestone in Eliminating
FBI
Name Check Backlogs
Name Checks Pending More Than Six Months Now
Completed
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) announced
today that, working in
close partnership with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), the backlog for FBI name checks
pending more than
six months has been eliminated.
This is the fourth milestone met by
the agency as part
of its joint plan with the FBI to completely eliminate
the backlog of pending name checks.
Just 16 months ago, more than 349,000 name checks
were pending; of that,
nearly 150,000 had been
pending for more than six months. All USCIS
requests
pending for six months or more as of February 28,
2009, have
now been responded to by the FBI’s
National Name Check Program (NNCP).
In April 2008, USCIS and the FBI established
milestones prioritizing work based on the age of the
pending name check. Priorities included processing
all name checks pending more than three years by
May 2008
(the FBI had already eliminated all cases
pending more than four years);
those pending more
than two years by July 2008; and those pending more
than one year by November 2008.
USCIS and FBI are on schedule to meet the next two
goals: all name checks
requests pending longer than
90 days to be completed by May 30, 2009
and, by the
end of June 2009, the FBI will complete 98 percent of
USCIS
name check requests within 30 days and
process the remaining two percent
within three
months. USCIS and the FBI will continue to focus on
sustaining
a rigorous and efficient screening of each
name check request.
Elimination of the name check backlog is an example
of USCIS’commitment
to making timely decisions
about immigration applications and petitions,
while
maintaining the security and integrity of America’s
immigration
system.
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