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USCIS and FBI Achieve Interim Backlog Elimination Goals
Source: DHS blog post
Applicable to: All I-485 applicants undergoing name checks
USCIS has met another benchmark in our efforts to eliminate the FBI Name Check backlog.
As of mid-February, USCIS and the FBI had completed all name checks that were pending for more than six months. In doing so, we beat our publicly stated goal by almost two full weeks. With the milestone’s completion, the FBI and USCIS have met or exceeded the first six milestones outlined last summer.
USCIS Meets Another Milestone in Eliminating FBI Name Check Backlogs
Source: USCIS
Applies to: I-485 applicants
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.… Continue reading