Immigrants Anxiously Await Citizenship As Processing Times Nearly Double
For immigrants, the road to U.S. citizenship has always been a long and difficult one. But things could be getting worse. The average processing time for naturalization applications has almost doubled, from about five months in early 2016 to an average of almost nine months today, according to a The wait has undermined people’s access to critical rights, John C. Yang, president and executive director of nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, told HuffPost in an email. Many of these individuals want “to be engaged in the ...
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