Immigration Update

USCIS Reports its Achievements in FY 2008 and its Backlog Reduction Goals in FY 2009

During FY09, USCIS’ goal is to achieve a 20 percent reduction in processing times for the majority of key petitions and applications, in spite of having to work through an unexpected surge of applications received during FY07. The agency plans a five-month processing time for naturalization applications (N-400s) and a four-month processing time for both adjustment of status applications (I-485s) and petitions for alien workers (I-140s). Sounds like a dream considering the current backlogs of I-140 and EB-485? For the full text, click here.

We hope these goals are achieved not at the end of FY 2009 (09/30/2009) but sometime early in FY 2009. We also hope that the goal to reduce the processing times from current way over one year to four (4) months for I-140 petitions includes expansion of I-140 Premium Processing Program as soon as possible.

source: immigration-law.com