The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) completed an unprecedented 10 million immigration cases in fiscal 2023, reducing its backlog for the first time in over a decade, according to a newly released end of fiscal year 2023 report .
“We’ve completed a record number of cases, responded to emerging crises around the globe with essential humanitarian relief, and applied innovative solutions to improve customer experience and reduce backlogs,” USCIS Director Ur M. Jaddou said of the milestone.
In fiscal 2023, USCIS received 10.9 million filings and completed more than 10 million pending cases, both record-breaking numbers, reducing its overall backlog by 15%, according to the report.
USCIS staff also administered the Oath of Allegiance to more than 878,500 new U.S. citizens, including 12,000 members of the U.S. military, last fiscal year.This effectively eliminated a previous backlog of naturalization applications, it said. Its median processing time for naturalization applicants dropped from 10.5 […]
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