USCIS is inundated with applications for naturalization. Due to the fee increase that took place a few months ago, to save a few bucks – well, maybe a couple hundred bucks – many applied before the actual increase came into effect. The number of application almost doubled. Now USCIS is flooding. Future citizens have to wait an average of eighteen months now before they see their application processed.
Everybody is patiently in line, but the soldiers, the non-citizens who fought for the US, no, those shouldn’t wait for to become American citizens. That these people put in jeopardy their lives should speed up their applications. This is how it should be, but it is not what happens in reality. Because of the war, some military lost their lives before being able to become naturalized citizens. It is that the applications, sometimes, are not accurately filled, it is that in zone of war the time is stretched…
To know more about this topic, read a New-York-Times article by Fernanda Santos.
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