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Tag: naturalization ceremony

Posted inBorderlands, Editor's Picks

Citizenship applications backlog leaves thousands with cases pending

by Steve Crane Oct 15, 2021Jan 26, 2022

WASHINGTON – Mary has helped hundreds of immigrants gain U.S. citizenship, but she hasn’t had the same luck with her husband’s case, one of more than 11,000 applications currently pending in Arizona. That is nearly double the backlog of 6,307 cases at the end of 2015, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]

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