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INS ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN TO IMPROVE PROCESSING OF NATURALIZATION AND ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS APPLICATIONS
In early May, the Chief of the INS immigration Services Division issued a memo to all INS officers in change of adjudications.  This letter, which has just become public, outlines the INS’s plans to improve processing of both naturalization and adjustment of status applications.  The memo notes that while improvements in processing times have been made, the INS still faces criticism from many groups who say that processing still takes entirely too long.

New initiatives have been announced for naturalization cases.  The first is to insure that all naturalization applicants who filed before July 1, 1998 are scheduled for interviews before the end of fiscal year 2000 (September 30, 2000).  The second is to ensure that a decision in made in each naturalization case within 120 days of the initial interview.

Along with new efforts to decide naturalization cases within the statutorily required 120-day period, efforts will be made to decide adjustment of status cases within 120 days of an interview.
 
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