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jay kay
Jan 26, 2022
Substantial Delays in Processing
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Katie KJan 26, 2022
this is insane
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kritesh KumarJan 26, 2022
the link u shared is not working
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jay kayJan 26, 2022
Shawntel Went expected pandemic-related delays when she applied for U.S. citizenship in May 2020. But as the months passed and friends who applied for citizenship after she did were approved , she began to worry. Finally, earlier this month, US Citizenship and Immigration Services provided Ms. Went with an explanation: the documents they needed to complete her application were stuck in one of several known government warehouses. as Federal Records Centers. These centers, mile-long networks of man-made limestone caves built beneath the Kansas City metro area, were largely closed due to Covid-19 and had no immediate plans to reopen. Without these documents, which contain Ms Went’s full immigration history since she moved from Barbados to the United States in 2011, the citizenship agency cannot approve her application. The government, she says, told her there was no solution. “They don’t want to open the office to pick him up,” she said. “That does not make any sense.” Ms. Went is not alone in bureaucratic limbo. This month, more than 350,000 immigration history requests were pending with the National Archives and Records Administration, which oversees the Federal Records Centers in Kansas City, though not all of those requests were for citizenship applications. waiting.
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jay kayJan 26, 2022
The citizenship freeze is the starkest example of a longstanding problem facing the US immigration system: it works almost entirely with pen and paper. Those files, about 80 million in total, have grown so physically large that the citizenship agency has outsourced some of its storage to another federal agency, the National Archives and Records Administration. This agency is supposed to retrieve records containing applicants’ immigration backgrounds. But because of the pandemic, it has closed its facilities to all but emergencies — and the records needed to approve some people’s citizenship applications are out of reach. After multiple inquiries from the Wall Street Journal, the National Archives and Records Administration said in a statement that it had kept headcount at 25% at its Kansas City facility because it is a “transmission area high”

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