N400 backlog skyrockets under new administration

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

The backlog of pending applications for immigrants legally in the country trying to become U.S. citizens has “skyrocketed” under President Donald Trump, according to a new report from an immigrant rights organization.

There were nearly 730,000 pending naturalization applications as of the end of last year, a more than 87 percent increase since 2015 under President Barack Obama, according to the report from the National Partnership for New Americans, an alliance of immigrants' rights groups.

“The Trump admin has built a second wall that prevents legal immigrants in the U.S. from becoming voting U.S. citizens,” Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the partnership, told NBC News.

He said the backlog at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services means processing rates have reached as high as 20 months, raising concerns in a critical mid-term election year that some people will be unable to vote. Last year, over 925,000 people applied for U.S. citizenship, according to the report.

 

More, including hot rebuttals by USCIS: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/citizenship-application-backlog-skyrocketed-under-trump-report-finds-n888146

[NYCruiser 423]

3 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

The backlog of pending applications for immigrants legally in the country trying to become U.S. citizens has “skyrocketed” under President Donald Trump, according to a new report from an immigrant rights organization.

There were nearly 730,000 pending naturalization applications as of the end of last year, a more than 87 percent increase since 2015 under President Barack Obama, according to the report from the National Partnership for New Americans, an alliance of immigrants' rights groups.

“The Trump admin has built a second wall that prevents legal immigrants in the U.S. from becoming voting U.S. citizens,” Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the partnership, told NBC News.

He said the backlog at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services means processing rates have reached as high as 20 months, raising concerns in a critical mid-term election year that some people will be unable to vote. Last year, over 925,000 people applied for U.S. citizenship, according to the report.

 

More, including hot rebuttals by USCIS: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/citizenship-application-backlog-skyrocketed-under-trump-report-finds-n888146

Very suspect and left wing article.The initial photo showing 'hundreds of thousands' of people protesting US Immigration law shows at best a few thousand. Then the whole tone and quotes of the article is 'cause and effect' or more important...conjecture on who they interview. (Left wing politicians)

[WandY 430]

11 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

The backlog of pending applications for immigrants legally in the country trying to become U.S. citizens has “skyrocketed” under President Donald Trump, according to a new report from an immigrant rights organization.

Yet the Obama administration was much faster at deportations. As a former journalist, I know how easy it is to push an agenda using piecemeal data. Here's something for you to read, you know, while your not asking questions or trying to help others.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-15/trump-is-deporting-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-did

 

9 minutes ago, NYCruiser said:

Very suspect and left wing article.The initial photo showing 'hundreds of thousands' of people protesting US Immigration law shows at best a few thousand. Then the whole tone and quotes of the article is 'cause and effect' or more important...conjecture on who they interview. (Left wing politicians)

Exactly! Well said, NYCruiser.

[NYCruiser 423]

4 minutes ago, WandY said:

Yet the Obama administration was much faster at deportations. As a former journalist, I know how easy it is to push an agenda using piecemeal data. Here's something for you to read, you know, while your not asking questions or trying to help others.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-15/trump-is-deporting-fewer-immigrants-than-obama-did

 

Exactly! Well said, NYCruiser.

NBC is another left wing rag TV station. They do nothing but try to make the President look bad in every way. Glad to see it is NOT working....

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He needs no help in that regard.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

 

The article did contact uscis and publish their rebuttal, as I highlighted in the text. They quote one organization, clearly with a bias as you point out, and they quote the response. That’s called fair and balanced reporting, even if you don’t like what it says. It’s not just emotively bleating one side and leaving it like that, which I’ve certainly seen on some websites.

 

Everything I have read in this forum has indicated that it is taking longer and longer to process N400s. A cursory look at the uscis page for N400 processing times shows many, possibly the majority, can take well over a year now. I’d be perfectly happy to read the fox or breitbart slant on that, should you want to post it.

Edited July 3, 2018 by SusieQQQ

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

1 hour ago, WandY said:

. Here's something for you to read, you know, while your not asking questions or trying to help others.

 

Your sarcasm is not required. It’s not like this is the first post I’ve made on VJ and it’s not like I spend all my time on this forum ranting about immigration policies. I posted it because it’s an article that’s directly related to the topic of this particular forum.

 

It is also pretty important to me, because this backlog that has arisen is going to create quite a large headache for us in that it probably means my one child will turn 18, and probably even move away to college, before my application will be processed. These will happen, respectively, about 7 months and 12 months after I can file. So it’s more money, more hassle for both of us and more time for her because obviously she can’t pre-emptively apply and she needs to be resident in new her state 3 months before applying on her own.  So while that’s not quite a question, if there is anything you can suggest to navigate this situation I’d love to hear that too. Presuming you do actually answer questions on occasion here.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

1 hour ago, WandY said:

Yet the Obama administration was much faster at deportations.

And yes I know this! I think I’ve even posted that same link before. So why was he accused by the right of being soft on immigration? 

Edited July 3, 2018 by SusieQQQ

[NYCruiser 423]

32 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

And yes I know this! I think I’ve even posted that same link before. So why was he accused by the right of being soft on immigration? 

You seem to go on and on about the right wing etc...This is a problem period like so many others in our country SuzieQQQ. It will NOT be fixed by blaming Trump or Obama. Both are trying to fix a problem that is probably intractable. The media however, is not helping and is complicit in this. Look at this article excerpt from Bloomberg just posted. I read the first few lines and realised this article was garbage and opinion based.

 

Quote: 'It's a testament to President Donald Trump's capacity for malice that his deportation policy has terrified more while deporting less. Arrests by his administration's Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2017 were about half what they were during President Barack Obama's peak years, 2010 and 2011, according to a new report by the blah, blah....etc..."

 

Offering solutions rather than pigeonholing posters does not solve anything. Rather, Trump should pardon the present illegals, AND do what he is doing with 100% enforcement. This was, ok we forgive, but don't get any ideas for future 'asylum' seekers unless 100% genuine.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

7 minutes ago, NYCruiser said:

You seem to go on and on about the right wing etc...

 

 

I do? Really? Can you quote all these posts where i (personally) go “on and on” about “the right wing”? (Did you realize it was someone else that posted the link to the Bloomberg article, not me?)

 

 I think we are all quite clear that you didn’t like the tone of the article and you don’t like (in your very own words)  “left wing rags”. Now, do you have anything of value to add to the topic at hand, which might I remind you us about delays in processing N400s, or are you just going to keep criticizing me for imagined posts and complaining about news stations you don’t like?

Edited July 3, 2018 by SusieQQQ

[NYCruiser 423]

44 minutes ago, SusieQQQ said:

I do? Really? Can you quote all these posts where i (personally) go “on and on” about “the right wing”? (Did you realize it was someone else that posted the link to the Bloomberg article, not me?)

 

 I think we are all quite clear that you didn’t like the tone of the article and you don’t like (in your very own words)  “left wing rags”. Now, do you have anything of value to add to the topic at hand, which might I remind you us about delays in processing N400s, or are you just going to keep criticizing me for imagined posts and complaining about news stations you don’t like?

I was giving feedback. As I said..and will sat it again, yes left wing rag. All that article does is criticize the current president in my view. Yes they are delays. NYC is not up to 7 months (at least for ours on the DHS website). No it is not Trump's fault.

[NYCruiser 423]

1 hour ago, SusieQQQ said:

I do? Really? Can you quote all these posts where i (personally) go “on and on” about “the right wing”? (Did you realize it was someone else that posted the link to the Bloomberg article, not me?)

 

 I think we are all quite clear that you didn’t like the tone of the article and you don’t like (in your very own words)  “left wing rags”. Now, do you have anything of value to add to the topic at hand, which might I remind you us about delays in processing N400s, or are you just going to keep criticizing me for imagined posts and complaining about news stations you don’t like?

Here is another interesting article. (not sure which side of the coin they stand). Little more balanced, so maybe be right?(So take it with a healthy dose of scepticism.).

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-poll-numbers-approval-rating-up-2018-6?amp%3Butm_medium=referral&soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

 

"Quote: Over the same period, Trump's border practices drove at least one mainstream news anchor to tears and sparked round-the-clock coverage of family separations. Other than Trump's policy of separating migrant families at the border, which he reversed amid the scrutiny, analysts say his overall immigration policy looks a lot like Obama's." End Quote.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

4 hours ago, NYCruiser said:

Here is another interesting article. (not sure which side of the coin they stand). Little more balanced, so maybe be right?(So take it with a healthy dose of scepticism.).

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-poll-numbers-approval-rating-up-2018-6?amp%3Butm_medium=referral&soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

 

"Quote: Over the same period, Trump's border practices drove at least one mainstream news anchor to tears and sparked round-the-clock coverage of family separations. Other than Trump's policy of separating migrant families at the border, which he reversed amid the scrutiny, analysts say his overall immigration policy looks a lot like Obama's." End Quote.

Is there any reason you can’t keep to topic? Isn’t derailing threads contrary to TOS?

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

5 hours ago, NYCruiser said:

 NYC is not up to 7 months (at least for ours on the DHS website). 

According to https://egov.uscis.gov/processing-times/ N400 processing time is 10.5 to 17 months in NYC. 

Edited July 3, 2018 by SusieQQQ

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Shall I get us back on topic here? Might be an idea. 

 

I filed my application on April 14th, did my biometrics in May, my interview was two Fridays ago, and my naturalization oath is set for August 7th. I'm in Vermont so I'm guessing it's less busy than most though.