Are cases being rushed because election is coming?

[charmander 692]

Let's talk numbers and not speculate. FY16 3rd quarter statistics are just released yesterday. https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/Naturalization%20Data/N400_performancedata_fy2016_qtr3.pdf

USCIS field offices adjudicated ~210 thousand cases last quarter. Number of applications are on the rise. Roughly 525 thousand cases are still pending.

Let's compare it with the previous quarter's numbers, FY16 2nd quarter https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/Naturalization%20Data/N400_performancedata_fy2016_qtr2.pdf . In that quarter they adjudicated ~197 thousand cases.

So it is true they processed more cases (6% more) but they also received more (13% more), current backlog is 17% higher than last quarter. So, if you are using "rushed" to imply they are reducing backlogs, no they are not. But they have processed more cases for sure.

[moemac59 192]

Check out the N-400 May filers thread for frustrated folk like me whose cases have been stalled. Blows that theory right out of the water.

There's still a few people from December 2015 that are still waiting for their interview.

[spn1025 38]

^{So, as I was saying in my original post...}

^{http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/politics/department-of-homeland-security-citizenship-2016-election/}

Edited September 29, 2016 by spn1025