Bill wrote on 04/10/08 12:20:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:25:45 -0700 (PDT), mnetley@... wrote:
>
>> Dear group,
>>
>> My wife completes three years as an LPR in February, so will be
>> applying for citizenship/naturalisation 90 days in advance. She is in
>> the US on her own merit - nothing to do with me as I'm a UK citizen.
>> Do any readers of this group have any experience of roughly how long
>> it takes to process once the application is made? Are we talking weeks
>> or months here?
>
> It will be months. At least several months. There was a huge
> increase in applications last summer before the fee increases, so many
> types of petitions are backlogged.
Earlier this year, they said it can take up to 18 months.
But that got them under political pressure, since there are elections coming up.
So, they hired (and got out of retirement) a bunch of people, and they are
scheduling interviews and oath ceremonies in the evenings and on weekends.
But still, don't expect anything under 6 months.
-Joe
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