Sunday, November 15, 2009

Settlement opens door for hundreds of legal immigrants to become U.S. citizens

This settlement means these legal immigrants will finally have their applications completed. They have been waiting for many years because of backlogs and unexplained delays. - - Donna Poisl

by Anna Gorman

Hundreds of legal immigrants in Southern California who have been waiting years for citizenship will have their cases resolved as a result of a settlement with the federal government, attorneys announced today.

The immigrants were stuck in lengthy delays as they waited for the FBI to complete their security name checks and for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to approve their citizenship applications.

The settlement, approved Friday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, sets a six-month deadline for the government to decide on hundreds of citizenship applications from Los Angeles, Santa Ana and San Bernardino.
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