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June 1, 2005

The Homeland Security Department's Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau is struggling to get a grip on a backlog of more than 3 million applications inherited from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. CIS has vowed to fully eliminate the pile of cases by the close of fiscal 2006.

End of Quarter Backlog	Applications for permanent residency	Citizenship Applications
March 2003	593,295	400,474
Dec. 2003	722,966	383,614
March 2004	696,434	348,090
Dec. 2004	548,892	372,076
Feb 2005	519,410	376,972

Source: CIS

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