USCIS and FBI Release Joint Plan To Eliminate Backlog

On April 2, 2008 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a joint plan to eliminate the backlog of name checks pending with the FBI. USCIS and the FBI established a series of milestones prioritizing work based on the amount of time a name check has been pending. The FBI has already eliminated all name check cases pending more than four years.