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The overall backlog of applications stood at 98,599 as of December 28. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Asylum-seekers spend years waiting to get their cases going through the system, keeping them in limbo and tying up attorneys who then can't take on new cases.
The immigration courts had a backlog of 394,000 asylum cases in January 2021, and 470,000 in March 2022, [81] although another source says the backlog in November 2021 was 672,000, with an average wait of 1,942 days (5 1/3 years). [82] The overall immigration court backlog was 1.9 million in August 2022, with an average wait of 798 days (2.2 ...
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EOIR has also been criticized for the significant backlog of immigration cases; as of December 2020, there are more than 1.2 million pending cases across the immigration courts. [29] In 2018, the Department of Justice instituted case quotas for immigration judges, requiring each to complete 700 cases per year, a rate requiring each IJ to close ...
The Government’s current business case for reform of the asylum system is ‘incomplete and unrealistic’, according to the Public Accounts Committee. Effort to clear asylum backlog could shift ...
As of 2020, the backlog of asylum claims consists of more than 290,000 applicants. [34] During the 1970s and 1980s, United States asylum policy focused on Southeastern Asia due to the Vietnam War. The United States increased the number of European refugees in 1989 by accepting Soviet refugees and in 1999 by accepting Kosovar refugees.