How Long Does It Take To Have One’s Naturalization Application Processed?
Our client came to us about three years after he had filed his naturalization application, which was not yet adjudicated, although he had been fingerprinted three times. Faced with unresponsive explanations from the administration, we filed a complaint before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to find its conduct illegal and to order an immediate adjudication of the client’s application. In response to the complaint, the immigration services naturalized the client a few weeks later and paid $3,000 in attorney fees. When You Think You Don’t Have Any Problem Our client obtained his green card on the basis of his marriage to a U.S. citizen. Three years later, still married and living with his wife, he applied for naturalization believing that the only difficulty would be to answer the naturalization questions such as how many stars there are on the U.S. flag. Although he answered these questions correctly, his application was denied on the basis that he allegedl
