A General Accounting Office study conducted the same year confirmed these findings. Yet the problems went unaddressed for two years. In November of 1996. after several front page stories reported on improper naturalizations. the INS Commissioner finally ordered that no naturalizations go forward without a completed FBI background check and unless new. more careful procedures for processing background checks had been followed. In an audit completed five months after that directive was issued. however. Peat Marwick found that only 1 out of 23 INS offices was actually complying with this policy. 7 offices were only marginally compliant. and 15 were not complying with the new procedures at all.
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