Garrity. Jr.. then Acting Assistant Director of the Records Management Division of the FBI stated before the House Committee on Government Reform that. "[t]he name check delays have significant consequences to FBI customers and stakeholders. The delays impede hiring or clearing skilled workers. completing government contracts. student enrollment. and . . . clearing requested visas for business visits to the United States. More importantly than all of the foregoing. these processing delays can also diminish counterterrorism effectiveness." In the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. USCIS. Ombudsmans 2007 Annual Report. Mr. Prakash Khatri. the USCIS Ombudsman. stated that "the problem of longpending FBI name check cases worsened" since last year. with 93.358 more name check cases pending than last year for a total of 329.160 pending as of May 4. 2007. Around 31.000 cases have been pending for at least 33 months. This is unacceptable.
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