"We are seeing record numbers of naturalization applications," said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the immigration service in California.

For instance, it sought unsuccessfully to require that CIA security checks be completed before naturalization applications were approved.

A naturalization application can easily be transferred from one I.N.S. field office to another, which would cause only a two- to three-month delay, he said.

Judge Sawyer noted that this case constituted the first naturalization application by a person from China.

But the most severe impact of the proposed increases will be on legal immigrants in their naturalization applications.

The year after the verdict, as he was pursuing his ultimately unsuccessful appeal, Kelbessa filed a naturalization application with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Supervise all procedures relating to civil status and naturalization applications.

The time-lag for processing a naturalization application is almost as long in France as it is in the United States.

Immigration We help with naturalization applications, immigrant petitions for relatives, and adjustment of status applications that are delayed or lost.

Application for the removal of conditions must be adjudicated before a separate naturalization application could be reviewed by USCIS on its own merits.