Green card backlog
January 4, 2022
For the fiscal year of 2021, the USCIS agency saw the green card backlog continue to grow. For FY2021, roughly 69% of the 8.84 million immigration applications that were submitted to USCIS were approved, while roughly 808,000 were denied. Although the agency completed nearly 80% of the cases received in FY2021, the processing backlog at the agency grew to more than 8 million pending cases at the end of FY2021. The federal government failed to issue up to 230,000 green cards that were available for FY2021 for immigrants sponsored by US employers or family members.
Specific content can be found here:
https://www.boundless.com/blog/uscis-wastes-200k-green-cards-backlog-triples/