| Behind the
Naturalization Backlog
By Claire Bergeron and Jeremy Banks
Fact Sheet No. 21, February 2008
The processing time for naturalization applications has risen
dramatically since mid-2007, to an 18-month average, as the
federal government has struggled to cope with a surge in applications
driven in part by a substantial fee increase. More than 460,000
people filed naturalization applications in July 2007 right
before the fee hike took effect — fully one-third of
the nearly 1.4 million applications that were filed during
the entire fiscal year.
Europe’s
Disappearing Internal Borders
By Hiroyuki Tanaka and Trinidad Macias
Fact Sheet No. 20, December 2007
The Schengen Area allows European Union citizens and third-country
nationals in 15 Schengen Member States to, in almost all
cases, travel freely to another Schengen Member State. On
December 21, 2007, the Schengen Area enlarged to include
nine of the 10 countries that entered the European Union
in 2004.
Variable
Impacts: State-level Analysis of the Slowdown in the Growth
of Remittances to Mexico
By Aaron Matteo Terrazas
Fact Sheet No. 19, September 2007
In 2006, Mexico received an estimated $24.5 billion in remittances
-- 11.3 percent of the total $276 billion in remittances
worldwide. While migrant remittances to Mexico grew an average
of 19.1 percent annually between 2003 and 2006, however,
they increased by just 0.6 percent in the first half of 2007
compared to the first half of 2006.
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