According to a USCIS Press Release: “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that it continues to make steady progress in reducing the significant number of naturalization applications it received last year. USCIS now anticipates naturalization application processing will average 10-12 months nationally by the end of September 2008 a substantial improvement from its estimated average processing time of 16-18 months first announced last year.”
