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Colleen Coffey
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Colleen Coffey

Colleen Coffey was formerly the Director of Communications at the Migration Policy Institute. She is currently the Director of Communications and the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at the Research Center for Leadership in Action at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

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Fact Sheets
June 2005
Backlogs in Immigration Processing Persist
By  Doris Meissner, Elizabeth Grieco, Kevin Jernegan and Colleen Coffey

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Fact Sheets
June 2005

Backlogs in Immigration Processing Persist

This fact sheet examines the scope and extent of the U.S. immigration system’s chronic backlogs by offering insight into factors that contribute to protracted processing delays for naturalization and permanent residency applications despite government efforts to resolve.