Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over I-601A Delays

A group of immigrants filed a federal class action lawsuit against USCIS, in an effort to force the agency to address a multi-year backlog in the processing of I-601A Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers. Plaintiffs are currently facing a 3+ year wait for the USCIS to take action on their waiver applications. Prior to 2020, most waiver applications were processed in less than a year, and in 2018 processing took just 4.5 months on average.