15759: Wucker: GAO on HRIFA applications/approvals (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Michele Wucker <michele@wucker.com>

Through March 31, 2003, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration
Services (BCIS), formerly part of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service (INS), had received a total of 37,295 HRIFA applications and had
approved 9,555 of these applications. The Executive Office for
Immigration Review (EOIR) had 665 applications filed and had approved
183 of them. Details on the categories of the applicants and approvals are
provided in the full report, "Immigration Benefits: Ninth Report Required
by the Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act" GAO-03-681R, April 21,
2003 available online at
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-681R