Good news for people waiting for FBI clearances. The backlog for FBI name checks pending more than six months has been eliminated. 

Just 16 months ago, more than 349,000 name checks were pending; of that, nearly 150,000 had been pending for more than six months.  All USCIS requests pending for six months or more as of February 28, 2009, have now been responded to by the FBI’s National Name Check Program (NNCP).   

USCIS says that the FBI are on schedule to meet their next two goals:  all name checks requests pending longer than 90 days to be completed by May 30, 2009 and, by the end of June 2009, the FBI will complete 98 percent of USCIS name check requests within 30 days and process the remaining two percent within three months.  USCIS says that it will in conjunction with the FBI continue to focus on sustaining a rigorous and efficient.