USCIS Delays Result from FBI Backlog
This article could explain why my husband has been waiting six months now for a citizenship oath date. He passed his exam and interview in January and yet we still have not heard from the USCIS. 
This is not the first time they’ve made us wait. While we patiently waited for his conditional green card and then his permanent green card, this time we thought we were home free when he passed his exam and the USCIS officer said, “You should be getting a letter soon with an oath date.” Ha! My father had to wait almost two years after his test to take the oath and then only because I was able to pull some strings to get a local appellate judge to conduct the ceremony in her chambers (with permission from the local USCIS office, of course).
The frustrating thing about both these cases is that they mirror the cases mentioned in today’s Washington Post. My Dad worked for a government agency with high-level security clearance and that didn’t help him. My husband has already been through an FBI background check due to the nature of his job (took six months, too!) and yet they don’t seem able to cross-reference those checks and clear him off the list. Can you say FRUSTRATING?!?! 
Then I read articles like this and it just makes it seem all the more likely that we’ll continue to wait, and wait, and wait. I just hope that whatever progress we’ve made isn’t negated by any legislative decisions made this year.
