USCIS Reprioritizing Affirmative Asylum Cases for Interview Scheduling

USCIS posted a notice, found on USCIS.gov, listing steps it is taking to respond to increased caseloads, including increasing staffing levels and re-prioritizing applications for interview scheduling.

The notice states:

On December 26, 2014, the USCIS Asylum Division began prioritizing asylum applications for interview scheduling as follows:

• First, applications that were scheduled for an interview, but the applicant requested a new interview date;
• Second, applications filed by children; and
• Third, all other pending affirmative asylum applications will be scheduled for interviews in the order they were received, with oldest cases scheduled first.