
Their records were locked in caves during the pandemic. Now they say an 'unreasonable delay' is still stalling their citizenship applications
CNN
Millions of paper immigration files are stored in a federal network of vast limestone caves near Kansas City. Now a group of people are suing the government, arguing their citizenship applications are stuck in limbo due to a delay in getting their records out of the caves.
Millions of paper immigration files are stored in a sprawling network of limestone caves around Kansas City. Some of those underground storage facilities operated with reduced staffing during much of the pandemic.
And now, a group of people are suing the government, arguing their citizenship applications are still stuck in limbo due to an "unreasonable delay" in getting their records out of the caves and into the hands of immigration officials.

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