Greece has a backlog of about 30,000 cases.
The State Emergency Service (SES) still had a backlog of about 3,000 requests for assistance to attend.
Mr. Bowen said he expected at least 100 bridging visas to be issued each month as the government moved to clear out the backlog of about 3,800 detainees.
The court has a backlog of about 153,000 pending cases, with a wait of more than two years for some to be heard.
At a news conference on Monday, housing officials said they hoped to winnow down the backlog to about 100,000 pending orders by the end of the year.
And Ian White, the president and chief executive of the Canadian Wheat Board, said the strike had already created a backlog of about $50 million worth of wheat.
The agency loosely estimates its deferred maintenance backlog at about $5 billion, but it acknowledged in a General Accounting Office report that it does not have accurate data on its needs.
By Sunday, Verizon, the company created by Bell Atlantic's acquisition of GTE, had a backlog of about 92,000 outstanding requests for repairs.
To clear up clogged immigration courts, the administration announced in November that it would review the backlog of about 300,000 pending deportation cases to see if discretion could apply to low-priority cases there as well.
Even with a federal grant to help clear the books, the Los Angeles Police Department's crime lab still has a backlog of about 200 murder cases, said Detective David P. Lambkin, the officer in charge of the cold case homicide unit.
