Interviewees report months-long delays in processing their paperwork, which in turn means their children lack the identification documents necessary to enrol in school.
What about the problem of delays in processing mortgage applications?
That would help prepare for their future needs and ease delays in processing health and benefit claims.
It neglected to mention its abject judicial humiliation a year ago following grotesque delays in processing Personal Independence Payments.
"The F.D.A. has engaged in intolerable delays in processing the petition," the judge wrote.
Social Security and Medicare benefits would keep coming, but there would likely be delays in processing new disability applications.
The department has come under sharp criticism from Congress and veterans groups for long delays in processing disability claims.
A study by the children's commissioner last year warned that Home Office delays in processing asylum claims were causing difficulties.
The result is months of delays in processing your return and any refund you may rightly be owed.
Benefit disruption caused by hospital stays and by entering and leaving employment, delays in processing benefit claims, and ignorance as to benefit entitlement are also major factors.
Threats of a widespread boycott of Japanese imports have so far failed to materialise, although Japanese firms are reporting delays in processing paperwork for goods at Chinese ports.
