In the meantime, his clinic has a three-month backlog partly because of closings and staff shortages at other clinics in New York City.
The New York State chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, promised in January to eliminate the backlog in six months, "if not sooner".
Another factor, he said, is that many applications arrived in a surge in the weeks before the Dec. 31 deadline, causing a backlog in the review and approval process that kept the agency from knowing until March how much more money it had to seek.
Immigration officials said on Friday that they expected to complete about 930,000 citizenship applications in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, reducing a huge backlog in a time frame that would allow many new citizens to register to vote in the November elections.
The pace of home sales fell again in August; the backlog of unsold existing homes rose to ten-months' worth of supply; and consumer confidence plunged.
30 April The backlog of untested cases is in the thousands, as few labs other than CDC and PHAC can confirm cases.
Within months after the first pilots for new claimants were launched in the north of England last April, a backlog of 92,000 cases had built up in some areas with private contractors Atos and Capita.
As the blockade bites, the PA, with a nearly three-month backlog in salaries, is beginning to shut down, and tensions are rising on the streets of Gaza between armed men from Hamas and Mr Abbas's Fatah party.On May 25th, Mr Abbas delivered a surprise.
Congress first tackled the backlog in 2004 when the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program took effect.
And there is also a huge backlog in federal cases.
