Delays at INS

Re Richard Parks’ Oct. 7 letter:

I echo his frustrations with the INS. My wife--who is a 44-year legal resident--also applied for citizenship in June 1996. She, too, passed her tests and had her interview last year. She, too, has been given the same meaningless answers when we inquired about the lack of progress on her file.

We also know of several more recent applications that have been processed to completion. We have been given a runaround story about not being able to locate the “original file,” going back to my wife’s first entry into the country. How, then, was she able to be processed through the years with a new resident alien card and tracked through the computer when we leave and enter the country?

Is there some prioritization of process depending on the origin of the applicant? My wife is Canadian. All our friends who have been processed are from Latin America.

There is something rotten--and it’s not in Denmark. It is time for the head of our local INS office to answer our concerns.

WILLIAM PITT HYDE

Upland