等了 18 个月没等来一场面试，台籍绿卡持有者把 USCIS 告上法庭
据 Newsweek 10 月 22 日独家报道（多家媒体转述），台籍美国绿卡持有者孟菊刘（Meng Ju Liu，又名Michael Liu）把美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）告上了法庭，指其入籍申请被无理拖延。
刘自 2002 年起就是美国合法永久居民，现居俄亥俄州。他 2025 年 4 月 25 日递交 N-400 入籍申请，约 18个月过去，至今没有收到面试通知。10 月 15 日，他向俄亥俄南区联邦法院起诉 USCIS，要求法院下令政府在 30 天内完成他的背景审查、通过后再 30 天内作出决定。
诉状把他的申请形容为"在办公室架子上积灰"，称若无司法干预，他恐怕要等上"永恒"。而 USCIS 辛辛那提办公室自己公布的标准是：80% 的案件 9.5 个月办结——刘的等待时间已远超这一标准，且当局没有给出任何解释。
大背景是 USCIS 的入籍积压：截至 2026 年 8 月底，积压的入籍申请达 813,453 件，其中 513,462 件等待超过 6 个月；今年 4 至 6 月，USCIS 只裁决了约 7.1 万件入籍案，去年同期为 26.5 万件。Newsweek 已向国土安全部、USCIS 和司法部求评论，暂无回应；目前仅 Newsweek 一家原始报道此案。
（GSM 据 Newsweek）
来源：GSM·美国
Taiwanese Green Card Holder Sues USCIS Over 18-Month Citizenship Delay
Meng Ju Liu, also known as Michael Liu, a Taiwanese national and lawful U.S. permanent resident since 2002 living in Ohio, has sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) over what he calls an unreasonable delay of his citizenship application, Newsweek exclusively reported on October 22.
Liu filed his Form N-400 naturalization application on April 25, 2025. About 18 months later, he had still not received an interview notice. On October 15, he sued USCIS in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, asking the court to order the government to complete his background checks within 30 days and, if he clears them, to decide his application within 30 days after that.
The complaint describes his application as "gathering dust on an office shelf," warning that without judicial intervention he could wait "an eternity." USCIS's own posted processing time for its Cincinnati office was 9.5 months for 80 percent of cases — a yardstick Liu's wait has far exceeded, with no explanation given.
The suit lands against a growing backlog: USCIS had 813,453 naturalization applications pending at the end of August 2026, with 513,462 waiting more than six months. The agency decided about 71,000 naturalization cases from April to June 2026, versus about 265,000 in the same months of 2025. Newsweek said it had asked DHS, USCIS and the Justice Department for comment; no response was reported. So far Newsweek is the only outlet to report the case.
(GSM, based on Newsweek)
Source: GSM · America
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：美国入籍仪式（资料图）。照片：Fort Vancouver National Historic Site，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / A U.S. naturalization ceremony (file photo). Photo: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
