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There were more than 1.5 million asylum seekers with pending cases at the end of 2022, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse—about half of those cases heard by USCIS asylum officers with the rest heard at immigration courts in the Department of Justice.
The Department of Homeland Security, USCIS’s parent agency, said it had requested $375.4 million from Congress to adjudicate asylum cases in fiscal year 2023. That funding didn’t come through, however, so USCIS had to raise the money through its user fees, the agency said.
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