Preventing USCIS from using its own delays to punish applicants.

Franz Kafka, Man at a Table, Illustration For The Novel The Trial, 1905. Bibi Alli & Matthew Blaisdell Backlogs and delays have become common roadblocks in the U.S. immigration system, overburdening the courts and agencies. What to do, though, when the agency’s delay is used to justify a denial? While the Administrative Procedures Act (APA)…