An expedited request was placed with SOPAT on July 26,
1995. According to infe from Bg the expected ship date is
11-8-95. Quantities ordered are 1,000,000 for East and
700,000 for West. According to your infe this is going to
be an insufficient amount. If you can get some projected
use figures for TY96 as mentioned, I will place a new order
with HQ upen receipt of information.

Any action to obtain printing sooner, or increase the
quantity of current order, would have to be coordinated
through the 80 print shop.

We split our stock with WPC a month or so ago anf have since depleted the remaining supply.

Brenda, Karya & Scott: I received a call from Bob Kettle, LOS Mats, yesterday. He was reporting that they were almost out of the Clinton letter for naturalisation ceremonies and that the WRForms Center had a backorder request of over 700,000. He noted that they expect to nats at Least 35,000 by the end of the calendar year. If ERForms has any extra, can they be shipped out West? Or if these are on order for reprinting, can this request be bumped up in the line?

The Commissioner's goal is to naturalise 1.2 million person in FT96. And as you know, the White House is rather insistant that the Clinton letter be

distributed to each new citisen. I do not think any of us want to be caught short. Please let me know if there is anything the program can to help with this, and also what can be done to help out LOS. Also, some of the folks on the citizenship USA team may be able to help the Centers project the distribution numbers of this letter for the five big ...

offices for FY96. Thanks. Craig Bovie

Dear Ms. Rodham-Chawa,

Following up our converkatina on Sunday, September 17, I an alerting you to the newest opportunity that has presented ixelf in UNO's Active Chizenship Campaign. Based on the number and quality of UNO's naturalization applicants, in well aUNC)'s efficiem mutreach, hical and regional INS official have approached UN() with the upponuaity to panicipate in a pikut program which wohl kan strategist that dinsaly address the current naturalization hacking.

Huring un strategies that alkww non-governmental organizations to zesume the clerical hulk of the naturalization process; this pilot will enable the INS to focus staff on naturalization case review, horder patrul and other priorities.

The piku will not only move applicants through the pro more quickly and efficiently, hut it enables the INS aldess the millions of naturalization application pemling naiwnwick; and still achieve Commissioner Daris Meissar、 goal of 120 day turnaround. We believe that this piku will drastically reduce the time herwœen application and (ath administration (currently averaging 11/1⁄2 la two years) without crumpetunixing the integrity of the process.

This pilot also may provide the lemnerats with a strategic advantage at next year's Convention. The people suck in Chicago's naturalization hottleneck represent thousands of potential vucru. Similar huckhvis exist in politically important mater that have large urban concentrations of eligible permanent nasadients, like California and Texas. In fact unce loded in Chicagn, the pika may he mea quickly replicated by the IAP network in Los Angeles. The IAF has developed a church-hased naturalization programu nyekekal after UNC 1%, and I am confidem in their ability w excood the success we have acarmuplischot in Chicago.

Kognizing Chicago's henefit. Mayor kichard M. Daley has pledged full support in UN()'x Active Citizenship Campaign. Americanizing isunigrants hy inaking them aware of the full responsibilities of citizenship is a priority for our public and private sector allies. These partners have planned large (lath ceremonies in 1996 for 10,001 new Americans at a time. Accelerating the naturalization prissss for thousands of eligible Chicagnans is key to the Campaign's gral of 96,000) new viner registrations for 1996. Those potential New Americana can have great social. political and economic impact, mu jua in Chicago but across the United States,

Franing the naturalization aamunoversy wohin the context ola gonul citizenship initiative providst a crunterpoint to the Kupuhlican Pany's stance on legal inndgration. The isdie is not about the problemu imnugrants hring to the United States, but what we as a 'country chim integrate umigranta inu American suciety.

I have encued two pisest that explain the specific zpacts on LINO)°« Campaign. I am interstad in cashlishing support for the propuned piku program in order to overcome the puslitics of its impletnemation. I look forward to huaring from you, if you have any questions or imun, please comaci inyself or iny associate Gaca Grincz

Before Fiscal 1994, INS generally received and processed about 300,000 naturalization applications per year. By the end of this fiscal year, the number of applications will have increased to 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 for next year. Of the 1,000,000 applications, the overwhelming majority (75%) are concentrated in five cities.

By the end of fiscal 95. INS expects to have completed 530,000 applications and to have a backlog of 738,500 applications. This will be an increase of 76%, but it will still leave a growing backlog of pending cases.

In response to the backlog, INS will implementing Citizenship USA. This program is designed to eliminate the backlog and insure that be the summer of 1996, the time period from application to completion of the citizenship program will be six months. Citizenship USA is being piloted in Los Angeles, and with the next four months will be expanded to include Miami, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Under current funding, efforts to speed up naturalization processes cannot be achieved. The two major components of the process, Citizenship USA and the UNNO project are dependant on funding which is subject to Congressional notification and limitations.

As to voter registration, Citizenship USA will include a voter registration by mail form in the package distributed to new citizens in Los Angeles. In addition to Los Angeles, the voter registration packets are included in Miami. In Chicago, local election officials register at swearing in ceremonies as do San Francisco officials. In San Diego, voter registration efforts at new citizen swearing in ceremonies are conducted by the League of Women Voters, Pro-America, and "We Can Vote." In Virginia, representatives of local government attend ceremonies and provide registration by mail packets. In Washington, D.C. also provides voter registration packets to its new citizens.

In total, the INS effort at voter registration together with the efforts of local elected officials and groups such as the League of Women Voters is resulting in registration of naturalized citizens. But the pace of naturalization will limit the number of new voters.

A copy of the Justice Department memorandum on INS processing as attached.

I have reviewed the process of voter registration in naturalization ceremonies. In every instance in which a new citizen is sworn in, the new citizen receives a packet from I.N.S. which includes a voter registration mail in card in the form approved by the Federal Election Commission under the National Voter Registration Act. In addition to the cards, a number of groups operate voter registration activities at ceremony sites including local election officials, the League of Women Voters, and other non-partisan organizations involved in voter registration activates.

In situations where the ceremony is for smaller groups, under 1,000 and usually around 500; on site voter registration is very successful for both new citizens and others. Where ceremonies are larger, in some cases approaching 10,000 it is physically impossible to manage effective voter registration efforts for a number of reasons. The primary reason is time. It takes at least one hour, and sometimes longer to fill a hall with 10,000 people. The ceremony can last up to an hour. It takes approximately two minutes to fill out a registration card. For a crowd of 10,000 the card completion is not a problem, collection is. After a period of two hours plus, most people want to get themselves and their families out of the hall especially if children are present.

There is no way to keep the people there and ask them to line up in front of a table and register to vote even assuming that the local registrars could staff the tables necessary to service 10,000 new voters.

In Chicago, there is a plan for a mass ceremony this summer. The registration attempt to be coordinated with Skinny Sheehan, our best field organizer. Sheehan is trying to see how a voter registration could be conducted when a crowd in the thousands are sworn in. I will keep you advised.

in the talking point page I wrote Friday per the White House request to Pam Barry, you will notice that i said that "INS is hiring more than 850 additional staff process applications..."

The number comes from the following:

1995 Ræprogramming

270 (approximately 51% of the total permanent officers and term clerks)

1998 Reprogramming:

400 (270 temporary officers and 130 temporary clarks for 5 cities - 6 m

150 (75 temp officers and 75 temp clerks for other cities - 4 months)
88 (contractors for Service Centers)

months))

This comes to a little over 900. (Of course, it is not 900 FTE's, as most of these'. persons are hired only for a portion of the year.) I brought the announced total down to "more than 880” because the numbers for the other cities and the contractors are stil being determined.