USCIS recently posted a notice listing steps it will take to respond to increased caseloads. This includes increasing staff levels and re-prioritizing applications for the scheduling of interviews. In the notice USCIS states that on December 26, 2014, the USCIS Asylum Division began prioritizing asylum applications for interview scheduling as follows:
- Applications that were scheduled for an interview, but the applicant requested a new date for the interview
- Applications filed by children
- All other pending affirmative asylum applications will be scheduled for interviews in the order in which they were received with oldest cases scheduled first