31.   It takes the Department of Trademarks and Patents between three and six months to process an application.

32.   Local sheriffs and police departments then have up to six months to process the application.

33.   One would work to secure the border against illegal immigration, while the other would help process the applications of legal immigrants.

34.   President Clinton said his administration would act quickly to process the applications from Pennsylvania and other snowbound northeastern states.

35.   Still, the agency alone is not responsible for the time it takes to process an application.

36.   The backlog in processing naturalization applications immediately put many military applicants in a serious bind.

37.   The chief judge of Washtenaw County Court, Archie Brown, told judges to cease processing adoption applications from all unwed couples.

38.   The California Department of Justice processes applications for firearms.

39.   The data come from monthly surveys of AILA chapter members on how long it takes local INS offices to process citizenship applications.

40.   The Immigration and Naturalization Service will stop processing passport applications.