I just received an update on my green card application, which is now over 4 months overdue. It appears I’m stuck in the background check backlog. As I’ve been a legal resident here for over 6 years, and the only difference with the green card is that I could change jobs and travel a lot more easily, it seems unlikely that this is helping national security. It appears that over 100,000 people are stuck with delays of over a year, so I seem to be at the end of a very long queue.