In fairness, the department is doing what it can to modernize and make things faster. Our priority is to reunite families, and we take that seriously.
Having said that, we may not be comparing apples to apples. We used to issue a document, the immigration visa, and it was put in the mail and sent to the applicant. After September 11 we made a decision, from a program integrity perspective, to require all the passports to be sent to the mission and a counterfoil given.
I'm just saying that when we compare the processing times, we may have added one or two months just regularly in terms of the process--