[ikka]

Of the 17,900 marriage-based petitions processed in fiscal year 2003, 9,500 were denied, or a record 53%, said Mary Ann Gantner, interim director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services' district in New York.

Is this for the entire USA or just the NY district? Seems to me that there were MILLIONS that got in under the LIFE act (which required mrriage).

[Publius6961]

Is this for the entire USA or just the NY district?

Now that is a great question!
Can't help wondering. Also what was the rejection rate in the western states, where most of the immigration "workers" seen to be illegals themselves...