Thank you for the bump. I fully agree we should get back to discussing this important proposal in earnest.
There’s a lot to comment on here, but before going in much deeper, I’m curious to hear the @citcomm 's views on the below provision, which really seems to be the heart of this proposal. The goal is to speed up the processing of citizenship applications and ease the burden on CitComm. Could the current CitComm provide their views on whether operating under the below standard actually accomplish that goal? On it’s face, it seems like it would. But I’m curious if CitComm would effectively have to go through the same steps to determine if an applicant is “conspicuously ineligible” for citizenship as they currently do to determine if an applicant is eligible. In other words, would this just lower the standard for the ultimate decision, without reducing the amount of back-end work necessary to make that decision? I’m not asking for CitComm to reveal any confidential processes. I just want to know if operating under this standard would actually make those processes run faster or allow them to be trimmed down. Because if not, then we should figure out what language will effectuate that change before moving on to the rest of the proposal.