Citizenship and Immigration Services has swelled to 11.3 million, and freshly compiled agency figures suggest the backlog is still growing rather than shrinking. A Familiar Number, Read Two WaysThat 11.3 million figure isn't the first eye-popping total this year. Read together, the two counts show a caseload that has stayed above 11 million for the better part of a year rather than one climbing in a straight line every quarter. Filings dropped by roughly a third and completions fell by more than 40 percent compared with the same quarter last year. Separately, USCIS's own affirmative-asylum backlog has climbed past 1.4 million cases, adding still more weight to the broader pileup.