The number of requests for removal from the watch list continues to mount, with over 24,000 requests recorded (about 2,000 each month) and only 54 percent of them resolved. The average time to process a request in 2008 was 40 days, which was not (and still is not) fast enough to keep pace with the number of requests for removal coming in. As a result, law-abiding travelers that inexplicably find themselves on the watch list are left with no easy
way to remove themselves from it.