; (B) an assessment of factors contributing to the net and gross backlogs, including an analysis of the impacts of Department policies on the net and gross backlogs and an analysis of the Department’s formal processes for qualitatively and quantitatively assessing the impacts of its policies on the net and gross backlogs; (C) an assessment of existing and planned Department efforts to eliminate the net backlog, to prevent recurrence of the net backlog after its elimination, and to minimize the gross backlog; (D) an assessment of existing and planned Department efforts to ensure fair, accurate, and consistent adjudication of immigration benefit applications; and (E) recommendations for more expeditiously processing immigration benefit applications while ensuring fairness, accuracy, and consistency in processing. . 6. Immigration functions (a) In general Section 478 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 298 ) is amended to read as follows: 478. Sense of Congress regarding immigration services It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the quality and efficiency of immigration services rendered by the Federal Government should be improved after the transfers made by this subtitle take effect; (2) the Secretary should undertake efforts to guarantee that concerns regarding the quality and efficiency of immigration services are addressed after such effective date; and (3) the Secretary cannot assign a processing time goal that is longer than a maximum processing timeframe set forth in section 202 of the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-first Century Act of 2000 . (b) Clerical amendment Section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended in the table of contents by striking the item relating to section 478 and inserting the following: Sec. 478. Sense of Congress regarding immigration services. .