U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has shortened, and weakened, its mission statement to amorphously declare that the agency “upholds America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility with fairness, integrity, and respect fo…
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) – which administers America’s naturalization and immigration system — is losing more than $3 million a day, and cutting corners on security. Unlike most federal agencies, USCIS is almost entirely …
In a further unwinding of national security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is planning to drop FBI name vetting of citizenship applications. Heightening the country’s vulnerability to fraud and exploitation, the agency has alr…
A Nigerian man who entered this country on a stolen British passport, fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship and ended up working as a federal immigration officer has, finally, landed in court. Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi, 48, faces a single count of “u…
President Joe Biden announced a series of nominations for critical positions throughout the nation’s federal immigration agencies, including the top positions at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)….
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency responsible for administering the naturalization exam, is revising the citizenship test – allegedly making it more difficult – according to CNN. Although the agency announced its intenti…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will more closely scrutinize advance parole requests from DACA participants, according to new guidance issued on August 24. The guidance closes an Obama administration policy that thwarted our immigrat…
U.S. District Judge George Daniels clearly has a thing about the Trump administration’s public charge rule for immigrants. For the second time in less than a year, Daniels knocked down administration efforts to strengthen the rules. Though his judicial…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says it will furlough 70 percent of its workers if Congress doesn’t come up with $1.2 billion in emergency funding. An agency that funds much of its operations via user fees, USCIS blamed the COVID-19 p…
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is struggling. The agency that handles and processes all legal immigration into the country is running out of money. Why is that? It is because that USCIS – uniquely – funds itself by levyin…