U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced the start of the fiscal year (FY) 2020 H-1B cap season, start dates for premium processing of cap-subject H-1B petitions, and the ...

A naturalization ceremony aboard "Old Ironsides" held in coordination with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on July 02, 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Donovan Keller) U.S.

A USCIS backlog that stood at 3.5 million cases a decade ago has now surged past 11.6 million, leaving millions of immigrants ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is wrapping up a comment period regarding a proposed, substantial change to the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program. The H-1B program applies to employers seeking ...

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency confirmed that it would delay furloughs of 13,400 employees scheduled to take effect Aug. 3 to Aug. 30, in the hopes that lawmakers would arrive at ...

Worldwide (including El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, Mexico, and Philippines) remains current in December. India and China: The cut-off date for filing is November 1, 2020. EB-2 Second Preference ...

Social distancing requirements under the pandemic led to the acceleration of a modernization plan that included adding video feeds to the asylum interview process. COVID 19 USCIS Workforce Management ...

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U.S. legal permanent residents who apply for citizenship through naturalization on or after Dec. 1, 2020, will face a more challenging test — in which immigrants must prove they can read, write and ...

The union that represents many of the 13,000 immigration employees facing furlough Aug. 30 backed the agency's push for emergency supplemental funding. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service ...