The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services backlog has more than tripled in the past decade, from 3.5M pending cases in ...

USCIS will enforce stricter signature requirements from July 10, 2026, allowing rejections of immigration applications with ...

Effective April 27, 2026, USCIS implemented a new, enhanced security vetting process that has resulted in temporary “holds” on adjudications ...

Beginning January 30, 2023, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will accept Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, for Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers E-13 ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the expansion of premium processing for applicants filing Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status, and seeking a change of ...

Crucially, applicants who fall foul of the rule may lose their filing fees entirely and be required to start again with a ...

Report says process to expedite U nonimmigrant visas "is proving to be a backlog management success" and could be emulated in other programs. Twenty people became new U.S. citizens at Kiener Plaza in ...

On January 3, 2023, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to adjust certain benefit request fees. Among the proposed fee increases ...

On Jan. 23, 2023, a class-action lawsuit was filed against US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) over its extreme and unreasonable delays in adjudicating (processing and making a decision on ...

Marco, 26, graduated from one of the country’s top medical schools last week. He found his calling after witnessing his ...