10 steps to naturalization: how to become a US citizen
US citizenship gives rights and privileges. These include the right to vote, the ability to travel with a US passport and bring relatives to the United States, grant citizenship to their overseas child, and receive government benefits, writes the Miami Herald. Since consideration of applications for obtaining ...
'The Last Nail in the Coffin': How USCIS Financial Problems Destroy US Immigration
Kenneth Palinkas commutes every week from his home in Queens to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in Federal Plaza in New York. He's carrying a suitcase full of green card applications and status adjustments, which he is reviewing and ...
US National Visa Application Center: what it is for and how it works
The National Visa Center (NVC) is a part of the U.S. Department of State that performs visa pre-processing tasks on behalf of U.S. embassies. Located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, NVC handles much of the bulk processing of immigrant visas (green cards) to relieve the burden on each embassy. Also…
USCIS announced a large-scale delay in the issuance of green cards and work permits
The massive delay in the production of green cards and other documents, including work permits, stems from budget problems at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), CNN reported. According to a warning issued on July 22 by the agency's ombudsman, the continuing backlog in the production of green cards and other documents was ...
Trump ordered not to take into account illegal immigrants in the US census: why is it bad
On Tuesday, July 21, Donald Trump signed a memo directing the U.S. Census Bureau to exclude undocumented immigrants from the general population, which determines how many congressional seats each state gets. This is an unprecedented move that looks like an attempt to preserve the political power of whites, writes ...
ICE will give a course on the work of immigration authorities: how to enroll
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operation (ERO) is offering the first ERO Citizens Academy program in Chicago, Illinois, scheduled to begin September 15th. This was reported on the official ICE website. The purpose of the program is to familiarize participants...
'Sitting on suitcases': winners of the green card lottery may not receive immigrant visas
The chance of winning is 1:400. Every year, 22 million people apply for the green card lottery. Wins 50 thousand. Konstantin from Belarus became one of those lucky last year, says Voice of America. “We sent all the documents, perhaps, back in December...
'Strong and very soon': Trump has announced a change in US immigration policy
US President Donald Trump has long sought to overhaul the US immigration system to base the right to immigration on merit rather than family ties. Immigration remains one of the defining accents of Trump's election campaign, aimed at re-election in November this year, writes ...
U.S. prestigious universities sue Trump administration for new ban on foreign students
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on July 8. In particular, they accused its leadership of prohibiting foreign students who study online from staying in the United States in the new fall semester, writes CNN. IN…
In one of the universities in California, they figured out how to avoid the deportation of foreign students
Hundreds of UC Berkeley students are discussing a plan to create a full-time course solely to circumvent new US immigration regulations that could lead to the deportation of foreign students with F-1 visas. And they say that at least one teacher also accepts ...