The government shutdown and funding suspension did not affect the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) programs for which fees are charged. The agency's offices remained open, and immigration interviews were held on a previously established schedule. However, several USCIS programs were either ...

The US Senate has approved a bill to fund the work of the federal government for the next three weeks. Thus, the shutdown, which began on January 20, will end somewhere in the middle of the day on January 22, reports the Voice of America. This decision was the result of a compromise between Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans have promised ...

Hundreds of thousands of employees of American government agencies on Monday did not show up for work: on Saturday night, US government agencies stopped working after Republicans and Democrats in the Senate failed to agree on funding the government's work in time. The reason was the disagreement over ...