The Trump administration is subjecting broad categories of immigrants applying for green cards and citizenship to enhanced FBI checks, and is pausing some cases while those changes are implemented, ...

In an effort to increase the usage and visibility of the E-Verify system, USCIS announced on August 15 that it has expanded E-Verify's "Self Check" feature to include residents of 16 additional states ...

The United States has introduced a new layer of scrutiny for immigration applicants, calling it “enhanced security checks.” While the move is being framed as a national security upgrade, it has ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has implemented new security checks for immigration applicants.

US saw a significanr rise in job losses in the past couple of months owing to massive layoffs by big techs and other companies. Worst sufferers included Indians who are working in the US on H-1B work ...

USCIS has begun using the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system for broader criminal history checks following a February executive order. Applicants for benefits such as green cards, asylum, and ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced a joint plan to eliminate the backlog of name checks pending with the FBI. USCIS and the FBI ...

On February 4, 2008, Michael Aytes, Associate Director of Domestic Operations for U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS), issued an internal memo to USCIS Field Leadership regarding the process ...

USCIS will release EB-5 regulations in November that will help investors understand how long they must maintain their contributions in the investor program in order to be eligible for green cards. The ...