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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on January 3, 2023, that would increase the cost of benefit request fees for immigration and naturalization benefits. It states that these fees would enable USCIS to provide...
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced in July of 2022 that it created the citizenship ambassador initiative, which is the first of its kind in the U.S. It features eight ambassadors from around the country who are well-established community leaders. In...
The Biden Administration recently proposed changes to help reduce the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services backlog. As part of the president's $5.8 trillion budget request to Congress, the USCIS under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would see a...
The EB-5 program allows investors and their spouses, as well as any unmarried children under the age of 21, to apply for a Green Card if they make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and plan to create or preserve at least 10...
U.S. citizenship has many benefits. As an American citizen, you could vote, travel with a U.S. passport, become eligible for federal jobs and bring family members to the country. If you have a Permanent Resident Card (Green Card), you may qualify for naturalization,...
Many wondered what would happen to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) under President Biden's administration. Based on the candidate's promise to protect it and executive orders that undid damage caused by President Trump's anti-immigration efforts, many...
Those fleeing or entering mainland China sometimes pass through Hong Kong. A new Hong Kong law enacted on August 1 will prevent people from entering or leaving the territory. China routinely employs similar bans on dissidents and foreign citizens, especially those...
Immigrants facing time-limits to work and live in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program may have a path to citizenship under a proposal by President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress. Nearly 400,000 immigrants have TPS, which protects...