Our Work: Daily Activities of USCIS

USCIS is the largest immigration service in the world. We receive between six and eight million applications and petitions every year.

On a daily basis, the 15,000 federal and contract employees of USCIS accomplish the following at our 250 offices worldwide:

• Conduct 135,000 national security background checks
  
• Capture 11,000 sets of fingerprints at 130 Application Support Centers
  
• Receive 200,000 visitors to our web site
  
• Welcome 3,200 new citizens
  
• Answer phone inquiries from 41,000 callers to our toll-free customer service phone line
  
• Welcome 3,300 new permanent residents
  
• Process 30,000 applications for immigrant benefits
  
• Adjudicate nearly 200 refugee applications from around the world
  
• Answer questions from 12,000 customers at our 84 local offices
  
• Help American parents adopt nearly 125 foreign-born orphans
  
• Issue 7,000 Permanent Resident Cards (green cards)
  
• Grant asylum to 40 individuals already in the United States
  
• Naturalize 27 individuals serving in the United States military