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The overall employment-based annual limit for immigrant visas in fiscal year 2022 is approximately twice as high as usual, primarily due to consular closures abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic which led to almost all 140,000 family-sponsored visa numbers going unused during fiscal year (FY) 2021.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a virtual stakeholder engagement on the processing of Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition, on Thursday, July 21, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern. The Form I-730 is used by certain principal refugees and asylees to request follow-to-join benefits for their qualifying spouse and/or unmarried children under 21 years of age.
Regional centers use this form to demonstrate continued eligibility for regional center designation.
USCIS wants to hear from legal representatives as we prepare to make Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, available for online filing. We want to understand the challenges and pain points of the application process. We will take what we learn from your input to help design the online filing experience for Form I-589.
This form is used by any economic unit, public or private, in the United States that is involved with promoting economic growth (including increased export sales, improved regional productivity, job creation, or increased domestic capital investment).
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking data and information from the public that DHS intends to use to develop a public charge regulatory proposal.
ALERT: As of Aug. 13, 2021, USCIS has received enough petitions for returning workers to reach the additional 22,000 H-2B visas made available under the FY 2021 H-2B supplemental visa temporary final rule.
The Citizenship and Integration Grant Program is an important capacity-building initiative that provides funding to support citizenship preparation services for permanent residents.
Administered by the Office of Citizenship, the program funds competitive grants with the goal of expanding the availability of high quality citizenship preparation programs in communities nationwide, to include citizenship instruction and naturalization application services.
On Nov. 2, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated the Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds final rule, 84 Fed. Reg. 41,292 (Aug. 14, 2019), as amended by Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds; Correction, 84 Fed. Reg. 52,357 (Oct. 2, 2019) (“Public Charge Final Rule”) nationwide.
The overall national pass rate is determined based solely on an applicant's first test within the current naturalization application. The pass rate represents the cumulative pass rate of applicants who took both the English and civics components of the test since it was fully implemented on Oct.1, 2009.