The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate our nation’s 233rd birthday by naturalizing over 6,000 applicants for citizenship in special ceremonies held across the United States and overseas.
This year, USCIS’ has scheduled about 50 citizenship oath ceremonies during the course of this week, including ceremonies on July 1 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium for about 800 applicants and on July 3 [...]
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Validity of I-9 Form Extended
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that that the Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification), revised on February 2, 2009 that is currently on the USCIS Web site will continue to be valid for use beyond June 30, 2009.
Form I-9 is used by U.S. based employers to determine whether or not an individual is authorized to [...]
President Obama’s Remarks on Immigration Reform
The White House released President Obama’s remarks following a meeting yesteday with congressional leaders about immigration reform.
The President had asked DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to lead a group that would be working with leaders from both chambers of Congress to draft legislation that would reform the nation’s immigration laws.
Additionally, the President asked that in the next 3 months, for the US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) to improve their [...]
Joint Effort by USCIS & FBI Eliminated National Name Check Backlog
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently, that in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), it has met all of the goals set forth in a joint business plan announced on April 2, 2008 and has eliminated the FBI’s National Name Check Program (NNCP) backlog.
Prior to the attainment of these goals, the USCIS has held millions of approvable applications in abeyance [...]
Premium Processing Resumes for Employment Based Petitions
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced yesterday that effective June 29, 2009, Premium Processing Service for Form I-140 (Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker) based on certain employment based petitions for legal permanent residence will resume.  Â
The USCIS suspended Premium Processing Service on I-140 petitions on June 2, 2007 due to an increase in applications when employment-based immigrant visas in [...]
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