The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced yesterday that it will conduct an agency-wide policy review to examine and potentially change its policies concerning the adjudication of applications for benefits and customer service.
The USCIS has selected the following ten (10) areas to examine in its policy review:
- National Customer Service;
- H-1B visas;
- Citizenship & Naturalization;
- Employment based green cards in general;
- Employment based green cards under the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd preference categories;
- Family based green cards;
- Refugee & Asylum based green cards ;
- Waivers of Inadmissibility;
- Humanitarian Relief; and
- Employment Authorization Cards & Travel Documents.
This is great news for everyone including immigrants, attorneys, and lawmakers to know that the agency responsible for administering the immigration laws is conducting a top to bottom policy review so that procedures for applying for immigration benefits become more streamlined, backlogs would be reduced, and overall, the agency becomes more efficient. Most people could agree that anything that helps improve our federal government is welcome.
