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USCIS Will Swear In Over 6,000 Citizenship Applicants Over the July 4th Holiday
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 [...]
U.S. Senate Introduces the Orphans, Widows & Widowers Protection Act
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) reported recently that Senators Menendez (D-NJ), Gillibrand (D-NY) and Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Orphans, Widows and Widowers Protection Act (S. 1247) to amend the immigration laws to provide benefits for applicants who have submitted family-based petitions based on marriage to U.S. citizen spouses who subsequently pass away during the immigration process. Â
The bill if passed [...]
First U.S. Citizenship Swearing in Ceremony Held in Latin America
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) reported that the U.S. Embassy in Honduras hosted yesterday, the first naturalization ceremony ever held in Latin America.Â
Yesterday’s ceremony was held in Honduras which has now become the 15th country where the USCIS has held citizenship ceremonies outside the United States. Â
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 authorized the USCIS to schedule citizenship interviews and conduct [...]
