August 22, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided valuable assistance to the investigation that led to the conviction and sentencing of an Indian national, residing in New York, for staging armed robberies in furtherance of a visa fraud conspiracy.
August 19, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers consider in certain benefit requests where an exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations, as well as the use of discretion in adjudication of certain benefit requests where evidence of antisemitic activity is present.
August 18, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a pivotal role in the investigation leading to a federal grand jury indictment of a child molester in North Carolina.
August 15, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided valuable assistance to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies during a coordinated operation targeting a human trafficking ring operating in Omaha-area hotels.
August 13, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided key support in an investigation that led to Carlos Fabian Velez, 54, of San Antonio, pleading guilty to unlawful procurement of citizenship or naturalization.
August 07, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided valuable assistance in the investigation that led Immigration and Customs Enforcement to remove Romulus Mihai, an illegally present 33-year old Belgian fugitive convicted of sexual exploitation of a child in his native country.
August 04, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual in alignment with Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, which directs the Department of Homeland Security to develop policies to prevent the entry of male athletes seeking to compete in women’s sports.
August 01, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided significant assistance in the investigation of Carlos Adolfo Haeckermann Cardenas, who pleaded guilty in federal court to orchestrating a scheme to submit dozens of false and fraudulent asylum applications to USCIS.
August 01, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is updating the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the interview criteria for aliens who are asylees and refugees and their derivative family members filing Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status.
July 24, 2025
Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published a report identifying significant national security and integrity vulnerabilities in the Special Immigrant Juvenile program.
July 23, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided valuable assistance in the investigation that led to Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting Pierre Reginald Boulus on July 17 for violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by contributing to the destabilization of Haiti.
July 18, 2025
On July 15, 2025, the United States Senate confirmed Joseph Edlow to serve as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
July 18, 2025
Two members of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, were recently sentenced in federal court in Boston for their roles in a previously unsolved murder.
July 17, 2025
Five Louisiana men, including four active and former law enforcement officers, were indicted Wednesday on charges of bribery, conspiracy to commit visa fraud, and mail fraud, following a federal investigation initiated by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
July 14, 2025
Defendant sold three fake Social Security cards and three Green Cards to an undercover officer
July 14, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided key assistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations resulting in the July 9 arrest of a high-ranking member of the violent MS-13 gang who was listed among El Salvador’s top 100 most wanted fugitives.
July 07, 2025
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem today announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Nicaragua, which will expire on July 5, 2025.
July 07, 2025
After finding improved country conditions in Honduras, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem today announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status, as required by the statute.
July 03, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is celebrating Independence Day by welcoming new citizens in naturalization ceremonies throughout the country.
June 30, 2025
The U.S. attorney announced the indictment of Anibal Rios Lavias, 30, a U.S. citizen born in Mexico, charging him with naturalization fraud.
June 27, 2025
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem today announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti. The TPS designation for the country expires on Aug. 3, 2025, and the termination will be effective on Tuesday, September 2, 2025.
June 27, 2025
Hillsborough County high school teacher Shannon Lee Samlalsingh, 46, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to making false statements to a firearms dealer. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services assisted in the investigation.
June 26, 2025
The U.S. Attorney announced Jean Morose Viliena, the former mayor of Les Irois, Haiti, was sentenced to nine years in prison followed by three years of supervised release by Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV for the District of Massachusetts.
June 18, 2025
Defendant is an alleged gang associate who sold four pistols – two with defaced serial numbers – and more than 100 rounds of ammunition to gang members
June 17, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a key role in supporting a federal investigation that resulted in the indictment of two Texas residents for their alleged involvement in a large-scale immigration fraud scheme.
June 17, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services aided in the investigation that led to a federal grand jury indictment Wednesday charging Omoyoma Christopher Okoro, 51, a United States citizen born in Nigeria, with naturalization fraud.
June 16, 2025
An Albanian national was charged with marriage fraud, and he and his wife, an American citizen, were both charged with making false statements on forms submitted to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
June 12, 2025
Since U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published new guidance on issuing Notices to Appear (NTAs) on Feb. 28, it has initiated removal proceedings against more than 26,700 aliens with no legal basis to remain in the country.
June 11, 2025
A Brazilian national residing in Malden, Massachusetts, was recently sentenced in federal court in Boston for lying on his asylum application and at an immigration hearing.
June 09, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today released a video message in which President Trump welcomes newly naturalized citizens into our “national family” and invokes the pride new citizens should feel to share a home and heritage with America’s most exceptional heroes and patriots.
June 09, 2025
A member of the gang La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, recently pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to conspiracy to participating in a racketeering enterprise, more commonly referred to as RICO or racketeering conspiracy.
June 04, 2025
At the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are ramping up the review of immigration records and will take immediate appropriate actions to crackdown on visa overstays stemming from the Biden Administration’s failure to enforce the law.
June 02, 2025
A Colombian woman unlawfully residing in Boston has been indicted by a federal grand jury for identity theft offenses—including receiving rental assistance, Social Security, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits—as well as voter fraud under the stolen identity.
May 29, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provided valuable assistance to the investigation that led to an Indian national, residing in New York, pleading guilty to staging armed robberies in furtherance of a visa fraud conspiracy.
August 20, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is restoring robust screening and vetting processes to detect aliens seeking to defraud or abuse the immigration system, including aliens who make false claims to U.S. citizenship.
August 08, 2025
We are updating the Policy Manual to clarify that a visa becomes available for the purposes of Child Status Protection Act age calculation based on the Final Action Dates chart of the Department of State Visa Bulletin.
August 01, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual that will enhance our capability to screen and vet family-based immigrant visa petitions.
July 18, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is publishing a federal register notice (FRN) based on the H.R 1 Reconciliation Bill (H.R. 1).
July 18, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year 2026.
July 11, 2025
USCIS will soon begin to collect new fees for certain immigration benefit requests. We will provide details on the implementation of these fee changes in the coming days.
June 24, 2025
We are updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual, Volume 4, on valid marriages between a principal asylee or principal refugee and their claimed spouse.
June 13, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing policy guidance to enhance the integrity of the review process for Form N-648, Medical Certification for Disability Exceptions.
June 12, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual on how we disclose derogatory information upon which an adverse decision is based.
June 11, 2025
We are updating Volume 8 of the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify that a Form I-693, Report of Immigration Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, signed by a civil surgeon on or after Nov. 1, 2023, is only valid while the application the Form I-693 was submitted with is pending.
June 06, 2025
On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order lifting the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts’s April 14, 2025 Preliminary Injunction that stayed parts of the March 25, 2025 Federal Register notice titled, “Termination of Parole Process for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans (CHNV).
June 05, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security today posted a Federal Register notice on the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Nepal. After reviewing country conditions and consulting with the appropriate interagency partners, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem determined that conditions in Nepal no longer meet the statutory requirements for TPS.
June 03, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security posted a Federal Register notice on the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroon.
