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On January 31, 2022, Higgins became deputy director of USCIS. [1] [3] On January 20, 2025, she was appointed as the acting director of USCIS. [1] Higgins was succeeded as deputy director by Andrew Davidson on February 9, 2025. [4] On February 9, 2025, Higgins was succeeded as acting director of USCIS by Kika Scott. [5]
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) oversees lawful immigration into the United States. [22] Note that Passports for U.S. citizens are issued by the U.S. Department of State, not the Department of Homeland Security. USCIS Wordmark
USCIS handles all forms and processing materials related to immigration and naturalization. This is evident from USCIS's predecessor, the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), which is defunct as of March 1, 2003. [6] [circular reference] USCIS handles two kinds of forms: those related to immigration, and those related to naturalization.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ten U.S. Senate Democrats provided the votes needed on Friday to advance a bill requiring authorities to detain migrants who entered the country illegally if they are ...
PHOTO: Recently arrived migrants board a bus back to their temporary tent shelters at Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield in Brooklyn, on January 04, 2024 in New York City.
By Scott Murdoch, Youn Ah Moon and Sinead Cruise. SYDNEY/SEOUL/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's $5 million so-called 'gold card' visa program is unlikely to trigger a major inflow ...
Outstanding American by Choice is an award given to naturalized United States citizens "who have achieved [...] extraordinary things" [1] by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). [2] It was established in January 2006 by Emilio T. Gonzalez, then the director of USCIS. [3]
USCIS relies on three categories of indicators to determine if an applicant is a non-KST. Statutory indicators : The applicant is suspected to have ties to a Tier I, II, or III terrorist organization or an organization "likely to meet" the definition of a Tier III organization, despite not being formally recognized.