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USCIS has created a new Workload Transfer Updates page on our website where customers can keep track of workload transfers between our five service centers. Occasionally, we will transfer cases from one service center to another in order to balance workloads and ensure timely processing. In the past, we have issued a Web alert for each transfer.
For two weeks after premium processing resumes for H-1B cap-subject petitions, USCIS will not use pre-paid mailers to send out final notices for premium processing H-1B cap-subject petitions.
On December 2, 2015, The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) met with the USCIS International Operations (IO) London Field Office. USCIS discussed issues related to communications, adoptions, Forms I-407, Forms I-130, and refugee processing and general operations.
LOS ANGELES—Today, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) welcomed Fabio as a U.S. citizen during a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 6,000 Angelenos hailing from more than 140 countries joined Fabio in taking the Oath of Allegiance to become naturalized citizens.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invited interested stakeholders to participate in a stakeholder engagement on Tuesday, April 5, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. (Eastern) titled “Elements of Program Quality for Adult Citizenship Education.”
The Department of State’s Visa Bulletin for May 2016 reflects a final action date of January 1, 2010, for EB-4 visas for special immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Applications for USCIS’ Citizenship and Integration Grant Program for fiscal year 2016 are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on April 22, 2016.
On April 13, 2016, USCIS revised Form N-400, Application for Naturalization. The revised version is available at uscis.gov/n-400. You may continue to use the 9/13/13 edition of the form until August 9, 2016. We will reject and return previous versions of Form N-400 submitted on or after August 10, 2016.
New edition dated 03/26/16. (Starting 8/9/16, USCIS will only accept the 03/26/16 edition. Until then, you can still use the 09/13/13 edition.)
USCIS used a computer-generated random selection process, or lottery, to select enough petitions to meet the 65,000 general-category cap and the 20,000 cap under the advanced degree exemption.