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USCIS has a legacy of more than 100 years of federal immigration and naturalization administration.
Federal oversight of immigration began in 1891, when Congress created the first Office of Immigration in the Treasury Department. As immigration grew over the following decades, so did the duties of federal immigration employees. By 1906, lawmakers voted to reform the nation’s pathway to citizenship, and the Bureau of Immigration added oversight of naturalization to its responsibilities.
Final Rule to Restore Asylum Regulations Consistent with Asylumworks Vacatur
Alert: More recent information is available on our Fiscal Year 2023 Employment-Based Adjustment of Status FAQs.
USCIS is currently experiencing delays in issuing receipts for Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal. Due to these delays, you may not receive a receipt notice in a timely manner after you properly file your Form I-589.
ALERT: Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Venezuela expired on July 20, 2022. Venezuelans and individuals without nationality who last habitually resided in Venezuela who wish to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the existing designation, including those who were covered under the January 2021 grant of DED, may apply for TPS before the registration period ends Sept. 9, 2022.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites you to participate in a virtual stakeholder engagement on the processing of Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition, on Thursday, July 21, from 2-3 p.m. Eastern. The Form I-730 is used by certain principal refugees and asylees to request follow-to-join benefits for their qualifying spouse and/or unmarried children under 21 years of age.
Regional centers use this form to demonstrate continued eligibility for regional center designation.
Fact SheetHaitian Family Reunification Parole ProgramThe HFRP Program offers certain beneficiaries of approved family-based immigration petitions (Forms I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, the opportunity to be reunited with family in the United States up to approximately two years before their immigrant visas are expected to become available.
ALERT: USCIS has received enough petitions to reach the cap for the additional 23,500 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas made available for returning workers only under the recently announced H-2B supplemental cap temporary final rule. We continue to accept petitions for H-2B nonimmigrant workers for the additional 11,500 visas allotted for nationals El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti, regardless of whether they are returning workers.
USCIS wants to hear from legal representatives as we prepare to make Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, available for online filing. We want to understand the challenges and pain points of the application process. We will take what we learn from your input to help design the online filing experience for Form I-589.