Stakeholder Messages
This page contains USCIS stakeholder messages, searchable by topic and date. Stakeholder messages are only current as of the date of publication/release. Keep in mind, messages may have become outdated since they were sent.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has implemented a streamlined process for Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization, to more efficiently provide Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) to eligible refugees after they are admitted to the United States. The new process applies to individuals admitted to the United States as refugees on or after Dec. 10, 2023.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is changing the filing locations for certain forms and transferring cases as part of a larger initiative to centralize petition and application filing locations.
On Feb. 28, 2024, USCIS officially launched new organizational accounts that will allow multiple people within a company or other organization to collaborate and prepare H-1B registrations, H-1B petitions, and associated requests for premium processing.
Beginning Feb. 27, 2024, certain Ukrainian citizens and their immediate family members displaced by the Russian invasion and paroled into the United States on or after Feb. 11, 2022, will be able to apply for a new period of parole (also known as re-parole) for up to two years.
USCIS released the end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrates the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. Over the past year, our workforce has successfully reduced backlogs, improved the customer experience, strengthened employment-based immigration, and addressed humanitarian needs.
On Feb. 2, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security published a final rule to improve the H-1B registration selection process and program integrity. This rule created a beneficiary-centric process, under which registrations will be selected by unique beneficiary rather than by individual registration. As previously announced, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will require registrants to provide valid passport information or valid travel document information for each beneficiary.
Today, we published a final rule to adjust certain immigration and naturalization benefit request fees for the first time since 2016.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced today updates for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 H-1B cap season. This announcement includes provisions from the H-1B Registration final rule (Improving the H-1B Selection Process and Program Integrity), the dates for the initial H-1B registration period for the FY 2025 H-1B cap, and the online filing launch of Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, and Form I-907, Request for Premium Processing Service, for H-1B petitioners.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the extension and redesignation of Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months from April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2025 through publication of a notice in the Federal Register.
We will start requiring most applicants, attorneys, and accredited representatives to pay the fees for forms filed at a field office by mail or remotely, instead of in person at a field office.
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