US Citizenship and Immigration Services

‘Crime doesn’t lead to a Green Card’: US immigration’s fresh reminder amid major visa crackdown

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a fresh warning targeting Green Card applicants and cited recent cases where layers of screening threw up shocking discoveries about the applicants and appropriate actions have been taken. In one case, the USCIS said, screening revealed that an applicant was wanted for homicide by the Mexican government. In […]

Viral video claims one immigration lawyer approved 700,000 H-1B visas. Here’s what the records show

A viral video circulating on X made an explosive claim that a single immigration lawyer in Texas has approved hundreds of thousands of H-1B visas, which again angered MAGA base into calling for the suspension of the programme. The video focuses on Dallas-based attorney Chand Parvathaneni and alleges large-scale visa fraud tied to IT “shell […]

‘Will visit your neighbors, office’: US reminds new citizenship applicants that this ‘old’ background check is back

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services reminded new citizenship applicants that its neighborhood investigation before granting citizenship is back and not only neighbors but employers will also get visits by USCIS officials to verify moral character, assimilation into the US way of life etc. The neighbourhood investigation resumed in November 2025 as the agency overhauled […]

US immigration crackdown: Donald Trump suspends green card lottery; what led to the step?

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem […]

New rule for immigration documents: Old photos of applicants will be rejected to stop ‘identity theft’

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has come up with a new guideline for photos required for immigration documents. The agency said it would no longer entertain old photos of the applicants, older than more than three years — to prevent identity theft. Self-submitted photos will no longer be accepted, the agency said adding that […]

‘Which country are you from?’: Citizenship ceremonies halted, immigrants plucked out of line under Trump’s new ‘high-risk’ policy

As the Donald Trump administration stopped all immigration requests from 19 countries of concern, people who were just one step away from getting their citizenship received the shock of their lives. They just received a four-sentence email informing them that their naturalization ceremony got canceled. Some were not even informed; they found out when they […]

Trump pauses all asylum requests, visas for Afghans

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports days after a shooting near the White House that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition.Secretary of state Marco Rubio said Friday his department paused “visa issuance for ALL individuals traveling on […]

What is the new $1,000 immigration parole fee? Who all needs to pay this while entering the US?

USCIS notified new $1000 fee for individuals when they are paroled into the US. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has notified the new immigration parole fee of $1,000 required from now on for certain types of migrants. Parole is a temporary permission to enter and stay in the US without visa or other formal […]

The Urge to Purge: US gives immigration officials discretionary powers to determine if social media posts are ‘anti-American’

US President Donald Trump (PTI) TOI Correspondent from Washington: The Trump administration has announced it will undertake broad discretionary screening of social media posts for “anti-American” views while adjudicating applications for visa, green card, and citizenship. In an updated guidance issued on Tuesday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the nodal agency in charge […]

No anti-American behavior will be tolerated: New rules for visa holders, green card applicants

USCIS issues new rules for penalizing immigrants for anti-American behavior. Anti-American behavior, social media posts will now not go unnoticed by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, as the Department of Homeland Security has ordered the USCIS to apply Donald Trump’s America First policy to immigration benefits. “America’s benefits should not be given to those […]