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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) increased many immigration fees including raising the cost of applying for U.S. citizenship, as well as creating new fees for some immigration applications in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal published on November...

Illinois immigrant families may lose medical care under a new Trump administration decision, and immigrant families with serious illnesses may be facing deportation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) on August 7, 2019, stopped accepting and adjudicating medical deferred action...

On August 12 the Trump administration announced it is moving forward with their plan to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance, effective October 15, 2019. Federal law...

USCIS has permanently closed its field office in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as of June 30, 2019. The USCIS Field Office in Mexico City, Mexico, has taken over responsibility for some immigration services for people living in the Mexican states of...

Illinois immigration rights advocates are calling for the passage of a bill that would make Illinois a "sanctuary state." Democratic state senators Rep. Celina Villanueva, of Chicago, and Sen. Don Harmon, of Oak Park, joined immigration rights advocates who want...

The State Department has updated immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms and that visa applicants share their social media accounts and “social identifiers” including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and require the applicant to provide any account names they may have...

For those who have played the waiting game with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), you understand the frustrations encountered during the processing time. With the extensive volume of petitions and applications for immigration benefits coming through USCIS each year,...

Every year on the first business day of April, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) make available a limited amount of H-1B nonimmigrant visas for U.S. employers to hire experienced foreign professionals. The available visas are capped at 65,000...