Temporary Delay in Issuance of I-129 Receipt Notices
24 May 2012, 1:59 pm
Due to the high number of recently filed I-129 petitions with uscis, customers may experience a longer than usual period of time to receive a receipt notice from uscis. Usually, customers can expect to receive their receipt notice within 30 days of delivery confirmation.

uscis ELIS and the SEVIS Form I-20 Fact Sheet
24 May 2012, 1:59 pm
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (uscis) will transition from a paper-based model to a secure, electronic environment. This new user-friendly system is called the uscis Electronic Immigration System (uscis ELIS).

uscis to Centralize Filing and Adjudication for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility in the United States
24 May 2012, 1:59 pm
WASHINGTON—Beginning June 4, 2012, individuals abroad who have applied for certain visas and have been found ineligible by a U.S. Consular Officer, will be able to mail requests to waive certain grounds of inadmissibility directly to a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (uscis) Lockbox facility.

Visa agency goes digital
23 May 2012, 6:23 pm
In an effort to modernize the process, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services launched its new electronic system, uscis ELIS, Tuesday.

uscis Transfers More Historical Records to National Archives
23 May 2012, 1:44 pm
Approximately 44,000 Files to be transferred to Archives Facility in San Bruno, Calif.

uscis Launches Online Immigration System, uscis ELIS
23 May 2012, 1:44 pm
WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (uscis) today launched the first phase of its electronic immigration benefits system, known as uscis ELIS. The system has been created to modernize the process for filing and adjudicating immigration benefits.

uscis launches first online form
22 May 2012, 1:32 pm
US Citizenship and Immigration Services claimed an important milestone in their transformation initiative to a digital agency with the debut of the agency's first online form.

uscis needs to better track its laptops, IG says
17 May 2012, 3:32 pm
The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services agency has a few holes in its inventory of its laptop computers, according to an audit.

uscis Issues Precedent Appeals Decision on P-3 Nonimmigrant Visa Petition
16 May 2012, 10:59 am
WASHINGTON —U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (uscis) Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) today issued a binding precedent decision addressing the term “culturally unique” and its significance in the adjudication of petitions for performing artists and entertainers.

uscis may require mother/child DNA test
16 May 2012, 3:00 am
Q. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says that my wife and I haven’t submitted enough proof that my wife is the biological mother of our daughter. What can we do to get her here from India? For the past 10 years my wife Rosy Harris and I have been trying to bring our daughter Mary from India.