Institutional reform of the US Immigration Service

On March 1 2003, the Immigration Department (INS) of the US Department of Justice, which had been established for 69 years, was merged into the Ministry of National Security, and was divided into three agencies: Citizenship and Immigration Service (BCIS), Customs and Border Protection (BCBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE). Officials pointed out that except for the official name of the newly established institution, all the affairs handled by all local offices and the former immigration bureau will not change greatly.

Citizenship and Immigration will provide the same services as the previous Immigration Bureau. All immigration forms and documents will still be accepted as usual, and people's rights and interests will not be affected.

People's checks must be written to the Citizenship and Immigration Bureau (BCIS), but during the transition period, BCIS also accepts checks paid to the Immigration Bureau.

The original application form of the Immigration Bureau is still valid. People can get printed forms by free phone or online download, but they should mail them to the regional office according to the instructions in the application form, and all new documents will be automatically transferred to the new processing unit.

BCIS said that all the application documents being processed by the Immigration Bureau will be directly transferred to the new unit after March 1, and the parties need not re-apply. BCIS is responsible for applying for immigration and naturalization, issuing work permits, political asylum and refugees, and will continue to work in the original office of the Immigration Bureau, employing 15000 employees.

Activate the new version of the planned naturalization application form.

20 14 On February 4th, USCIS announced the launch of a new version of the planned naturalization application form (N-400). Please pay attention to this change when filling out the form. For this newly revised naturalization form, the Immigration Bureau said that it would speed up the processing of naturalization of legal residents through new technologies.

In order to meet the needs of counter-terrorism, the US government has launched a new intelligence reform plan, and Congress also passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act and the Prevention of Child Soldiers Act in 2004 and 2007. In the past, the Immigration Bureau paid more attention to the ethics and quality of the naturalization applicant and whether he had a criminal record, but the newly revised naturalization application form also involved the consideration of whether the applicant would affect US national security. The Immigration Bureau will hold a press conference on February 20th to announce more details of the newly revised N-400 form.

The newly revised form also uses QR code technology in each application form. According to the Immigration Bureau, this will greatly improve the processing speed of the Immigration Bureau, such as inputting form information into the Immigration Bureau system more effectively. Compared with the original version of 10 page, this new version of the table is increased to 2 1 page. However, applicants who have submitted the form need not worry about their application. The Immigration Bureau has set up a 90-day transition period for the convenience of applicants. After the deadline of May 5, 20 14, the Immigration Bureau will no longer accept the old N-400 form and will return the old form to the applicant.