USCIS has changed its mission statement again – this time to adopt a more immigration-friendly stance. In 2018, USCIS, under the Trump Administration, changed its mission statement to align with ...

The federal agency that oversees the legal immigration system on Wednesday replaced a controversial Trump-era mission statement that had removed the "nation of immigrants" label, calling the U.S. "a ...

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is changing its mission statement to eliminate a passage that describes the United States as “a nation of immigrants.” The agency’s new mission ...

The U.S. government agency in charge of granting visas, green cards and naturalizations changed its mission statement, a reversal of a Trump-era change that had spun the immigration service provider ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Wednesday issued an updated mission statement that declares the U.S. a "nation of welcome" — marking its latest change in outlook from the agency under the ...

“The White House did not direct USCIS to change its mission statement. It was developed and debuted within the agency by USCIS Director Cissna during his first senior leadership conference with USCIS ...

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas welcomed 200 new U.S. citizens from 46 countries at NYC’s iconic Lincoln Center on Sept. 17, 2021, in honor of Citizenship Day. (USCIS photo) Today, U.S. Citizenship ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna on Wednesday defended his rewriting of the government agency’s mission statement earlier this year as a change meant to underscore ...

The new USCIS mission statement, issued on February 22, 2018, by Director L. Francis Cissna, no longer emphasizes customer satisfaction, i.e., the satisfaction of petitioners and beneficiaries.