The Trump administration took another step to cut back services to people seeking to legally enter the U.S. and focus instead on a backlog of immigration cases, saying that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would close its international offices.
People line up for visas to the United States at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. The Trump administration is moving to close U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices overseas.
USCIS foreign operations include reuniting families, overseeing international adoptions and processing requests for U.S. travel for humanitarian emergencies, military members serving overseas and permanent residents seeking to return.The agency is preparing to shift its international operations to the State Department in order to focus on a backlog of immigration cases, its director, Lee Francis Cissna, said in a memo to agency employees sent out Tuesday and obtained by The Times.
Cissna said in his memo that the move would maximize agency resources and help reduce backlogs, “which will ultimately assist our agency to more effectively meet its mission of fairly administering our nation’s lawful immigration system.”
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