Immigration News

June 13, 2024

USCIS Electronic Reading Room

USCIS has an online Electronic Reading Room with access to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents. The Reading Room is really a Web-based searchable database of public requested FOIA documents; mixed with USCIS documents that the government decided may have a larger public demand. You can use pull-downs to choose different listed subjects and include any month/year date from January 2011 to the present. You can also type in your own keywords to search.

Please visit this page for more information: Electronic Reading Room

Immigrants in each State (fact sheets): Arkansas, California and Colorado – Update

by Kellie N. Lego

UPDATE: Explore American Immigration Council’ interactive map to get more comprehensive information on U.S. immigration data and its impact!

The American Immigration Council (AIC) has released all fifty states and the District of Columbia, for a total of fifty-one updated state-by-state fact sheets highlighting immigration data and facts. These fact sheets highlight the demographic and economic impact of Immigrants in each state.

With national immigration policy being discussed, we thought that it would be a good time to provide some statistics on the Immigrant population in the United States as provided by this AIC research. Once a week we will be posting a blog with information on three states at a time. This week we will highlight; Arkansas, California and Colorado!

June 4, 2024

Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA

by Kellie N. Lego

This is a very interesting Factsheet, Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA , published by USCIS using Office of Homeland Security Statistics data from April 30, 2024! This well put together Factsheet provides information on selected characteristics of people with Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) status in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA area. There are 18,360 LPR (Green Card holders) in this area of the country that are eligible to be naturalized U.S. citizen after meeting the requirements!

For more information, please review the USCIS Factsheet, “Eligible to Naturalize Fact Sheet: New Orleans-Metairie, LA“!

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May 31, 2024

2024 USCIS Forms Updates – 5/23/24

by Kellie N. Lego

The USCIS Forms Updates web page lists their most recently updated forms. The list includes forms as they publish them and includes a brief explanation for the update.

The updated form listed below is their most recent addition to the list, dated May 23, 2024!

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May 30, 2024

Radio Interview – Immigration is polarizing. What’s missing is empathy, experts say!

by Kellie N. Lego

The Journalist, Roshae Hemmings interviewed Adriano Udani an assistant professor at University of Missouri-St. Louis teaching, “immigration and global migration”! He found that even in his classroom the subject of immigration is a polarizing subject. Adriano feels what is missing is empathy! The NPR Radio interview is just over 27 minutes of audio and presents an interesting and well-informed point of view!

For more detailed information and to listen to the audio stream click the link below:

“Immigration is polarizing. What’s missing is empathy, experts say“

May 28, 2024

Immigrants in each State (fact sheets): Alabama, Alaska and Arizona – Update

by Kellie N. Lego

UPDATE: Explore American Immigration Council’ interactive map to get more comprehensive information on U.S. immigration data and its impact!

The American Immigration Council (AIC) has released all fifty states and the District of Columbia, for a total of fifty-one updated state-by-state fact sheets highlighting immigration data and facts. These fact sheets highlight the demographic and economic impact of Immigrants in each state.

With national immigration policy being discussed, we thought that it would be a good time to provide some statistics on the Immigrant population in the United States as provided by this AIC research. Once a week we will be posting a blog with information on three states at a time. This week we will highlight; Alabama, Alaska and Arizona!

May 23, 2024

USCIS’ Social Media Directory!

by Kellie N. Lego

USCIS has a Social Media Directory on its website, they state that they are making information more accessible, their actual words are “more widely available”! This directory contains USCIS accounts for X (twitter), Facebook, Instagram and many others including regional. Please use the link below to view the directory.

USCIS Link to Social Media Directory

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May 21, 2024