United States Immigration News
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Information from USCIS Regarding FBI Name Check Changes
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) states in an email that
it is working together with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to process
name checks as quickly as possible without compromising security or public
safety.
USCIS and FBI have studied the existing name check system and have formulated
following two-point strategy to address the problem:
- USCIS and the FBI conducted a joint risk assessment, which resulted in
process improvements that permitted them to focus on cases of concern.
- USCIS and FBI have allocated additional resources to the process. Over
the next year, USCIS is planning to commit a total of $15.5 million to
address the backlog of FBI name checks.
Please note, however, USCIS continues to require FBI name checks for the same
categories of applications and no case will be approved without a cleared name
check. USCIS will work on reducing waiting times but not at the expense of
national security and public safety.
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