Talk:United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

message: Hello, I put back some paragraphs that were removed. They concerned the name changes and also level of efficency of the USCIS/BCIS/INS. I believe that these are relevent, worth mentioning, and reflect the on-going changes since Sept 11th in US Government. Also, I believe concerns regarding agencys performance are accurate, well known, and not a reflection of a bias or represent a hidden motive.
If people disagree (or agree!) I'd love to discuss it further. I'm kind of new to Wikipedia so I hope this is the correct way to do things!
Regards, Nycmstar 23:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Restored some changes

message: Hello,
First, let me mention that I recently added a small section "USCIS Funding" to the page and included a couple of references. If someone has objections and/or comments related to this, please discuss them here.
Second, I have a few thoughts about the page in general:
1) I find it a little strange that there were no references on the page until now.
Should the reference section perhaps be expanded?
2) Some minor comments regarding the statements describing the goals of USCIS.
For example: "The priorities of the USCIS are to promote national security, to eliminate immigration case backlogs, and improve customer services."
I am not sure if these are really their priorities. And are there other priorities, such as, for example, assisting family reunification and helping the U.S. businesses and the economy? Perhaps one should say instead "The stated priorities of the USCIS are..." or something like that. Do they mention anything about their priorities somewhere on their website?
My own experience with USCIS indicates that protecting national security (or at least how they perceive it) seems to be their overriding priority, which by supercedes by far all the other considerations, such as family reunification, economic growth, etc.
The same applies to the sentence "While core immigration benefits functions remain the same as under the INS, a new goal is to process applications efficiently and effectively."
Is this really "a new goal" for them?
My understanding is that the main functional difference with INS is that some INS enforcement functions were taken away from USCIS ang given to ICE. (Maybe this should be mentioned explicitly?)
3) A small comment regarding the "Functions" section.
Is it really appropriate to list procedural requirements for naturalization (5 years, 3 years, 180 days etc) here? They seem a bit out of place in this section.
Regards, Nsk92 00:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent changes and a few questions

message: This section needs to include citations and drop some opinion statements. Is there an original editor who had sources in mind? 
MattHawke (talk) 19:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Contact USCIS Citations

message: I went ahead and added the tags for citation and expansion.  This artcile severly lacks the quality needed for an article on behalf of an agency of the US Federal Government.  Comparing this article to other agencies within Homeland Security, it falls short.  It has been a long time since the concerns regarding citaion were brought up, so I believed it appropriate to cite. Alex (talk)
I believe it is important to cite all sources before you submit an article. (Kmarquez96 (talk) 03:39, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Tagging of Citations and Expansion

message: INS must be redirect at USCIS because now is the Official name  UNITES STATES CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICE and add at the official name former INS  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yayoloco (talk • contribs) 02:47, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Two articles referent at the same US Federeal Goverment Agency??

message: Hello all.
I have recently checked to see who the current acting director is of the USCIS and I believe it is no longer Lori Scialabba, and now is James McCament.
It looks to me like this change was done on the 31st of March. The page that shows who the current leadership is, is stating that it was last updated on 1/20/2017
This makes things confusing for me, but from what I can find googling, apparently she is retiring.
All in all, according to the main site for USCIS, James McCament is the Acting Director so I am going to change this over. (Demogorgon777 (talk) 02:26, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding Acting Director of USCIS 

message: I used some research to dive further into the History that lead up to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. I found multiple sources that stated the same information to cross reference the validity of the section I added, and cited accordingly. Hopefully this will help the people who read this wiki page have a little more insight into this important agency. Please feel free to correct whatever needs to be corrected. (Demogorgon777 (talk) 06:46, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Going further into History 

message: * Deleted "America's promise as a nation of immigrants"
* Deleted "providing accurate and useful information"
* Deleted "citizenship benefits"
And added something about "honoring our values" that doesn't include the values carved onto the Statute of Liberty.
Who's stupid idea was this?
Old version: USCIS secures America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information to our customers, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship, and ensuring the integrity of our immigration system.”
Xenophobic version:     “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-director-l-francis-cissna-new-agency-mission-statement
DOR (HK) (talk) 13:00, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's up with the new mission statement for the US Citizenship and Immigration Services? 

message: When and why formed, by whom, etc. This article is incomplete without that basic information.--47.32.20.133 (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs History section 

message: — Assignment last updated by Dorbwe (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Race, Law, and Politics

message: How does one become a director of USCIS? Obviously Congress must have passed a law saying USCIS was to be established and would have a director. Normally it would say who appoints the director. Sometimes they say it's one of the heads of departments of the federal government—the Secretary of Whatever, who is a member of the president's cabinet. Sometimes they say the president appoints the person, with no need for confirmation by the senate. Sometimes they say the president appoints the incumbent subject to confirmation by the senate. Sometimes maybe it would be some other alternative.
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How is it done in this case? Michael Hardy (talk) 19:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who appoints the director?