This is so outrageous. The lying liars say it will save “millions of dollars”-as if saving money were a priority for them. The real goal is to slow immigration to the U.S. to a drip:
USCIS spokeswoman Jessica Collins announced on Tuesday the agency is in "preliminary discussions" to delegate its international responsibilities to the State Department, or to its own personnel in the U.S. In some cases, the workload would be absorbed by U.S. embassies and consulates abroad….
...The USCIS field offices currently assist with refugee applications, family reunification visas and foreign adoptions. They also consider parole requests from people outside the U.S. for urgent humanitarian reasons and process naturalization documents for military members who marry foreign nationals, among other responsibilities….
...But Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute argued the plan will likely exacerbate a processing bottleneck of refugee applications that has led to fewer opportunities for people to seek asylum in the U.S. She noted the Trump administration slashed the ceiling on the number of allowable refugees from 45,000 in fiscal year 2018 to 30,000 in 2019 due to "a massive backlog of outstanding asylum cases."
So, if you live in another country and want to start the process of becoming a US citizen through naturalization, or if you are an American citizen who wants to adopt a child in another country, or if you want to obtain a green card to live in the US, or if you want to claim refugee status in the US, or if you want to come in through your family domicile, or another humanitarian reason—soon, you will be out of luck.
A list of all of the international offices, which will close permanently if powers that be approve the move to shutter:
Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean (LACC) District
Asia/Pacific (APAC) District
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) District
Please call your Reps and Senators and tell them this is an egregious overreach of power, and that the American people overwhelmingly support immigration, naturalization, international adoption, and refugees.