Without the $1.2 billion injection from Congress, the agency, he said, would be unable to fund its operations in a matter of months. “We are not a benefit agency, we are a vetting agency,” he has said. Maybe not,” said Rand, a founder of Boundless Immigration, a technology company in Seattle that helps people apply for green cards and citizenship. Those could include staff reductions that would affect the adjudication of citizenship, green cards, asylum and work visas. In November last year, the agency’s leadership proposed steep increases in fees to file for legal immigration and naturalisation.

Source: bd News24 May 17, 2020 20:48 UTC