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USCIS Expands Payment Options at All Domestic Offices -WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced that beginning October 1, 2010, domestic offices and U.S. territories, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, will no longer accept cash payment. Eliminating the acceptance of cash will reduce USCIS operating costs. Date: 2010/07/28
Source: http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2010,0728-payments.shtm

USCIS Announces First Ten Areas of Focus for Agency-wide Policy Review Public Survey Informs Selection News Release -WASHINGTON— U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the results of a public survey that launched the USCIS Policy Review, an unprecedented, top-to-bottom examination of the agency’s adjudication and customer-service policies. Date: 2010/07/26
Source: http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2010,0726-policyreview.shtm

USCIS Announces First Ten Areas of Focus for Agency-wide Policy Review Public Survey Informs Selection Questions and ... -On April 15, 2010, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) launched the USCIS Policy Review, an unprecedented, top-to-bottom examination the agency’s adjudication and customer service policies with the engaged participation of the USCIS workforce and the public. Date: 2010/07/26
Source: http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2010,0726-policyreviewqa.shtm

USCIS expands payment options at all domestic offices -WASHINGTON D.C. -Beginning Oct. 1, 2010, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' domestic offices and U.S. territories, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam, will no longer accept cash payment. Eliminating the acceptance of cash will reduce USCIS operating costs. Date: 2010/07/27
Source: http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=101664

Policy Review Survey Report -In April, USCIS launched a comprehensive effort to review all of its adjudication and customer service policies. USCIS invited the workforce and external stakeholders to complete a survey identifying their priorities for the Policy Review. Date: 2010/07/28
Source: http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2010,0728-policyreview.shtm

Obama administration considers bypassing Congress on immigration reform -The Obama administration, anticipating that Congress might not pass comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering ways it could act without congressional approval to achieve many of the objectives of the initiative, including giving permanent resident status, or green cards, to large numbers of people in the country illegally. Date: 2010/07/30
Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/7132057.html

Memo outlines backdoor 'amnesty' plan -With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many illegal immigrants - what a draft government memo said could be "a non-legislative version of amnesty." The memo, addressed to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and written ... Date: 2010/07/30
Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/29/memo-outlines-backdoor-amnesty-plan-for-obama/

July 25, 2010 -For several years, USCIS has been moving more and more to a secretive style of carrying out its role. Gone are the days when rules were published for comment. Examiners operate in anonymity. Date: 2010/07/26
Source: http://www.ilw.com/articles/2010,0726-Siskind.shtm

Cap Count for H-2B Nonimmigrants -The H-2B non-agricultural temporary worker program allows U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary non-agricultural jobs. Date: 2010/07/29
Source: http://www.ilw.com/immigrationdaily/news/2010,0729-h2b.shtm

U.S. immigration offices to stop taking cash payments -In a cost-saving measure, the federal government will stop accepting cash as payment at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices beginning Oct. 1, spreading a practice already in place in Sacramento. Date: 2010/07/29
Source: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/29/2921659/no-cash.html