U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), whose offices nationwide have been closed since March 20, 2020 to in-person services due to COVID-19, will begin reopening its offices beginning on June 4, 2020.
Since its closure to in-person services, USCIS has postponed hundreds of thousands of interviews for residency, asylum and other applications, as well as citizenship swearing-in ceremonies for an estimated 150,000 individuals who had already passed their naturalization interviews.
Even as it begins to reopen, USCIS says that it may have to do massive staff lay-offs if it does not get $1.2 billion from Congress. Services at USCIS may not be back to normal for some time, despite the pending reopenings.