According to a government, the Trump administration has been restoring a long -dormant practice for immigrants applying for US citizenship to “check”. Memorandum Received by CBS News.
The neighborhood investigation will include an inquiry on land by officials of American citizenship and immigration services which may include interviews with neighbors and colleagues of citizenship applicants.
The government will be investigated to determine whether the applicants meet the requirements for American citizenship, including showing good moral character, following the US Constitution and “being well clear for the good order and happiness of the United States”.
In order to qualify for American citizenship in the first place, the applicants usually lived in the US for three or five years as legal permanent residents. They should not have any serious criminal records, and pass a civil scripture and English test. The process is known as naturalization.
The memorandum of Trump Administration increases the policy of a decades -old US government. While the investigation of the neighborhood for citizenship cases is mentioned in the US law, they can also be forgiven, which the US government has done since 1991, Government records show. Since then, the government has mainly rely on the background and criminal investigation by the Vet citizenship applicants by the FBI.
USCIS Memo immediately terminated the “general discount” for the neighborhood check, whether such an investigation has been warrant on information basis, or in its absence, presented by citizenship applicants. According to the memo, the authorities maintain the ability to waive checks.
Instructions said that the USCIS officials will decide to check and review the admirer letters of neighbors, employers, colleagues and professional colleagues, who know the person applying for American citizenship.
The memorandum suggested that citizenship applicants should submit a commentary letter to avoid receiving requests for more evidence. The agency said that failure or refusal to follow the request for evidence may test the neighborhood and the ability to “impact” the applicants may have the ability to show that they qualify for American citizenship.
While the Trump administration’s campaign to expand the arrests of migrants living in the US is often postponed by the President and his top officials, its effort to tighten the access to the legal immigration system has been implemented with less pomp.
In several months, the other Trump administration has frozen the refugee entry program, eliminating the policies of the biden-era, which legally allowed some migrants to enter or live in the US and add additional parameters of veting to request immigration benefits such as green cards and American citizenship for legal immigrants.
In August alone, the USCIS stated that it would examine the need for American citizenship and “good moral character” for investigation, which would examine the views and activities and activities of those applying for green cards, work permits and other immigration benefits.
The Trump administration has argued that changes are required to combat changes and to sideline American immigration processes that believe that it becomes too loose and generous under democratic administration.
Director of USCIS, Joe Adlo, who was confirmed by the Senate earlier this year, stated the new memorandum “will ensure that only the most qualified applicants receive American citizenship.”
In a statement to CBS News, Edlo said, “Americans should be relaxed to know that USCIS is taking its responsibility to ensure that the aliens are being properly vetted and they are of good moral character, which are associated with the principles of the United States Constitution, and well -confused for the United States’s good order and happiness.”
But pro -immigrant advocates and critics, pro -Trump administration, said that its policies are making a cold impact to immigrants across the country, legal and illegal.
Doris Meesner said, “It is to make me think that the idea is to create a more scared environment that discourages people from naturalization.”
In 2003, the requests for the now-deformed insulated citizenship were abolished until the construction of USCIS. The Meesner said that the government had closed the neighboring investigation to a large extent when he became labor intensive and rarely received useful information from neighborhoods or other sources when he became INS Commissioner in the 1990s. He also said that there are other railings to prevent bad actors from becoming citizens, including background check.
“This was seen as one of the anocronistic processes,” said the Meesner.
