Chris Van Hollen: “If we hope for our economy to also fully recover, we need the rest of the world to come back again in the same way.”

Naturalization is a critical pathway to immigrant integration, civic engagement, and democratic participation, yet your agency’s actions represent a significant departure from these values.

This is an opportunity for this Congress to finally take responsibility.

The good news – I wish that list was longer … we have been able to put together a fiscal year 2026 budget. That is a low bar, but in these divided times, it was important.

USCIS’s actions have repeatedly increased the burden of and difficulty in obtaining U.S. citizenship.