Making America Safe Again: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services End-of-Year Review Demonstrates Impact of Rigorous Immigration Crackdown

Under the leadership of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and USCIS Director Joseph Edlow, the agency has enhanced immigration screening and vetting protocols to protect communities and national security and has advanced immigration policies that put the national interest first.

WASHINGTON— As the end of 2025 approaches, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would like to highlight key accomplishments for the year, including enhanced screening and vetting of aliens, increased coordination with our Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement partners, and common-sense regulatory and policy changes that restore integrity to America's immigration system. Explore the highlights in this <a target='_blank' href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/brochures/USCIS_2025_EndofYearReview_508.pdf" d

USCIS Clarifies Requirements for Professional Athletes

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today issued policy guidance (PDF, 309.13 KB) in Volume 6 of the USCIS Policy Manual to address the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) adoption of the Foreign Labor Application Gateway (FLAG) system, and its effect on certain immigrant visa petitions filed on behalf of professional athletes. This update continues our goal of restoring integrity to

DHS Ends the Abuse of the Humanitarian Parole Process and Terminates Family Reunification Parole Programs

The Department of Homeland Security is terminating all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.

This administration is ending the abuse of humanitarian parole which allowed poorly vetted aliens to circumvent the traditional parole process. Parole was never intended to be used in this way, and DHS is returning parole to a case-by-case basis as intended by Congress. Ending the FRP programs is a necessary return to common-sense policies and a return to America First.

The desire to reunite families does not overcome the government's responsibility to prevent fraud and abuse and to uphold national security and public safety. The FRP programs had security gaps caused by insufficient vetting that malicious and fraudulent actors could exploit