If you recently obtained your US citizenship through naturalization, or are carrying out this process, you should know that the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a series of changes that will now provide greater rights to certain people.
To specify what obligations and rights are acquired with each of the immigration statuses, Uscis issues various guides that are sometimes modified. This is the case of policy manual interpreting confidentiality protections at the time of naturalization.
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According to the latest official update, now naturalized U.S. citizens will be able to fully access electronic filing and other customer service tools, meaning they will have greater access to tools that will help them eliminate barriers in their process and improve response times for certain queries.
- Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
- T nonimmigrant status, for victims of human trafficking.
- U nonimmigrant status, for victims of certain crimes.
Thus, for example, after the elimination of protections, after naturalization a new US citizen You can request your replacement certificate if you have lost it. Another change in this sense is that now naturalized citizens may ask or answer questions about their intention to receive financial support.
The importance of the elimination of confidentiality protection announced by Uscis
Uscis explained that the reason there were confidentiality provisions was to protect victims from their abusers, who used the immigration system as a tool to continue harming them, controlling them and limiting their applications for immigration protection. But now that will change.
From this modificationwhen a victim becomes a US citizen, their abuser will no longer have the same means to use the immigration system against you and delays in processing cases will be eliminated, as confidentiality provisions in these circumstances have proven more of a hardship than a protection mechanism for new citizens, Uscis said.
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