U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou and Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Ombudsman Phyllis Coven held a “fireside chat” on September 21, 2022. They discussed challenges and accomplishments from fiscal year (FY) 2022 and looked ahead to FY 2023.
The conversation included discussion of processing times; backlog reduction efforts; customer service; funding and congressional appropriations; the Ombudsman’s 2022 Annual Report to Congress; recommendations on USCIS’s fee-for-service funding model; and types of assistance the Ombudsman’s office provides to the public.
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