The House on Saturday unanimously passed a bill to provide emergency funding to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the primary agency running the nation’s immigration system that is set to furlough roughly two-thirds of its employees at the end of this month. The bill passed moments after the House voted on legislation to prevent cutbacks at the U.S. Pressure has been mounting through the week to shore up USCIS, the agency that handles citizenship, green-card, visa and other immigration applications. That could potentially prevent more than 100,000 people waiting to take their citizenship oaths from becoming citizens ahead of November’s elections.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 23, 2020 00:11 UTC