Workers Seeking Green Cards Will Need an Interview

Immigrant workers seeking employment-based green cards will have to undergo interviews with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services before their applications are adjudicated, the agency announced.

Starting Oct. 1, the agency will phase in in-person interviews as part of an effort to better detect fraud and enhance the integrity of the immigration system, the USCIS said Aug. 28.

“USCIS is collaborating with our federal partners to develop a uniform baseline for screening and vetting standards and procedures,” Acting USCIS Director James McCament said in a statement. “Part of our USCIS strategy to support this uniform baseline is the incremental expansion of ...