{"id":351,"date":"2025-10-27T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/?p=351"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:48:18","slug":"is-now-the-right-time-to-apply-for-u-s-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2025\/10\/27\/is-now-the-right-time-to-apply-for-u-s-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Now the Right Time to Apply for U.S. Citizenship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/tedjchiappari.html\">Ted Chiappari<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/malejandravargas.html\">Alejandra Vargas<\/a>,Isabella Castell\u00f3n Lebr\u00f3n and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/guilhermemassetti.html\">Guilherme Massetti<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently issued a series of changes in policy and practice that could make it significantly harder for some people to acquire U.S. citizenship and lengthen the processing times for all applicants. While there have only been isolated anecdotal reports of changes so far in how naturalization interviews are being conducted, we expect more noticeable changes in the coming months. Similarly, on August 19, 2025, USCIS announced updates to its policy manual expanding officers\u2019 discretionary authority for certain immigration benefits requests, directing them to give \u201csignificant negative discretionary weight\u201d for \u201canti-American\u201d ideologies or activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/is_now_right_time_apply_us_citizenship_uscis_implements_new_policies_good_moral_1025.html\"><em>Alert<\/em> <\/a>on the Duane Morris website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ted Chiappari, Alejandra Vargas,Isabella Castell\u00f3n Lebr\u00f3n and Guilherme Massetti U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently issued a series of changes in policy and practice that could make it significantly harder for some people to acquire U.S. citizenship and lengthen the processing times for all applicants. While there have only been isolated anecdotal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/2025\/10\/27\/is-now-the-right-time-to-apply-for-u-s-citizenship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Now the Right Time to Apply for U.S. Citizenship?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[219,315,11,303,327,10],"ppma_author":[235],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alejandra-vargas","tag-guillherme-massetti","tag-immigration","tag-ted-chiappari","tag-u-s-citizenship","tag-uscis"],"authors":[{"term_id":235,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/immigrationlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}