USCIS Public Awareness Initiative Launch—Today at 1:30 p.m., EDT

Today, at 1:30p.m. (EDT), USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas is launching the Citizenship Public Education and Awareness Initiative. You can watch live at: http://www.uscis.gov/stream/CISLiveStreamingW.html

 

This effort represents USCIS’ growing commitment to engage the public with proactive messages about the benefits of citizenship, and the role that shared citizenship rights and responsibilities play to unify all Americans.

 

The initiative will run during the summer across the country on more than 250 radio stations, 400 websites, and through national and local print advertisements, in this first phase of a planned multi-year effort. Messages will run in Spanish, English, Chinese and Vietnamese – languages spoken in the top 10 countries of origin for permanent residents. Nearly 8 million permanent residents are currently eligible to apply for citizenship and most reside in California, New York, Texas and Florida.

 

The initiative will promote awareness of the rights, responsibilities, and importance of United States citizenship, and the free resources available to permanent residents and immigrant-serving organizations. Immigrants will be invited to learn more about citizenship and directed to the USCIS Citizenship Resource Center, a one-stop web portal offering free educational tools to support immigrants and immigrant-serving organizations at www.uscis.gov/citizenship.

 

Our role at USCIS is to serve as the official source for information and resources on citizenship and naturalization. We offer information so that individuals can make informed decisions, and for those choosing citizenship, we provide materials and initiatives to support them through the naturalization process.

 

All of the initiative materials – including the video public service announcement – are available for download on our website and we encourage you and your organization to use them in your own efforts to reach permanent residents with citizenship information.

 

Please visit www.uscis.gov/citizenshipawareness for more information on the initiative, view and download the materials, and learn how you can share in this effort.

 

Kind regards,

 

Office of Public Engagement

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

www.uscis.gov/outreach