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Trump Administration Seeks To Close International Immigration Offices
By: Vanessa Romo | Joel Rose | NPR
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is in “preliminary discussions” to shutter 23 field offices around the world to save millions. Critics say it will exacerbate a processing bottleneck.