USCIS Updates (email)

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · email bulletin · Department of Homeland Security (USCIS)

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What this source is

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudicates immigration and naturalization benefits. Its bulletins carry policy-manual updates, form revisions, filing-fee and processing changes, and program announcements that determine how applications are handled.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

uscis-email

Agency / parent organization

Department of Homeland Security (USCIS)

Branch

executive

Type

email bulletin

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (home)

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom (opens in a new tab)

URL (signup)

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCIS/subscriber/new (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-29

Registry notes

Subscribed and confirmed 2026-07-29 (sender [address withheld]). Sibling of the planned uscis-newsroom web entry. Department-level DHS and ICE subscriptions are awaiting email confirmation. Gate-3 coverage evaluation (2026-07-30, from the 2026-07-29 bulletins): 1 bulletin carried 1 update, full text, DKIM-verified, with its canonical uscis.gov URL. The subscription is the agency's own update list covering policy-manual, form, and processing changes — document classes the newsroom page also lists; per-topic subscription scope means the newsroom comparison stays part of coverage accounting as volume accrues.

How we ingest it

Channel

email bulletin

Method

Subscription bulletins to the project mailbox, ingested by the email adapter (src/fapd/email_sources.py; raw RFC-5322 capture, DKIM verify-and-archive).

Adapter

govdelivery

Poll cadence

the project mailbox is read about every 15 minutes

Requests

none — bulletins are delivered to the project mailbox by the agency's own subscription service

Authenticity

every message's DKIM signature is checked on arrival and the result is disclosed on each item; a failing signature is labeled, never silently dropped

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 1 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-07-29, delivered by email.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day