USCIS Newsroom

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Department of Homeland Security

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What this source is

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, within DHS, adjudicates immigration benefits. Its newsroom index carries news releases and alerts on benefits processing, fees, and policy updates, typically a few items per week.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

uscis-newsroom

Agency / parent organization

Department of Homeland Security

Branch

executive

Type

HTML index

Status

active

Tier

2

URL (home)

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

URL (index)

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

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered — HTML index diffing required. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: uscis-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged). Probed 2026-07-31 (from the operator machine, outside the server's daily budget): reachable, HTTP 200, robots allows, but no machine-readable feed is advertised — ingestion waits on an html-index adapter, not on the publisher. Phase 5, 2026-07-31: the html-index adapter now exists and was run against this source's captured index bytes. Against the 2026-07-31 capture it reads listing has 85 article link(s); 2 dated inside the 7-day lookback, 0 dated outside it, 83 skipped for no readable date, and the entries it lists carry the publisher's own dates. Activation awaits the operator's polling-cadence decision (the agency class holds 500 requests a day). Probed 2026-08-06: the Drupal Views convention <index-path>/feed.xml — confirmed working on nih-news and tsa-press — returns 404 here. Recorded as a negative so the next reader does not repeat the guess: on this registry, mining a source's own captured page for feed links finds feeds, and guessing platform conventions does not (14 of 14 candidates 404'd). Probed live 2026-09-28 from the operator machine as a brief test, outside the server's budget (identified client, robots allows). ACTIVATED 2026-09-28 with the html-index adapter. Gate 3: robots.txt sets a 10-second crawl-delay, honored. Without a hint the listing yields 6 entries dated 2026-09-25, four of them sidebar links (All USCIS News; Data and Statistics; Electronic Reading Room; Upcoming Events). index_item_path /newsroom/news-releases/ keeps the 2 real releases. uscis-email stays active beside it. Under-coverage: the listing's first page only, so more new entries between two hourly polls than the page holds would not be seen; entries the parser cannot date are dropped, never observation-dated.

How we ingest it

Channel

HTML index

Method

html-index adapter via AgencyClient — one listing fetch per poll, no article fetches (mode feed-only).

Adapter

html-index

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

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 3 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-09-28; 0 of 21 request(s) to www.uscis.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-09-28T18:49:43Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-09-29T10:51:00Z (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

Each day runs midnight to midnight on Eastern time (Washington, D.C.), the publication day the digests use; the stored request stamps remain UTC.

Our ingestion assessment