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Through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the DHS took over half of the INS’s former duties, including the following:

 Adjudicating (hearing and deciding on) immigrant and nonimmigrant petitions

 Adjusting the immigration status of immigrants already in the United States

 Issuing work authorization and other permits

 Naturalizing qualified applicants for U.S. citizenship

 Processing asylum and refugee cases

 Deterring, detecting, and addressing vulnerabilities to the legal immigration system

 Promoting lawful immigrants’ assimilation into American society