{"id":581,"date":"2019-02-19T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.com\/tutorial\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:49:09","slug":"what-is-uscis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.testpreptraining.ai\/tutorial\/what-is-uscis\/","title":{"rendered":"What is USCIS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The USCIS \u201cUnited States Citizenship and Immigration Services\u201d abbreviated as the USCIS. It is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) administering the country&#8217;s naturalization and immigration system. 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