India, Aug. 28 -- Aspiring citizens seeking to secure their future in the country now face a heightened level of administrative oversight as US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) actively reinforces the use of personal background checks. The federal agency has systematically pulled back a decades-long general waiver that had kept neighbourhood and workplace investigations largely inactive since the era of the former Immigration and Naturalisation Service in 1991.

By leveraging statutory provisions under Section 335(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, immigration authorities are signalling a definitive shift toward deeper, more granular verification of individual backgrounds. According to agency officials, the policy is d...