{"601106":{"#nid":"601106","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Government Shutdown\u0027s Impact on Immigration","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Federal Government stopped operating on Saturday, February 20, 2018, after a stopgap spending bill failed to pass. Congress will continue to meet to try to come to a funding agreement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the meantime, federal government offices that are not fee-funded or designated to continue operations because they offer security or other essential services will generally have to shut down and furlough most workers, until a deal is struck.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe immigration process is largely fee-funded or related to security operations, however, and so most immigration operations will continue except as described in this \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/Professional_Resources\/Browse_by_Interest\/International_Students_and_Scholars\/Government_Shutdown_2018\/\u0022\u003ENAFSA article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor additional context, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/news\/alerts\/lapse-federal-funding-certain-uscis-operations\u0022\u003EUSCIS website\u003C\/a\u003E for news and alerts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"On January 20, 2018, the federal government entered into a partial shutdown following Congress\u2019s failure to reach an agreement to continue funding the federal government. Immigration processes are expected to be impacted by the shutdown."}],"uid":"34041","created_gmt":"2018-01-21 23:44:56","changed_gmt":"2018-01-22 12:58:10","author":"cjohnson401","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"170351","name":"International Student and Scholar Services"},{"id":"1297","name":"Office of International Education"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}