{"id":141,"date":"2004-01-14T20:10:09","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T02:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2004-01-14T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2004-01-15T02:10:09","slug":"us-cis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"US CIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) and US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) all have in common?\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re the same damn thing!\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that US Immigration has gone the way of the illegal immigrant (moving from one address to another and changing their name as they go).<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year the web address of this agency has changed from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030207055533\/www.ins.gov\/graphics\/index.htm\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">www.ins.gov<\/font><\/a> to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030401093114\/www.bcis.gov\/graphics\/index.htm\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">www.bcis.gov<\/font><\/a> to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uscis.gov\/graphics\/index.htm\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">www.uscis.gov<\/font><\/a> &#8212; sounds crazy but I have proof!\u00c2\u00a0 The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">Wayback Machine at Internet Archive<\/font><\/a> has a record of every single website that pops up on the web.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, they even have my very first domain (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19990125094146\/http:\/\/www.chingay.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">chingay.com<\/font><\/a>) listed.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress..\u00c2\u00a0 What in the world is going on with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uscis.gov\/graphics\/index.htm\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">US Citizenship and Immigration Service<\/font><\/a> (as they are now known)?\u00c2\u00a0 Why have they gone TNT (<em>tago nang tago<\/em>) on me?\u00c2\u00a0 I hope they stay at this last web address for a while because they sure are hard to find these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) and US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) all have in common?\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re the same damn thing!\u00c2\u00a0 It seems that US Immigration has gone the way of the illegal immigrant (moving from one address to another and changing their name as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}