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USCIS announces new funding opportunity under grant program
This opportunity aims to provide financial support and extensive training to help organizations create new, high-quality citizenship programs.
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The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced the commencement of the application period for the Citizenship and Integration Training Academy (CITA), a new initiative under the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program. CITA, a technical assistance grant, offers up to $2.6 million in competitive funding to public or nonprofit organizations that have not previously received USCIS grant funding.
This opportunity aims to provide financial support and extensive training to help organizations create new, high-quality citizenship programs.
“The CITA grant provides increased capacity-building and additional citizenship instruction resources for organizations that otherwise may not qualify for a grant,” said Ur M Jaddou, the USCIS director. “Through this program, we can help build organizations’ capacity to help immigrants improve their English language skills, increase their knowledge of US history and government, and gain the tools to become successful and responsible US citizens.”
With the CITA grant, USCIS continues to uphold President Joe Biden’s directive in Executive Order 14012 (Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening Integration and Inclusion Efforts for New Americans) to “remove barriers in the naturalization process” and “make it more accessible to all eligible individuals”.
Additionally, USCIS advances its objectives under the Interagency Strategy for Promoting Naturalization by addressing the needs of remote, isolated, and vulnerable populations, thereby enabling more organizations to support these communities.
USCIS plans to award grants of up to $400,000 each to as many as seven organizations for a three-year period. The recipients will be announced in September 2024, with the funding period starting on Oct.1, 2024, and concluding on Sept.30, 2027.
Since 2009, the USCIS Citizenship and Integration Grant Program has distributed $155 million through 644 grants to organizations serving immigrants. These recipients have delivered citizenship preparation services to over 350,000 immigrants across 41 states and the District of Columbia.
USCIS will use the remaining fiscal year 2023 funding, appropriated by Congress, to make this new funding opportunity available to communities.
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