Will Federal Hiring Freeze Worsen USCIS Processing Times
January 24th, 2017 by SRW Lawyers
President Trump initiated a federal employee hiring freeze. See:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3404987-Trump2017hiringfreeze-Mem-Rel-3.html
The freeze applies to all federal agencies (except military), regardless of their source of funding. This therefore applies to a user-funded program such as filings with USCIS.
We will see if this effects processing times at USCIS Service Centers.