# USCIS Shifts Service Center Staff

A community-reported thread says approximately 800 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Service Center employees were directed to report to field offices in March 2025 and began working for those offices in March 2026. Commenters also describe premium-case workload pressures, employee departures and retirements, planned team shifts, and concerns about the Field Office Directorate conversion and adjudication responsibilities; these accounts are not independently verified. No procurement, contract, solicitation, or funding action is identified, but the reported staffing changes could be relevant to contractors supporting USCIS operations and workload capacity planning.

- Contractors supporting USCIS service centers or field offices can treat the reported workforce shift as operational context when assessing workload assumptions and current support scope; the thread does not establish a new requirement or opportunity.
- Procurement teams should distinguish these community reports from formal agency direction and avoid assuming changes to contract requirements without an official solicitation or notice.
- No contract value, procurement timeline, vendor, or point of contact is provided.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Published:** October 30, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

### Key Quotes
> There were around 800 Service Center employees who were told to report to a field office in March of 2025. Then, in March of 2026, they were told they had to start working for that field office.
> — Original poster

### Sources
- [USCIS Service Center Employees absorbed to the Field Office](https://www.reddit.com/r/FedEmployees/comments/1xj3owf/uscis_service_center_employees_absorbed_to_the) - reddit-fedemployees