As of Oct 6, 2026, our inventory holds 54 open postings at US Citizenship and Immigration Services that allow either remote work or telework. Fully remote among them: 2. Posted in the last 30 days: 54. Those figures are a count, not an estimate: every day we pull the current federal listings from the USAJOBS API, keep the ones that allow remote work or telework, and tag each by agency. The numbers on this page refresh with each daily rebuild, so they can be different tomorrow. USCIS deserves a page of its own because its core work is reading case files and writing decisions, which is desk work, and desk work is what shows up in an inventory like ours. Field agencies appear here as an exception; USCIS appears as a matter of course.
What USCIS does
USCIS is the component of the Department of Homeland Security that adjudicates immigration benefits. That means deciding applications and petitions: naturalization, lawful permanent residence, employment authorization, petitions filed by employers and family members, asylum and refugee processing, and the humanitarian programs that sit alongside them. Border and interior enforcement belong to other DHS components, not to USCIS, which is why its workforce looks more like a large benefits agency than a law enforcement one.
The agency runs three kinds of operating sites, and the kind matters for where you would work. Field offices across the country conduct interviews and naturalization ceremonies. Service centers process the bulk of applications and petitions, on paper and in electronic systems. Asylum offices handle asylum interviews and related casework. Headquarters and support functions round out the picture: policy, legal counsel, information technology, human capital, finance, training and records. Most of the postings in our inventory come from the casework and support functions, because those are the jobs with enough location flexibility to be marked telework eligible or remote on USAJOBS.
Fully remote or telework eligible at USCIS
Two tiers decide where you can live. A posting is fully remote when the agency marks it remote on USAJOBS, so the work can be done from an approved location anywhere in the country. A posting is telework eligible when it carries a specific duty station and the agency lets you work from home part of the time. We never merge the two into a vague “remote-friendly” label, because the difference is whether you must live near a particular office. Here is today’s split across every USCIS posting we hold:
Read the split with the agency’s site structure in mind. A USCIS announcement usually names a service center, field office, asylum office or headquarters location as the duty station, and a telework-eligible posting means you report there some of the week under a telework agreement. The remote vs. telework guide explains what that agreement does and does not promise. If the fully remote count is small, that is USCIS’s current posting pattern rather than a gap in our data, and the postings in that tier draw applicants from the whole country, so apply inside the window. The USCIS hub shows the tier on every listing.
What kinds of work USCIS posts
The occupational categories with the most USCIS postings in our inventory right now are:
- General Inspection, Investigation, Enforcement, and Compliance Series 20 listings
- Miscellaneous Administration and Program 13 listings
- Management and Program Analysis 10 listings
- Government Information Specialist 3 listings
- Compliance Inspection and Support 2 listings
- Criminal Investigation 1 listing
Each category links to its hub, which shows the same family across every agency we track. Immigration services officers are the agency’s signature role, and USAJOBS files them under the general inspection, investigation, enforcement and compliance family rather than under a title you would guess: they review applications, interview applicants, research eligibility and write the decisions. Around them sit the families that keep a large adjudication agency running: management and program analysis, administrative and clerical support, information technology for the case management systems, human resources, and attorney positions supporting legal review. The legal jobs guide covers the attorney side, and the program and management analysis guide covers the analyst side. The list shifts as announcements open and close, so a family missing this week may lead next month.
What they pay
Advertised pay on USCIS postings we hold currently runs from $34,799 to $197,200 a year, with a typical figure of $109,788. The GS grades advertised span 5–15.
A word on “typical.” A federal announcement advertises a pay range, not a single salary, and the range can be wide when a job is open at several grades. For each posting we take the midpoint of its advertised range; the typical figure is the median of those midpoints across every USCIS posting in the inventory. Hourly rates are converted to annual pay at 2,087 hours, the standard federal work year. The low and high ends are the lowest and highest bounds advertised on any USCIS posting, so they describe the edges, not what most applicants are offered. Postings that publish no usable pay figure are left out of all three numbers, and the grade range counts only postings on the GS ladder. Locality pay is set by where the job is, and a fully remote employee is generally paid on the locality table for where they live, so the GS pay scale guide is the place to turn a grade into an actual offer.
How fast new ones appear
Posted in the last 30 days: 54 USCIS postings. In the last 7 days: 42. Most recent USCIS posting date: Oct 6, 2026.
Set the 30-day figure beside the total at the top of the page and you have the pace: how much of USCIS’s current pool arrived within the past month. Casework agencies tend to hire in rounds, with a cluster of announcements for one series at several sites at once, and the open periods are often short. A closed posting drops out of our inventory at the next daily refresh. Checking once a month means missing rounds that opened and closed in between, so look at the USCIS hub every few days, newest first, with your application materials ready.
What to check before applying
- Citizenship and background investigation. Federal positions generally require US citizenship, and USCIS positions require a background investigation before you start, at a level the announcement states. Adjudication roles handle sensitive personal information, and a thorough investigation can add weeks or months between offer and start date. The application timeline guide sets out what to expect at each stage.
- The duty station and the telework terms. Our tier tells you whether the posting is fully remote or telework eligible. Only the announcement tells you which site it is tied to and how many days a week the telework agreement allows. Read the “Location” and “Additional information” sections before the salary.
- Training versus prior experience. Immigration services officer announcements set out their own qualification requirements, and new officers go through agency training after they start. Do not assume you need an immigration law background for every USCIS role; read the specialized experience statement on each announcement and apply to the ones you can document. Attorney and policy roles are more likely to ask for directly relevant experience.
- A federal resume. USCIS announcements draw heavy application volume, so a resume that matches the announcement’s language and states months, hours and supervisors for every job is what gets past the first screen. The federal resume guide covers the format.
How to search for these
Start at the USCIS hub, which lists every open USCIS posting we hold with its tier, advertised pay and closing date, refreshed daily from USAJOBS. If fully remote is non-negotiable, the fully remote list is the complete set across every agency; if a USCIS posting is on it, it will be there. If you can live near a USCIS site, the telework list adds every telework-eligible posting you would otherwise filter out, and the USCIS hub is that list narrowed to one agency.
On USAJOBS itself, use the agency filter and choose Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Department of Homeland Security, then add the remote or telework filters as you need them. Every listing on our site links to the original USAJOBS announcement, which is where you apply, and where the duty station, telework terms and investigation level are spelled out. Starting out? The entry-level listings page gathers federal postings at GS-7 and below across every agency.