Each month, USCIS publishes a report on traffic to our website, which includes statistics on popular search terms people use to find our site.

And every month, tens of thousands of visitors search “INS” to find the USCIS.

In January 2011, the report registered nearly 30,000 searches for the term “INS.”

This leaves us wondering.

After all, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has not existed since March 1, 2003.

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