The Immigration and Naturalization Service (
INS) has not existed in eight years, having been dismantled and its responsibilities reassigned, yet many people still try to search for
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) by searching for “INS.”
One theory is that “INS agents” are still an action movie archetype despite the demise of the agency, and another is that the
INS was around for so long that people still haven’t gotten used to the change.