Volume XXI, No. 8 31 August 2020 ISSN 1555-774X. Copyright © 2020, PolishRoots®, Inc. Editor: William F. “Fred” Hoffman, e-mail:
[email protected]< > CONTENTS Welcome! USCIS Fees Are Going Up, So Act Now! Letters to the Editor The Latest from Polish Origins: Is Checking Vital Records All You Can Do? Geneteka Index Updates An Overview of Recent Periodicals Upcoming Events More Useful Web Addresses You May Reprint Articles... *************************************** *** WELCOME! *** to the latest issue of Gen Dobry!, the e-zine of PolishRoots®. You can find this and previous issues here: <http://www.polishroots.org/GenDobry/Index/60> Also, Agnieszka Maja Migalska of the Facebook group Polish Genealogy has made the PDF available via this link – thanks, Agnieszka! <https://tinyurl.com/y8v6j2wu> Gen Dobry!, Vol. XXI, No. 8, August 2020 — 1 ************************************** *** USCIS FEES ARE GOING UP, SO ACT NOW! *** by Jan Meisels Allen Editor -- This is a note Jan posted to the JewishGen newsgroup and to members of the IAJGS Records Access Alert mailing list. It appears here with her kind permission. This is a reminder that the fees for all records including genealogy requests through the USCIS are going up on October 2, 2020. If you are planning to order any records, this is the time to do so. While USCIS was planning to furlough more than 13,000 employee Tuesday, that was cancelled. Officials said “unprecedented spending cuts” and a revenue increase allowed the agency to drop the furloughs, but they warned of longer wait times and further backlogs, including for those seeking work permits, green cards or citizenship.