Neighborhood checks will once again be used for some immigrants applying for citizenship, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced, Politico has reported.

This is part of the Trump Administration’s goal of adding requirements to the legal immigration process and will bring to an end a three-decade long waiver to a requirement for such personal investigations that began to wane in the 1990s. Instead, U.S. officials have since relied on the FBI to carry out background checks.

Along with such changes since President Donald Trump entered the White House as reducing the amount of time foreign nationals can remain in the United States, the aim of these new rules is to limit visa overstays and carry out proper scrutiny of migrants, according to Politico.

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