Related Guidance Religious Workers. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, is improve its policy advice in the USCIS Policy Manual, to reorganize and expand on existing guidance for special immigrant and nonimmigrant religious workers. The update make clear the special immigrant religious worker advice and provides comprehensive information about the special immigrant religious worker filing process, verification of evidence and the site-inspection process. This Chapter has been reorganized for consistency with the R-1 nonimmigrant visa content and expands on existing guidance. On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 2471, which extended the EB-4 non-minister special immigrant religious worker program through Sept. 30, 2022.