The Hawaii field office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services received nearly 4,000 applications from Hawaii legal immigrants seeking to pursue citizenship naturalization between January 2018 and March 2019. Immigrants who have already obtained green cards and seek to become U.S. citizens are not affected by an upcoming change to national immigration policy, but community leaders say many of them will disenroll from public benefits, erroneously believing that participation will jeopardize their chances at becoming a citizen.