USCIS employees have been told that new "Fraud Awareness" training will be mandatory for all USCIS adjudicators. Appears to be part of a broader resource shift away from providing immigration services (as the agency name implies) and finding excuses to deny those services.
USCIS allocated more than double the amount of resources to fraud detection in its biennial fee reviews that accompanied the respective FY 2016 and 2020 fee rules. Staffing on Fraud Detection & National Security has also more than doubled from FY 2016/2017 to FY 2019/2020
Meanwhile, of course, the agency has been crying poverty, and spent the spring/summer threatening to furlough 70% of its workforce without a congressional bailout.
I'm not aware of any evidence USCIS has provided to demonstrate that there's been some widespread increase in fraud that justifies this reallocation of resources.
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