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USCIS Updates Policies to Improve Immigration Services
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued new policy updates in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the criteria and circumstances for expedited processing; improve request for evidence (RFE) and notice of intent to deny (NOID) guidance; and increase the validity period for initial and renewal employment authorization documents (EADs) for certain noncitizens with pending adjustment of status applications.....Read More
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USCIS Issues Policy Guidance on Deference to Previous Decisions
USCIS is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual instructing officers to give deference to prior determinations when adjudicating extension requests involving the same parties and facts unless there was a material error, material change, or new material facts. With this update, USCIS is reverting in substance to prior long-standing guidance issued in 2004, which directed officers to generally.......Read More |
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How Trump administration left indelible mark on U.S. immigration courts
On a rainy September day in 2018, Jeff Sessions, then U.S. attorney general, addressed one of the largest classes of newly hired immigration judges in American history. “The vast majority of asylum claims are not valid,” he said during a swearing-in ceremony in Falls Church, Virginia, according to his prepared remarks........Read More |
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USCIS Reaches Fiscal Year 2021 H-1B Cap
USCIS has received a sufficient number of petitions needed to reach the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master’s cap, for fiscal year (FY) 2021. We have completed sending non-selection notifications to registrants’ online accounts........Read More |
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USCIS Suspending In-Person Services Jan. 19 and 20
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced it will temporarily suspend in-person services at all field offices, asylum offices and application support centers on Jan. 19 and 20 to ensure the safety of our employees and individuals with appointments.......Read More |
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USCIS Extends Flexibility for Responding to Agency Requests
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30, 2020, to assist applicants, petitioners, and requestors who are responding to certain.........Read More |
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President-Elect Joe Biden’s Plans for US Immigration
The results are in! As of Saturday, November 7, we know that former Vice President Joe Biden will now be America’s next President and will be inaugurated in January 2021! These are the results many have been waiting for and are now wondering what this means for US immigration moving forward........Read More |
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US immigrants create more jobs than Americans, study shows
Immigrants moving from one Country to another are more likely to be entrepreneurial. To start a business is difficult and risky. It means a lot of hard work. Long, long hours. Perhaps no holiday. Most people would like the relatively more comfortable existence of working.....Read More
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US Citizenship and Immigration Services staff face furlough
We are still waiting to hear if there will be a temporary non-immigrant worker visa ban for certain US visa categories. The current coronavirus COVID-19 situation may be used as an excuse for what in reality, if it happens, will be some sort of partial work visa suspension.....Read More
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Canada-Peel Police issued hundreds of tickets on street racing
(Mostly Students involved, according to Toronto NRI Media)
Peel Regional Police stopped hundreds of cars in a Mississauga shopping mall parking lot and issued hundreds of tickets on May 22, Friday night as part of a crackdown on large gatherings in parking lots, some of which are believed to be related to illegal street racing.....Read More
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Food banks struggle to keep pace with immigrant communities hit hard by pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic has hit – and large swathes of the US economy have shut down – food banks across the US have seen a huge rise in demand. But as food supplies dwindle, many in Texas are being turned away and experts.....Read More
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President Trump Suspended Immigration to U.S for 60 days
President Trump on Wednesday said he would sign an executive order limiting immigration into the country, as he hailed what he said was a “very tight” security situation at the southern border.....Read More
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APPEALS COURT LIFTS SOME RULINGS BLOCKING TRUMP ‘PUBLIC CHARGE’ RULE FOR IMMIGRANTS
A divided federal appeals court has lifted several injunctions blocking the Trump administration from implementing a rule aimed at limiting immigration benefits for individuals who participate in government programs such as food stamps or Medicaid.....Read More
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THE YEAR TRUMP “EFFECTIVELY” SHUT OFF ASYLUM AT THE BORDER AND RESTRICTED IMMIGRATION
Lee Gelernt has spent much of 2019 crisscrossing federal courts across the country trying to halt some of the Trump administration's most controversial immigration policies.....Read More
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PRIVATE BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES DESPITE COURT ORDER
The construction of a private border wall partially funded by rightwing allies of Donald Trump continued with vigor in south Texas this week, seemingly in blatant violation of a court injunction ordering work to be suspended.......Read More
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THIS IS WHERE MY EVERYTHING IS’: US CITIZEN SUDDENLY FACES DEPORTATION
A New Yorker who gained US citizenship as a child is suddenly facing deportation, along with several green card-holding members of his family, after apparent targeting by the Trump administration in what the family believes is a clear case of anti-Muslim bias......Read More
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DREAMERS PREPARE FOR FIGHT AS DACA DECISION HEADS TO SUPREME COURT
When Antonio Alarcón stood on the steps of the US supreme court for a group photo with the other plaintiffs suing Donald Trump in one of the biggest immigration lawsuits of his presidency, he was flooded with memories from his US history textbooks and.....Read More
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EXCLUSIVE: TEXAS IMMIGRATION CENTER GUARD ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING BOY, FIVE
A private prison guard physically assaulted a five-year-old boy at an immigration detention center in Texas, according to a complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).....Read More
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO CLOSE ‘PRISON-LIKE’ FACILITY FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN
The Trump administration has announced it is shutting down one of the largest US facilities for child migrants, which had come under intense criticism because of its regimented conditions and the contractor’s ties to a freshly departed White House official.....Read More
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WHERE IN THE U.S. ARE IMMIGRANTS MOST LIKELY TO BE CAUGHT BY ICE?
Immigrants in Dallas and North Texas are more likely to be arrested by federal immigration officials than any other region of the U.S. In fiscal year 2015, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, arrested about 8,000 immigrants in the sprawling region, which.....Read More
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