A federal appellate court ruled last week that the Trump administration’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program violated federal law. The three-person appeals panel over-ruled the previous 2018 statement, in favor two to one, found that the Trump administration was “arbitrary and capricious” in ending the Obama-era program, which grants temporary […]
Former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is reported to be the new Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Former Director of USCIS, Lee Francis Cissna, resigned on May 24, 2019. Cuccinelli has no prior experience with USCIS, something USCIS union president Danielle Spooner was quick to point out in a recent interview. In a […]
On June 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of State announced that it would be requesting information from non-citizens’ social media accounts. The Department of State updated its immigrant visa (“IV”) and nonimmigrant visa (“NIV”) application forms requesting additional information, including “social media identifiers.”, which will apply to most U.S. visa applicants. The official State Department […]
President Trump announced on Twitter last Saturday afternoon that he would call for a delay in ICE arrests and deportations of the undocumented. Trump stated, “at the request of Democrats, I have delayed the [deportation process] for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to […]
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration cannot add a question on the 2020 U.S. census asking whether or not someone is a citizen of the United States. The ruling in Department of Commerce v. New York was issued on Thursday, June 27, the last day of the Supreme Court’s summer 2019 […]
Tracking your immigration status can be a stressful and time-consuming process. Waiting for your U.S. immigration case progress may involve long wait times, which causes many applicants to stress out about their immigration status and results. Today, we are going to discuss a few applications on your phone that will help you track the status […]
On July 22, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it will expand the use of expedited removal. Specifically, DHS stated that it intends on applying expedited removal to non-citizens who have been present in the United States for less than two years. The changes went into effect the next day, July […]
On Monday, August 12, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) announced that it would be publishing its new rule on “public charge” inadmissibility. DHS first proposed the rule in October 2018. DHS says that the rule will not go into effect until October 15, 2019. The rule will create significant changes to the permanent […]
Jimmy Aldaoud, an Iraqi Christian who had lived in the United States since he was an infant, died weeks after being deported from the United States. Aldaoud had been diagnosed with diabetes and died of complications of the disease. He was a member of the Chaldean Christian community and had lived in the Detroit, Michigan […]
On September 19, 2019, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security disclosed to members of the Oversight & Reform Committee that its sub-agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, would continue “consideration of non-military deferred action requests on a discretionary, case-by-case basis, except as otherwise required by an applicable statute, regulation, or court order.” The decision reportedly […]
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