On his first day in office, President Biden and his administration took several immigration-related executive actions, from reversing some of the most devastating policies of the last four years to presenting immigration reform legislation to Congress. Below is a summary...
Starting January 26, 2021, all air passengers traveling to the United States will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test or documentation of recovery from COVID-19. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the expanded...
On December 31, 2020, the Trump administration issued a presidential proclamation extending the ban of entry to the U.S. for certain nonimmigrant and immigrant visas. The travel bans, originally scheduled to expire on Dec 31, 2020, have been extended until March 31,...
Asylum protection in the United States stems from the United Nations Refugee Convention and became law in the United States by the passage of the Refugee Act of 1980. Since 1980 applying for asylum was a protection available to people...
The most recent decision from a U.S District Court in Brooklyn put DACA back where it was in 2017. This includes restoring the ability of DACA beneficiaries to seek Advance Parole Document (AP). Before that, the Trump Administration had limited...
On December 1, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California set aside two H-1B rules that would have significantly changed the processing of H-1B applications. The court has found that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
On November 9th, 2020 the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Niz-Chavez v. Barr, a case that centers on the “stop-time rule.” The stop-time rule limits access to cancellation of removal, a form of relief for permanent residence status...
Last week, USCIS announced its plans to implement a revised version of the naturalization civics test starting on December 1, 2020. Applicants for naturalization, or U.S. citizenship, are required to take an English and civics exam demonstrating their knowledge of...