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Trump Administration to End Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan.
Yesterday, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Elaine Duke announced that the Trump Administration will terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians in 18 months. Haitians with TPS who are unable to change their status to another lawful status will...
Trump Administration to End Temporary Protected Status for Nicaragua
12/17/2017 Update: As of Monday, December 17, 2017, the DHS has announced the procedure for Hondurans to extend their temporary protected status until July 5, 2018, while the DHS completes its determination whether or not to terminate the program for...
President Trump Rescinds DACA, Which Will Phase out Beginning on March 6, 2018
President Trump announced today that his administration is rescinding the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. The White House believes that former President Obama violated the constitution...
Will President Trump Cancel DACA?
Various sources confirm that President Trump will likely soon decide the fate of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), an executive action program instituted by former President Obama to provide a temporary reprieve from deportation for certain undocumented individuals brought...
MMH Attorneys Attend Immigration Judges Roundtable
[caption id="attachment_4294" align="alignnone" width="620"] Hon. Jennie I. Giambastiani, Hon. Robert D. Vinikoor, Hon. Sheila McNulty, and program moderator, Eileen Momblanco, Immigration Committee member.[/caption] Under the leadership of Peggy McCormick, the Chicago Chapter of the FBA has established an Immigration Law...
UPDATE: Arrests of Persons with Outstanding Warrants following Illinois Temporary Visa Driver’s License (TVDL) Application
Recent reports of an individual being arrested following an application for an Illinois Temporary Visa Driver’s License have appeared in the media. The Chicago Tribune reports that an individual was recently arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at...
President Obama to Take Executive Action on Immigration
Efforts to Address Humanitarian Situation of Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in Southern Texas at Forefront of Proposed Actions On June 30, President Obama announced he will take executive action to address “our broken immigration system,” as Congress has failed to pass...
A second chance at my case in Immigration Court, based on my same-sex marriage?
Until the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on June 26, 2013, foreign nationals in deportation proceedings were not able to rely on their same-sex relationship to help them stay in the U.S. (Read our previous blog post on the Court’s decision...
