Source: NPR A federal judge in New York issued two rulings last Wednesday that put a temporary freeze on the Trump administration’s public charge rule. The rule broadened the definition of who counts as a “public charge,”…
Source: Immigration Impact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently stopped printing documents that immigrants need to prove that they are legally residing and working in the U.S. In mid-June, USCIS ended its contract with a third-party…
Source: VICE The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the federal agency that administers the nation’s immigration system. USCIS’s budget is largely made up of the fees immigrants pay to process their immigration applications. But due…
Source: Immigration Impact Last week, Federal Judge Dolly Gee from the Central District of California ordered that all children held for more than 20 days at three ICE family detention centers must be released by July 17th…
Source: Reuters “Amid the pandemic, the Trump administration has seized on the threat to public health as a pretext to issue a series of policy changes affecting almost every aspect of the immigration system.” https://nyti.ms/2CtbpVW On Monday, 6/22,…
Source: Business Insider In response to the criticism that ICE has not taken proper measures to address the spread of COVID-19 in its detention centers, guards are spraying the facilities with HDQ Neutral, a powerful disinfectant that…
Source: Centro Legal Detained immigrants at the Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, CA, have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter protests and the detained people at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, CA. The…
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Source: The New York Times The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the agency that accepts applications for green cards, citizenship, and other visas. In previous years, it has been found that individual fees and…
Source: Forbes Due to the coronavirus pandemic, USCIS has stopped naturalization ceremonies and interviews. A study by Boundless Immigration found that over 126,000 would-be American citizens will now have to wait, and may not be able to…
