Immigration Now: Deportation Priorities and Opening the Border
The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced Biden’s new immigration enforcement priorities. On September 30, 2021, Secretary Mayorkas announced the release of the “Guidelines for the Enforcement of Civil Immigration Law” explaining that these guidelines reflect the government’s goal to better focus the Department’s resources on the apprehension and removal of...
Immigration Now: TPS Extension and the Migrant Caravan
The Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for several countries is being automatically extended again.
The Final End of DACA: Part 2
The announced end of DACA program remains up in the air as the DHS has provided utterly contradictory and confusing information through USCIS
The final end of DACA?
Two recent updates occurred last week that has placed the Biden administration in a difficult position as it tries to handle the out-of-control immigration problem that it inherited after the end of the last administration. The first update relates to the ongoing problems the DACA program has faced for several years. This is discussed in more detail below. The second announcement about...
New Progress Removing Trump Era Restrictions
The Biden administration has recently taken several large steps to loosen restrictions on immigration policies that were created by the Trump administration.
Big News for Dreamers and DACA Recipients
Inmigration advocates have started legal action against the administration over delays in approvals for certain immigration processes.
Venezuelan Protections and Biden’s Executive Orders
Now that Biden is officially the president, his first 100 days has started and he has made some good progress in the area of immigration through several executive orders
The Biden Immigration Plan
Although much of the country is still focused on getting the official election results, it is quite clear that President Trump was not re-elected. Once everything is official, what can we expect from president-elect Biden? Well, not unlike every modern president for the last several decades, Biden has expressed interest in making immigration reform a priority. Also like all other...
Ongoing Attacks on H-1B Visas and Asylum Seekers
In the ongoing attack on foreign workers and employers, the Trump Administration has announced another change to the H-1B process just 2 weeks after the last announced change to the visa. This directly relates to the continuing appropriations act that was signed into law on October 1st. In this resolution, The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) increased the $1400 premium...
New ICE Rules for International Students
Another blow to yet another immigration group was announced on July 6th by the Trump Administration through Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), this time relating to international students as a result of the novel Covid-19.