DACA recipients losing jobs as backlog leads to expired permits.
A Report emerged that around 13,000 renewal cases for DACA recipients have been pending for more than four months, according to sources from USCIS. The…
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Biden nominates Texas sheriff to run ICE.
Ed Gonzalez, President Biden’s nominee to head ICE, faced questions from Senate committee members Thursday during a confirmation hearing. Gonzalez struck a moderate tone on…
The Hill: Manchin Signals Support for Immigration in Budget Deal
The Hill reports Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), a key moderate, said he supports including immigration provisions in a budget reconciliation bill, easing the path toward…
AG Garland Gives Immigration Judges Back Authority to Administratively Close Cases
Attorney General (AG) Garland ruled that, while rulemaking proceeds and except when a court of appeals has held otherwise, immigration judges and the BIA should…
ICE Withdraws Proposed Rule Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and EOS Procedure for F, J, and Certain I Nonimmigrants
ICE published a withdrawal of its notice of proposed rulemaking, originally published on September 25, 2020, which proposed to review DHS regulations governing the length…
Hundreds of H-1B Applicants File Lawsuit Challenging FY2022 H-1B Lottery Cap Registration Rules
Several hundred H-1B applicants filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that the H-1B cap registration rules and…
U.S. Border Patrol head removed
The Biden administration has removed Rodney Scott from his position as the head of U.S. Border Patrol. On Wednesday, Scott posted a statement on social…
DOL Releases Information on H-2B Filing Timeline for Peak Filing Season
DOL’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification reminds employers and other stakeholders that the three-day filing window to submit an H-2B application requesting a work start…
BIA Remands for IJ to Determine Qualification for “Simple Possession” Exception
The BIA sustained the appeal and remanded to allow the immigration judge (IJ) to evaluate if the respondent qualifies for the “simple possession” exception to…
USCIS Will Allow Resubmission of Certain FY2021 H-1Bs Rejected or Closed Due to Start Date
USCIS announced it will accept FY2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions that were rejected or closed solely because they requested a start date after October 1, 2021.…
Garland strikes down Trump-era asylum decisions
Attorney General Merrick Garland struck down two immigration opinions issued by previous Attorneys General under Trump, this reversing limits on who is eligible for asylum.…
Pentagon to redirect $2.2B in border wall funds back to military projects.
The DOD announced that the Pentagon will restore $2.2 billion to military construction projects that were stripped by the Trump administration to pay for a…