President Biden reinstates DED for eligible Liberians.
On Jan. 20, 2021, President Biden issues a memo directing the secretary of DHS to reinstate Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for eligible Liberians and to provide…
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Biden to slowly allow 25,000 people seeking asylum into U.S.
the Biden administration announced plans for those who have been forced to wait in Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) to be allowed into…
Judge fears that lottery winners’ visa at risk without injunction.
Thursday, a D.C. federal judge expressed concern that thousands of visa lottery winners affected by President Biden’s continued enforcement of Trump-era travel bans are in…
Biden to use ‘more inclusive’ immigration terms.
President Biden is instructing officials to use “more inclusive” language when discussing immigration. Acting Director of USCIS, Tracy Renaud, signed a memo sent in an email…
Deportation of Africans cancelled after reports of torture by ICE
A plane carrying African asylum seekers due to take off from Alexandria, Louisiana was cancelled with minutes to spare after advocacy groups published affidavits by detainees…
CA judge says Trump’s final asylum rule violates immigration laws.
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Oakland, CA ruled that the Trump administration violated immigration laws and endangered immigrants when it issued a blanket denial of…
White House announces sweeping immigration bill.
On Thursday, the White House announced a sweeping immigration bill that would create an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of immigrants already in the…
The Race to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Policies
The New Yorker reports on the “extensive, unpublicized bureaucratic effort to transform immigration through rule changes, adjustments to asylum officers’ guidelines, modifications to enforcement norms, and other measures”…
USCIS Announces New Edition and Filing Address for Form I-690
USCIS announced that, on January 29, 2021, it published the new July 23, 2020, edition of Form I-690, Application for Waiver of Grounds of Inadmissibility, and changed…
Biden gets rid of MPP Policy
The Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner, APC is a National Immigration Law Firm and can help with the understanding of all the new executive…
Biden Wasting No Time Naming Officials to Reverse Trump’s Immigration Policies
CNN reports that DHS, which was largely hollowed out over the last four years, is moving with urgency to staff agencies with people who had front-row seats…
BIA Finds Subsequent NTA Perfects Deficient NTA and Ends Accrual of Physical Presence for Purposes of Voluntary Departure
the BIA ruled that if an NTA fails to specify the time/place of an initial removal hearing, a subsequent NTA with the information perfects the deficient NTA…