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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House passes bills providing citizenship for Dreamers and farmworkers.
House Democrats passed a pair of bills that would create a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers and some migrant farm workers, taking a piecemeal approach…
No ruling in case deciding fate of DACA.
A federal judge did not immediately rule Tuesday on a closely watched case over the fate of DACA, which grants limited protections on hundreds of…
President Biden Protects DACA
President Biden’s January 21, 2021, memorandum directing the DHS secretary, in consultation with the attorney general, to take actions to preserve and fortify DACA. https://brian-d-lerner-blog.com/tag/executive-office-for-immigration-review/ https://brian-d-lerner-blog.com/tag/executive-rule/…
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration
On his first day in office, in addition to presenting immigration reform legislation to Congress, the president and his administration took a number of immigration-related executive actions.…
Bipartisan Pair of Senators Reintroduces Immigration Reform Bill Protecting ‘Dreamers’
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced the latest iteration of the Dream Act, part of a new immigration reform push. Hard to…
HOW HAS PRESIDENT BIDEN CHANGED IMMIGRATION?
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued several orders on immigration. Some orders take immediate effect while others may take more time to be implemented.…
Harris teases immigration agenda green cards for daca and tps recipients shorter waits for citizenship
Politico reports that yesterday, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris told Univision’s Ilia Calderón that the incoming administration will focus on decreasing wait times to obtain citizenship, granting green cards to immigrants protected by TPS and DACA, and adding immigration judges to decrease backlogs in immigration court. Harris teased a sweeping immigration reform bill that her and President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration plans to introduce.
NY judge slams feds for ‘ignoring’ Justices’ DACA revival.
On Wednesday, a NY federal judge reprimanded the Trump administration for refusing to reinstate DACA, saying the administration was “ignoring” court orders that preserved the…
District Court Found DHS Acting Secretary Wolf Was Not Lawfully Appointed When He Suspended DACA
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and found that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving…
USCIS has implemented new DHS guidance on DACA.
On August 24, USCIS published an update clarifying DHS’ guidance on DACA. USCIS will reject all new DACA applications and limit renewals to one year. Existing two-year…
It is unclear if the Trump administration will comply with a judicial order to accept new DACA applications.
It is unclear if the Trump administration will comply with a judicial order to accept new DACA applications. Last month, the Supreme Court held that…