The Department of Homeland Security today posted a Federal Register notice on the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.
We are updating USCIS Policy Manual Volume 1, Part C to deter the filing of frivolous claims and provide operational consistency.
The Department of Homeland Security is terminating all categorical family reunification parole (FRP) programs for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing new guidance that limits the age of foreign nationals’ photos that can be used to create immigration documents to no more than three years. This update enhances national security and prevents identity fraud.
A Lebanese professor at Brown University has seen her challenge to a five-year ban on reentering the United States dismissed as a Massachusetts federal judge ruled that her deportation leaves the court without any jurisdiction.
LOUISVILLE, Ky—U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Louisville seized two shipments from Hong Kong the night of Oct. 28. The shipments contained a total of 53 counterfeit watches. Had these goods been genuine, the two shipments would have…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing biometrics use and collection. DHS proposes to require submission of biometrics by any individual, regardless of age, filing or associated with an immigration benefit request, other request, or collection of information, unless exempted; expand biometrics collection authority upon alien arrest; define "biometrics;" codify reuse requirements; codify and expand DNA testing, use and storage; establish an "extraordinary circumstances" standard to excuse a failure to appear at a biometric services appointment; modify how VAWA self-petitioners and T nonimmigrant status applicants demonstrate good moral character; and clarify biometrics collection purposes.
Immigration detainees who were transported to Kansas the morning after they launched a proposed class action over allegedly inhumane conditions at the government's Broadview, Illinois, holding facility should be promptly returned to the Northern District of Illinois, a Chicago federal judge said Friday.
In this installment of Wheeling & Appealing, November's appellate calendar features a Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, New York City housing disputes, drug pricing battles, immigrant rights cases, and challenges to so-called patent troll laws.

