U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opened an additional asylum office location in San Antonio, Texas. Beginning May 28, 2026, aliens who filed for asylum with USCIS who reside in the jurisdiction of the Houston Asylum Office may be interviewed at either the Houston Asylum Office or the San Antonio Asylum Office.
Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.
A court-appointed amicus curae has told the Eighth Circuit that a Minnesota federal judge was right to hold a government attorney in contempt after finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, leading to a detained man being released hundreds of miles from his home without legal identification.
A Rhode Island federal judge on Friday ruled that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' indefinite hold on processing immigration applications for individuals from the 39 countries on President Donald Trump's travel ban list is unlawful.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a statement to creditors on Friday to "remind" them that they may be statutorily obligated to consider a consumer's immigration status before issuing them credit.
The U.S. Senate voted early Friday to pass a budget reconciliation bill that will see another roughly $70 billion allocated to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol to field President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda.
The Department of Homeland Security proposes to limit and clarify eligibility for discretionary employment authorization for aliens paroled into the United States temporarily for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, who have been granted deferred action, or against whom a final order of removal exists and who are temporarily released from custody on an order of supervision. DHS further proposes to specify that aliens applying for employment authorization who admit to committing, have been arrested for, or have been convicted of certain criminal acts do not warrant a favorable exercise of discretion unless there are significant countervailing public interests, which may include assisting law enforcement activity in the United States.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Public and Indian Housing, is issuing a public notice of its intent to modify a Privacy Act system of records titled, Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) by: (1) reinstating two routine uses that were previously removed in error and that support the EIV user community; (2) updating the system manager and agency contact; (3) updating Authority for Maintenance of the System, and Record Source Categories and (4) reflecting system updates, including implementation of a new Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Report and replacement of the Income Discrepancy Report with the Income Validation Tool (IVT) built on the MicroStrategy platform. These updates are explained in the Supplementary Information section of this notice. EIV is used to verify program participants' and tenants' reported income, identify unreported income sources and/or amounts, and identify substantial annual income discrepancies among households that receive HUD-provided rental assistance through programs administered by HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) and the Office of Housing, Multifamily Housing Programs (MF).