USCIS received enough petitions to meet the H-2B statutory cap for the second half of fiscal year 2025. The filing dates for supplemental H-2B visas for the remainder of FY 2025 are now available.
More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general are urging a Massachusetts federal judge to preserve humanitarian parole programs for immigrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba and other countries, backing noncitizens from those countries and U.S.-based sponsors in their challenge to the Trump administration's block on the programs.
The Ninth Circuit granted in part Tuesday the Trump administration's emergency bid to stay a preliminary injunction barring President Donald Trump from suspending the U.S. refugee program, but clarified that refugees whose requests were processed prior to Trump's Jan. 20 order must be admitted.
Liene Tavares De Barros, Jr., 39, is charged with one count of unlawful transfer of a document or authentication feature.
A illegal Salvadoran alien, identified as Juan Alonso Barrientos-Quintanilla, 23, was sentenced March 25 by a federal judge to serve 120 months in prison for his role in a deadly 2021 human smuggling operation.
Marvin Murphy, 48, of Philadelphia, was convicted on March 18 after a two-day bench trial at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden. Murphy was remanded into custody after the verdict.
A dissent refuting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent order directing the U.S. Agency for International Development to pay $2 billion in frozen foreign aid argued that claims relating to already-completed government contract work belong in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims – answering an important question, but with a debatable conclusion, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday considered whether to limit Columbia University's sharing of student records with Congress after students there, including detained activist Mahmoud Khalil, claimed the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to "punish and suppress" pro-Palestinian views.