Increasingly, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services appears to be issuing denials and requests for evidence in cases where petitioners digitally affix handwritten signatures to paper-based petitions, upending a long-standing practice with potentially grave consequences for applicants, says Sherry Neal at Corporate Immigration.
A Nigeria-born man pled guilty to one count of wire fraud on Thursday after being accused in 2023 of filing for more than $1.3 million in fraudulent COVID-19 relief loans from the Small Business Administration, while also agreeing to pay restitution and forfeit certain assets.
The Second Circuit tossed a hotel's appeal bid for a district court order that remanded a New York town's zoning suit concerning asylum seekers staying at the hotel, ruling Thursday that it will also vacate the remand order because the town permanently dropped its suit against the hotel.
French banking giant BNP Paribas told a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday that three plaintiffs who fled Sudan amid horrific human rights abuses, later to become U.S. citizens, "can't prove" it contributed to former Islamist dictator Omar al-Bashir's killing and destruction.
Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.
A Rhode Island federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy change requiring immigration status checks for a number of federally funded community services, saying a coalition of Democratic-led states are likely to succeed in their assertion that the move is unconstitutional, as well as arbitrary and capricious.
A government attorney told a D.C. federal judge Wednesday she couldn't contest a Guatemalan government report undercutting the Trump administration's claim that it tried to deport 76 unaccompanied minors over Labor Day weekend to reunite them with their parents.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urged a California federal judge to end a lawsuit challenging her termination of temporary protection statuses for immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal seeking refuge from environmental and political crises, arguing Tuesday the court lacks jurisdiction since her determinations are shielded from judicial review.
The Trump administration must continue facing a union-backed challenge to its federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations, a California federal judge ruled, tossing the administration's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court cast enough doubt on the suit's legitimacy by pausing an injunction to justify dismissing the case.
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to give a longtime resident a bond hearing or release him from detention within seven days, finding the government has been inappropriately keeping him in custody under a section of law that applies to those trying to enter at the border.