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Starting September 13, 2023, if you are applying for asylum and you do not speak English well, you must bring an interpreter to your interview. The interpreter must be fluent in both English and the language you speak. If you...

What was Title 42? Title 42 was created as a temporary measure that Border Patrol could employ which lasted from March 20th, 2020 until May 12th, 2023. It gave Border Patrol the authority to expel migrants who arrived at the...

Due to the Russian war on Ukraine, many young Russian nationals seek asylum in the United States. Many young Russian adults are highly educated and skilled workers, often in technology. As foreign companies continue to leave Russia, and the Russian...

Starting in late May, the Biden administration's new southern border asylum policy will let asylum claimants have their claims evaluated by asylum officers, instead of the current reviews by overburdened immigration judges. This new policy is intended to greatly shorten...

Since March 2020, U.S. southern border officials have used Title 42 policy to limit the spread of COVID-19 to quickly expel undocumented migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and send them back to Mexico or to their home countries. Title 42...

With the escalating attack by Russia on Ukraine, the United States is looking at measures to protect Ukrainian immigrants already in the U.S. from removal/deportation and to welcome refugees to America. Already hundreds of thousands of people have fled Ukraine,...

Former President Trump's administration enacted a 'zero-tolerance' policy in April 2018 for families crossing the U.S. southern border without documentation to claim asylum, which resulted in parents being separated from their children. The U.S. border separation policy resulted in 5,500...

The Biden administration officially reinstated the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, commonly known as Remain in Mexico. Asylum-seekers will now have to return to Mexico and wait for their immigration case to be heard. MPP was first implemented under...

The United States Supreme Court ordered on August 24 that President Joe Biden's administration must reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy that requires migrants entering the U.S. at the southern border to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials process their asylum claims. Biden...

President Biden announced a plan to raise the country’s refugee cap from 15,000 to more than 62,500. On May 1, 2021, Biden said this increase "erases the historically low number set by the previous administration of 15,000, which did not...