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The Biden administration has issued a final rule on the DACA program for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children with the goal of strengthening the program against future legal challenges. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is developing a pilot program to issue photo IDs to migrants waiting for deportation proceedings. The photo IDs would allow immigrants to access information about their case status online and would not be an official...

The United States Supreme Court handed down decisions on two deportation cases the week of June 13 and declined to hear a 3rd case involving the public charge policy for green card applicants. SCOTUS Rules Against Detained Immigrants Facing Deportation...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new directive that effective immediately, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will consider a noncitizen's U.S. military service when evaluating deportation and other immigration enforcement. In an ICE press release issued on...

ICE limits migrants' legal rights and access to lawyers - which in turn raises their risk of deportation, a new ACLU report says. The American Civil Liberty Union study, "No Fighting Chance: ICE's Denial of Access to Counsel in U.S....

A policy memo issued on April 3 that went into effect on April 25 provides guidance to ICE prosecutors to dismiss non-priority deportation cases. Under the direction of Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

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...

One of the worst experiences you can have is to be denied a green card when outside of the United States. Often this happens after a consular interview where the officer finds you inadmissible and ineligible - often for a...

Certain immigration violations make people ineligible for admission to the United States. In some cases, a person whose immigration application is denied can qualify for a pardon, called an inadmissibility waiver. The Immigration and Nationality Act explains the violations that...

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,...