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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced they are readying offices to reopen on or after June 4, 2020. In-person services at USCIS field offices, asylum offices, and application support centers (ASCs) were temporarily closed to the public on March...

Regulations to restrict the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) have resulted in many businesses closing or reducing hours, and the subsequent loss of employment for many Illinois residents.  Noncitizen workers must ensure that they meet state eligibility requirements before applying...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration offices have been temporarily closed due to local and national travel and social distancing restrictions and guidelines. According to a March 17, 2020, press release from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), effective March 18 USCIS...

Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf requested a review of state DMV laws on immigration enforcement that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driving licenses and how this affects DHS enforcement efforts. According to The Associated Press, on Tuesday,...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) increased many immigration fees including raising the cost of applying for U.S. citizenship, as well as creating new fees for some immigration applications in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal published on November...

Illinois immigrant families may lose medical care under a new Trump administration decision, and immigrant families with serious illnesses may be facing deportation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) on August 7, 2019, stopped accepting and adjudicating medical deferred action...

On August 12 the Trump administration announced it is moving forward with their plan to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance, effective October 15, 2019. Federal law...

USCIS has permanently closed its field office in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as of June 30, 2019. The USCIS Field Office in Mexico City, Mexico, has taken over responsibility for some immigration services for people living in the Mexican states of...

Illinois immigration rights advocates are calling for the passage of a bill that would make Illinois a "sanctuary state." Democratic state senators Rep. Celina Villanueva, of Chicago, and Sen. Don Harmon, of Oak Park, joined immigration rights advocates who want...

The State Department has updated immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms and that visa applicants share their social media accounts and “social identifiers” including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and require the applicant to provide any account names they may have...