Chicago Immigration and Naturalization Law Blog

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. Unde...

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 t...

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 intervie...

Certain immigration violations make people ineligible for admission to the United States. In some cases, a person whose immigration application is den...

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 rem...

Immigrant detention in Illinois has ended. The Illinois Way Forward Act ended ICE detention in Illinois. Before the new law went into effect, McHenry ...

McHenry County Jail was finally forced to put the Illinois Forward Act into effect on January 13 after a federal appellate court ruling that McHenry a...

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a low-level marijuana crime conviction is not grounds for deportation for an immigrant legally living in the Unit...

Certain crimes committed by non-citizens are grounds for deportation. A foreign national can be forced to leave the United States and deported to thei...

A federal jury has found that immigrant detainees that are paid $1 a day are being exploited, and must be paid minimum wage. The Washington state dete...