Chicago Immigration and Naturalization Law Blog

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services launched the Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults Program to provide free health care covera...

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...

New York City passed new laws that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Effective 2023, the NYC noncitizen voter laws mean that approximately...

Hundreds of new laws go into effect in Illinois in 2022, including 3 new immigration laws that protect the rights of immigrants. Here are the new 2022...

A December 7 ruling by a federal judge upheld a new law to outlaw for-profit detention centers in Illinois. U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard of ...

The United States of America is known around the globe as the world’s melting pot, and every year on October 28, we celebrate National Immigrant...

Illinois’ program that provides healthcare coverage for undocumented low-income seniors who are residents of Illinois. Medicaid qualifications h...

The new data from the 2020 census is in, and it will influence how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is distributed to each state for the next 10 year...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order on August 2, 2021, creating the Welcoming Illinois Office for Immigrants and Refugees: “...

A new Illinois law protects DACA recipients by including work Authorization Status Protection. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB 121 into law ...