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The H-1B Registration Period Has Ended. How Did the New System Handle It?
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) completed its first registration period on March 20 for H-1B petitions. The H-1B visa category allows highly educated foreign workers to temporarily work for employers in the United States. This was the first year USCIS used a new registration process for U.S. employers hoping to file an H-1B petition […]
Read MoreImmigration and Covid-19
Launched: March 26, 2020 Updated on September 24, 2020 to feature the critical role of immigrants in mental health and counseling services. In the lead up to the election in November 2020, we’re also crunching the numbers on how this year’s electorate–both nationally and in individual states–is the most diverse in U.S. history. As government […]
Read MoreCiting Coronavirus Risks and a New Irresponsible Policy for the Immigration Courts, Groups Urge Protecting the Health and Safety of Government Employees, Lawyers, and Immigrants
In a letter calling for prioritizing the health and safety of government employees, detained individuals, and their legal representatives amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, together with the National Immigrant Justice Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more than 100 other organizations, urged the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to immediately authorize the robust and automatic use of remote options for immigration court appearances and attorney-client meetings.
Read MoreLawsuit Seeks to Uncover Problematic Board of Immigration Appeals’ Hiring Procedures
The American Immigration Council and the American Immigration Lawyers Association filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court to compel the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy to release records about the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s hiring procedures for appellate immigration judges and Board of Immigration Appeals Members. The lawsuit seeks to understand current hiring procedures for the BIA—the highest administrative body for interpreting and applying immigration laws—after reports came to light of anti-immigrant bias in the hiring process.
Read MoreHelp keep these immigrant-serving organizations operating during COVID-19
There is critical work being done around the country to ensure that immigrants, refugees, and other vulnerable groups have access to information and resources they need, from health care to economic stability. To support this work, we have compiled a list of organizations coordinating direct services that could use your support to ensure that they […]
Read MoreHow Immigration Enforcement Is Eroding Your Privacy
The United States has pursued aggressive increases in immigration enforcement over the past two decades across several presidencies. Congress has allocated increasing resources during this period. Now, our immigration enforcement agencies have more funding than at any point in history. These added resources have allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand more than […]
Read MoreDHS Reveals New Details of Secretive Asylum Programs PACR and HARP
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed new information this week about two asylum programs at the U.S.-Mexico border. These programs are under scrutiny because they make it almost impossible for attorneys to speak with or meet their clients in border holding facilities. This leads to rushed life-or-death legal screenings behind closed doors. DHS began […]
Read MoreThe Economic Cost of Oklahoma Senate Bill 1459 and House Bill 1407
Oklahoma is currently set to experience a labor shortage of nearly 20,000 workers over the next decade due, in large part, to workers aging out of the workforce. At the same time, two bills being considered in the State House and Senate threaten to further limit the state’s labor pool and cost the state economy […]
Read MoreThere’s No Need to Panic Over Trump’s New Denaturalization Office
The Trump administration is creating a new office of attorneys tasked with stripping immigrants of their U.S. citizenship. The task force will investigate and prosecute people it suspects fraudulently obtained citizenship by lying or omitting information on their applications. The Denaturalization Section will be housed in the Department of Justice Office of Immigration Litigation. DOJ […]
Read MoreTrump Asylum Transit Ban Blocked
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel today blocked the Trump administration’s asylum transit ban from being applied to thousands of asylum seekers who were unlawfully prevented from accessing the U.S. asylum process before the ban was implemented. The decision lifts a prior administrative stay of the district court’s preliminary injunction. That injunction prohibits the government from applying the asylum ban to those who had been illegally metered before the ban went into effect.
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