DHS, July 2, 2024 "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Council on Combating Gender-Based Violence (CCGBV) has two announcements to share with you. Building on DHS’s commitment to improving...
CMS, July 5, 2024 "President Biden’s recent decision to extend parole-in-place to the undocumented spouses of US citizens who entered the country without inspection is a significant first...
DHS OIG, July 3, 2024 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) did not adjudicate affirmative asylum applications in a timely manner to meet statutory timelines and to reduce its existing...
Miliyon Ethiopis, July 8, 2024 "I feel like I have been born again, after a U.S. immigration court made a remarkable ruling in my “statelessness” case in June . I hope that my case will...
Identical DHS and DOS media notes are here and here . Media coverage here , here , here , here , here and here . The intent is to curtail irregular migration through the Darién Gap . [I have...
Rachel Konieczny, Maryland Daily Record, January 12, 2024
"With the backlog of immigration cases in U.S. immigration court recently exceeding 3 million, immigration practitioners and professors hope to expand access to legal services for noncitizens. One Maryland law school is aiming to close the legal representation gap. The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s federal appellate immigration clinic, now in its third semester, represents clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals, often in deportation cases. Aadhithi Padmanabhan, assistant professor at Maryland Carey Law and director of the federal immigration clinic, said one of the goals of the clinic is to expand access to appellate legal services for noncitizens going through the deportation process."