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...
NIPNLG, ILRC, ABA CILA, April 2024
"This resource is intended to help SIJS advocates better understand the system used by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) to allocate visas. ... Publication of the End SIJS Backlog Coalition, 2024. This FAQ is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This resource was written by Dalia Castillo-Granados, Director, Children’s Immigration Law Academy of the American Bar Association, Rebecca Scholtz, Senior Staff Attorney, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and Rachel Prandini, Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center. This resource is not a substitute for independent legal advice provided by legal counsel familiar with a client’s case."