"Much of the wound is self-inflicted, created by quotas and other restrictions that have made it increasingly difficult for talented immigrants to remain in the United States. How much harder is it? Vivek writes that when he moved to the United States in...
"Now obviously 'more immigrants = more prosperity' isn't a completely accurate blanket rule. You don't want to let in criminals. There are probably a lot of very nice Salvadoran great-grandmas out there who despite being fine people are at...
"Advocates along the Northern Border report a recent, sharp increase in the use of U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents to provide interpretation services to state and local law enforcement officers and emergency responders. This most often occurs when an officer...
"A controversial Border Patrol policy that limits when agents can go to commercial transportation hubs, like bus stations, is trickling down to the Southwest border, according to a union that represents the agents." - San Antonio Express-News, Nov...
"Matthew Kolken, a social-media-savvy immigration attorney based in Buffalo, told The Daily Beast he can count 'less than a handful' of cases in which 'favorable prosecutorial discretion was exercised' since the memo was issued. To...
"[Despite the new case review policy,] the immigration courts are still likely to be overwhelmed by deportation cases. The pipeline is fed by programs like Secure Communities, the discredited dragnet that makes every cop a potential immigration agent,...
"Alfaro is among the first in the nation whose immigration case will be reviewed under a new Obama administration policy that directs federal prosecutors to focus attention on people who have committed crimes since arriving in the United States while freezing...
"The Obama administration has started implementing a controversial new policy intended to unclog crowded Immigration Courts by focusing only on cases involving [unauthorized] immigrants with criminal records. On Thursday, federal Immigration and Customs...
"A new Obama administration policy to avoid deportations of illegal immigrants who are not criminals has been applied very unevenly across the country and has led to vast confusion both in immigrant communities and among agents charged with carrying...
USCIS, July 22, 2022 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today updated its Policy Manual to provide further guidance on evidence that can be used to support a petition for an O-1A nonimmigrant of extraordinary ability with a focus on science, technology...
USCIS, Nov. 19, 2021 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is publishing a volume in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding adoptions. This guidance incorporates basic requirements for the submission of adoption-based applications and petitions to...
USCIS, July 15, 2021 "This technical update explains that on June 22, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in Behring Regional Center LLC v. Wolf , 20-cv-09263-JSC, vacated the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program Modernization...
EOIR, Mar. 18, 2021 "The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is pleased to present its first comprehensive interactive Policy Manual. The Policy Manual highlights the processes involved in the agency’s mission to adjudicate immigration cases by...
USCIS, Dec. 15, 2020 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding adjustment of status interview waiver categories and expanding the interview criteria for asylee and refugee adjustment of status...
USCIS, Dec. 8, 2020 " Technical Update - Incorporating Existing Guidance into the Policy Manual Technical Update - Clarifying Acquisition of Citizenship Requirement in Nationality Chart 2 for Children Born Out of Wedlock Before May 24, 1934 "