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A recent filing by DHS shows that the department has proposed changing regulations so that “all travelers, including US citizens, may be required to be photographed upon entry and/or departure.” DHS stated that the proposed regulation is intended to stop criminals and prevent travel-document fraud. The proposed rule contradicts CBP’s previous statement that U.S. citizens would not […]

Immigration officials created a fake university to lure foreign college students into staying in the U.S. under illegal pretenses. 8 students who worked as “recruiters” for the false institution were charged with federal conspiracy earlier this year after they assisted more than 600 students in receiving student visas under false pretenses. These recruiters did not […]

When immigrants get green cards through marriage, they are first conditional, and when enough time is passed they must apply to remove the conditions. However, in many cases this does not happen, either because of divorce or other reasons. In these cases, because the conditions were not removed and because a judge has not officially […]

Due to its new public charge rule, the State Department has created a draft questionnaire for consular officers to enable them to decide the admissibility of visa applicants under the rule. The State Department will be accepting public comments on the draft questionnaire until December 23, 2013. After this, the form will be provided to […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on November 12 to compel the government to release documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Specifically, EFF is looking for information on “the number of individuals whose DNA had been collected, the accuracy of DNA matches, and the exact gene processing used […]

Nationals of El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan will receive extensions for Temporary Protected Status as DHS deals with challenging its decision to end the Temporary Protected Status for the mentioned countries. This extension will safeguard government’s continued yield to precursory injunctions orders for the Northern District of California by the U.S. District […]

The Department of Homeland Security announced that Polish Nationals will shortly be eligible to apply for visa-free business or tourist visitor travel to the U.S. This will be put into effect on November 11 and from November 11, Poland will officially be part of the 38 countries that already participate in the B-1 Visa Waiver […]

The EB-5 visa allows foreign nationals who make a significant investment in a U.S. company and help create jobs to immigrate to the United States. For the last 30 years, the amount of investment required was $500,000. On November 21, the amount required was raised to $900,000. The program has been criticized by some for corruption and […]

According to the Department of Homeland Security, there is a strong likelihood that the proposal it plans to put forward to revoke the H-4 EAD program may not be published before Spring 2020, and the proposal’s likelihood of being published by Spring 2020 is even more tentative.  This announcement was made through a letter from […]

The newly proposed set of regulations in the Unified Agenda for DHS would affect all manner of noncitizens, including asylum seekers, H-1B and L-1 visa holders, EB-5 investors, international students, employers of immigrants, and others. The rule changes vary, but to boil them down to the main point: the rules aim to further limit the amount […]