USCIS today announced flexibilities for certain foreign students affected by delayed receipt notices for Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization. These flexibilities apply only to applications received on or after Oct. 1, 2020, through May 1, 2021, inclusive. USCIS has…
While a Trump-era order to expel anyone crossing the border remains largely in effect, the new administration has allowed such minors to enter the country. News out of Texas this week that the Biden administration has reopened a Trump-era migrant…
Starting Feb. 24, 2021, petitioners filing Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, requesting a change or extension of status to E-3 classification will have the option to request premium processing service for their petition. The E-3 classification applies only…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — In the first five days since the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden began to process the thousands of asylum seekers waiting in Mexico, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registered 12,000 people. That’s nearly…
U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services will revert back to using a previous version of the civics test required to become a U.S. citizen. THE BIDEN administration confirmed Monday that it will scrap the Trump administration’s changes to the U.S. citizenship…
Advocates and the Biden administration have been working to include the needs of farm workers in immigration reform proposals. Democratic lawmakers unveiled sweeping immigration reform legislation Thursday that could significantly improve the working conditions for farm workers and put them…
Biden’s HHS nominee would have multiple levers to help undocumented workers obtain medical coverage. When President Barack Obama headed to the Capitol in 2009 to make a late-stage push for the Affordable Care Act, pleading to a joint session of…
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Angelina Baltazar, stranded here since August 2019 while waiting for her asylum case to move forward, was fiddling with her smartphone, having little success in registering online to cross the border to wait instead on the…
TENOSIQUE, Mexico (AP) — In the first Mexican shelter reached by migrants after trekking through the Guatemalan jungle, some 150 migrants are sleeping in its dormitories and another 150 lie on thin mattresses spread across the floor of its chapel.…
New measure proposes path to permanent residency for international students after graduation For international students like Mariel Tai, President Joe Biden’s new immigration proposal is a sigh of relief. At the beginning of her undergraduate career, Tai’s main priority was…
